078, all premeditated
After the pigrons came ashore, there was no threat, so Wu Hui left them all in the water in the rear to assist in transporting and protecting the logistics supply fleet. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info When the military formation of the Chongchen Department was lined up, at the forefront was another strange beast - the Red Armor Beast.
The Red Armor Beast is not a natural beast, it is actually a kind of Gu beast, specially cultivated with the secret method of raising Gu in Jiuli, about a person is tall, six-legged, covered in dark red armor, the edge of the carapace has sharp spines, and the dorsal armor can stretch out the membrane-like wings, and it can also glide and fly for short distances.
If you master the secret transmission of the Jiuli Gu Technique, and are willing to invest enough money, it will not be difficult to cultivate such a red-armored beast. However, Wu Hui discharged more than eighty adult red-armored beasts in front of the battle array, which was by no means an overnight effort, and it can be seen that the Chongchen Department has been secretly cultivating red-armored beasts on a large scale for many years, and it is obvious that they have long been ready to deal with Jiuli.
What is the biggest difficulty in dealing with Jiuli? That is, the strange and difficult witchcraft of the Jiuli witches, many witches are good at using poison, and they can also drive all kinds of unexpected poisonous insects and beasts. If you send ordinary soldiers to charge at the forefront, they will often die inexplicably before they can rush in front of the opponent's formation.
The armor of the Red Armor can withstand arrow fire, the speed of the charge is extremely fast, and more importantly, they can fight against most of the toxins used by the Witch Princes, even if they are poisoned, they can continue to charge without losing their combat effectiveness immediately. Another characteristic of the Red Armor is that it can withstand high temperatures for a short period of time and can break through the blockade of raging fires.
The main purpose of posing the red armor beast was not to prevent Jiuli from attacking with fire, which just showed that Wu Hui planned to attack with fire. Most of the poisonous insects and beasts driven by Jiuli Wugong are afraid of fire, and many strange and invisible toxins will also be wiped out in the fire. Attack the Li Min battle array with fire, and the red-armored beast on Wu Hui's side can still kill it against the fire.
The Chongchen Department not only annexed the Benli Department and obtained the Jiuli Secret Law Inheritance, but of course it was also ready for targeted preparations. The Chongchen tribesmen would not go to practice the secret art of Jiuli on a large scale, but they secretly cultivated pigdragons and red armor beasts on a large scale, and they had been planning for many years and finally waited for today's battle.
Huwa had commanded thousands of troops and horses, and was proficient in the art of war, and as soon as he saw the formation set up by the Chongchen Division, he didn't have to wait for the two sides to really make a move, and he already knew how Wu Hui wanted to fight this battle. The Chongchen Department has taken the lead strategically, and the tactical arrangement is close to perfect, if there is any weakness, it seems that the number of the main force is a little less, and Wu Hui only brought ten army formations.
The military formation on Ba Yuan follows the establishment of the Yandi era, with seven people as a small team, seven small teams as a military formation, and a military commander and two deputy military commanders, a total of 51 people.
The military formation of the Central Plains is the establishment of the Yellow Emperor era. Five people are a small team, which has a captain, and two teams of five cooperate with each other to form a team of ten, just like a pair of people's hands, and the captain is the thumb. The ten-man team has a special captain who commands ten soldiers under his command, and a total of eleven people constitute a basic combat unit.
The 10 basic combat units are organized into an army formation, with the commander of the army formation being the commander-in-chief, and the total number of troops in a military formation is 111 men. Then the total number of soldiers in Wu Hui's army is 1,110 people, plus the commander's personal guards and generals, it is about 1,200 people.
For a tribe, this is already a fairly large-scale armament, and the rear must be equipped with a logistics baggage team several times more numerous, which can be regarded as a general mobilization of the clan, and all the young and strong must go into battle. However, the Chongchen Department is not an ordinary tribe, and if it really mobilizes its clan, it is enough to send more than twenty integrated army formations.
Since Wu Hui put on a posture of forcing Jiuli to line up for a decisive battle, and he was fighting a surprise attack, he should concentrate all his forces. As long as the Jiuli army in front of them is defeated, it will be difficult for the Jiuli tribes to stop the attack of the Chongchen tribe, why didn't Wu Hui do this? Either the logistics can't keep up, after all, they are fighting through Yunmeng Juze, or there are other reasons.
Looking at the army on Jiuli's side, the number is more than double that of the Heavy Chen Division, and they are all elite soldiers from various villages who have been summoned. Jiuli's military formation does not have a unified organization like Chongchen, but takes each village as the basic unit, and the soldiers of different tribes and villages are combined to form a combat squad that can cooperate with each other and support.
The natal Gu worms or Gu beasts raised by Li Min were originally very secretive, but they had all been sent to the front of the battle formation at this moment, and all kinds of strange poisonous insects and beasts looked numb, and if they encountered an unprepared enemy, they could scare the other party half to death.
Most of the Gu worms are cultivated by the Feili tribe, plus a small number of Gu Li tribes and Shanli tribesmen. And more warriors in the Shanli Department practice another secret technique, similar to the method of swallowing form, with various strange abilities that ordinary people do not have, and are the main force of melee charge.
The Rig is good at crafting all kinds of ordnance and manipulating various long-range weapons behind the battle. The Mu Li tribe is good at fortifications, and has built trenches, low embankments, and various traps on the front line, and cooperates with the various poisons cast by the Gu Li tribe.
The army of the Chongchen Department came very suddenly, but looking at the military formation set up by the Jiuli Division, it was obvious that they had already made preparations, and they were by no means hastily assembled against the enemy.
Although the current big war is not comparable to the scale of the national war in Bayuan, such a battle formation is by no means something that can be pulled out in a short period of time. Huwa sighed secretly, whether it was Chongchen or Jiuli, these two sides should have wanted to go to war a long time ago.
The Jiuli army directly commanded the battle array in front to kill Shan Lixi, and Feili Wang, who oversaw the overall situation in the rear and responded in the center. Fei Li looked at the enemy's formation, and immediately said to the generals with divine thoughts: "Be careful that the other party attacks with fire, you can't let the red armor beast rush into the formation!"
Seeing this posture, he ordered those strange insects and beasts to withdraw to the trenches on both sides of the battle formation and behind the first line of defense, and ordered the Qili Department to prepare for the operation of large ordnance, and the soldiers of the villages and villages of the Shanli Department were at the forefront to protect, and the army immediately changed its formation.
Gu Li Zhong flew into the air with a long staff and shouted: "Wu Hui, why did you lead the army to commit my Jiuli?" Before the official start of the war, there were still a few words to say on the scene, not only to boost the morale of the army, but also to pave the way for the future mediation and judgment of the Son of Heaven.
Wu Hui is nearly 100 years old, but his hair is not white, he is slightly bald, and the hair around his head and under his jaw is yellowish. He rode on a tall giant rhino and shouted loudly: "Gu Li Zhong, where is my son Shao Jiachen?" I heard that he is dead, and it was the slaves in the territory of the Chongchen Department who killed him, but he fled to the land of Jiuli to be sheltered by you.
I have come to avenge my son, but you refuse to hand over the murderer, and still gather a large army to go to war? I have already said that either I will hand over the people I want, or I will wash Jiuli in blood. Do you really want to let the people of Jiuli be buried with you in order to harbor the murderer?"
Gu Li Zhong raised his staff in the air, and someone pushed out more than 100 cars, lined up in front of the formation like a long dragon, and the cars were full of corpses. The great witch prince shouted angrily: "Wu Hui! Shao Jiachen brutalized the remnants of Benli, and the father and son of Rushing Gang had no choice but to assassinate them. Now they have to apologize for their sins with death, and if they say that they have already given an account.
But you are even more ferocious than Shao Jiachen, and you actually did this thing of slaughtering villages and exterminating the clan, and even women and children were not spared! Do you really think that my people can be bullied?"
Wu Hui's expression was a little stunned, he didn't expect Jiuli to push out so many corpses in front of the formation, and saw that the people of the Rushing Village were already dead. He originally thought that Jiu Li took the initiative to kill these people so that he would not have an excuse to go to war, but listening to Gu Li Zhong's words was obviously wrong.
Before Wu Hui could react, Fei Liwang at the rear of the battle array shouted again: "Wu Hui, you have already slaughtered all the people in Benliu Village, don't you want to stop, and lead a large army to come here today?
Wu Hui almost didn't choke, but laughed in anger: "You are so shameless that you killed someone, but you want to frame me! These people are dead, is the matter over? Even if I killed, they deserve to die! Hand over the person who plotted behind the scenes, otherwise you and the others will all be buried here today......
The person who planned behind the scenes? Huwa frowned slightly when she heard this, Wu Hui seemed to believe that Shao Jiachen's death had another inside story, so this person seemed to be referring to himself? If Huwa didn't come, Jiuli wouldn't have been able to hand over this person anyway. At this time, Fei Liwang deliberately glanced at the tiger baby again, and wanted him to come forward to say a few words.
But Huwa stood silently beside Fei Liwang, as if she had made up her mind to watch coldly. At this time, Shan Lixuan in front of the battle shouted again: "Wu Hui, if you want to fight, then fight." If you don't fight, hand over the murderer and retreat immediately!"
Wu Hui stopped talking nonsense, waved his hand forward, and the battle array began to charge. The tiger baby had never seen any strange charging tactics, and it was said that such a large-scale charge would feel the ground tremble slightly, but there was not much movement at the moment. The six legs of those red-armored beasts ran fast, but their huge bodies were very light, as if they were floating with a buzzing sound.
Shao Jiachen's death was indeed just an excuse, even if the bodies of all the clansmen in Benliu Village were placed in front of the battle, even if Huwa stood up to explain the situation that day, it would be impossible to stop this big battle. And the five great witches of Jiuli actually disposed of the corpses of the people of Benliu Village in this way, which also made Huwa feel very uncomfortable.
It was not only the Red Armor Beast that rushed over, but also a group of monks who followed up behind the Shoe Red Armor Beast, these monks also had at least three realm cultivations, some people worked together to cast spells and ignited a blazing fire in the air, and some people raised a lot of combustion-supporting things into the sky, rolling up a raging fire curtain over the battlefield, and falling towards the Jiuli Battle Array. Wu Hui really used fire to attack.
The first line of defense of the Jiuli Battle Formation was not the trench dug in advance, but the hundred vehicles that had just been pushed out. The red-armored beast had already rushed to the front of the car, and at this moment, there was a sudden pop, pop and pop sound. The flesh and blood of many corpses exploded, and a gray or even pale pink mist appeared, and many strange bugs came out.
There was another part of the corpse, under the control of a strange secret method, suddenly got up from the car and pounced on the enemy in an attempt to hold it tightly.
The corners of the tiger baby's eyes twitched slightly, and the people of Rushing Village were still not at peace after their deaths, and their corpses had become tools and weapons. When these corpses were pushed to the front of the formation just now, Huwa saw that the Jiuli soldiers in the formation all showed resentment and hatred on their faces, and their hearts were also boiling with fighting intent, and they all felt an unbearable humiliation.
The corpses of the Rushing Village people were first used to boost the morale of the warriors, and then became the first line of defense in the battle formation. Such a strange method, if it encounters an ordinary military formation, is enough to crush the opponent's charge.
It's a pity that this is not much of a threat to the red armor beasts, as soon as those corpses burst or pounce out, the fire curtain in the air fell, and the row of vehicles became a wall of fire, only a few red armor beasts were tripped up, and the vast majority of red armor beasts rushed through the wall of fire.
The fire curtain in the air was controlled by the monk, like a sea of fire and swept towards the Jiuli Battle Array. Shan Li Xuan and Qi Li Gan stood in the military formation and waved their bone staffs, and a group of great witches around them also cast spells together, and a strong wind surged on the flat ground and swept towards the fire curtain, and tongues of fire rushed into the sky. Most of the flames hadn't fallen into the formation, and the Red Armor had already rushed through the first line of defense.
In front of the battle array is a trench, the flames fall in the trench and ignite pieces of black smoke and strange hissing sounds, although Shan Li Li has withdrawn many insects and beasts, but after all, there is still a part left in front of the formation, and these insects and beasts have encountered fire attacks. At the same time, a row of spiked fences suddenly erected behind the trench, which emerged from the ground to block the charge.
Some of them crashed into the fence, while others flew straight over, and the fence burned into another wall of fire. In any case, the speed of the Red Armor Beast's charge was slowed down, and it was also difficult for the follow-up army formation of the Chongchen Division to follow up with the charge.
The Jiuli battle array also launched a counterattack, only to see a living creature flying in the air, with huge flying insects and strange birds. The insects and birds that flew lower and slower were ignited by the fire curtain in mid-air, and the higher and faster flew through them, and they were greeted by a rain of arrows.
The Chongchen Division had the Red Armor Beast as the vanguard, and the monk team followed up to cast spells and set fires, and among these monks there were also archers with short knives at their waists. The archers released arrows towards the Jiuli army formation through the fire curtain, and at this moment they all shot arrows into the air. When Jiuli's flying insect beasts launched a counterattack, some of Chongchen's monks also swept the flames into the air.
The battle is three-dimensional, the red armor beast has rushed to the front of the battle array, and the warriors of the Qi Li Department have also launched long-range attacks, similar to ballistas and other ordnance shoot heavy crossbow arrows and boulders, they can kill and injure the red armor beast, and can also attack the monks and archers of the Chongchen Department at the other end of the fire curtain, and the shouts and screams gradually resounded.
It is difficult to completely block the charging formation of the Red Armor Beast by relying only on long-range weapons such as ballistas, and many warriors from the Shan Li Department let out an angry roar, and all kinds of strange totem patterns lit up on their bodies, each holding a weapon and rushing towards the Red Armor Beast, watching their fighting cooperation, it is very similar to hunting large beasts in the mountains.
A Feili warrior not far from the tiger baby did not rush forward to fight, but suddenly let out a miserable scream and sat on the ground, it turned out that his natal Gu worm had died in front.
Looking at the archers of the Chongchen Division, they were dressed very strangely, their whole bodies were covered in animal skins, their heads and faces were covered, and only a small gap was left to expose their mouths, noses and eyes, and their nostrils were plugged and there was something in their mouths. It seems that it is to prevent poisonous insects from attacking, but also to prevent poisonous smoke, after all, fire attack cannot solve all poisons.
Some archers were shooting arrows, but they were suddenly hit by a boulder thrown from mid-air, and some archers suddenly threw away their bows and arrows, rolling and screaming and tearing their clothes. Many poisonous insects still crossed the line of defense, either from the sky or from the ground, and no matter how tightly these archers were wrapped in clothing, there were always gaps to drill.
The battle duel is not a wave of charges, that kind of battle is just an unorganized rabble. Human physical strength is always limited, and the situation on the battlefield is constantly changing, and it is necessary to launch an offensive in turns. Chongchen is the main attack and Jiuli is the main defense, just like waves crashing on the embankment, and there are gaps that collapse from time to time, and then they will be blocked.
The battle lasted for two hours and ended at dusk. Wu Hui's army did not break through Jiuli's army formation, and paid the price of more than 20 red-armored beasts and more than 100 casualties. The losses on Jiuli's side were even greater, with nearly three hundred casualties, not counting the losses of those insects and beasts that were driven. (To be continued.) )