Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, did not borrow the archers of Chijin Bo Khan, so he quickly returned to his palace and mobilized 10,000 elite soldiers to begin the formation training.

After learning that the Nine Desolation Ridge Formation was different from the configuration of the Dynasty Army, Meng Tai, the Taiping King, drew different arms from his own army and formed an army of 10,000 people to restrain the Nine Desolation Ridge Formation.

Of the 10,000 troops were 2,000 archers, 2,000 swordsmen, 2,000 spearmen, 1,000 shield men, 1,000 daggers, 1,000 swordmen, and 1,000 commanders.

Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, stipulated in his bet on the battle against Jiuhuangling that he could not use the means of water attack or fire attack, and could not use the terrain to ambush and sneak attack, but could use equipment; the two sides competed with the combat effectiveness of the army under the same external conditions.

Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, was bent on defeating the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains, and he had two purposes: one was that as the Taiping King and the commander of the army of the dynasty, he enjoyed the privileges and benefits given by the royal family, and he had to do his best to do things for the dynasty, so he wanted to show the combat effectiveness of the dynasty and prevent the people of the Nine Desolation Mountains from attacking the territory of the dynasty;

In order to defeat the Nine Desolate Ridge Formation, Taiping King Meng Tai also deliberately borrowed the archers of Chijin Bo Khan to restrain the crossbowmen of the Nine Desolate Ridge Formation, because in the future, Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, and Emperor Zhou Tian could borrow more archers from the prairie than him to destroy the Nine Desolate Ridge Formation.

If he could borrow the archers of the prairie, Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, would be more than ninety percent sure of defeating the Nine Desolation Ridge formations. Now there is no archers from the prairie to help, and Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, is only sixty percent sure of defeating the Nine Desolation Ridge formations.

In order to ensure victory, Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, stepped up the training of this 10,000 army day and night.

Meng Tai, the king of Taiping, arranged his 10,000 troops into a phalanx, with 800 soldiers on all sides and eight directions, and 3,600 soldiers in the middle.

The soldiers in the eight directions are eight independent small phalanxes, each of which is named the Dragon Formation, the Tiger Formation, the Leopard Formation, the Bear Formation, the Wolf Formation, the Snake Formation, the Eagle Formation, and the Ox Formation.

The eight small phalanxes must obey the command of the central array, and in the middle of the central array is a command chariot with wheels, and the commander and the banner soldiers of the golden drum soldiers stand on the cart, the golden drum soldiers are in command of the whole array of soldiers, and the banner soldiers are responsible for commanding the eight formations of dragons, tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, snakes, eagles, and oxen in all directions with eight-color flags.

There are several hundred soldiers outside the command vehicle of the central large array responsible for protecting the command vehicle, and then there are 3,000 soldiers outside, divided into three layers and three echelons, and during the battle, the three echelons successively attack the enemy troops in the dragon formation, tiger formation, leopard formation, bear formation, wolf formation, snake formation, eagle formation, and cattle formation in all directions.

This is the Taiping King Mengtai's carefully prepared military formation, in which the dragon formation, the tiger formation, the leopard formation, the bear formation, the wolf formation, the snake formation, the eagle formation, the ox formation and their respective formation changes, and the eight formations also have coordination changes.

This large array of Taiping King Mengtai is both offensive and defensive, and it is difficult to train, so Taiping King Mengtai set the time for the battle two months later when he wrote the war book.

When the Taiping King Mengtai was training, Shi Dewa and the soldier master Da Ran were also training 10,000 soldiers.

The 10,000 soldiers were divided into five battalions: the central battalion, the left front brigade, the right front brigade, the left rear brigade, and the right rear brigade, each of which had 2,000 troops.

The front and back of the left front, right front, left rear, and right rear quadripartite brigades were respectively arranged into two cones, and the tails of the two cones were connected. The cone is a very offensive formation, and the front and rear sides of the quadrangle brigade are lined up in a conical formation, which can ensure that they can change the direction of attack at will without adjusting the formation, and carry out a sharp attack on the enemy.

The cone-shaped array is like a sharp sword that penetrates directly into the enemy formation, with strong attack power, and the cone-shaped array soldiers are relatively sparsely arranged, and the personnel do not push each other, and the movement speed is fast.

Shi Dewa and the soldier master Daran arranged their troops in pursuit of attack and speed.

The Central Brigade was in charge of the command, and on the command vehicle were the commander and the Golden Drum Soldiers, Horn Soldiers, and Banner Soldiers. Outside the command car were the chariot soldiers, and the 1,600 soldiers outside the chariot corps were organized into a circular formation with strong defensive power.

The circular formation outside the central brigade has a special method of attack: when the chaotic horn sound sounded on the command vehicle, the soldiers of the front, rear, left and right quadripartite brigades would crouch down, and the crossbowmen in three circles in the front, middle and back circles immediately fired crossbow arrows at the surrounding enemy.

After nearly two months of hard training, the 10,000 troops of the Taiping King Mengtai and the 10,000 soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains finally launched a fierce struggle in the vast wilderness outside Fumi Mountain.

The first to attack was the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains, and when they saw that the range of the crossbow arrows had arrived, they fired the crossbow arrows at the 10,000 troops of the Taiping King Mengtai.

The lethality of the crossbow arrows was huge, and just as the crossbow arrows rained down on the 10,000 troops of the Taiping King Meng Tai, a thousand large shield soldiers rushed to the front of the team and blocked the falling crossbow arrows.

The two 10,000-strong armies approached step by step, and when the two armies were a few steps away, the crossbowmen in front of the Nine Desolation Mountains suddenly ran to both sides of the team, and the two conical formations in front of the left and right were gradually revealed.

In the blink of an eye, the two cone-shaped formations collided with the Taiping King Mengtai's 10,000-strong army array, and the Taiping King Mengtai's army formation was immediately rushed through two big openings.

The pikemen on the periphery of the conical formation of the Nine Desolation Mountains stabbed out their spears one after another, and the square military formation of the Taiping King Meng Tai was crowded together, and many soldiers on the periphery were stabbed and injured by the pikemen of the Nine Desolation Mountains.

As soon as the commander of the command vehicle in the middle of the Taiping King Mengtai army formation saw that the large array was rushed through two openings, he ordered the banner soldiers to order the dragon formation and the tiger formation to encircle and block one cone formation from both sides, and the leopard formation and the bear formation to block the other cone formation from both sides.

When the commanders and soldiers of the Dragon Formation, the Tiger Formation, the Leopard Formation, and the Bear Formation saw the Banner Order, they changed their formations and quickly formed a defensive formation, blocking the two cone-shaped formations of the Nine Desolation Mountains.

The commander of the Nine Desolation Ridge Army Formation saw that the two cone-shaped formations in front of him were blocked, and hurriedly ordered the banner soldiers to order the formation to change.

The commanders of the two conical formations in front of the Nine Desolate Mountains had been looking at the commander's command vehicle, and when they saw the commander's order to change formations, they immediately ordered the horn soldiers beside them to blow the horn whistle.

When the cones heard the horn whistle, they immediately broke into two hundred small cones, each of which consisted of twenty soldiers (a captain, two large shields, and four small shields—one holding a small shield, the other hand throwing small spears, eight pikemen, and five short knife soldiers).

After the formation of the 200-small cone-shaped formation, the golden sound on the command vehicle of the Central Brigade rang out. Looking at these 200 small cone-shaped formations, they gave up the frontal attack, quickly retreated, and detoured back to the two flanks of the 10,000-strong army formation of the Taiping King Mengtai and launched a small attack.

When the small cone-shaped formation moves quickly and flexibly to the two flanks of the enemy formation, the soldiers on the two flanks of the densely lined square enemy formation still maintain their original posture of attacking the enemy in front of them.

The 200-small cone-shaped formation, like 200 small sharp swords, was inserted into the side of the military formation of the Taiping King Mengtai.

The Taiping King Mengtai's 10,000-strong army formation was like an elephant walking forward, and the small cone-shaped formation of the Nine Desolation Mountains was like a pack of wolves pounced on the elephant's belly.

At this time, the soldiers of the Taiping King Meng Tai suffered a big loss, and many soldiers were injured by the throwing spears and spears of the small conical formation of the Nine Desolation Mountains, and fell to the ground and lost their combat effectiveness.

The commander on the command vehicle of the central large array of the Mengtai army formation of the Taiping King, as soon as he saw that the military array was damaged for the second time, he ordered the herald to raise the four large flags representing the dragon formation, the tiger formation, the leopard formation, and the bear formation, and then ordered the herald to sing gold.

The soldiers of the dragon formation, the tiger formation, the leopard formation, and the bear formation began to retreat to both sides with the sound of gold, because this retreat was usually practiced many times, and the soldiers of the Taiping King Mengtai were strictly disciplined, so the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains who were attacked retreated to both sides in an orderly manner.

While the soldiers of the Dragon Formation, the Tiger Formation, the Leopard Formation, and the Bear Formation retreated, the soldiers of the Wolf Formation, the Snake Formation, the Eagle Formation, and the Ox Formation received an order to rush towards the two hundred small cones of the Nine Desolation Mountains.

The soldiers of the Wolf Formation, the Snake Formation, the Eagle Formation, and the Ox Formation temporarily blocked the two hundred small conical formations of the Nine Desolation Mountains.

The formation of the formation of the Nine Desolation Mountains has been several years, and the members of this small cone-shaped army have cooperated for several years, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the soldiers of the Taiping King Meng Tai have gradually been beaten back again.

Just when the army formation of the Taiping King Mengtai was frustrated in the three contact battles with the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains, the flag commanding the Central Brigade on the command vehicle of the Taiping King Mengtai's army formation shook violently. When the 3,000 soldiers of the Central Brigade saw the command flag, they immediately formed a formation of three teams on the left and right wings.

The central brigade of Taiping Wang Mengtai had just arranged three teams and two wing formations, and the commander of the command vehicle had also arranged the dragon formation, tiger formation, leopard formation, and bear formation that had previously retreated into three teams and two wing formations. After that, the sound of gold on the command vehicle was loud, and the soldiers of the wolf formation, snake formation, eagle formation, and cattle formation dozens of zhang away from the command vehicle heard the sound of mingjin and retreated diagonally to the side and rear.

This is a retreat route that has been trained for a long time, and this retreat is to make way for the soldiers who are charging behind.

Although the soldiers of the Taiping King Mengtai suffered many casualties and were at a disadvantage, the soldiers after hearing the sound of gold were not chaotic at all, maintained their combat effectiveness, and retreated quickly and orderly to the flank and rear. The retreating soldiers of the Taiping King Mengtai attracted a large part of the Nine Desolation Ridge formations, and a small part of the formations were exposed in front of the central brigade of the Taiping King Mengtai's army formation. At this time, the flags were waving on the command vehicle behind the Central Brigade, the drums were beating loudly, and the first team of the Central Brigade and the two wings of the formation quickly rushed towards the small cone-shaped formations of the scattered Nine Desolation Mountains.

In this battle, the soldiers of the Central Brigade of the Taiping King Mengtai, who were superior in numbers and well prepared, had a great advantage, and more than 100 small cone-shaped soldiers in the Nine Desolate Mountains were rushed to the ground.

Dozens of zhang away, the commander on the command vehicle of the Jiuhuangling Formation saw that the small conical formation of 1,000 people was defeated by the enemy army who changed the formation, and hurriedly mobilized the conical formation of a rear brigade preparing for battle and rushed forward to support.

As soon as the cone-shaped formations of the rear brigade of the Jiuhuangling Formation rushed forward, the second team of the two wings of the Central Brigade of the Taiping King Mengtai had already rushed forward first, and then the third team of the Central Brigade rushed up again......

The commander on the command vehicle of the Jiuhuangling Formation saw that the large cone-shaped formations that had been reinforced had continuously encountered the impact of the enemy's three teams and two wings, and had been disrupted by the formation, and fell into a passive situation, so he organized a new reinforcement formation, but it was too late, after the three teams and two wings of the Central Brigade of the Taiping King Mengtai Central Brigade continued to attack, the three three teams and two wings of the two wings that had been prepared earlier launched a new impact......

When the defeat of the cone-shaped formation reinforcements of the Nine Desolate Mountains was decided, a horn whistle sounded from the command vehicle of the Nine Desolate Mountains.

As soon as the horn whistle sounded, all the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains who were fighting with the Taiping King Mengtai army squatted down for a while. The 1,500 crossbowmen of the Central Brigade, which had been maintaining a three-column firing formation outside the command vehicle of the Nine Barren Mountains, suddenly fired a hundred crossbows in unison, and the three columns of crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows alternately. At this time, standing in the field were the six teams of Taiping King Mengtai's two-wing formations, large in number and densely arranged, and they were shot by this sudden continuous crossbow arrow and fell to the ground one by one.

This unexpected change caused the Taiping King Mengtai's army formation to be in chaos, with heavy casualties and extremely weak combat effectiveness, and the commander had to order the whole team to retreat. Nearly 200 small cone-shaped soldiers squatting on the ground in the Nine Desolate Mountains, at this time, they heard the order to march with drums, and they quickly pursued the retreats of the Taiping King Mengtai, and after a period of fighting, another group of Taiping King Mengtai's retreats were knocked to the ground.

If the retreating troops of Taiping King Mengtai make a stubborn resistance, the horn whistle will sound on the command vehicle of the Nine Desolation Mountains, and the soldiers fighting in the Nine Desolation Mountains will squat down, and the crossbowmen of the Nine Desolation Mountains will take the opportunity to fire crossbow arrows to repel the resisting enemy soldiers, and then the small cone-shaped formations will come forward to pursue. In this way, the soldiers of the Nine Desolation Mountains kept driving the soldiers of the Taiping King Meng Tai out of the battle area.

The war book stipulates that the 10,000-strong army of the two sides of Jiuhuangling and Taiping King Mengtai will fight in the battle area on the Pingchuan River outside Fumi Mountain, and the boundary is drawn on both sides. At the end of the engagement, if an army of one side is knocked out of the area of engagement by the other side in battle, the army of the side that has left the area of engagement is considered defeated.