Like a sharp blade cutting on tofu, a large piece of Yanzhou Army's flank was neatly cut off.
Liu Dai was well prepared for the arrival of the Yulin Army. While he was furious and ordered the generals to attack the mountain with all their strength, he still retained several reserve teams to defend on both wings. At the same time, the defense lines deployed along the river also maintained
Very complete.
No matter how unnatural the behavior of the night attack troops seemed, Liu Dai could not help but be on his guard.
Wang Yu's main force is fighting fiercely with Cao Cao, but the battlefield is not far from Chiping. If Wang Yu makes up his mind to attack in the east and west, he can secretly infiltrate Chencang and suddenly appear on the north bank of the river, taking advantage of Liu Dai's attention to attack the troops at night.
On his body, he crossed the river for a surprise attack.
In addition, after Wang Yu and Cao Cao started fighting, Licheng's Yu Lin army crossed the border and moved westward, lingering a hundred miles away. This army and horses were waiting nearby, either to contain it or to wait for the opportunity, preparing to cooperate with the main force to cross the river.
They are all major threats, and Liu Dai will certainly not turn a blind eye.
Liu Dai's thinking was not bad, but after nightfall, too many accidents happened.
First of all, the direction in which the surprise attack troops appeared and the target of the attack were both problematic. Even if they had taken out most of the elite troops within their jurisdiction, there were still county soldiers left behind in various places. Where did these enemy soldiers come from?
In addition, since the enemy's surprise attack was mainly to contain and harass, it should be Wang Yu's main force who launched the fatal blow. As a result, it turned out to be Licheng's troops.
After the New Deal was implemented in Qingzhou, various signs showed that although the Yulin Army had a great reputation, it seemed to be positioned as a defensive force. Similar conclusions can be drawn from the command style of the Lord and General Jin.
What's more, due to the situation in Xuzhou and Zang Ba's restlessness, the Yulin Army, which is responsible for protecting the country and the people, cannot escape at all. Even if it does go abroad to fight, at most it can only divide its troops. The total number of Licheng troops
There are only more than 4,000 people. Even if the whole army comes, how can we defeat our own 30,000 troops?
With these preconceived judgments, one can imagine Liu Dai's surprise when the Yulin Army suddenly appeared in front of him and launched a fierce attack without hesitation.
When the figure of the Yulin Army appeared in the morning sun, Liu Dai lost all his strength. When the opponent surged forward at an incredible speed, fighting all the way to the front, with a neat formation like a knife, he was busy turning around and regrouping.
When the orderly Yanzhou Army was unable to fight back, Liu Dai's heart felt as if a huge gun was rising in the sky.
The Yulin Army's combat power was far stronger than he imagined!
The scale of the troop dispatch was far larger than he imagined!
In wars in the Cold Weapon Age, the importance of army formations was far more important than in later generations. It was unimaginable to charge in separate lines. Even an untrained mob knew that the tighter the formation, the better the number of people could be used.
The principle of advantage.
Military strategists all know that only by forming a formation can the combat power of the army be released as much as possible. Therefore, tactical issues, to a large extent, revolve around how to form formations, how to change formations, and how to maintain consistent
The series of problems of maintaining formation unfolded.
This is a typical job that is easier said than done.
It is easy to talk about war on paper, and a scholar who has never fought in a war can refute a veteran general in the army. The Habayashi Army's surprise attack is one of those cases that can only happen if it is done on paper.
Just yesterday, there was nothing unusual in the scout's report. Although the Yulin Army was less than a hundred miles away from Chiping, it was still at a safe distance. As a result, after just one night, nearly ten thousand troops were killed right before their eyes!
What kind of terrifying speed is this? Even if you march along the river and walk on the flat official road, you can go into battle lightly, but this marching speed is too exaggerated. You must know that the Yulin Army is an infantry unit, not a cavalry unit!
What was more terrifying than the marching speed was the formation of the Yulin Army.
The formation is very simple, just a square formation with little technical content. After a few days of reading military books and a few months in the army, it can be easily set up.
What's shocking is that the opponent's formation change was completed while marching!
When they appeared in the field of vision, Yu Lin's army was still in a long snake formation that was convenient for marching. As they walked, phalanxes of two hundred people were formed so naturally.
At the moment before the battle, forty small phalanxes formed a huge phalanx, sweeping across from the end of the river like a giant axe.
On the other hand, the Yanzhou Army, although it is on the defensive and waiting for work to a certain extent, is far behind in both the training level of the army and the ability of its commanders.
There is nothing wrong with giving orders, but they tend to be stream-of-consciousness. The generals just yelled at the top of their lungs to order the whole team to turn. They did not take into account the execution ability of the soldiers at all, and did not give any targeted orders. Therefore, Yanzhou
The army can only act like a headless fly and become a negative example to set off the elite Habayashi Army.
The giant axe-like phalanx was like cutting into tofu. With a casual wave, it cut off a neat piece of the Yanzhou army's formation. The Yanzhou army was like grass in the strong wind, with no resistance at all.
A gust of wind will cause the whole thing to fall, without even the slightest deviation.
Even in the middle of the fight, the Yulin army's array remained extremely neat. Rulin's spears kept extending and contracting to stab, and while assassinating, they always maintained a forward attack posture.
It is necessary to exert force when assassinating. It seems unreasonable to move forward while exerting force to assassinate, but if you look closely, you will find that it is not surprising at all. The assassination and advancing are carried out separately.
The only ones who completed the assassination were the spearmen in the first three rows. The soldiers in the back row would continue to advance along the gap left by the front row. When encountering the enemy again, they would also raise their spears to stab forward, and at the same time give up their positions to those who followed.
This kind of tactics gave the Yulin Army's attacks a strong continuity, just like a wave, rising again and again, always moving forward.
Under the attack of this extremely oppressive tactics, the Yanzhou Army, which was already caught off guard, became even more disoriented.
If they want to resist, the scattered formations are doomed to fight on their own. How can they withstand the Yulin army fighting in formation?
It is equally difficult for a strong man to cut off his wrists, abandon the fighting troops, and distance himself in order to regroup. The Yulin Army's tactics are too oppressive. Wave after wave, continuous, clinging to the Yanzhou Army
, there is no gap at all to create distance.
In fact, if the Yanzhou Army's queue was not so dense that the soldiers in the forward position could not turn around and had no choice but to fight hard, they would probably have fled.
The space opened up will be instantly filled by defeated troops, and then they will become the vanguard of the charge. The defeated troops will be driven back to the enemy's formation. This is the essence of the bead curtain rewinding strategy in the art of war.
In addition to tactical factors, the terrain also limited the Yanzhou Army's room for adjustment.
The position chosen by Liu Dai is very safe to defend to the north, but not so effective if it is the other way around. The result of squeezing 30,000 troops into a river bend is: there is no depth.
The Yulin Army came from the east. To the south was Chip Mountain, which was occupied by surprise troops. To the north and west were surrounded by rivers. Only the narrow strip between the river and Chiping was passable.
If there is no depth strategically, you will be surrounded by enemies on all sides and can easily be pinned down by the enemy. If there is no depth tactically, no matter how many troops you have, you will not be able to deploy them.
The Yanzhou Army seems to have become a large piece of glutinous rice, squeezed into the earthen jar called Hewan, and being hammered continuously by the Yulin Army's pestle. It will turn into a sticky cake at any time. This is the current situation.
"Hold on, brothers, hold on!"
"Hold on, there are so many of us, we can kill them even if we fight for our heads!"
"There is a big river behind us! We have no way to retreat. We have to fight with our last resort. The only way to survive is to fight back the enemy!"
The stream-of-consciousness command of Yanzhou generals is still continuing. It is impossible not to engage in stream-of-consciousness. The situation has become a mess. Under the continued pressure of the Yulin Army, the forwards began to collapse. Following the gaps between the arrays, the defeated troops were involved in
In the rear formation, the chaos in the rear formation intensified.
There are soldiers everywhere, but it is difficult to distinguish which general's soldiers they are. In this case, even if Sun Wu is resurrected, it is still a question whether he has the ability to reorganize the queue, not to mention there are no famous generals in the army.
Where is the Yanzhou Army?
Some people who are familiar with military literature think of the allusion of a last-ditch battle. However, although this word is often mentioned, there are only two cases of real last-ditch battles throughout the ages. Those who fought these two battles are rare in a century.
Heroes, Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Chu, and Han Xin, the God of War.
Only these two extraordinary heroes can turn decay into magic and turn the Last Stand into a classic. Those who imitate those who are not capable enough will only be beaten to pieces.
The efforts of the generals did not bear fruit, and they did not even have time to test the results. It was the enemies on Chishan Mountain who dealt them a worse blow.
Just as Qi Cheng was worried, the night attack troops were all archers, and they were all the best warriors. They did not intend to leave any chance to the Yanzhou Army. In conjunction with the advancement of the Yulin Army, they used the strong bows in their hands to
Laman, relying on his condescending position, sent a wave of arrows into the Yanzhou Army's formation.
Wherever the long bow was pointed, everyone fell on their backs and fell in mourning.
The current situation is that Liu Dai chose the iron barrel array and put himself in it. This is the best explanation of the fact that he has made his own mistakes and cannot survive.
Looking at the general's flag raised on the top of the mountain, and then at the phalanx of the Yulin Army, Liu Dai no longer had the strength to groan.
The one who attacked at night was Huang Zhong, who was good at shooting. He once shot down Xu Rong's military flag with one arrow. It was really not surprising that the army he brought out had a large number of sharp archers.
Yu Jin's offensive was so fierce, of course, not only because of the elite soldiers. To maintain such a powerful offensive, sufficient troops were also necessary. The Yulin army did not fight in separate groups, but came with the whole division!
Although there were many generals under Wang Yu's command, in fact there were only three who were in charge. Yu Jin and Huang Zhong were both here, and they took the advantage again. They were defeated, and there was nothing to say. But the problem was...
Liu Dai roared viciously in his heart: "Wang Yu, this lunatic, in order to defeat himself, did he even abandon his old nest? Who in the world fights like this?" (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature for more novel updates. Good to update faster!)