As the morning fog dissipated, Luo Youdu looked at the huge formation in the distance and his first reaction was shock.

What is the concept of a large formation of 80,000 people?

Echoing back and forth in a radius of five miles, there are so many human heads that you can't even see the edges with the naked eye.

Even if Luo Youdu had a telescope, he would not be able to see the whole picture.

Spectacular and gorgeous!

Lu Duoxun beside him was dumbfounded and exclaimed: "Where in the Khitan are such good people able to set up such a large formation?"

A strange look appeared on Luo Youdu's face, and a thought flashed through his mind: Could this be the legendary Pingrong Wanquan Formation?

He held up the telescope and looked at it carefully, marveling at it.

The most important thing is to unite the troops in battle and arrange the troops in formation.

Luo Youdu was naturally good at this. He studied everything from Sun Bin's Ten Formations to Wuhou's Eight Formations, as well as "Tai Gong's Art of War", "Meng De's New Book", "Mirror of the Sixth Army", etc. Especially the works left by Li Jing

As the military god of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing not only made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, but also left a wealth of military thoughts, especially in terms of military training: from a single soldier to multiple soldiers, from

From separate training to joint training, from simple to deep, step by step. A series of issues such as ancient formations, military systems, origins of military science, teaching and practice are also analyzed in detail.

Luo Youdu not only benefited a lot, but also lamented Li Jing's unfathomable military ability.

The truth of all things in this world is to simplify the complex. The simpler things are, the easier it is for people to accept.

The simpler the tactics, the greater the chance of successful execution.

However, Li Jing's art of war progressed from simple to complex, and in its profound aspects, it was almost equivalent to a string-raising operation.

This is really not something ordinary people can do.

Simple and efficient is the most common method on the battlefield.

Therefore, the existence of Li Jing was a dimensionality reduction blow to people of the same era.

Similarly, if you are not at Li Jing's level, playing tricks like him is just trying to imitate others.

Luo Youdu suddenly thought of the history of the Song Dynasty literati. Everyone wrote military formations and thought they were Wang Meng and Zhuge Liang. What was the result?

Apart from Fan Zhongyan, Zhang Kai and Zongze, how many others can play well?

Forget about Xin Qiji!

Do you think a guy who led 50 men into a camp of 50,000 Jin men and captured the traitorous generals alive was really a scholar?

Luo Youdu had never seen the large formation in front of him in ancient books. He also got the news through Wu Desi that Zhao Kuangyi had been appreciated by Yelu Bishe for his contribution to the Wanquan formation. He knew in his heart that except Zhao Kuangyi, no one else could figure out this complicated formation.

Here comes the stuff.

Luo Youdu said with emotion: "To be able to create such a complex and cumbersome formation requires profound knowledge. From another perspective, he is really a talent."

Fu Yanqing nodded in agreement and said: "Your Majesty is absolutely right. Not to mention, I have thought about this formation for a long time, but I can't find a flaw. The other party must have referred to many formations and combined the characteristics of many formations to form this change.

Thousands of weird formations without any flaws."

Luo Youdu couldn't help complaining: "Otherwise, how can we call it a perfect formation? It's perfect, everything is perfect. It shows how ambitious Zhao Kuangyi is..."

Fu Yanqing didn't know that Zhao Kuangyi presented the formation map to Yelvbi for photography, so he was a little confused.

Luo Youdu elaborated on the general situation.

Only then did Fu Yanqing know that Zhao Kuangyi had arranged for Yelv House to serve as a casual post in Shangjing after Zhao Dezhao falsely claimed that Guo Rongzi had caused a conflict. He had interacted with famous people in Shangjing and accumulated fame. He had been dormant for many years and had been studying formations. He was enthroned in Yelvbishe.

Later, he seized the opportunity to donate the Pingthiwan Quanquan array and entered the core of the Khitan temple.

As he got older, he couldn't help but sigh a little, and said: "It turns out to be him. I think Zhao Thief once led him to propose marriage. If it weren't for the Queen's remarks, the old minister would have agreed."

Luo Youdu chuckled, he was the one who stirred up this marriage.

Seeing the two of them reminiscing about the past, Lu Duoxun was even more stunned. How could he still be in the mood to chat when the other party had set up such a magnificent formation?

Lu Duoxun was resourceful, but like Zhao Kuangyi, he lacked real combat experience, and all his understanding of tactics was based on theory.

From a theoretical perspective, there are no obvious problems with the Wanquan Formation that Zhao Kuangyi painstakingly researched, otherwise the Song Dynasty would not have used it for many years.

But theory and practice are two different things.

On the one hand, Luo Youdu knew what the Wanquan Formation was like in history; on the other hand, he had extremely rich theoretical knowledge and experience and had a plan in mind.

As for Fu Yanqing?

When it comes to family background and military experience, there is no one in the world who has more rich experience than him.

Wan Quan Formation can intimidate most people, but in Fu Yanqing's eyes, Wan Quan Formation's biggest weakness can be seen.

Seemingly seeing Luo Youdu not moving for a long time, he seemed to be impatient to wait, so he sounded the sound of war drums first.

As the war drums sounded, the heavy and chaotic sound of horse hooves on the ground also sounded.

Three thousand light cavalry rushed out from the front of the Khitan army and rushed over on horseback.

The number of people was not large, and it was obviously a tentative attack. But the billowing smoke and loud shouts made them look like a flood.

Luo Youdu's eyes flashed with excitement. In fact, along the way, he had set his goal to bite off a piece of meat from the Khitan.

Khitan's series of calculations really made him feel a little uncomfortable.

The harsh climate has a greater impact on them than imagined.

On the contrary, the Khitan people live in the south and north of the desert all year round, and have long been accustomed to the grassland environment. Relatively speaking, it will be much better.

The opponent had the upper hand in every aspect of the situation, so Luo Youdu was naturally able to take it up and let it go, and took the initiative to narrow down the target for this battle.

But when the whole array appeared in front of him, he suddenly felt that he could do it again.

"But we have to test the truth. The current Zhao Kuangyi may not be the same person in history!"

Luo Youdu was not careless. With this change in his growth trajectory, his abilities and other things would naturally change accordingly.

"Send the order to Zhang Chonggui and ask him to press the opponent's head back. On this battlefield, when will it be the Khitan child's turn to speak?"

The messenger ordered the soldiers to run away like flying horses.

As the dull and dense war drums sounded rapidly, Zhang Chonggui, who had received the order, had already led his cavalry to the battlefield.

Zhang Chonggui was a native of Changshan Zhending, a fellow villager of Gao Huaide. Because he admired his fellow villager Gao Siji, the number one spearman of the Five Dynasties, he studied marksmanship and archery. After achieving success, he came to Bianjing to join the army and boldly challenged Gao Huaide. Although he was defeated

Rong, who was also recognized by Gao Huaide, was promoted step by step and became the commander of the Xiaowu Army in the Sima Army Division.

Zhang Chonggui joined the army late, and did not catch up with the battles of all parties. He had sufficient capabilities, but lacked impressive results.

At this time, he was ordered to be in the front line and was the first to meet the enemy. He worked hard to prove himself.

He shouted and roared, commanding the soldiers to rush towards the enemy formation.

The two vanguard troops approached like lightning.

Zhang Chonggui was originally on guard against the opponent's cavalry bow and big arrows, but seeing that the opponent had no intention of riding and shooting at all, he instead charged towards his side with even more ferocity.

"Well done!"

Zhang Chonggui also let go of his hands and feet, and the two torrents collided violently.

The powerful impact stagnated the momentum of both sides, and the situation was indistinguishable.

Zhang Chonggui gritted his teeth and waved his spear to urge his horse to continue charging. The personal guards beside him followed closely, forming a small cone formation and charging into the interior of the Khitan cavalry.

Although in the first round, neither side took advantage.

However, the well-trained Central Plains cavalry quickly recovered from the turmoil after the collision. Based on daily training, they found their ten generals and instinctively gathered into offensive formations to stabilize their position.

This is something that Khitan can never do.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi said that the Khitan suffered more losses in field battles than in formation battles, and it was not false.

The long-trained Central Plains cavalry is far from comparable to the Khitan in terms of cooperation in battle.

Seeing the defeat at the front, Zhao Kuangyi, who was in charge of the Chinese army, did not feel surprised. Instead, he sneered in his heart: "Everyone claims to be brave, but if they really fight, how can they be the opponents of the Yu army who are skilled in battle formations? The key to victory or defeat depends on

Own."

He held the flag high and waved it up, down, left and right.

Under his order, Wu Tao, who was lying forward on the right, and Du Zhenghong, who was lying forward on the left, fought out as left and right wings.

They had received training from Zhao Kuangyi for three months and had formed a chemical reaction to Zhao Kuangyi's command.

As soon as he received the order, he rushed to the battlefield to support the Khitan cavalry who were at a disadvantage.

Both teams were spearmen, and they marched in formation with spears ten feet long.

The front lines were locked in a stalemate, and the speeds of the cavalry had canceled each other out.

Zhao Kuangyi calmly said to Yelu Haisi beside him: "Your Majesty, the cavalry who have lost their speed are like lambs to be slaughtered when facing the spear formation. Let's wait and see how the spear formation defeats the enemy."

Yelvhaisi was not completely ignorant of the art of war, and said: "The Southern Dynasty will not let the spear array get closer!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately saw the formation of the Southern Dynasty surging, and two teams of cavalry galloping out from the left and right flanks.

Without even thinking about it, the target was to attack from the left and right, and in a roundabout way, using speed to attack from the flanks.

Zhao Kuangyi remained calm and composed and said: "It's not up to them!"
To be continued...