Chapter 159: Siege
At this moment, the three generals almost held their breath, and almost all of them realized something. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"General, it seems that Wu Ming, the chief general of the Wei army, is really forced to have no choice. We may respond to this battle and take the opportunity to destroy this 10,000 Wei army. After a brief silence, the older general said slightly.
"Well, the whole army is ordered to assemble at once. We went to collect the 10,000 Wei troops. Although Zhao Yuan still felt a little strange in his heart, he couldn't think of anything that was bad for them at the moment, so he responded to it.
"General, do you want to inform the prince first, after all, he is the overseer." Another general hesitated and asked.
"Inform the Prince?" Zhao Yuan's two eyes wandered at this time, and after a while, he said reluctantly: "A notice is definitely wanted, first send someone to inform the prince of the news we know." Here we will go to the battle before, otherwise wait for the news of the prince to come down, it is estimated that the Wei army will withdraw. ”
"Yes."
"Alright, let's all get ready to go, and the army will be ready in half an hour."
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It wasn't until two hours later that Wu Ming and the 10,000 army waited for Zhao Yuan and the 30,000 Wei army.
Because the battle formation was arranged in advance, Wu Ming had already chosen the location and arranged the battle formation before the arrival of Zhao Jun.
As for Zhao Jun, although he didn't come as early as Wu Ming and the others, he was not without a trace of defense, the reason why they were so slow was because Zhao Yuan's heart was always chaotic along the way, so he had been sending scouts to investigate, and until this time, dusk was approaching, and it was not so easy for scouts to check again. And there were no abnormalities in the previous waves, and they all went back safely, so Zhao Yuan ordered the army to go faster.
At this moment, the two armies stood still less than a hundred paces away, and at the same time opened their formations. The place where Wu Ming chose to set up the formation was a wide wilderness, surrounded by weeds and deserted, and the place was enough for the general to start a battle in formation.
A high platform was erected in the Zhao army to observe what kind of formation the Wei army worshipped. But it wasn't until the high platform rose to a certain height and could almost overlook the two camps that Zhao Yuan realized that he had never seen the formation that Wu Ming had placed.
Even Zhao Yuan once asked himself in his heart, "Is this thing a formation?" Isn't it just that the square formation stands under normal circumstances and becomes a circular formation? ”
Oh, yes. Circular array, although there are records in some top-level art of war, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, the formation is roughly divided into conical formation, circular formation, square formation, word formation, and so on, and the rest such as the tiger wing formation These are just in the original formation family, detailed differentiation.
However, if Wu Ming arranged the Yanxiang Formation, or the Long Tongue Formation and other more commonly used formations, Zhao Yuan might be able to see it at a glance and come up with a strategy to deal with it in an instant.
But the problem is that what Wu Ming laid out was a kind of circular array that was not common in this era, called the car suspension array. The whole formation seems to be this round, but if there is no one to teach the way inside, it is far from enough to just watch and think from a distance.
The car suspension array, as a whole, is a round ball, even from a high altitude, under the conditions of which era, it is basically impossible to see some internal details in the dense army.
Therefore, Zhao Yuan did not feel the mystery of this car's suspension array. It is said to be a circular array, but in a sense, it is a patchwork of several fan arrays. As for how many fans it is, it depends on the situation, depending on how the Lord will arrange it, of course, generally speaking, this is at least three, and there are generally no more than nine.
And what Wu Ming arranged today is a six-fan car suspension array.
After standing on the high platform for a long time, Zhao Yuan finally failed to understand the suspension of the car. But as the sky sank dark, in order to completely annihilate this isolated Wei army, Zhao Yuan finally became ruthless and ordered the army to directly meet the enemy with a crane wing array. Anyway, to put it bluntly, his strength was three times that of the Wei army, and the crane wing array rushed over and directly surrounded the huge ball, so it was seen how the Wei army could escape.
On the high platform, the military flag in Zhao Yuan's hand swayed, and as the military flag in his hand swayed, the 30,000 troops surrounding him had already begun to change in an orderly manner.
But in the end, it was the 30,000 army that was constantly running, and after this arrangement, nearly half an hour had passed.
It wasn't until the entire crane wing array was completely formed, and the 30,000 Zhao army was as majestic as a crane with wings spread, that Zhao Yuan walked down from the high platform and rode to the position where his general should be seated, that is, the middle junction of the two wings.
"March, break the formation. Surrounded all the Wei troops, annihilated the 10,000 Wei troops, and captured the Wei general Wu Ming alive. ”
The war drums beat, and Zhao Yuan, who was on horseback, directly pointed the tip of his sword at the phalanx of the Wei army, and with a loud shout, he maintained the formation and began to advance in an orderly manner.
When the distance between the two sides was close to fifty paces, the sound of arrows on the bows and crossbows of the soldiers could already be heard in the two fan-shaped small formations that were the first to approach the Zhao army in the chariot hanging formation.
The shield soldiers in front of them straightened up a large shield early and stood in front of the army, blocking the attack.
At the same time, the huge wheels centered around Wu Ming had begun to rotate slowly, and just when the two sides were nearly forty paces apart, the first of the two fan-shaped phalanxes flew out of the arrow rain.
More than 3,000 arrows flew into Zhao Jun's plump wings on both sides.
Roughly looking at this wave of sword rain, Zhao Jun lost thousands of people.
As soon as the arrows in the hands of the soldiers of the two fan-shaped squads were released, the huge formation of the entire car suspension formation was like a wheel, and then the Wei soldiers who were originally close to the rear rotated to the front to attack the position.
The arrows that had been prepared in his hand for a long time were shot directly.
After that, the formation kept changing, and the soldiers of the two teams behind who had already prepared to release the arrows made up for it and continued to release the arrows.
At this time, the soldier who had shot the arrow just now took advantage of the fact that he had not yet fought with the Zhao army, and took the arrow in advance, waiting for the next wave of attacks.
Of course, during this period, Zhao Jun was not without counterattacks. It's just that they are already in the charge, and there are few prepared archers, and the first wave of counterattacks in the Zhao army really threw the head of the Wei soldier who went to the battle book into the Wei army.
The soldiers of the Wei army may not understand this scene, but Wu Ming, who is in the center of the big array, can see it clearly. The face couldn't help but become a little gloomy again.
In a few rounds of fighting, in just forty paces, the Zhao army had lost nearly 6,000 men. All of a sudden, the number has decreased a lot.
But just this forty paces distance can allow the Wei army to exert the effect of a random overturning attack from the chariot hanging array.
After these forty steps, the wings spread on both sides of the Zhao army were already close to the "wheels", and the soldiers on both sides began to encircle them gradually. At this time, the bows and arrows in the Wei army were basically useless.
At this time, most of the bows and crossbows had been put away by the soldiers. Men on both sides began to engage in a tight battle.
And this also reflects the fact that the Wei army's training in the past few days has not been in vain, and the Zhao army soldiers who approached first were blinded as soon as they made a move.
Compared with Zhao's single assassination method, the casualties of the Wei soldiers were nearly half less at the beginning. This number is definitely a key factor in determining the outcome of both sides.
The huge "wheel" stopped spinning at this moment. But the other role is played perfectly.
The spears in the hands of the two Zhao soldiers stabbed directly at the same Wei soldier, but the result was that the Wei soldier was killed, and Zhao Jun was killed and wounded.
At the moment when the Wei soldiers fell to the ground, the Wei army located inside filled the gap at the first time, which made it difficult for the Zhao army to break through the external barriers of this huge 'wheel', and occasionally a team of Zhao troops who rushed into the Wei army would be quickly killed by the internal Wei army. The gap will be filled quickly.
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In the court of the Great Liang, next to the clear pond in the back garden.
King Wei Hui changed from fishing quietly to now accompanying Chen Zhen to play chess. At this time, the rest of the courtiers were still reminiscing about the taste of the fish soup in the court, as well as the previous ministers from time to time, such as "The king is blessed, and I am glad to be congratulated on fishing a foot of big fish today." "And so on.
"Your Majesty, the Great Liang Shou will report that the general and the leading army ten miles northwest of the city will be deployed for a while, and the Zhao army has begun to break the formation." On the edge of the clear pool, a slow and hurried report.
However, King Wei Hui didn't care about the outcome at all, and gently put down the chess pieces he was holding in his hand, and after a snap, the free hand waved lightly at the eunuch: "Got it." ”
The expression on his face was as calm as ever, and there was no abnormality in the slightest. From time to time, Chen Zhen peeked at King Hui in a panic, and he was already faintly unstable.
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"What? This Zhao Yuan, how can he be so reckless! also killed the Wei pawn who wrote the war! ”
Through the city of Feng. Zhao Yong's first words after learning about the situation were like this.
But after he thought about it carefully, it didn't feel like he couldn't fight. In the end, he had to wave his hand at the soldiers who came to report the news, and said helplessly: "Pay more attention to the movement of the battlefield, and report any changes." ”
"Yes."
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On the battlefield at this time, with the encirclement of the main force of the Zhao army. The Wei army had to shrink the 'wheels' to maintain the formation.
After half an hour of fighting, the two huge wings of the Zhao army were completely closed, and the Wei army was all surrounded.
And at this time, Zhao Yuan, who was the last to follow, already had a smile on his face.
At this point, with a full-scale, all-encompassing engagement really begins. The number of dead and wounded in the Wei army began to rise. Although the Zhao army had lost more than 10,000 soldiers before the Wei army was surrounded. But Zhao Yuan felt that it was all worth it.
At this moment, riding on horseback, he faintly saw Wu Mingshi, who was frowning on the high platform in the middle of the Wei army. The smile on Zhao Yuan's face became even more ruthless.