Chapter 88: A Great War (2)

Although the chariots are bulky and slow to move, it is a good way for the Han army without cavalry to preserve their strength. If there are no chariots, the casualties of the Han army would be surprisingly high. Especially during the war, if the chariots were destroyed by the Huns, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Zhou Yang understood Cheng Buzhi's concern and smiled and said, "General Cheng doesn't have to worry. In fact, infantry can also deal with cavalry, and they don't have to have to fight chariots."

"Master General, since you have a wonderful method to deal with the cavalry, you have to do it quickly." Cheng Buzhi was very anxious and his tone was a little high: "There is the conspiracy in the Huns. God knows if he would think of a way to break the chariot. If we are not prepared and the chariot is broken in the decisive battle, it is a disaster, a disaster!"

He spoke loudly, but Zhou Yang was frightened and his head buzzed, and he almost fell off the horse's back.

Cheng Bushi said it very reasonably, and the Bank of China said it was good at intelligence. If he thought of a way to break the chariot, the consequences would be unimaginable and would be disastrous.

The decisive battle is about to take place. If the chariot is broken, what can I use to resist the cavalry of the Huns? By then, the cavalry of the Huns will start to rush to kill, and the Han army will only have to give it a massacre.

The crossbow formation is a powerful weapon to deal with the Hun cavalry, but there are not many crossbows, only tens of thousands of them can be shot and killed? Those are hundreds of thousands of Huns.

Besides, even if Zhou Yang is going to implement the most confident plan, infantry will need to protect the crossbow formation and buy more time for the crossbow formation. If there is no infantry protection, the Huns will rush forward and the crossbow formation will become a waste and will not exert their power.

The infantry could not resist, the power of the crossbow formation could not be exerted, and the one who failed was the Han army. The Han army was defeated in disastrously, and the troops in the north were empty and the cities were not defended, and they would fall into the hands of the Huns. Once the Huns seized the city and obtained food, grass, weapons, and siege equipment, the north would be uninhabited thousands of miles away, and the people who died in the war would be as few as hundreds of thousands, and the most were millions.

The consequences are so serious that the word disaster can no longer be explained.

"Hurry, send orders, and withdraw troops!" Zhou Yang made a quick decision.

"Retract the troops?" Gongsun He and his friends focused on hating the Huns, and did not notice the words of Zhou Yang and Cheng Buzhi, and they could hear it a little unclear.

"The general said he would withdraw his troops!" Cheng Buzhi was sober.

As soon as the sound of gold sounded, Li Guang looked puzzled and looked at Zhou Yang, who was under the commander's banner. After hesitating for a while, the Han army began to withdraw to the camp.

"The Han people are really timid, they actually retreated!" Hou Chan'er suddenly discovered that he had the opportunity to pursue the Han army, so he flew onto a horse and led the Huns to rush forward.

However, he was greeted by two thousand Han cavalry, including one thousand Jianzhang Army. Although the number was small, it caused him high enough casualties.

Under the fourth-level attack of the cavalry, Hou Chan'er paid a considerable price, but did not catch up with Li Guang's Han army, and could only watch the Han army withdraw to the camp.

Hou Chaner was extremely reluctant, but he had no choice but to take the Han army's camp and had no choice but to withdraw.

However, the military minister Shanyu was very happy. The first battle defeated the Han army and won. As soon as he was happy, he placed wine and meat in the king's tent to celebrate, and the Huns' monarchs and ministers began to drink.

Han army camp, Zhou Yang's commander's tent.

Zhou Yang knelt on a short table, holding hot tea and siping.

While drinking tea, Li Guang asked, "Master, why should I withdraw? I was obviously not defeated!"

"I didn't say you were defeated!" Zhou Yang smiled and said, "The reason I asked you to withdraw my troops was because I thought of our flaws. Our car array can be broken!"

"Haha!" Li Guang laughed happily: "If you want to break the chariot formation, unless the general sets a crossbow formation and shoots at us, the chariot formation will be destroyed without attacking. But, do the Huns have crossbows? Can their crossbows be used to set a crossbow formation?"

The chariot formation was a powerful weapon for the Han army to protect themselves. It has not been broken several times in decades. Even if it was broken, it was because of its lack of strength. Gongsun He and the others agreed with Li Guang's statement.

Cheng Bushi looked serious: "Flying General, the chariot formation is very important to the Han Dynasty, but it is not as solid as a solid foundation and cannot be broken. The general has the wonderful way to break the chariot formation."

He spoke very seriously without any doubt, and Li Guang and the others were moved to hear it.

Li Guang hurriedly asked, "What's the solution?"

"The method is very simple!" Cheng Bushi's right hand slammed heavily on the short case: "Use fire to attack!"

"Fire Attack? Impossible!" Li Guang didn't think about it, and waved his right hand and rejected this statement: "A tank can prevent fire, but is not afraid of fire attack."

"Fire attack does not necessarily mean burning the chariot!" Zhou Yang spoke and explained: "The Huns have some grease. If the Huns ignite the grease and throw it into the formation, there is no need to burn the chariot. Just turn the three or five feet of the chariot into a sea of ​​fire, and you can force the soldiers away from the chariot..."

"General Fei, do you think the car formation can be broken?" Cheng Buzhi took over the conversation.

"Ah!" Li Guang's hand trembled, and the tea in his hand was sprinkled all over his body. The tea cup almost hit the ground, but he was unaware of it: "This is this..."

"This..." Not only Li Guang was surprised, but Gongsun He, Gongsun Jian, Feng Jing, Qin Wuhui and others were all so surprised that their chins hit the short case.

The chariots form a chariot formation, which is equivalent to a city wall. If the Huns use fire to attack and force the soldiers out of the guardian range, the chariots will be useless and no different from the empty city. Can the Huns take advantage of the situation to attack again, can they not be broken?

There is no difficulty in throwing grease into the chariot formation. Can the Huns rush over and fight with the Han army in front of the chariots, and throwing grease into the chariot. Is it still difficult to throw grease into the chariot?

The Huns fed with cattle and sheep, and the oil was piled up in mountains and there were as much as they needed. Setting fire was not a problem.

No difficulty at all!

The reason why the Huns did not do this was because they had not thought about it. If someone thought about this, the Han army's chariot formation would be broken. And those who thought about this were probably the Central Bank of China!

Li Guang and the others are all people who have been through the battle formation for a long time. Once they wake up, they immediately think about how serious the consequences are. How can they not be alarmed?

"Master, what should I do?" Li Guang found that his throat was dry. He had just drunk so much tea, but he had no effect on moistening his throat.

"The reason why I ordered the withdrawal of troops was to discuss with you how to deal with the Huns' cavalry." Zhou Yang put down the teacup in his hand and smiled.

Zhou Yang's calmness had a good effect. Li Guang and his friends were shocked a little. Li Guang quickly complained: "Master, you have this method, why didn't you say it earlier? The war is about to start. Is it too late to deal with it now?"

This was said to everyone and nodded in agreement.

Zhou Yang smiled bitterly and said, "Flying General, I'm really thinking about it just now. You know, I haven't been in the army for a long time and I don't know much about many of the tactics in the army. This is the first time I have seen the battle with the Huns with the chariot formation today."

Although Zhou Yang led the Han army to fight many victories, which was based on cavalry and raids. Zhou Yang knew the chariot formation better than Zhou Yang, but Li Guang and others knew the chariot formation better than Zhou Yang. They didn't think of this. If Zhou Yang hadn't seen the two armies fighting with his own eyes today, he wouldn't have thought of this.

Zhou Yang is a human, not a god. Some things have to be seen before they can think of them. Li Guang’s complaint is a bit difficult.

"Actually, it's good to think of it! It's a good thing to solve it before the decisive battle!" Li Guang stroked his forehead: "It's worthy of being the commander, you can think of it. General Cheng and I have used the car formation for so many years, but we didn't think of this. I'm ashamed! I'm ashamed!"

Li Guang's open-minded person immediately exonerated Zhou Yang.

"Yes! Over the years, I have been fighting with the Huns and have used a lot of car formations, but I didn't expect this!" Cheng Buzhi couldn't stop nodding and agreed.

"Master General, what should we do if the Huns break through our chariot formation?" Feng Jing frowned and asked, "If we have more crossbows, we can set up crossbow formations."

Crossbows were the most powerful weapon to deal with the cavalry of the Huns. However, there were only tens of thousands of crossbows in the hands of the Han army, so how could it be enough?

This is a huge problem. Everyone stared at Zhou Yang and waited for him to make a decision. Zhou Yangneng thought of this, so he had a solution. Who else could he find if he didn't look for him?

Zhou Yang thought, "If we have more crossbows, we will naturally not be afraid. However, our crossbows are not enough, so there is no need to think about setting up a crossbow formation. The war is imminent, so we can only think of ways from the existing weapons. I think that we have a lot of halberds and as many as we need, we can let the infantry set up a halberd formation."

"Halberd formation?"

Everyone was surprised and made a sound, rising and falling, and making a sound.

Zhou Yang really dared to think about it. The chariot is the amulet of the Han army. If the chariot is lost, can the cavalry of the Xiongnu just rely on the halberd?

"wonderful!"

Feng Jing knocked his right hand heavily on the short table and praised loudly: "There was a halberd formation in the previous dynasty to deal with the cavalry!"

As soon as he mentioned it, Qin Wuhui immediately woke up and praised loudly: "Yes! I forgot this matter if Lord Feng doesn't mention it!" He is a descendant of the Qin army, and he actually forgot such an important thing, which is a bit embarrassed to say.

Li Guang's ancestor Li Xin was a general of Qin Shihuang. He knew much about the Qin army. He couldn't help but stroke his forehead and praised loudly: "Good solution! Good solution! The halberd formation of the previous dynasty, Oh my God, when used, it was as dense as trees, and there were halberds everywhere. No matter how powerful the cavalry was, it would not be able to break through. This plan would definitely be successful!"

They said everything you said, and I said it was so lively, but Zhou Yang rolled his eyes when he heard it.

Zhou Yang's history is not good, and his military history is even more unfamiliar. How could he think of it? The Qin army had already used the halberd formation. Then he thought, since the Qin army had used it, those who proved that they were right, the halberd formation could deal with cavalry.

With the halberd formation, even if the chariot is broken, the Han army still has the ability to protect themselves. Then Zhou Yang's attack plan can be realized. The chances of winning this battle are still in the hands of the Han army.

"General Fei was a general of the previous dynasty, and General Qin was a descendant of the general of the previous dynasty. Lord Feng was familiar with history books. You all expressed your opinions and talked about the halberd formation." Zhou Yang was very excited, and his tone was a little high.

The three of them received the order, and they said and drew pictures from time to time to explain the Qin army's halberd formation.

When they finished speaking, Zhou Yang and his friends had a glimmer of light, which was so brilliant.

With the Qin Army's halberd formation, Zhou Yang saved a lot of trouble and needed a little improvement. The main change was to shift the archers into it. Because this was the Huns, they shot and killed them from afar. If there were no archers, the Han army would suffer a great loss.

A halberd is a long weapon, which is inconvenient to melee combat. If the enemy rushes to the front, he will suffer a great loss. Melee protection is necessary. Just put a certain number of swordsmen in it.

The Qin army's halberd formation is already protected by swordsmen, and you just need to copy it.

Zhou Yang and the others discussed the details for a while, coordinated and cooperated, and the halberd formation was settled.

The next thing is to train.

Training the halberd formation is much easier than training the crossbow formation. Because most of the Han infantry soldiers are halberd hands, and each person has a halberd, so there is no need to teach them how to use the halberd. They just need to concentrate them, arrange them into a formation, and then train them a little.

As soon as the order was passed, the Han army's halberds, swordsmen and archers began to gather. Zhou Yang did not need to worry about the specific array of formations. With Li Guang and Cheng did not know these two famous generals, it saved too much trouble. They rode war horses and guided the Han army to array.

This kind of halberd formation was not used by the Han army before and was not familiar with it. It took a lot of time to reorganize the formation. It took a full hour to complete the formation.

The formation was complete, Zhou Yang rode on the horse and looked at it. At first glance, he saw a crowd of black people, and there was no end at all, which was shocking.

As soon as he pulled the reins of the horse, Zhou Yang came to the cloud car, flew off the horse, got on the cloud car, and stood up to the tower. With the sound of the winch, the cloud car slowly rose, and Zhou Yang's horizon became wider and wider.

When the cloud car stopped, Zhou Yang had already risen to the highest point. He didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was shocked when he saw it. Looking at the halberd formation here is more shocking than on the ground.

At first glance, I saw the Han army lined up one square after another, and soldiers stood on the ground holding long halberds in their hands. The long halberds pointed to the sky, like dense bamboos. It was definitely a wonder and a wonder.

The 200,000 Han troops, eliminated 10,000 cavalry, tens of thousands of crossbowmen, riders, swordsmen, and the rest were all halberds, and at least 100,000. More than 100,000 halberds gathered together, arranged in a square formation, holding a long halberd. The shocking momentum would have been unbelievable if Zhou Yang had not seen it personally.

So shocking!

Zhou Yang took a breath, forced himself to calm down, and spread the flag in his hand, and the drums sounded like thunder.

The halberd formation moved and moved forward.

The advancement of the halberd formation is no longer a long halberd facing the sky, but a diagonally forward. Countless long halberds point at the front, and it feels like countless poisonous snakes gathering momentum and will rush out at any time, with awe-inspiring murderous aura spreading between the heaven and the earth.

It is impossible to deal with the cavalry of the Huns by individuals alone. The purpose of the halberd formation is to turn the individual into a whole and exert infinite power.

To turn an individual into a whole, you must take neat steps and take action neatly. Only in this way can the sand be accumulated to form a beach. More than 100,000 Han soldiers took neat steps, and as if a giant hammer hit the ground, making a loud bang, and the ground trembled violently.

Zhou Yang on the cloud car felt particularly obvious. When the Han army stepped down, the cloud car shook slightly, which showed how powerful it was.
To be continued...