Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2072: The Twenty-Four Generals Reappear, Nine Twists and Eight Diagrams Traps the God of Death

In fact, during the battle between Wang Mufeng and Xiang Yu, Daxiao had already sent troops to attack Da Chu, but at that time it was just a small fight and neither side was serious.

Xiang Yu once sent Long Xiang to Xiao, and even during this period, Long Xiang officially served as a general in Xiao and never returned to Xiang Yu.

However, Di Zhiling did not decide to ally with Xiang Yu because of this. No matter whether it was Xiang Yu at that time or Xiang Yu now, for Di Zhiling, neither of them was qualified to form an alliance with Da Xiao.

Alliances also depend on the strength of both parties and what kind of value they can provide to each other.

Therefore, at that time, Emperor Zhiling was happy to send a large army to put some pressure on Da Chu. However, if he wanted to go further, Emperor Zhiling did not think that this investment was necessary.

In his opinion, with the cards in Xiang Yu's hand, it would be impossible for him to fight against the Chu State.

What happened next was just as he had expected. Although Xiang Yu fought back the Chen Dynasty with a desperate move, he had no means of resistance against Wang Mufeng's massive army.

Wang Mufeng directly used the strong national strength and military power to crush the enemy by force.

However, the subsequent battle between Dayu and Da Chu made Di Zhiling completely concerned.

In Di Zhiling's heart, Xiang Yu's importance is far from comparable to Dayu's.

In particular, Dayu easily took over two territories of Dayu. If they could be given time to digest the two territories, Dayu's strength would be further enhanced.

It was also because of this that Dayu and Daxiao sent envoys to each other and quickly moved towards unity.

It can be said that the relationship between these two families is a two-way one.

Among the original seven dynasties, although Daxia was the smallest in terms of land area, it was also the richest one.

The fifteen regions of Daxia are either high-yield grain areas or are full of minerals. This unique advantage can never be matched by the other six dynasties.

Precisely because of this, relying on the richness of their land, they have the smallest land area, but their national strength is undoubtedly the first among the previous seven dynasties.

Of the fifteen regions of Daxia, Daxiao occupied eight, Daxia occupied four, and finally Datang occupied only three.

However, even with Daxiao's strength, he is still unable to compete with the Great Chu Dynasty alone.

Among the seven dynasties, the Great Chu Dynasty is not only the only unified dynasty left today, but also, compared with other dynasties, it has not experienced so many twists and turns, and has not suffered so much loss in national strength.

Therefore, even with Daxiao's strength, if he wants to fight against Daxia, he still needs a helper. From this point of view, Dayu is the most suitable.

Therefore, Daxiao will not sit idly by and watch Dachu go all out to deal with Dayu.

If we wait a few more years, even if Da Chu wants to deal with Dayu, Di Zhiling will not be so anxious.

After all, if another two years had passed, Daewoo would have digested the gains from Liu Bei's battle, and the national strength would definitely be different from what it was before.

But now it is different. Although Liu Bei easily captured two areas of Dayu, the areas he had just captured could not be converted into real national strength in time, and he also needed heavy troops to suppress them.

After a few years, even if Dayu is still far from being comparable to Da Chu, it will still be a vicious wolf in front of the fierce tiger of Da Chu.

But now it is not possible. Daewoo now only has the body of a wolf, but the nutrition has not yet come.

On the other hand, although Da Xia now only occupies four areas of land, it has concentrated the last foundation of the Da Xia royal family and the power of the Wei clan. Now, there is no problem with its strength. If Emperor Zhiling wants to deal with them, he has to take it slowly.

At this stage, Emperor Zhiling would not regard Daxia as his first target. Because of his existence, the royal family of Daxia and the Cao clan were now able to unite tightly together.

As long as they can't feel the threat from Daxiao within a period of time, their internal struggle will begin.

Therefore, Di Zhiling will not be in a hurry to deal with them. He would rather wait a little longer and hopes to solve this problem with the most labor-saving means.

At this time, if Daxiao and Dachu had a dispute, Daxia would naturally not feel the threat from Daxiao.

Therefore, considering various factors, Emperor Zhiling had to help Liu Bang.

Moreover, the current Li Tang has also begun to collude with the forces of Wei. In the past few years, he has been trying to take advantage of the civil strife in Wei to profit from it.

Therefore, judging from the surrounding environment, Emperor Zhiling can also go all out to launch a large-scale battle at this time.

Even when Emperor Zhiling personally swore an oath to lead his troops to war, he also sent envoys to the Southern Barbarians.

The Southern Barbarians not only came into contact with the Great Wu, but also with the Great Chu. Although the Southern Barbarians had a vast territory, their living environment was so harsh that their population could not be compared with that of the Dongyi.

Chi You had the courage to advance towards Da Wu, so he would naturally not be without the courage to provoke Da Chu.

During the battle to destroy Da Wu, Chi You was dealing with internal issues and wasted a great opportunity. Di Zhiling didn't think that if he allowed the other party to see that there was an opportunity in Da Chu, he would waste it.

Di Zhiling wouldn't mind having one more person to eat up Da Chu's cake with them. Da Chu's cake is very big. Not to mention one more person, even two more people would be enough to share.

If there are really few people sharing this piece of cake, it will not only be a problem of whether they can eat it or not, but even if they do eat it, it will be a problem of not being able to digest it.

As for joining forces with foreigners to deal with the Central Plains people, Di Zhiling does not have any psychological burden at all!

Although the Southern Barbarians were foreigners, the Xia people and the Chu people were not their own people, but two countries with different writing systems and cultures.

Among the four barbarians, except for the Western Rong, the seven dynasties were very accepting of the remaining three.

Besides, he, Di Zhiling, sent people to Nanman only to do business. As for why Nanman attacked Da Chu during the period when they were at war with Da Chu, he, Di Zhiling, had no idea.

In order to fight against the Great Chu, Emperor Zhiling sent out all his elite troops. Except for leaving a part of the troops to defend Xia and Tang, he mobilized the rest of the troops as much as possible, and sent 800,000 elite infantry and cavalry and 200,000 navy downstream, raising an army of one million to attack the Great Chu.

In the seven dynasties, Xia, Chu, and Wu, the navy has always been the focus of their development. Especially in Xia and Chu, the water forces are famous for being strong.

First of all, in the Xia and Chu regions, there is the Tianjiang River blocking the two great dynasties. The Tianjiang River is even larger than the river that runs through the Cangwu dynasties.

Secondly, both places can reach the Western Rong along the coast. Especially Daxia, almost half of its territory in the west borders the Western Rong, and the remaining half is not difficult to reach by land, but the distance by sea is not far either, and you can reach the Western Rong directly by crossing a strait.

The land of Xirong, the area near the south, is equivalent to a right triangle protruding from the sea. Such an area forms a large area of ​​terrain bordering the sea. It is precisely because of this that Xirong is the one that has most vigorously developed its maritime power in Apocalypse.

The seven dynasties were all land-based powers. Only the Western Rong developed into a sea-based power. Of the five major Western Rong states, two were classic sea-based powers.

The Xia and Chu regions vigorously developed their water and maritime power only because they had no choice but to do so with the Western Rong nearby.

As for Wu, firstly, it had the geographical advantage of Tianjiang, and secondly, there was a powerful Chu next door, so it quickly developed its water power.

As for the remaining four dynasties, their naval power was at most a bonus, and the annual investment in water only accounted for a negligible part of the overall military expenditure.

Even the two families, Daqian and Dacang, which are located on the coast, are the same. Like the Dongyi, although they are on the coast, there are no maritime powers like the Xirong around them, so they naturally do not focus on the development of maritime power.

For example, Da Cang, their main enemies are Bei Di and Da Wu. When these families fought each other, they fought on land. Under such circumstances, how could they invest large-scale military funds on the water?
It's just that Emperor Zhiling had just sworn to go to war, and the main army had not even set out but was still gathering from all over the place, but Ye Shangjue on the front line directly inflicted a defeat on him.

In the original historical trajectory, another one of the twenty-four generals of the Xin Dynasty, Zhuge Li, finally made his debut.

Zhuge Li's comprehensive ability is enough to rank him among the top three among the twenty-four generals.

Compared with Wang Yu, another of the Twenty-Four Generals, Zhuge Li was far inferior in terms of strategic planning in battle, but his real strength lay in his military tactics, and he was a typical multi-disciplinary talent.

His Nine-Bend Bagua Formation, like Xue Rengui's Longmen Formation and Zhennan Ma's Xuanwu Formation, are all top-notch military formations in the world. They are not easily deployed, but once deployed, they can be extremely troublesome.

Xue Rengui's Longmen Formation has a strong killing ability, while Zhennan Ma's Xuanwu Formation is both offensive and defensive, especially in defense, which is the best in the world.

As for Zhuge Li's Nine-Bend Bagua Formation, its power lies in one change.

All top-level formations have variations in military formations. However, the Nine-Bend Eight Diagrams Formation is known for its variations among top-level formations, which is quite rare.

But it is precisely because of this that even if you are given the formation diagram, few people can master this formation, including the god-level commander.

Not to mention the Nine-Bend Bagua Formation which is most famous for its changes, even other top-level formations like the Longmen Formation or the Xuanwu Formation cannot be set up directly by simply giving the formation diagram to a god-level commander.

The god-level commander is still a human, not a god.

Even if they are given a formation diagram, they still need to spend enough time studying it before they can truly master it.

Any top-level formation is the crystallization of the wisdom of one or even several generations of ancestors.

Even for people like Han Xin and Li Jing, they only took a shorter time to master the technique than others and mastered it faster, but it was impossible for them to fully grasp the technique after just one look at the formation diagram.

Zhuge Li spent his entire life studying the Nine-Bend Bagua Formation.

Zhuge Li's current Nine-Bend Bagua Formation is far from as unpredictable as his later one, and he has just mastered this formation.

However, even so, after Zhuge Li received the news that Daxiao had sworn to go to war, he took advantage of the fact that Di Zhiling's subsequent troops had not yet arrived, set up the Nine-Bend Bagua Formation, and issued a declaration of war to Daxiao's commander Guo Yongxing on the border.

Guo Yongxing immediately asked Ye Shangjue to lead 20,000 troops to conduct a test. Guo Yongxing's original intention was to test it first, try not to go deep into the formation, rely on a large number of corners to get as much information as possible about this formation, and then seek a way to break the formation.

However, Ye Shangjue was much more reckless than he had imagined, and he rushed directly into the opponent's Nine-Bend Bagua Formation in one breath.

Zhuge Li used 60,000 soldiers and horses to set up the formation, while Ye Shangjue had a full 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Although the difference in troop strength was three times, Ye Shangjue thought he was confident enough. He led his troops to break into the formation, using the main force to entangle the troops in the formation, while he personally led a cavalry to force his way into the formation, kill the general and seize the flag.

If you kill the enemy's main general, then even the most powerful formation is useless. A formation without anyone to control it is just garbage.

In this way, Guo Yongxing's original intention was to stop at the first attempt and avoid going really deep into the formation, but Ye Shangjue did the opposite, which led to the disastrous defeat in this battle.

After 20,000 soldiers charged into the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, it didn't take long before Ye Shangjue's soldiers were divided into several groups due to the constant changes in the formation. It was difficult for each group to communicate with each other, and they could only fight on their own.

Ye Shangjue, who led the army's cavalry to break through the enemy's formation, did fight smoothly in the first half, but as the battle went on, he was completely trapped in the formation.

In fact, later on, as the troops in the formation kept moving, Ye Shangjue couldn't even tell the direction of the formation clearly. He lost his sense of direction bit by bit, let alone finding the position of the enemy's main general.

In this battle, not only were the 20,000 soldiers who followed Ye Shangjue to break the formation almost wiped out, but he himself almost didn't make it out.

Ye Shangjue's blood was as vast as the sea, and he used his blood to turn it into armor. Ordinary people naturally could not hurt him, but his warhorse did not have this defense.

In the Jiudian Bagua formation, archers and spear throwers were just the most common means. There were also countless traps such as horse ropes, iron nails, various fishing nets, and endless horse pits.

Ye Shang's Juexuesha armor can protect himself, but can he also protect his warhorse?

Even if it was Ye Shangjue, his horse would be hit by a weapon if he was not careful, so he was forced to fight on foot. He lost his sense of direction and was forced to get off his horse. He tried to break out several times, but failed every time because he went in the wrong direction.

He was clearly charging towards the outside, and was continuously killing forward in one direction, but after killing for most of the day, he found himself still in the formation, as if he had encountered a ghost wall.

As he continued to kill, even though his skills were not depleted, his physical strength could not be wasted.

In other words, Zhuge Li had no experience in besieging and killing these powerful generals, so he used cavalry to besiege and kill Ye Shangjue, allowing Ye Shangjue to take the opportunity to snatch another warhorse.

In addition, Guo Yongxing, who received the news, mobilized troops to rush to the outer periphery for support, and pointed out the direction of breaking out to Ye Shangjue from the outside, which allowed him to escape.