In the Jin Army's camp, Wanyan Chizha was arranging a field strategy. The siege strategy was no longer practical after the Dalong defenders left the city.
In field battles, changes in formations between the two armies are particularly important, as they are two completely different concepts from siege.
The siege is based on storming the city wall and breaking down the city gates, while the field battle is based on breaking up the opponent's formation and causing it to fall into chaos so that one's own side can effectively kill the enemy.
Therefore, troop allocation is the top priority.
"Report! Report to the Grand Marshal that the dragon troops are setting up a strange battle formation in the west of the city. I have never seen such a complicated formation in my more than ten years of humble service in the army."
"Report! Report to the Grand Marshal, the dragon troops are setting up the Dragon Gate Formation in the west of the city, and the battle formation has gradually taken shape!"
Wanyan Chiezha looked at the second scout returning to the camp and his face was startled, and he hurriedly walked towards the scout.
"How do you know it's from the Dragon Gate Formation? Have you ever seen the Dragon Gate Formation?"
The scout nodded solemnly: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief, before he was transferred to the border army, he served in the Jinwu Guards under General Yeluhu. In the past, he... he was also in the battle formation.
a member of.”
Wanyan Chizha nodded understandingly: "You mean that time when Liu Mingzhi helped His Majesty put down the rebellion, you were also one of the players when the Dragon Gate Formation was set up outside the city?"
"Reporting back to the Commander-in-Chief, that's right!"
"Although I don't know how the Dragon Gate Formation works, I can recognize at a glance that the dragon's soldiers and horses are exactly the Dragon Gate Formation."
Sensing the doubtful looks from the generals around him, Wanyan Chizha's hands wandered behind him with complicated expressions.
"You were stationed at the border back then and couldn't go to Beijing to quell the rebellion. You didn't know how terrifying the Dragon Gate Formation was. Even I learned about this formation from the old brothers in the capital!"
"Princess Luoyue once carefully studied the offensive and defensive changes of this formation, and found that there are 108 offensive and defensive changes when the formation flag is moved!"
"This formation coincides with the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs and the Seventy-Two Earthly Demons, totaling 108 key formations!"
"The entire formation is divided into five basic formations: dragon head, dragon tail, dragon belly, dragon claws, and dragon back. They are intersecting and covering each other. Everywhere is a door to life and everywhere is a door to death."
"No wonder Liu Mingzhi dared to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, no wonder Dalong tried his best to destroy our artillery these days. It turns out that everything they did was to prepare the ground for today!"
Listening to Wanyan Chizha's increasingly serious voice, the generals around him swallowed their saliva involuntarily and became nervous involuntarily.
Since following Wanyan Chizha, this was the first time they saw Wanyan Chizha and such a powerful enemy acting cautiously.
"May I ask if the commander has a way to break the formation?"
Wanyan Chizha shook his head solemnly: "Since the Dragon Gate Formation became famous, it has appeared once in ten years. It was also the time when Liu Mingzhi helped His Majesty suppress the rebellion and became famous. So far, this is the second time it has appeared.
The Dragon Gate Formation is here!"
"Although I have deduced the Dragon Gate Formation, I have never seen the real Dragon Gate Formation."
"But back then, Liu Mingzhi arranged an array with 70,000 people and relied on the natural dangers of the swamps outside the capital to resist more than 300,000 rebels. Even though most of the rebels were government soldiers, it was enough to illustrate the power of the Dragon Gate Formation.
Terrible place."
A group of generals couldn't help but feel worried after hearing Wanyan Chizha's unconfident words.
The name of the Dragon Gate Formation is really too scary.
70,000 people resisted more than 300,000 troops and horses, which put endless pressure on the generals.
"Commander, what should we do next? Destroy all our artillery, otherwise the power of the artillery would be enough to open a gap, but the only remaining artillery still has shells. Even if the shells are exhausted, it will be of little use!"
Wanyan Changzhong's eyes lit up: "Commander, didn't you say that Princess Luoyue... has studied this formation? In that case, why don't we rush to the capital immediately and invite Princess Luoyue back to help break the law?
Formation!"
Wanyan Chizha shook his head without hesitation: "No, I do not deny Her Royal Highness the Princess' talent in formations, but she has never truly commanded an army. The military flag deduction is a deduction, and the confrontation between the two armies is a confrontation between the two armies.
These are different concepts and must not be confused!"
"What should we do? We don't know how to break the formation, so we can't risk the lives of our brothers, right? Since Liu Mingzhi dares to go out of the city to set up an formation, he must have the confidence."
Wanyan Chizha hesitated for a while and scanned the group of generals who looked unhappy.
"In the whole world, besides Liu Mingzhi, there is one person who knows the Dragon Gate Formation best!"
"Huyan Yunyao, the Great Khan of Taichang of the Turks, after Liu Mingzhi left the Kingdom of Jin in the past, his Majesty sent people to investigate and investigate secretly, and came to a conclusion that I don't know whether it is true or false. Huyan Yunyao is indispensable for the development of the Dragon Gate Formation."
"If she can give up attacking Yunzhou and come to assist, the Dragon Gate Formation will no longer be a threat!"
"Served by the Four Treasures of the Study!"
"Commander please!"
Wanyan Chizha picked up his pen and started writing. After a while, the three letters were put into the bamboo tube.
"One golden eagle was sent to His Majesty, one was sent to the Yeluha brothers in Jeju City, and one was sent to Taichang Khan Huyan Yunyao."
"Let's try to break the formation first. I've heard about the reputation of the Dragon Gate Formation for a long time. If I don't try it myself, I will regret it for the rest of my life."
"I hope God will bless me that I can deal with Liu Mingzhi's Dragon Gate Formation as a soldier with decades of experience in breaking formations!"
Yelv Mo took the bamboo tube, and a moment later three majestic golden eagles soared through the air.
"I will obey my orders!"
"We obey orders!"
"According to the formation just deployed, the march is approaching the dragon formation!"
"We have the order!"
The Jin Kingdom camp, which had been quiet for a while, once again sounded the sound of war drums mixed with horns.
The Jin Kingdom's 190,000 troops marched towards the west of Yingzhou City with both offensive and defensive capabilities.
Liu Mingzhi took a deep breath when he heard the powerful drums of the Jin Kingdom, stood on the formation with the flag in hand and stared toward the east.
If all the 140,000 people under his command are elites, why would he arrange formations?
But half of the auxiliary soldiers were trapped among them, so Liu Mingzhi had no choice but to do this. He couldn't just watch them die. Setting up a formation to meet the enemy was the safest way at the moment.
After all, what Wanyan Chizha has in his hands are the experienced frontier troops, not the rabble-rousing riots of the Jin Kingdom in the past.
After ten years of military service, Liu Mingzhi knew clearly that underestimating the enemy would often lead to disastrous consequences.
Wanyan Chizha sat on the horse and scanned the surrounding environment with a telescope, fearing that Liu Mingzhi would come up with something strange to play with him again.
"Instruct the three armies to move northwest and stay away from the west wall of Yingzhou. Be careful of the artillery on the wall to attack from behind!"
"Got the order!"
More than 300,000 soldiers and horses from both sides were spread out, and there were always huge crowds of people.
Wanyan Chiezha's order caused the formation of the Jin army to change again, and Liu Mingzhi saw it clearly.
Liu Mingzhi couldn't help but feel a little regretful, and secretly said to the old fox, it seems that the artillery he placed on the city wall is useless!
The distance between the two armies was getting closer and closer. Wanyan Chiazhao's face became more solemn as he looked at the formed Dragon Gate Formation.
No matter how you observe it, you can launch a charge at any time at several gates of the Dragon Gate Formation, but once the soldiers charge in, they will be quickly cut off and killed in batches in the formation.
Moving from the northwest to the true north, Wanyan Chizha could not find any loopholes for an effective attack.
Liu Mingzhi looked at Wanyan Chizha's appearance of not daring to break the formation easily, and took a deep breath.
"Send the order!"
"It's called a formation. Do you dare to break this formation?"