The signal not to attack for the time being was sent by Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan followed the cavalry with 5,000 personal guards and prepared to participate in the attack. Gongsun Lan, who was left on the city tower, suddenly rode a horse to chase after him and told him the strange shape of the opponent's formation. Wang Yuan immediately realized that this array of cavalry should not break through, and immediately ordered someone to release a signal.

Liu Jun's 30,000 cavalry all stopped charging two hundred paces in front of the opponent's formation, and everyone felt unspeakably uncomfortable. If the cavalry's charge was forced to stop halfway, it would be like being half, but someone interrupted it and had to put on pants, not to mention the awkwardness and unhappiness in my heart.

Wang Yuan and the others rode their horses and galloped up from the rear and came to the front. Liu Jun hurriedly greeted him and saluted with his fists.

"I've seen the big handsome."

Wang Yuan nodded slightly, looked at the corpses of the more than 2,000 dead cavalrymen on the ground in front of him, and frowned: "What's the matter with them?" How do you disobey orders? ”

"The charge was so hasty that the two thousand brothers could not stop their horses and rushed forward. As a result, they all died in front of the battle. Liu Jun smacked his lips.

Wang Yuan sighed and squinted at the enemy formation in front of him. Liu Jun whispered beside him: "Father-in-law, what kind of ghost formation is that?" None of my 2,000 brothers were able to break through a gap, hell. I've never seen this formation before. ”

Wang Yuan didn't speak, he also felt strange, the formation in front of him was very similar to the Macedonian spear formation in the Middle Ages. But apparently not. The Macedonian phalanx was used to coordinate the attack with the cavalry, and the circle in front of it was obviously designed to cope with the onslaught of its own cavalry. This formation is based on the shield wall spear as a barrier, and the back layer is the archers and the rest of the troops, but it is a good battle formation that combines offense and defense. Li Guangbi has a lot of ability, and his brain is quite flexible, so he actually came up with this formation.

"This formation is a circular formation designed to prevent cavalry charges. Li Guangbi is not a bear bag, he can actually come up with this kind of formation. It seems that he has already thought of a way to face my field battle. Don't underestimate this formation, even if it is an untrained recruit, the battlefield melee is certainly low combat effectiveness, but if it is organized in formation, the combat power can be increased several times. This is where the role of standing in the formation lies, which can gather the strength of many people to form a huge joint force. Wang Yuan said in a deep voice.

"Father-in-law, I've learned a lot about battle formations, but I've never seen anything like this." Liu Jun frowned.

Wang Yuan said: "For so many years, the elite of the soldiers and the strength of the weapons and firearms that our Shence Army has relied on for combat have ignored the role of standing in formation. This point will need to be supplemented in the future. ”

Liu Jun nodded yes, frowned and looked at the enemy formation in front of him and said, "Then how to break this formation?" Just now, the two thousand cavalry rushed up and were killed in an instant, and it seemed useless to rush hard. ”

"Of course, you can't rush hard, the shield wall plus a long spear formation, plus the archers' shooting, even if our more than 30,000 cavalry are strong, they can only break three or five circles and wipe out the whole army. These eight round formations are independent, and breaking three or two formations cannot cause the rest of the formations to collapse. However, in addition to their independence, they can cooperate and merge. For example, the passage between this formation and the formation seems to be able to be cut by cavalry, but once it rushes into the formation, it is tantamount to asking for a dead end. The circle array can be defended in all directions, and if you go in, you can't find a breakthrough, and you will be squeezed by them in several formations and strangled cleanly. That's why I'm ordering you to stop attacking at once. ”

"This ...... According to the Father, is it not inconceivable? We can only retreat? Liu Jun was stunned.

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "That's not true. Although Li Guangbi's formation was exquisite, he failed to perfect it. The perimeter is iron-clad, the spear array can block the impact of our cavalry, and can quickly close the gap, and the archers in the rear can shoot our cavalry, which are his advantages. But the fatal flaw is that he fails to solve the internal defensive problems of each formation. The exterior is impregnable, but the interior is weakly defended. The formation was full of miscellaneous soldiers and archers. If Li Guangbi can give them a shield, then he can form an all-round three-dimensional defense. ”

Liu Jun suddenly said: "Father-in-law's intention, is it that we rode around the periphery and shoot the internal soldiers and horses with bows and crossbows?" ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "That's exactly what I mean." However, this method of attack also caused casualties among the cavalry, because everyone was within range, and the opponent's arrows could also reach our cavalry. Although the opponent's arrows were destroyed by me, they will soon run out of arrows, and I am afraid that they will not be able to shoot a few rounds of arrows. But I still don't think it's a good idea to trade with them. Ten of them died, and one of us died, and I felt at a loss. Therefore, it is better not to use this method. ”

Liu Jun was speechless, Wang Yuan had just proposed a way to attack, but he immediately vetoed it, which made Liu Jun not know how to start.

"What does the father-in-law say? And we don't want more dead, what should we do? ”

Wang Yuan said: "Li Guangbi must have calculated that our new artillery shells have run out and cannot break its defensive formation. But he forgot that our Tiger Squat Cannon can fire iron ball bullets, and I don't want to go around the bend with him, just to break through this formation from the front. Liu Dehai quickly dragged the tiger squat cannon up. When the time comes, look at his shield and gun formation, or our tiger squat cannon is powerful. Liu Jun, your people are ready, after the tiger squat cannon breaks through the gap, I want your people to rush up as fast as possible, and we will swallow all his soldiers and horses under Li Guangbi's nose in one bite. ”

The soldiers and horses of the two sides confronted each other, the Shence army did not attack, and the other party had nothing to do, and did not dare to push forward easily. More than 40,000 infantry of the Shence Army arrived in a group and set up a formation in front of the formation. Liu Jun's 30,000 cavalry were ready to charge at any time on both flanks. Half an hour later, dozens of tiger squat cannons carried down from the city wall were finally pulled by ox carts and rushed to the front of the battle with a bang.

Liu Dehai hurried to Wang Yuan and reported: "Commander, all the sixty-six tiger squat cannons have arrived. Please give the order of the marshal, how to fight? ”

Wang Yuan said: "Gather together and shoot at the circle formation in the south." At such a close distance, I'm afraid the iron bullet will have to be pierced. ”

Liu Dehai laughed and said: "I'm afraid it's not possible to wear it, but it's no problem to wear a dozen sugar gourds." ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Then what are you waiting for?" I don't believe they can withstand this blow. ”

Liu Dehai quickly turned around, and sixty-six tiger squatting cannons were lined up on the south side of the formation, about four or five hundred steps away from the circle formation in the south. The butt was high, the muzzle was flat, and the black hole was aimed at the side of the hedgehog-like circular array.

Liu Jun personally led 15,000 cavalry to prepare for a charge two hundred paces away.

"Ready!" Liu Dehai personally shouted the password: "Launch!" ”

The flag was waved and the line of fire was lit. The red fuse quickly burned into the barrel of the cannon, igniting the ** in the medicine chamber. The next moment, boom, boom, boom, deafening cannon sound rang out, buzzing in the ears of everyone in front of the formation. A row of large iron balls rushed out of the cannon chamber and instantly reached the edge of the opponent's circle.

The shield exploded at the edge of the formation, and as the sawdust flew up, the flesh burst apart. The big iron ball penetrated the shield on the outside of the formation with extremely high kinetic energy, penetrated the flesh and blood in the rear, penetrated the armor and opened the flesh, and then penetrated the human body in the rear, and then continued to penetrate backwards. As Liu Dehai said, the iron ball was like a sugar gourd, penetrating the bodies of more than ten soldiers. Finally, a large ball of flesh and blood struck one of the archers in the lower stomach, knocking the soldier out of the way, and slamming him several feet away. At this point, the dripping iron bullet wrapped in flesh and blood was exhausted and fell to the ground.

Sixty-six iron balls blasted the circle open a gap in flesh and blood. Behind the gap, strings of soldiers fell like wheat, forming a passage of flesh and blood. The width of the passage is more than 40 steps.

"Kill!" Liu Jun was finally able to shout out this with all his dantian qi. His white horse sprang out in an instant. More than 10,000 cavalry behind him let out an earth-shattering roar, urging the horses to rush out. The half-cut was finally able to be cleared again, and everyone was indescribably happy.

The enemy soldiers tried to quickly close the gap, and the shield gunners on both sides gathered on the flesh despite the horror, and the formation quickly closed. However, when there were only a dozen steps left, Liu Jun, who was as fast as lightning, had already rushed into the gap first. Behind him, a steady stream of cavalry was like a sharp knife inserted into the formation, firmly wedged the gap, and continued to expand. It's like a dam opening, and the flood keeps widening the opening, and eventually the dam collapses, and there is no way to stop it.

There were 20,000 soldiers and horses in a circular formation, which seemed to be quite a lot. But under the iron hooves of the cavalry, the collapse was a matter of moments. When the cavalry broke through the gap, the already frightened enemy troops scattered in a hurry, and almost no one dared to fight. Liu Jun's cavalry trampled unscrupulously and slaughtered the panicked fleeing lambs.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The roar of the Tiger Squat Cannon sounded again, and the Tiger Squat Cannon that turned the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the circle formation to the north. This time the distance is farther, and the reunion is enough to get together. However, the iron ball bullet still completed the goal of breaking through the opponent's shield wall and gun formation. Only this time, each shell only penetrated the bodies of five or six soldiers, and the distance was far away, and under the action of gravity, the seven or eight shells of the Tiger Squat Cannon were also released and fell dozens of steps away in front of the formation.

But this did not hinder the offensive of the cavalry. This time the cavalry charged a few breaths in advance, and by the time the running sounded, the cavalry had already rushed a hundred paces away from the front of the formation. The gap in the opponent's slightly smaller formation has no chance to be bridged. Thousands of troops poured into the battle like mudslides and began a merciless slaughter.

The two circles at the front were defeated, and more than 40,000 soldiers and horses began their escape journey. Those who did not know each other fled to the circle in the rear, and the direction of the cavalry was to the rear. The wise ones threw up their swords and surrendered, while others fled into the dark mountains in the north-south direction. 40,000 soldiers and horses fell apart, along with the formation.

There has never been a war as one-sided as this. When the cavalry rushed in, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest. The fried soldiers did not resist at all, and fled directly. It made the cavalry of the Shence Army embarrassed to kill. In the end, they can only have a choice to kill.

Anyone who fled to the rear of the enemy was considered to want to resist and killed.

Anyone who still holds a sword in his hand is regarded as wanting to kill and kill.

Anyone with neat armor is considered to be the backbone of the enemy army, and they are killed.

Although this reason is far-fetched, since he rushed in and did not let Mo Dao get bloody, how could it be regarded as a successful battle.

Within half an hour, 40,000 enemy troops were killed or wounded, 7,000 or 8,000 were wounded, more than 10,000 escaped, and more than 10,000 were taken prisoner. It's cleaned up.

From the beginning to the end, Li Guangbi in the rear did not order to send troops to reinforce, because he had already understood that no matter how he struggled and racked his brains to find a way, in front of Wang Yuan, he could not defeat the other party. The circle array is invalid, the other party is about to swallow it one by one, and then defend the circle formation, what can it do?

There are really only two paths in front of us. The whole army pressed or fled for their lives immediately.

Li Guangbi gave his generals the former, the whole army was pressed, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses fought to the death with the other party, and the life of that person was exchanged for a human life, and how many could be killed.

And he gave himself the latter. He asked Dong Yuanshu and other generals to lead the army to prepare for a decisive battle, and he himself ordered the 10,000 cavalry, which had been used to attack around the rear, to retreat to the east of the mountain pass. He wanted to use the lives of more than 100,000 soldiers to stop Wang Yuan's pursuit, so that he could have a chance to escape from here. As long as you retreat to the mountain road, protected by the broken back of these 10,000 cavalry, you can escape safely. He must not allow himself to fall into Wang Yuan's hands.

In a hurry to flee east. Li Guangbi's mind suddenly remembered the scene after the destruction of the entire army at Namtso Lake. How similar this moment is to that moment. That time was also the annihilation of the army, and he and Ge Shuhan fled east in a hurry, and were finally taken in by Wang Yuan. After that, with his victory over the Tibetans, he was also rewarded by the imperial court and promoted to the post of festival envoy. And this time, he once again wiped out the whole army. This time I may be able to escape, but this time I am facing what kind of situation. An army of 300,000 people, he was defeated like this. I don't seem to have used my strength, and I still have all the solutions I haven't used, why did I lose so badly?

When Li Guangbi fled into the mountain pass, the soldiers and horses in the rear had already begun a great rout. The more than 100,000 soldiers and horses have no combat effectiveness at all, and they seem to be outnumbered, but in their bones they are actually a bunch of loose sand made of tofu dregs. What's more, when Dong Yuanshu and other generals learned that Li Guangbi asked him and others to lead people forward to fight hard, but he himself fled with the cavalry, all of them no longer had any desperate thoughts.

When Wang Yuan Liujun led the cavalry to rush into the enemy's formation, before the official battle, Dong Yuanshu took the lead in escaping, and his soldiers and horses were also defeated. The remaining dozen generals fled after him, and it directly turned into a rout of more than 100,000 people.

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The sky was faint, and the war was basically over. After the mountain road to the east was blocked, a large number of fleeing enemy troops had no way to escape, some of them were captured, and most of the rest were forced to hide in the mountains and forests on the north and south sides.

On the battlefield, tens of thousands of captives began to clean up the battlefield under the supervision of the Shence Army, carrying corpses and supplies. Not to mention weapons and armor, these materials discarded by dozens of people can be described as piled up. But in fact, these weapons and armor are not eye-catching to the Shence Army at all. Compared to the equipment of the Shence Army, these things are simply rubbish.

But in any case, these things are still very useful, such as using them for favors, Ge Luofeng of Nanzhao Kingdom must have glowing eyes when he sees these things. Or pick up some complete armor for your usual training use. Or put it all into the melting pot of the arsenal to turn it into molten iron and return to the furnace to forge new iron.

In addition to these supplies, the corpses under the city are also piled up. Although this battle did not take place in a real collective battle of large armies, it still caused huge casualties. Lee's 300,000-strong army lost more than 60,000 dead in the battle, which is a very large number. The corpses had been lying on the battlefield in the city for several days, and because of the cold weather, they did not cause a rotting stench. Tens of thousands of corpses want to dig pits and bury them, which is also a big project. And Wang Yuan's usual practice is to pile up several corpse mountains and then burn them clean. This is the quickest and least hassle-free way to do it.

So truckloads of corpses were carried to the valley to the south, where they were piled up into hills. Large quantities of firewood, grass and wood were carried and covered with corpses, doused with grease and lit fires. Soon after, several puffs of black smoke rose from the valley and soared into the sky, even if it was deliberately placed downwind to the south, the air was still filled with black ash and a scorching smell.

At the beginning of noon, Liu Jun, who led his troops to pursue Li Guangbi, returned empty-handed with his cavalry, but they failed to capture Li Guangbi. In the lobby of the Tongzhou Mansion, before the celebration banquet began, Liu Jun rushed back and remorsefully reported the pursuit to Wang Yuanyu.

After the defeat of the enemy, Li Guangbi and 10,000 cavalry fled early into the mountain road leading to Jinzhou. The reason why Liu Jun wanted to chase was because the middle section of the mountain road had been destroyed and blocked by the Shence army, so Li Guangbi and them actually had no way to escape. However, what made Liu Jun and the others speechless was that they pursued for more than 30 miles, and were blocked by the corpses of thousands of war horses on the narrow mountain road at the Eagle Mouth. The carcasses of these horses piled up on the road, completely blocking the mountain road.

Obviously, it was Li Guangbi who ordered the cavalry's war horse to be killed as a roadblock, and he was desperate to block the pursuers behind. Perhaps it was the Shence Army's previous practice of blocking the mountain path that inspired him. He was unable to blow up the mountain beams on both sides and block the mountain road, so he used his precious war horse as a roadblock to block the way. Not to mention, it really works. The carcass of the war horse was heavy and large. Dozens of horses can block the road and want to move it away