Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2024: Wu Mu devised a plan to defeat Xuanwu, ditches crisscrossed and rocks fell

Although General Qiong Qi is very powerful, he is better at cavalry combat and not good at foot combat. Facing the mid-level general Zhang Kui, he has been unable to defeat him.

At this time, the 3,000 light cavalry of the Zhennan Army suffered a disaster. Ju Yi's vanguard soldiers had almost exhausted their killing power against these unarmored units or lightly armored units.

Under normal circumstances, the light cavalry can fully utilize their speed advantage to create distance between themselves and the vanguard soldiers. Speed ​​is their greatest weapon.

But before that, the Zhennan Light Cavalry was entangled with the Pojun Camp. How could they break away from the battlefield so easily?

Regarding the large number of Zhennan light cavalry, Ju Yi directly ordered the crossbowmen to conduct concentrated fire.

When the scattered Zhennan light cavalry are mixed in with the broken army camp, that's when ordinary crossbows or bows and arrows come into play.

Ordinary crossbows or bows and arrows pose limited threat to heavily armored units like the Pojunying, but for units like light cavalry, the lethality still remains at an extremely high level.

Therefore, facing Ju Yi's vanguard soldiers, the three thousand Zhennan light cavalry suffered heavy losses.

Ma Qianli's heart was bleeding at this.

The cavalry strength of Zhennan is limited, and such a loss would be a serious blow to them.

Ma Qianli stared at the broken army camp, wanting to cut off the big man's arm. However, Wang Jian also used this to lure the snake out of its hole and destroy the Zhennan army. Moreover, he promptly responded to Xu Ning's troops, which was considered to be killing two birds with one stone.

"Brother, how about I lead an army to rescue our light cavalry!" Ma Sui, who was beside Ma Qianli, said eagerly.

"inappropriate!"

"If we send more troops to fight, the enemy will naturally respond. If this goes on one after another, will the Xuanwu Formation need to be maintained?" Ma Qianli shook his head.

The Zhennan Light Cavalry has now become a bait.

They insisted on sending troops, fearing that more and more troops would be entangled by the enemy.

Once more troops are sent out, the Xuanwu formation can no longer be maintained!
Some complex formations cannot be set up unless the military strength reaches a certain level.

So, Ma Qianli learned from his mistakes and accepted the loss!
It was after he saw the possibility of annihilating the broken army camp that he was blinded and was tricked by the other side.

But he admitted the defeat, but it didn't mean he lost the game.

After learning from his mistakes, Ma Qianli simply gave up on those light cavalry, cut off his own snake head, and retracted the giant snake's body. With the waving of the command flag, the Xuanwu Formation started to work again.

"Report... General Wang has annihilated 3,000 enemy cavalry, and the enemy formation has now advanced 200 steps."

The battle situation on the front line is still being reported to the central army camp continuously.

"Given the strength of the Xuanwu formation, our army is temporarily unable to break it!"

"No matter how slow the Xuanwu Formation is, it will sooner or later come into contact with the main force of our central army. The enemy is forcing our army!" Yue Fei judged.

The most troublesome thing about the Xuanwu Formation is that it can be moved. Unlike other formations, once it is deployed, random movement is likely to cause the formation to collapse.

No matter how slowly he moves, as long as he keeps moving forward, he will sooner or later come into contact with the main force of the central army.

Therefore, this now creates a difficult problem for Wang Jian.

If he blocked it, some soldiers would be forced to enter the formation. If he easily entered the formation without the ability to break it, the consequences would naturally not be good.

But if he continued to fight on the periphery like before, the Xuanwu Formation would be unable to do anything to Wang Jian, but Wang Jian would also be unable to effectively prevent the Xuanwu Formation from contacting the main force of the central army.

Once the main force of the central army is disrupted by a Xuanwu formation, the main force of the enemy's central army will pounce on them from all directions like hungry wolves.

Therefore, the enemy is forcing them to play more cards. The more cards they play now, the more cards the enemy can keep. The cards that both sides keep are the guarantee of their final winning rate.

"Pengju, you are an expert in military strategy, do you have any solution?" Wang Yu looked at Yue Fei and said.

"Your Majesty, although the battle formation is advantageous, it is only one of the principles of military strategy."

"Although we are powerless to break it, it is not unavoidable. Retreat!"

Yue Fei had been thinking about how to deal with Xuanwu, so when Wang Yu asked, he already had an idea in his mind.

"Your Majesty, when confronting an enemy army, you can defeat it by taking advantage of the terrain and repel it with military equipment!" Yue Fei continued to answer.

"General Yue is worthy of being a famous general of our dynasty. His ability to respond to emergencies on the battlefield is beyond the reach of Zifang!" Zhang Liang nodded and praised.

Military formation is one of the strategies in the art of war.

Just because they can't break it doesn't mean there's no other way.

Wang Jian could lure the snake out of its hole and cut off its head, and Yue Fei certainly had a similar method.

"However, it will take some time to gain the advantage of terrain. It seems our army will have to bleed!" Wang Yu frowned.

The terrain here is flat, so of course there are no geographical advantages for them to take advantage of, but they can create geographical advantages artificially.

The simplest way is to dig a large number of trenches and see how his Xuanwu formation advances!

It naturally takes time to dig a large number of trenches, which means that Wang Jian has to take the initiative to block the other side's advance for a period of time.

In the process, some losses are inevitable.

However, with hundreds of thousands of main forces fighting each other, Wang Yu would naturally not be reluctant to bear this little loss!
At present, they have the advantage on paper.

After all, Wang Yu had 20,000 more soldiers than the enemy, especially Guo Ziyi on the left wing, whose 5,000 soldiers entangled Ma Yuan and Ma Teng's 30,000 soldiers. Even if they lost 18,000 here, the wind was still on their side.

The most urgent task is to prevent this Xuanwu formation from continuing to advance with its might.

"Your Majesty, not only that, doesn't the enemy want to see our army continue to move?"

"That may not be impossible!" Zhang Bin interrupted.

"Indeed, then our army will move and show Huangfu Guyuan how he will respond!"

"Tell Ye Jiyang to move behind the enemy and cruise around. Don't act rashly for the time being!" Wang Yu ordered.

The Black Knight is their powerful weapon.

Wang Yu had every reason to believe that Huangfu Guyuan would be on guard against his Black Knights. In that case, he would take the initiative to make this move and see how Huangfu Guyuan would respond.

After all, there are five Black Cavalry units, and Wang Yu’s army still has two of them. Even if he uses Ye Jiyang’s unit, he still has one Black Cavalry unit in his hands.

Now both sides are thinking about how to test out more of the other side's cards. Wang Yu took the initiative to play cards, but it was not aimed at the Xuanwu Formation, but to induce Huangfu Guyuan to play their cards.

Ye Jiyang's black cavalry swept across the western wing of the battlefield like a dark cloud, and the dust raised by five thousand iron hooves covered the sky and the sun.

The Black Cavalry, during the Zhendong period, was the most elite cavalry in Zhendong, a well-known cavalry in Da Cang, and one of the three most elite cavalry in Da Cang. In the current Han Dynasty, he is still the most elite cavalry in Da Han.

In the process of Wang Yu's rise, the Black Knights played a crucial role, and many tough battles were won with their help.

With such an army, no enemy would not care.

“Finally it showed up!”

When the news came that the black cavalry had finally appeared in Zhongcang's central army camp and were taking a detour behind them, everyone, including Huangfu Guyuan, felt tense and relieved at the same time.

An unsheathed blade is more defensive than an unsheathed blade.

"Your Majesty, according to the Southern Court, the rebels in Henan have a total of 10,000 black cavalry!"

"I just don't know how many of them have appeared now!" Yuan Shouxin reminded at this time.

There are ten thousand black knights. Even if only two or three thousand are hidden, if they are not careful, it will have serious consequences when the two sides have tested each other and are ready for a full-scale battle.

"Yes, we should be careful!"

"However, the enemy cavalry is just patrolling and not firing! We still need to deal with it properly!"

"Huangfu Jiang, you lead the champion camp. Remember, if the opponent does not want to fight, you should not take the initiative to cause trouble for him! However, when the decisive battle is about to begin, even if all your champions are dead, you must not let the Black Cavalry kill you!" Huangfu Guyuan said.

The real champion camp, the invincible champion camp, was completely wiped out that year after all.

The current champion camp just has the same name, but it does not mean that they have the same fighting power.

Huangfu Guyuan was well aware of this. The once invincible Champion Battalion was certainly not afraid of the Black Cavalry, but the current Champion Battalion was definitely no match for this elite Black Cavalry that had fought hundreds of battles.

Therefore, Huangfu Guyuan did not expect the Champion Battalion to be able to defeat the Black Cavalry. He just needed to prevent this Black Cavalry from affecting the battlefield during their decisive battle.

On the other side, Wang Jian, who received Wang Yu's order, no longer retreated, and led his troops to confront the Xuanwu formation head-on.

The result was that five thousand soldiers were lost.

However, taking advantage of this period of time, Wang Yu in the rear had already made preparations.

"Humph! Wang Jian is quitting now?"

After Wang Jian bought enough time, he took the initiative to lead his vanguard troops to disperse to the left and right, avoiding the path of the Xuanwu Formation. However, this made Ma Qianli suspicious.

"Brother, should we go in or not?" Ma Sui asked.

"Advance slowly and be careful!"

"Tell the scouts to report our situation to the central camp at any time!"

After thinking for a moment, Ma Qianli decided to move forward.

The enemy's main force is in front of him, and he can't stop here.

If they can use the Xuanwu formation to disrupt the enemy's main force, they will have a chance of winning this battle.

"All formations, listen up and move forward!" Ma Qianli waved the battle flag in his hand.

"Plop, plop!"

They had only advanced for a short time when the sound of the Zhennan Army soldiers in the front row falling down was heard.

A ditch suddenly appeared in front of them. Wang Yu not only dug a large number of ditches, but also made these ditches into traps and buried a large number of wooden barbs at the bottom.

However, the front row of soldiers in the Xuanwu formation are all real armored troops, just like iron cans, and they are truly armed to the teeth.

Except for a few who were pierced by wooden barbs in their armor and could not be protected, the rest were safe.

However, with the weight of the equipment they were wearing, after falling in, they were unable to get up on their own.

"Throw a spear!" Ma Qianli frowned.

Not many soldiers fell in, only a few hundred people, and they just fell into the pit and were stabbed to death. Therefore, Ma Qianli was not worried. What he cared about was how many ditches were waiting for him in the front row.

As a large number of spear throwers took the initiative to explore, the well-hidden ditches were now under the flying spears, and were forced to expose the outer layer hidden on them.

However, although it was tested, the result made Ma Qianli feel cold in his heart.

In front of them, there were more than twenty two-meter-wide ditches crisscrossing in all directions.

In addition, there are a large number of potholes between the ditches.

It was also because Wang Yu had a large number of soldiers and horses and was not short of manpower that he was able to complete such a project in a short time.

He mobilized 30,000 people to dig the ditch, so of course it could be completed in a short time.

"Brother, what should we do? Should we go around it?" Ma Sui asked from the side.

Although Ma Sui was not a famous general, he was not a fool and he understood the basic principles.

Even if the enemy dug so many ditches that their soldiers could not cross, once they crossed, their formation would not be able to be maintained.

However, it is impossible to dig all around them without leaving any angles. After all, these ditches are a restriction for them, but they are also a restriction for the enemy itself.

If they want, they can still get around it.

But how much time will be wasted in the process?

Doesn't this give the enemy a chance to take advantage of the situation?
No matter how powerful the formation is, it is made up of people!

If the soldiers are exhausted, no matter how powerful the formation is, it will be useless!

You know, although the Xuanwu formation is both offensive and defensive, it is developed from the Xuanjia formation after all, and it focuses more on defense. Therefore, this formation has a large number of heavy armored infantry and a lot of heavy shield soldiers.

It was impossible for their soldiers to keep moving while dragging such heavy equipment.

However, as soon as Ma Sui finished speaking, and before Ma Qianli could come up with a conclusion, thousands of falling rocks had already covered their heads.

After all, in the Southern Expedition, the Han army was the active attacker. As the active attacker, they certainly could not fail to prepare a large number of siege equipment. Otherwise, could they really expect to capture cities and territories with flesh and blood alone?
"Not good! Defend, defend quickly!" Ma Qianli's face changed drastically.

The dark falling rocks, like dark clouds, enveloped them and also enveloped Ma Qianli's heart.

No matter how strong the defensive power of the Black Tortoise Formation is, it is only aimed at humans and it is impossible for them to withstand the bombardment of catapults for a long time.

After all, they are also flesh and blood.