Dong Shouye saw that Huangfu Song's words were neither humble nor arrogant, and he didn't expect to take advantage of his words, so he said: "So let Shouye listen to General Huangfu's teachings!" After finishing speaking, he pulled out Xiang Yubao's sword with one hand, pointed high into the sky, and then slashed it fiercely, which was to order his soldiers to attack.

Originally, when Dong Shouye had just led the troops, he wanted to directly order the attack, but Huangfu Song, as a generation of famous generals, had an extremely keen sense of smell on the battlefield, and soon after Dong Shouye appeared, he had already ordered the soldiers under his command to form a formation.

The formation formed by Huangfu Song is a circular formation, which is very suitable for defense in the field, and there are no obvious flaws, which can be said to be extremely defensive. Huangfu Song has not given it for many years, and as soon as this formation comes out, Dong Shouye wants to break it, but it is not so easy.

Now there are less than 30,000 people under Huangfu Song's command, and Dong Shouye has more than 30,000 people on the battlefield, plus the 30,000 defenders in Hewu, it can be said that the military strength is twice that of Huangfu Song.

Most of the general armies choose to break through immediately when they are surrounded, but Huang Fu Song did not do that, this is not that Huang Fu Song will not fight, but on the contrary, this hand is his extremely clever. You must know that most of the cavalry under Dong Shouye's command, if Huangfu Song immediately chooses to retreat, I am afraid that the follow-up pursuit of the Xiliang cavalry can kill most of Huangfu Song's men and horses, and all of them will be destroyed in a short time.

Huangfu Song formed a formation to defend in order to consume the sharp energy of the Xiliang Army, and with his superb command ability, the tiger of the Xiliang Army with an open mouth knocked out a few teeth first, and then looked for an opportunity to break through.

After Dong Shouye's order to attack was given, a cavalry immediately stepped forward.

I saw that this cavalry was a school of men, led by the school captain Cui Yong (this guy was the first person killed by Xu Huang after his appearance in the romance). This is a light cavalryman, with a strong bow in his hand, and he is good at shooting.

Cui Yong led the men and horses to slowly accelerate the charge, and when he approached the circle of Huangfu Song, everyone had strong bows in their hands, quickly wound their bows and arrows, and then pulled out the strong bows and aimed at the middle of the formation.

I only heard Cui Yong shouting loudly: "Shoot! ”

A whooshing sound sounded, and the soldiers under his command shot the bows and arrows in their hands at a forty-five degree elevation angle and flew into the circle.

However, in the middle of the circle, the soldiers arranged by Huangfu Song at the forefront put their shields in front of the formation, and formed a shield wall obliquely, extending all the way to form a shed-like bunker.

The sound of the clinking bow and arrow with the shield was endless, and due to the shield cover, the soldiers under Cui Yong's command did not have any effective killing.

Huangfu Song immediately organized the archers in the battle array to fight back, but due to the galloping movement of the horses, the position was erratic, and Cui Yong's position was relatively far away, so the effect of the counterattack was not very ideal.

Cui Yong has a similar range to the archers under Huangfu Song, but Cui Yong is a cavalryman, and the huge inertia brought by running at high speed can extend the range of the archers. So in the same position, Cui Yong's archers can shoot the soldiers in the circle, but the archers in the circle cannot shoot Cui Yong's cavalry.

Seeing this, Cui Yong shouted: "All the soldiers, immediately move closer to the position and try to shoot the enemy behind the shield." ”

After saying that, he took the lead, approached the circle, and then shot an arrow.

More than 2,000 people shot their bows and arrows together, forming a rain of arrows, flying into the air, above the circle array, falling rapidly, hitting the soldiers in the circle one by one.

The screams kept coming, and Cui Yong said loudly: "That's it, find a suitable position and continue to attack." ”

As Cui Yong continued to approach, the archers in the circle also began to counterattack, before due to the range problem, the counterattack of the circle was not ideal, and now Cui Yong has approached with men and horses, falling into the range of the archers in the circle. Huang Fu Song's control of the fighter was extremely keen, and in this extremely short moment, he quickly organized archers and quickly formed effective kills.

Even so, an archer who is stationary does not get as many kills as an archer in motion.

Cui Yong saw that the effect of his attack was very unsatisfactory, so he retreated with his soldiers and horses.

At the same time, Dong Shouye sent a signal to Dong Min in Yiwu, asking him to lead his troops out of the city and flank Huangfu Song together.

After Dong Min received the signal, he immediately organized 20,000 soldiers and horses to go out of the city, and the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses stayed in Yiwu to ensure that Hewu was safe.

Dong Min placed his men and horses in front of Yiwu and backed against Yiwu, on the one hand, he threatened Huangfu Song from the rear, and on the other hand, he also guarded in front of Yiwu to prevent Huangfu Song from attacking Yiwu.

Yiwu is the key to the Xiliang Army, and there is no room for error.

In this way, Dong Shouye and Dong Min worked together to form a trend of pincerizing Huangfu Song one after another.

After Cui Yong returned to the formation, he came to Dong Shouye and said: "General Qiyu, the last general led the men and horses to make a tentative attack, but the effect was not ideal, the other party used the cover of the big shield, and the general's formation was protected like a turtle shell. The last general is incompetent, the battle is unfavorable, please punish the general! ”

Dong Shouye looked at Cui Yong with a smile and said, "The battlefield is like shì, and the general has already seen it." Huangfu Song is a generation of famous generals, how can he be famous. If we can take advantage of it, won't its past merits become boastful? Captain Cui is innocent and returns to his own position! ”

When Cui Yong heard this, he led his troops back to his own position.

Jia Xu next to him said: "General, the circle array arranged by Huangfu Song is extremely suitable for this place and place, and it may take a lot of effort for our army to break through this formation." At present, the focus of our army should be on the attack on Chang'an, and it is not appropriate to lose too many troops on Huangfu Song, please think twice. ”

Dong Shouye nodded when he heard this, and said, "The sergeant is reasonable, and the general agrees with it. ”

After finishing speaking, he asked Zhang Liao beside him: "Second brother, has there been news from the people arranged by our army?" ”

Zhang Liao hugged his fist towards Dong Shouye and said: "Marshal Hui, the last general has just received the news, he has already explored the location of the other party, and now he has launched an attack. Please, marshal, wait. ”

Although this Huangfu Song led his soldiers and horses to attack Yiwu, he set up the camp thirty miles away in a secret place, that is, to prevent the camp from being attacked by others.

The reason why Huangfu Song immediately formed a circle formation and did not choose to break through was also because he thought that after dark, the defense of the Xiliang army would be relaxed, and after breaking through, he could immediately return to the camp to obtain food and grass supplies, so that the people's hearts would not be scattered.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the battle, Dong Shouye had already sent people to search for Huangfu Song's camp, as long as Huang Fu Song's camp was taken, its food and grass supply would be cut off, and it would be much easier to solve a group of hungry ghosts who had not eaten at that time.