allendalepharm Chapter 475
Chapter 475
Xiping City.
The news of Ma Ling's victory had already arrived, and all the officers and men of the Western Liang Legion's Western Road Army were enthusiastic, rubbing their fists one by one, and full of fighting intent.
With the same strength, the same 100,000 iron horsemen of foreign races, the lord has achieved such a big victory, but what about them? Except for Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, who fought an ambush and defeated the soldiers and horses of Chi Liang, the king of Tian, there was no movement, and they were anxious in their hearts!
The generals took turns to go to the marshal's tent to ask for battle, but the commander Li Yan was helpless.
The Xianbei king Budugen and the Western Qiang king Midang, cunning as a fox, had absolutely superior troops, but did not take the initiative to attack, but formed a defensive formation and faced off with the Han army inside and outside Xiping City.
In particular, after the news of the defeat of Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, he shrunk his troops. Originally, they also planned to divide their troops to attack Guzang and Zhangye, but now more than 90,000 soldiers and horses are simply stationed together, divided into three large battalions, left, center, and right, to coordinate with each other.
All of Li Yan's troops are less than 60,000, and they are basically infantry, if they go out of the city to fight in the field, what are the chances of victory? But Budugen and Mi Dang did not attack the city, and he really had nothing to do.
The generals kept coming to ask for battle, and Li Yan wanted to consult with Zhuge Liang, but Zhuge Liang recently locked himself in his room and did not come out.
On this day, Li Yan finally persuaded Pang De and other generals to return to the camp, he sat at the desk, pondering hard, Jiang Wei suddenly ran in.
"General, the military division is
coming..."
"What, Kong Ming, Kong Ming is coming, quick, please quickly..." When he heard that Zhuge Liang was coming, Li Yan was very excited.
During this time, he went to find Zhuge Liang almost every day, but Zhuge Liang locked himself in the study, and no matter who went, he would be blocked by the bookboy.
"Kong Ming, you're finally here!" Seeing Zhuge Liang enter the marshal's tent, Li Yan's frown expanded, these days Zhuge Liang closed the door, he naturally understood that Zhuge Liang was thinking of countermeasures, "I have been forced by all the soldiers, Kong Ming, do you have a way to break the enemy?"
"These days, hard work!" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly, and at the same time took out a piece of paper, "This is the eight-array diagram I have developed, you can take a look." "
Eight formations..." After listening to Zhuge Liang's words, Li Yan's face was full of doubts, he had been familiar with the book of soldiers and battle strategies since he was a child, and he had also seen many formations, but he had never heard of the eight formations.
Zhuge Liang did not explain, but unfolded the piece of paper and spread it on the Shuai case, and Li Yan and Jiang Wei watched at the same time.
I saw the expressions on the faces of the two, first puzzled, then shocked, and finally deeply admired.
"Kong Ming, these eight formations evolved from the eight-door golden lock array?" Li Yan finally looked away from the Shuai case.
"Zhengfang is indeed far-reaching, this is the improved eight-door golden lock array!"
The eight-gate golden lock array had been studied by Li Yan, and the previous Cao Wei general Cao Ren was very proficient, but his large array was broken by Liu Bei's military master Xu Shu.
The eight gates refer to the eight doors of this array: rest, life, injury, du, jing, death, shock, and opening. If you enter from the raw door, the gate of scenery, and the open door, the two sides are evenly matched; If you enter from the injured door, shocked door, and closed door, it is very passive, and even if it is finally killed, it will be killed and injured; And if you enter from Dumen and Death, no matter how many troops you have, no matter how strong your combat power is, it will eventually be completely destroyed.
"Kong Ming, the eight-door golden lock array will only really fall into the formation if it enters from the Dumen and the door of death. But I found that no matter which door of these eight formations, even if it is the raw door, the scenery gate, and the open door, it is full of mysteries and variables, which is really full of traps and murderous opportunities!
"Zhengfang is right, in the past, I studied the eight-door golden lock formation with Xu Yuanzhi, although this formation is profound, if you encounter someone who is proficient in the formation, it is not difficult to break it. Even if you don't go through the formation, hit by mistake, as long as it is not Dumen and the Death Gate, it is difficult to predict the victory or defeat. And the eight formations I changed after the change, the eight doors are all alive and can evolve with each other!
"All eight doors are alive?" Li Yan was shocked after hearing this, "Kong Ming means that this life gate can also become a death gate?"
"Exactly!" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and nodded.
"Great!" Li Yan had already changed from shock to excitement, "With the Eight Formations, we can finally fight a decisive battle with Xianbei and Western Qiang!" "
Infantry and cavalry field battles, there is no advantage at all, but if you use formations, it is very different. What's more, these eight formations are endless. As long as the cavalry breaks into the formation, they will be like headless flies, ramming everywhere, and finally being annihilated.
"Military division, there are many enemy soldiers and horses, if they enter from all eight gates, no matter how they evolve, there will always be soldiers and horses all the way to open the gate, the gate of scenery or the door of life!" Suddenly, Jiang Wei said with a frown.
"This..." Listening to Jiang Wei's words, Li Yan's face also changed suddenly, he didn't think about this question just now because of his excitement. Now as soon as Jiang Wei said it, he immediately realized. The foreign races are all barbarian people, naturally they can't see through this array, but there are many of them, and they will indeed rush up! Eight doors enter at the same time, how is that good?
"Ha..." Zhuge Liang chuckled a few times, "Boyo is right, Budugen and Midang will indeed enter from the eight gates at the same time, and these days I can't go out of the door, just thinking of a solution."
"So, Kong Ming has already come up with a countermeasure!" Li Yan listened to Zhuge Liang's words and became very excited again.
"Yes, Zhengfang, please take a look at Boyo, in this formation..." Zhuge Liang pointed to the eight formations and said.
"Military Master, there is still a formation in this formation?" This time, Jiang Wei first discovered another mystery of the Eight Formations.
"The name of the formation in this formation is called the long snake inverted tendril, if the enemy army kills from the eight gates into the eight formations at the same time, it will be from this long snake to the tendril to entangle the two soldiers and horses entering from the open gate and the raw gate, and the soldiers and horses in the formation, after rapid evolution, will evolve the Humen and Jing into Dumen and the Death Gate, leaving aside the wounded and shocked enemies for the time being, then the enemy army will naturally rout."
"The enemy army is all cavalry, can this long snake inverted tendril be able to entangle the two enemy forces that enter from the raw gate and the open gate?"
"The foreign cavalry is strong, ordinary soldiers naturally can't be entangled, but don't forget that we also have a tiger and wolf division!"
"Kong Ming is talking about Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's cavalry!"
"Exactly!"
Although the foreign cavalry is powerful, but this cavalry of the Great Han, in addition to being an elite soldier of a hundred battles, their equipment far exceeds the enemy army, and then using the formation, it is indeed easy to entangle the two enemy armies.
"Okay, I'll send a message to Zhao Yun and Ma Chaofeige, and let them return to Xiping City!"
The cavalry was not conducive to defensive formation, so after Zhao Yun and Ma Chao defeated the army of Chi Liang, the king of Yutian, they had been repairing in the county towns around Xiping Commandery in search of fighters.
"Since we want a decisive battle, we should also transfer the two armies of Zhang Ye and Guzang back!"
"Okay, I'll give the order!"