Chapter 17: Canny is not needed to fight the stubborn (3)
"That's the flag of the Zhiyingtian General Manager?" He asked Lu Ping sideways.
"That's right." Lu Ping replied: "Although Zheng Yunming was a civil servant, he also led an army in an orderly manner. It is rare for Southern Dynasties officials who were powerless to do this."
"It's a pity that he has been building the army for too short." Xia Quan smiled and said, "After all, I don't know how stupid it would be to pull a team of hasty training to the battlefield."
Lupin stared at the iron whip in his hand: "We will let him know today."
"It's the man I brought out." Xia Quan nodded: "Tong the three armies and arrange the formation according to their usual formation!"
The Red Coat Army was an army formed by the northern peasants. The leader was from civilians or local tribes. Few people had experience in formal military training. Their usual marching and formation was the experience of summarizing countless battles. Although it was a bit of wild approach than the regular national army, it was simple and effective.
Xia Quan's habit is to place several rows of young new recruits in front of the team. They are cannon fodder responsible for consuming the enemy's physical strength. They do not need to flee because of defeat, because the veterans who have experienced many battles are deployed behind them and monitor their actions at any time.
Xia Quan himself followed the veterans' array with a few personal soldiers. After the veterans had fully contacted the enemy, he pressed from behind and threw himself into battle through the gaps in the front array, completely defeating the enemy.
If the enemy is strong and the battle cannot be resolved in a short time, Lupin will lead the rear team to reinforce the front team and hold the final battle.
"Start the formation!" Lupin shouted loudly.
Xia Quan looked at the formation opposite and suddenly had an idea in his mind.
"Tell the children to line up the formation deeper." He ordered: "Reduce the width and increase the depth of the formation."
Luping was puzzled. In terms of military tactics, the larger the contact area of the enemy, the faster the combat effectiveness of the troops can be released. In narrow frontal battles, there will be a large number of soldiers standing in the back row doing nothing, which is a waste of the overall combat power of the army.
Xia Quan noticed the expression on his Qianhu's face, and pointed to the front and said, "Look at the terrain of Zheng Yunming's formation."
The Song army leaned against the camp and set off on the hillside, facing the De'an army.
"They set up formations in front of the camp because they did not have enough confidence in their field capabilities." Xia Quan sneered: "Be prepared and once the field failure is lost, retreat to the camp and rely on the camp to hold on."
"What a smart calculation."
Lupin immediately understood the intention of the main general to deepen the formation: "Although he knew how to build a camp, he did not understand the principles of people on the battlefield."
"If we go up with an ordinary formation, once they can't hold on, they will flee into the camp and cannot stand out. But if we only put limited pressure on them at the beginning, we will reduce their overall formation and continue to attack, the enemy's formation will be quickly dispersed. At that time, taking advantage of the emptiness of their camp and rush in to occupy the camp in one go, they will never have any barriers to rely on."
Xia Quan smiled and said, "After I go back to the north in the future, you must fight hard. With your qualifications, it is not impossible to become Marshal of the Capital in the future."
Lupin said loudly: "Please stop saying anything about retreating! In the hearts of the brothers of Yijun, you are still the hero who is invincible in Jianghuai!"
"Okay, then I won't talk about this for now." Xia Quan smiled and tightly said the ribbon on his body: "I will destroy the scholar on the other side first."
Amid the continuous sound of war drums in the distance, the rebels in De'an began to march towards the Tulong Army Camp.
Wang Deng discovered the unusual aspects of the opponent's formation.
"The other party looks down on us," he said to Zheng Yunming, who was watching the enemy's material formation, "Does this long military formation look like a huge iron cone gun?"
"That's because the enemy is afraid of using a slap to scare us back into the camp." Zheng Yunming snorted: "So I want to use this spear to pierce the entire formation and nail the entire army to death firmly in the wild."
"It's true that Xia Quan was the one who charged forward and the sensation of the storm back then." The sound of war drums shook Zheng Yunming's heart, and inadvertently he gradually felt murderous intent on his face: "It's not that easy for him to break away from the formation of my Tulong Army like this!"
He shouted loudly: "Beat the drum and march!"
The four drum cars lined up in front of the line began to sound drums. As they advanced, the sounds of the array drums and small array drums continued to play in the large array.
Under the command of the Beidou Banner, the formation of the Tulong Army also began to move forward.
The vanguards of the two armies got closer and closer, and they could already see the characters of each other.
Someone among the forwards of the Tulong Army shouted: "It's Xia Quan! It's that Xia Quan!"
Many people couldn't help but stumble in their hearts. In their memory, the invincible impression of Li Quan and the four powerful generals was still unsatisfied.
Some people unconsciously slowed down, subconsciously hoping that the farther away from the brave veteran, the better.
Ge Huai, who was walking in front of the queue, suddenly raised the long spear in his hand and shouted: "What's so scary about Xia Quan! A few years ago, I used to follow Meng Dutong to destroy the Wuxian, and even captured Caizhou, the Emperor of Jin Dynasty! I was still afraid that he was just Xia Quan!"
"Don't stop! Everyone follows me! Let Old Xia see the ambition of our Tulong Army!"
As he spoke, the archer who was rushing forward on the other side began to raise the wooden bow in his hand and began to launch intensively at the Tulong Army.
Feather arrows kept falling into the line of the Tulong Army. From time to time, someone was caught and fell slowly. The rest of the steps did not stop and continued to move forward through the groans of the injured.
The archers on both wings of the Song army also began to fight back. Peng Man urged them to strictly train the skills of bows and arrows. Although they could not be trained overnight, the momentum of fighting back was not weaker than the oncoming De'an rebel archers. The arrows rushed towards the enemy like locusts flying all over the sky.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer, one hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps... ten steps!
A general who was rushing in the front of the rebels shouted loudly and rushed over with his iron spear.
Ge Huai walked up to him, stepped his iron spear head-on, stabbed him with his backhand, lifted the general's armor leaf open and stabbed a hole in his lower abdomen.
He grinned and pulled out the long spear with blood dripping, and shouted at the thousands of enemies who were roaring and rushing towards him: "Welcome to the hunting ground of the Tulong Army!"
Just like two angry bulls, amid the shocking shouts of killing, the two armies used all their strength and their horns were pressed against one place.
The front row of the De'an Army could not resist the long halberds of the Tulong Army's long halberd soldiers, and was pushed forward by the veterans behind them, and they were soon killed.
After the main force of the De'an rebels rushed into the battlefield, they immediately stopped the advance of the Tulong Army. The front line was stalemate between the veterans of the two sides, but Xia Quan's subordinates were considered elite troops who had been in a temporary relationship, and there was still a certain gap between the Tulong Army soldiers who had only experienced a year of battle. They skillfully used the spears and halberds in their hands to resolve every move and move from the opposite side again and again.
During the stalemate, Xia Quanwu used the iron sword in his hand to lead his personal soldiers to join the battle group.
Surprisingly, despite being under superimposed pressure, the formation of the Tulong Army did not collapse. The soldiers of the vanguard shouted the slogan "The righteousness is with me!" and fought desperately, entangled with the enemy.
But even so, the power of the spirit cannot last long. The strong pressure of Xia Quan's army pressed the Tulong Army to keep retreating. Some of the recruits in the back team had even turned around and fled to the camp.
Xia Quan waved his hand and cut a spear sergeant from the Tulong Army and his wooden spear in half, shouting loudly: "Zheng Yunming is just like that! The guys work hard! Let me kill you into the camp and capture Zheng Yunming alive!"
A thunderous response sounded behind him: "Kill into the enemy camp! Capture Zheng Yunming alive!"
According to Xia Quan's arrangement, the Red Army of the Discovery Horses has been leading his Spcovery Horses to watch the battle outside the battlefield.
He saw Xia Quan's central army continue to advance, and he did not feel any joy. His years of experience in marching battle formations told him that Xia Quan was in danger.
In Bonaitai's eyes, Xia Quan's central army squeezed the central troops of the Tulong Army step by step, but the Tulong Army on both wings was not defeated together.
On the contrary, they are oppressing the rebels in front of them to retreat.
The overall formation of the Tulong Army has formed a huge crescent moon, embedding Xia Quanhe's team into the inside of the crescent moon.
The key to this is the inconspicuous miscellaneous troops that have been on both wings of the Tulong Army.
When these miscellaneous soldiers really contacted the enemy, Bernai concluded that they could not be miscellaneous soldiers, or even ordinary troops.
Under the worn linen clothes is a shiny body of iron armor, and under the dusty hat, there is a solid head.
They discarded the messy and ragged equipment, took out swords, guns, swords and halberds from the cover of the scattered linen, and rushed into the unprepared De'an army's flanks.
Liu Zheng, who was rushing in front of the left wing, held an iron spear and stabbed the enemy with his left and right, and walked around the enemy formation, like a tiger. The soldiers behind him were like thunder and killed each other, chopping down the enemies who were fighting one by one.
On the other end, Hu Yanyu waved an iron whip and led fifty envoys into the enemy's swords, shields and hand formation on the right wing. He smashed a flag head with a whip and shouted loudly: "Left Army is the first, come with me!"
While the two little teeth of the Crescent Formation are constantly forcing their opponents forward, they are gradually moving closer to each other.
Seeing this, Bo Naitai shook his head and said, "These Sinansi people are all fighting some stupid battles."
He turned around and raised his arms and shouted, "My men, it's time for us to appear!"
One hundred cavalrymen raised their spears in their hands and shouted in unison: "Baturu!" "Baturu!"
Bo Naitai put a whistle arrow on the bow, pointing to the sky.
Chapter completed!