In 284 BC, King Yan Zhao ordered Yan General Le Yi to lead a coalition of six countries to attack Qi. The war went smoothly, and in just half a year, Le Yi captured more than 70 cities in Qi State, and only two cities remained in Qi State, Juxian and Jimo. Seeing that the situation was very good, Yan had begun to celebrate the victory of destroying Qi, but he didn't want Juxian to be a veritable fortified city, and Le Yi besieged the city for several years and failed to capture it. So, Le Yi led his troops to Jimo, wanting to try his luck.

In the first battle of Jimo, the general defending the city was killed, and the people and scholars in the city elected Tian Dan as a general. At this time, King Yan Zhao died, and King Yan Hui ascended the throne. King Yan Hui did not trust the general Le Yi, so he made the general ride instead of Le Yi as the general of the army. The year was 279 B.C.

Tian Dan saw that Le Yi was removed by King Yan Hui and left Zhao State, so he knew that the opportunity had come. So, he selected a thousand cows, put bells and whistles on the cows, and then tied sharp knives to the horns of the cows, and set the tail of the ox on point, so more than 1,000 strong cattle rushed into the army of Yan generals. The Yan army was in turmoil, Tian Dan took the opportunity to send troops to defeat the Yan army, and in just a few months, he recovered more than 70 cities that had fallen to the Qi State.

This is the first record of the fire bull formation in the history books.

Zang Ba's Lao Tzu is the county jailer, equivalent to the current county jail warden, and he can be regarded as an official with power after all. Naturally, the education he received since he was a child was not too bad, he had read the history books, and he also knew about the records of the Fire Bull Array. However, he was skeptical about the authenticity of the Fire Bull Formation. He did a similar experiment, and the end result was tragic, the fire bull went on a rampage, there was no specific direction at all, not only failed to crash into the scarecrow phalanx he had prepared, but instead broke into his own camp, injuring many people.

But today, Zang Ba believes it!

Xiahou Yuan sat on the horse, looking at Zang Ba's large array with a sinking face. I have to say that Zang Ba is quite level, and the big array is impenetrable, and the information from the scouts shows that not only there are no flaws in the front, but there are also no flaws in the flanks and rear formations. Xiahou Yuan thought that with the 11,000 cavalry under his command, he had to pay more than 5,000 casualties if he wanted to break the formation.

After a while, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun and Cao Zhen adjusted the entire army according to his wishes, and then rushed back to hand over the order, Xiahou Yuan dipped his fingers in a little saliva, felt the direction of the wind, his stiff face loosened slightly, nodded slightly, and said: "Zilie, it's still the upper hand, get ready!" ”

Cao Xiu clenched his fists and said loudly: "No! ”

After that, he turned and struck his horse. After a while, as a loud horn sounded, Xiahou Yuan's large array spread out to both sides, and countless sturdy cows mooed and were driven out.

The horns of the cow were tied with knives, and the body was covered with bells and whistles. And behind them, there were five hundred Hun cavalry screaming and screaming.

The Huns were a people on horseback, good at war, but better at herding. Five hundred men drove more than two thousand cattle, and there was no pressure at all. Seeing the screams in their mouths and the sound of whips in their hands, the cattle moved slowly according to their intentions, and although there was some small commotion, there was no confusion.

Behind Niu Er and the Hun cavalry was Cao Xiu and his own soldiers, who supervised the battle.

Walking a hundred and ten paces away, Cao Xiu sent an order, and everyone, including Cao Xiu and his personal guards, opened the cowhide water bladder he was carrying, and poured the black things inside on his body and the war horse.

A smelly and sassy smell came, Cao Xiu only felt a churning in his stomach, the smell of this thing was too ecstatic, he adjusted his breathing, making his breathing longer, and always the smell was not so unbearable.

Immediately afterwards, the cattle closest to these people began to panic, and their steps accelerated, as if they were in a hurry to break away from Cao Xiu and the others, and the formation of the cattle became chaotic. Cao Xiu smiled with satisfaction, and said in his heart that although he had suffered a little sin, the effect was really not bad, and he shouted: "Bala, left, Yin Hera, right!" ”

The two Xiongnu generals listened to the order, and each led dozens of people to run to the left and right of the herd. Strange to say, the cattle on the left and right of the herd were supposed to flee in all directions, but as soon as Bala and Yin Hera arrived, they fled towards the herd, mooing and mooing in their mouths, and the density of the herd suddenly increased a lot, and the cattle bumped and crowded each other. The herd, as if they were particularly afraid of these people, began to speed up in order to get out of their range, and in a moment two thousand cattle began to gallop.

Not far from Zang Ba's big array, Cao Xiu said loudly: "Ignition!" ”

Five hundred Huns listened and immediately worked in pairs, one igniting and the other archery. Flaming flaming feathered arrows were thrown into the herd in a high parabola, and many of the cattle that were shot immediately burst into flames. There were no arrows on the feather arrows, and the back half of the cow was coated with fire oil, and it couldn't die for a while.

As soon as the panicked cow caught fire again, it immediately became completely chaotic, and the burning cow ran towards the dense herd, which ignited more cattle, and in a short time nearly half of the cattle caught fire. And what is incredible is that the ignited cow did not run around, but moved in the direction of Cao Xiu's ideal, that is, the direction of Zang Ba's big array.

At this time, the Fire Bull Array was only two miles away from Zang Ba's big array, and it was already very close.

The panicked herd rushed wildly, and the earth seemed to tremble.

Zang Ba's face was pale and pale, and his soldiers were even more pale. The galloping of the herd of cattle was more powerful than that of the horses, not to mention that these cattle were galloping towards them, and the soldiers in the front row could feel the murderous aura even more, and they couldn't help but tremble their hands.

In an instant, Zang Ba thought a lot, he glanced at the soldiers in front of him, and said in a loud voice: "Pass my general order, fight to the death today, and those who dare to speak out and retreat will be killed!" Order the oarsman in front of me to resist me, and the archers are free to shoot! ”

It's not that Zang Ba doesn't want to retreat, because he knows that even if he can withstand the impact of the fire bull, he will suffer heavy losses. But on the opposite side was Xiahou Yuan, and Zang Ba knew that as long as he retreated, Xiahou Yuan's cavalry would immediately follow, and at that time, it would not be as simple as the loss of thousands of people.

The herald immediately gave his order, and the soldiers gritted their teeth and shouted angrily, "Kill, kill, kill! After three loud yells, the fear in my heart was much lighter.

The spearman in front of him shifted his weight downward, put his shoulders and knees on the canopy, and the pikeman put the bottom of the handle of the spear on the ground, crouched down, stepped on the handle of the spear with one foot, and held the spear in both hands, and the spear was held diagonally in the air at an angle of about 30 degrees. Archers and crossbowmen began to fire feathered arrows, countless feathered arrows flying diagonally into the sky with unparalleled impact, and then stabbed down with heavy shards.

At the moment when the feather arrow rose into the air, the soldiers led by Cao Xiu divided into two groups and rushed to the left and right, while more than 2,000 cattle on fire, although they were not under their control, still rushed towards Zang Ba's large array according to their inertia.

The power of the Xuzhou army's feather arrows is not small, but the cow's skin is rough and the flesh is thick, and the damage of a few feather arrows to them will not be fatal, except for a very small number of unlucky eggs who were shot in the neck or fell to the ground in the head, tripping the cattle behind them, causing a lot of confusion, but the fire ox array still rushed towards the Xuzhou army.

Chaos, chaos, chaos!

The fire ox was wrapped in the momentum of Wanjun, almost unhindered to break through the large array of the Xuzhou army, the screams of the Xuzhou soldiers, the dying cries of the cow, the sound of the spear breaking, the sound of the spear head piercing the body of the cow, and the loud sound of the cow hitting the oar hard...... All the voices converged into a tragic battle scene, and the 4,000 people in Zang Ba's front army disappeared in just an instant.

The cow is a very docile animal, and most of the cattle people see are led by the nose to plough the fields, or pull the cart to walk slowly, even if they are whipped up, they will not resist, at most they will scream a few times.

But once the body is on fire, its fierce side is vividly displayed. A big bull with blood-red eyes, panting heavily, mooing and screaming in his mouth, saliva flowing down from the corners of his mouth, his head swaying left and right, his body pushing left and right, his hooves flying, kicking up and down, and where he passed, it was simply a god blocking and killing the god and the Buddha. The sharp horns and the sharp knives on the horns matched with the crazy force, easily tearing through the armor of the Xuzhou soldiers, and the huge force would definitely fly out of a piece of the canopy or a person as long as it was a brief contact. On the battlefield, countless Xuzhou soldiers screamed, spun in the air and flew out several steps away, and countless canopy rolled in the air for a while, and smashed down a group of soldiers.

Everywhere the cattle passed, there was not even a wail, only corpses that were not human shapes everywhere.

However, it has been burned by fire, the vitality of the cow is always burning, the soldiers of the Xuzhou army are not scarecrows, they will honestly stay there and wait for the collision, they are holding swords, guns, swords and halberds, not burning sticks, so after a long time, Zang Ba paid the price of nearly 10,000 people, the fire bull is almost dead, and the Xuzhou army finally stabilized its position.

Seeing the situation ahead, Zang Ba breathed a sigh of relief, it's finally over, and if he comes out like this again, I'm afraid that the team he worked so hard to pull up will be completely explained here. But he didn't have to be happy for long, and he was dumbfounded again!

I saw smoke and dust billowing in front of me, the sound of killing shook the sky, and Cao Jun came again.

He hurriedly shouted: "Pass my order, set up a formation, hurry up and set up ......"

Halfway through his words, he changed his words, "Send a letter to the lord, just say that my side is completely finished, let the lord be careful, Xiahou Yuan will attack it soon!" In addition, remember, let's just say that Xiahou Yuan's 11,000-strong cavalry army is about to be killed, and I didn't bring them any losses! ”

This time, Zang Ba's face was already blue, and he was as clean as a dead man.

In fact, it's not just him, the people around him who can see the situation in front of him have almost this expression, and the soldiers in front of him have the same expression.

Xiahou Yuan's second wave of deadly attacks came, and this time, Zang Ba believed that he would not be able to withstand it at all!

Three miles ahead, countless war horses were rushing towards this side in a panic.

The number of war horses is innumerable, and there is no edge at a glance.

If it weren't for the Fire Bull Formation that destroyed Zang Ba's Turf Formation and Spear Formation, and killed his archers to the ground, he might have been able to withstand it, after all, the impact of the war horse was much worse than that of the mad bull on fire. But now, there are only a small number of soldiers in front of him, and the spearmen and archers have not yet been transferred to the front, and there are only some sword and shield soldiers and the like, how can they withstand it?

Xiahou Yuan, are you crazy? What do you think about using tens of thousands of war horses to charge into battle? You're too rich, aren't you? You're such a loser, does your family know?

This was the only question that came to Zang Ba's stiff brain at this moment.

Half an hour later, Zang Ba's Suiyang army broke up, the soldiers scattered and fled, and Zang Ba fled to Chenliu under the escort of his personal guards. And Xiahou Yuan didn't care about the soldiers who fled around, nor did he rush to pursue Zang Ba, but after tidying up the formation, he slowly chased after him.