The crane wing formation is a kind of offensive and defensive battle formation, which is formed in a large array, and the general should be placed in the middle and rear of the formation to maintain it with serious illness. The soldiers surrounded by the left and right of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info spread, shaped like the wings of a crane. If this formation wants to achieve the predetermined effect, the general should have a strong command ability.

The soldiers who form a large formation should be more mobile and flexible, and once the battle begins, the left and right flanks can be surrounded in the middle, and the coordination should be tight, and the attacks issued should be fierce. Once the enemy army penetrates deep into you, you can surround and trap the enemy army. Speaking of which, this is also a kind of round formation.

It was a difficult battle formation, so Ni Tao didn't think about the one-time success, after all, it was not realistic for a group of recruits.

"Here, the long brother in the rear should be interspersed with the crossbowmen, a wave of bows and arrows is fired, if the two wings are attacking, the long brothers should replace the position of the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen who retreat to the rear can retract the crossbow and attack with short swords."

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"Crossbowmen can also alternate left and right when attacking, attacking one after another, of course, you can follow the command banner."

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While walking, Ni Tao did not forget to remind the thousands of generals of the shortcomings of the current military formation, a good large formation should be exposed, which makes people feel frightened when they look at it.

In this way, the drill of the large array continued until sunset.

At this time, Fengyu's 15,000 defenders had also been mobilized. At the same time, a fast horse galloped on the official road leading to the Korean realm.

It was another scout, he turned over and dismounted smartly, ran to the side of Ni Tao, who was negotiating with several thousand-person generals, and bowed: "Report to the general, the Han army set out with the sacrificial flag at the time of the year, and sent a total of 60,000 foot soldiers, half of whom were wearing Qin armor." But they are not marching quickly, and at this pace they may be fifty miles outside our city in the morning. ”

Nanyang is only four hundred miles away from Yicheng, and if it is a normal march of more than two days, it should be enough. However, because it was winter and there had just been a snowfall, Gong Zhongfu ordered to slow down the march, after all, the snow was not conducive to the rapid march of the army.

"Got it." Ni Tao breathed a sigh of relief, this result was somewhat different from what he thought, especially half of them were wearing Qin-made armor, and the Qin people were scheming, and this time they were really generous. However, from the point of view of speed alone, the form is still beneficial to the Wei State, turning his head, he said to the scouts: "Probe again, and report back when the Han army is less than one hundred and fifty miles." ”

"Yes."

Under the fiery red light of the setting sun, the 30,000 troops were neatly arrayed outside the south city gate, and Ni Tao summoned all the 1,000 people to point out something on the Sanli land behind the army.

This inexplicable move lasted for half an hour, and no one knew what they said except for the thousand generals who followed. And the army of 30,000 stood in the cold wind outside the city for half an hour.

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On the other side of Zhangshui in the middle of the night, in Fangcheng, which was directly opposite the Great Wall of Zhao, the defenders of the three thousand cities who originally defended the city were still alternating between defending the city. But the 5,000 soldiers that Zhang Meng brought began to go out at this moment.

Long before Zhang Meng arrived, all the scouts here had been sent to reconnoiter Zhao Jun's movements, of course, their main task was to counter-investigate, in order to prevent Zhao Jun from knowing about Fang Cheng's movements.

As for whether the scouts sent by Zhao Jun would be killed in batches to attract Zhao Jun's attention, Zhang Meng didn't think about this at all, even if Zhao Jun had already guessed that he was reinforcing the city defense in Fangcheng, or thought that Fangcheng was guarded by a large army. None of this is important to Zhang Meng, as long as he can create a certain amount of speculation for Zhao Jun, so that Zhao Jun does not dare to attack the city too lightly, Zhang Meng's goal will be achieved.

In addition, on the other side of Zhangshui, Zhang Meng also deliberately sent soldiers to pretend to be hunting people, armed with short wooden spears and often moving around the border between the two countries. This point is also to confuse the eyes of the Zhao people, the scouts were killed, they could not go deep into the city to find out the news, and there were always soldiers pretending to be hunters to observe the border, all of which had to make the Zhao people worry that the Wei State would suddenly attack when they crossed the river.

For the state of Zhao, who has announced that the world has formed an alliance with Han to defeat Wei. Whether it is out of the old hatred in Zhao Suhou's heart, or the current joint alliance with Great Wei, in short, this battle must be fought, and it is ready to be sent.

In this case, these charming eyes are not very clever, and since you can take into account that you may take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack, there is naturally a way to deal with it. However, for the current Wei State, as long as there are some effective methods, you can try it.

At the wide open south gate, 5,000 soldiers kept coming in and out with the boulders and rolling logs they had brought back. At the same time, there are also a large number of ordinary people.

This time their task is heavy, and they must prepare a large number of boulders and rolling logs, so this time, in addition to the five thousand soldiers, Zhang Meng requisitioned 20,000 civilians nearby, of course, according to Wu Ming's meaning, in order to let the people have no complaints in their hearts, the 20,000 conscripted people will be duly paid every day, until they have prepared enough boulders and rolling logs, or until the Zhao army begins to attack the city.

But fortunately, although Han Zhao has concluded an alliance and the Korean army has also been dispatched, there seems to be no phenomenon of sending troops on Zhao's side.

This made Zhang Mengle feel at ease, because he knew that once the Zhao army attacked, his 5,000 soldiers plus the original soldiers defending the city would not be able to hold on for long at all, and when the time came, it would be nothing more than abandoning the city and fleeing according to Wu Ming's wishes.

In order to block the speed of the Zhao army's march, Zhang Meng had to guard the next city, so he constantly sent people to shuttle between Fangcheng, Xiangcheng, Mu, Min, Ding, and other cities during this time, so that the defenders of all the cities hurried up time to prepare the equipment to defend the city.

In short, in this battle, his task was to rely on the city to block the Zhao army, and wait for the army to return after defeating the Korean army. In addition, most of the people and belongings in the city were transferred in advance, leaving only some empty cities for the Zhao army, which was much better for Wu Ming than to defend a city. If you can stand on Cheng's head with a stone and smash some more enemies, why do you have to defend one place with the lives of a soldier?

If people die, what is the meaning of the city?

It is said that the strategic thinking used by Bai Qi, the god of killing in the late Warring States period, was to "annihilate the enemy's living forces to the greatest extent." It was his strategic thinking that was not just for a city and a piece of land, so at that time he fell the title of personal slaughter, which made the generals of the Six Nations frightened and did not dare to fight with it. But it was also he who swept the way for the Qin army to go east to the greatest extent.

The enemy is outnumbered, it is not a wise choice to fight the book, and when it is not a last resort, it is the most important thing to retain strength and wait for an opportunity, and this is mainly the heart of the monarch and the minister, so Wu Ming had already informed King Wei Hui a month ago.

Unlike Feng Yu and Yi Cheng, Fang Cheng and the others faced the cities of Zhao State, and the surrounding snow layer was not cleared, as long as it could block the progress and speed of the Zhao army to a certain extent, everything that could be used would be used.