Yu Juluo rode on a horse, his bloodthirsty eyes flashed with bloodthirsty light, he had been holding back too long, watching the soldiers of the former army fighting with war elephants, but he did not get the order to attack, and he couldn't let these pikemen under his command come forward to help in the battle, and later watched Zhang Xutuo lead his men to show great might, out of the limelight, and his heart was jealous and envious.

Yu Juluo kept pricking up his ears to listen to the marching drums behind him, but it was not until the battle in front of him stabilized that Shi Wansui gave the order to step forward to meet the defeated troops of the front army, and it was the order of Xu Jin to cover, not to let them rush forward and charge.

Finally waited for the Shu army in front and Zhang Xutuo's jumping soldiers to retreat to the rear, and they could take charge by themselves, Yu Juluo looked at these barbarian soldiers without armor in front of him, just like looking at thousands of human heads at his fingertips, but they were out of reach, but he was not stupid enough to disobey the military order on the battlefield, and ordered hatefully: "Pass the order, slowly advance with a gun array, and threaten the enemy!"

The steel forest-like Sui army's gun array marched neatly, slowly and firmly forward, the barbarian soldiers had never seen such an impeccable gun forest and sea of guns, and the front was killed by Zhang Xutuo's jumping team Everyone was already frightened, at this time it would not be stupid or brave enough to resist this gun formation with flesh and blood, with the advance of the Sui army, they continued to retreat, and after a while, they retreated outside the car formation, and the Sui army's pikemen and the barbarian soldiers were separated by more than a hundred steps, forming a state of confrontation.

The order received by Yujura was not to leave the chariot formation, because once the cart protection of the two wings was lost, the flanks would be attacked by the ambushes in the enemy woods, the front army had been lost, and the crossbowmen in the rear formation did not follow very closely, while the spear formation of the longlance soldiers needed to be pointed at the opponent all the time. The steering of the wings was cumbersome and slow, and the number of people was only 3,000, and the power could only be exerted when fighting in the car formation, which Yu Juluo, as a famous general who had been in battle for a long time, still knew this.

Shi Wansui waved the flag, and the crossbowmen of this formation stepped forward one after another, standing behind the phalanx of spearmen, the feathers and arrows had been wound, and the bows were like a full moon. As soon as the enemy attacked again, they fired a volley of arrows to provide fire support for the spear array of the lancers, and a silent confrontation was temporarily formed on the battlefield.

There was a rapid banging sound behind the barbarians, and the faces of many barbarians in the front row changed. They all turned their heads to look back, and some of the brave men stomped their feet in hatred. Reluctantly, he began to regress backwards. The tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers in the rear of the most Lu were noisily under the leadership of their respective leaders, turning around and running back, while the soldiers in the front row still faced the Sui army, waving their big swords in the air while slowly retreating backwards.

Shi Wansui watched the retreat of the enemy army, and his face sank like water. Feng Xiaoci on the side couldn't help but ask: "Dashuai, the enemy army is retreating, should we chase it out?" The barbarians had no discipline at all, and our army took the opportunity to rush and kill. I will definitely be able to break the enemy army. ”

Shi Wansui shook his head: "Not now, the ambush on both flanks of the enemy has not moved, and now it is the initiative to withdraw the troops in front of it, there must be fraud, our army is a front-line pikeman, which is acceptable for defense, and the pursuit of the enemy army is cumbersome and slow, once the formation is scattered to chase and kill, and the enemy is flanked on three sides, it will be troublesome." Today, our army was attacked by the enemy's huge beast, and unexpectedly, the front army almost collapsed, and it was not easy to maintain the current tie situation, and what we need to do now is to collect our troops and return to the camp and fight again tomorrow. ”

Liu Quan also followed and said: "Yes, what the marshal said is very true, there seems to be a master in the barbarians, and now they take the initiative to withdraw when the defeat is not revealed, it should be to lure our army to take the initiative to attack, they know very well that they cannot break through our army's lance formation head-on in this situation, mainly because they can't break through the big carts on the two wings of our army, so they use this method."

And those huge beast brutes should still be there, and they may also attack when our army leaves the fortified position. It's better to be careful today, after returning to the camp, summarize how to deal with this giant beast of the barbarians, they shouldn't have any other secret weapons, otherwise they would have used it today, as long as they come up with a way to crack this beast, they will fight again in the future, and they will win a big victory!"

Shi Wansui glanced at the battlefield in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Pass my general's order, the long lance soldiers slowly retreat, the crossbowmen hold down the formation, the auxiliary soldiers wait for the long lance soldiers to withdraw to the battalion to go up and pull back the cart, the whole army retreats to the camp, Wang Shichong's cavalry withdraws from the back door of the camp, after returning to the camp, record the casualties of the army, and the generals will raise the account!"

Two hours later, in the tent of the large camp of the Sui army, the atmosphere was depressing and heavy, and the generals of Pingnan were divided into left and right, but all of them looked solemn, Shi Wansui was looking down at a record of the battle statistics just reported by joining the army, his brows were deeply locked, and he did not say a word.

Wang Shichong stood in his position, quickly calculating today's battle situation, he saw the battle situation in front of him very clearly in the forest, today is basically the front army is gone, the casualties are more than 3,000, the remaining soldiers have been broken, the next battle can not be used, although the enemy's losses are more than 10,000, but into this undefeated situation, this side has been a small setback, and now I don't know how many enemy war elephants are left, and the way to restrain the war elephants, he is racking his brains to think, but more than two hours down, There's still no such thing as a very good solution.

Shi Wansui put down the battle report at this time, and sighed softly: "Our army killed 2,487 people and wounded 544 people, today due to the failure to fully control the battlefield, it is impossible to count the number of beheadings, and more than 11,000 enemies have been killed by sight, but today's battle situation has been seen by all the generals, it can only be said that it is a tie, considering that the enemy army has more than 100,000 people, our army is less than 20,000, such an exchange ratio is still a bit of a loss, if you fight again tomorrow, what is the best way to break the enemy?" ”

Yu Juluo stood up loudly, and his loud voice was like thunder: "Marshal Shi, in my opinion, the biggest weapon of the enemy army is what those war elephants General Wang just said, but today Zhang Dudu also pointed out to us the way to deal with these fierce beasts, as long as the pikemen are in front and stab their legs, so that these fierce beasts cannot rush up, they can be destroyed." ”

Yang Wutong shook his head and said: "General Yu, the enemy's strategy is not only that these war elephants rush into battle, but that they will follow up with the barbarian soldiers later, and today they relied on a strong crossbow to shoot down some war elephants, blocking the enemy's charging route, slowing down the speed of their follow-up, plus the enemy may not be able to defend themselves in the fog, which affects the impact, which gives us a chance to breathe."

Tomorrow if we fight again, if we follow the way you said, firstly, there will be no crossbowmen in front, and the flesh and blood of the lancers will have to be hard against the war elephants, and secondly, even if these war elephants are destroyed, our army's gun array will be scattered, and then the enemy soldiers will rush forward and get close, and the trouble will be great. ”

Yu Juluo's face was blue and white for a while, but he also knew that he couldn't gamble with the lives of soldiers, thinking that Yang Wutong's words were reasonable, he still shook his head and retreated to his position.

Shi Wansui looked at Yang Wutong: "General Yang, what is your good plan?" ”

Yang Wutong stroked his beard and said: "In front of the deer and horses, or simply push the cart forward, the two wings are still covered by the cart, slowly advancing, in short, we must find a way to block the frontal impact of the enemy's war elephants, and give full play to the advantages of our army's strong bow and crossbow." ”

As soon as this remark came out, it was obvious that many generals agreed and nodded their heads and stroked their beards. But Zhang Xutuo, who was standing at the bottom, was the only two people who did not express his position with Wang Shichong.

Shi Wansui also obviously noticed this, and he looked at Zhang Xutuo: "Zhang Dudu, you have made great achievements today, and you are the person who has dealt with war elephants the most, in your opinion, is General Yang's method feasible?" ”

Zhang Xutuo stood up and said loudly: "I think that with General Yang's battle method, you can win a small victory, but if you want to defeat or even eliminate these more than 100,000 barbarians in one battle, this method is only afraid." The barbarian army is strong, if our army discharges the convoy in this way and moves forward slowly, I am afraid that we will not be able to cover the two wings with chariots all the time, so we can only advance every day, and then move the large battalion forward in this way, and we must also guard against the attack of the barbarians when establishing the camp and the interference of the rear road, in case the barbarian soldiers take advantage of the way of our army's camp to leave this grain road and cut off our rear road, then our army will be in danger of annihilation. ”

Shi Wansui nodded with satisfaction, he had also considered this question just now, and he stared at Zhang Xutuo tightly: "Zhang Dudu, then what is your best strategy to break the enemy?" (To be continued......)