The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

A general in his thirties with a beard and bright eyes asked, "What does Duke Ming mean?"

The person who spoke was Cao Xing.

Lü Bu walked to the tent door, leaned against the door frame, stared at Dingling City in the distance for a moment, looked back and smiled: "Although Hongzi has received the help of the gentry and tyrants of Yingchuan, he has gathered five thousand soldiers and horses, but these five Thousands of people, what are they made of? They dare to show off their power in front of us and scare us? I am worried that after he arrives with reinforcements, if he can't build a camp, he will learn from the turtle and shrink his head and not fight. If we just wait for Sun Wentai to lead the crowd to come, our army will beat him, and we will have to spend some hands and feet, but instead of building a camp and defending himself immediately, he lined up in the field. This is not a self-injection. Are you tired of eating pi cream?"

The generals in the tent heard Lu Bu's words, and they all heard that Lu Bu seemed to intend to send troops to attack Hongzi, so they asked another general: "Ming Gong is planning to take advantage of the opportunity of Hongzi's formation to send troops out of the camp and go to Hongzi. Are you going to hit it?"

This will also be in his thirties, with sallow skin and is elegant.

Lu Bu said, "Exactly!"

Cao Xing was an upright person, and he would not detour when he spoke. He frowned immediately, and truthfully expressed his concerns, saying: "The reinforcements led by Hongzi are exactly as Ming Gong said, and they were pieced together. Five thousand people, plus the guards in the city, six or seven thousand people inside and outside, and they form a swaying trend. If our army attacks it directly, it will be difficult for the generals to win."

Lu Bu's advisor to the remaining generals said, "What do you think?"

The rest of the generals look at me, I look at you, and no one makes a sound for a while.

But it's no wonder they were timid. As Cao Xing said, the reinforcements from the Hongzi Department were as many as 5,000 people, and they were echoed by the defenders in the city. Moreover, Sun Jian's main reinforcements soon disappeared. If they can reach it, their morale will not be low, and Lu Bu will attack Yingchuan this time, and the total number of troops he will lead is only more than ten thousand people. , If you rush into a battle, you will most likely fall into the danger of being attacked by the enemy. This is a big taboo in the military. It is true that no one dares to guarantee that they can win a battle.

Lu Bu asked Zhang Liao and said, "Wen Yuan, do you think this battle can be fought?"

Zhang Liao thought for a while, then a cautious expression appeared on the young face, and said, "This battle can be fought, and

Do not hit. "

"Doesn't that mean you didn't say anything? What exactly do you mean?"

Zhang Liao said: "When Hongzi first arrived, his army's heart was still floating, and now he selects the elites and rushes to his formation. If he can be shaken, and then the Duke of Ming leads the three armies to advance, this battle can not only be fought, but also killed. Everyone, take advantage of the situation to capture Dingling in one fell swoop; and if there is no certainty that the Hongzi formation will be shaken in a short period of time, and the city guards are given the opportunity to help, then this battle will not be fought."

Understanding Zhang Liao's meaning, Lu Bu touched his stomach and said, "Wen Yuan sees this, it is my heart!" He said, "What's so difficult about shaking the Hongzi formation?" He looked at one of the generals and asked, "Zixiang, I will hand over the formation to Qing, and how long will it take for Qing to shake the formation?"

Zixiang is the word of Gao Shun.

Gao Shun answered concisely, "The formation of Hongzi has not yet been watched by the last commander. Only after watching it can we return to Duke Ming."

"Go and watch!"

Gao Shun went out of the tent, and since galloping horses was forbidden in the camp, he strictly abide by military discipline, and did not ride until he led the horse out of the camp. Lü Bu's camp was located in the south of the city, bypassing Dingling County, to the junction between the west and north of the city, and Gao Shun stationed his horse to overlook it.

Seeing that about four or five miles away from the north of the city, there is a military horse lined up, but it is not the department of Hongzi!

The formation listed by Hongzi is about two miles long.

Three hundred steps are a mile. In order to facilitate the soldiers to fight, usually when the generals are setting up the formation, there are about 200 to 300 soldiers in a row on the front of each mile. There are 5,000 people in the Hongzi Department, and the formation is two li long, that is to say, there are 2,500 people in each li, and in each horizontal row, according to Gao Shun's observation, there are about 200 people. According to calculations, it is concluded that there should be about ten rows in the column of Hongzi's array.

A column of ten rows is a relatively thick array.

Gao Shun said in his heart, "It seems that Hongzi is not just trying to get big. He is also worried that our army will launch a surprise attack on him, so the formation is quite thick." After reading the thickness of the Hongzi formation, he took a closer look. Gao Shun had a good idea of ​​the armor and equipment of the soldiers in the Hongzi formation, and the rigour of the queue, so he didn't look at it any longer.

It didn't take very long for him to go back and forth, and the generals in the tent were still discussing whether to attack the Hongzi formation.

Lu Bu had already returned to the seat and sat down. Seeing him returning, he asked, "How is it?"

Gao Shun bowed respectfully, and said, "Hongzi's formation is thick and not strict, and the general will observe it at the end. The soldiers in the formation are all whispering to each other, and the only ones in armor are only a few hundred soldiers in the army, and there are few cavalry. In more than half an hour, the last general will be able to trap Hongzi in this formation!"

Whenever the formation is formed, according to the military law, it is strictly forbidden for the soldiers to speak at will~www.wuxiaspot.com~ First, if you talk casually, you will not concentrate; Saying something grumbling may shake the hearts of the army. For this point, Hongzi is not ignorant, but unfortunately, among his 5,000 soldiers and horses, a considerable part are Yingchuan gentry, children of powerful families, clansmen, and disciples. For the purpose of protecting their own manor and Wubao, these people, Although they have received some military education in normal times, they are militiamen in nature. It is good to have them stand in a queue and form a formation. How can they be forbidden to speak? Most of these people are fighting side by side with the regular army for the first time, and they are inevitably excited, so there is indeed a lot of chatter.

Such scenarios fell into the eyes of a veteran general like Gao Shun, and he could immediately estimate their combat power and will to fight.

Lu Bu was overjoyed and said, "Just half an hour?"

Gao Shun replied, "At least two quarters of an hour."

Lu Bu asked Zhang Liao, "Wen Yuan?"

Zhang Liao said: "If the captain of the high school has such a grasp, then this battle can be fought!"

Lü Bu got up, put the sword in his waist, and said to the generals: "When I come to attack Yingchuan, I will make a plan before the battle, first conquer Wuyang and Dingling, and advance to Yangzhai. After the reinforcements from Sun Wentai arrive, I will fight with him. Between Dingling and Yangzhai, relying on the bravery of my disciples and the state’s children, I destroyed their tribes in field battles! From now on, Yingchuan and Runan belong to me! Today, Sun Wentai’s reinforcements have already arrived, and Dingling has not yet been pulled out. So that my pre-war strategy can be successfully implemented, today I must break through the Hongzi formation and lay down Dingling City! All generals obey the orders.”

Zhang Liao and other generals all got up from the table, stood in the tent with Gao Shun, and bowed to obey orders.

"After Zixiang breaks the Hongzi formation, he will be rewarded with a hundred gold for capturing and beheading Hongzi! Those who climb the Dingling Tomb first will also be rewarded with the same reward! If there is anyone who is timid in the battle and delays my major affairs, our military law will be ruthless!"

Zhang Liao and the others complied with awe.