Chapter 59: Bagua Array
Such thrilling and intense scenes tugged at the heartstrings of the villagers, who had forgotten the time, where they were, and almost forgot to breathe. It wasn't until there was a commotion behind him that I realized that a team of fifty or sixty township soldiers had arrived in a hurry.
Seeing that the enemy had added a lot of soldiers, after the white hair in the fierce battle avoided the enemy, he raised his head to the sky and roared angrily, and it gave the order for a general attack. Because Bai Mao was not sure how many soldiers the Terran would make up, and he would not be able to take this strong opponent for a while, so he took advantage of the chaos of the first arrival of the replenishment troops, and when the opponent only had five knights, he gave the order for a general attack.
Li Xing patted the horse's buttocks, which were full of sweaty beads, and urged the horse to hurry towards his own formation. The men and horses were exhausted, and he had the idea of leaving the war, and the reinforcements came at the right time.
Li Xing turned his head to look at the wolves that were rushing like a vicious wave, and shouted at the soldiers in front of him: "Everyone calm down and guard your position." Let them see the courage of our Qingwan people and the power of our Bagua Array! ”
At this time, the township soldiers put up a big gossip array.
The Bagua Array is a large battle array developed by Li Xing and others for the villagers. Like the Bagua map, eight small squares of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui occupy the eight directions, with a total of 27 people in each phalanx. The small array of the eight sides is based on the three talent arrays as a unit, and the three three talent arrays are one of the eight trigrams, and one hexagram is made up of three trigrams, so there are 27 people in each team, of course, it can also be increased or decreased according to the actual situation.
The Taijitu circle in the large array is used to hoard mobile soldiers, one is to replenish the team members who have been killed in the eight directions, and the other is to stand on a knee-high wooden frame to support the eight directions with bows and arrows. The black and white yin and yang fisheyes are stationed by the main and deputy captains, who are all sitting on horseback, watching the eight directions and commanding the overall battle.
Li Xing's earliest design of six small arrays is suitable for scattered battles. The Bagua Array, which is based on the Sancai Array, is more suitable for large teams to cooperate in combat. The village field of Dushu Village is wide enough, just enough for the people of Qingwan to set up this most powerful formation within the formation-the Bagua Great Array, and at this moment it will show its dazzling light for the first time.
Chen Chao, who was the first to return to the position of a yin and yang fish, stared at the wolves surging behind Li Xing, and commanded in a loud voice: "The outer and middle lines of the five teams of Kan, Gen, Qian, Zhen, and Dui are defending close to the point, holding their feet steady to resist the collision without attacking, and the inner team is ready for rope nets." Xun, Kun, and Li's three teams, the outer line defends, and the middle and inner lines prepare bows and arrows. The people in the Taiji diagram have their own functions and obey orders. ”
As soon as the words fell, Li Xing had already arrived at the passage between the Kan and Qian. He slowed down slightly, and then rushed towards a yin and yang fish.
"Throw and shoot arrows!" Chen Chao issued an order at this moment.
The rain of arrows thrown and falling from the air is not much of a threat to the wolves, they have been transformed by the wolf beads, they have a different general agility, and they can avoid most of the attacks by flashing left and right, and the attacks of nearly 100 arrows in this wave only hurt four wolves. The arrows thrown were not very powerful, and the fur of the wolves was thick, and the unlucky four wolves were all slightly injured by flesh and skin, without damaging their combat power, and the first wave of attacks of the human race had little effect.
However, the second wave of Terran arrows came flat, and the closer the distance, the more fierce the arrow speed. Except for a few giant wolves who can shoot arrows with their giant claws, most wolves can only dodge the arrows a little. In the second wave of arrows, four wolves were seriously injured and more than a dozen were lightly injured.
In terms of the range of bows and arrows, the effective lethality range of a projectile is about 8 to 90 meters, and the effective killing range of a flat shot is about 40 or 50 meters. The wolves survived two waves of arrow rain attacks and successfully rushed close to the Terran formation.
The nearly thirty giant wolves that rushed to the front could clearly see the constricted Terran eyes behind the long shield. As long as you crash into the Terran formation, you can knock the Terran like a boulder into a loose mound, knocking the Terran like countless scattered mud blocks, and then the wolves can harvest the lives of the Terrans at will.
The giant wolf in front of him excitedly cracked open the stinky mouth, revealing Bai Sensen's fierce and ready to pounce on the enemy's shield, but saw a number of thick rope nets coming towards him.
This is the third line of the township soldiers in time to throw out the rope net, the first two of the village soldiers in three as a unit, all close together to tie up the horse steps, the upper body slightly forward waiting for the enemy's first wave of the most violent impact to come.
With a muffled sound of "bang", a villager soldier was hit on the long shield by a giant wolf with a rope net of nearly 100 catties, he couldn't stabilize his body at all, only to feel the huge force coming, and his feet were about to float backwards. But as soon as his body floated, he bumped into two soft, thick things, which were the warm shoulders of the other two teammates in the Sancai base formation.
At this moment, the three of them felt the impact force and body temperature transmitted to each other on their backs, and they couldn't help but feel hot in their hearts, and at the same time remembered the words that were mentioned in their ears on weekdays: If the three talents are there, there will be vitality!
In an instant, the three of them also had a warmth rising from their hearts with confidence and courage.
The same encounter occurred in each of the three small formations directly facing the enemy, but they all successfully withstood the first wave of the enemy's impact. There were a few small formations of three talents who were hit by a huge force and the three of them couldn't stop, but when the three of them moved back one or two small steps, they got the timely help of Zhongya, and they stood firm again.
Some wolves in the back jumped high, wanting to assault from above, but they were waiting for the villagers in the Taiji circle. "Whoosh" Several angry arrows struck, and one or two short spears flew in, exposing the vital points of the giant wolf's abdomen, and their only helpless body fell to the ground.
After successfully withstanding the first wave of the giant wolf's impact, although there were constantly giant wolves in front of the shield and struggling to get rid of the rope nets on the ground. But all the village soldiers facing the enemy were unmoved, neither took the initiative to attack, nor did they take the time to give the wolf on the ground a knife. They just held on to their long shields and held their feet firmly in their defensive areas. After training for a long time, they knew that at this moment, as long as they made a solid turtle shell on the outer layer of the Bagua Great Array, they could kill the enemy and let others handle it.
At this time, if you stretch out your sword to attack, you may be able to kill and injure the enemy, but it will definitely show a few flaws in front of the other giant wolves. If it is given a ride, one person who loses his position will affect the other two teammates in the three. A three-talent array can be easily broken, just like a small piece of hard armor on a turtle's shell, and it is easy for the enemy to use this as a breakthrough to break through this overall defense system.
"The Bagua Fang team takes three steps inside, and the Tai Chi Thorn assaults." Li Xing, who took over the command, gave timely instructions on the situation on the field. Li Xing saw that the scene had been stabilized, and the wolf was also in chaos. Taking advantage of their loss of speed, he prepared to harvest the big wolves that had infiltrated the formation.
The Bagua Great Array was originally like a rock on the seaside, inheriting the impact of wolves like ocean waves. But with Li Xing's command, it squirmed like a huge sea urchin.
According to the established battle plan of the Bagua Great Array, it was first necessary to block the first wave of the enemy's impact and firmly hold the formation. Each hexagram team must hold their own position, no need to take the initiative to attack, and the wounded enemy is mainly carried out by the soldiers in the Taiji circle and far away from the enemy to carry out long-range assists.
The Bagua Great Array is not a large circular array, and there is an empty passage more than two people wide between each hexagram square, so that the enemy has a place to vent his momentum, so as to reduce the impact of the frontal phalanx. However, at the junction of the passage and Taiji, three groups of Sancai formations should be placed to block and strictly prevent the enemy from breaking into Taiji and disintegrating the entire Bagua Great Array from the middle.
After waiting for a certain amount of enemies to infiltrate the passage, the entire Bagua Array changed from static, and the eight hexagram teams converged towards Taiji at the same time, and the Sancai small array guarding the connection between Taiji and the passage became an active attack, and the outward assault became a Taiji thorn. As soon as the eight hexagram teams were closed, after compressing the enemy's activity space in the passage, the Sancai Array on both sides took the initiative to attack in order to cooperate with the Taiji Thorn to harvest the lives of those enemies who were trapped in the formation.
Earlier, a giant wolf saw a net under the top, and in response to the condition, it scurried into the unobstructed passage next to it. At first, it still had doubts and wanted to stop, but it was hit by several wolves that also rushed in behind it, and it couldn't stop at all. Fortunately, there are only shield shadows on both sides of the passage and no knife shape, which is smooth and unimpeded. With his companions by his side, the giant wolf rushed forward along the passage with courage.
"If you can blossom in the center of the human race, you will definitely be able to make a contribution." The giant wolf who entered the passage was the first to think so, and took the giant wolf behind him and pounced along the passage towards the pile of people at the end. The distance of seven or eight meters was instantaneous, but at the end of the passage it was blocked by a solid shield wall, and it was impossible to advance or retreat. It can only try to break through the shield wall in front of it, and the partners blocking behind it are not idle, making a strong breakthrough to both sides.
"This turtle formation is just hard enough, but fortunately, the attack power is not strong. Forgive them for not daring to attack, otherwise as soon as the hand is exposed, the astute brothers will have a great chance to bite off the hand! As the wolf thought this, the turtle-like gossip array began to wriggle.
The giant wolf, who was blocked in the passage between the two hexagrams, felt this change the most. The shield wall that stood still in front of the claws for them to attack was often stealthily and cautiously flashing broadswords, and some of the Terrans began to take the initiative to fight back. This is the Tai Chi shield that began to turn into a Tai Chi thorn, and slowly began to assault.
Although the giant wolf in front of the junction can dodge or slap the knife, there are few accomplices around him, and he can only watch the weak little hand of the human race, stretch out the shield and quickly stab, and then withdraw the "turtle shell" in time, but there is no accomplice to teach the arrogant little arm a cruel lesson in time. These giant wolves hadn't defended for a few rounds before they suddenly realized that their room for movement had decreased, and the shadows of the swords sticking out from both sides to sneak attack became more and more frequent, more and more.
After barely resisting two more times, with the arrival of four or five knives, in the blink of an eye, blood gushed from the wolf's body, and he was already dying. In less than a cup of tea, except for the two or three giant wolves in the same passage, all but those who were spared were killed.
During this time, most of the giant wolves trapped outside the battle had successfully broken free from the rope net, but a few of their accomplices had fallen into the dead of arrows. This is the result of the archers standing high in the middle of the Terrans angrily shooting the bound giant wolf when the opponent's shield wall retreats three steps back to reveal a gap. However, only one-third of the archers participated in this life-harvesting operation, not because of the mercy of the Terrans, but because they had to keep most of the archers for air defense and other purposes. If a giant wolf jumps high on the wolf's back and wants to press the human formation from a high altitude, several arrows and spears will shoot angrily at its defenseless and weakest wolf's belly, making it instantly angry and angry.
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The white fur looked gloomily at the embarrassed and helpless clan wolf, how to crack the battle formation of the human race, which made it at a loss and frowned. Thinking that it was the darling of the sky, it doubted its own ability for the first time.
Bai Mao could only watch, and after the first wave of attacks was blocked, he shrank with the Terran array, and more than a dozen clan wolves who poured into several passages were cut to death one by one. After the clan wolves trapped in the formation were strangled and killed, the hateful battle array expanded outward a few steps, although there was a bloody lesson before, but under the crowding and conditional reaction, many clan wolves entered the passage deliberately set up by the human race, and the human battle array retracted, and it was a ruthless strangulation.
The battle formations formed by the human race are like sea urchins, like a huge greedy reaper of life, constantly slaughtering the clan wolves. Under its sturdy and three-dimensional defense, it makes you cry out for help.
What made Bai Mao even more speechless was that after fighting for a long time, the Terrans did not have a single death, only five people were seriously injured, and more than a dozen people were lightly injured. The outer layer of the Terran only defended and did not attack, and when it was rare to injure one of the opponents, the archers in the center of the opponent immediately shot around the wounded, and after a small range of squirming in the small square of the Terrans, the injured people had been transported into the middle of the large circle of people to protect them, how difficult it was to kill one of them!
Bai Mao also went to the battle to kill the enemy, but as soon as he approached the battle formation of the human race, he was forced to rush by a series of sharp arrows, and finally had to evacuate in vain. It seems that the Terrans consider themselves to be a great killer, and once they get close, they will mobilize nearly half of their archers to chase them down. What's even more dangerous is that the knight who just fought always seems to be able to predict the prophet, and when his old strength has been exhausted and the new strength is not yet born, he can always shoot a very threatening arrow on horseback. After two or three attempts, Bai Mao did not dare to risk his life again.
What made Bai Mao even more angry was that when he saw that the three small formations in front of the Terran were just beginning to show fatigue, the battle formation of the Terran actually rotated 180 degrees, replacing the new force of the rear phalanx with a frontal resistance, which made the price paid in front of him a vain sacrifice.