Chapter Ninety-Four: The Five Dangers Will Be Difficult to Accomplish
There will be five dangers: death, but also killing; will be born, but can be captured: angry, can be insulted; Incorruptible, humiliating; Love the people, but it's annoying. All these five will be passed, and the disaster of using soldiers will also be used. If the army is overturned and killed, there will be no danger, and it must not be ignored.
As a commander-in-chief, having these five character flaws will be fatal, the troops will be severely damaged, and the country may perish as a result.
The first is that if you only know how to fight to the death, you are in danger of being lured into a trap and killed;
second, fearful of life, fearful of death, in danger of captivity;
The third type is impatient, irritable, self-serving, and when insulted by the enemy, it will lose its sense of proportion and act blindly.
Fourth, honesty loves fame, excessive self-love, and is easily insulted by the enemy, and it will lose its mind.
Fifth, if you spoil the people too much, you will fall into the distractions of the enemy and will not be able to concentrate on fighting.
At this time, Wu Shu didn't care about these at all, and the shield hand that Meng said successfully aroused his anger, and the smoke was thick, and the soldiers, under the supervision of Wu Shu, concentrated all their strength to attack head-on.
Because of the thick smoke, the archers fired it all by feeling, and the effect of shooting was naturally conceivable.
After completing the task, Meng Shuo's shield hand quickly withdrew and returned to the crossbowmen's side to protect the crossbowmen's safety. Except for the remaining ten cavalrymen, Meng Shuo concentrated all his forces in front of the woods.
On the premise of not eliminating Meng Shuo's spearmen, the reason why Wu Shu dared to attack was mostly because of the terrain, because when they entered, it was still a mess of rocks and grass, and it was impossible to fight in formation.
On the battlefield, everything is changing rapidly, here and now, the front of the woods has long been cleaned up by Meng Shuo's soldiers, and the spearmen are lined up to wait for the enemy. Such a phalanx has a great future!
The reason why the 'Wei Wushu' phalanx was able to run rampant in the world was that in addition to being well-equipped and well-trained, most of it relied on the practicality and flexibility of the formation.
"Zuo Chuan" called it 'five formations', the front one phalanx, set up in order to lure the enemy, the remaining four arrays according to the front and back left and right configuration, the middle is vacant, just from the configuration point of view, the 'Wei Wushu' phalanx has a strong chariot color.
The advantage of the 'five formations' is that even in a narrow area, it can be directly expanded from the marching army to the battle formation, which reduces the redundant formation time and wins the initiative on the rapidly changing battlefield.
Meng said that on this basis, the spearmen in groups of five were rearranged to form sharp triangles, and the selection of spearmen was very strict.
The spearmen were mainly hoplites, "Xunzi. It is stated in the "Parliamentary Chapter":
"Wei Zhiwu's soldiers take it by degree, the armor of the three genera, the crossbow of the twelve stones, the negative arrow is fifty, the top is placed on it, the crown is with a sword, and the grain for three days is won, and the day is in the middle of the day and tends to a hundred miles."
"Wei Wushu" is rampant all over the world, countries are naturally competing to imitate, Qin State bears the brunt, the shame of the defeat of 500,000 people in Qin State, the achievement of the rampant "Wei Wushu", Qin people naturally spare no effort in learning and imitating.
The spearmen of the Qin State also wore three layers of heavy armor, iron helmets, strong bows and crossbows of twelve stones (one stone is about one hundred and twenty catties), carried fifty feathered arrows on their backs, held spears or iron halberds, wore short swords at their waists, carried three days' combat rations, and could march a hundred miles in half a day.
The soldiers rushed out of it, and before they could see the changes in front of them, they were pierced through the body by the spearmen, and the soldiers behind did not know what was happening in front of them, and still charged forward desperately.
The scene is bloody and difficult to describe, the fish scale phalanx lacking long weapons, in front of the spear phalanx, can not take advantage of the slightest advantage, before running closer, it was pierced by the spear, and by the time the black came out, his main force had already been buried under the spear.
"Providence! It seems that there is no power to attack! Wu Shu muttered to himself, he didn't even see the shadow of Meng Shuo, and his main force was exhausted!
"Withdraw!" Uhu shouted.
By the time he reacted, the opportunity had already slipped away, and Meng said that seeing that the other party had the intention of retreating, he commanded the crossbowmen and said:
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”
The crossbowmen couldn't bear it for a long time, and they all worked hard one by one, shooting in turn, and for a while, it was like a rain of arrows blocking the retreat of Wuyu.
The soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and Wu Shu suddenly sobered up, "I must not be captured by Meng Shuo, otherwise, what is the face of King Qin," Wu Xu, who originally wanted to die, quickly picked up the shields of the soldiers around him, put them on his head, and retreated into the forest!
Meng said that he was riding on Ah Jiu's body, and naturally knew everything that happened here, and Meng said that when he saw that the assassins led by him wanted to escape, he said to the crossbowmen beside him:
"Bring it!"
The crossbowman understood, and hurriedly presented the crossbow machine in his hand, Meng said to hold it in his hand, and visually measured the required strength and distance, Meng said that he understood in his heart that if this person died, he could not understand some things, and if he ran away like this, he seemed incompetent, and it seemed that he could only do so!
Meng said that he shifted the direction of aiming from his head to his shoulder, snapped, pulled the trigger, and the feather arrow moved in response, passing over the crossbowmen around him, past the spear phalanx fighting in the front row, and with the sound of the wind, he shot into Wu Xu's shoulder with an impartial thud.
Seeing the assassin led by him from a distance, one of them fell to the ground, Meng said that he was still shocked in his heart and shot to death? I was still muttering in my heart, and before I could finish muttering, I saw the assassin led by him, and he got up and ran.
The smoke was thick in the woods, and the archers, who were still shooting cold arrows in the trees, heard the fight outside, and thought to themselves, 'The opportunity for meritorious service has arrived, I can't miss it,' jumped off the trees one by one, and rushed to the outside of the forest to kill, but it is a pity that the good man did not die on the way to make meritorious service, but died in the hands of his own people, and he will bear such a notoriety after death.
Wu Hou ran back and forth in the woods, the smoke was bigger at this time, and he might not be able to see it face to face, let alone outside the forest, and Wu Huo should not be killed, so he actually ran out from one side, shook his head back and forth, picked up a handful of snowflakes with his hands and rubbed them on his face, so that his eyes could see the direction clearly.
The patrolling cavalry happened to pass by, Wu Yu hurriedly put on the mask, lay down in the weeds in the snow, vigilantly watched, if it was not for the fact that he was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, these cavalry, not his opponent, helpless at this time his identity was embarrassing, and when the last cavalry passed, Wu Yu instantly broke out, jumped up, threw the soldier off the horse, rode on the horse, turned the horse's head, and kicked the horse's stomach with his foot.
The horses were frightened and fled in a hurry, and before the rest of the cavalry could react, Wu Shu had already run far away, and Wu Huo at this time did not care about the rough road, whether the horses were usable, whether he could bear it, and only wanted to leave this place of right and wrong.
Running for their lives is naturally reckless, and there is still a lot of estimation for chasing people, and the result can be imagined, naturally it is impossible to catch up, but fortunately, the cavalry who was thrown down was only slightly frightened, and it did not have much impact.
"! The battle was not fought, but the horse was snatched away, what a nest! ”
"Alright, you! If it weren't for the mercy of the assassins, your life would have been confessed long ago! The accompanying cavalry persuaded.
The battle in front of the woods has ended, Meng said that the soldiers have begun to clean up the battlefield, and the people of Wuyu are indeed very rigid, and there is no one alive, Meng Shuo also understands in his heart that it is best to have no living mouth, this is a layer of window paper, once it is pierced, no one can explain it, but it looks embarrassing.
Dead people are the best at keeping secrets!
"Report! Meng said that he had besieged the assassins in the woods! The herald reported.
"How can a mere hundred people besiege such a large area of mountains and forests?" King Qin Wu asked incomprehensibly!
"Back to the king, Meng said general, plant flags all over the place, and send two people to beat a drum together!" The herald replied truthfully.
"What a strange man! There is even a trick of sprinkling beans into soldiers! King Wu of Qin said to Mrs. Wei with a smile.
"The soldiers are not many but fine, and the soldiers are not brave but strategic!" Mrs. Wei Guo said on the side.
"Report! The Assassins broke out from one side of the forest! ”
"Oh!" King Wu of Qin looked at the herald in his heart and asked:
"Did the breakout succeed?"
"Back to the king, the side breakthrough was shot back by General Meng Shuo's arrows!" The herald said.
"What has Meng said all along?"
"Returning to the king, General Meng Shuo, after occupying the clearing in the forest, quickly put the spearmen in groups of five to block the important way out, and then line up the crossbowmen in front of the forest, and at the same time organize the shield men to clean up the weeds and gravel in front of the forest!"
"Meng said what the hell is this! Instead of going in and killing the enemy, they fiddle with weeds and rocks in front of the forest! King Wu of Qin asked the herald instead.
"My subordinates don't know!" The herald said.
"Go down, find out and report again!" Mrs. Wei spoke.
"No!" The herald turned and left.
"Madam, you said that this Meng said that he didn't attack, but started to clean up the ground, what are you going to do?" King Wu of Qin asked his wife.
Mrs. Wei Guo said with a smile:
"King, just sit in the car, and someone will come to report in a while! Don't be impatient, Lord! For the monarch, you must have the bearing of accepting all rivers! ”
When King Qin Wu heard this, he said hehehe:
"Madame is right, it's just that the way Meng said to play is really unheard of and unseen! The widow really doesn't know how he is going to capture the enemy! ”
Mrs. Wei Guo still smiled and said nothing!
"Report! Meng said that the general tied the weeds into straw handles, lit them, and threw them into the woods, where puffs of smoke rose and the assassins were overwhelmed and charged! The herald came back and reported.
Hearing this, King Qin Wu Yingdang was excited to shoot the case, but he didn't want to be too excited, but was hit on the head by the upper beam of the carriage!
The painful King Wu of Qin Yingdang "sighed", and Mrs. Wei said on the side:
"Slow down!" Although he was touched, this King Qin Wu won and still jumped out of the car happily! (To be continued.) )