Bright Spring

Xu Huizu looked at it for a while, because Gao Xu's record was there, Xu Huizu didn't take it lightly, he quickly understood Gao Xu's strategic intentions, and said: "Gao Xu cares too much about the integrity of the front line. But he is here motionless , passive defense, and too constrained to a complete front."

After Xungui saw it clearly, he clasped his fists and said, "Wei Guogong is the elder who rebelled against the king. You have to teach me how to use soldiers to rebel against the king."

Xu Huizu's confidence in winning immediately increased to [-]% to [-]%!He said: "Let's gather a thick formation on the left wing here, attack with heavy troops, and then cooperate with the Longping Hou army to attack sideways. Gao Xu's long formation suffers a big loss, how can we win?"

Xu Huizu immediately turned his head and said: "Order the generals in the front line to prepare to attack! Each unit takes turns to attack the enemy's line from far and near, and break its line!"

"Order!"

Xu Huizu gave the order, pointed to the front with his whip, looked back to the left and right and said: "The enemy's large formation, the key is to break his formation! The two armies rush together and intersect each other, and our superiority in strength can be brought into play!"

"Duke Wei is wise!" All the generals echoed one after another.

Unexpectedly, a voice suddenly shouted: "Duke Wei, be careful! You can't do it!"

Who yelled that in public?Shake the morale of the army!After Xu Huizu heard this, he became angry and murderous.He looked back and saw Xue Lu, Marquis of Yangwu and Tan Zhong, Bo of Xinning, galloping towards him on horseback.

Xu Huizu frowned and looked at them very displeased.

When the two cavalry approached, ancestor Xu Hui asked, "Aren't you in Huguang?"

Tan Zhongdao: "The last general waited for the order to return to the capital. He only arrived at the capital yesterday. He heard that Wei Guogong had led his army to fight. In the early morning of this morning, General Xue suddenly went to discuss matters with the last general, worried that Wei Guogong would suffer. I found the people from Dongcheng Bingmasi, got the seal and left the city, and then rushed to Taiping Prefecture! The last general waited to see the place, Wei Guogong’s large formation is so dense, it is sure to suffer!"

Xue Lu clasped his fists and said urgently: "Duke Wei, you have to abandon the front formation immediately and ask the rear formation to withdraw from the range of the cannon! The front formation immediately becomes thinner and forms a defensive formation. It counts as much as you can keep!"

Xu Huizu laughed dumbfounded after hearing this.Hearing Xue Lu's words, he immediately looked at Xue Lu like an idiot.The distance between the two armies was less than [-] paces. The officers and soldiers had arranged their attacking formations. Numerous camps were changing formations in front of the formation, and they even had to retreat before the battle... Could this be something that a general who has fought in battle can say?I'm afraid that the enemy army will not be able to win, and they deliberately mess up!

Xue Lu and Tan Zhong looked at each other, and Xue Lu said, "We have written a memorial, stating the battle situation of the Huguang formation, and suggesting that the court officers and soldiers avoid field battles. Didn't Wei Guogong see the memorial?"

Of course Xu Huizu didn't see it. Before he took over as commander-in-chief, he had been "recovering from illness" at home.On the contrary, a honorable man next to him said: "The last general has heard of such a memorial made by Marquis Yang Wu."

Xu Huizu shook his head, thinking: Did you, Xue Lu, win once in the "Battle of Rebellion"?Run to the front to teach me a lesson?

But he didn't want to say these words, so he said: "Yang Wuhou, I think your suggestion is too joking, and you must be serious when you speak in front of the battle in the future! This time I will not punish you."

"Look! There!" Tan Zhong suddenly shouted.

Following the direction Tan Zhong pointed, Xue Lu looked at the low and gentle hillside behind a small pond.Xue Lu also nodded and said, "Yes, the cannon that betrayed the king should be on that hillside!"

Xue Lu looked back at the formation of the officers and soldiers, and said with a heartbroken expression: "The location of the artillery formation... the most dense main force of our army is under the cover of enemy artillery, and the main force may collapse... ..."

"Shut up!" Xu Huizu finally couldn't hold back his anger, and shouted, "Xue Lu! Do you understand battle formation? My Xu family has fought so many battles and has more experience than you. How could they lose in such a match?"

Xue Lu said in a trembling voice: "Duke Wei, you must trust the last general! The court officials don't understand, but we have experienced it and seen it with our own eyes... That thing has never appeared before, it is a new thing , previous battle experience is useless."

Xu Huizu shook his head.

Xue Lu got off his horse, knelt down in front of Xu Huizu, choked with sobs and said: "The last general was loyal to the court and killed Qu Nengquan's family in Sichuan. Then Qu Neng is a confidant general of the King of Han. Once all the officers and troops are defeated, what will happen to me It's too miserable... I beg you, this is the last elite of the imperial court, so don't let it be ruined so easily!"

Seeing Xue Lu pleading with snot and tears, Xu Huizu felt that Xue Lu didn't look like a joke.Xu Huizu watched for a while along the direction that Tan Zhong pointed out just now, the fog was hazy, and he couldn't see clearly what was on the hillside; but he could vaguely see something that looked like a cannon, and there should indeed be a cannon formation there.

Xu Huizu pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Battle formations have their own rules. We have fought in China for thousands of years, and weapons and tactics have changed drastically, but everything remains the same. No matter when and where in battle, it is the worst mistake!"

He paused, and said with a firm expression: "My confidence and tenacity will never waver!"

At this time, the officers and soldiers were in the front line, and according to Xu Huizu's military order of the Chinese army, they had already begun to continue their offensive.Xue Lu looked at the movement in front of the battle with a look of despair.

Chapter 582 Everyone is a Gambler

In the white mist, suddenly a flame flashed!

A moment later, there was a huge roar, and at the same time an iron ball had smashed into the dense queue of officers and soldiers!In the center of several front and rear battle formations, as if swept by a gust of wind, howling shells bounced and flew past the crowd.

No one saw clearly how the cannonball bounced. When the people around came to their senses, the dust that the cannonball bounced on the ground had already risen violently, and many people had already fallen to the ground.The brains of a sergeant's helmet exploded together, blood spattered, and he fell limply to the side.

It was a while before the terrified crowd began to riot.However, the overall situation of the front line of the officers and soldiers has not been greatly affected, and they are still moving forward!

The rebels only fired one cannonball at first, and seemed to be determining the location of the shelling.

There were tens of thousands of cavalry in the formation, but none of the generals responded at this time.Several formations hit by the shelling became chaotic, and the military generals who saw nearby were just shocked and surprised, and everyone was watching the rioting and screaming crowd in bewilderment.

Moments later, suddenly behind a small lake and pond on the opposite side, on the flat hillside, many dazzling lights flashed!Moments later, many formations in the front and rear of the crowd in the official army formation were broken down.Less than a few seconds later, the sound of "boom boom boom..." was heard intensively, and the flames on the opposite side continued to shine.

This is a salvo of more than 40 heavy artillery pieces!The artillery positions of the rebel army should be lined up with three rows of artillery, and the flashes in the mist and smoke are very neat.

On the large formation of the army, many formations were penetrated by shells, and the phalanxes of hundreds of households with at least 2 people were affected.On the grand army formation, it seemed that a wheat field had been blown by a strong wind, and rows of wheat were blown down everywhere.

Huge screams of terror and distressed cries for help suddenly filled the crowd.On the dry muddy ground, strong dust was stirred up by shells, which had not dissipated yet.

The frightened war horses neighed and galloped in the formation, and one of the horses raised its front hooves, neighed in panic, and suddenly rushed out uncontrollably.A wounded soldier's leg was broken, and even the bones were exposed from the wound. He pressed his hand on his thigh, stared at his bones with a distorted face, and screamed loudly and terrified.Some people hit by shells lay motionless in a pool of blood.

The officers and soldiers in the front line encountered such a situation, and the soldiers stopped marching involuntarily without waiting for the general's order...

Under the flag of the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army with the word "Xu" written on it, Xu Huizu sat on the horse with his eyes widened.He was speechless for a long time, just staring blankly at what happened just now, after a while, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously, so as to make sure that it wasn't just an illusion of trance.

"His mother! What is this?" Xu Huizu took a long time to say a word.

This he|mother is a cannonball?That's meteorite falling from the sky!

Xue Lu next to him was very calm, and Xue Lu responded helplessly: "Such a huge dense formation, if it is fired by the heavy artillery of the rebels, the casualties will be very heavy. The distance is very large, so that kind of gun is just an iron ball..."

Seeing the chaos in front of him, the "brightness" in Xu Huizu's heart suddenly seemed to be poured with cold water, and it was extinguished immediately with just a snap of his fingers!He didn't have time to taste the huge emotional contrast, and he panicked.

Don't panic!

"The heavy artillery on the rebel artillery array is currently being loaded. There will be a second, third... salvo. As long as the official army array is still within range, they will continue to be bombarded." Xue Lu's voice road.

"I know!" Xu Huizu roared angrily.

Mainly because it was so sudden!Xu Huizu never dreamed that such a situation would happen just after the two armies approached.The tactics and steps that he had already thought up in his mind were all invalidated suddenly, leaving only a mess in his mind.

Most of the coaches of the Ming army at this time don't have to fight in person, and the biggest role of the chief general is to boost morale; now the coach of the Ming Dynasty, the most important ability is to make decisions before the battle!

No matter what the situation is, the general must immediately come up with an idea, make a series of tactical steps, and make a decision!

Xu Huizu temporarily abandoned all his feelings and forcibly suppressed the waves in his heart. He was contemplating and thinking, trying his best to think of ways.

The surrounding generals waited silently, even Xue Lu and Tan Zhong remained silent.

Deadly time!Every flick of a finger is a matter of life and death.calm down……

As Xue Lu said, as long as they are still within the range of the heavy artillery of the rebels, the official army will continue to suffer such heavy losses!A round of salvos has already caused confusion, disintegration, and casualties for a large number of people. If the dense array is placed here and waits for the shelling to come down again and again, it is estimated that without the rebels riding up, the officers and soldiers themselves will collapse!

Xu Huizu pinched the back of his left hand with the fingers of his right hand, thinking hard dignifiedly and nervously.

A countermeasure must be taken immediately and immediately!The large formation cannot be placed here waiting to die.The first thing he thought of was, of course, what Xue Lu said earlier, to retreat immediately.But Xu Huizu quickly thought of another way: attack!

There is a sign of a collapse in the army, but if you retreat before the battle, you will definitely be defeated!If you retreat at this time, this battle is doomed to be defeated; but if you deploy the rhythm of retreat now, it is very likely that the rear army will be able to preserve a lot of strength; and even the remaining troops may be able to fight again... If the morale is still strong If not completely broken.