The early hours of the morning are the best time for people to sleep at night. Zhang Yue was already tired from the day's march, and was sleeping in the village, when he suddenly heard the sharp sound of gongs, he suddenly woke up, jumped up and rushed out of the big tent, and saw Li Shiwen, who was on duty in the second half of the night, hurriedly running over.

"Zhang Dujian! There is an enemy attack! The situation of the troops is unknown......"

"Stick to the gate! Extinguish the torch! Zhang Yue threw down a sentence unhurriedly, and when he saw that Li Shiwen had gone to give the order, he turned around and rushed into his big tent.

At this time, Chen Jia and Yiqian were alarmed and rushed over, Zhang Yue ordered Chen Jia to arrange soldiers to beat drums and spread the whole army, gather his own soldiers, and carry the flag of the Chinese army to the open space behind the gate to line up, so that the commanders of the rest of the battalions will also erect flags outside their camps, and all the soldiers will rush to the command to line up, and the number of people will be on standby under the banner of the Chinese army.

The dim oil lamp in the big tent flickered, Zhang Yue stretched out his hands flat, let Yiqian put on his armor, and his ears vigilantly caught all kinds of noisy sounds outside. The drums continued to beat, the footsteps collided with the armor leaves, and officers at all levels shouted and ordered the soldiers to assemble out of the camp. The voice sounds a bit messy, but everything is in order.

Zhang Yue was thinking quickly in his mind at the same time, there was an enemy attack in this place, naturally it was the Qiang people, no matter how many troops there were, it was very dangerous. For he did not build a camp, but only dug a ditch and surrounded it with a large wooden fence.

Of course, the fence is not safe, but as long as the light and dark sentinels are widely distributed and the Chinese army can respond quickly, most of the time it will be fine. And the village, the amount of work is too large, the battalion of 5,000 soldiers, the minimum should occupy a circle of one and a half miles, and its maximum is larger, then the minimum circumference is six miles, plus two dense rows, and various defense facilities, how much wood do you need?

If the camp is stationed on the march every day, a forest is not enough to cut down, and letting the soldiers carry the wood for the camp on the road will only increase the burden, and there will only be a mutiny in the village that day, and he, the capital prisoner, will be killed by the angry soldiers.

To put it mildly, the amount of encirclement camping is also huge, the lowest height of the flat large wooden splicing composed of the board wall, plus the guard tower, the arrow tower, the highest watchtower, the need for a lot of wood, so an army to stop camping, the choice of location is generally a key location, there must be forests, rivers, gentle slope highlands nearby.

The same is true of Zhang Yue's battalion, the location is behind the mountain, the west is close to a stream, and the east and south sides are facing the plain, so the defense of the troops is mainly arranged on the east and south sides.

"General! All right! "I've been doing this kind of thing for a long time, and Yiqian can be regarded as nimble, so he hung up his waist knife for Zhang Yue, and turned around to get the gun.

Zhang Yue picked up the iron helmet with the tiger head and turned his ears and put it on, quickly tied the hemp rope strap around his neck, tightened the cowhide arm guard connected with the copper nails, took the Xuanlu gun handed by Yiqian, and walked out of the big tent calmly.

Without any nonsense, Zhang Yue directly turned over and got on his horse, drove the horse to the flag of the Chinese army that had already been erected after the Yuanmen, and swept his eyes around, only the first, second, fourth, and fifth battalions under his command were almost there, and the rest were a little far away, and they were leading the team to come.

Zhang Yue had a calm face, he seemed to be very calm, but in fact, his heart was a little complicated, he was actually approached by the enemy, fortunately, the secret sentinel was far away, otherwise there was no time to react, but at the moment, the enemy army was full cavalry, and it was imminent, and it was unrealistic to want to defend according to the camp fence.

"Four battalions Han Zhongming, Zhang Congzhao! Lead the commander to immediately empty the nearby camp tent and vacate the formation site! Zhang Yue saw that the officers and soldiers were looking at him, and then ordered: "Han Zhiping and Shang Huaqing of the fifth battalion led the command to approach the Chinese army and line up the core of the ring formation.

"This army is all waiting for Zong Jingcheng, responsible for the periphery of the circular formation, and transferring the strong crossbowmen of the first and second battalions to the front two Ji, responding to the first three sides, remember to match reasonably."

The ring formation is suitable for the infantry to defend the formation, the mobility is poor, but the defensive force can be exerted to the extreme, but at the moment it is a bit too late to pull out the war horse, and it is inconvenient to move, so the ring formation is on the spot, and it is the fastest to wait for the enemy to attack.

The scene was very noisy, and only the soldiers around them could hear it, but they were originally guards and heralds, and when they heard the sound, they immediately beat their horses out, and the general ordered them to reach the fourth and second commands.

Han Zhongming received the order, divided the soldiers under his command into two teams, and began to empty the camp tents on the east and west sides; The five hundred soldiers of the fifth battalion of Han Zhiping's department quickly approached with strong bows and formed a circle around Zhang Yue's three hundred personal soldiers. At this time, Quan Dao Jin led his troops to arrive in a hurry, but the war horse was not pulled out at all, Zhang Yue dispatched in, and Bu thought it was jumping to replenish.

Other battalions came one after another, and Zong Jingcheng ran back and forth on the periphery, demarcating the positions of each battalion, and checking whether the weapons and equipment were in place, and sending soldiers back to the camp to fetch them if they didn't bring them. The formation of the inner circle was quickly neat, and Li Chuyun deployed his troops in place, and after a little inspection, he saw that the outer formation was crooked and irregular. Especially the soldiers of the Shuofang Army who had just arrived, some of them came before they were ready, and they didn't know where to stand.

Li Chuyun frowned, and then came over to ask Zhang Yue for help. He was the deputy envoy of the formation, and the formation was his business, so Zhang Yue asked him to go to the periphery to assist Zong Jingcheng, and after he was done, he commanded the crossbowmen in front of him again.

All this seems to be very slow, but it is only a pillar of incense, six or seven minutes, but the cavalry is galloping in the field, and it is more than two miles in one minute. The soldiers in the large camp gradually arrived, but the formation was not yet in order, and at this time the sky was already bright, and the sound of dense horses' hooves also sounded outside the camp.

A burst of people shouted and the neighing of horses came, and they heard a muffled sound of "porphyry", and a row of black long ropes flew into the air, falling down and hooking the camp fences on both sides of the gate, and the horses' hooves sounded again, and the camp fence shook and made a strange sound, but it did not fall.

"Check your equipment and get ready for battle!" Zhang Yue shouted, thought about it and asked Chen Jia to see if there were any deficiencies in the arrows consumed by the crossbowmen and the spears that were easy to break, if they were not enough, the soldiers on the side behind the formation could temporarily avoid fighting and just go to carry them to the Chinese army.

The formation in the direction of the gate gradually became neat, still layered with swords and shields and spearmen, densely arranged, with a tight periphery, while the number of people in the inner circle was slightly reduced and looser. The periphery is four vertical columns and five horizontal rows are connected to form a human-shaped gun shield to resist the horse round wall; The inside is two vertical columns of zhang wide, and it is also five horizontal rows, but it is mostly a jumping hand, mainly supplementing the front row, and the core is a phalanx.

This is the inner circle, and the outer side is three rows of crossbowmen, the front row of strong bows, and the last two rows of horn bows and wooden single crossbows, which are mainly distributed diagonally on the front sides to form a cross-fire against the front.

Water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, of course, the use of troops to arrange the formation should be suitable for the place, the time, and the person, this circle array is tight on the outside and loose on the inside, and it is not a real square circle, it is too complicated, it is too late in time, Zhang Yue's soldiers have not trained the complex formation in the book of soldiers, only practiced the square formation, ring formation, etc., this is a simplified version of the square circle, but it is slightly different, that is, the periphery is tightly closed, and there is no gap.

The formation is beginning to appear, and all kinds of preparations have not been completed, but there is no time. Outside the camp, the Qiang cavalry saw that they failed to pull over the camp fence once, and then sent more troops, more rope cymbal hooks on the camp fence, and the horse team galloped at full speed, and the camp fence finally couldn't bear the strength, making a "click" sound of wood breaking, and then fell over in rows of "bang", bringing up dust all over the sky. (To be continued.) )