Da Wei Chun

Chapter 633
"Luo Jian has already set up an formation at the foot of the mountain, do you know what the formation is?"

"It should be an array of spears, each with a hundred steps in width...Because the pond riders are far away from each other, they can't see clearly, so I don't know how the soldiers are equipped with armor. But although they can see the cold light, they are scattered, presumably there are not many armored soldiers... "

"What are the two wings for?"

"On the left is the cavalry, and on the right is the chariot. The front line is about twenty or thirty feet each, and each leans against a mountain pass...The soldiers should all wear iron armor, as dense as stars. But apart from that, there is no rear army and so on..."

If it is a spear formation, it should be dense and dense, and there should be at least [-] soldiers in a hundred steps wide.And the left wing is for riding.It is not surprising that the right wing is a car.But the strange thing is, why are only the cavalry and chariot soldiers wearing armor, and only the two wings stand against the mountain pass, leaving a way of retreat?
The lack of armor and armor in the Chinese army is nothing more than that, the most important thing is that it is standing near the mountain, which makes Li Liang feel strange no matter how he thinks.

Just like Xiang Yu's "break the cauldron and sink the boat" and "fight with the last ditch", there is not even a way out.In case of defeat, the Chinese army would have nowhere to escape except to smash their own wings.

Anyone who has read military books will not be able to form such a formation...

Li Liang looked at the war letter in his hand, and read the sentence "unknown soldier" in it, and his heart moved: Is this a trick to lure the enemy?
Zhang Xinyi and Li Shi were sitting on the left and right, also frowning.

Put yourself to death before fighting?

There is no such war...

Zhang Xinyi murmured: "I think it should be to show the enemy's weakness and lure our army to attack. If there is no accident, there must be a valley behind the formation, and there must be ambushes hidden in it..."

Li Liang responded slowly: "It must be so, but I don't know how many soldiers are ambush behind the mountain!"

Li Shi asked again, "Why did Luo Jian conclude that our army will definitely fall into the trap? I don't know... well, the master thinks, should we follow the plan or retreat?"

He almost forgot that this was in the army, and Li Shi swallowed the phrase "big brother" on his lips.

"The method of provoking generals is not surprising! Besides, when the weather is so cold, our army has traveled nearly [-] miles by boat and vehicle, so it can't be to enjoy the snow, right? But now that the enemy army is standing in front of the mountain, we If the army engages in battle, there is no other way but to meet the enemy head-on, and Luo Jian calculated it, even if I knew it was a trick, I had no choice but to take it..."

Li Liang raised the book of war in his hand, and said with a smile, "The war is definitely going to be fought, but we can't let it lead us by the nose..."

Seeing his smile, Li Shi and Zhang Xinyi were in a daze: how similar is this scene to the time when Lang Jun was strategizing?

This kid has imitated the charm of Mr. Lang when he sneered...

Li Shi cursed secretly in his heart, and moved forward again: "The width of the formation is only a hundred paces, and the maximum is only [-] spearmen, and there is a shortage of soldiers and armor. In addition, the seven or eight thousand chariots and cavalry on the left and right wings will be given to our army. It’s not enough to cause trouble, so why don’t you send Congshu to come out on top for you?”

Li Liang gave Li Shi a very weird look, and said with a chuckle, "How can you use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken? Let's let the artillery battalion test it first, see what's true, and then it won't be too late for Uncle Shi to take over the battle?"

Artillery battalion?

This is killing chickens with a bull's knife, right?
Li Shigang was about to stand up to argue, but Zhang Xinyi slapped him on the chair: "Luo Jianyu has nearly [-] soldiers here, so he can't fly with full wings, right? Sooner or later, there will be a big battle with our army, and it won't happen just once." Life and death determine the outcome, why should General Li Shi be in a hurry? Presumably the master is already in the hands of Zhizhu, you and I just need to obey the order..."

Zhang Xinyi's tone is gentle, but his eyes are as deep as the sea, which seems to have a lot of meaning.Li Shifu sighed secretly again in his heart: Today's Li Da is no longer the former Li Da.

Although I am a generation older, since my lord returned to the West Sea, no matter in the army or in civil affairs, from top to bottom, I only recognize my rank and not my seniority, just like Dalang (Li Shiliang) when he met his lord, he was always respectful Respect, dare not have a little overstepping.And between himself and Li Liang, it should be like this.

Zhang Xinyi's actions clearly reminded himself: military law is like a mountain, never rely on the old to sell the old, and don't know how to advance or retreat.If there is an act of arrogance, Li Liang's embarrassment is only the second, and it will lose the face of the lord...

Grandpa is relying on the old to sell the old, doesn't he know how to advance or retreat?
Grandpa just wanted to fight...

Li Shi was really depressed, and bowed resentfully: "Since that's the case, the last general will obey the order!"

Li Liang still smiled slightly, "Then I'll have Uncle Shi, who will be in charge of the rear army for the time being, and will act as an agent for food, grass and ordnance. If there is a big battle, Uncle Shi will definitely be invited to fight!"

hope so……

Li Shi muttered secretly, and reluctantly paid the bill.

After he left, Li Liang sighed helplessly.

All Li's servants have their own strengths.For example, Li Song has a resolute personality and is good at making decisions. He has always acted boldly and resolutely.

Like Li Liang, he is calm and introverted, making decisions before making moves. Although he is not as decisive as Li Song, he is better than a word of stability.

But like Li Feng, he is as meticulous as a hair, meticulous, and always analyzes every detail in everything he does. He never thinks about victory, but about defeat.

Another example is the three brothers Li Xiaoxian, and servants such as Li Rong, Li Hui, and Li Yongshou.

Only Li Shi has a little bit of everything, but he is far behind the others in everything.

In Lang Jun's words: Li Shi didn't have any comprehension about how much he had, and he was nothing more than food.

Li Feng, who is as big as him and can't read half a basket, can't let go of the book now. Only Li Shi is hanged up and beaten by the gentleman because he is always pretending to be a lecturer in the military academy.

You must know that Li Shi was already thirty-four, and Mr. Lang saw that he had no credit but hard work, so he reluctantly promoted him to the general of the government during the military reform.And his eldest son, Li He, was only eighteen, and was already Li Xiaoxian's personal guard commander before.This time, Mr. Lang hand-picked and promoted Li He to the general of the government (to unify the two battalions or the third battalion), and he went out with Li Song.

Li Liang is already predictable. With the cronyism of his fourth uncle (Li Song), Li He's military exploits in this battle must be indispensable, and he may be promoted a level or two.

When the father and son meet again, will Li Shi worship or not?
I'm afraid Li Shi knew how to work hard because he had expected this juncture, so he called for the battle again and again.

Thinking in his heart, Li Liang couldn't laugh or cry: "Although Uncle Shi is not good at war and martial arts, his victory lies in his fearlessness in the face of danger, his courage and bravery. Besides, since my Li family became an army, he has been in charge of the cavalry department. He is very insightful in cavalry battles. If there is a good opportunity, he will lead the armored cavalry to defeat the enemy..."

Opportunity, defeated enemy?
Just listening to these four words, Zhang Xinyi understood everything: Li Liang's intention was to let Li Shi fight with the wind when the enemy army was defeated, so as to get some credit.

He is the deputy commander, if Li Shi has meritorious service, he and Li Liang will be indispensable, so Zhang Xinyi is noncommittal and agrees loudly.

"Then when will the troops be dispatched?"

"The climate is getting colder, and the moraine is even more bitterly cold. Naturally, it should be sooner rather than later. It would be best if we can fight quickly!"

Li Liang pondered, "Just tomorrow, you will inform the rear camp later, prepare more dried meat for breakfast tomorrow, and send it to the artillery camp. Then prepare some beans for the cavalry camp..."

This is to go all out, and I will defeat the enemy's front line in the first battle tomorrow?
It seemed unbelievable, Li Liang was a little whimsical, but Zhang Xinyi didn't have the slightest doubt.

In front of the artillery, no matter how many ambushes Ren Luo Jianzang had, there would be no return...

……

Early the next morning, just after dawn, the gates of the army village were wide open.

Countless armored cavalry and chariots came out in a file, like a long dragon without end, heading east.

The West Sea camp was only ten miles away from Luo Jian's front army, so the distance between the two armies was less than three miles.

Li Liang is three miles away from Chen Bing, with banners and flags everywhere, and the army is heavily guarded.Vaguely, the front army of the town army could even see the flickering cold light of the armor worn by the soldiers and horses.

When the two armies fought, they had their own rules, and they were so close that without Luo Jian's order, his clan's grandson Luoping sent out all his scouts, in order to find out the enemy's real situation.For example, the thickness of the formation, what army is there after riding the formation, how many troops are there, and so on.

But seeing the enemy cavalry marching out of the formation, Zhang Xinyi gave an order, and his brother Zhang Huaiyi led two teams of armored cavalry to rush out of the army formation and head up.

The scouts of the two armies also had an amazing tacit understanding. At most, they probed about one mile in front of the enemy, and they would not go any further.Just because every army with tens of thousands of troops must have a bow battalion, as well as archers who specialize in archery.Among them, it is not difficult for someone with a strong arm to throw an armor-piercing arrow hundreds of feet away.Secondly, it is also guarding against heavy crossbow guns.

The town army scouts have already seen firearms outside Bigan City, and they know that although Xihai's cannons are small, they can be thrown hundreds of feet away. , so be more cautious.

There were about five hundred scouts from the two armies, and they only galloped across the distance of less than a mile and a half between the two formations, not daring to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

From time to time, Jiaqi fell off his horse, both in Xihai and Zhenjun.

Luo Jian rode on a horse, standing on the small mountain ridge where the cavalry formation was stationed, frowning and watching.

This time they played a trick, instead of placing the central tent behind the central army as in normal battles, they placed it on the left wing, which is in the cavalry formation.Then the general power was entrusted to Wei Gang, the commander-in-chief of the army, and Wei Gang was in charge of everything unless it was in danger or in a critical situation.

Luo Jian claimed that he was watching the enemy from a distance, but whether that was the real reason, only he knew...

So far, Luo Jian has been waiting for the next day, and has been setting up the army for three days.

He also thought that Li Liang had seen through his strategy, and he didn't want to be forced to fight, let alone let others manipulate him, so he was thinking of another strategy.

But I don't want to wait until the fourth day, but the enemy army came again?

For a while, Luo Jian couldn't decide whether this Li Liang was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, knew that there were tigers in the mountains, and preferred to travel to the mountains?

Regardless of the rest, the town army is standing on the side of the mountain, condescending.And there are nearly ten thousand cars and riders.Isn't he afraid that he will put all his eggs in one basket and order the whole army to charge the battle as soon as he comes into battle?
Luo Jian was at least [-]% sure that if all the armored cavalry came out from the back of the mountain, he would be able to crush half of the enemy's formation just by relying on the inertia from top to bottom.

If it is said that Li Liang did not see through his trick to lure the enemy, it is absolutely impossible: if there were no surprise soldiers lying in wait, who would be so stupid as to set up a general at the foot of the mountain?

If this is the case, either Li Liang has the chance to win and thinks that this battle is sure, so he doesn't take himself seriously at all.

But it is also possible that he is just playing tricks, he obviously has few soldiers in his hands, but he does the opposite, thinking that he is avoiding that firearm, and this move is just a bluff to confuse the public?

But no matter what, today is definitely going to be a fight, at least to find out the reality of the incoming enemy, know how strong Li Liang's troops are, and whether they are like the defenders in Bigan City, with so many firearms that they can be used inexhaustibly. Endless.

Only in this way can Luo Jian decide the next move.

Furthermore, when he suddenly learned of the coming of the West Sea seven days ago, he sent a fast horse from the north to the west of Nanbed Mountain. In at most two or three days, he will be able to find out the reality of Juyan Lake, and know whether Yuan Zhi has kept his promise. The army of Dunhuang town has been led to point to the West Sea...

The distance of three miles, whether it is close or not, is not far.And being condescending, Luo Jian can already roughly see the formation of the front army in the West Sea.

The two wings are cavalry, and the middle is pawns, which seems to be a middle distance.

But if you look closely, it is completely different from the ordinary army formation.

Just like this, the formation in the West Sea at that time, although it was an infantry formation, the soldiers did not ride horses, but there were many mules and horses in the formation?
Luo Jian thought he could see it right, it was definitely a mule and horse, not a war horse.It's just because the horse is short, and there are things on the horse's back.

Taking a closer look, there were quite a few carts behind them, although they couldn't see what was in the carts, but they were not stone cannons, and there were no soldiers standing in front of the formation, Luo Jian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

What he is jealous of is nothing more than the sky thunder that rings like a thunderstorm, and those who hit it will either die or be disabled, and there is no whole body.

That's why he made Li Daitao stiff, so Wei Gang urgently recruited civilian husbands to pretend to be soldiers, and set up another sparse formation.

The purpose is to avoid the heavy and light, use the firearms of the civilians to lure the enemy, and then highlight the cavalry to attack the two wings of the enemy army.

If the strategy fails, at least fewer soldiers will be killed and more enemy firearms will be spent.

But he didn't see any gun carriages in the enemy's formation, Luo Jian became suspicious again: he had seen this thing before, it was very heavy, and it could be thrown up to ten or twenty feet with only human power.Therefore, if there is no gun carriage, does it mean that Li Liang did not have this thing in his army this time, or that there are not many?
But what is the reason for these hundreds of mules and horses standing in the formation, and what is the use of the horses' backs?
Amid suspicions, another scout returned to the formation to report:
"Bing Dudu, the enemy's formation is about one mile wide and nearly one mile thick. Among them, there are mixed vehicles and cavalry, and the formation is sparse, so it occupies a large area, but there are not many armored soldiers!"

"Not much? According to your opinion, how much should there be?"

Luo Ping paused for a moment, then said uncertainly: "Nearly ten thousand should be there!"

Luo Jian's eyes narrowed slightly, almost narrowed into a slit.

Did Luo Ping say it lightly?

There are tens of thousands of soldiers in front of the formation, and they are not armored cavalry, but chariot formations, and all of them are armored soldiers. What about the Xihai camp more than [-] miles away?

No matter how unknown Li Liang was, no matter how ignorant he was, it was impossible for Li Liang to send out all his troops without leaving enough troops to garrison the camp.

In this way, what Wei Gang had concluded a few moments ago was not bad, and Li Liang led at least [-] troops this time...

As if a stone was pressed in his heart, Luo Jian became more and more heavy: How come there are so many soldiers in the West Sea?

Just as he was startled and uncertain, he heard a faint crackling sound in the distance, Luo Jian's eyes were slightly fixed, and he looked around.

It's not very clear, I only know that the enemy's infantry are unloading things from the mules and horses.And there are soldiers who seem to be holding hammers, driving piles into the ground.

What is this for?

(End of this chapter)