"Three thousand foot soldiers, one thousand wolf riders?" Zhang Xun looked at the scout's report and couldn't help but wonder a little.

This number did not exceed Zhang Xun's estimate of the total strength of Qu Acheng, but it ...... Could it be that there are only a thousand people in ambush?

Thousands of people want to sneak attack their own generals and have a decapitation tactic? Is it so arrogant?

But then Zhang Xun shook his head and said, "It should be a laborer, right?" Oh, be smart. ”

The servants of the castle hime have no combat effectiveness, but they are used to pretend to be and walk with the real army, and they are not easily exposed.

It's just that once there is a real battle, the union will collapse instantly, and it is easy to disrupt its own military formation......

"It's okay, in this way, the soldiers and horses in the city will be nine out of ten, as long as they are defeated, Qu A can break it with a snap of his fingers!" Zhang Xun was a little excited.

As for why Chen Gong took the risk?

Zhang Xun didn't doubt anything, after all, in his opinion, it was only a matter of time before he broke through Qu'a, and it was only a matter of time for him to be delayed for a month or two, and it was just that the consumption pressure of military rations was too great, but for the enemy army, it was life and death, so he naturally had to gamble!

Not long after, Chen Gong came to the other side of the agreed battle array, and also began to build the soil as a platform, and Zhang Xun waited as promised.

By the time Chen Gong put up the platform, the agreed time was almost up.

When the hour came, I heard Zhang Xun first send a provocative battle horn, and then the two armies began to line up under the command of flags and drums and horns......

"Phalanx? Heh, do you make up the numbers with recruits? When Chen Gong saw Zhang Xun's mind on the high platform, he immediately knew that Bai Gong's plan was effective.

At this time, Chen Gong's "horns for a while" had already become small, just waiting for Kaifeng to see blood, but with 4,000 enemies and 20,000 enemies, it was inevitable that he would abandon the fire attack and water attack head-on the enemy, which was a little reluctant, so Chen Gong's idea was to make an appointment.

Shilling Zhang Xun understood that the siege could not be won quickly, and then induced the other party to fight.

Although in the war, it is too idealistic to believe that the opponent is Song Xianggong, and it is too idealistic to tacitly assume that they will respect the rules of the war, but ...... Even if the other party will regret it and will reinforce it, since it is a fighting formation, the other soldiers will definitely be some distance away from the place of the fighting formation, just like the fighting general.

In this way, you can make a time difference!

And Bai Gong's previous pretended ambush undoubtedly caused Zhang Xun to divide his troops to ambush again, which further reduced the timeliness of reinforcements.

At the same time, when Chen Gong saw that Zhang Xun actually chose the "phalanx", he understood that there must be a large number of recruits in the military formation that the other party should fight!

The phalanx does not refer to a square array of 10,000 people, but refers to a small array, which forms a square as a whole, with many troops around and few troops in the center, and the offensive and defensive balance......

and the other, arrayed around the banner war drums, arranged into a circular defensive "circle array", and the most basic tactics.

Generally suitable for new recruits and old and weak soldiers - Han Xin chose a phalanx when he was "fighting against the water", and used the terrain surrounded by water on three sides to avoid being changed by the opponent's military formation and could only face the enemy head-on, and at the same time, it also limited the rout of his own army, and finally won more with less.

But now, under the open terrain, the changes in the phalanx are limited, and Chen Gong decided from Zhang Xun's previous strategic style that this should be a very beautiful person, and it is impossible to choose such a basic military formation as the "phalanx" for no reason!

There were only 4,000 people on Chen Gong's side, of which 1,000 were hanging alone from the main formation, and they didn't need Chen Gong's command, they only needed to cooperate—Lu Bu's tactical instincts would guide him to attack the enemy's weakest points and seize fleeting opportunities.

Three thousand Qu'a pikemen, divided into eighteen arrays, are all eight layers deep, and they are quite neat to act.

The real Macedonian phalanx is sixteen layers deep, and during the battle, the front three or four rows point their spears forward, and the depth behind them is obliquely pointed at the sky......

In the Han Dynasty military formation style, the sixteen-layer deep infantry array was too redundant and easy to target, so Chen Gong only used eight layers of depth.

After all, at this time, in terms of tactical concepts, the Central Plains has taken the military formations formed by the combination of arrays as the mainstream, so that with the arrays as a unit, the military formations are more varied, and not the whole army is piled up in an array.

At this time, Zhang Xun was on the high platform, and he also saw the infantry of Chen Palace, and the weapons they were holding were indeed very strange - not that Zhang Xun's eyes were good, but that the spears of these two or three people were too eye-catching.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, even if it was the prototype of Zhang Fei's Zhangba snake spear, it was not one zhang and eight feet, but a pole and an eight-inch tip, which was one-third shorter than that of Qu Ajun in front of him.

And they did it right away!

"Inexplicably, an inch long, an inch strong...... But how can the infantry attack with such a long weapon? Scold...... Stop this! The former army advanced ......" Zhang Xun didn't take it seriously, ordered the drummers, and gave a signal to advance steadily.

Although half of the army was recruited, it was ...... On Qu'a's side, except for a thousand wolf riders, aren't the others recruits?

Zhang Xun thought to himself, even if Chen Gongjun was not deceitful, he was indeed a soldier, and he had no reason to lose under his absolute superiority.

I saw Zhang Xun's phalanx, gradually sparse forward, and the arrays in front were also composed of veterans, and the recruits were all spaced in the military formation behind.

As for the formation chosen by Chen Gong, Zhang Xun was stunned when he saw it: "This is ...... Fish scale array? Isn't he also commanding recruits? No, he still has a lot of servants mixed in! Actually choose the fish scale array? ”

For a while, Zhang Xun couldn't understand it, so he could only boil it down to playing tricks, and at the same time, he tried to adjust his mentality first.

"Don't underestimate the opponent too much, the lion fights the rabbit and still does his best!" Zhang Xun admonished himself.

Seeing that the two military formations began to fight, Zhang Xun chose the most basic phalanx - in order to take care of most of the recruits in the military formation.

Both sides put the cavalry outside the overall military formation, but Zhang Xun divided the two thousand cavalry into four teams and placed them on the two wings of the phalanx as a response, while Lu Bu's thousand cavalry was like a hanging knife, still keeping the whole on the right side, and slowly pressing up with the infantry.

The characteristics of the phalanx are that the outside is real and the middle is virtual, both offensive and defensive, and the fish scale array is usually divided into several sections, each section itself, whether front or back, is densely formed, but the gap between the arrays is very large, and it is easy to be divided between their own arrays, and it is also easy to divide the enemy army!

Zhang Xun didn't quite understand why Chen Gong chose this formation, but the tentative confrontation began immediately.

I saw that Qu'a spearmen, under the command of Chen Gong, gradually began to be stuffed into Zhang Xun's formation, and they were not worried about the numerical inferiority at all.

And Zhang Xun's phalanx's offensive method is just the simplest "sparse formation" - that is, gradually thin out the formation to move!

Therefore, it is easy to be embedded in the "fish scale array".

However, Zhang Xun is not in a hurry, his side has an absolute numerical advantage, even if they are separated from each other, it is a big deal to fight separately!

"Huh? Wrong! What, what's going on? Morale...... Morale hasn't collapsed! Why don't you fight? Zhang Xun's eyes widened suddenly.