Three Kingdoms: Heir of Wolong, my father-in-law is Guan Gong

Chapter 181 The eight formations show their power, Zhuge Liang plays Meng Da for the first time (seeking pursuit)
"Huang Zhong, this old man!"

Fei Yao stared at the city with hatred, with unconcealable fear in his tone.

I had never heard of Huang Zhong before, but two years ago he killed Xia Houyuan and became a god in one battle, and now he killed Guo Huai with one arrow!
If calculated based on distance, the flight distance of the arrow from Huang Zhong's position to Guo Huai's position is nearly a hundred steps.

Although it is recorded in the "Warring States Policy": There are those in Chu who are good at shooting.

But how many Yang Youji are there in this world?
Even a talented military general like Fei Yao can only shoot fifty to seventy steps, and he dare not claim to be able to hit the bull's-eye with 100 shots even at a fixed target.

Not to mention that the battlefield will be affected by various factors.

When beheading Xia Houyuan, Huang Zhong did it at close range, just like when Guan Yu and thousands of troops stabbed Yan Liang to death in the past, relying on his frightening and trembling bravery in the battle.

Now he shot Guo Huai at a distance of a hundred steps, and Huang Zhong showed his ability as a sharpshooter. This made Fei Yao deeply feel the malice of fate.

"General, what should we do now?"

"As Governor Guo was shot dead, the morale of the army was shattered."

"I only want you all to help me guard Chencang for five days to maintain my loyalty to the Wei Dynasty."

Fei Yao also knew that if morale could not be boosted, Chencang City might not be able to hold on for a day!
"Gather the officials in the city, as well as the generals and generals in the camp, at the city gate. I have a clever plan." Fei Yao took a deep breath and tried to calm down his nervousness.

Fei Yao said bravely: "Okay! With your help, we will definitely be able to invite reinforcements. There are still five thousand soldiers in the city. Even if the morale is low, with everyone's help, we will be able to hold on for five days!"

Fei Yao bowed his hands to everyone and said: "Now that the Han thieves Huang Zhong and Ma Chao are approaching the city, Governor Guo is unfortunately killed. This is a shame for the Wei Dynasty."

When they heard that Han soldiers were attacking the city, Guo Huai was shot and killed, and that it was Huang Zhong and Ma Chao who came, the expressions of all the civil and military officials changed greatly.

"After five days, if reinforcements do not arrive, I will kill myself on the top of the city. You can take my head to claim credit from the Han soldiers."

"Even Governor Guo was shot dead, so Huang Zhong was too fierce."

It is said that laymen see the excitement, while insiders see the door.

After glancing at the frightened people, Fei Yao shouted loudly: "Everyone, please listen to me!"

"but!"

"I will not force you to defend Chencang City with me. I just hope that you can give me a chance to serve His Majesty!"

Everyone was silent and looked a little ugly.

"It turned out to be Huang Zhong who killed General Xiahou Yuan. How could Chencang be able to defend it?"

"But now -" Deng Jun did not continue, but glanced at the frightened Wei soldiers around him.

Fei Yao saluted everyone again: "I am the guard general of Chencang. It is my duty and my honor to die for the Righteous Death Festival."

"If Chen Cang is lost, General Meng from Longyou will have no choice but to withdraw to Chang'an. For such a serious crime, even if you and I die in battle, our wife and children will still be punished!"

Not long after.

"If Han soldiers attack the city again, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend Chencang!"

Everyone stopped their private discussions and looked up at Fei Yao.

Although Fei Yao was frightened, he could barely maintain his composure.

Seeing this, Deng Jun understood Fei Yao's purpose and loudly agreed: "The generals are not afraid of death, so how can we be afraid of death! I am willing to personally lead the cavalry in the city to break out and ask for help!"

"I have received great favor from His Majesty, and as the guard general of Chencang, I will only live and die with Chencang, and will never surrender!"

This statement came out.

"If you can't defend it, you have to defend it!"

It's just that no one dares to be the first person now, they just wait quietly for Fei Yao's next step.

Fei Yao's mood had mostly calmed down at the moment.

Fei Yao extended his right hand to everyone.

"I have no complaints!"

If you want to live or die together, don't take us with you.

"Five days!"

Only these lieutenants of the army can better understand how terrifying Huang Zhong's arrow is!
That is simply inhuman!

We have not received great favor from His Majesty, let alone from you.

Fear and panic spread among this group of civil and military officials.

The officials and generals in Chencang City gathered at the city gate.

"But within these five days, if anyone dares to fight timidly, or if anyone dares to discuss military affairs in the city and disturb the morale of our army, don't blame the ruthless military law!"

"There is also Ma Chao, who is a brave general from Xiliang. Even the late emperor suffered losses at the hands of Ma Chao."

Everyone was shocked and whispered again, weighing their own pros and cons.

"This is how to do ah!"

"How can we defend the small town of Chencang?"

Deputy General Deng Jun was also frightened.

Deng Jun looked at Fei Yao and didn't understand why Fei Yao didn't block the news and deliberately let everyone know.

With this chorus, everyone's fear disappeared a lot.

"Yes, General Zuo is at Longyou and will definitely come back to save us."

"There are five thousand soldiers in the city. It shouldn't be difficult to hold it for five days."

"It's only five days anyway. If you can't hold on after five days, think of other ways."

"General Fei is here in Chencang, why should we fear the Han soldiers?"

"Chencang City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as we work together, we can defend it for a few days."

"If we can't hold on, we can surrender. Our lives are safe."

After taking a look at the crowd, Fei Yao sneered in his heart and said to Deng Jun: "There are only about thirty cavalry in the city. I will choose another two hundred dead soldiers to help you break out. Whether Chencang can hold on depends on whether you can break through successfully."

Deng Jun cupped his hands and said, "I'm willing to fight to the death!"

While Fei Yao was actively responding, the Han soldiers outside the city were only trying to persuade him to surrender symbolically.

First, Huang Zhong persuaded him to surrender, then Ma Chao persuaded him to surrender, and then Xiaobing persuaded him to surrender.

Seeing that the Han soldiers outside the city were only trying to persuade them not to attack, Fei Yao made a guess in his mind: the Han soldiers must have arrived in a hurry and had not prepared any siege equipment. They must be dividing their troops to prepare at this moment.

Dawn is approaching.

Fei Yao saw that Huang Zhong and Ma Chao had retreated to the formation, and the Han soldiers under the city were also tired, so he suddenly felt that an opportunity had come.

"Break out quickly!"

At Fei Yao's order, Chencang City Gate suddenly opened.

Chencangcheng's deputy general Deng Jun, with more than 30 cavalry and 200 dead soldiers, suddenly rushed out of Chencangcheng.

After Deng Jun and others rushed out of the city, Chencang City quickly closed tightly, obviously not intending to let these more than 200 steps back into the city.

"kill!"

Deng Jun shouted, leading the warriors and knights to charge into the formation and break through.

The Han soldiers below the city were caught off guard. Seeing Deng Jun and others rushing towards them, they scattered one after another.

"Ha ha!"

"You are nothing more than that!"

Deng Jun laughed.

Soon, Deng Jun stopped laughing.

Because Huang Zhong and Ma Chao heard that Wei soldiers were leaving the city, and they approached one after another.

Deng Jun's expression changed drastically: "Don't be obsessed with fighting! Break out quickly!"

A general rushed towards him, it was Ma Chao.

But he saw Ma Chao swinging his gun and flying Deng Jun's helmet. Deng Jun was so frightened that his blood almost ran out.

The instinct of survival made Deng Jun give the war horse a whip. The horse was in pain and burst out with strength at this moment.

At this moment of life and death, Ma Chao's gun failed to knock Deng Jun off his horse, but only caused Deng Jun to vomit blood.

Deng Jun crossed his saddle and left, not daring to stay any longer.

"General Qiusi, you won't kill him, will you?" Huang Zhong came closer and let go of a Wei Qi with a feint.

Ma Chao smiled and said: "Old General, you are too cautious. If I reduce my strength, General Wei will definitely be able to arrive alive."

"Then I won't let him go." Huang Zhong drew his bow and arrow and shot down the fleeing Wei Qi.

Fei Yao at the top of the city looked nervously at the cavalry breaking out of the city.

Seeing Deng Jun leave in his saddle, Fei Yao felt both happy and uneasy at the same time.

Fortunately, Deng Jun escaped, but he was worried about whether Deng Jun could reach the rescue alive.

Not long after.

The Wei soldiers who broke through outside the city were either killed or surrendered.

Huang Zhong came to the city again and shouted: "Listen here, I originally wanted to give you more time to think about it. But your stupidity makes me very angry."

"I'll give you another half day. If you don't surrender, then prepare to face the wrath of the Han's heavenly soldiers!"

Done.

Huang Zhong drew his bow and arrow again and aimed at Fei Yao.

Fei Yao was so shocked that he backed away and shouted: "Vice-General Deng has successfully broken through. Reinforcements will arrive soon. Don't panic!"

With the captured war horses.

Zhuge Qiao gave the horse to Ma Chao's bodyguard.

These personal guards were all brought by Ma Chao from Xiliang. Although there were not many, they were skilled in bow and horse.

"General Hussar, organize a team of cavalry to intercept and kill the Wei soldiers' scouts on Guanlong Avenue."

"I want to cut off any contact between Meng Da and Chen Cang so that he cannot obtain the true situation of Chen Cang."

Han soldiers have few horses.

Zhuge Qiao's plan was also to earn Chen Cang's horses so that he could organize a team of cavalry to block the Guanlong Avenue.

Ma Chao nodded, and when the war horses that were about to be captured and the war horses in the army were organized, fifty horsemen were gathered to patrol the Guanlong Avenue.

In an era without electronic communications, the only way to know the situation on the battlefield was to rely on guessing and dispatch a large number of scouts.

Therefore, in cold weapon warfare, those who are good at fighting will try to cut off the traffic arteries between cities as much as possible.

Zhuge Qiao asked Wang Ping to intercept and kill Chencang's cavalry last night and let one go. Today, he deliberately let go of Chencang's deputy general Deng Jun in order to make Meng Da believe that Chencang was really attacked.

With Meng Da's military capabilities, even if he learned that Chencang was attacked, he would not immediately divide his troops.

Meng Da must have scouts deployed in advance on Guanlong Avenue!
As long as the truth is discovered by the scouts, Zhuge Qiao's strategy of attacking in the east and in the west will not work.

Therefore.

Zhuge Qiao wanted to completely block the Guanlong Avenue, making it difficult for Meng Da's scouts to understand the details of Chencang.

Only in this way can Meng Da have to divide his troops to rescue Chen Cang!

During this time.

Zhang He, Su Ze and Xia Houru are attacking Jixian, Qingshui and Linwei.

However, Wu Ban of Ji County, Zhang Zhu of Qingshui, and Zhang Yi of Linwei were all capable generals among the Han soldiers. They had good cities and good geographical locations, and they could not be easily captured by Zhang He and others.

The siege was blocked.

Meng Da's mood became a little irritable.

Zhuge Liang's deployment of the four cities in Hebei County seems to have expected Mengda to attack the city.

Especially Ji County, which is the seat of Tianshui County.

Although Zhang He had ten thousand soldiers and horses, none of the officials in Ji County were willing to surrender to Cao Wei again. Liang Xu, Chief Secretary Yin Shang, Chief Secretary Liang Qian and other Hebei county officials hated Ma Zun for abandoning the city and fled, and insulted them as thieves. They had great resentment towards Cao Wei in their hearts.

The officials were unwilling to surrender, and Wu Ban, the brother of the Empress of the Han Dynasty, was in charge. Even if they were facing the experienced Zhang He, it would be difficult to capture Ji County!
In desperation.

Mengda could only increase his troops to capture four more cities.

Only this time, Meng Da did not dare to move troops in front of Zhuge Liang, but took advantage of darkness to move his troops away.

Compared to Meng Da's agitation, Zhuge Liang in the city was calm and composed.

Longyou's chess game has been laid out, and all he needs to do next is to stay steady and not make any moves.

Zhuge Liang even had time to inspect Jiang Wei's practice of the Eight Formations.

As the brainchild of Zhuge Liang, whether the Eight Formation Diagram can be practiced well is critical to whether it can be effective against Cao Wei's large number of cavalry in the future.

If the combat effectiveness of the Eight Formations can be as good as Zhuge Liang's deduction, even if the military strength is not as good as Meng Da, Zhuge Liang will dare to go out of the city to fight Meng Da, instead of just taking the conventional approach of occupying the city and defending it as now.

"Boyo, do you have any questions?"

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and came to the general stage.

Jiang Wei quickly saluted and said: "Prime Minister, I always feel that there is a sense of rupture when practicing the eight formations. It is always difficult to change formations smoothly."

Without the ability to change formations, the Eight Formation Diagram is just a dead thing, unable to cope with various situations on the battlefield.

Zhuge Liang asked Jiang Wei to play the role again, and he keenly discovered the reason for Jiang Wei's sense of fragmentation.

"It seems that it is just a skill, but it has no effect; after all, you still have to experience actual combat."

"Boyue, please prepare. We will leave the city to meet the enemy tomorrow."

Zhuge Liang quickly made his decision.

Jiang Wei was startled: "Prime Minister, I have only been practicing for less than three days. If I go out of the city to meet the enemy, I may not be able to win."

Zhuge Liang shook his head: "You don't need to win, just be undefeated. If things go wrong, I will immediately order the troops to retreat back to the city."

"Even if I have deduced the Eight Formation Diagram to the extreme, without going through the test of actual combat, it will only be what I think is the ultimate, not the real extreme."

"It just so happens that I also take the opportunity to explore Meng Da's true identity."

Zhuge Liang also called Zhao Yun, Wei Yan and others to discuss tomorrow's war.

"Prime Minister, are you asking too much to face the enemy with a new formation that has been practiced for less than three days? If you want to face the enemy and weaken Meng Da's spirit, I am willing to go out of the city and fight to the death." Wei Yan raised a question.

For Wei Yan, if you don't understand, you don't understand. If you don't understand, you won't pretend to understand, and you won't stop questioning just because Zhuge Liang is the prime minister.

Zhuge Liang chuckled: "Don't worry, I'm sorry. If I need you to fight to the death, I will definitely let you lead the troops into battle."

"The Eight Formation Diagram will have a great influence on future wars. I must take the opportunity to test its actual combat effect."

"If there is a problem with the formation plan, I can correct it or give up in time to avoid losing troops and generals due to blind confidence in the future."

"Mengda's main stronghold is outside the west gate. Tomorrow I will order Bo to go out to the west gate to call for formation. Wen Chang will lead his troops out of the north gate, and Zilong will lead his troops out of the south gate. Both routes are temptations, so don't go deep."

"I will decide the specific time to leave the city based on the battle at Ximen."

Seeing Zhuge Liang's careful deployment, Wei Yan said no more.

Wei Yan just asked bluntly because he didn't understand, and he didn't have a quarrel with Zhuge Liang out of mind.

As we all know, Lao Luo is Wei Yanhei.

The generals will prepare themselves.

The next day.

Zhuge Liang personally visited the Ximen Tower and ordered Jiang Wei to lead 6,000 troops out of the city to form a formation.

After receiving the news, Meng Da quickly came to the battle line and saw the Han soldiers arrayed outside the city. Meng Da couldn't help but sneered: "Zhuge Liang can't help it in the city. He wants to go out of the city to test my true strength."

The brave general Li Fu asked for battle: "Since the Han soldiers dare to leave the city, we cannot let them return to the city easily. The last general is willing to lead his troops to fight with the Han soldiers!"

This Li Fu was Meng Da's confidant, and his military nickname was the Brave of a Thousand Men.

Meng Da also wanted to enhance Li Fu's prestige in the army, so he agreed to Li Fu's request to fight: "There are about 6,000 Han soldiers, and I will give you 10,000 infantry and cavalry!"

The west gate of Lueyang leads directly to Guanlong Avenue, which is flatter and wider than the north gate and south gate.

Although there are more than 10,000 people from both sides, it does not seem crowded.

The heavy antlers that Meng Da arranged were also to prevent the Han soldiers from fleeing, and more focused on giving the Han soldiers a fixed route out of the city.

Li Fu received the order and led 10,000 cavalry out of the battle.

"Half Moon Formation to meet the enemy!"

The Half Moon Formation is a very common military formation, with the infantry in the middle and the cavalry on both wings, looking like half of the moon.

This formation is simple to arrange and does not require the leader to study the military formation too much. It is also suitable for Wei soldiers with a large number of cavalry.

However, later generations often use Hannibal's half-moon formation as an example, just like when they hear the backwater formation, they think of Han Xin.

If you are famous, you are qualified to be remembered; if you are not famous, no matter how impressive the name of the formation is, it is not worthy of being remembered.

The same formation, used by different people, will have completely different effects.

Jiang Wei also recognized Li Fu's military formation. He stood on the chariot of the Chinese army and was in the middle to control the situation.

The Chinese army's tanks are not intended to meet the enemy, but to serve as mobile general platforms for easier command.

"Mysterious."

Li Fu couldn't understand Jiang Wei's eight formation diagram, and he was inexplicably envious, and a little jealous in his envy.

In a complicated mood, it turned into a sentence of ridicule and contempt.

"Cavalry on the left and right, intersperse with the formation!"

Li Fu shouted orders.

"The terrain here is flat, which does not affect the performance of the cavalry. How can a group of infantry stop it!"

"Watch me tear apart your mysterious military formation."

"Any conspiracy or trick is useless given the absolute disparity in strength."

Li Fu gave orders while mocking.

however.

When Li Fu's cavalry began to intersperse, Jiang Wei also began to change formations.

There were numerous flags and loud shouts, and the cavalry running through the formation seemed to have lost their direction and rushed randomly in the eight formations.

It was originally a normal cavalry insertion, which used the mobility and impact of the cavalry to break up the Han soldiers' formation.

But now, not only were these Wei cavalry unable to break up the Han soldiers' formation, but they were also blocked in the formation.

"How could this happen?"

"How can these Han soldiers keep up with the cavalry?"

"This is not a narrow venue, this is the home ground of the cavalry!"

Li Fu stared, and quickly ordered the infantry to come forward, and ordered the remaining cavalry to pass through, trying to use their numerical advantage to forcefully break the Han soldiers' formation.

"Li Fu underestimated the enemy."

Meng Da in the back couldn't help but frown.

Using force to defeat cleverness will always lead to disadvantage.

This is true, but the mistake is that when Li Fu encountered a formation he had never seen before, he still used the previous routine to rush into the formation, and after the intervening cavalry was blocked, he actually chose to cover up the entire army and kill him. way of fighting.

Either don't be reckless, or be reckless in the first place!
This kind of playing tricks first, and then acting recklessly after the tricks fail, isn't that just deliberately giving the opponent a chance to seize the opportunity?
And Jiang Wei is getting more and more comfortable.

Although his military strength was not as good as that of Li Fu, he was able to give the Han soldiers a local strength advantage through the cooperation between military formations.

Just like capturing pieces in Go, creating a local advantage and capturing the opponent's pieces will later form an overall advantage.

The reason why those who were good soldiers in ancient times were good at Go was because the art of war was like the art of chess, and its essence was to capture the opponent's troops.

"waste!"

Seeing that Li Fu's command was getting more and more chaotic, Meng Da couldn't help but cursed secretly and asked his nephew Deng Xian to lead troops to help.

Zhuge Liang, who was on the city tower, saw Meng Da dispatching troops and made a prompt decision.

On the one hand, he ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and on the other hand, he notified Wei Yan and Zhao Yun of the North Gate and South Gate to leave the city.

Jiang Wei heard the sound of gold and ordered the flag to wave.

The Han soldiers who originally surrounded the Wei cavalry quickly evacuated towards the city gate.

When the panicked Wei cavalry saw the Han soldiers retreating, they all ran towards their own formation, and as they ran, they blocked Deng Xian's soldiers halfway.

Li Fu quickly restrained the soldiers and horses: "Don't panic! Form into formation, form into formation!"

But these Wei cavalry were already panicked when they were surrounded just now. Now that they were out of danger, they could not care about Li Fu's orders.

Meng Da's face became increasingly gloomy.

The Han soldiers retreated to Lueyang City calmly and orderly, but the Wei soldiers became chaotic.

This is a shame!

Before Meng Da could get angry, soldiers from the south gate and the north gate came one after another.

"Report! Han soldiers attacked and killed the North Gate Camp, and the leader of the army was Han Zhenbei General Wei Yan."

"Report! Han soldiers attacked the South Gate Camp, and the leader was General Zhao Yun of the Han Yi Army."

Meng Da's eyes almost bulged: "Zhuge Villager, how dare you tease me!"

He deliberately made it look like he was going out of the city to fight at the west gate, but asked Wei Yan and Zhao Yun to seize the two camps at the north gate and south gate.

"Rescue both battalions quickly."

Meng Da originally wanted Li Fu and Deng Xian to rescue the two battalions, but seeing that they were blocked, he had to mobilize additional troops to rescue the two battalions.

With this deployment of troops, Zhuge Liang basically saw through the reality of the Mengda military camp.

"Mengda must have drawn troops."

"The four cities in Hebei County are still there."

"The next step is to look at Berthon."

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan lightly, his eyes were like torches, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Based on Meng Da's deployment of troops and generals and changes in the flags in the camp today, and comparing the situation of setting up the camp when Meng Da first arrived, Zhuge Liang deduced that Meng Da had already mobilized some of his troops.

This computing power is so terrifying!
Just like when Han Xin ordered more troops, the better, those who are good at commanding troops are good at calculation and deduction.

Without electronic equipment for calculation and deduction, we can only rely on human power for calculation and deduction.

Whoever is better at calculation can seize the advantage in united combat!

North Gate and South Gate.

Wei Yan and Zhao Yun also made a false shot and retreated to Lueyang City before Meng Da's reinforcements arrived.

Being teased by Zhuge Liang, Meng Da felt even worse.

Seeing Li Fu return, Meng Da was furious: "Li Fu, I gave you 10,000 infantry, but you were defeated by 6,000 infantry!"

"I asked Deng Xian to support you, but your cavalry blocked Deng Xian's rear army. How did you control the troops?"

Li Fu blushed and defended: "The Han soldiers suddenly shouted gold and retreated from the city. I was not aware of it for a while."

Meng Da was even more angry: "The Han soldiers have paid gold to withdraw their troops, and you actually followed suit? It seems that I usually spoil you too much. Do you even want me to teach you how to deal with such situations on the spot?"

Seeing that Meng Da looked like a fierce tiger, Li Fu lowered his head and did not dare to answer any more.

If it were Zhang He, if Jiang Wei retreated, Zhang He would immediately form a formation to advance; if it were Zhang Liao, if Jiang Wei retreated, Zhang Liao would even dare to directly seize the city gate!

This is the difference between a general and a general. There is a huge difference in reaction to battle.

House seemingly endless rain.

Just when Meng Da was scolding Li Fu, a horseman from the North Camp came in a hurry: "General, Chen Cang is reporting urgently, Han soldiers are attacking Chen Cang!"

(End of this chapter)