Chapter 148: Hundred-Foot Sword Tower
The sun is in the sky.
The vast coalition army slowly marched north in a neat formation, with bright armor and reflecting brilliant golden light.
But if you can stand from a high altitude and get a bird's eye view, you will find that the flags of this team are extraordinarily numerous, and the gaps between the queues are also large.
This is all an arrangement to appear crowded, but it reflects the insufficient strength of the coalition forces.
For field warfare, if it is a mountain warfare, the militia can also play a supporting role. However, if two strong armies face each other in the plain terrain, they are generally pure war soldiers, with only a small number of auxiliary soldiers such as military bands, and if a large number of militia are mixed, it will be counterproductive.
Gu Xichao, the beloved son of the general Gu Taineng, said to Long Aotian on the Dao Rim: "Dao Master...... News has come from Tanma that the Shentang army is still backed by Burning Bean and lined up in a crane wing formation. ”
Gu Xichao, as Long Aotian's side, has always been inseparable from him, but his father Gu Taineng is not in the army this time.
Zen Master Xuezhai and Gu Taineng are one writer and one martial artist, and they are each other's inside and outside. This time, Zen Master Xuezhai went out to replace Long Aotian as the commander of the first army, so Gu Taineng stayed in the rear to guard against the sneak attack of the Qingcheng faction and the rebellion of the ill-intentioned people.
Okamoto Shin, who was as famous as Gu Xichao, stayed behind to guard the Dao Palace Castle on the slope to protect the back road of the Shenxiao Army.
Gu Xichao said with some doubts: "Although the Divine Hall Army claims that there are only eight thousand people, according to the information we provided in the Divine Hall Territory, the mobilization of the Divine Hall side is close to the limit, and the combat power is definitely more than that, it should be above us." ”
"In this case, it can be completely arranged into a powerful attack formation like the Fish Scale Array, why bother to set up a Crane Wing Formation that is not conducive to pursuit?"
Long Aotian sneered and asked, "Who is the Shentang Army trying to deceive by concealing its true strength?"
Gu Xichao patted his head: "That's right, if it is arranged into a fish scale array, we can estimate the enemy's true strength according to the thickness of the formation......
Long Aotian said coldly: "Those who have many soldiers are easy to be arrogant, and those who often win underestimate the enemy." We were defeated last time because of the underestimation of the enemy, so Su Mengzhen hopes that we will continue to underestimate the enemy. ”
"And our chance of victory is not only in the hundred-foot sword tower, but also in the enemy's light enemy. ”
Gu Xichao bowed down and said, "Follow the teachings!"
Long Aotian looked at Zen Master Xuezhai: "I'm about to engage the enemy, please give the teacher an order." ”
Zen Master Xuezhai rides on a white elephant, and the saddle is decorated with seven treasures, which is extremely luxurious, and the more solemn his appearance is.
I saw the Buddha beads in the palm of the Zen Master Xuezhai turning, and the small Buddha beads roared like a thousand-foot iron cable, so that all the generals could hear it clearly.
"Cloth Glaive Moon Array!" shouted Zen Master Xuezhai.
The flag passed the command down, and the shape of the formations began to change. The heralds traveled between the teams, passing on the news to the generals.
Even after the last fiasco, the Shenxiao Army still has a strong sense of coordination, and it is like an arm and a finger to command.
A crescent-like formation quickly formed.
The moon surface is convex, a large number of light infantry is in the center, heavy infantry is on the flanks, and the cavalry is on the outermost, the number is not much, but it can rely on its strong combat effectiveness to defend the enemy from the flank and the rear to encircle, which can effectively restrain the outflanking tactics of the crane wing array.
Crossbowmen are mixed with infantry, leaving gaps in the formation, allowing them to shoot in front of the array and then retreat back into battle to continue to kill and wound the enemy under the cover of the infantry in the heat of battle.
The Three Rivers Army was placed at the front of the formation, and according to Long Aotian, the morale of the Three Rivers Army was low now, and it needed to be supervised by the Shenxiao Army, and it was impossible to fight alone.
This is tantamount to using the Three Rivers Army as cannon fodder, but Li Xun did not make any rebuttal and accepted this arrangement.
He had no choice but to accept.
Burning Beanzaka, this is the terrain of two mountains sandwiched into a valley.
Taniguchi to the north is Anxiang Castle, an important fortress in Xiangyang County, and now in the hands of the gods, Taniguchi to the south is Burning Beozaka.
The formation of the Shentang army was almost exactly the same as last time, with the Chinese army next to the valley and the two wings with their backs to the cliffs.
Su Mengzhen and Bai Junlang stood side by side, with a high-spirited attitude.
"Young Master Long, meet again. "Su Meng's pillow is hunting in clothes, like a god.
He only called Long Aotian "Childe" instead of "Dao Master", which meant that Long Aotian was far inferior to his father, and "meeting again" meant that Long Aotian had been defeated by Burning Bean Saka before.
Long Aotian's complexion changed slightly, but he immediately regained his calm: "I haven't seen you for half a year, and I miss it very much." ”
Su Mengzhen smiled: "That's excellent. This time, according to the old rules, go head-to-head first, and then fight a decisive battle?"
Long Aotian shook his head: "How is the fighting array?"
After speaking, he retreated into the formation like a bolt of lightning.
When Su Mengzhen and Bai Junlang were caught off guard, Zen Master Xuezhai, Qingming Zhenren, and Venerable King Li Yanhong each led their disciples to rise into the air, and instantly turned into a huge sword tower several feet high, and the blade of the sword swept towards the Divine Hall!
Su Mengzhen and Bai Junlang were taken aback, and hurriedly retreated into the formation, but the huge sword tower came in an instant, and it had already pressed the front team of the Shentang Army.
In fact, the Shentang army has been waiting for a long time, but the sword tower attack is fierce, like the wind and sea rain, only to hear a burst like fried beans, the multi-faceted steel shield directly exploded, flying into the sky, and the Shentang shield soldiers turned into blood and mud in the screams!
Long Aotian stood high on the road, beating the drum himself, and the drum sounded into the clouds.
"My son of Jingzhou, destroy the enemy army, in one fell swoop. Everyone, charge!" he shouted, his voice was like a thunderbolt, far away in the four fields, and there was a strong uplifting power.
The hundred-foot sword tower tore a gap in the front of the Divine Hall Army in an instant.
"What a broken formation...... "In the Shentang military formation, a partial general rebuked angrily.
This person's name is Ji Hong, a veteran in the temple, who is over 70 years old and has white hair.
Ji Hong is Jiang Gui's temperament is old and spicy, seeing that the hundred-foot sword tower is so powerful, but he is not afraid at all, and he pounces on his subordinates like tigers descending the mountain, raising swords and guns at the same time, and oppressing it with a dense formation.
In this way, it seems that there is no problem.
However, the strength of the cultivators in the hundred-foot sword tower is not even, and there are masters like Xuezhai Zen Master, who can attack together and play separately.
Zen Master Xuezhai shouted like five thunderbolts, shaking Ji Hong's chest and blood shock, and then the Buddha jewels in his palm flew towards Ji Hong.
Ji Hong knew that it was not good, and if he wanted to retreat quickly, it was too late.
The Buddha's light sprinkled, Ji Hong let out a miserable scream, and his whole body burned together, and his beard turned into a ball of charcoal.
Ji Hong died in battle, and his soldiers were all shocked and retreated like a tide.
In front of the Shenxiao Army's military formation, most of them were Sanhe soldiers. They were originally dissatisfied with being arranged to be cannon fodder in the front, but now they found that the hundred-foot sword tower was so fierce that they were here to make war achievements at the front.
Thinking of the burning of their homes by the Shentang army, they couldn't help but hate it, and one by one they rushed into the Shentang army like a fierce beast.
And the Shenxiao Army also followed and charged bravely.
Due to the fact that Zen Master Xuezhai and others rushed to attack with a hundred-foot sword tower, as soon as they engaged, a situation unfavorable to the Shentang army was formed.