"Your Highness is only fifty miles away from Yanzhou City!" The guide said excitedly, feeling like he was exhaling and raising his eyebrows. As a native of Qingzhou, he was very happy to see that Ge Congzhou, who would only bully Qingzhou all day long, could be bullied back one day. Probably this is equivalent to the earthquake in this book, and most of the Chinese people know the feelings after the news.

"Abaoji, is there a chance of a sneak attack?" Li Cunhuan asked Yelu Abaoji on the side.

Yelu Abaoji shook his head lightly and said, "Ge Congzhou is very vigilant, even if he sends all the capture generals, it is impossible to hide from Ge Congzhou's eyes. ”

"In that case, press it up! Deal with Ge Congzhou with a dignified and upright soldier! Li Cunhuan's voice was full of confidence, as if it was a domineering spirit that defied everything.

"Yes!" Yelu Abaoji replied in a deep voice, and there couldn't help but show a trace of fluctuation in his voice because of excitement.

Countless iron hooves trampled on the earth, making a roaring sound. The smoke and dust were picked up by the iron hooves and turned into huge waves of smoke and dust like a tsunami. The knight controls the war horse to form a straight line, like a ** steel wave, which makes people involuntarily feel invincible from the depths of their hearts.

Li Cunhuan advanced about ten miles before receiving a report from Tanma, and Ge Congzhou led an army of 20,000 to line up in front. Li Cunhuan was not surprised, he put on such a big formation. If Ge Congzhou can't find out, then Ge Congzhou can pick up a sword and wipe his neck. Li Cunhuan wouldn't have treated him so cautiously.

"Your Highness! Let me lead my troops to break through his battle formation and open the way for His Highness! Yuan Xingqin couldn't wait to ride his horse to Li Cunhuan's side and surrender his hand to fight.

"No!" Li Cunhuan shook his head, revealing a smile of the expectation of the strong for the strong, and said: "I want to deal with Ge Congzhou in person, although I won the deal in Qizhou at the beginning, it is inevitable that there is some victory." Although it is said that the war is all-encompassing, I still have some regrets, so let me and Ge Congzhou fight in an upright manner! ”

"Yes!" Yuan Xingqin said a little unwillingly.

Yelu Abaoji on the side couldn't help but show a touch of disdainful sarcasm, and secretly sneered in his heart: I just want to make meritorious service when I just rise up. Even if you are earnest, you have to look at the object, and you have courage or no strategy! I thought that Ge Congzhou was a soft persimmon!

Li Cunhuan glanced at Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Abaoji didn't know why he had a feeling that Li Cunhuan had seen through his thoughts, and couldn't help lowering his head slightly with some weakness and looking at the reins in his hand.

Yelu Abaoji's disdain just now, Li Cunhuan saw it in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, he didn't know about the contradictions of his subordinates, but he rarely deliberately mediated. It's not just that he doesn't have this spirit, but more importantly, all Li Cunhuan needs to do is to take everything into his hands. On the contrary, the people under him are in a group, and Li Cunhuan is not easy to do many things. For example, the Juntian Order, which Li Cunhuan can implement in North Korea, but cannot implement it in Lulong.

That's because many of Lu Long's families are deeply rooted and huddle together. If Li Cunhuan wants to implement the Juntian Order, he needs to purge all the nobles as North Korea did, and then implement the government military system. Otherwise, where would they come to work in the fields? You must know that fertile and well-developed fields are in the hands of nobles and large landowners.

All because the Chinese have an almost crazy love for fields, and a person's wealth and status are directly related to the amount of land he owns. If modern Chinese society is the official standard and the gold standard, then in the ancient society it is the Tian standard. Therefore, the general field reform is often very resistant.

............" Marshal, Li Cunhuan brought about 10,000 people this time, all of them were equipped with cavalry, one person and two horses, which was really a big deal. It seems to be preparing for a big move. Gong Yue said with a nervous face.

"Li Cunhuan can go deep into here alone, there is no possibility that he is just ready to finish things casually." Ge Congzhou sat on the back of the horse, as if he didn't care, and the relaxed tone when he spoke could be heard as long as he wasn't a fool.

"Is there a way for the marshal?" Gong Yue couldn't help but ask nervously and a little curiously.

"Secret!" Ge Congzhou said with a smile. made Gong Yue's heart itch, but there was no way.

Although Ge Congzhou said that it was a secret, Gong Yue still saw some reasons, this time Ge Congzhou's battle formation was the gossip rejection array that he had been letting the soldiers practice during this time. Although this gossip rejection array often watches him practice, it is difficult to say the effect. Exercises and actual combat are two concepts, and many inconspicuous things, as soon as they arrive on the battlefield, many of their shortcomings will be discovered by the opponent, and at the same time they will be amplified, resulting in the level of actual combat, which has not yet been exercised. In the end, it will lead to a defeat in a battle because of misleading the commander-in-chief.

There are also some seemingly simple, many people think that it is nothing more than that, but on the battlefield, it is a few percent better than the exercise, so Gong Yue is not easy to make a law. Even if this battle array was developed by Ge Congzhou himself, Gong Yue would not blindly think in his heart that what Ge Congzhou produced would definitely be the best.

............ "Huh?" What kind of formation is Ge Congzhou? Li Cunhuan looked at the Xuanwu Army who forcibly cut off the road, a flash of vigilance flashed in his eyes, and he asked.

"Huh? Some are like the Eight Array Diagram, could it be that Fei Ge got a certain military book from Zhuge Wuhou from Zhou? Guo Chongtao's eyes lit up and said excitedly. However, the words that came out made Li Cunhuan's heart cold, and Li Cunhuan had never seen the Eight Array Diagram. But if you haven't eaten pork, haven't you seen a pig run! That's Brother Pig's home trip, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is a super artifact necessary for killing. has successively pitted several big celebrities in the Three Kingdoms.

"That's not right!" Yang Shihou on the side retorted, "It's not an eight-array diagram, it's just a little similar." ”

"Can you break the formation?" Li Cunhuan didn't want to listen to the two arguing, so he asked directly.

By this era, Li Cunhuan already knew that battle formations were generally simple phalanxes, cone-shaped formations, long snake formations, and so on. But there are also some powerful battle formations, such as the Eight Formations, but these battle formations are unusual battle formations, and soldiers need to be trained and run-in for a long time before they can be deployed, otherwise they will only draw snakes and add to them.

Moreover, these battle formations have a disadvantage, that is, they need to train frequently, and they cannot be unfamiliar. And it is often also targeted for surnames. For the chaotic remnants of the Tang Dynasty, what all the princes didn't like, what they needed was a type of troops with a high surname price ratio, and because of this, it led to the decline of Modao and cavalry in the Song Dynasty. Because the training time of these classes is relatively long, it takes at least one year for the Modao Army, and it takes two to three years to train a farmer to become a qualified cavalryman.

In this troubled world, there is time to train these soldiers! Many times, often soldiers are already pulled into the battlefield before they are trained. Therefore, even Li Cunhuan is not too involved in special battle formations, and can only count on Yang Shihou and Guo Chongtao, two military wizards.

What's more, the battle array has many shortcomings, but the power is not ordinary. If a battle formation is used well, it is entirely possible to achieve it with one enemy and ten.

"This needs to be carefully observed!" Guo Chongtao and Yang Shihou did not say how to do it proudly, and behaved very cautiously, which made Li Cunhuan's mood solemn.

Since there was no way to break the formation, Li Cunhuan naturally would not choose to act brutally, and ordered the army to dismount and rest. And Li Cunhuan himself walked up to a high ground under the protection of Guo Chongtao, Yang Shihou and more than 100 Tieying guards, and carefully observed the battle formation under Ge Congzhou.

I saw that this battle array was like a gossip map, with a small circle array in the center of the battle array as the middle army, and the handsome flag was flying high. The rest of the soldiers and horses turned into eight long claws and extended outward. Each long claw is like a centipede, each forming a trapezoidal battle array. At first glance, it looks like a tortoise shell.

Guo Chongtao took a closer look and said, "This is a battle formation dedicated to restraining cavalry. ”

"Oh? How so? Li Cunhuan didn't believe it, but he was very curious about why Guo Chongtao came to this conclusion all of a sudden.

"His Royal Highness was born as a cavalry general and is familiar with cavalry. If it were up to you, Your Highness, to charge the battle, I don't know where Your Highness would choose to start! Guo Chongtao did not answer Li Cunhuan's question, and pointed to the battle formation below with the horsewhip in his hand and asked rhetorically.

Li Cunhuan glanced sideways at Yang Shihou, Yang Shihou didn't seem to notice Guo Chongtao's conversation with himself, his left hand gently stroked his chin, and looked intently at the battle array below.

Li Cunhuan's plan to let Yang Shihou solve the problem ended without a problem, so he could only step on the pit set by Guo Chongtao. "You should charge from here in the northeast."

Guo Chongtao smiled, squatted on the ground, picked up the stone, drew the gourd in the same way, and put down the gossip rejection array under Ge Congzhou. He said, "Your Highness, see if you are prepared for this!" ”

Saying that, Guo Chongtao took a finger of dead branches as a cavalry and began to charge into battle, Li Cunhuan was a little unimpressed, but slowly found that something was wrong. The cavalry charged into formation, and under normal circumstances, it was natural to charge along the loose place. Otherwise, the fixed cavalry is not as good as the infantry, so if the cavalry wants to exert its combat effectiveness on the battlefield, it needs to be constantly moving.

However, Guo Chongtao's battle formation, as if intentionally, controlled the direction of the cavalry charge, and slowly the situation changed, and the originally imposing cavalry was slowly surrounded by infantry because the passage was getting narrower and narrower, and they were trapped in a place and could not move. Although he did not see the real situation, Li Cunhuan could predict that those infantry must have held a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, slowly pressing the cavalry. Whether the cavalry broke through or slowly dodged inward, they could no longer escape the end of destruction.

"This!" Li Cunhuan was shocked in his heart, and he didn't know what to say.

It's also fortunate to be able to see clearly, if on the battlefield, the smoke and dust are billowing and the shouts of killing are shaking the sky. I'm afraid how the cavalry was annihilated by the enemy, and I don't know the ins and outs.

"In fact, the best way to this kind of battle formation is to press it head-on with infantry, or cavalry to suppress it, otherwise it will be difficult to charge the battle successfully." Guo Chongtao said that Li Cunhuan suddenly smiled and said: "Then I will choose such a method if I don't have an iron horse!" ”

Guo Chongtao smiled, he said so much, in fact, he wanted to draw out Li Cunhuan's idea, to be a subordinate, you can't blindly be strong. Otherwise, it will appear that the lord is too incompetent, and it will arouse the suspicion of the lord.

"Wait!" Yang Shihou, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"What's the matter?" For Yang Shihou, Li Cunhuan still attaches great importance to it, after all, Guo Chongtao is still young, many things, although the general direction is eye-catching, but in some details is not as careful as Yang Shihou thought.

"Your Highness, please look!" Yang Shihou pointed to one end of the gossip rejection array and said, "Ge Congzhou's battle formation is very special, with a mix of infantry and cavalry. Although there are not many cavalry, it has reached a level where it can quickly support a certain place at a critical moment. So it's not that simple to rush into battle! Behind my suspicion is that there is a considerable bed crossbow hidden! ”

"Commander Yang is saying that Ge Congzhou has integrated the elements of the Moon Array!" Although Guo Chongtao is not as old as Yang Shihou, he is not only thorough at one point, but also draws inferences from one another.

"But the moon array? Sounds familiar. What is the battle formation? Li Cunhuan thought hard, if it was the Eight Array Diagram, he might be familiar with it.

"But the moon array was created by Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, with a combination of foot, riding and chariots, and in one fell swoop it was composed of 2,000 infantry, but the moon array broke the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty at that time! Therefore, since Liu Song, all the combat examples of riding on foot have more or less absorbed the elements of the moon array. Among them, the moon array has three characteristics, the backwater, the big crossbow, and the chariot. Guo Chongtao explained to Li Cunhuan on the side.

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he nodded as if he had realized something, pointed to the gossip rejection array under Ge Congzhou, and said: "Although Ge Congzhou is not backed by water, it is a characteristic of relying on the mountains and rivers, and the secret combination of the moon array will protect the back. There is also a big crossbow, this Ge Congzhou must have it, if there is no big crossbow to restrain riding and shooting, how to ride on foot. It seems that Ge Congzhou's battle formation is very difficult to break! ”

"Actually, it's not that you can't break the formation, if Your Highness touches it with brute force, will Ge Congzhou still be able to carry three thousand iron hooves loaded with iron horses? It depends on Your Highness, whether you are willing to pay the capital or not. Yang Shihou said indifferently on the side.

However, Li Cunhuan listened to it with some pain, and he did it recklessly, but he didn't know how heavy the loss was, so Li Cunhuan was really reluctant. The iron horse is only 3,000 horses so far, and the training is not an ordinary difficulty, and the war horse Li Cunhuan has introduced the Jurchen war horse, which is not fast, but the endurance and gravity are amazing, and the price is even more than the iron horse that Li Kuang funded and formed.

"It's a pity that it's too far from Lu Long here, otherwise it would be enough to transport ten bronze cannons over and directly blast out Ge Congzhou's battle array!" Guo Chongtao said with a look of pity.

Li Cunhuan directly ignored Guo Chongtao's words, and a bronze cannon weighed thousands of pounds. And after every twelve shots, it must be returned to the furnace, otherwise it will burst. As a result, bronze artillery is very dependent on logistics, and when a big war is fought, a bronze cannon can fire dozens of shells, and a small-scale war also needs three or four shells. It's okay on your own side, although it's a little troublesome, but you still find a place to return to the furnace, and when you get to the enemy, after twelve launches, it becomes a chicken rib, because where do you find a place to return to the furnace?

If you don't take it with you, can you rest assured that you will leave this weapon in the field and guarantee that the enemy will not capture it? Take it away, and one statue will weigh thousands of pounds, which is not a drag on logistics. If it weren't for him, how good it would be to transport thousands of catties of extra grain and grass, or even tens of thousands of catties! So Li Cunhuan didn't bring bronze artillery.

"Your Highness, what do you say now?" Yang Shihou saw that Li Cunhuan didn't say anything for a long time, so he couldn't help urging.

"Let's set up camp!" Li Cunhuan pondered for a while, anyway, he was not in a hurry now, and he came from a long journey, and the soldiers and horses were tired. Although with the elite of the army he brought, he can still support it, but he can't hold it out.

"Jie Shuai, Li Cunhuan and they are camping, what should we do? Go back to Yanzhou City? Or just set up camp here? Gong Yue looked at Ge Congzhou and asked.

Ge Congzhou squinted at Li Cunhuan's side for a while, and found that there was no opportunity to take advantage of, so he couldn't help but shake his head with some regret and said, "Li Cunhuan is too shrewd!" Set up camp here! When they arrived in Yanzhou, plus Liu Yan's old fox, it was easy to be caught between them and back. ”

"Yes!" Gong Yue responded, but after walking a few steps, as if he had something to say, he stopped his steps, turned around and looked at Ge Congzhou, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Ge Congzhou looked at Gong Yue with some dissatisfaction, not knowing what he wanted to say.

"Do you want to send someone to inform King Liang Chitose and let someone send troops to support? After all, you don't have more than 30,000 people in your hands. Gong Yue said hesitantly, although he knew that there must be a big strategy above, which was not something that he, a young general, could know, and it might even have a great impact because of his decision. But he still couldn't help but say it, after all, with their current soldiers and horses, the pressure was too great to besiege Yanzhou City and deal with Li Cunhuan.

Ge Congzhou shook his head very decisively, without a trace of hesitation, and said, "Just send someone to notify!" Chitose has his concerns, we shouldn't let Chitose be forced to change our plans because of us, not to mention that I, Ge Congzhou, can't I stop Li Cunhuan for a while? Speaking of the back, the huge self-confidence also exaggerated Gong Yue.

Gong Yue didn't say much more, and he unconsciously became a lot more down-to-earth when Ge withdrew from Zhou and walked out.

But Gong Yue didn't know that after he left, Ge Congzhou immediately frowned, and the situation was not as confident and simple as Ge Congzhou thought. For the elite Lu Longjun, Ge Congzhou is very jealous, and it is equivalent to Li Keyong, and Li Cunhuan is even more difficult, this is the consensus of everyone.

"I hope Chitose you can capture Youzhou soon!" Ge Congzhou said quietly, now Lu Long and Xuanwu are like two boxers, both sides are fast and fast, their fists are indomitable to hit each other's vital points, now look at the key point that hits the opponent quickly, then you will be able to hit the enemy hard with a sentence and pick the fruits of victory.

(To be continued)