Chapter 55 Nanye Pacification of Hanzhongdi (8)
After Nan Ye and Zhang Lu agreed on the method of fighting before the battle, they each collected their troops and went back to prepare. Zhang Lu's 1,000-year-old wine army is brave, but horsemanship and martial arts are not their strengths, and their advantage lies in their bloodthirstiness and fierceness, and they are not afraid of death. Therefore, Zhang Lucai and Nan Ye agreed to fight with their pawns. And Nan Ye also happened to have a team of 1,000 people who were invincible in foot combat, which was the trapped camp. This battle is destined to be between two special forces.
In ancient times, the casualties of more than one-tenth of the army in the battle were very prone to rout, and it was considered an iron army if it could kill one-third of the casualties without collapsing, and the so-called total annihilation was often the case of being slaughtered by the victor after the defeat.
The reason why Zhang Lu's sacrificial wine army is strong is that these sacrificial wine are all fanatical believers of the Wudoumi Sect, as long as Zhang Lu gives an order, they will not be defeated even if they have more than half of the casualties. This is also the source of Zhang Lu's confidence.
How many casualties will Gao Shun's fallen camp have been defeated? Even Nan Ye couldn't give an answer to this question. Since Gao Shun followed Nan Ye, the camp has won every battle, and there is no chance of major casualties, let alone a rout. Perhaps tomorrow's battle is the time to test the trapped camp.
Zhang Lu returned to the city and immediately summoned a thousand sacrificial wine troops to open the altar. The sergeants saw Zhang Lu wearing a Taoist robe, wearing a sword and a sword, stepping on the gang and fighting, and chanting words in his mouth, inviting all the gods and spirits of the heavens. Then Zhang Lu ordered people to prepare a thousand lamps of liquor, burned the talisman and turned ashes into the wine cup, and said to the soldiers: "This wine has the magic power of the heavenly masters and gods of the past dynasties, you can be invulnerable when you drink it, and you will be able to defeat the enemy in the next battle!" ”
The sacrificial wine army was convinced of what Zhang Lu said, and his eyes lit up when he picked up the wine cup, as if the wine cup was not stained with gray water wine, but Yaochi fairy dew, and elixir and jade liquid. A group of soldiers shouted: "Blessing the master! Invulnerable! Invincible! Conquer it all! After reading it, he picked up the wine cup and drank it all.
Zhang Lu waited for the soldiers to drink the talisman wine, took out a stack of talisman paper, and handed it to the soldiers in turn, ordering them to take it with him. Then he said: "This is a talisman, which can make you wait for water and fire not to invade, and your soul will not be destroyed." If I win the battle tomorrow, I will be the king of heaven, and I will ensure that you are a heavenly soldier, and those who have merit can be a heavenly general. ”
When the sacrificial wine army heard that it could be a heavenly soldier and a general, their hearts were even more excited, and they thanked Zhang Lu for their generous gifts one by one, and put the talisman as a family heirloom, and looked forward to killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions tomorrow.
Zhang Lu saw that the morale of the sacrificial army was high, so he knew that his mobilization was effective, and he was happy and a little distressed at the same time. What he felt sorry for was not those talismans, but the wine that the soldiers drank. In those drinks, the elixirs refined by Zhang Lu are incorporated, and the effect of these elixirs is not invulnerable, but can make people paralyzed without fear of pain, similar to the effect of painkillers, and they will just exert their effects tomorrow.
Zhang Lu can make countless believers believe that it is not all by fooling, at least his ability to see a doctor and refine medicine is no worse than Zhang Jiao. He also invested enough money for the sacrificial wine army, mentally brainwashing and controlling it to make him fearless of death, giving him physical medicine to ignore the pain, and his equipment was also full of fine iron armor, which was enough to resist ordinary blades and arrows. The sacrificial army attributed the credit for the medicine and armor to Zhang Lu's Taoism, so it is no wonder that they are convinced of invulnerability.
After Nan Ye returned to the camp, he also made full preparations, with Yang Song as the internal response, Nan Ye had already known that Zhang Lu had a sacrificial wine army. Nan Ye didn't believe the statement that this army was invulnerable, but he knew that this army must have something extraordinary, not comparable to ordinary soldiers, otherwise Zhang Lu would not be so confident.
The equipment trapped in the camp was the best in the Jiaozhou army, but Nan Ye was still not at ease, so he transferred a thousand pairs of vine armor soldiers from the vine armor army to wear them. Due to the tall race of the Ugo country, there are few people under Nan Ye's command who can wear rattan armor. So Nan Ye ordered the Academy of Sciences to improve a batch of rattan armor, so that these wide rattan armor can be covered on top of ordinary armor to form a layer of outer armor, and it is easy to take off, even if it encounters a fire attack, the soldiers can also take off the armor and get out.
The advantage of rattan armor is that it is light, so even if a soldier trapped in the camp puts on two layers of armor, it will not affect his movement. In this way, the already well-equipped trap camp defense is even stronger.
In terms of offensive weapons, Nan Ye has nothing to change. Powerful crossbows in long-range battles, steel knives in melee combat, and iron shields for defense have become the standard configuration of trapped camps, and rash replacement will not only not increase combat power, but will reduce combat power.
The night's work was fleeting, and the next day the two armies set up a position under Nanzheng City. To the north is the Zhang Lu army array, with a thousand sacrificial wine troops lined up in front, holding spears in both hands, which can deal with both infantry and cavalry. As for the shield, they don't bother to take it, and what is the use of the shield when it is already invulnerable? All these sacrificial soldiers had on their minds was how to rush forward and kill their enemies.
Behind the 1,000 sacrificial wine army was Zhang Lu, who was armed with a sword, wearing a Taoist robe and lined with soft armor. At this time, Zhang Lu did not look like a general who went into battle to fight, but like an immortal who descended to earth. Especially the zebra under his crotch is the most different. This zebra is not an African zebra, but a multicolored body with a splendid back and a brindle of stripes. If you don't know it from a distance, you will really think that this horse is some kind of fairy beast.
Behind Zhang Lu was the 30,000 army led by Yang Bai, and then the city wall. Yang Song, Yan Pu, 100,000 people, and people watched and cheered at the head of the city.
Opposite Zhang Lu was the Nanye army array, a thousand traps in the camp holding swords and shields, carrying strong crossbows on their backs, and standing neatly wearing rattan armor. The expressions of these trapped soldiers were indifferent and solemn, in stark contrast to the angry sacrificial army on the other side, as if the imminent battle in front of them had nothing to do with them. This kind of indifferent look on the battlefield is no different from their coach Gao Shun.
After falling into the camp is Nan Ye, at this time Nan Ye is holding the Heavenly Sword, wearing purple gold unicorn armor, and riding a golden armor under his crotch. Nan Ye's helmet and armor looked no different from that of an ordinary general, and the white man wearing gilt armor did not have too much ornamentation. But it was this outfit and this mount that made Nan Ye look more like a fairy than Zhang Lu. If Zhang Lu's immortal wind bones look like a scattered immortal who went down to the mortal world without permission, then Nan Ye is like a heavenly general who ranks in the immortal class to lead the heavenly soldiers, and is about to capture Zhang Lu, the immortal who stole down from the mortal world.
Looking behind Nan Ye, it was naturally Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Ma Yunluo and other generals, and tens of thousands of Jiaozhou troops lined up behind the generals to cheer for Nan Ye.
Although the two armies were in formation, they were far apart, and there were two arrows away, because neither side dared to take down the battle under the noses of the other army. Nan Ye and Zhang Lu discovered a problem at the same time, that is, it was impossible for them to communicate with each other and declare war.
It is said that this is not a big problem, it can be said that the drum advances, and the gold retreats, as long as the two sides beat the drums together and order the soldiers to rush and kill. The point is that who hits the drum first is a university question. The one who beats the drum first must charge first, and the two arrows are not long or short, and the soldiers who charge first must consume their physical strength first. Physical exertion is only a secondary problem, the main problem is that the side that charges first will approach the opponent's camp, and if the other party repents, the army behind them will be killed.
Nan Ye and Zhang Lu naturally hoped that the other party would beat the drum and charge first, but the result was that after the formation was set up, the two armies began to confront each other, and neither side rushed to attack. Faced with this situation, Nan Ye smiled slightly and ordered: "Advance fifty steps forward, walk in unison!" ”
Although the trapping camp was trained by Gao Shun, it was also integrated into Nan Ye's training methods, and for the orders issued by Nan Ye, the trapping camp soldiers could of course execute them perfectly, and began to move forward with neat steps.
As soon as Zhang Lu saw that the trapped camp was moving, he immediately became nervous, and thought that Nan Ye was going to charge, so he hurriedly ordered the sacrificial wine army to prepare for battle. However, as soon as the sacrificial wine army on this side had set up the spear, the camp stopped. This behavior confused Zhang Lu.
Unlike modern armies, ancient armies trained military postures and queues, and there was no distinction between walking in unison, walking in steps, and running and walking. Therefore, even if Zhang Lu also ordered the soldiers to advance fifty steps, the sacrificial wine army would not be able to move evenly, and it would only make the formation scattered, so Zhang Lu simply responded to the changes with the same, and still stood still, just waiting for the Nanye soldiers to take the lead in charging.
Seeing that Zhang Lu was not moving, Nan Ye continued to order: "Continue to take fifty steps forward, walk in unison!" ”
"Ka~Ka~Ka......" The footsteps of the trapped camp sounded again, just like the phalanx on the parade. Such a neat lineup was accustomed to Nan Ye's Jiaozhou army, but in the eyes of Zhang Lu's soldiers and the people in the city, it was not trivial. It was the first time they had seen such a neat military appearance, and they couldn't help but start talking in a whisper.
"Do you think Shijun can win?" The people's discussion reached Yan Pu's ears, causing him to frown. To be honest, he himself was worried about this, and he also felt that Nan Ye's actions were unusual, as if there was some trap hidden, but he couldn't think of it for a while.
"Fifty steps forward!" "Keep going!" "Let's go!" Nan Ye gave orders one after another, and the trapped camp advanced step by step, and soon shortened the distance between the two armies by half. The two armies were only a stone's throw away from each other at this time, and Nan Ye couldn't stop.
Zhang Lu's pupils shrank slightly, and he naturally saw that Nan Ye had already led the troops to the formation of the two armies. If the two sides had charged at the same time just now, then Nan Ye's position should have been the position where the two sides were fighting. In other words, Nan Ye had already mentioned that he had arrived at the battlefield, even if Nan Ye did not advance at this time, no one could blame Nan Ye for cowering, only that Zhang Lu was timid and did not dare to fight. Invisibly, Zhang Lu has lost the opportunity.
Nan Ye is approaching step by step, what he wants is this effect, and the next step is to force Zhang Lu to charge. Nan Ye suddenly asked the soldiers trapped in the camp loudly, "Do you still remember the training on weekdays?" ”
"Remember!" The soldiers trapped in the camp replied in unison. This roar can be heard both above and below the city. However, everyone couldn't hear what Nan Ye asked, so they naturally didn't know why the soldiers in the camp answered like this, but Zhang Lu was confused again.
Nan Ye smiled and shouted at this time: "One, two, three, four, five!" ”