Jiuxi

Chapter 504 Chapter 502 [Tough as a mountain]

The Battle of Qi Yan Xifeng Yuan broke out on the morning of the last day of the 14th year of Jianwu.

Niu Cunjie finally waited for the reinforcements sent by Qing Yugong, namely the 6,000 cavalry of the Jing Army stationed at the junction of Moyang Road and Gyeonggi. This cavalry would protect the Yan Army's formation on the flanks, mainly to deal with severe Feiyu cavalry led by Bingxue.

Under the command of Niu Cunjie, the Yan army formed a very solid fish scale formation.

The troops in this formation are concentrated in the middle, stacked on top of each other like fish scales. The formation is very dense and solid. It is a commonly used military formation that has both offensive and defensive capabilities and a certain assault capability.

The weakness of the Fish Scale Formation lies in the back, because the formation is very wide as a whole. Once the back is hit by a strong impact, it is very likely to cause the entire army to be defeated. This is why when the coach decides to set up the Fish Scale Formation, the flag of the Chinese army will often be in the formation. posterior reasons.

At this moment, Niu Cunjie's commanding flag was at the rear of the Yan army, and the 10,000 infantry of the front army were commanded by his most trusted deputy general of troops and horses, Lang Shan.

The cold wind blows, and the flags flutter.

The gloomy sky covered everyone's heads like a thick blanket, and the cold wind blew across a tense young face.

Most of Yan's soldiers are only in their twenties, and less than 30% of them have been in the army for more than five years.

These young faces were trapped in the team that was slowly advancing south. Some of them began to shiver involuntarily. It was not clear whether it was because the weather was too cold or because they could not control their inner fear.

But they have no right to refuse and can only walk towards the unknown front.

Whether victory or death awaits them.

In the past few years, Qi Yan's army has never had a decisive battle in the wild. Either Qi attacked Yan's defense or Qi defended Yan's attack. This was the first time that the combined strength of both sides exceeded 100,000.

In the southern part of Xifengyuan, the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Army stood like javelins, especially the soldiers of the Qing Xu Army who were divided into the front right and front left. They all looked at the Yan Army formation in the distance with expressionless faces. They were battle-hardened. His sophistication and composure are undoubtedly revealed.

What Li Tianrun used today was the Liuhua Formation, which was also the most proficient formation among the Jingzhou Army soldiers. Every change and every command was well understood by heart.

It goes without saying that formations are important to military operations in today's world. If an army loses the cover of formations, it will soon become a lamb to the enemy's butcher's knife on an extremely dense battlefield.

This is also the reason why there will be a large number of casualties after breaking the formation.

Especially for the Qi and Yan armies, which are basically infantry, whether they can stabilize their own formation and whether they can break the opponent's formation is the key to the victory or defeat of this war.

There are not many conspiracies on the real battlefield, or in other words, planning must be done before the war breaks out. Once you enter the battlefield, you must ultimately defeat the enemy to realize the plan.

Within the Jingzhou Army, there are several soldiers with excellent eyesight standing on the observation car. They will report the movements of the enemy and ourselves to the commander not far away at any time.

"Fish Scale Formation?"

Of course, Li Tianrun was no stranger to this formation. He quickly revealed the complex and tangled mentality of Yan Army coach Niu Cunjie from this fish-scale formation.

After a while, he said to the messenger: "Tell Qiu Jixun to put the enemy into the formation, close up the left and right, and strangle the enemy's vanguard."

The messenger quickly received the order, and the military order was quickly passed to the ears of Qiu Jixun, the former army general and commander of the Xu Army in the Qing Dynasty.

Qiu Jixun accepted the order loudly and immediately conveyed the order to the next level captain.

At this time, the vanguard of the Yan Army gradually approached the front of the Jingzhou Army's position and was already within the shooting range of the Jingzhou Army's officers and soldiers.

I saw them advancing steadily southward with sword and shield soldiers in front, pikemen in the back, and longbowmen in the rear.

A rain of arrows suddenly started.

The sky is filled with arrows like locusts.

The archers of both armies all used the projectile method. After all, the shield soldiers at the front could not block all the long arrows, and some of them would inevitably fall into the formation.

Blood began to appear, symbolizing the beginning of the war.

The forwards of the two armies were less than a hundred steps apart.

At this moment, passionate and powerful drumbeats sounded from the rear of the Jingzhou Army.

Accompanied by the sound of drums that resounded throughout the heaven and earth, the soldiers of the Qing Xu Army in the front left and front right formations clenched their weapons and, under the leadership of their respective officers, shouted at the Yan Army advancing forward. A sound of anger.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

With every roar that burst out from the chest, the morale of the Qingxu Army rose a bit.

Murderous intent rose into the sky.

The Yan army did not stop, but it could be seen from the expressions of many young soldiers that they had been frightened by the momentum from the opposite side.

Whether you have killed someone on the battlefield is the difference between a new soldier and a veteran soldier. How many people you have killed is the measure of whether you are an elite soldier or not.

Although the Yan army had a slight advantage in terms of military strength, facing the Qing Xu army built by Li Tianrun himself, it was obvious that they would inevitably flinch.

But behind were the military judges holding long swords supervising the battle, and the firm orders of the former army chief Lang Shan. These Yan soldiers could only move forward bravely. This is also the characteristic of the Fish Scale Formation. Once this thick and tight formation takes off, it must continue to move forward, otherwise the connections between the various small formations will become loose, allowing the enemy to find opportunities to break through the formation.

In the formation of the Qing Xu army, the commander Qiu Jixun looked forward indifferently, waiting extremely calmly for the Yan army to attack.

"kill!"

When the enemy's face was clearly visible and the weapons in his hands were within attacking range, Soldier Yan suppressed the panic in his heart, raised his spear almost mechanically, roared and stabbed forward.

Looking down from above, the Yan army's forwards were lined up over a width of more than a hundred feet, rushing forward like a tide.

Under the shadow of death, the fear in the hearts of Yan's soldiers reached its peak, and then turned into a ferocity that they themselves did not understand, driving their bodies to squeeze towards the opposite side.

There were ferocious expressions on the young faces, and the transformation from human to beast took only an instant.

What greeted them was a cold counterattack by the soldiers of the Qing Xu Army.

"Roar!"

Uniform shouts rang out, and the spears in their hands passed through the gaps in their own shields, thrust out from different directions, and pierced into the bodies of the soldiers of Yan Army.

The cold and sharp spear point easily broke through the leather armor of the Yan soldiers, tearing the flesh and going deep into the body. As the spearman stirred, countless shrill roars came from the mouths of the injured soldiers.

The next moment the spear was pulled out, it would either bring out the overturned flesh, or tear out a bloody hole, and even someone's intestines would be rolled out.

"Roar!"

Without any hesitation, the second round of stabbings came immediately. The living people stepped on the corpses of their colleagues with difficult steps, and used all their strength to thrust out the spears in their hands.

Of course, the soldiers of the Qing Xu Army were not invulnerable. They would also be injured and bleed, and they would also fall to the ground and die.

This is the real battlefield, and it is also the reason why formations are getting more and more attention.

Without the solid organizational power brought by the formation, few people can calmly face this kind of death that may appear at any time.

The Yan army continued to press forward as a whole, and the two large formations of the Qing Xu army gradually retreated.

Qiu Jixun observed the situation at the front of the position indifferently. Those fallen soldiers would certainly make him heartbroken, but the more battles he fought, the harder his heart became.

When the Yan army pressed forward to a distance of about ten feet, Qiu Jixun took a deep breath and said in a cold voice: "Send the order, get out of the middle part, let the enemy into the formation, and the small team will strangle!"

The drums sounded immediately, the flags appeared at the same time, and the heralds rushed in the formation.

The soldiers of the Qing Xu Army retreated in an orderly manner. The Yan Army continued to move forward due to inertia and broke in directly from the middle of the front left and front right formations.

The Yan army general who led the army had no time to be excited, and soon faced a strong counterattack from the opponent.

I saw that the soldiers of the Qing Xu Army were divided into three teams, three teams into one group, five groups into one unit, plus the low-ranking generals leading the troops, a total of fifty people.

On the battlefield, countless small groups of fifty people cooperated with each other, and launched an extremely fierce stranglehold on the Yan army on the crisscrossed battlefield!

There were constant roars and wails. The well-trained soldiers of the Qing Xu Army used their spears to block the Yan troops on both sides, and their long knives slashed and killed the Yan troops who broke into the formation.

The Yan Army's forward general Lang Shan witnessed this scene and said sternly: "The former army commander will attack!"

Under his command, the Yan army immediately spread out their formation like a long snake, completely surrounding the two positions of the Qing Xu army.

However, no matter how he ordered, no matter how many times the Yan army launched a charge, the Qing Xu army was like a spear nailed to this position, motionless and standing proudly!

Behind the Yan army, Niu Cunjie also realized the tenacity of the Qing Xu army. If he wanted to break through this elite Southern Qi army head-on, it would be difficult to do it with only 10,000 forwards led by Lang Shan.

After thinking for a short time, he said resolutely: "Send the order, Zhu Zhen, the left army, will continue to move forward with his 10,000 infantry, and change his formation to attack the enemy's flank with his arrows!"

The military order quickly reached Zhu Zhen's ears, and he accepted the order without any hesitation. However, the moment he turned around, he couldn't help but look at the distant Southern Qi Central Army, with a trace of hesitation in his eyes.

Since Qing Yugong went south, Beiyan's army has been investigated several times, especially those generals who may have connections to the south. Zhu Zhen was lucky enough to escape.

In order to protect himself, he has not even dared to contact the Wang family in Heluo City privately in the past six months. However, before this war comes, he is still waiting for some secret orders to be transmitted to cooperate with the Qi army on the battlefield.

But until now, he has not received a single word, which shows that Li Tianrun does not intend to use this relationship.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhen gathered his thoughts, waved his army forward, bypassed the Qing Xu Army and rushed towards the west flank of the Qi Army's formation!

Within the Qi army, Li Tianrun quickly received the news.

He slowly boarded the lookout car, confirmed the current battlefield situation with his own eyes, then turned to look at Li Bingxue, who had been waiting beside him, and said calmly: "Take your cavalry and go around from the east to lure away the plundering formation. Jingjun cavalry, be careful not to be wary."

Li Bingxue lowered her head and said: "The last general takes orders!"

Then he strode away.

Li Tianrun continued to observe the situation of Yan Jun. After a long time, he raised his eyes to look at the sky further north, as if waiting for the appearance of an old friend.

(End of this chapter)