With the support of his personal guards, Zhang He walked to the front line without caring about his appearance, and carefully observed the defensive formation of the Shu army in Dachangji.
With a defense line of more than 400 people, it's hard to say what kind of decent formations can be put in place. After all, the number of people is too small.
What Liu Yin did was not unusual, which was to divide the soldiers into three groups, which were distributed in an inverted triangle. The first two square formations were responsible for direct defense, and the rear square formation either supported or attacked the flanks according to the actual situation.
All in all, it's just about trying to create local opportunities to defeat more and less.
To put it bluntly, it is not a new tactic. It is somewhat similar to the circular formation, but in terms of support and support, it is not as convenient as the circular formation, and the number of backup troops is also a little smaller.
This formation has flaws. Once the enemy uses flanking tactics to contain the first two military formations, and then the Chinese army breaks through and directly attacks the rear military formations, Liu Yin's main formation will be completely exposed to danger. .
Zhang He observed for a while, and after noticing Liu Yin's problem in deploying his defenses, he subconsciously decided to arrange his troops. But then, Zhang He also realized what his problem was.
First, after many battles, Zhang He's troops now only have about 380 men left. For a while, there is really no way to divide the troops into three groups.
Unless the attack is suspended and people are sent to mobilize troops into the mountain road, it will take at least half an hour to mobilize troops. However, the number of troops mobilized cannot be many, and only two hundred people can be mobilized at most. Otherwise, the internal affairs of Dachangji will be I can’t let it go at all. Isn’t this a waste of time? I’m looking for trouble when I have nothing to do! .
And even if the troops can be divided into three groups, if the attack in the middle group is not sharp enough, it will be useless.
If they cannot break through in the middle and directly threaten the Shu general's main formation, it will be just another stalemate.
If Zhang He was not injured, then Zhang He could rush into the formation directly, but now, Zhang He has to be supported even when walking, so how can he rush into the formation? !
The second one is that the size and terrain of Dachangji restricted Zhang He's tactics of clamping down on both wings and advancing in the middle.
Dachangji is only so big and surrounded by mountains, so the deployment of troops and generals is inherently restricted.
After entering the interior of Dachangji, the space became even smaller. Zhang He's two-wing containment tactics could not completely move Liu Yin's two most forward phalanxes away because the space was not that big.
Under this situation, if Zhang He sent troops to advance suddenly from the center, he would not be attacking the main formation, but would be trapped alone under the siege of three square formations at the front and rear of the Shu army.
It’s hard to say who restrained whom and who surrounded whom.
Originally it was not an excellent formation method, but in the place of Dachangji, the formation of the Shu army really made Zhang He find it difficult to attack.
Dachangji must be captured. If Dachangji is not captured, Zhang He will not be able to completely mobilize the Wei army from the mountain road. If the Wei army from the mountain road does not come out, there will be no sneak attack on Wuzhangyuan.
Although Zhang He has now controlled the peripheral parts of Dachangji, he actually has some space to mobilize troops, but the entire Dachangji is not big to begin with, and these peripheral spaces are even narrower. He must rely on this space to mobilize troops. Four thousand and five An army of more than a hundred people could not get out in less than half a day.
Therefore, Zhang He calculated over and over again that if he wanted to mobilize his troops quickly, he still had to defeat Dachangji first.
If you want to attack and win quickly, in the current situation, you can only use frontal attack to purely fight for the courage and quality of the troops. This is the simplest way to attack.
But doing this is simply exchanging human lives for human lives, and the damage to your own soldiers will be great.
Generally speaking, smart generals are reluctant to use this move. But Zhang He found that he seemed to have no other option except this move.
Time was not good for Zhang He. He was not allowed to slowly think about ways to defeat the enemy, nor was he allowed to spend time preparing for defeating the enemy.
Therefore, we must attack Dachangji as soon as possible at all costs.
After Zhang He made his choice, he no longer hesitated and ordered his soldiers to attack in an all-out manner, surrounding Liu Yin's defensive formation and launching a strong attack.
Although Liu Yin's defensive formation was very suitable for the current geographical conditions and he had more troops than Zhang He, he was still a little anxious after being beaten by Zhang He.
There is no way, the gap in combat effectiveness of soldiers still exists.
Liu Yin's formation can indeed be used to create a situation of using more to attack fewer when the Wei army attacks, but the prerequisite is that the Wei army will not be overwhelmed by the entire army.
Once the entire army is pressed forward, and the total strength of both sides is about the same, the individual combat prowess of the soldiers will become an important factor in determining the battlefield situation.
No matter how Liu Yin adjusted, the Han army's infantry of only more than 400 people was no match for the 3,780-person Wei army's forbidden army.
But Liu Yin had to hold on, he couldn't retreat. Liu Yin couldn't know whether Zhang Xi had already outflanked him, so Liu Yin could only strictly execute the military order - Zhang Xi asked him to hold on for at least an hour at all costs. Not even a quarter of an hour should be missing.
What can be done? !
We can only fight to the death without retreating.
But how to ensure that the soldiers will fight to the death and not retreat? !
You must know that when the individual's combat power is inferior to others, soldiers can easily develop fearful thoughts when they see the constant casualties of their companions, which will lead to a decline in morale. At this time, there is no possibility of fighting to the death and not retreating.
Liu Yin thought about it, and there was probably only one way.
Liu Yin pulled out his sword and quickly rushed into the military formation.
Under the current situation, only by setting an example and going to the front line to advance and retreat with the soldiers can it be possible to inspire the soldiers' courage to fight and let the soldiers fight against the Wei army.
When one's personal combat power is not as good as others', one can only rely on blood and bravery to make up for these gaps.
Moreover, there is one thing. Liu Yin is a scholar, and everyone in the army knows that. Although this general has good command skills, his martial arts is really not his strong point.
Such a person obviously has enough reasons not to go to the battlefield and fight, but he still draws his sword and stands with the soldiers. What else can the soldiers complain about? !
If you have to fight to the death, there are noble people who will accompany you to death. The noble people are not afraid of death. What do we, a group of warriors who lick blood from the blades of our swords, have to worry about? !
Although this idea seems to be an incredible way of thinking to many people in modern times, in this era, it is really the mainstream thought.
In this era, nobles from aristocratic families are different from ordinary people. Not only the nobles from aristocratic families feel this way, but also the common people.
Therefore, when the nobles begin to fight side by side with them, the soldiers will only be inspired and motivated, and will not have other ideas.
When Liu Yin did this, the Han army, which had been retreating steadily, really stabilized its position for a while, and even vaguely wanted to counterattack the Wei army.
Zhang He frowned as he looked at it. That Shu army general was really good at seizing the opportunity.
If he responded a little later, or if he didn't have the courage to fight on the front line in person, the defeat of the Shu army would be basically certain.
But now...it's a bit troublesome.
Actually, as I said before, if Zhang He was not injured, what Liu Yin was doing now would not be considered a big trouble at all.
Zhang He could have come to the battle in person and killed Liu Yin on the spot, which would have even sealed the victory in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, Zhang He was hit by an arrow in the crook of his right knee. Although the arrow shaft was cut off, the battlefield situation was so urgent that Zhang He had no time to deal with his wound, and the arrowhead was still left in the crook of his right knee.
It hurts like hell to walk, so how could he go into battle and fight in person?
Therefore, what Zhang He could do was to send an order to the Wei sergeants to separate out a hundred-man team. The Shu army around him did not need to worry about him yet, and directly attacked the area where Liu Yin was.
If you can break through and surround and kill the enemy general, that would be great. Even if you can't break through, it doesn't matter. As long as the enemy general feels the danger and chooses to retreat, the mission has been completed.
What do you make the soldiers think when the enemy general rushes forward like this and then retreats when he encounters danger? !
When the Shu army found out that their general did not really want to advance and retreat with him, but was just pretending, who would work so hard on the front line? !
This had a huge impact on military morale.
At that time, Wei Jun can still win easily.
Now it depends on whether the enemy general has the courage and would rather die than retreat.
After Zhang He made such an adjustment, the pressure immediately came to Liu Yin's side.
Seriously, Liu Yin's martial arts skills, who are you comparing your scores to?
In the circle of literati, Liu Yin's martial arts is actually pretty good, otherwise he wouldn't think about making a career in the military. At least his martial arts value is much higher than that of Zhang Xi.
Even if he is not at the level of Xu Shu, he is at least at the level of Fa Zheng.
But if you compare with those military generals, you don't even need to compare with the military generals. Even the military lieutenant colonel, in a one-on-one situation, Liu Yin can't do it.
Therefore, Liu Yin suddenly stepped forward to participate in the fight with the soldiers, which was more of a symbolic meaning. In fact, he himself would not actually face the attack of the Wei army. At least there were some personal guards around him.
At the beginning, Liu Yin stood on the front line like this, which indeed greatly boosted the morale of the army and suppressed the Wei army's attack. But as the Wei army specifically targeted him and detached a hundred-man team to raid, the situation changed. Very subtle.
Liu Yin's personal guards saw that the enemy troops were coming specifically towards their master. They immediately fought hard to kill the Wei troops who were retreating. Then they turned around to protect Liu Yin and advised Liu Yin to retreat temporarily to avoid a surprise attack.
Liu Yin also wanted to retreat. After all, he knew how much skill he had in hand, but his reason told Liu Yin that he could not retreat.
If you retreat, the entire battle will collapse quickly.
Hold on for an hour, and now not even a quarter of an hour has passed. If he loses, Zhang He might really run away.
The most valuable thing about Liu Yin is that no matter how chaotic and harsh the environment is, he can always maintain a clear mind.
If you can't retreat, you can only fight to the death.
If the enemy wants to attack, then let them attack. You can only hold on to your position as long as you can. As long as you don't die in battle for a moment, you have to continue to defend.
As for him dying in battle, then everything can only be God's will.
(End of chapter)
