Daqin Engineering Corps

Chapter 39 The chain of tricks

In other words, Li Mu is really scheming.

This tactic not only used Sun Tzu's "trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain", but also used the "information warfare", "psychological warfare" and "special warfare" commonly used in modern warfare, plus a chain of tricks.

Needless to say, tune the tiger away from the mountain. The Great Wall, which was originally understrength, was transferred out with [-] main forces.

Information warfare is the use of a false spy to send half-truths and half-false intelligence.

The psychological warfare is to grasp Yang Ting's eagerness to save her father, and then jump down when she sees a pit.

Special warfare is disguised as a sneak attack behind enemy lines by the Qin army... Special warfare has actually existed since ancient times, but it was only defined in modern times.

As for the chain count.

Shen Bing believes that it is true that Li Mu personally led more than a thousand cavalry to take Matou Mountain.

It's just that Matou Mountain is not Li Mu's real purpose, it's just a decoy.

Even Li Mu himself is the bait, luring Yang Ting, a newborn calf who knows nothing about heaven and earth, out of the city.

The only way is to take advantage of the fact that Li Mu's troops have not assembled in place and win a battle...

So what Li Mu is good at is actually neither art of war nor kung fu.

It's the scheming, the scheming of knowing the enemy's psychology clearly and then using it to set a trap.

It's just that Li Mu's countless calculations finally missed one point: he didn't count Shen Bing.

Shen Bing didn't realize it was a trick at the beginning.

But Zhao Jun, who accidentally discovered the disguise, opened a breakthrough.

However, even so, there is not much difference.

Because Li Mu had already set up spies along the way, the big movement just now naturally couldn't escape the eyes of the spies.

So a loud arrow...

Li Mu, who was ambushing in the dense forest, was surprised when he saw Xiang Jian.

This means that his plan has been seen through by the enemy.

Li Mu frowned.

It is not difficult to guess that there must be something wrong with the team disguised as wounded soldiers.

But Li Mu thought about it several times, but he didn't know what went wrong.

This time Li Mu sent to attack the Great Wall, or it can be said to be internal response, there is a reason why the force is only [-] instead of [-] or more.

Li Mu knew that Qin Jun's inspection was very strict.

Therefore, after every victory in a battle, Li Mu ordered his subordinates to carefully collect the "examinations" carried by the soldiers of the Qin Army.

Then go to the army to choose according to the appearance and height described in the "test".

Therefore, this batch of only 500 Zhao Jun can stand the inspection, and even part of the wound is real...

Zhao Jun will also be wounded in battle, and he can also cause some skin trauma.

These have reached the point where the fake ones can be confused with the real ones.

But even so, something went wrong, and the Great Wall didn't even arrive...

This made Li Mu a little unimaginable.

How could he have thought that the problem was with the cavalry.

Li Mu crossed the mountains and bypassed Yang Duanhe's troops and directly attacked him, so most of his troops were cavalry.

Naturally, the selection of camouflaged soldiers must also be selected from the cavalry.

None of this matters, however.

Since the enemy has seen through it, there is only a strong attack.

Thinking of Li Mu waving his hand forward, many soldiers suddenly stood up in the seemingly empty dense forest behind him.

Then a group of cavalry rushed out from the dense forest, divided into two groups on the left and right, and hid in the direction of the arrow in an orderly manner.

Qin Jun has raised a round flag to the sound of drums, and the messenger rode his horse and shouted:

"Round array, round array!"

Formation was essential in cold weapon warfare in ancient times.

The reason is that the strength of cold weapons battlefields is generally very large, tens of thousands or even tens of thousands at every turn.

The contradiction is that the communication equipment is extremely backward and cannot be connected smoothly from head to tail.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously very difficult for so many people to know and stand in their own position in a short time.

So there is a formation.

The soldiers listened to the sound of drums, listened to orders, looked at the flags, and then carried out the usual drills in an orderly manner.

This is the difference between an elite division and a mob.

The elite division can use the fastest speed to arrange the formation according to the order and prepare for the battle in a critical moment.

The mob, on the other hand, often has no formations and queues, and they run around like headless chickens when they are about to fight.

Of course, the Qin army was not a mob, and they quickly formed a formation amidst the sound of drums.

Yang Ting is worthy of being born as a general, and it is just right to use the round formation at this time.

Because it is not difficult to imagine that most of the army led by Li Mu must be cavalry.

At the same time, the surrounding terrain is flat, which is conducive to the penetration of cavalry.

Therefore, any kind of formation is easy for the cavalry to find a loophole and take advantage of it.

There is only a circular array, which arranges carriages and baggage in a circle around the periphery to prevent cavalry from attacking.

Then came the more defensive infantry, and then the crossbowmen.

Catapults and cavalry, which needed protection, were placed in the middle.

In this way, no matter if the enemy cavalry attacked the formation from any direction, it would be difficult to find a flaw.

It will not only be blocked by carriages, luggage and infantry, but also suppressed by crossbows and catapults.

When necessary, the circular formation will open an opening, and the cavalry in the formation will rush out along the opening.

However, Shen Bing was not so optimistic.

If Li Mu was so stupid as to use cavalry to forcefully charge the infantry formation, he would have been wiped out by Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe and others several times long ago.

Will Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe be inferior to Yang Ting?

On the other hand, Li Mu's goal is the Great Wall!

Great Wall!The Great Wall... the Great Wall!

Although Shen Bing has repeatedly confessed, Yang Ting still didn't understand the point.

There are only 3000 people on the Great Wall, and Li Mu's army can completely bypass these 7000 people and attack the Great Wall directly.

At that time, these 7000 people will be cut off and become rootless.

So put on a hairy formation?

Run away!

Don't you run away here and wait to die?

However, Shen Bing is just an operator, and Yang Ting is always in command of the army.

Therefore, Shen Bing could only arrange the trebuchets in a circle in the middle layer with the artillery division according to the order.

In the middle, there are all kinds of fire bombs ready to be fired.

This is the characteristic of the circle array.

Just like crossbowmen, in order for the catapults to respond to attacks from all directions of the enemy cavalry, they must be placed in a circle.

Unwilling to give in, Shen Bing looked at the surrounding terrain with his head, and shouted to Xun who was more than ten steps away:

"Master, we should divide the trebuchet into two wings."

Responding with dissatisfaction on his face:

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"The formation set by the captain, how can it be changed just by changing it?"

"Aren't you afraid that your life is too long?"

It also makes sense to say that this formation is a military order, and changing the formation without authorization is tantamount to disobeying the military order.

Moreover, disobeying military orders during wartime is a capital offense.

but……

Shen Bing replied helplessly:

"What the disciple is talking about is also a matter of life and death."

"If not, I'm afraid we and the whole army will die at the hands of Li Mu."

"Even General Yang's trapped [-] troops could not be spared..."

Be suspicious.

If Xun hadn't believed it before, he wouldn't even bother to answer.

but now.

After Shen Bing retreated from the Great Wall, after Shen Bing burned Zhao Camp, and after he saw through Zhao Jun's disguise...

Xun already knew that this apprentice was not very human.

If Shen Bing is right, there are two options:

One is to obey orders and be killed by Li Mu.

The second is to adjust the formation privately...

The latter was the obvious choice, even at the risk of disobeying military orders.

Because it at least has hope.

In fact, only Xun was hesitating, Cang, Tun, Ji, and the artillery division all believed in Shen Bing immediately, and all looked at Xun with expectant eyes.

Chapter 40 Stopping the Enemy

After hesitating for a while, Xun then gritted his teeth and said:

"Forget it, I'll trust you this time!"

"Change the formation, divide the trebuchet into two wings!"

A group of craftsmen who had prepared early responded with a "promise", and waved a small flag to change the formation and divide the trebuchets into two wings.

Not only are the two wings divided, but also according to Shen Bing's intention, they are facing the two wings layer by layer and prepare fire bombs.

At this time, Li Mu's Northern Essence Cavalry had appeared on the other side of the wilderness, Yang Ting naturally did not pay attention to the change in the rear formation.

On the contrary, Chen Kui, the stingy man, found that the formation was not right, so he came all the way madly and ordered to change it back.

Xun then resorted to his usual routine, pretending to be deaf and playing to pass the time.

In fact, Yang Ting realized that she had made a mistake when the northern goblin rider appeared in Yang Ting's sight.

The northern cavalry did not appear to dismount at all, nor did they intend to ride their horses into formation.

They were divided into two teams, one left and one right galloping from the flanks, and they did not slow down from the beginning to the end.

Yang Ting secretly thought it was going to be bad:

"The enemy cavalry is trying to bypass our army."