Chapter 403: The Battle of Wuzhangyuan (4)
A sneer appeared at the corner of Sima Wang's mouth. The best opportunity, Liu Yin has been lost, even if the Shu army set up an ambush in Wuzhangyuan, so what, the Wei army has already been prepared, ready for battle, who will kill the deer, it is still unknown!
When all the Wei troops crossed the Weishui, Sima Wang immediately ordered a long snake formation to be listed. The long snake formation is a kind of formation between the marching formation and the attack formation, and at the same time has the function of defense, the long snake formation operates, like a giant python attack, fierce and ferocious, in the position of its snake head, it is generally equipped with hoplites, draped and sharp, invincible, in the rear wing, equipped with strong mobility of the cavalry, the head is the tail, the tail is the first to, the waist is the head and the tail, so the word long snake formation is a kind of offensive and defensive formation, but also the formation with the highest attack speed and efficiency.
None of the scouts sent out survived, and it was obvious that there must have been an ambush in the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan, because he did not get the reconnaissance information of the scouts, Sima Wang could not know how many Shu troops were in Wuzhangyuan, but this did not hinder Sima Wang's confidence in the decisive battle.
After the Battle of Jieting, Sima Wang learned from the pain and summed up the lesson of the battle with the cavalry of the Shu army, which was a bloody lesson. The entire battle of Jieting was defeated in the battle of Dishui Cliff, and the elite cavalry of the Wei army was lost, which made Sima Wang clearly realize that if he simply used cavalry to fight against the cavalry of the Shu army, he would definitely suffer a loss, and only the coordination of multiple arms could restrain the attack of the Shu army.
While satisfying the speed of the march, the one-word long snake formation has both offense and defense, which can effectively resist the impact of the Shu cavalry, so after Sima Wang completed the river crossing, he immediately put out a long snake formation and slowly advanced forward.
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From the angle of the chessboard mountain, the 50,000 troops of the Wei army are like a brown python, cruising and marching on the Wuzhang Plain.
"A long snake formation?" A smile appeared on Liu Yin's face. It seems that this Sima Wang is indeed not an ordinary person, obviously, at this moment, there is no formation that can be more effective than a long snake formation, hitting the head and tail, hitting the tail and the waist. This is exactly the power of the long snake formation, if you don't know the key to breaking the formation, no matter which direction you attack, you will be strangled by the long snake formation.
But it is not very difficult to break the long snake formation, the most important thing is to limit the mobility of its battle formation, so that its head and tail cannot care about each other, pull its head, clip its tail, and cut its waist. Its array is broken! The specific method is to set a trap in our infantry formation, use the two infantry phalanxes to cooperate to prevent the movement of the opponent's cavalry on both wings, so that they cannot exert their ability to move and be flexible, and then use the strong cavalry to launch a strong impact on their snake belly infantry, so that their formation is scattered and disorderly, and the infantry phalanx is defeated in one fell swoop, and the long snake formation is cut into three pieces. In this way, the Long Snake Formation fought separately. It is no longer possible to fight with the cooperation of three parties, and the formation is self-defeating!
Knowing how to break the formation, Liu Yin was naturally confident, calm and calm, seeing that the Wei army's long snake array had already driven straight into the hinterland of Wuzhang Plain, Liu Yin immediately ordered. The left battalion of Hubu and the right battalion of Hubu attacked the head of the long snake formation, Yao Yikang's Qiang cavalry attacked the snake tail part of the long snake formation, and Liu Yin personally led the left battalion of the tiger cavalry and the right battalion of the tiger cavalry to attack the belly of the snake. Liu Yin asked the three armies to act together and attack at the same time, pointing directly at the key point of the Wei army's one-word long snake formation.
Gao Yuan and Fu Zhao were responsible for directing the left and right battalions of Hubu to attack the snake head of the long snake formation. In the head of the snake is the hoplite of the Wei army, all wearing heavy armor, holding spears, although the movement is slow, but the attack ability is very strong, the cloth is stubborn, invincible, is the Wei army second only to the cavalry of the ace troops, now the cavalry contest in the Wei army has fallen behind, Sima Wang had to push the hoplites to the foreground, with the hoplite turtle shell like defense, to resist the strong attack of the Shu cavalry.
Liu Yin's task to the left and right battalions of Hubu is very clear, that is, to drag the Wei army in the position of the head of the snake to the death, and not let them move, the position of the head of the snake is the most powerful part of the entire long snake formation, Liu Yin did not expect the Hubu battalion alone to break through the strongest part of the long snake, the role of the Hubu battalion is only to contain the Wei army, not to let the head of the snake move, and return to the snake tail.
And the real main attack is the Qiang cavalry that attacks the snake's tail and the tiger horse that attacks the snake's belly.
Since leaving Xiqiang, Yao Yikang's 30,000 Qiang cavalry has not really fought a battle, although in the battle of Jieting 30,000 Qiang cavalry served as the right wing of the assault mission, but after the troops out of Guangwei, Sima Wang's retreat was fast, and the Qiang cavalry had not had time to close the siege, the Wei army had already fled, and later on Liu Yin's order, Yao Yikang did not lead the army to pursue, so the first battle out of Xiqiang, the 30,000 Qiang cavalry only beat the side drum, and did not participate in the substantive battle.
This made Yao Yikang, who has always been arrogant and conceited, quite unhappy, after the battle of Jieting, Yao Yikang went straight to find Liu Yin, expressing his dissatisfaction, 30,000 Qiang cavalry warriors came to help the battle, that is, to charge into battle and kill the enemy happily, rather than pulling the tiger skin as a banner to scare people.
Liu Yin is also helpless to this straightforward righteous brother, not to mention that during the battle of Jieting, Sima Wang's old fox withdrew quickly, and even he didn't expect it, Yao Yikang didn't get the battle and there was no way to do it, Liu Yin had to promise with a smile that the next time there was a battle, he would definitely let Qiang Qi take the position of the first attack.
In this Wuzhangyuan ambush battle, Liu Yin did not break his promise, and arranged for 30,000 Qiang to ride on the east side of the chessboard to ambush. However, in order to prevent Yao Yikang from having a brain fever for a while, he rushed out when he saw Wei Bing, and sabotaged his carefully planned plan, Liu Yin made an appointment with Yao Yikang in advance for three chapters.
Yao Yikang agreed very happily, but after entering the eastern side of the chessboard, when he saw the Wei army crossing the Weishui on a large scale from the pontoon bridge, Yao Yikang was still so anxious that he scratched his heart, and he couldn't wait to rush out and kill at this moment.
But in the end, he still restrained, after all, at this moment he joined the battle sequence of the Shu army, so he naturally had to obey Liu Yin's orders unconditionally, Yao Yikang knew very well that Liu Yin was planning an overall situation, and if he attacked hastily at this moment, it would inevitably affect Liu Yin's plan.
So he endured it and waited anxiously for Liu Yin's order.
Finally, the order to fight was given, Yao Yikang took the lead, and the 30,000 Qiang cavalry rushed towards the long snake formation of the Wei army like a storm. (To be continued.) )