Chapter 255
: Taste like chicken ribs
Under the impact of Dan Tai Ruoxie, Gu Fan's military formation retreated and shot backwards, and then counterattacked Dan Tai Ruoxie like a tide. While his troops broke through, troops from other directions were still advancing, and the encirclement was shrinking!
"Abandoned son!" Before he knew it, these two words came to Dan Tai Ruoxie's heart. Although 40,000 is a considerable force, facing the ancient fan army and the eight formation map of Taizu Beidou Star Emperor, this team of 40,000 people had almost no hope of escaping.
But Dan Tai Ruoxie immediately thought of another problem, that is, the supply of Gu Fan's troops. Unlike the troops lined up in the desert oasis, Dan Tai Ruoxie's soldiers brought enough food and Danshui for fifteen days before going to war. What about Gu Fan's troops? The food and Danshui consumed by the 400,000 army every day are a terrible astronomical figure. In other words, if Dan Tai Ruoxie defended, the 400,000 troops could be used to waste Gu Fan's 400,000 troops, at least a lot of Gu Fan's time. In other words, Gu Fan's most precious thing now is not troops, but time!
Once the troops are cut off from water and food, it means that it is time for a decisive battle, and most of the people who recklessly provoke the decisive battle are losers.
Dan Tai Ruoxie looked at the two sides fighting on the chessboard and slowly issued an order. Then he sneered and raised his eyes to look at the blurry figure opposite. The number of winners and losses is unknown!
The Dan Tai Ruoxie's troops, who had just launched a tenacious attack, suddenly began to shrink, and slowly retreated with infantry as the front team. Under the cover of the infantry, the well-trained imperial soldiers skillfully knelt down on the iron armored war horses, connected them with reins to form a small village. Then the infantry retreated and confronted the team that began to face off with Gu Fan's team using war horses as cover.
In fact, Gu Fan had already guessed Dan Tai Ruoxie's plan. When he saw Dan Tai Ruoxie let the imperial guards dismount and use war horses to form a cover to defend, it further proved his guess. It is important to know that the strongest cavalry is the Huolie Cavalry of Cangyuan, the strongest infantry is the berserker of Zi Li, the strongest archer is the Quanrong Moon Crossbowman of Quanrong, and the strongest dead soldier is the Japanese ninja of Yingdao, but the imperial guards of the Beidou Dynasty are the best defense army!
Once Dan Tai Ruoxie completes the defense arrangement, the 40,000 troops will immediately have unparalleled defense. If the command is properly, it will be difficult for the 200,000 troops to be easily captured. Although Gu Fan did not lead the imperial guards in his previous life, he knew that it would be difficult to prevent the imperial guards of the Beidou Dynasty from forming a defensive position. There is a complete set of methods for responding to the opponent's surprise attack when forming a formation, which is enough to face most problems and will make the enemy who rashly attack the enemy suffer.
Therefore, Gu Fan did not want to attack Dan Tai Ruoxie's military formation at all, but instead strengthened the surrounding defense line. He knew Dan Tai Ruoxie's plan to kill Gu Fan's army with 40,000 people as the core.
So Dan Tai Ruoxie's camp was successfully completed, and Gu Fan's army on the periphery also stopped, but kept shrinking inward until it was only one mile away from the soldiers of Dan Tai Ruoxie's troops. Gu Fan's soldiers could even see every move in the opposite camp with their naked eyes.
Seeing Gu Fan and Dan Tai Ruoxie confronted each other, the onlookers began to discuss again.
"Why are you fighting? Shouldn't Gu Fan directly take down Dan Tai Ruoxie's military camp?"
"Don't the art of war say that ten times will surround him, and twice the war?"
"This Gu Fan is too cautious..."
"Aren't he afraid of being dragged all his troops and food by Dan Tai Ruoxie, and he will be defeated without fighting?"
There are generals who are more inclined to Gu Fan, and the battle situation between the two sides, as well as the barriers leading to the towns in the desert, and the supply in the rear is that even though Tan Tai Ruoxie was surrounded by Gu Fan, he still had an advantage overall. The longer the time is delayed, the more unfavorable it is for Gu Fan. Gu Fan, who has no supplies, must fight quickly.
In the Tianji Eight Formation Military Chess, one minute in reality is about one day in the Eight Formation Diagram. Because the mind of a warrior enters it, it is equivalent to the soul leaving the body, so this special phenomenon occurs.
Was Gu Fan too cautious and afraid of losses and dared not enter? How is this possible?
Gu Fan surrounded Dan Tai Ruoxie with only the outermost iron cavalry and crossbowmen. The total number was only 80,000, just twice that of Dan Tai Ruoxie. This is also one of the reasons why Gu Fan narrowed the encirclement to the smallest. The smaller the encirclement, the fewer troops Gu Fan needed. But what Dan Tai Ruoxie saw was the scene of being surrounded by a "army", so he focused his attention on this battlefield.
After the sand dunes on the main battlefield, more than 300,000 elite imperial soldiers divided into two groups and bypassed the battlefield from two directions, spread out on the spot, forming many loose and loose formations, which looked like they were not prepared at all.
Dan Tai Ruoxie naturally had his own plans. First, these more than 40,000 imperial guards must not be abandoned, otherwise Gu Fan will directly gain the upper hand in the next decisive battle with Dan Tai Ruoxie. This can be seen from Dan Tai Ruoxie's orders to camp on the spot to defend. Second, if he wants to defeat Gu Fan, he must destroy all of Gu Fan's troops, so he must fight with Gu Fan. Even if Gu Fan does not come to attack him on his own, he will still look for an opportunity to take the initiative to fight.
This is to understand these two points of Dan Tai Ruoxie's mind. Gu Fan is sitting firmly in the central army tent, waiting for the arrival of Dan Tai Ruoxie's army. With these two points, Gu Fan is not afraid that Dan Tai Ruoxie will not take the initiative to come to him.
Dan Tai Ruoxie's 40,000 troops are really useless. Although it is only one-tenth of his 400,000 people, it will be at a disadvantage when confronting Gu Fan. However, it is impossible to break through the 40,000 people independently. I am afraid that the only way is to let Dan Tai Ruoxie mobilize the army to enter from the outside.
Although this method is very dangerous, the results of success are also great, because 40,000 soldiers can respond from the inside and outside, it will be easier to break through Gu Fan's defense line. If Gu Fan's troops can be cut twice from the middle, it will be no difficult to annihilate Gu Fan's entire army in this battle!
Just in the void, the two of them were looking at the desert, and they both wanted to use this desert to devour each other. The black armor rushed under the night sky, and in the lights in the desert, something seemed to be calling.
Chapter completed!