Five thousand fast rides, it didn't take long to get close to Xinzhou Shili.

At this time, Tanma came to report again, and found that it was strange, although the flags were waving in front of him, and the sound of drums and gongs was endless, but he did not see a single soldier of the Song army.

Didn't see the existence of the Song Army? Wan Yan Lou couldn't help but look surprised when he heard this, since there was a sound coming out and he couldn't see anyone, it must have been something to shield his eyes.

He thought for a moment, even if he was extremely good at military affairs, he didn't understand what medicine was sold in Song Jun's gourd.

If you want to fight an ambush and sneak attack, you will hide the soldiers, but it is impossible to raise any banner, beat drums and gongs, wouldn't it be your own exposure?

And to face the resistance head-on, you should also line up and put on a formation, whether to rush or to keep a discipline.

But now there is such a strange scene, which is really a bit difficult to guess why.

The deputy general next to him said: "General, I think the Song soldiers are playing tricks and intending to delay." ”

Wan Yan Lou was noncommittal: "Don't speculate, just take a closer look." ”

He slowed his horse and headed straight ahead, and in a moment he saw the banner blocking the way.

This passage is almost completely blocked, with mountains on one side and no horses, and on the other side there are rivers and hills, and the terrain is unfavorable and cannot be walked.

And the flag in front of it was waving, and there was no end in sight, and it did not know how many miles to extend, and the sound of gongs and drums came from it, and it seemed that many people were knocking.

A thin mist peeked through the four gaps of the flag, reflecting a piece of land and shadows, and it was impossible to see the distinctions of the flags, and no one could distinguish them.

"Where's the fog at this time?" Susan Heda wondered.

"It's probably artificially made......" Wan Yan Lou said indifferently.

"People...... Fog? Fusan Heda patted his head: "When did this Song army become so cunning and use this kind of trick, could it be that he wanted to ambush and sneak attack?" ”

Wan Yan Lou shook his head: "The sneak attack is not stolen like this, our army is all fast horses, and the scouts are extremely shrewd, where is it so good to sneak attack?" What's more, even if the sneak attack is unsuccessful, it is impossible to stop our army from moving south! ”

"Then what trick is this Song Jun playing?" Fusan Heda wondered, he is also a Jurchen veteran, since the beginning of the Yan Agu army, he has fought Liao and Song, but he has never encountered this situation in front of him.

Wanyan Lou Room looked at the flags fluttering in the distance, the white mist was slightly filled, and said indifferently: "It's time to set up a formation." ”

"Formation? General, what is the formation? He scratched his chin and stiffened his beard, if he still understood the military formation, but he didn't know what it meant by the standing formation.

"Formation ......" Wan Yan Lou's expression was a little complicated, he had read Sun Tzu's Art of War of the Song Kingdom, knew that there was a formation, and understood the use of power.

"The formation is to train the soldiers into a special formation within a fixed range, place them inside, and strangle the enemy soldiers and horses who enter it through the shape, position, trap and direction change inside, which can usually play a role in winning more with less."

"So cumbersome, less is more?" Fusan Heda was stunned: "General, my Jurchen Erlang can break ten, full of ten thousand, can I defeat more Jurchen Erlang with less?" ”

Wan Yan Lou sighed: "It's an old thing to be invincible. ”

When he heard this, he also remembered the defeat in Tokyo in the previous war report, and said stupidly: "It can't be that the fourth prince was negligent, so he was exploited by the other party, and the difference in military strength is not huge, how can he be easily defeated." ”

Wanyan Lou didn't speak, he was thinking in his heart that there were four more words to win with less, could it be that the number of the Folded family army who came here was very small, and he wanted to win with a formation?

However, he has always done his best as long as he does not care about the number of enemy soldiers, and does not leave the slightest chance for the other party, so the number of men and horses on the other side will not affect his judgment and plan for the battle.

And this formation...... Although he knew the formation, and he knew it somewhat, he didn't know how to arrange it, and he had never met it in person.

The Art of War he read was obtained from the Liao State, and the Jurchen tribe did not possess this kind of military book, and the Art of War discussed the situation and its characteristics, but did not record even the method of arranging a formation.

So although he knew about it, he didn't know why it was, because he had never seen it, he hadn't seen it in books, and he hadn't encountered it in reality.

Wanyan Lou Room groaned, and the servant Sanheda didn't dare to disturb, and waited quietly beside him.

In fact, Wanyan Lou once heard the Han official of the Liao State say that there was also a book of Sun Bin's Art of War, which recorded all kinds of large arrays, but this book was rare, and it was impossible to search for the Liao State, so he slowly gave up.

After all, the formation was only used more in ancient times, and it has slowly disappeared on the battlefield under the millennium, and now there is no one to fight at all, he pondered that it should be the change of tactics now, so the formation was eliminated from the battlefield.

However, at this moment, I saw the other party's flag fluttering, strange everywhere, although I had not seen the formation, but from the observation of the other party's paradoxical scene, it was confirmed that this should be the big formation mentioned in Sun Tzu's Art of War.

This is really a shortcoming of his own family, and he is silent, but he has some difficulties in his heart.

Since this array is on the way to the south, it must be broken before it can be passed, but ...... He's not going to break the formation.

At this moment, you can't turn back and detour to Jinning Junshizhou, it will take more time not to say, since this array is set by the folded family, maybe there is one over there, and you can't go through the trouble to gamble on this chance.

Then he still has to find a way to rush over, he thought of this and said, "Come with me." ”

Fusan Heda and a group of personal soldiers immediately covered him to move forward, and at this time, the banner was closer, and the white fog looked more carefully, he looked at it for a moment and said: "The fog is formed by steaming water, just to cover the scene in the array." ”

"The general is really perceptive, and his subordinates haven't figured out where the fog came out after thinking about it for a long time. ”

Wan Yan Lou Room said: "The sound of gongs and drums is to disturb the hearing, and now the distance is still far away, and it can be heard impetuously, if it really enters the formation, the sound can not only affect the command of the generals, but also interfere with communication, and also disturb the mind, but it is easy to do a great job." ”

Susan Heda was surprised: "General, since it is so insidious, how can you live like this...... Formation? ”

After Yan Lou was silent, he hadn't thought about it in his heart, so he said: "Let's step back first, let me think about it......"

Zhao Ta sat opposite the generals in the temporary camp tent and told the Jin army about the abduction of horses, so that everyone could express their opinions and come up with an idea.

This one says that you can try it with a hook sickle, and that one says that the hook and sickle gun can't do it, and it can break the heavy armor cavalry because the heavy armor rushes forward with great inertia, it is difficult to rein in the horse, and it is even more difficult to turn around, and this kidnapping horse does not have these weaknesses, and the hook and sickle gun cannot be broken.

Others said that they would dig a horse pit and make Ma Suo, but they didn't know where these Jurchen cavalry came from, and what they found was a suspicious soldier. How much more do you dig in front and come from behind on both sides?

Zhao Ta listened for a long time, and finally lowered his eyes, none of which could be used to reach his ears.

He drank a cup of tea, then his gaze swept over everyone one by one, and finally spun back and landed on Wu Yong.

This expedition he brought out Wu Yong and Zhu Wu, these two people have been useless, shelved for a long time, this time the expedition divided the troops in Hedong and Hebei, the manpower is a little hasty, and he will bring all the things he can bring.

Zhu Wu was assigned to Zhang Xian because Zhu Wu's skills were mainly correct, and he studied the formation intensively, which happened to cooperate with Zhang Xian.

Wu Yong is considered to be strange, in fact, it is said that Qi is to promote him, since the robbery of the birth gang, his plans are all crooked, bad, poisonous, and even desperate.

Many people in Liangshan were earned by his poisoning schemes, and those schemes can be said to be extremely ruthless, and ordinary people can't think of them at all.

Seeing Zhao Ta's gaze falling, Wu Yong, who was sitting upright and dangerous, couldn't help but tremble, and respectfully lowered his eyes and turned to greet him.

Zhao Ta knocked the table with the teacup and said, "What do you think of this kidnapping horse?" ”

Wu Yongyan got up when he heard this, and then saluted: "Your Majesty, the minister does have some opinions, but the minister's views are too vulgar and difficult to get into the elegant hall. ”

Zhao Ta said with a smile: "The strategy of breaking the enemy is to use everything, where there is no place to be elegant, just listen to it." ”

Wu Yong saluted again, and then said cautiously: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen feels that although this kidnapping horse is not a heavy horse, it is similar to a heavy horse, and if you want to break it, you must follow the tricks to deal with heavy horses." ”

Zhao Ta said: "What heavy riding moves? ”

Wu Yong said: "Your Majesty, there are many ways to deal with light horses, there are really none, and there are hard punches and hard kills, but to deal with heavy horses can only start with horses, although this kidnapping horse is not a heavy horse, and the body is also wearing steel armor, and the protection is strict, but the horse has nothing else except covering the face and protecting the abdomen, so it should also start from the horse." ”

Zhao Ta looked at him and said: "This kind of cavalry is flexible and flexible, the hook and sickle can't break the opponent, and it's difficult to fix the opponent's route and position in the horse pit and trench, what else can be done about it?" ”

Wu Yong said slowly: "Your Majesty, Weichen feels that there is only one way, and that is to ...... Use poison, use poisoned arrows! ”

Using poisoned arrows? As soon as he said this, there was no sound all around, and everyone looked at him.

Zhao Ta reached out and touched his chin without a trace of expression on his face.

Song Jiang reminded beside him at this time: "Jialiang, this is a bit nonsense, where is there so much poison to wipe arrows?" ”

Since ancient times, wars have not prohibited the use of drugs, and no one can restrict this, it is all a matter of life and death.

Especially when the two countries go to war, they will do everything they can, not to mention the use of poison, and there are more ruthless and insidious means, after all, to protect the family and defend the country, there is no room for the slightest soft-heartedness.

But on the battlefield, except for some generals who rubbed poison on their weapons or arrows, the soldiers below hardly did so.

The soldiers are another more shoddy method, the arrows are soaked in gold juice, and the weapons are smeared with gold juice, what is the gold juice? It's a big dung soup, or even a boiled dung soup.

This gold juice is filthy and dirty, once it infects the wound, bacteria will enter from the wounded place, causing infection and inflammation, at this time, the medical technology is not developed, it is difficult to treat after infection, although the lethal speed is not as fast as poison, but it will still achieve the same result as poison, war has always been so cruel, unscrupulous.

As for why the soldiers didn't use poison to coat their weapons, but instead used gold juice that had a slower effect, it was really too expensive and difficult to refine and make poison these days.

You must know that the most common poison at this time is arsenic, but arsenic only works if you drink it, and it can't do it if you drink less, and it can't have the desired effect when you smear the blade, and it's even worse than gold juice.

The other poisons were rare, and the ones that sealed the throat with blood were even more difficult to refine, and it was impossible to manufacture them in large quantities, because there were simply not so many raw materials, and there was no such technology.

It is no exaggeration to say that the value of poison that can be used by 10,000 people is higher than that of 10,000 people, and it is naturally impossible to get it with great effort, and it may not even be possible to make it.

Therefore, ordinary soldiers can't use poison even if they want to, they can only make gold juice, gold juice is easy to obtain, cheap and convenient, even if the gold juice on the weapon volatilizes, it can also be used locally, directly create new use, and even mix the soil, so that the weapon and arrowhead are stained with as much dirt as possible.

And only some generals have the capital and qualifications to use poison, but the generals don't use gold juice, it's too undignified, and it's shameful to say it.

At this moment, Wu Yong said that everyone was surprised when he used poison, and Song Jiang also reminded him, because where did so much poison come from?

Zhao Ta looked at Wu Yong, he had also thought about poisoning, but although he had some poison left by Ouyang Camel in his hand, it was also a drop in the bucket, and it would not be of great use in the battle situation at all.

"Where does the poison come from?" He said lightly.

Wu Yong bowed and said: "Your Majesty, there are several kinds of poisons, the kind of poison that seals the throat when you see blood and is suitable for wiping weapons is rare, even if you want to get it now, you can't get enough of it for the soldiers." ”

Zhao Ta snorted: "You also know that you can't get it, so what else do you say about using poisoned arrows to shoot the opponent's horses!" ”

Wu Yong hurriedly said: "But there is narcotic poison to ......"

"Poison? What is that? Zhao Ta was puzzled, he had seen the poison scripture left by Emperor Taizu, and there was no narcotic saying in it.

"Your Majesty, there was a famous doctor called Hua Tuo at the end of the Han Dynasty, who once made five boiling powder prescriptions, which can open the skull and abdomen, cramp and scrape the bones, and use this numbness poison." Wu Yong said respectfully.

"Five boiling powder prescription......" Zhao Ta's eyes radiated brilliance, he naturally knew this prescription, but since Hua Tuo's death, it has been lost, and he has never appeared in the world again: "Do you have this prescription?" ”

"This ...... Wechen didn't. ”

"Didn't say anything to you!" Zhao Ta put down the teacup hard, and the table slammed to the ground.

Wu Yong was frightened, and said in his heart that this is really a companion like a tiger, and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, Wechen is just explaining the function of this poisonous poison, and the five boiling powder is used for people, but Weichen has a poisonous recipe for horses here."

"For horses? Can it have a paralyzing effect on horses? ”

"Your Majesty, that's exactly the case, this recipe is not owned by Weichen, but it is researched by Huangfuduan, he is good at treating horses, but some horse diseases are also ineffective in medicinal stones, unless he uses a knife to cut it, he has studied this poisonous poison used for the body of the horse, which has a great effect on horses, but it is not very effective for people."

"Huangfu Duan and Hong Qi are raising horses in Hexi Horse Farm, are you sure that the recipe in your hand is good?"

Wu Yong said: "Your Majesty, Weichen didn't dare to hide it, in fact, this party was only developed last year, because there are a few herbs that only grow next to the Yellow River, Weichen personally saw that Huangfu tried to succeed, just mix not much medicinal juice, for the body of the horse, the body of the horse will be paralyzed in a place, so Weichen thought, if you put it on the arrow, then even if you can't shoot the horse, as long as you wipe the edge, but there is a moment of paralysis, isn't it also a chance to win the enemy?" ”

Zhao Tan nodded when he heard this, showing a hint of a smile: "Okay, good, on the battlefield, fight for a fraction of a centimeter, gain a thousand miles, every penny will change the direction of the war, if this poisonous poison is useful, what is the Jurchen kidnapping horse?" You show me the recipe, if it's really good, then you and the emperor have done a great job! ”

(End of chapter)