"Dang!"

A violent metal crash sounded, and sparks burst out.

Gan Ning jumped up and slashed, and Le Jin also slashed down with a knife, which was completely a life-fighting style.

The knives of the two madmen met in mid-air, and the tips of the needles collided with each other like wheat mangs.

However, Lejin has an advantage in that he is riding on a horse and has a war horse to help unload the force, while Gan Ning is in mid-air and can only be chopped down.

So after this move, his whole body fell from the air, took a few steps back, and stabilized his body with the help of his personal guards.

Le Jin was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but a large number of Gan Ning troops around him swarmed up again, almost crushing the personal guard formation around him.

The shortcomings of the small number of people are exposed.

At this time, the entire left bank of the Shushui River was full of fighting Cao Jun and Gan Ning Jun.

The people in the surrounding countryside have long since thrown down their hoes and stretched shoulders, and no one cares about the destroyed bridges no longer care about how far they run.

On the other half of the river, the other half of the Cao army could only stare dryly, the river was fast, and there were mostly landlubbers in the north, and they were not like the Jinfan thieves in Ganning who could swim.

Therefore, now Cao Jun on the other side is standing on the bank of the river one by one, watching this side, and there is no way to give Lejin any help.

Especially when the northwest direction of Lejin's formation was torn open by Gan Ning, the entire team was defeated one after another.

This led to the fact that when Lejin wanted to fill the gap with himself and the guard, he met Gan Ning head-on, although the first encounter took a small advantage due to the war horse problem.

But there were too few reinforcements around him, and the soldiers on Gan Ning's side were pouring towards them like a flood of floods, so that Lejin could not expand even if he had some advantages.

However, war is not a fair game, and any means should be used in order to destroy the enemy, so Gan Ning did not have the slightest intention of fighting fairly, and once again deceived himself and pounced.

At this moment, Shen Chen in the distance was sitting on horseback, watching the battle on this side from a distance, it was the first time he had seen such a small-scale head-to-head battle, when he fought Cao Ren before, they were completely shrunk in the cage and did not go head-to-head.

Therefore, Shen Chen was just waiting and watching at the moment, he saw that Gan Ning had broken through the Cao army's formation, Cao Jun's troops were now in a hard battle, and the surrounding Gan Ning army was still breaking in, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.

However, more than 6,000 people fought more than 2,000 people, and at present, they only had the upper hand instead of defeating the opponent in an instant, which also gave Shen Chen a preliminary understanding of Cao Jun's strength, and he was now analyzing the reasons why Cao Jun could hold on.

"Uncle, how long has it been since the war was fought until now?"

Shen Chen suddenly asked Deng Hongdao.

Deng Hong looked up at the sky and said, "About half an hour and three quarters have passed." ”

Almost an hour and a half.

Shen Chen looked into the distance and said, "Cao Jun is only more than 2,000 people, why can he hold out for so long?" ”

Deng Hong said: "I heard that Cao Jun is an elite soldier in a hundred battles, presumably everyone is brave and difficult to fight, didn't Tao Envoy Jun was almost annihilated by Cao Cao when the strength of Pengcheng and Cao Jun was not much different?" ”

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "The elite soldiers are one thing, but I think Uncle Xingba's army and our soldiers in Huangmen Pavilion are not much worse than the other party, mainly because the other party is very particular about forming formations." ”

Deng Hong said curiously: "Ah Chen, I remember that you didn't seem to read much military books before." Is it now that you are beginning to be interested in marching and fighting and the art of war formations? ”

"When I went to sit with Brother Zhuge before, I watched some "Liutao" and "Sun Tzu" with him, and I had some insights."

Shen Chen nodded, he really didn't think much of the art of war before, because the Han Dynasty was a Confucian rule, so if ordinary people want to read and improve, they can only learn the Seven Classics, and books like the Art of War are often only available to families.

However, the Zhuge family has a lot of books on the art of war, Zhuge Xuan married off his two nieces, and he served as an official under Liu Biao, which is barely a second-rate family in Jingzhou, and it is very simple to get the art of war.

In addition to the Zhuge family, the Da Xian Academy also has classics on the art of war.

It's just that in the past, because of the need for progress, like Liu Biao and Song Zhong were great Confucians, and if they wanted to gain a foothold in Jingzhou, they had to study Confucianism, so he used to focus on Confucianism.

In the past year, his Confucianism has gradually become exquisite, Wang Cang took him to visit all walks of life Xiangyang Confucianism, and gradually became famous in Jingzhou Shilin, Confucianism has made certain achievements, so he began to learn the art of war.

Don't think that modern people can immediately become outstanding military strategists when they travel to ancient times, that's all nonsense.

Cold weapon warfare in ancient times and firearm warfare in later generations are not the same concept at all.

The so-called marching and fightingmarching and fighting, there are many doorways in just one march and encampment.

When Zhuge Liang later went out of Qishan, he was cautious every time he sent troops, and the strategic and tactical arrangements must be meticulous to perfection.

Therefore, even every time he went out on the Northern Expedition, he encountered various reasons, such as Dongwu pig teammates, as well as Ma Jian and Li Yan.

But each time he retreated unharmed, and did not cause huge casualties to Ji Han's internal affairs and troops.

In comparison, although Jiang Wei is not bad, he is too far behind Zhuge Liang.

Several Northern Expeditions have mobilized the people, labored the people and lost money, and the results obtained are incomparable with Zhuge Liang, which has exacerbated the internal friction of Shu.

Therefore, fighting a war in the era of cold weapons is a very advanced knowledge, if you learn well, you are Zhuge Liang, and if you don't learn well, you are Ma Yan.

Shen Chen is still in the stage of studying the book of war, and has not yet entered the actual battle. Don't look at him to get Cao Ren, it's because Cao Ren himself underestimated the enemy, and he doesn't know the ability of the architectural designer.

If Cao Cao came in person and sent a few thousand people to find out the true situation in the Huangmenting Valley, he might be able to think of other ways to deal with it.

Even if the cage is so strong that the red-clothed cannon of the Qing Dynasty can't open it, the hoarding of grain and grass must not be enough, and the consumption can consume Shen Chen to death in it.

Therefore, Shen Chen came over this time, and he felt that it might be a very important practical experience.

He looked at the situation on the battlefield, although it was very unfavorable to Lejin, but Cao Jun used the formation to still resist tenaciously, and sometimes he could even counterattack, which made him very inspired.

This is what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, "Therefore, the momentum of a good fighter is like a person who turns a round stone on a mountain of a thousand people, and the momentum is also." ””

Shen Chen muttered to himself: "This Lejin is also a person who can recruit and fight, using the army formation to fight with us, we can only rush their spear formation from three sides, like a tiger encountering a hedgehog curled up, although we have great strength, but we can't say anything in a short time." ”

Deng Hong said casually: "Hasn't Xingba opened a gap? ”

"Yes."

Shen Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Deng Hong and said, "Uncle, you are really a genius." ”

"Huh?"

Deng Hong was confused.

But Shen Chen didn't pay attention to him anymore, but immediately said to the soldiers beside him: "Go, pass my order, let the eldest uncle lead all the men and horses of our Huangmen Pavilion and rush in from the northwest corner." ”

"Yes."

The soldiers galloped away on horseback.

Gan Ning snatched the main attacking force in a big way, so it was the Huyang defenders who charged at the forefront.

The soldiers and horses of the Yellow Gate Pavilion followed behind, cruising around the periphery at the moment.

The main force of the other side has actually shown signs of being defeated, but it is only struggling to support it under the command of Lejin, and the front line of the battlefield on both sides is already full of corpses, on the countryside, on the banks of the river, near the countryside, battles are taking place everywhere.

Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen didn't take the initiative to attack now, they were too many people, six thousand people surrounded two thousand people, an average of three to one, there was really nothing to meddle in and rush in.

Then at this time, Shen Chen's order came, and after confirming the direction that Shen Chen was pointing to the herald, Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen glanced at it from a distance and found that there was indeed a gap over there.

This was easy, and they immediately gave the order for the soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion to charge in that direction.

At this moment, the battle between Gan Ning and Le Jin has entered the white heat, in history, Le Jin is a brave general who charges into battle, and he is definitely stronger than Yu Ban in terms of force, and he is also a first-class general.

Although there was a later case where he was shot by Gan Ning with an arrow in the battle of Misu, he also drew with Ling Tong in fifty rounds, and Ling Tong drew with Zhang Liao in fifty rounds.

And Ling Tong wanted to find Gan Ning to avenge his father many times, but he was dissuaded by Sun Quan and did not implement it.

So from this point of view, Ling Tong's force value should not be inferior to Gan Ning.

If you compare it horizontally, you can conclude that among the five good generals, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Le Jin's force value is basically the same, and they all belong to first-class generals, only Yu Ban is a second-rate level.

However, even if Lejin is a first-class general, he should also belong to the lower middle level among the first-class generals, and Gan Ning belongs to the upper middle level among the first-class generals, and there should still be a difference of two or three points of force between the two.

Therefore, Han fought together, and Le Jin relied on the benefits of war horses at the beginning, and fought with Gan Ning for more than 20 rounds without winning or losing.

But there are a lot of people in Ganning, all around him are soldiers, Le Jin's personal guards fell one by one, the Jingzhou army almost surrounded Le Jin, and the spear and big knife kept beckoning to him, which made Le Jin a little tired.

Soon in the fortieth round, while Le Jin was busy dealing with the spears of the surrounding Jingzhou soldiers, Gan Ning saw the opportunity and slashed at the leg of the war horse under Le Jin's crotch.

The horse was in pain, immediately neighed, and fell to the ground.

In fact, normally speaking, the superior side of the war often does not choose to attack the enemy's war horse.

Because these are trophies.

In the war years, the price of a war horse was very high, and the ordinary soldier grabbed a war horse far more than the battle feat of capturing a few enemy soldiers.

But Gan Ning can't help it, he has a great advantage on the horse, he sits high and sees far, condescending, and can also borrow strength, so he is particularly disadvantaged in the fight, so he must be dismounted first.

The phrase "shoot a man before a horse, capture a thief and capture the king first" is not Du Fu's originality, but a summary of the experience of thousands of years of war civilization in China since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Le Jin's crotch war horse fell to the ground, and his whole person also fell down, under normal circumstances, the surrounding soldiers should rush up to catch him.

But Lejin's reaction was also extremely fast, almost at the moment of falling, he swooped in the direction of the right.

He rolled in the mud all over, and in that direction he had seen before, there were more than a dozen guards fighting to the death, and it was the only position where there were friendly troops.

At this moment, he rolled and crawled and rushed into the formation of his own guards, and the surrounding Cao army immediately covered him to retreat, and the Cao army formation in the rear was already under tremendous pressure, and a large number of soldiers were crowded together.

"Kill."

"Rush in that direction."

"Kill it."

Originally, Lejin came to fill the gap, but he fell into a bitter battle with Gan Ning.

And just when he quickly retreated into the formation after he fell off his horse, trying to reorganize the soldiers to resist.

A large number of enemy troops poured into the gap in front of them in an instant, and the soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion swarmed in, breaking the deadlock in an instant, and the sound of blades colliding was endless.

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, after more than a thousand soldiers rushed in, the formation of Cao's army was torn apart in an instant.

The formation was broken, and the soldiers who were struggling to support the periphery couldn't hold on at once, and began to retreat one after another.

The soldiers in the rear were still squeezing forward, clashes before and after, and a stampede occurred.

You must know that at the beginning, Cao's army was only more than 2,000 people in formation, and in the first wave of Ganning's charge, he had already killed the spearmen on the periphery.

Inside, there was a circle of sword and shield hands, probably no more than a thousand people huddled together, which was a standard circular defensive formation.

After Gan Ning broke this formation, the circular formation was still struggling to support and was not completely broken.

But Shen Chen noticed this scene, and immediately let the Huangmen Pavilion soldiers roaming around the periphery launch a fatal blow, cutting a hole from the northwest of the Cao army and killing in the middle of the Cao army's formation.

If the center blooms tactically, it will go straight to the heart of the enemy and then spread around. Outside, a large number of Ganning troops attacked, surrounded inside and outside, and Cao's army suddenly collapsed.

"Run."

"Our army is defeated, run."

"I surrendered."

"Don't kill me, don't kill me."

For a time, the soldiers of the Cao army no longer had the will to fight, and soon died, fled, and surrendered.

The entire battlefield was overwhelming.

Shen Chen, who was in the distance, looked at this scene, first a little surprised, and then quickly fell into deep thought.

At the beginning, Lejin used the defensive formation, but it was still able to support tenaciously.

If it weren't for the fact that his own troops were three times that of the other side, if he didn't choose to send a boat to crash the bridge when the other side crossed the river.

In a fierce battle in the field, with 6,000 people against a total of 5,000 people in the Lejin Division, maybe the odds of victory are really not high.

There is even a risk of losing, because Gan Ning does not have any formation, and everyone is directly shouting and rushing to kill in a mess, and the organizational discipline is a little worse than Lejin.

But there are no absolutes in everything, and once a way is found to deal with the enemy, the situation on the battlefield will change dramatically in an instant.

No wonder the Art of War cloud: "Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent." ”

Sometimes the battlefield looks like a good thing, but the result is suddenly inexplicable, and any factor may cause a change in the situation of the war.

Shen Chen realized at this moment.

In fact, the art of war teaches them only a foundation, such as formation, how to deal with the enemy, and how to think.

What really determines the winner or loser is the ability to seize opportunities that the military book can't teach him.

If the bridge hadn't been destroyed at the beginning, 6,000 people on both sides would have fought 5,000 people, and Shen Chen had also lined up his troops and confronted Le Jin head-on, maybe this war would have lasted for a long time.

In this way, the command level of the generals on both sides will be tested very much, and we will see if we can seize the fleeting fighter plane and pull the balance of victory to our side in one fell swoop.

Shen Chen was very happy now.

Today's battle went smoothly, first destroying the bridge to win the opportunity for himself, and then under Deng Hong's reminder, he seized the opportunity and defeated Lejin in one fell swoop.

And this is a very valuable experience for him, which is worth remembering for a lifetime!