The Nameless of the Common Clans

Fancheng was broken, although Xiangyang could still be defended, but with the departure of the reinforcements from Jiangdong, Xiangyang was already an isolated city, and the defensive fortifications outside Xiangyang were also facing threats from the river.

After breaking through Fancheng, Chen Mo's army did not take action, but only ordered Zhang He to start attacking the various camps outside Xiangyang, while the army was resting in Fancheng.

Three days later, Chen Mo ordered Zhang Liao to go down the river, find a place to cross the river and set up a camp to block Xiangyang's retreat.

Xiangyang City, enemy tower.

Xiangyang and Fan are separated by only the Han River, and the enemy's movements can be seen clearly here. No matter how reckless Zhang Fei is, he feels a little desperate at this moment. Fancheng has been broken, Jiangdong has retreated, and now only Xiangyang is left. Chen Mo only needs to repeat the previous attack on Fancheng outside Xiangyang City, and Xiangyang is almost certain to be broken.

He looked at Zhuge Liang beside him, but saw Zhuge Liang kneeling in the enemy tower, eyes closed and silent. He felt a little irritated. If the main force of Jingzhou was still there, even if Fancheng was broken, he would not be in a desperate situation. But the news from Shu before said that Liu Bei had occupied Jiangzhou, Badong and Bazhong, and was about to capture Chengdu. It can't be said that Liu Bei was wrong. It was indeed difficult to stop Chen Mo's cavalry with only Jingzhou.

"Kongming, you should say something!" Seeing Zhuge Liang like this, Zhang Fei became even more annoyed: "Tanzhi can't hold on any longer."

The camps and forts set up by Zhuge Liang outside the city are indeed strong, but no matter how strong they are, they are not cities. Although Chen Mo's main force has not moved in the past three days, Zhang He's offensive is quite swift. Guan Ping was able to hold on at the beginning, but he suffered heavy casualties in three days. Two of the three camps and forts outside the city have been broken. At this time, if we go to support, the troops in the city will not be enough. But if we don't support, then Chen Mo will build artillery batteries outside the city like he did in Fancheng. Although Xiangyang City is tall and strong, far better than Fancheng, it can only passively take the beating. Zhang Fei can almost imagine that Xiangyang will be just a replay of the tragedy of Fancheng.

"Yide, do you still remember the formation I practiced before?" Zhuge Liang opened his eyes and smiled at Zhang Fei.

"Your Eight-Gate Formation? Of course I remember it." Zhang Fei nodded, looked at Zhuge Liang and said, "You want to use this formation to defeat the Ming army? Can it work?"

"It's the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation. The terrain outside Xiangyang City is not suitable for large-scale military operations. If you rely on this formation, you can stop the Ming army." Zhuge Liang said uncertainly.

You must know that Zhuge Liang has learned a lot and has a high level of attainment in Qimen Numerology, but Chen Mo is also a learned man, and he has countless strange people under his command. He is not sure whether the other party can break this formation, but using this formation to defeat the enemy is Zhuge Liang's only remaining means. Up to now, he has not thought of how to crack Chen Mo's catapult. Zhuge Liang does not have that giant catapult. Even if he can research it, he can't use it on the city wall. There is no place to put it.

Fighting outside the city, even if the terrain is favorable to the Jingzhou Army, but with the same number of troops, the Jingzhou Army and the Ming Army are still different in terms of equipment and the coordination of the soldiers themselves. The most important thing is, how many troops does Chen Mo have? How many troops does Zhuge Liang have? Even if it was a waste of time, Chen Mo could consume the little force in Xiangyang.

So now Zhuge Liang could only fight with a battle array.

"Okay, let's fight him!" Zhang Fei nodded: "I'll prepare the troops now!"

The next morning, Zhang He launched an attack on the last fort guarded by Guan Ping again, but found that there was no one in the fort. This last fort was easily occupied by Zhang He. After confirming that there were no traps in the fort, Zhang He did not advance immediately, but quickly ordered people to occupy the high ground to avoid being attacked by Zhuge Liang.

"Report~" Just as Zhang He was preparing to rebuild the camp and then launch a general attack on Xiangyang, he saw a scout running over, came to Zhang He, bowed and said: "General, the gates of Xiangyang City are wide open, and the enemy has left the city."

At this time, dare to go out of the city to fight?

Zhang He was a little surprised. Without any hesitation, he immediately ordered: "The three armies will line up to meet the enemy."

"Yes!"

The three armies set out and arrived outside Xiangyang City under Zhang He's command. They saw that the Jingzhou army had already lined up five miles outside Xiangyang City. They saw flags flying and people moving. Zhang He looked carefully and didn't know how many troops the enemy had for a while.

"Battle formation?" Zhang He shook his head and looked for a while. He felt a little dizzy and was secretly surprised.

"General, shall we attack?" A general came to Zhang He and asked.

"Of course we have to attack." Zhang He nodded, and after looking at it again, he said: "Order the archers to shoot!"

"Yes!"

A thousand archers quickly came to the front of the formation and fired a barrage of arrows at the enemy formation. However, under the cover of the flags, Zhang He only saw shields rising in the enemy army, but he didn't know the effect of this round of arrow rain. Just as he was about to order another arrow to be shot, he saw a burst of arrows from the enemy formation sweeping up the ground and falling towards this side.

Zhang He's face changed, but he was fascinated by the formation. He was half a beat slow to react. When he wanted to order the shieldmen to protect, the arrow rain had already landed on the front row of archers, and they were killed and injured in an instant.

Zhang He didn't know how many of the enemy had died in the battle, but he felt that the drum beats and trumpet sounds of the enemy were depressing. After ordering the archers to retreat, Zhang He frowned and looked around: "Does anyone recognize this formation?"

The generals looked at each other in bewilderment. The generals in the army were naturally familiar with marching formations, but those were ordinary square formations and circular formations. No one really recognized such a fancy formation.

Zhang He immediately ordered two generals to test the formation. Two thousand men and horses came towards the enemy formation from two directions. The surrounding flags suddenly spread out, and all the two men and horses were welcomed in. However, when they heard the sound of fighting in the formation, they were nowhere to be seen. No matter how the formation changed, within a moment, all the sounds of fighting disappeared, and no one was seen coming out of the formation.

Zhang He and other generals felt cold in their hearts when they saw this, and wondered whether they should continue to test.

After Zhang He was silent for a long time, he waved his hand and said: "Withdraw troops!"

The formation in front of him was really strange, both the drumbeats and the flags were disturbing. Not knowing what was going on, Zhang He was not sure whether he could break the formation, so he immediately withdrew.

"Battle formation?" In Fancheng, Chen Mo was a little surprised when he heard the battle report sent by Zhang He.

"Yes, General Junyi couldn't see the specific formation, so he didn't dare to advance." Xun You nodded.

"The battle formations contained in this book can all be used to set up battle formations." Chen Mo nodded and smiled: "However, this battle formation requires training, which is quite time-consuming. If you can't use it skillfully, it will be like an arm." Instruction is not even as good as ordinary cone formations and circular formations. Moreover, once a general who knows how to use battle formations sees the flaws, it is easy to crack them. Few people use this method to defeat the enemy. Zhuge Kongming dares to use this formation. He must be quite confident. ”

Back then, when Xu Huang had not yet joined his command, he had used a battle formation, but Chen Mo had directly destroyed it with a drum trumpet. Of course, in Chen Mo's opinion, the Hunyuan Qi formation that Xu Huang deployed back then was just a formation. Not proficient.

Xun You said with a smile: "In my opinion, Zhuge Liang is unable to respond to the lord's method of defeating Fancheng. He went out to fight outside the city. The officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou army are far inferior to our officers and soldiers, so we set up this formation. If we can break this formation, Xiangyang can be defeated."

"Then I need to go and try this formation in person." Chen Mo heard this and said with a smile.

"Now that the siege of Xiangyang has been completed, it is time to break Xiangyang." Xun You said with a smile.

Chen Mo nodded. Once Xiangyang was defeated, Jiangling was basically the only one with some difficulty in Jingzhou. However, all the elite soldiers in Jingzhou gathered here. Jiangling was a fortified city. Without soldiers to defend it, it was difficult to stop Chen Mo's army. After defeating Xiangfan, the southern expedition was 90% over.

On that day, Chen Mo ordered Xu Huang to guard Fancheng and take Ma Chao, Pang De, Zhang Xiu, Wei Yan, Qian Zhao and other generals across the river to join Zhang He.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang He welcomed Chen Mo into the commander's tent and said with a wry smile: "The Jingzhou Army's battle formation is quite strange. The sound of the drums and trumpets makes people upset. There are many flags in the formation, making it difficult to see clearly. After looking at the reality for a long time, I felt dizzy. In the end, the general sent people to test the formation, but they all failed, so they did not dare to attack rashly. "

"Go call the formation tomorrow and show me what formation it is!" Chen Mo nodded and smiled.

"Here!" Zhang He nodded in agreement, bowed and stepped back.

There was nothing to say all night. Early the next morning, the Ming army came out of camp and formed an array outside Xiangyang City again. Over there, Zhuge Liang saw the Ming army's movements and reacted immediately. However, when he saw that the Xiangyang city gate was wide open, the one who left the city first was holding a When the soldiers were running, they saw the flags in the blue sky and the figures swaying. It was difficult to see how many people and horses there were on the other side. Especially when the sound of drums and trumpets sounded later, it was even more annoying.

Chen Mo, Xun You and Dian Wei stood on a high platform, watching the formation from a distance. Looking at it this way, they saw a sea of ​​flags fluttering. Occasionally, there were people moving around, but they didn't know how many there were.

"Does Gongda recognize this formation?" Chen Mo looked at it for a while, then turned around and saw Xun You and said.

"It seems to be an eight-door golden lock formation, but there seems to be some differences, especially the sound of the drums and trumpets. It is unheard of to match this formation. If we want to break this formation..." After looking at it for a while, Xun You felt dizzy and simply said Without looking, he turned to Chen Mo and said: "As far as I know, if the Eight-door Golden Lock Formation , that is, standing on the basis of Qimen Dunjia, the eight gates: Xiu Sheng Huan, Jing Shi Jing opened, if you enter through the Sheng Gate, Jing Gate, or open the door, it is auspicious; if you enter through the Shang Gate, Jing Gate, or Xiu Gate, you will be injured. If you enter through Dumen or Death Gate, you will be killed. However, the enemy's flags will obscure your view, making it difficult to see the direction of the eight gates."

"This is not difficult!" Chen Mo said with a smile: "Send the order to the three armies to repair where they are. When they are tired from dancing, it will not be too late for me to break the formation!"

Although Zhuge Liang's method is wonderful, he has limited manpower. Running around carrying a banner, not to mention ordinary nobles, even if they let Dian Wei and others run, they may not have the strength to run anymore after running for a long time, so Zhuge Liang does this , in Chen Mo's opinion, that's it. In the end, the eight directions still have to be revealed. Come on, this is why Chen Mo never spends time practicing such complicated battle formations. It takes a long time and requires terrain support. It can be easily broken by someone who knows how to do it. If you have this time, it is better to practice more ordinary battles. Although the formation is simple, it is practical and can be assembled quickly by any number of people.