The sun gradually rose to the middle of the sky, and Ma Qiu stood in the back formation, seeing that the soldiers who escaped from the Jin army's large array were getting fewer and fewer, and his face was already extremely cold.

More than two hours ago, a full 5,000 soldiers rushed into the Jin army's large array, but in the following time, these soldiers were like mud oxen sinking into the sand, not only did they not succeed in rushing to Xie Ai's position, but they did not even shake the Jin army's large array.

Then some knights hastily withdrew from the formation, and as time went by, the number of soldiers who could withdraw became fewer and fewer, and he waited outside the formation for half an hour, and none of the soldiers rushed out. There are a full 5,000 soldiers, and less than 2,000 can withdraw from the Jin army's array!

After that, he urgently summoned the soldiers who escaped from the Jin army's large array, and inquired in detail about the situation in the array, and when he learned about the many killing moves arranged by the Jin army in the large array, his face couldn't help but become even more ugly, and then looked at the Ling Tower where the old enemy Xie Ai was located a few miles away, and the hatred in his eyes was so strong that it seemed that he was about to flow out!

It's just a few miles away, but in the dense arrangement of the Jin army, it seems to him to be a curse, and it is difficult to reach.

In addition to the setbacks encountered in this rush, what made Ma Qiu even more distressed was the great losses he had suffered since the start of the war. It has only been more than three hours since the dawn of the battle, but the casualties of the Karma army have far exceeded 5,000!

At present, Ma Qiu is no longer in the mood to lament the foresight that he had not caused before, but is worried about how to fight next? At this point in the battle, instead of breaking through on the frontal battlefield, his men lost more than a quarter of their strength in a very short period of time!

The strength of the large array that Xie Ai and the one he set up far exceeded Ma Qiu's imagination. It's ridiculous that he thought he had a plan before, thinking that he had succeeded in forcing Xie Ai to leave the Chinese army and get closer to the front, but it turned out that even if the distance between them had been shortened, a strong attack was still the next strategy.

He is calculating Xie Ai, Xie Ai is also calculating him, it is with his body as bait to lure him to launch a strong attack on the formation, and only when the army goes deep into the big array, all the sinister and hideous of this big array will completely bloom, this big array is simply a huge slaughterhouse!

Because of such an astonishing battle loss, Ma Qiu was already confused and confused for a while, and he didn't know how to carry out this decisive battle.

It is impossible to lead the troops into the city in this way, not to mention that there is a Zhang Hedu in the rear who holds his handle and is eyeing him, just because he has suffered such heavy losses in today's battle but has not been able to bring any substantial blow to the Jin army, once the battle report is sent back to the capital, the Lord will not spare him!

After a long silence, Ma Qiu slowly raised his arm, but unlike the previous resolute continuous troops, this time the gesture was slow and weak, it was an order to suspend the offensive, and he also had to calm down and think carefully about how to fight next.

After a morning of fierce fighting, the front-line soldiers were also exhausted, and as the rear soldiers were replenished into the battle line, the soldiers and soldiers who had fought viciously were gradually transferred back to rest. The battle ended temporarily, and the Qian army paid the price of more than 6,000 lives, just overcoming a small camp of 300 people on the periphery of the Jin army's main array.

The offensive of the Qiang army came to an end temporarily, and the large battalion on the front line of the Wang Division also made adjustments, abandoning the camp that had been occupied by the Qiang army, and with the cooperation of the cavalry who entered the battle to rest, several small battalions within a few miles around retreated, which was regarded as completely ceding this position to the Qiang army.

From the afternoon until the evening, both sides exercised restraint and did not continue to fight. However, when it was almost evening, the Fenwu army, which had been arraying the left flank of the battlefield, moved, and three thousand of them broke away from the army and continued to advance north on the northwest side of the battlefield under the leadership of the general Shen Yun.

Sensing this change of the Jin army, Ma Qiu's heartstrings tightened again, first sent thousands of cavalry to follow the northward route of the Fenwu army, and then sent someone to tell Zhang Hedu, who was left in the city, to be careful to fortify and guard against the Jin army from attacking at night.

After nightfall, the camp of the Jin army suddenly sounded a rapid drum order, and the black pressed more than 2,000 cavalry and then approached the Jin army's large array, and the Jin army's front formation also heard the sound and moved, and 2,000 horsemen also appeared on the battlefield.

When the cavalry of the two sides hedged in the open area of the battlefield, one south and one north, and there were still dozens of zhang away from each other, they passed from each other full of tacit understanding, wandered along the two fronts of the north and south, and then returned to their respective positions.

The drums of the Jin army here gradually stopped, but the drums of the Jin army suddenly sounded in unison. Although they were all harassing the enemy, it was obvious that the Jin army was more unsophisticated than the Jin army, and although the drum order was swift, there was no sign of sending troops at all.

In short, this long night, the two sides were one after another, and the frequent sound of drums shook the eardrums of the soldiers on both sides who were close to the front line, and they almost wanted to vomit, but no one took advantage.

On the frontal battlefield, neither side launched an actual offensive during the night, but in the second half of the night, Zhang Hedu in Beicheng sent a message to report the emergency, but Ma Qiu ignored it.

He had warned several times before, and he also knew that the Jin army's northward advance was limited, and if Zhang Hedu couldn't hold the city, it would be the real damn. What's more, during the fierce battles one after another, he lost a lot of troops, and now he is gradually insufficient, and he has no strength to aid Zhang Hedu anymore.

At dawn, when it was still dark, the army attacked again. It's just that unlike yesterday's cavalry attack on the enemy's large array, at the beginning of today's war, the Qian army used trebuchets and other heavy weapons to bombard the Jin army camp.

Although he had been harassing the enemy last night, Ma Qiu did not just disturb the enemy, and took advantage of the entry and exit of the soldiers to dismantle the heavy weapons in the city and transport them to the camp occupied yesterday.

The reason why it was not used yesterday was because there was still a gap of more than ten miles between the city of Xiangguo and the Jin army's array, once the Jin army noticed that the Jin army was transporting heavy weapons, it would definitely be destroyed at any cost, and the army itself was far inferior to the Jin army, and it really couldn't afford to destroy it.

The trebuchet of the Jin army may not be as powerful as the Jin army, but it is more than enough to bombard the Jin army's pure chariot formation. Therefore, at the beginning of the war, the Jin army occupied a full advantage, and successively broke several camps of the Jin army.

In this battle, Ma Qiu was thinking of a decisive victory, and the main force of the Fenwu Army, which was the most threatening part of the Jin army, had left the battlefield here, and would not turn back in a short time, because Ma Qiu still maintained a wild posture at the beginning of the war, and the army came out together, leaving only 3,000 cavalry to respond to the rear, and even he himself was on the front line to command the battle.

However, when they rushed into the camp that had been smashed by trebuchets, they were shocked to find that the soldiers of these camps, including the chariots, had already withdrawn, leaving only an empty camp with a false appearance, and it was obvious that they had already understood the offensive methods that the Qiang army was going to take today.

"The southern thief has exhausted his skills, and he will win the battle today!"

Although Ma Qiu was also a little depressed in his heart, he could only hold back and continue to cheer up at this time.

The first battle of the Jin army was victorious, expanding the scope of the invasion of the Jin army's main array, but in the subsequent advance, it fell into a dilemma, that is, how to continue to advance?

If you still keep using the trebuchet to open the way, it is true that the road will be much smoother, but the trebuchet is too heavy to move flexibly, which will inevitably drag down the overall advance speed.

But if it is still a ranger assault, the dangerous killing tricks shown by the Jin army's great array yesterday are still in front of them, and the cavalry of the Jin army are not lonely and loyal souls who are not afraid of death, and they dare not continue to go deep into the Jin army camp.

Ma Qiu thought hard about countermeasures all night, and naturally came prepared. With 2,000 light cavalry as the perimeter, he pushed outward along the area he had already occupied, first testing the surrounding camps to find out that there were indeed Jin soldiers left behind, and then transporting the trebuchet forward for bombardment.

Of course, in this process, it is inevitable that the Jin cavalry will be obstructed by the attack, and then the cavalry can fight with it. As for the dozen or so trebuchets in the army, Ma Qiu also made a thorough arrangement, and the people sent by the letter before added to Ma Qiu's army, and made up five hundred heavy armor foot soldiers to protect the safety of the trebuchet nearby.

There are also 300 armored heavy cavalry, which are not yet armed to fight at the moment, and Ma Qiu is preparing to use them to behead Xie Ai after determining his location. Yesterday paid a heavy price but to no avail, coupled with the fact that he has been suppressed by Xie Ai in the past few years, whether Ma Qiucheng admits it or not, Xie Ai has become a lingering nightmare in his heart, and he is unwilling to give up any possibility of killing the other party.

The battle advanced very smoothly, and with the participation of heavy weapons such as trebuchets, the seemingly unbreakable car formations of the Jin army were useless, and they could not stop the advance of the Jin army at all.

Probably the soldiers of the Jin army were also stunned by such an offensive of the Jin army, several camps were bulldozed one after another, and many soldiers fled to the queen, so that in a very short period of time, the Jin army advanced for more than several miles, and almost reached the place where Xie Ai commanded yesterday.

At the same time, the sky gradually brightened, and as the surrounding scenery became clearer and clearer, Ma Qiu found that he was already trapped in a pocket that Jin Jun had deliberately opened!

After the sky was bright, Xie Ai's figure reappeared on the Zhongjun Order Tower, and began to calmly arrange the Wang Shi Great Array for changes. The mile-long passage that the Karma army had dug into was indeed laid out at the same time as the previous night's drum order to harass the enemy, in order to lure the main force of the Karma army into the heart.

At this time, with Xie Ai's scheduling, the gap opened in the front began to close in an orderly manner. Xie Yi led 5,000 elite horsemen to stand by in the front formation, and as soon as he got the order, he launched a fierce attack on the army formation itself, cutting off part of the army that had penetrated into the large formation!

"Thank you for being treacherous!"

Although he is already under siege, Ma Qiu is still motivated, he is also prepared, since Xie Ai wants to swallow him in one bite, he also wants to try if Xie Ai really has such a stomach, if not, he will not only pierce the heart of the Jin army's big array, but also go in and out, blooming in all directions!

"Heavy riding and armor, mounted and decapitated!"

With Ma Qiu's order, the three hundred heavy horsemen and horses under his command were armoured, and the rest of the cavalry took these three hundred heavy horses as the center, lined up in layers and ranks, creating an unhindered direction for the heavy cavalry, and rushed towards the core of the Jin army a few miles away.

Xie Ai's central army order tower was more towering and eye-catching than the rest of the armies, and there were several battalions around the tower and formed a plum blossom formation, which could effectively prevent the enemy's attack from approaching. But this so-called effectiveness refers to the regular soldiers, but does not include the heavy cavalry that kills gods on the battlefield.

Although the light cavalry in front of the army rushed faster, but when they arrived in front of the camp of the plum blossom formation, they were sniped by the strong crossbow in the battalion, and had to swim to the flanks to dodge, but the three hundred heavy cavalry were not among them, once they rushed in, they had the power of landslides and earth cracks, although the Jin army's arrows were like rain, but under the protection of the heavy human horse armor, the obstruction effect that could be caused was small and small!

Ma Qiu personally led two thousand horsemen to follow closely in the road opened up by the three hundred heavy cavalry of the forward, and his eyes were not close to the military command tower of the Jin army that was getting closer and closer, and his face even showed a little madness: "The death of the thief is today, right here!" ”

On the Ling Tower, Xie Ai seemed to feel Ma Qiu's fiery gaze, and actually deliberately leaned out of the upper body of the Ling Tower fence, looked down and raised his hand to wave his hand at Ma Qiu, who was not far away, as if to say hello.

Although the distance between the two sides has not been shortened enough to be able to see each other's expressions clearly, Xie Ai's action was still clearly seen by Ma Qiu, and that kind of calm and determined posture was regarded as a serious provocation by Ma Qiu, who couldn't hold back the surging anger and yelled: "Kill!" Kill! Swear to kill the thief! ”

There were heavy cavalry to open the way, and the process of rushing into the Jin army was extremely smooth, while the Jin army in order to ensure that the main force of the Jin army was surrounded in the large array, a large number of cavalry were used to intercept outside, but there were not many wandering strategies that really stayed in the formation.

Although Xie Ai's Chinese army was densely fortified, it lacked very effective means of restraining the heavy cavalry on the battlefield of the Chinese army. The thousands of light cavalry led by Ma Qiu rushed up, and they quickly filled the gaps between these camps, once the Jin soldiers in the camp left the camp, they would definitely be sniped by these cavalry!

Seeing that the target was getting closer and closer, Ma Qiu's heart was beating like a drum, if it weren't for the surrounding soldiers who saw that the main general was not in the right state and desperately pulled the reins of the horse, Ma Qiu couldn't help but rush forward to witness the scene of Xie Ai's head in a different place!

However, just as the heavy cavalry of the Qiang army rushed to the distance of Tarish, the speed of the charge was suddenly reduced to a degree that was visible to the naked eye, if it was a fierce and galloping bison before, then at this moment, almost in the blink of an eye, it was like an old buffalo stuck in the mire.

"Rush, rush! The great work is just around the corner, rush! ”

Ma Qiu always stared at the front with wide eyes, at first glance he thought it was his own illusion, raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, but found that the speed of the forward heavy cavalry had decreased even more, and even a few heavy cavalry simply stopped, and the soldiers looked panicked, as if there was a strong force in the dark that was being applied to them, making it difficult for them to act.

After a moment of stalemate, there was a sudden bang in front of him, and a heavy cavalry of the Qiang army fell directly to the ground without suffering any attack!

Such a strange scene, not to mention that Ma Qiu stayed on the spot by himself, and after the other pawns saw it, they were all stunned for a while. Soon after, some knights fell down one after another in the heavy cavalry procession, and the knights who fell were even more frightened to death, shouting in a hurry: "There is a monster! The Jin army has the help of gods and ghosts......"

Regardless of the power of the gods and ghosts they shouted, when the hundreds of heavy horsemen and horses of the Karma army were lying on the ground and the rear guards were all terrified, hundreds of soldiers wearing leather armor had rushed out from behind the flanks of the Chinese army, and they each rushed into the area where the heavy cavalry of the Karma army was lying down with bone knives sharpened by rhino horns, cut open the heavy armor on the corpse army's body, and calmly harvested these heavy cavalry that were still invincible before with a knife and a knife!

"How so? How could it be ......?"

Seeing this scene, Ma Qiu's eyes were already shattered with astonishment, and the whole person was like a thunderbolt, and suddenly fell from the horse, his eyes were already blank, and he lost his mind for a short time. Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers didn't have the energy to rescue the heavily armored horsemen who were lying on the ground, leading their necks and waiting to be slaughtered, so they hurriedly pulled Ma Qiu onto their horses, began to shrink their formation, and quickly retreated towards the area they controlled.

The incredible scene encountered by the heavy cavalry of the Karma army was a strange method in the eyes of the soldiers of the Karma army, thinking that the Jin army was strong enough to drive away ghosts and gods. But the mystery is actually very simple.

Xie Ai is determined to restore the ancient eight formations, and the ancient old books may not be traceable, but the deeds of the recent era will naturally not be missed. Regardless of the Eight Formations of Zhuge Wuhou of the Three Kingdoms, there was also a famous general who once applied the Eight Formations to actual combat during the period of China and the DPRK, that is, Ma Long, who was ordered to extinguish the Xianbei Bald Tree Functional Rebellion in Hexi in the early years.

In the battle with Hexi Xianbei, Ma Long skillfully used a magnet to set up a formation, and with this demonic almost divine power, he broke the Hexi Xianbei rebels. Such a miraculous achievement is also widely praised in Liangzhou, Xie Ai is originally from Liangzhou, so he is naturally no stranger to this. Now that he has to lead the army, he naturally skillfully transplanted this tactic into the eight formations he set up.

He is in the military order tower, within a radius of a few miles under the soil layer densely paved with magnets, the military horses and heavy armor rushed here, naturally to be attracted by the underground magnetic force, the war horse rushed all the way to the horsepower, and then by this magnetic limitation, it is normal to fall on the ground!

However, even these soldiers in the Wang Division's great array, there are not many who can understand the details, seeing that the heavy cavalry of the Qiang army was killed so easily, they all thought that they had been helped by heaven for a while, and their fighting spirit was even higher.