Chapter 176: Cone Formation and Yanyue Formation
In Xiangyang Lake Village, Che Yinguo’s right arm was also hung on the top of the city. Now both arms are hanging around his neck, and his neck is extremely heavy. But his mood is unprecedentedly relaxed.
Because before the second loss of the city wall, reinforcements finally arrived. He saw that the Maitreya Cultivator Army had already become a mess behind the formation. The Zhennan Infantry Army in blue armor was like a dragon-slaying sword, slashing hard on the back of the mad monster, the Maitreya Cultivator Army.
Although Qin Lei had more than a thousand black-armored cavalry under his command, they were used to save their lives and naturally would not be easily dispersed. The remaining 10,000 infantry troops naturally could not invade like fire, so they simply arranged a military formation and attacked the Maitreya Cult Army steadily.
When the army formed by 10,000 infantry appeared behind the Maitreya Cult Army, the two guardian kings who were under heavy protection and were wrapped in several layers of armor into iron lumps were reported.
He turned around with great difficulty and looked at the situation behind him. A king with only eyes exposed said to another guy who had no eyes exposed: "Without the white-clothed human demons, there is nothing to be afraid of these Zhennan Army."
A buzzing sound was made in the iron can. After talking for a long time, the king of eyes didn't understand anything. He reached out and pushed the protective surface on the iron can's forehead, revealing a fat face that had been squeezed by the helmet. The king of the iron can breathed a few breaths of fresh air, but was dizzy by the smell of the stench of the sky corpse that was filled with the battlefield. He coughed hard for a while, and then gasped and said, "Brother Zhao, the more I think about it, the more I am. It is said that Xiangyang and Fancheng were surrounded by the Zhennan Army. Why did our emperor not let us go back to rescue the car? Instead, he asked us to fight this water camp?"
He paused and spat again, "More than 200,000 most loyal and brave Dahua soldiers were ruined by two-thirds in this broken place. What did the emperor think?" This is still a king who has a deep affection for the Maitreya Cult.
The king of eyes was not so real. He patted the iron can king's head and whispered: "Brother, haven't you seen it yet? Our Dahua is almost over. After doing this, it can be considered as the righteousness of Dahua. Let's go far away, anyway, we can't finish our gold, silver and jewelry in our lifetime."
The iron jar stared at the king with wide eyes for a long time. When the king wanted to speak again, the iron jar spoke: "Okay." After saying that, he said with a sad look on his face: "Is our country really going to be over?"
His eyes couldn't stand his hypocritical appearance the most. He didn't want to look at him anymore, but turned his eyes to the battlefield behind him. This time, he was shocked and screamed out with a "Ouch". The iron jar quickly turned around and was immediately scared to death. He fell to his chariot and almost smashed the car board into a hole.
Not only them, but all the Maitreya Cult members on the battlefield all took a breath. It was not that the Zhennan Army suddenly turned into an evil ghost with green face and fangs, but that they saw a man! A young man in white robe holding a big iron lump with thorns!
Although he didn't ride a horse this time, everyone moaned from the bottom of his heart: The white-clothed demon! He was indeed incompetent in swords and guns. He was obviously shot in the morning and was carried back half dead. In the evening, he appeared on the other side of the battlefield, and seemed to have changed to a large hammer...
The morale, which had reached its peak because of the injury to the white-clothed human-loving demon, fell back to the trough the moment before the two sides contacted each other.
Unlike the past raids, this time there is no trick in the wilderness. The Zhennan Army has set up a cone formation. The cone formation requires the forward to be sharp and fast, and the two wings must be strong and powerful. The elite vanguard can attack the enemy in a narrow frontal direction, break through, and split the enemy's formation, and expand the results of the two wings. This is a formation that emphasizes offensive breakthrough.
The extremely important and sharp one was the five hundred vanguard led by Zhang Sigou. It was the classic Zhennan Army formation with the spearmen charging forward, the shield soldiers defending on the side, and the spearmen roaming after the spearmen formation.
But the first one was not them, but the two thousand archers who fell behind the formation. These archers were the essence of the Eastern Infantry Army, and each could use two stone hard bows. When the last night attack on Maicheng, because it was dark and the effect of the bows and arrows was not good, Qin Lei simply did not send them to the battlefield. Later, he ran hundreds of miles and did not shoot a single bow, which really made them suffocate.
"Stop!" Under the command of the archer's archers, the archers lined up in five elements, stood in T-shaped characters, and leaned back their waists.
"Preparation!" Everyone held the bow with their left hand and took the arrow with their right hand, stuck the tip of the arrow on the string, the arrow passed through the tiger's mouth in their left hand, and the arrow body was pressed against the bow. The old military heads adjusted the elevation angle of the bow and arrow according to their respective distances to the enemy. The soldiers around them just need to do as they do.
"Control!" The archers stretched out their left arms and pulled the bowstring back with their right hands. The two thousand hard bows all turned into a full moon shape - the arrows were ready to be fired!
"Shoot!" As the captain roared, two thousand right hands were released at the same time, and two thousand extremely sharp wolf-toothed arrows rushed into the sky. The soldiers in the Forward Camp only felt the black above their heads, and knew that the brothers in the Divine Bow Camp were starting to get angry. Sure enough, the next moment, two thousand long arrows that had already become a downward force appeared in their sight. The soldiers couldn't help but hold their breath and watched the life-threatening rain of arrows falling into the enemy formation.
These Maitreya clans basically had no armor on their bodies. Even if they had one, they were still crude leather armor. They could not stop the rain of arrows falling from the sky. Suddenly, countless people were caught in arrows and fell to the ground, and their formation was in chaos. The rain of arrows was poured down one after another, and the 20,000 people shot up were knocked over, and they wailed all over the field for a while, and the scene was terrible.
If these people had not been in the sea of ​​corpses and blood for a month, they would have been frightened and fled in a row. Countless companions who died under the bow and arrow had already told them with their lives that they would die even more miserably when they retreated! So the Maitreya Cult Army did not turn around and escape, but instead rushed towards the vanguard of the Zhennan Army even more desperately.
When the two sides were less than ten feet apart, the rain of arrows finally stopped. Before the Maitreya cultists could breathe a sigh of relief, rows of dark stingers flew straight out of the Zhennan Army formation, crossing the shortest trajectory in the air, and in the blink of an eye, stabbed hundreds of scoundrel soldiers who rushed to the front to the ground. They immediately blocked the enemy's offensive. At just ten feet apart, the gunmen cast all the five scoundrels on their bodies, scattering the formation of the Maitreya cult.
Until the eyes were visible in the other party's eyes, Zhang Sigou, who had been suppressing the team, shouted: "Enter!" The hand-to-hand combat finally began. Countless six-foot-meter-long spears were stabbed out in one go, poking the frightened Maitreya cultists over countless times.
Every time the soldiers took a step forward, they would shout and at the same time they would hand out their spears to stab the enemy on the ground. Go forward further, shout again, and give another shot! This would take away at least a hundred lives every time. Even if there were lucky people who rushed to the front of the formation to death, they would be held up by the sword and shield soldiers and chopped them off and not a threat.
At the front of the five hundred warriors, there was a white-robed young general holding an 88-pound caltrop bone, holding an 88-pound caltrop bone, shaking, swaying, hanging, smashing, pounding, clouds, and rushing, and spreading it freely, and slashing one foot in front of him for hell on earth. As long as someone dares to enter, he will be immediately scraped away like a scattered catkins or shattered like a melon. No one dares to walk on his tassel.
In a blink of an eye, under the leadership of Chu Qianjun, the five hundred vanguards were like a wedge, inserted into the pale and weak Maitreya Cult formation. The heavy armored Mo Daomen who followed the two wings danced the heavy Mo Daomen in their hands. Every time they chopped, they could chop the enemies who intended to counterattack, making it difficult to get close. They further expanded and consolidated the wounds that the vanguard team broke. It was precisely with the timely follow-up of the cornerstones in these formations that the vanguard team could advance unscrupulously and then advance! Without any worries about the lonely army being cut off from their backs.
This shocking scene made Qin Lei, who was watching the battle behind the formation, buoyed. He whispered to Qin Youcai on the side: "Is this the trapping camp of Gao Shun of the Three Kingdoms?"
Qin Youcai laughed and said, "If they also chop melons and vegetables like this when they fight against Nan Chu Manzi, then they will be considered a camp."
Qin Lei laughed and said, "I am so talented and humble. I am so skillful in cooperation, orderly in offense and defense, and the rules are not chaotic at all. With the leadership of the powerful generals, my power is really extraordinary. How many armies in the world can compete?"
Qin Youcai said seriously: "Your Majesty is skillful in cooperation because they have been together for a long time and have been trained and managed seriously. In this regard, the world's major strong troops are not inferior. The orderly offensive and defense is because the opponent cannot put enough pressure on them. As for the powerful generals, they can't stand a fierce shooting of a bow and crossbow."
After a pause, he saw Qin Lei listening carefully, and then he emphasized, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate the strong army in the world. It's not that the last general destroys his own might and develops ambition for others. Our Eastern Infantry Army is at most in the top ten in the Qin Dynasty, and there must be one in the top ten. If you look at China, it would be great if you can be ranked in the top twenty."
Qin Lei knew that since ancient times, there was no first in literature and no second in martial arts. If his strength was similar, Qin Youcai would definitely not obey this soft man. Then he put away his underestimation of the heroes of the world and smiled embarrassedly: "Let's talk about the future, let's have fun now."
Qin Youcai was very serious for a while, so he naturally smiled and said with a low voice: "It's just right for the prince to train troops." This time, he was basically a silent adviser. He would only quietly remind him when Qin Lei Xing made a mistake. Most of the time, he acted as a supporting role who was a good player who was running errands and whispering his boredom.
Qin Lei also knew that the opportunity was rare and took over the command of the team without permission. Until now, everything was not bad. Of course, he also knew that this asymmetric battle could not reflect his true level.
Fortunately, I only need to know the soldiers, and the ones who are really fighting are the generals. Qin Lei comforted himself in this way.
There is no way to consider how effective the name of "White-clothed Demon" played in this battle. But this later used by Jiangdong area to scare children's name to cry at night did make all the Maitreya scholars who were against Chu Qianjun weak, and they had no control of the six gods. Before they had fought, they went to Liuzhang first.
Before he knew it, the vanguard team led by Chu Qianjun had approached less than twenty feet away from the two guardian kings.
At this time, the Maitreya believers who were siegeing the city also retreated one after another, protected the two main generals, and rushed towards the aggressive Eastern Infantry Army frantically. These believers who could persist until now were completely brainwashed by the Maitreya religion, completely believed in the set of fallacies fabricated by Gong Liangyu, so they were not afraid of death at all. After suffering from mental and physical torture for a month, they had the idea of ​​dying early and rebirth early, and suffering more after dying late.
The pressure on both wings suddenly increased, and even the striker's attack was stagnant. Qin Lei on the station car was as deep as water. He didn't look at Qin Youcai, who was a little anxious, shouted to the flag-holding official: "Changyue in the formation!"
The flag-holder said in horror: You must know that the pressure on both wings is too high at this time, and it is correct to change it to a circular array to shrink its defense, and it is better to beat the enemy's three axes. And this prince, who doesn't know whether he will command, actually uses the Yanyue Formation, which emphasizes the attack on both wings, and responds to the Yanyue Formation, which is more dangerous than the cone array, and will not kill everyone, right?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly glance at Qin Youcai. Seeing Qin Youcai lowered his eyelids, he swallowed and put away the conical flag in his hand. He pulled out a flag from behind, held it in his hand, and swung it hard. The crescent moon on the flag appeared in front of a team of strong drummers behind him. Eight-sided drums were beaten together, and the majestic drum sounded throughout the battlefield and reached everyone's ears. These drummers didn't know what formation they were, and only knew that every time they changed the flag, they had to hit a fixed drumbeat according to the pattern on it, so there was no so much trouble.
The soldiers on the battlefield were fully focused on life-and-death battles, and if they were careless, they would die on the spot. Therefore, they had no time to pay attention to the situation on the field. When they heard the familiar drum beats, they acted like a conditioned reflex.
The vanguard team, who had been rushing forward, slowly stopped, the shield hand rushed to the front, Park Daobing protected both sides, while the spearmen hid behind the formation and kept stabbing the spear in their hands, blocking the Maitreya clans who were intending to rush up to fight, and were not allowed to approach.
In the cone formation, the two wings that had been suppressed have released all their combat power. Mo Daobing, wearing heavy armor, no longer cared about the sword handed over by the enemy, danced the Mo Dao in his hand frantically, and the number and strength of the chops instantly doubled.
In the battle with asymmetric strength between the two sides, this power is fully opened, and the effect of violence is particularly obvious. In a blink of an eye, it attacked five feet away. As soon as it went in and out, the two-wing moon wheels, which were originally a little tight, became the main attacking side, and threw all the pressure to the vanguard team that was already in the inward recess of the crescent moon.
Once thousands of tyrannical Mo swords are liberated, the lethality of the burst is countless times that of the cone formation. The entire formation is like a crab's big claw, clamping the enemy tightly to pieces, but the middle has to withstand the explosion before the enemy's death. In a blink of an eye, the offense and defense of the two wings and the middle are transferred. The Maitreya cultists are squeezed and rushed to the middle, and all the pressure is concentrated on the original vanguard team. Chu Qianjun, as the arrow of the vanguard team, has also become the one who has the greatest pressure in the entire battle situation.
Before he could think about whether Prince Long had revenge on his disrespect before he went into battle, Chu Qianjun was killed by the Maitreya scholars who could not be killed. He had to cheer up and danced the durian head in his hand like a flying fire meteor, so that he could kill all the enemies who rushed from three sides.
Standing at Qin Lei's perspective, you can clearly see that the poor Xiao Chu seemed to be in the stormy waves, repeatedly impacted, and was even buried in the tide that was higher than the waves many times, but after a while, the tide receded and the reef was stubbornly exposed again.
Fortunately, the experienced Zhang Sigou had long anticipated this and ordered the team to shrink the formation as much as possible to increase the thickness of the formation. He also sent people to take turns to guard both sides for Chu Qianjun, so that he could barely stabilize the formation.
Zhang Sigou knew that as long as he defended himself, the lethality of the entire formation would be fully exerted. When the pressure was relaxed, the enemy would be completely defeated. He secretly observed the situation in the end and shouted to Chu Qianjun: "Now the whole army is looking at you, hold on for another quarter of an hour! We will win!"
Chu Qianjun is the life gate of this battle formation. As long as he can hold on, the vanguard can hold on, and the lethality of the two wings can be unscrupulously exerted.
A sense of happiness of being trusted and dependent on it surged into my heart. Chu Qianjun felt the fatigue and pain on his body were swept away. The wolf howled like a human voice, and the big durian in his hand was so hard that it could not be poured in. The formation, which was already a little swaying, became as solid as a rock again.
Chapter completed!