Liu Bei returned to the military tent and immediately discussed with the two brothers Guan Zhang, Zhang Xi and Xu Shu to discuss the matter of sending troops to attack the city tomorrow.

Since he came here with his troops, Liu Bei also knew that it was impossible not to fight. Zhou Yu was not so kind.

The battle must be fought, and it must be fought beautifully, so that Zhou Yu can see the combat effectiveness of the Jiangxia army.

Moreover, everyone has seen today's tentative attack, and they also have an understanding of Cao Jun's strategy of defending the city, so how to fight this battle tomorrow, everyone has to discuss.

Of course, Liu Bei's main question was his two brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Xu Shu has always been in charge of government affairs and giving advice, and has no experience in leading troops to fight.

Although Zhang Xi has experience in leading troops, his experience is really not enough compared to Guan Zhang.

So, at this time, Liu Bei is very clear, who to ask and who not to ask.

As for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they glanced at each other, and the older Guan Yu spoke first.

"Cao Ren's strategy for defending the city is not very peculiar, but the thousand cavalry soldiers are quite difficult." Guan Yu stroked his beard and said, "In the past, when the third brother was in Changbanpo, he could fight against the tiger and leopard with foot soldiers and not fall behind, so it is better for the third brother to go out tomorrow, just entangle the cavalry and delay time for us, and we will lead the army to break through the camp as soon as possible, and the camp will be removed, and the cavalry will return to the city." ”

The reason is that if you use infantry to fight cavalry on the plain, unless you set up an ambush in advance or take advantage of the terrain, you can only delay time, and there is no possibility of breaking the enemy at all.

Zhang Fei doesn't have any big opinions on this, there is only one small problem, what to do if the loss is too big.

The current situation is different from that of the Changban slope, when the Changban slope, Zhang Fei only needs to guard the longboard bridge, and Cao Chun's tiger and leopard ride will not be able to pass.

But under Jiangling City, if he wanted to intercept the cavalry coming and going like the wind, he relied on the thousands of people he brought, and he could not form a circular formation defense at all, so he could only arrange it in an arc shape and try to lengthen the defensive range of Wugang's chariot to block Cao Ren's cavalry.

It's just that if you can't form a circular formation to defend, the defense ability of Wugang's car formation will drop by half, and without the cooperation of cavalry, Zhang Fei still has the confidence to command everyone to do a good job of defense and delay time, but it is estimated that the casualties of these soldiers he brought will not be small.

Liu Beijun is here to help, not to fight for others. Even if all the 5,000 people brought by Liu Bei were killed in battle, Zhou Yu would not have any mercy when Nanjun was defeated, and it would be impossible for him to hand over Nanjun to Liu Bei to manage.

So well. How to reduce casualties is also a place that needs to be discussed.

And this, Xu Shu smiled slightly and said, "This is the reason why Shu asked Zhou Gongjin to ask for soldiers!" ”

It's not that Xu Shu has already thought of these siege strategies, it's purely that Xu Shu feels that tomorrow's siege can't be just his own army's contribution and let the Jiangdong army watch, so he asked Zhou Yu to ask for some troops to come over. Just in case.

You see, it's not going to be used now.

Of course, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu did not want to use the Jiangdong Army as cannon fodder, although the two leaders had different styles, they would not let the Jiangdong Army die in vain.

The Jiangdong Army's siege of the city did not go well, and in the eyes of Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the problem of the ability of the soldiers was secondary, and the real reason was that the Jiangdong Army had no experience in using infantry to fight against cavalry.

This kind of experience, Jiangdong Army does not have, but Liu Beijun has, and it is very rich. Most of them are failures, but there are always times when you succeed.

The next day, Zhou Yu sent Ling Tong to lead 3,000 people to Liu Bei's army to fight with Liu Bei's army.

Guan Zhang and the others immediately assigned Ling Tongjun a task - in front of Liu Beijun, facing the direction of Jiangling, to meet the enemy with a sharp arrow formation.

Ling Tong almost jumped when he heard this.

Infantry against cavalry, but also with a sharp arrow array to meet the enemy. The Blade Formation is an offensive formation, and the heavy attack is not the heavy defense, is this to send yourself to death?!

Guan Zhang and the others were obviously not so careful, and explained to Ling Tong in detail the importance of this sharp arrow formation.

Although the array was a sharp arrow formation, it did not allow Ling Tong to attack forward, but used the sharp arrow formation as a formation, and the whole army erected spears to hold on, and it was good to withstand the first wave of Cao Ren's cavalry.

The purpose was to take advantage of Cao Ren's eagerness to rescue the camp, and at the same time to force Cao Ren to divide his troops with the pride of the cavalry in the superiority of the infantry.

In the past, Jiangdong's cavalry arrays to block Cao Ren were basically in a circular formation, which was more convenient to mobilize troops and horses to defend.

It is not wrong to use a circle formation for defense, but the opponent is a cavalry, once the cavalry rushes up, it can enter from a point of the circle formation, and break the circle formation with a point, and once the circle formation is divided, it will be very troublesome to reorganize the formation, so Cao Ren has repeatedly been allowed to succeed and rescue Cao Yong's camp.

Now Guan Yu asked Ling Tong to defend with the Sharp Arrow Formation, which was to use the sharp and heavy formation in the front section of the Sharp Arrow Formation to block the first wave of cavalry impact.

As long as the first wave of impact is blocked, Cao Ren will definitely not compete with a sharp arrow formation with a limited defensive area, and will definitely divide his troops to advance, and at this time, Zhang Fei's car formation has already formed behind Ling Tong, and Ling Tong's army can retreat.

A thousand people attacked a point of the car formation at the same time, and even if Zhang Fei had the confidence to hold it, it was estimated that he would suffer heavy losses.

But a thousand troops were divided into two places to attack the two points of the car formation, so for Zhang Fei, the command was still the same command, but for Cao Ren's cavalry, the attack power was much weaker.

As for whether Cao Ren will reorganize the army after he finds out, Zhang Fei doesn't care, anyway, he is dragging time, you Cao Ren wants to retreat and reorganize the army, he Zhang Fei can't wait for it.

After explaining these things, although Ling Tong understood the purpose of this battle, he still felt distressed.

Indeed, doing this is very beneficial to Liu Beijun, and it can also reduce the pressure on Zhang Fei's defense, but the person who can withstand the first wave of cavalry in front of him is his own soldier.

The first wave of cavalry impact is the fastest, the most complete formation, and therefore the most powerful.

He is at the forefront, if he can't stop Cao Ren's cavalry and cause Guan Yu to fail in attacking the camp, then the responsibility is his own. If the first assault of the cavalry was blocked and the cavalry was forced to divide the troops, it would certainly be the greatest credit, but the casualties of his own soldiers would probably also be the greatest.

Zhou Yu sent him Ling Tong to assist in the battle, but he didn't come to be cannon fodder

Ling Tong had the intention to repay Zhou Yu, and asked Zhou Yu to decide, but he felt that it was useless to repay him.

Regardless of whether this plan can be achieved or not, it is impossible for Zhou Yu to reject Liu Beijun's battle plan for the sake of his own losses.

You must know that this time, in addition to his own 3,000 people, the remaining 5,000 Liu Beijun people will be put into the battle, if he is not good because of the distressed loss, then Liu Beijun will be held accountable in the future.

So. Let's bite the bullet.

After Ling Tong returned to the camp, he reorganized his troops, distributed spears, and lined up in the direction of Gangneung City in the formation of a sharp arrow formation.

Zhang Fei led a thousand soldiers and carried two hundred improved Wugang cars to form an arc-shaped formation behind Ling Tong.

Guan Yu personally led 3,000 soldiers to attack Cao Yong's camp, and Zhang Xi led 1,000 men to intercept the possible reinforcements from Niujin's camp.

As for Xu Shu, he accompanied Liu Bei and Zhou Yu to stand together in the place where he watched the battle yesterday, and climbed to watch Liu Beijun's attack on Cao Yong's camp.

Regarding Liu Beijun's arrangement, Zhou Yu was actually very puzzled, especially why he didn't understand why Ling Tong was allowed to set up a sharp arrow formation, and the thousand people led by Zhang Fei behind Ling Tong, even if they set up a car formation, how could the soldiers and soldiers still have such a variety of weapons.

But it wasn't until the war really started that Zhou Yu was an eye-opener.

First of all, Guan Yu's 3,000 troops besieging Cao Yong's camp were almost immediately suppressed with arrows with crossbows.

This is not a new thing, everyone will do this when attacking the city, and the crossbow in Guan Yu's army still asked the Jiangdong army to borrow it.

It's just that when attacking the city, the use of the crossbow is because the crossbow is powerful and has a long range, and it is probably not enough to shoot on the city wall with a strong bow and a hard crossbow.

But to fight a small camp, there is no problem of range, why use a crossbow, it feels a bit of a waste of arrows.

Subsequently, Zhou Yu understood Guan Yu's intention - to use the power of the crossbow to suppress the bows and arrows in Cao's camp, forcing Cao Jun to only raise his shield to defend himself, and did not dare to shoot arrows to fight back.

Then, Zhou Yu discovered a difference in Guan Yu's command.

Guan Yu did not wait for the arrows to stop before ordering an attack on the camp, but before the last round of arrows was over, he ordered his soldiers to come out of the formation and attack forward.

At this time, the soldiers in the Cao army camp were suppressed by the last batch of arrows shot by the crossbow, and they were all raising their shields to avoid the arrow rain, and when the arrow rain stopped, the soldiers in Cao Yong's camp wanted to shoot arrows to block the siege troops, but found that the siege troops were close to their camp.

In this way, Guan Yu's soldiers dodged the arrow rain of the enemy defenders and quickly approached the camp.

Zhou Yu fell into deep thought. It's not a big deal, but I haven't thought about it before.

If his soldiers could get close to Cao's camp so quickly the first few times, not to mention whether they could capture it, at least the losses would be much less.

Then, another scene that surprised Zhou Yu was born.

In the direction of Jiangling City, Cao Ren found that Cao Yongyingzhai was surrounded so quickly, and immediately decided to go out of the city again to rescue.

A thousand cavalry rushed out of the south gate of Jiangling City, and Cao Ren personally led the troops and came over at Ling Tong's sharp arrow formation.

Although I don't know if the Jiangdong Army sent a fool to lead the troops this time, they actually used a sharp arrow array to block the enemy. But Cao Ren will not be polite, and the impact will be impacted.

Then Cao Ren's cavalry collided with the spear array led by Ling Tong.

Of course, Cao Ren's cavalry had casualties, but the casualties were definitely greater than Ling Tongjun's army, after all, it was infantry.

But Ling Tong still stubbornly commanded his soldiers, and worked hard to hold the first wave of Cao Ren's cavalry, and was not broken up by Cao Ren during the first wave of impact.

This surprised Zhou Yu.

If the siege was smooth before because the Jiangxia army led by Guan Yu was of high quality and could advance against arrows, now this is his own soldiers.

Two days ago, these same soldiers, under the command of Ling Tong, did not block Cao Ren's first wave of cavalry at all. But today it's actually blocked?!

Although the losses are heavy, it is estimated that the second wave of shock will be difficult to stop again. But if Ling Tong could block the first wave of impact two days ago, he would have had time to mobilize his troops to organize the second line of defense, and he would not be broken by Cao Ren's cavalry.

The same soldiers, the same commanders, different . Only formation?!

Don't say anything about the sharp arrow formation that can be used for defense, Zhou Yu won't believe such a thing that violates military common sense.

But in the face of cavalry, this sharp arrow formation does have some effect, and if it is combined with Zhang Fei's car formation

Zhou Yu watched while thinking about it, watching Cao Ren divide his troops into two ways, bypassing Ling Tong's army, and rushing towards Zhang Feiche formation in the rear.

Then, Zhou Yu was completely dumbfounded.

(End of chapter)