"I plan to go to Xiangyang in person to meet the young emperor Zhao Hu of the Southern Dynasty." At this point, Kublai Khan's eyes suddenly shone with light, but he soon smiled slightly and said, "Twin stars shine, but they cannot be juxtaposed after all. Two tigers in the mountain,
How can there be peaceful coexistence?"
"Your Majesty, no," Wu Liang Hetai hurriedly dissuaded him. "There are A Shu, Boyan and other famous generals at the front of Xiangyang. According to the wishes of Lord Shen Zun, they should be able to complete the task. Your Majesty is a man of ten thousand gold. How can you do it so easily?"
On the battlefield,"
"General Wu Liang Hetai, I am also experienced in the battlefield. Moreover, the emergence of firearms has changed the trajectory and pattern of war. I need to go and see for myself what firearms are and how powerful they are."
Yin Tianya said: "Since the Great Khan wants to conquer it himself, I will accompany the Great Khan and go to Xiangyang again."
"Well, with the Lord God accompanying me, I have no worries. When Wu Liang joins the stage, I will leave the affairs of the Privy Council to you. Remember, no army can act on its own initiative, especially at the pass between the east and west.
, we must take strict precautions, and you order the Eastern Route Army, in addition to preventing Li Tingzhi from going north, send another thousand cavalry troops who are familiar with the terrain to assist Eji, and must destroy this lone army of the Southern Dynasties,"
"Yes, I obey your order,"
"General Wu Liang Hetai, you immediately reply to A Shu and Boyan. If the Lumen Mountain fortress cannot be defended, the army will be transferred to the Baihe City fortress. I will set off from Dadu in three days and arrive in Xiangyang before July 5th. Before I arrive,
, the center army focuses on defense,”
"Yes, Your Majesty,"
"Emperor Master, during my absence, you will be responsible for the government affairs of the imperial court for the time being."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I obey your order,"
Kublai Khan finally said: "Everything will be finalized after the Battle of Xiangyang."
At noon on June 26th, there was not a cloud in the sky, not a bit of wind, a scorching sun hung high in the sky, and the blazing sunlight hit the ground like a rocket, making all the trees and weeds listless, and at the same time, Lumen Mountain was
The darkness is nowhere to be found.
Only, the five-sided formation in front of the Yuan army camp was still filled with smoke, and such strong sunlight could not penetrate into it.
Braving the scorching heat, the Song Army once again sent troops to Lumen Mountain, preparing to attack the ground-based formation in the five-square formation. The difference from the previous times is that it was no longer Gongsun Xiaochen who issued the order, but me, the current emperor of the Song Dynasty.
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The reason is very simple. The general who led the team to break the formation was none other than Fang Ling. No matter how courageous Gongsun Xiaochen was, he would not dare to give orders to the Song Dynasty Princess, although Fang Ling and I didn't mind at all.
Of course, I only play the role of setter, and the specific methods of breaking the formation are all formulated by Gongsun Xiaochen.
In front of the five square formations, I ordered: "Fang Ling listens to the order,"
Fang Ling, who was wearing battle armor, said seriously: "Your Majesty, the last general is here."
"I order you to lead one hundred and eleven personal guards and attack the ground formation according to the plan without making any mistakes."
"Yes, the general will receive the order at the end,"
The ground-carrying formation is one of the two main formations of the five-square formation. The main position is a wounded gate in the eight formations. It has great attack power. The attack power of the defenders in the formation can be doubled. However,
As far as formations are concerned, Boyan's cultivation is still far from enough, and this five-square formation was set up in a hurry. It is based on the guards in the formation.
At most, the attack power can only be increased by 10 to 20%, and more troops cannot be placed in the formation, otherwise it will affect the power of the entire five-square formation. The formations of magic cultivators are completely different from those in the general army.
Differently, the fewer people in the formation, the more powerful it is. Like Zhuge Liang's Eight Formations, there is no one in it.
Regarding the Earth-carrying Formation, Gongsun Xiaochen said that in order to break it, the person who dominates Yin must be the general.
In the entire Song Dynasty army, there was only one female general, Fang Ling, and Fang Ling was highly skilled in martial arts and intelligent, so she was the perfect choice to break the formation. There were twelve formations on the ground, with an eight-square shape, and the clouds dominated the four corners, charging at the enemy. Difficult to do, its body is unpredictable, its uses are endless, it cannot be independent, and it is matched with Yang.
Although there were only 112 people including Shangshang Ling who broke the formation, all of them were experts. To be on the safe side, I specially asked Wen Zhang, Shen Mo and Zhang Quanyi to accompany them.
Fang Ling couldn't hide her inner excitement, nodded to me, held a sword, and led more than a hundred personal guards to the ground formation. Although it was the first time to enter the formation, Gongsun Xiaochen had explained it in detail before, and he added Shang Ling and others are brave and skilled people. Even if attacking the ground formation is more difficult than the other three formations, they are fearless.
The ground-bearing formation is divided into twelve small formations, corresponding to the twelve zodiac signs such as rat and ox. Each formation is guarded by twelve sergeants of the same zodiac sign and is located in the center of the formation eye. The leader of the twelve formation eyes must be born from From January to December, for example, the twelve people in the Rat Formation are all people whose zodiac sign is Rat, and the leader among them needs to be born in January.
After Fang Ling and others entered the ground formation, they only felt the gloomy wind and the cold air seeping through. Fortunately, everyone was good at it, so they didn't think anything of it. After walking forward for dozens of steps, they saw a vertical screen not far ahead. A huge flag. This flag has almost no flagpole part and is about five meters high. The image on it is a giant rat with a bloody mouth. Its shape takes up 90% of the entire flag. There are twelve Mongolians under it. When the leader of the soldiers saw the Song army rushing into the formation, they immediately waved a small red flag. Immediately, the remaining eleven people also waved the red flags in their hands. In an instant, Fang Ling and others felt a stronger wind. It blew so hard that all the soldiers were dizzy. When they looked at it attentively, they saw the giant rat in the banner spitting out countless ghosts. As soon as it hit the ground, it rushed towards the Song army. These ghosts were all rat-headed and with human bodies, but all of them were mutilated. Incomplete, and his mouth is full of filthy things, and he is indescribably disgusted.
"The magic is nothing," Fang Ling said with a cold smile, "The first team can take willow branches and disperse the three souls and seven souls of these fierce ghosts."
"Yes," the thirty-six members of the first team each took out a willow branch and rushed towards the ghosts. As soon as these fierce-looking ghosts touched the willow branches, they immediately turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared among the crowd. within sight.
When the guards saw the Song army taking out willow branches, they knew something was wrong and did not care about the small number of people. They waved flags and swords and rushed towards them.
"Well done, General Wen, you lead the second team to meet the enemy," Fang Ling ordered.
Although the twelve Mongolian Xue soldiers were strengthened by the formation and their attack power was increased, they were no match for Wen Zhang and others. After a while, without hurting anyone, the second group of guards would Twelve Mongol defenders were chopped to the ground.
When the members of the first team saw that all the enemy troops guarding the formation were dead, they threw all the willow branches in their hands towards the giant rat on the big flag.
Just like bullets shooting through, each willow branch hits the giant rat on the flag, causing holes like gun holes to appear in the giant rat figure, and a dark red viscous substance that looks like blood flows out from them.
When the thirty-sixth willow branch hit the giant rat figure, the flag collapsed to the ground with a "boom".
"Okay, burn the demon flag," Fang Ling ordered again as he saw the red flag burned to ashes, "Soldiers, keep moving forward."
According to the plan formulated by Gongsun Xiaochen, Fang Ling led the crowd to use different magical weapons to destroy the ox, tiger, horse, dog and other formations one after another. The flags representing the formations were set on fire by the Song army.
As the small formations in the ground-borne formation were broken one by one, the visibility in the entire formation became higher and higher. Everyone did not bother to check where they were and just continued to move forward.
The Haizhu Formation, which is farthest from the other eleven formations, is about half an hour away from the nearest Xugou Formation. When he arrived in front of the Haizhu Formation, Fang Ling said: "Okay, only this last formation is left. , once the Hai Zhu Formation is broken, this Earth Carrier Formation will be completely destroyed."
The slight difference is that there are mountains of bones and corpses in the Haizhu Formation. Except for a small open space under the flag that is clean and dry, the rest is filled with river water, but it is a river made of blood, blocking everyone's way.
From a distance, except for a strangely shaped pig on the flag, the rest of the scene has nothing to do with pigs.
Fang Ling took out a talisman from his arms, put it on his long sword, and muttered something in his mouth. After a while, sparks suddenly appeared from the talisman, turned into ashes, and fell into the river on the ground.
There was almost no pause. When the blood river encountered the talisman that turned into ashes, it immediately disappeared, and the speed of disappearance was extremely fast. It didn't take long for the blood river in the entire Hai Zhu Formation to disappear. At the same time, a bunch of The pile of bones and corpses also disappeared without a trace.
"This Xiao Chen, you really have the guts to break through the Hai Zhu Formation with just a small charm," Fang Ling said in praise, "Attack,"
Of course Fang Ling didn't know that this talisman was not owned by Gongsun Xiaochen, but was a talisman made by Gongsun Ang, the master of the Imperial Valley Arts Hall, which took ten years to make.
Gongsun Xiaochen, who had been watching the ground formation, said: "Your Majesty, Concubine Ling is done."
As soon as he finished speaking, the smoke in the ground array cleared away. Fang Ling and more than a hundred people appeared out of thin air in front of everyone like magician's props. Behind them, the last master of the five-square array appeared. The formation of the sky also showed its face, but in my opinion, it was just a cloud of smoke.
Fang Ling led the crowd back to me and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the last general Fang Ling has completed his mission."
"Okay, I will discuss my merits and reward them."
Fang Ling laughed: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
"Haha," I was very happy to break the formation without losing a single soldier. I turned around and saw Gongsun Xiaochen nodded, and then ordered, "Retreat the troops."
Outside Lin'an City.
Yang Lianzhenjia, Fang Chenqian and nearly two thousand members of the Tiandao Alliance arrived at Daci Mountain outside Lin'an City one day early on the evening of June 27th. During the war, the imperial court had strict jurisdiction over the northern border area, but had no control over the interior. The mainland area was much more relaxed. No one thought that at the critical moment of the Song and Yuan wars, civil strife would break out, and it was still in Lin'an, at the feet of the emperor.