Chapter 98 Major Events 10
The circular formation is the source of hundreds of formations, which can be sharp, dense or sparse, and is unpredictable. To judge the movement of the circular formation, you cannot look at the formation shape. After all, no matter how you look at it, you can only look at the main general's flag pointing. The palace armor surrounded by the front and back cannot surrender, and you must fight to break through. Xiong Jing's carriage is in the center of the circular formation, and the direction of the carriage is the direction of the palace armor's break through.
Cai Bao's move to turn the front of the car surprised Xiong Jing in the car, and also surprised Jing Hua, Wu Shen and others not far away. In addition to their calculations, normal people would break through the south, which was the direction of the palace. It is also true that Wu Shen's 1,500 dead soldiers were arranged to the south, while the king's soldiers and 2,500 Miao soldiers were arranged to the north.
The dead soldiers were personally selected and trained by Wu Shen, and all of them held beryllium. In fact, a wooden slate more than one meter long was installed at the end of the copper sword, similar to a spear, but the difference from the spear is that its blade is very long, after all, the sword is at least three feet; and there are blades on both sides, which can be cut and killed in addition to stabbing. The last one is that the spear is easily cut off by the enemy during combat. The probability of such a thing happening is very small because its blade is very long. Beryllium has many advantages and is used in later generations, such as the regular shape of the Modao in the Tang Dynasty.
Unlike the common sanitation of Chu State, the palace guards of Wu State often used beryllium. When Zhengzhu used the fish intestine sword to assassinate Wang Liao, Wang Liao's guards were "seated servants, all holding long beryllium". After Wu Shen was King Fuchai of Wu, he naturally had a set of techniques of using beryllium. Although his dead soldiers were few, their combat power was not necessarily inferior to that of the number of kings. Unexpectedly, Cai Bao, the general of the palace Jia, did not go south but went north.
"What if? Can you retreat temporarily?" Shen Yong's eyebrows began to tie knots. In the past, under the pretext of being alert to Huang Xie, he persuaded the King of Chu to draw 2,500 Miao soldiers from Dongting County to Ying and join the left army. In fact, these Miao soldiers may not be stronger in battle formation than those of the Chu people.
"You must never retreat!" Jing Hua and Wu Shen spoke in unison. Jing Hua knew the background of the Miao soldiers, while Wu Shen felt that retreating would lead to a decline and was not favorable to the battle. "I ordered Lifeng to attack him." Jing Hua had no choice but to use attack as the defense and ordered Lifeng to attack.
"We can die here, and your Highness must not die here!" The arrows were like raining, and screamed in your ears. Cai Bao was summoning thirteen soldiers to discuss the battle. It was time so urgent, but he was actually ordering. "Use my drum sound as a horn, the soldiers who surrendered, the soldiers who fought, and the soldiers who died. You three or five soldiers and five people in a row, and you must resist the rebels in the south even if you stand to the last one; Jie's soldiers, the soldiers of the tiger, and the soldiers of the Yan... You and the seven soldiers are arranged by ten, and you must break through the rebels in the north and chase the archers who kill the enemy. Xia, Xue, you two soldiers are divided on the left and right side of the spear formation, waiting for an opportunity to attack the side of the northern enemy. The soldiers of the time are guarding the carriage and defending Your Highness."
"I will go to death!" The thirteen soldiers bowed for a long time, and then another rain of arrows came. Someone groaned.
"I will only hit one drum! After one drum, you will run north and attack the northern enemy. Then you will break the southern formation and protect Your Highness and return to the royal city." Cai Bao finally reminded him, and the commanders of the soldiers took the order to leave.
The arrows were raining, and the sound of the palace armor drums in the encirclement finally rang out. The drums were not as good as the rebels, but short and powerful. With the sound of the drums, the soldiers in the circular formation formed two battle formations of north and south at the fastest speed: in the south, there was a thin array composed of three soldiers of Fu, Fen and Quji. This array seemed wide and fifty meters because there were only five people who could not be thin in depth.
With a gap of one meter per person, the standard width of the three soldiers and spearmen during combat should be sixty meters. Unfortunately, many spearmen were shot dead by bows and arrows, and five people were barely only fifty meters after they were unfolded. Fortunately, this width was comparable to the width of the long beryllium square array of the opposite rebels - because Cai Bao was predicted to break through south, the long beryllium array was very thick, and they were thirty people in a row, horizontally across the south.
There are three soldiers in the south, and the entire main force of the palace armor is the north. At this time, Cai Bao only left one sword and shield soldiers to defend Xiong Jing's safety, and all the remaining troops were put into battle. The seven soldiers and spear soldiers formed a square formation of a spear about 70 meters wide, and there were also one sword and shield soldiers on both sides. Because the arrows shot from the north were constantly shooting, the two sword and shield soldiers formed a tortoise shell formation, and one hundred and fifty people tightly clenched together. This formation did not face the enemy horizontally, but was against the enemy vertically. There were only three in each row, occupying about a little meter wide, with fifty people in each row and twenty-five meters long. The last row of sword and shield hands was almost next to the back of the five spear formations in the south.
After nearly two months of hard practice, the speed of Gongjia's sanitation transformation formation made Jing Hua and others who were waiting and commanding from high places amazed. Especially the tortoise shell formation made Wu Shen, the former Grand Sima, amazed, but at this time, the drum sound of Gongjia suddenly stopped. The 70-meter-wide stunning spear formation began to advance, and some people kept falling in the rain of arrows, and someone immediately added.
At this time, a rough male voice howled in Chu language: "Scholars are so huh, and the country is so swayed. They also hold spears and halberds, and serve as the king's guard..."
It was the wounded left behind the formation who were singing loudly, the singing was like the sun, driving away all the haze of fear. With this singing, the spearmen who were moving forward changed from stepping to trotting, and their momentum was moving forward.
"Scholars are brave, and the king is the one who is the king. They also hold spears and are the kings..." The singing continued, and more and more people sang, and the voices became louder and louder, and even the running spearmen were whispering.
"Raising the spear! Raise the spear!" The enemy rushed towards him, and the general Li Fengzheng shouted loudly in the formation of the king's army.
Cai Bao just said that he would attack with just one drum. In fact, because the formation was changed quickly, he stopped before a quarter of the drum was beaten. The Miao general Lifeng, as the Chu army, thought that the palace armor would attack with one drum, so after receiving the order from Jing Hua's attack, he also summoned the commander of the soldiers to discuss the battle. When the drums on the opposite side stopped, he realized that something was wrong and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to return to the formation.
Although the two armies formed a formation to fight, the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, so the main general had to stand on the nest car to watch the enemy. At the same time, because the communication was backward, the military orders issued could not be withdrawn, so they should be cautious. The move of sharpening the wind was right, but the wrong thing was that the distance between the two armies was only fifty steps before the war, and fifty steps were only more than sixty meters. Even if the barbarian spear was heavy, it would only take ten seconds to rush over.
The time to catch the enemy was very short, and there were problems with the Wangzhang's military formation. Since the long beryllium soldiers in the south focused on thickness to prevent the enemy from breaking through, and the width of the formation was only fifty meters, the Wangzhang should focus on width, so that the surround could be formed and Xiong Jing prevented the escape.
The diameter of the Gongjia circular formation is more than 30 meters, and the two armies are fifty steps apart (more than 60 meters), and the two are summed to 100 meters. This circle with a diameter of 100 meters has a circumference of 314 meters. Subtracting the fifty meters occupied by the long beryllium array, the remaining 260 meters are defended by 2,500 people, and its thickness cannot exceed ten people; subtracting the two archers at the tail end, the real thickness of the military formation is only eight people, and these eight people are arranged separately from each other, separated by five steps.
The spear was four or seven meters long. The moment he caught the enemy, the spear tip of the front line pierced through the two fronts of the enemy. There was no time to advance and there was no gap to pull out the spearhead. The spearhead in the front line could only grab the spearhead and continue to stab forward, allowing the spearheads that passed through the two bodies to continue to stab at the third person. The body resistance of the man was very great, and many spearheads could not penetrate the second body. Even if they passed through, they could not stab the third person. However, the Wangzhang team was four plus four. When the spearhead was penetrated from the second person's body, the third person was already scared; when the spearheads were penetrated by the front line, the spearheads were given to the second person behind him because they lost their weapon, the spearheads of the second person had already penetrated through the third person's body, stabbed or scared the fourth person. Then the four square arrays in front were completely penetrated.
Wang Zun's Ge Shield Hand was in front, which was equivalent to shortening the killing distance of the second row of spearmen. The spear of three or five meters in his hand had to be reduced by about sixty centimeters in his hand to catch up with the enemy. When the Ge Shield Hand was killed and he and the Yi Jue were facing each other, the spear was a little or two meters shorter than the Yi Jue. Even if he was penetrated by the enemy, the spearhead would not hurt the enemy.
"It's like a storm, it's like a storm!" Cai Bao stood in the carriage and said the idiom he learned from Xiong Jing. He knew that Yi Ji was good at breaking the formation, but he never dreamed of breaking Wang Zu's army so quickly.
Cai Bao sighed, and Jing Hua and others had a dark face. If they didn't surround the palace armor, Xiong Jing might have escaped. They surrounded the palace armor, but had to dilute the military formation. Then the thickness of a (ten people) was instantly pierced by the barbarian spear in the hands of the palace armor. If this was the Wangzhang army formation, if they were drilled through by the enemy, they could find a way to re-form the formation and fight again. After all, there were many people on our side, but these people were Miaozhang!
When it comes to crossing mountains and ridges, bloodthirsty and daring to fight, the Chu people are naturally not as good as the Miao people living in the mountains and forests. However, when it comes to formation battles, the Miao people who have not been fully civilized and have not been trained for a long time are not as good as the Chu people. The seventy-meter-wide military formation was drilled through the Yi Ju formation, and the tortoise shell formation, which was originally one or five meters wide and twenty-five meters deep, was facing the unbreakable Wangzun army formation and suddenly dispersed, turning into a battle formation of six meters wide and one hundred meters deep, and then rolling back from the side back to the Wangzun on both sides.
The central army on his side failed, and the enemy covered the kill from the side and behind. Many archers lined up behind were hit by the big shield of the sword and shield hands before they could escape, and then stabbed to death by the short sword. Although the spearheads in the back of the four men reacted quickly, the enemy came up too quickly and was already approaching. They could not turn from the short spear hands in front, so they could only be stabbed one by one by one by these sword and shield hands.
Two thousand,500 people were killed by one thousand people. This is the reality that was revealed to the generals on both sides. Although the kings on both sides of the central army were still persisting, their morale had been seized and the military formation had been broken. Even the Jing crossbow behind the formation was seized by the enemy.
Jing Hua's face was no longer black, but his face was ashamed.
In the whole plan, he had the rest of his time thinking day and night about how to use 4,000 infantrymen to intercept Xiong Jing. The escort of 1,500 people was not as expected. After all, there were fifteen armors in the East Palace. What he didn't expect was that he was attacked by the enemy from both sides. The palace armor was so fast and so fierce.
Chapter completed!