quiet!
In this wilderness, apart from the sound of the wind, there seemed to be only two bursts of heavy breathing.
If you don’t move, I won’t move!
The stalemate lasted for nearly a stick of incense, and the soldiers on both sides tensed up, waiting for orders from their respective generals.
Liu Xiuli, who was in the center of the circular formation, was anxious and couldn't bear it anymore. He shouted to the opposite side, "You damn motherfucker, you're just begging for nothing and chasing after me, but you won't fight. What's the point?" Chen Mayu, you coward, Maybe you want to bite me, but come here!"
Chen Xiaokun's face darkened when he heard this, but he ignored him and only looked at Zhao Mengqi.
Zhao Mengqi originally rushed to the front, but Wu Qiong and Geng Zhi quickly overtook him and hid him behind them. During the formation, they also pinned him down among heavy guards.
He came in pursuit excitedly, but when he saw the airtight turtle formation of the rebels, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Zhao Mengqi realized that he was impulsive again.
At that time, he saw a guy among the remaining rebels with a unique and showy tassel on his chest. He guessed that it was probably Liu Xiuli. Seeing that he wanted to run away, he got excited and chased him regardless.
My brother was beaten by you for a long time, but in the end you wanted to just pat your butt and leave. It's not that easy.
Zhao Mengqi has never been a leader who has suffered losses, but it was obviously unwise to attack the strong formation at this time, so he had to use the "drag" tactic. After all, the weight of the heavy armored soldier was more than half, and the longer the time, the greater the energy consumption. .
Seeing that the opponent had lost his patience, he probably couldn't delay it for too long, so Zhao Mengqi hurriedly thought of ways to defeat the enemy and asked softly, "Is the person speaking opposite Liu Xiuli?"
"Back to Your Highness, it's that guy."
After Chen Xiaokun answered, he was about to persuade King Yan to give up the pursuit and retreat to the city.
But Zhao Mengqi said, "Then we cannot let these rebels go."
"Your Highness, how can we break through the impenetrable enemy's formation? If we attack forcefully, we will have to pay at least three to five times the casualties. If we make a slight mistake, we will be overturned by the opponent."
In addition to hard attack, Chen Xiaokun has not thought of any other safe tactics for the time being. On the battlefield, don't take too many risks unless it is absolutely necessary.
While Zhao Mengqi was thinking about it, his eyes wandered around, and suddenly he saw something not far behind him. His eyes lit up, he had an idea, and he quickly arranged it.
After listening to King Yan's instructions, Chen Xiaokun's eyes were fixed, he cleared his throat, and shouted, "Liu, do you think I'm stupid? You set up a turtle shell formation and you want me to hit you. This is not a dream." Well, if you have the guts, don’t be a coward and come over and face the competition head on!"
"Hahaha, such a lame provocation method is useless against Liu. If you want to fight, come and fight him. If you don't dare to fight, just get out of here." Liu Xiuli returned the scolding.
Chen Xiaokun continued to shout, "Aren't you attacking Wujiang just to capture His Highness King Yan? He is in the formation at the moment, so come and arrest him!"
"Chen Mayu, do you think I'm a three-year-old? Stop nagging, just attack me if you have the guts!" How could Liu Xiuli believe it?
"You really think I can't do anything with your turtle shell formation? Just wait for me." Seeing that Liu Xiuli was not fooled, Chen Xiaokun shouted, "Change the formation, hey!"
Following his order, more than a hundred people began to run, turning the phalanx into a three-person horizontal formation.
Although Ban Zhi and the Fenghua Army were both elite, the two sides lacked tacit cooperation and seemed a bit chaotic when changing formations.
The two armies are only five feet apart. Changing formations at this distance is a taboo for military strategists. As long as the enemy seizes this opportunity of chaos to launch a surprise attack, they can be defeated in one blow.
But Liu Xiuli stood firm and motionless, completely ignoring Chen Xiaokun's deliberate flaw.
He knew Chen Xiaokun very well and knew that he had always been calm. Although he was not as good as him in military affairs, he was still a veteran and would never make such a low-level mistake. Now this was obviously an attempt to seduce him into taking the initiative to attack.
Although heavy-armored soldiers are also very sharp in their attacks and have a high probability of breaking up the opponent's formation after attacking, if there is no follow-up mobile force to follow up, they will not be able to achieve many results, but will drastically consume the physical strength of their own soldiers. .
The opponent is more flexible than me. After they disperse, they can
Leading one's nose while walking is like walking a dog, exhausting oneself to death.
The grassland people, especially the Mongols, often used this tactic to deal with the infantry formations of the Central Plains army, but they were more comfortable riding horses.
After spending a lot of time, after the horizontal formation was formed, there was still no attack.
"Haha, you dare to try your best even if you have a small plan. Chen Mayu, Chen Mayu, after so many years, not only has there been no progress, but it has become worse and worse."
Liu Xiuli looked at the thirty-step-long horizontal formation with disdain. He was not moved at all and still sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.
During the process of the formation change, Chen Xiaokun was worried and stared at every move of the formation. He was slightly relieved when he saw that they were just as King Yan expected. One breath.
After maintaining the horizontal formation for a while, the order sounded again, and the two wings of the horizontal formation began to move forward, turning into a wild goose formation, vaguely seeming to surround the circular formation.
Liu Xiuli still thought that Chen Xiaokun was bluffing. With just a few people like him, what could he do if he was surrounded? He could break through in any direction, which was not much harder than breaking a piece of paper.
"No matter how hard it is, I will lose if I move!"
After the wild goose formation was formed, another cup of tea time passed, and the circular formation looked like it would not move even if beaten to death. Chen Xiaokun ordered it to change back to the horizontal formation. After the formation was just right, it began to shrink into the square formation.
"Haha, all the bells and whistles are exhausting you slaves!" Liu Xiuli said proudly.
But just when the phalanx was ready, he suddenly saw two crossbow carts on each side of the phalanx, and the sharpness of the thick crossbow arrows was shining with cold light, aiming at his side.
Entering the damn chaos, Chen Mayu is playing dirty tricks again!
His heart trembled, and the hair on Liu Xiuli's body stood up, "Male Formation! Charge with all your strength!"
The elites were indeed the elites. As soon as Liu Xiuli gave the order, the circular formation immediately transformed, turning into a conical formation within two or three breaths.
But the four arrows fired by the ballista, one shot and three swords, had already roared in and shot into the iron guard formation. The shields were shattered and the screams were endless.
An iron guard in front of Liu Xiuli was pierced through the chest by a crossbow arrow. Blood spurted out and splashed all over Liu Xiuli's head and face.
"Ah! Chen Mayu, you are a sinister villain. I will cut you to death with a thousand knives! Come with me!"
At this moment, he no longer considered anything else. The only thought in his mind was to kill Chen Xiaokun.
Facing a certain death situation, more than twenty iron guards unleashed their full potential, wielding axes, maces, and bone hammers, and followed Liu Xiuli in an all-out charge.
"Royal!"
When the order came out from the defenders' formation, the spearmen in the front row immediately slapped the butt of their guns on the ground, then sat down on the ground with the barrel of the gun between them, pointing the tip of the gun diagonally forward.
The swordsmen and shieldmen in the second and third rows also knelt down at the same time, revealing the crossbowmen behind them.
"shoot!"
More than fifty crossbow bolts were fired into the charging Iron Guards, instantly nailing many "hedgehogs", but only two Iron Guards fell.
Then, two feather arrows shot through the air towards the iron guard who was running at the front. One of them hit the iron guard's face, passed through the small hole in the mask, and sank deeply into the eye socket. The other one shot exactly Liu Xiuli also faced him, but he seemed to sense the danger and lowered his head instantly. The arrow hit his smooth pocket and bounced away.
The archers were Chang Geng and Xia Houji. Both of them used strong bows with one stone and five measures of bow power. Unfortunately, Chang Geng's arrow failed to achieve success.
"Haha, it's a pity." Xia Houji chuckled.
Although they didn't say it explicitly, the two of them clearly had the intention of competing.
Chang Geng shrank his eyes and did not answer. He threw the bow away, picked up a mazao knife, and walked to the side, obviously hoping to use close combat to avoid the shame of failure.
Xia Houji raised his eyebrows, dropped his bow and arrows, and stepped aside with a standard short-handled axe.
In just five feet, the Iron Guards had already rushed to the front of the formation. The leading men held round shields and seemed to ignore the sharp spears.
At the moment of contact, the man dwarfed, pointed his round shield at the head of the gun, lifted it up, and slammed into the spearman. He slammed the mace in his hand, hitting the spearman's shoulder.
The sword was not broken, but it could not withstand the heavy blow. The spearman's head was shaken, his skull was cracked, and his neck bones were broken.
On the battlefields of East Asia in this era, no matter which side had a very high armor coverage rate, melee weapons basically abandoned sharp swords and used blunt weapons as the mainstream.
After the brave Iron Guard dealt with the spearman, he continued to push forward without stopping, raised his shield, met the ax raised high by a sword and shield wielder, hit his shield with his body, and smashed this man with brute force. The sword and shield soldier and the sword and shield soldier behind him collided together.
The Iron Guard stepped on the two fallen bodies, regardless of their life or death, but continued to advance without any delay.
As the leader, his mission is to move forward, move forward, and move forward again.
It was only when he rushed into the formation that he realized that there was no one in front of him. He couldn't think too much and continued to rush forward to create space for his comrades behind him.
After running for four or five steps, he suddenly stumbled. After losing his balance, the huge inertia and his own weight of nearly 300 kilograms made him fall to the ground.
Liu Xiuli followed the iron guard and broke into the formation through the gap created by him.
Liu Xiuli naturally noticed something unusual in the formation. After a quick glance, he realized that it was actually a hollow formation, and alarm bells rang in his heart.
But he didn't dare to stop, let alone turn around. He could only increase his concentration to avoid the stumbling ropes on the ground and rush towards the bottom of the formation.
Because it was a hollow formation, a mere three rows of soldiers could not withstand the impact of the heavy armored soldiers. The gap was torn open wider and wider in one or two breaths, and more than a dozen iron guards rushed in.
However, the dense snagging ropes in the formation tripped up five or six more iron guards, and the rest had to slow down their impact in order to avoid them.
"Plancer attack!"
On both sides of the hollow formation, the soldiers who originally fired crossbows had replaced their hands with axes and hammers, and they rushed towards the iron guards from both sides at the same time.
No matter whether they are down or running, as long as they come into contact, they will hit them with all their strength regardless of their weapons.
The Iron Guards also fought back desperately. With the protection of their heavy armor and shields, they were able to withstand the various weapons that were thrown at them. They blocked those that could be blocked, and let them go if they couldn't. They only focused on waving their own weapons to hit the opponent's vital parts. place.
In this small space, soldiers from both sides were entangled, fighting for their lives, and it was extremely bloody and tragic!
