Chapter 528: Wuzhang Yuan Fights
Guan Yu came to Cao Jun's camp to fight every day, regardless of the wind, frost, rain and snow, while Zhang Liao directly pretended to be deaf and dumb and couldn't see the Nanyang battlefield and continued to be in a stalemate.
And the ten-day time of Wuzhangyuan has arrived, and it is time for Zhang Xi to lead the army and Guo Huai to compete and decide who will wear women's clothes.
During these 10 days, the two sides were actually brainstorming and discussing ways to defeat the enemy and win.
On Zhang Xi's side, there are Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Chen Zhi to help with the staff, and Guo Huai's side, Wen Qin and Biqiu Jian are also giving advice together.
However, there is one thing to say, there are not many tricks or changes that can be used against the two armies at the thousand-level level, and in the end, it is just the main general's immediate response.
The 1,000 people from Zhang Xi's side are the 1,000 Mandarin Duck Formation soldiers provided by Zhang Fei, but it is no longer the original version, but Zhang Fei's improved Mandarin Duck Formation, which canceled the wolf soldiers and increased the proportion of pikemen and Miao knife soldiers.
And Guo Huai's side is also the most elite Cao Wei Central Forbidden Army soldiers, half of whom are soldiers from Qingzhou in the early years.
The two sides lined up near the top of the slope of Gojohara, preparing to meet the enemy.
On Guo Huai's side, the formation of the front army was 500 soldiers commanded by Wen Qin, and behind him was the 300 Chinese army commanded by Guo Huai, while Biqiu Jian led 200 soldiers to cruise on the battlefield, randomly looking for flaws in the enemy's formation to cut into.
On Zhang Xi's side, the 300 people in the front army were the vanguard army led by Chen Shi, the left flank was 300 people in Feng Xi's army, and the right flank was 300 people in Zhang Nanjun, and Zhang Xi only led 100 people as the middle army.
Both sides have adopted an offensive formation. After all, it is only a thousand-person military formation commander, if you set up a circle formation to defend as soon as you come up, then your momentum will be lost at the beginning, and the morale of the army will also be affected.
The formation is such a formation, attacking against attacking, but in the specific combat process, what changes will be made is not clear for the time being, and it can only be decided on the spot.
After the two armies finished arraying and waited for a while, Zhang Xi took the initiative to launch an attack on Guo Huai's army.
This was Zhuge Liang's suggestion to Zhang Xi during the earlier discussion - to attack first.
Sometimes the situation on the battlefield is actually somewhat similar to Go. The first mover has a certain advantage.
The attacking vanguard can effectively boost the morale of the sergeants, and at the same time, it can also take the initiative on the battlefield into its own hands, and once the enemy army responds, it can make adjustments according to the changes in the enemy army.
The latter side will enter a passive defense from the beginning, and the opponent will disrupt its own formation, and may even be forced to change the predetermined tactics, resulting in a command response error.
Zhang Xi's hand attacked first, and it was an attack on the third line, which really caused a lot of pressure on Guo Huai.
But Guo Huai is also a famous general in the end, and his combat experience is actually richer than Zhang Xi. After all, it is a reputation made in that chaotic place in Liangzhou, and there is absolutely no adulteration ingredient.
Although he lost the first-mover advantage, Guo Huai has rich experience in facing the enemy, and he has not thought about the possibility of being at a disadvantage, so it is not a mistake in dealing with it.
In the face of Zhang Xi's third-line pressure, Guo Huai immediately let Wen Qin lead his troops to meet the enemy, and at the same time let his Chinese soldiers quickly advance to respond, and then let the wandering Biqiu Jian start to act, bypassing Zhang Xi's three-line offensive formation, and directly attacking Zhang Xi's Chinese army's main formation.
Guo Huai didn't expect Biqiu Jian to be able to directly attack Zhang Xi's main formation with such a circle, which was simply unrealistic.
Guo Huai's purpose was to lure part of Zhang Xi's troops attacking the third line back to defense, so that he could find a gap in Zhang Xi's offensive line, and then let Wen Qin attack from this gap, creating chaos in Zhang Xi's offensive formation, and then march from the middle lane himself, striving to defeat Zhang Xi's offensive formation with one blow.
Of course, Zhang Xi also saw Biqiu Jian's cruise, and after thinking about it for a while, he probably understood Guo Huai's intentions. There is no need to change just yet.
First of all, Biqiu Jian led the troops to cruise, and it took a certain amount of time to get around the edge of the battlefield.
Secondly, the left flank of Biqiu Jian's bypass is under the command of Feng Xi, there are 300 people in Feng Xi's army, and there is no need to return to the defense immediately, only 100 people need to be divided to delay Biqiu Jian's marching speed, and the remaining soldiers can still carry out a three-line encirclement siege of Guo Huai's army according to the original plan.
In the end, Zhang Xi also had a hundred Chinese troops in his hands, all of them were elite soldiers equipped with spears and Miao knives, and even if Biqiu Jian really attacked, it was not necessarily who won.
Therefore, Zhang Xi only let Feng Xi on the left flank divide his troops to delay the cruising troops of Biqiu Jian, and the rest did not make any movements at all, continued to maintain the formation, and launched an attack and encirclement of Guo Huai's front army.
Zhang Xi's idea was to take advantage of the current superiority in the total number of troops and defeat Wenqin's 500 former army first, so that a sufficient military advantage could be established.
Guo Huai saw Zhang Xi's response, and his brows were also furrowed.
Zhang Xi only ordered Feng Xi on the left flank to send a hundred soldiers to delay the cruising of Biqiu Jian, and this dispersion of troops was not enough for Wen Qin to lead the troops to tear open the gap.
On the contrary, Zhang Xijun's soldiers, Chen Shi in the middle lane, has been pestering Wen Qin, and the left and right roads, Feng Xi and Zhang Nan are also outflanking left and right, trying to cut off the connection between their own Chinese army and the former army Wen Qin. Once they succeed, Wen Qin is very dangerous.
After thinking for a while, Guo Huai still ordered the Chinese army to move forward as close as possible, to meet Wenqin's department, and then let Wenqin use the local superior forces to open the gap in the middle.
After all, Wen Qin has five hundred people, and Chen Shi, who is facing him, has only three hundred. Although the total strength of the Wei army was at a disadvantage on the frontal battlefield, in the part of the front army, Wen Qin's strength was superior.
In addition, although Wen Qin is young, his martial arts are extraordinary, and Chen Shi. Chen Shi has never been a general known for his martial bravery, he, like Gao Xiang, is the kind of general who commands operations, and his martial arts can only be said to be average.
Therefore, Guo Huai believes that in such a small-scale battlefield, the level of the vanguard general's martial arts can still play a certain decisive factor.
Wen Qin naturally likes this kind of order very much, this is simply an opportunity for himself to make a name for himself.
After Wen Qin received Guo Huai's military order to assault the Chinese army, he immediately urged the horse to lead the army, personally broke forward, and launched a surprise attack on Chen's front army.
As long as you can break through the three hundred soldiers of the Chen style, then you don't have to look back, and go straight to the Chinese army camp in Zhangxi.
At that time, Zhang Xi's Chinese army had Wen Qin breaking through in front, and there was a detour on the flank, and he couldn't stop it at all with a hundred soldiers in his hands.
Wen Qin thought well, but after all, he was not his unborn son, who was the Humanoid Gundam, and Wen Qin was not.
Besides, Zhang Xi had the surprise training of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and Chen Zhi before the war, and the gold content of these three people was no worse than Guo Huai, how could Guo Huai's responses not be considered.
At this time, Zhang Xi actually had two choices.
One is to let Zhang Nan and Feng Xi on the left and right flanks give up outflanking and cutting off the Wenqin army, consider the Chen-style front army, increase the thickness of the front army, and block the Wenqin breakthrough.
The other is to ignore Wen Qin, believe that Chen Shi can stop Wen Qin, continue to let Zhang Nan and Feng Xi outflank, cut off Wen Qin's back road, and attack Wen Qin's troops on both sides.
Zhang Xi pondered for a moment, and the inherent impression in his mind began to play a role.
Yes, Zhang Xi admitted that Chen Shi's ability is indeed much stronger than described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but his opposite, after all, is Wen Qin.
The one who set off one of the three rebellions in Huainan and forced Sima Shi to go to war with illness and finally died in the army.
Although Wen Qin is younger now, the use of soldiers should not be so old and spicy, but it is better than Chen Shi, right?!
In Zhang Xi's mind, an equation that Wen Qin was greater than Chen Shi involuntarily appeared, and then almost subconsciously ordered Feng Xi and Zhang Nan to give up outflanking left and right, move closer to Chen Shi, and block Wen Qin's assault.
Chen Shi that is called an inexplicable. This Wen Qin is indeed very powerful, but we are not worthy of him!!
The general's personal martial arts and courage can indeed play a certain role in such a small-scale battlefield, and Chen Shi may indeed be difficult to stop Wen Qin from leading troops to attack back and forth, but he can surprise and intersperse, and whether he can lead troops to kill through his own military formation, those are two different things.
Chen Shi may not be able to guarantee that he can completely stop Wen Qin's assault, but Chen Shi can guarantee that even if Wen Qin can stand out from his military formation, the number of soldiers who follow Wen Qin will not exceed fifty.
With such a small number of troops, even if they attack Zhang Xi's Chinese army, they will be sent to death.
So Chen Shi really doesn't feel like he needs help. But now that the left and right armies have begun to converge on themselves, even if Chen Shi wants to raise objections, there is no time.
Besides, strengthening the thickness of the central center can also be regarded as a slightly more cautious response to a certain extent, and it is not a response that affects the overall situation of the whole army, and it is not wrong to ensure that the middle lane is not broken through.
Therefore, Chen Shi could only accept it, and then with the help of Feng Xi and Zhang Nan, he suppressed Wen Qin's assault again.
Now in the middle of the road, Wen Qin is facing the siege of more than 700 people on the third line of Chen Shi, Feng Xi, and Zhang Nan with more than 400 people, and there is no room to intersperse assaults back and forth, and there is no ability to do so.
Now Wen Qin, who can hold on to the front army without collapsing, has already done his best.
And Biqiu Jian's roundabout army, which is still trying to get rid of the obstruction of the hundred soldiers sent by Feng Xi, is unable to launch a surprise attack on Zhang Xi's main formation for a while.
At this time, it depends on Guo Huai's response.
At this time, Guo Huai was looking at the battle situation with an expressionless face.
It's not that Guo Huai can't do anything, but Guo Huai is waiting, waiting for a suitable time.
And this opportunity does not need to make Guo Huai wait too long, it will appear.
(End of chapter)