Chapter 178: No

"What's going on? Didn't Zhang Ren already order Zhang Ren to break through to the two wings? Liu Zhang stood up, the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn, and his eyes shot a fierce light.

On the field, a circular array was connected into a twisted long line, the Sichuan army poured in from the gap in Jingzhou's rout, entangled in Jingzhou's large array of soldiers, Yan Yan took the lead, the first to enter the formation, has fallen into the depths of the large array of soldiers, hundreds of pro-soldiers under his command were surrounded by three circular soldiers, and there were countless spears and arrows, compressing Yan Yan in a narrow space, and the pro-soldiers were quickly strangled and killed, Yan Yan's big knife was slashed continuously, coping with the spears handed from everywhere, his right arm was stabbed, and blood flowed sideways.

Fa Zheng looked into the distance, and said to Liu Zhang in a deep voice: "It's not that General Zhang doesn't want to break through, it's that it can't be broken, the Jingzhou soldiers have been sticking to the Chinese army, just to wait for our attack formation to be out of order, just now our army has given up the formation in order to quickly break through the Jingzhou Chinese army, and the front and back can't echo, if you break through to the two wings, the Dongzhou elite soldiers and more than a dozen generals in the front have to fall into the Jingzhou formation." ”

"What kind of array is that, can it be broken?" Liu Zhang didn't know anything about the military formation, he had been fighting for almost a year, except for the conventional conical circular formation, he hadn't seen any formation, and the only time Zhou Yu used the car to hang the big formation, he also missed it.

"My subordinates are ashamed." Fa Zheng bowed to Liu Zhang with a gloomy face: "The subordinates only know the name of the array, it should be the Xingchen Long Snake Formation recorded in the "Sun Bin Art of War", the Long Snake Formation was created by Sun Bin's division Guiguzi, and it has evolved a lot, and the Xingchen Long Snake Formation is to use a sharp array of soldiers to achieve the purpose of strangling with outnumbered enemies, Xu Shu used the most elite soldiers in Jingzhou to set up the formation, although the subordinates knew it, but they couldn't break it. ”

Each state has its own elite division, Liu Biao is no exception, although Liu Biao lost his ambition with old age, but when he entered Jingzhou, he relied on several family forces to exterminate the troubled Jiangnan sect thief forces, leaving an elite division, which guarded the Jingzhou Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, Liu Biao thought that he would not need it in his life.

Liu Zhang pressed the five fingers of the handsome case and rubbed them the table, and his nails made a loud sound, at this time he understood Xu Shu's intentions, the so-called cavalry raid and the use of sunlight were just a small plan that Xu Shu came up with temporarily, this star long snake array is Xu Shu's real reliance, and it is his killing move, no wonder Xu Shu dares to face himself head-on.

In addition to the trickery, these Jingxiang strategists have real skills in their chests, Xu Shu did not use ambushes, did not use other strategies, that is, to defeat the Sichuan army on the battlefield, not only win the war, but also win morale, and win morale for the Jingzhou soldiers, if the Sichuan army is defeated today, perhaps, it will never be able to enter Xiangyang City.

"Can you retreat?" Liu Zhang took a deep breath, slowly said four words, clenched his fists, as long as he could retreat and reorganize the Sichuan army, even if he lost half of it, Liu Zhang believed that he could defeat the Jingzhou soldiers again.

Fa Zheng shook his head slowly: "No, unless the lord is willing to give up the lives of Zhang Ren Yan Yan and other generals, and all the elite Dongzhou soldiers." ”

Liu Zhang didn't answer, but Fa Zheng already understood what Liu Zhang meant, Zhang Ren and other generals are the soul of the Sichuan army, and the Dongzhou soldiers are the soul of the Sichuan army.

"Although I don't know how to break the formation, but the lord ordered, the weak point of the Jingzhou army is on the two wings, as long as we break through the two wings of the Jingzhou army before the Jingzhou soldiers are encircled, Xu Shu's long snake formation will not be attacked."

"Herald." Liu Zhang nodded, gritted his teeth and said: "The whole cavalry army is dispatched, divided into two ways to attack the two wings of the Jingzhou army, and must break through." ”

Lei Tong lifted the war knife from the horse's belly and raised it hard.

"Brothers, the Jingzhou soldiers are slaughtering our robes, and we will crush them now."

"There is no advance or retreat."

"There is no advance or retreat."

"Kill."

The rumbling horses' hooves trampled the grass, swept to the flanks of the Jingzhou soldiers like a torrent, the two armies collided, the horse's hooves were raised, the cavalry spears stabbed out, and a string of ** was strung up, countless Jingzhou soldiers trampled under the horse's hooves, Jingzhou soldiers in the face of strong impact, fear, chaos, Cai Zhong in the army retreated in horror, avoiding the cavalry's charge through the soldiers, and almost wanted to turn his horse and flee.

The cavalry rushed back and forth along the flank lines of the two wings, Xu Shu looked from afar, the cavalry of the Sichuan army on the two roads was only three or four thousand people on each road, and there were as many as 40,000 soldiers on the two wings, but Cai Zhong avoided the formation far away and did not dare to engage in battle, so that the cavalry of the Sichuan army rushed more and more, and the flanks were hidden in the rout.

Xu Shu was horrified, if the two wings were broken through, all his careful planning would be in vain, recruited more than a dozen soldiers to beat the drum to cheer, the battlefield sounded the sound of rumbling war drums, the horns sounded, the Jingzhou soldiers heard the exciting war drums, the signs of defeat eased slightly, Xu Shu called back Liu Biao to sit in the rear, lifted the reins, and galloped to the flanks.

"General Cai, you are a general, you should be the first soldier, why do you hide in the rear, don't you see that the soldiers in front can't hold it?" Xu Shu asked loudly.

"If you want to go, I won't go to death." Cai Zhong, who had two goatees, was also startled when he saw Xu Shu galloping over, his blood-red eyes bulging, but he immediately raised his head with his chest straightened up, he was a Cai clan, and he was afraid that he would come from a grass scholar, not to mention that he was a general on the water, and he was not good at land warfare, so why should he go to death.

"You, you can't rush or not." Xu Shu saw that the flank of the Jingzhou soldiers was about to be defeated under the joint strangulation of the cavalry and infantry of the Sichuan army, and he was already at a moment's notice, so he angrily drew his sword and pointed his sword at Cai Zhong.

"Xu Shu, don't be embarrassed, you just wear a cloth, why do you order me, you want to kill me? You're coming, you're coming, you're coming. ”

With the Cai family as the backing, Cai Zhong expected that Xu Shu would not dare to kill him, so he stretched his neck to Xu Shu to provoke.

"Ahh Xu Shu suddenly opened his eyes wide, roared, and slashed at Cai Zhong's neck, in Cai Zhong's frightened eyes, the sharp blade cut into his neck, but only a third of the card master, Cai Zhong's head fell halfway, and his mouth made a "wow" sound, and blood gushed out like a flood.

All the Jingzhou soldiers were horrified.

Liu Biao, who was watching the battle from the rear, was stunned.

Xu Shu pulled out his sword and stabbed into the sky: "All the Jingzhou soldiers fought hard to kill the enemy, and those who dared to retreat would end up the same as Cai Zhong." ”

After Xu Shu finished speaking, he rushed forward with his sword and took the lead in the Sichuan army.

Xu Shu learned swordsmanship as a young man, and swordsmanship was there, but as a scribe, Xu Shu never used force easily, because for literati, it was the next work, but at this time, he couldn't care so much, and killed Cai Zhong, Xu Shu was already expected to have a grudge with Cai, and his life was in danger in Jingzhou.

But behind him is Sima Hui's trust, his reputation after he left the mountain, and dozens of large and small clans in Jingbei, compared to these, personal honor and disgrace are nothing.

In the fear of Cai Zhong's tragic death and the encouragement of Xu Shu's fierce battle with his sword, the Jingzhou soldiers regained their courage, continued to fight, and finally stabilized their positions, while the momentum of the Lei Bronze cavalry gradually weakened with the continuous back and forth rush, and many cavalry were stabbed off their horses by the spears handed over.

The casualties of the cavalry are increasing, the Star Snake Formation continues to harvest the lives of the infantry, the generals are fighting bloodily, and the Sichuan army is caught in a brutal battle, and it is approaching the rout little by little.

Liu Zhang looked at the battlefield, his fists clenched tighter and tighter, and his muscles burst out, he knew clearly in his heart that if he continued like this, he would have to be wiped out.

However, I was so unwilling.

Liu Zhang seems to be able to see Xu Shu's shadow in a cloth coat and smiling on his beard, these strategists can always defeat the enemy between the two formations in a snap of their fingers, the clouds are light and the wind is light, that is to the enemy, it is contempt for themselves now.

"My lord, give the order to withdraw the troops." Fa Zheng said bitterly.

"Nope." Liu Zhang slowly forced out a word, and his voice was hoarse.

[The emotions of traitors are easily affected by the environment, extremely fragile, happy if the grades are good, and uncomfortable if the grades are bad, but no matter how happy or uncomfortable, I am seriously thanking the book, thank you for the book friends who voted for the recommendation]