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In the early morning of the next day, the generals of the dry army got up early to check the status of weapons, soldiers, horses, saddles and stirrups. These preparations must be in place before the battle begins. Any negligence in details may cost their lives, and no one dares to be sloppy.

Before eating, everyone feeds the horses. The horses’ concentrate is generally beans. This stuff is fattening, which is very good for the horses to recover their strength and maintain their state.

This breakfast was very rich, full of steamed pancakes, meat and soup, and everyone's mouths were full of oil.

Even the generals who have experienced many wars are still a little nervous before this one. This is human nature. No one can ignore life and death. Last time he survived on the battlefield, this time no one can guarantee I will not die, so every soldier will inevitably be afraid before the start of every battle, but experienced soldiers will know how to adjust their mentality. This is the difference between veterans and recruits.

After drinking and eating, Zhao Junsheng ordered the army to assemble, leaving 5000 infantry to guard the camp. He set out with [-] people and marched towards the Liu Song Army camp.

"My lord, I guess Tan Daoji chose to fight against the king because he was forced to do it today. He doesn't have many cavalry, and he lacks the initiative to attack in the field. Coupled with the huge pressure on him from the Liu Song court, he may have no choice but to do it." Do it!" Dongfang Chen said to Zhao Junsheng while riding on horseback.

Zhao Junsheng said: "No matter what his reason is, a decisive battle is what our army wishes for!"

"Report-"

"Report to Your Majesty, Liu Song's army is forming a formation outside the camp. With our army's current speed, their formation will be just completed!" A scout reported to Zhao Junsheng on horseback.

Zhao Junsheng immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to speed up the marching speed, and the increased marching speed can just warm up.

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The army accelerated forward, and when Zhao Junsheng led the army to arrive, Liu Song's army was still in formation, but it was almost finished, and he was not afraid that Tan Daoji would take the lead in attacking him while he was on a weak footing. Tan Daoji could not do it yet, Liu Song There are only a small number of cavalry in the army, and they have been beaten and killed by the cavalry of the Qianjun army. That is to say, Liu Songjun has no ability to attack while his footing is unstable. After two or three miles, the infantry will be exhausted when they rush over. , fuck?

In the army formation, Dongfang Chen said to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, the formation that Tan Daoji has set up is not simple. It can be attacked when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat. If they stay put and wait for our army to attack, if our army If you don’t know how to break the formation, it’s hard to do anything to defeat them!”

Zhao Junsheng frowned after observing for a while and said: "This is an improved five-element formation. The five armies of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth occupy a corner each, and the main general is in the middle. If you attack any corner, you will be flanked by two adjacent armies!"

Cui Hao asked: "How does Your Majesty plan to break the formation?"

Zhao Junsheng shook his head. He knows the method of po jiě in the ordinary five-element formation, but any general who is proficient in the formation will not use ordinary conquests. It must be improved. I know that if other people want to know the method of po jiě, they must carefully observe the operation of this formation and keep probing.

Zhao Junsheng ordered: "Send two thousand light cavalry each to test the left and right corners. If you encounter a large-scale bow and arrow attack, withdraw immediately!"

Chapter 645 Breaking the Formation

The five-element formation that Tan Daoji set up was in the shape of a five-pointed star. After Zhao Junsheng's order was issued, the four thousand cavalry were divided into two parts, and two thousand cavalry each attacked the left and right corners of the five-element formation from the left and right wings.

The horn sounded, and the two cavalrymen set off and rushed towards their respective targets. In order to attack the left and right legs of Liu Songjun's five-element formation, the dry army cavalry had to circle around, because the formation arranged by Liu Songjun occupied The area is too large, the total force reaches 5, the bg li bu shu at each corner reaches [-], and the center of the array reaches [-].

Seeing that the two cavalry had set off, Zhao Junsheng asked Dongfang Chen and Cui Hao: "Dongfang, Cui Gong, what do you think of the five-element formation that Tan Daoji put up?"

Dongfang Chen and Cui Hao glanced at each other, and they cupped their hands together and said, "Forgive me, my lord. Although I have seen some soldiers, I haven't actually led them. I don't know what the five-element formation is like!"

Zhao Junsheng said: "The five-element formation is an excellent defensive formation. You see, if the two sides of each corner of the five-element formation are compared to two city walls, no matter which city wall the attacking army attacks, it will definitely be attacked by the city wall behind it." If you deploy a large number of archers inside the city walls, the attacking side will be attacked by bows and arrows from the front and back, and there will be heavy casualties!"

"However, the five-element formation that you Tan Daoji deployed is too big. It is so big that its two adjacent corners cannot use bows and arrows to support each other. We can only send troops to reinforce it. In this way, there will be loopholes!"

"Tan Daoji must also know this, so he deployed some of his only cavalry to the wài wéi on the left and right wings, so that they can support at any time!"

"This king is sure that although Tan Daoji has studied and improved the five-element formation, he has never set up such a large military formation with so many troops of 5 people. It can be seen that the army formation is not strict, the order is not very smooth, and the various departments of the five elements formation are in a mess, it will be very difficult to mobilize!"

While talking, two light cavalry had rushed to the left and right corners of the Liu Song Army's five-element formation, and the two surrendered soldiers on the left and right wings of the Liu Song Army began to shoot arrows.

Zhao Junsheng observed that Liu Songjun's arrows were not dense, which meant that the raid of the Qianjun cavalry the night before yesterday consumed too many arrows of the other side, and Liu Songjun had no time to replenish them. not big.

When the distance was a step closer, two cavalrymen of the dry army began to launch cavalry and shooting. The cavalry galloped on horseback at high speed while shooting arrows. Killed by arrows, some of which hit the shield.

As the cavalry of the dry army got closer, more and more arrows fell from Liu Song's army without shields in the back row.

Seeing this scene, Tan Daoji ordered: "The spear soldiers move forward, and the sword and shield soldiers retreat!"

Although the order was issued, the army array was too large, and the faster flag order was not used in advance, but the fast horse order was still used. The transmission speed of the military order was too slow, and there were problems in the execution. Their movements were not neat, some people took one step ahead and some behind, so that the formation was chaotic.

At this moment, the Qianjun cavalry rushed into the Liu Song army formation, and the Liu Song army's sword and shield soldiers who were retreating were rushed to pieces by the Qianjun cavalry. Before the spearmen with spears in their hands had time to set up a spear array, they couldn't stop the charge of the dry army cavalry.

A large number of soldiers on the two wings were washed away, but they couldn't stand Liu Song's army. There were too many soldiers, and the formation was too dense. The two dry army cavalry charged a certain distance in the formation, and the speed was weakened.

Zhao Junsheng ordered: "Let them come out quickly, and then test the lower left and lower right corners. This time there is no need to rush too hard, just test the concentration of Liu Songjun's bows and arrows!"

Three horns sounded in a row, and the flag bearer waved the flag a few times in the fastest way.

"Follow me!" The cavalry general who led the army heard the sound of the horn, turned his head and saw the flag, learned the content of the order, and immediately roared, leading the cavalry behind him around and killed from the side At this time, Liu Songjun in the adjacent corner is facing this side

When the attack came, the cavalry of the dry army immediately accelerated and rushed out of the Liu Song army formation, and rushed out of the army formation before the opposite Liu Song army attacked.

"Change horses!" The cavalry general of the army gave the order to change horses. After rushing for so long just now, the horses are already a little tired. Changing horses can maintain the impact speed.

After the two cavalry broke out of the army formation, they gave a circle and then rushed out to the lower left and lower right corners, directly impacting the cross-section of these two corners.

This time, the former general of the Liu Song Army did not wait for Tan Daoji's order to be issued, so he directly ordered the spearmen to step forward to form a spear formation. They squatted down beside the sword and shield soldiers and thrust their spears obliquely into the ground.

The archers in the formation began to release arrows, and they shot out three consecutive arrows, causing more than a hundred casualties to the cavalrymen who were rushing over.

"Scatter!" With the shout of the dry army cavalry general waving his hand, the dry army cavalry dispersed one after another, the probability of being shot by arrows was greatly reduced, and the number of people hit by arrows dropped instantly.

"Fire arrows——" After entering the range of the cavalry bow, the cavalry cavalry also began to shoot arrows, shooting arrows three or five times in a row. There were also many casualties in the Liu Song army formation in front. The shield resisted, but the arrows penetrated everywhere.

There was a panic in the formation, and the general who led the troops yelled: "Hold on, hold on, no one is allowed to run, and those who disobey the order will be killed!"

With the yelling and suppression of the leaders and generals, the flustered generals of the Liu Song army calmed down, but the dry army cavalry did not rush directly into the formation, but turned around suddenly before the formation. They used to beat horses and fly Ben shot arrows, and the distance from the front row of the army formation was only a dozen steps.

At such a short distance, the archers behind Liu Song's army did not dare to shoot arrows, for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, and the dry army cavalry just took advantage of this to gallop and shoot arrows in front of the formation. Liu Songjun in the middle of the battle was hit by a large number of arrows, and the number of casualties soared all the way.

The dry army cavalry ran in front of the formation, and the casualties caused by the arrows almost collapsed the army formation, but the dry army cavalry did not entangle them too much, and soon rode away and returned to the main formation .

The whole testing process lasted about an hour. Two cavalry with 4000 horsemen tested four of the five corners of the entire five-element formation, leaving only one corner at the top untested.

"My lord, they are back, and it seems that more than a thousand people have been killed or injured!" Chang Kun reported to Zhao Junsheng.

Cui Hao looked at Zhao Junsheng's face, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have used more than a thousand cavalry to test out the reality of Liu Song's army formation. I think it is worth it!"

Zhao Junsheng was noncommittal, thought for a while, and ordered: "Send [-] infantry from the left and right flanks to attack the left and right corners of the Liu Song Army's Five Elements Army formation. Attack immediately before they are in chaos!"

"As ordered!"

A horn sounded, and [-] infantrymen on the left and right flanks marched slowly in neat steps.

Zhao Junsheng ordered again: "Send two thousand cavalry each to follow the infantry at a distance of [-] paces. It is unreliable to get too close. Stand by!"

Another [-] cavalrymen were dispatched from the left and right flanks. This time, the infantry was attacking and encircling. The attacking process was very slow. The closest distance between the two armies was two miles. , A full ten minutes have passed.

The infantry of the dry army did not charge forward, but pressed forward step by step. When the front row of the two sides touched, the dry saber and shield hand immediately pushed the shield up to withstand Liu Songjun, or hacked with a sword, or slashed for the rear. The spearmen took cover, and the archers behind them kept firing arrows at Liu Song's army formation.

The infantry of the Liu Song Army with more than a thousand soldiers lost more than 2000 people through the charge of the cavalry just now, and only 5000 remained. The formation has not been fully restored.

The dry saber and shield soldiers, spearmen and archers cooperate with each other, use sword and shield soldiers to block the front, use spearmen to wait for the opportunity to kill the enemy, and then use archers to support the rear, and keep shooting arrows. The infantry of the Liu Song Army did not cooperate so closely. , was killed and retreated again and again, and the losses gradually increased.

The Liu Song Army at the lower left and the north corner each sent an army formation to reinforce, attacking the infantry of the Gan army from the upper and lower directions.