Great Han Arrow God

Chapter 542 Demonstration
Zhao Yingqi worshiped Liang Xiao extremely, and also admitted that the cavalry in South Vietnam were not as good as in Central Plains.Whether the cavalry is strong or not depends on an important factor: war horses.The Dian horse can bear heavy loads and climb mountains, but as a war horse, it is obviously not comparable to the Central Plains Dynasty that had just conquered the grassland.

However, Liang Xiao said that the navy of the Han Dynasty was also stronger than that of Nanyue, and Zhao Yingqi was not convinced.On the one hand, it is out of face, South Vietnam can bow to the Central Plains, but it must retain a little dignity; on the other hand, it is out of fact.In his view, although the Central Plains Dynasty had large ships, the large ships were not suitable for combat ships except for their large loading capacity.In terms of navy, of course South Vietnam has an advantage.

Out of respect for Liang Xiao himself, Zhao Yingqi did not refute it face to face, leaving it to the facts to prove it.

However, the Han army has not made any further moves, and has not launched an attack after half a month of training.Zhao Yingqi waited anxiously, and was so angry that he scolded Yu Shan for his incompetence.Sitting on a superior force, looking at the opponent showing off his power, but hesitating to attack, he really is a coward.

Liang Xiao looked at Zhao Yingqi jumping up and down, thinking it was funny.He can roughly guess what Zhao Yingqi is thinking, but he also knows that Zhao Yingqi's hope is just a vain after all. 40 years ago, Zhao Tuo still had the opportunity to compete with the Central Dynasty. Now, the strength of the Han Dynasty is not what it used to be, and it is no longer something that South Vietnam can compete with.Bingfeng pointed out that all will become the territory of the Han Dynasty. This is an inevitable trend, and not anyone can save it.

What about me?Where can I retreat to be considered safe?Liang Xiao couldn't help asking himself.He raised his head and looked into the distance.On the other side of the strait, there is a treasure island, but is it safe to retire overseas?
Liang Xiao expressed doubts.

Zhao Yingqi waited impatiently, and Yu Shan was equally anxious.The longer he waited, the more stressed he was.In the end, he failed to withstand the pressure and took the initiative to attack Wei Qing and Wu Bei.Leaving [-] troops to guard the camp, he personally led [-] infantry out of the camp to challenge Wei Qing and Wu Bei.

The two sides launched a decisive battle in a piece of land in the south of the Great River.

After receiving the news, Liang Xiao led Zhao Yingqi, and under the protection of more than a hundred knights, rushed to the mountains near the battlefield to watch the battle.He believed that Wei Qing could understand what he meant, and fought the battle beautifully, serving as a warning to Zhao Yingqi.If such a scene is not watched closely, the shock will be greatly reduced.

Abandoning their horses under Nanban, Liang Xiao and Zhao Ying walked up the ridge and climbed a huge boulder.There is a thick tree shade beside the boulder, which just blocks the dazzling sunlight.Standing high and looking far, you can overlook the entire battlefield, but there is no suspicion of accidental injury. It is really an excellent position only for a VIP.

Liang Xiao and Zhao Yingqi glanced at each other, grinned, and raised their clairvoyance to observe the battlefield.

Yu Shan stood facing east and divided the army into four parts. He led the central army, about 5000 people, and the front army also had 5000 people. There were five square formations with two in front and three in back. Thousands of soldiers faced each other, and the rear and right armies each had about 2000 soldiers. The left flank was a big river with a width of [-] steps, and no cover was arranged.

Liang Xiao aimed his clairvoyance at Yu Shan's camp again.The gate of the camp was closed tightly, and the flags fluttered faintly, revealing an indescribable tension.

"Your Highness, how many people do you think are still in the camp?"

Zhao Yingqi thought about it. "There should be no less than 1 people."

"Why did Yu Shan keep so many people in the camp?"

Zhao Yingqi breathed a sigh of relief, and pondered for a moment: "He must be afraid of us attacking the camp. Hehe, it's really prudent to keep so many people guarding the camp."

"He's not being cautious, but he's afraid." Liang Xiao refocused his clairvoyance on Yu Shan's battle formation. "Generally speaking, the formation of troops is solid outside and empty inside. The number of the central army should not be too large, and there must be enough space for maneuvering. Nearly one-third of his troops are concentrated in the central army, which shows that he He doesn't have the confidence to block the attack of the Han army at all, so he has to arrange heavy troops by his side. That is to say, although he has a superior force, psychologically, he has set himself on the defensive."

Zhao Yingqi nodded repeatedly.Although he has also read some military books and participated in some inspections, his experience in the battlefield is limited, and he has benefited a lot from Liang Xiao's on-site commentary and analysis.

"It will be the courage of an army. Yu Shan has a guilty conscience and is conservative in tactics. This will inevitably affect the rhythm of the battle and be in a passive situation."

"Yu Shan has a superior force, but he gave up attacking and defended according to the formation. Can the Han army break through his formation?"

The corner of Liang Xiao's mouth twitched slightly. "Have you noticed the cavalry?"

Zhao Yingqi shook his head.He watched for a long time, but he didn't see where the cavalry was.The Han army has a thousand fine cavalry, but apart from the scouts galloping back and forth, there are almost no organized cavalry on the battlefield.He was curious, where did the cavalry go?

"Where did the cavalry go?"

"I don't know, but I believe that the cavalry will appear in a way you can't imagine, and once it appears, it must be a thunderbolt."

Zhao Yingqi hesitated to speak.He has never denied the power of cavalry.He also wanted to take this opportunity to see if the cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty was as powerful as Liang Xiao said, enough to crush the cavalry of South Vietnam.

The drums sounded, and the war kicked off.The situation was just as Liang Xiao said. Although Yu Shan had five times the superior force, he did not take the initiative to launch an attack. He just held his ground firmly, waiting to be beaten.Instead, Wu Bei, with only 3000 people, took the initiative to attack. Two teams of 200 people each protruded from the main formation, forming horns, and tentatively attacked the two wings of the Fujian-Vietnamese army's front phalanx.

The Minyue Army stood firm and remained unmoved.

Wu Bei was not in a hurry, and kept adjusting the direction of attack, teasing the Minyue army.Seeing that the attack was fruitless, the two 200-man teams simply sat down in front of the formation, untied their armor, chatted and scolded the formation.Liang Xiao and the others were too far away, so they couldn't hear what they were cursing, but they could imagine what those people would say.

Zhao Yingqi shook his head.Yu Shan is really cowardly to the extreme, being so insulted by others, he is still indifferent.

The progress of the battle became a bit boring. Both sides were waiting for the battle, but they did not launch a real attack for a long time. The soldiers of the Han army who scolded the formation were even lying on the ground, and they did not know if they were asleep. The Fujian and Yue troops still did not move.In the air above the battlefield, there was only the sound of low-pitched war drums, which seemed a bit boring.

Zhao Yingqi's freshness was over, he yawned, turned over on the boulder, and dozed off.

Liang Xiao was still sitting, but he also put down his clairvoyance.The battlefield seemed to be frozen, nothing changed at all.He pondered the possible deployment of Wei Qing and Wu Bei in his heart, but he couldn't think of any surefire strategy for them.After all, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. Even if the Han army is good at fighting, it will be difficult to win easily.

Are they going to use the strategy of exhausting the army to drag Yu Shan until he is exhausted before attacking?
Liang Xiao raised his clairvoyance again, aimed at Wu Bei's position, and examined it carefully.After watching for a while, he laughed silently, and couldn't help but be amazed by his boldness.Wu Bei's position seems to have 3000 people, but in fact there are only half of them at most. There are people in the front and only banners in the back. It is actually a false formation.If Yu Shan was more courageous and took the initiative to launch an attack, Wu Bei's empty city strategy would have been broken long ago.

It seems that Wu Bei also expected that Yu Shan would have a guilty conscience, so he played such a trick.

Since it is an empty formation, where is the real killing move?Liang Xiao's gaze extended to behind Wu Bei, between the mountains.

The two sides confronted each other for a day, until the setting sun hung on Xishan.Seeing that the day's tough stalemate was about to end, the lifeless Minyue Army finally became a little more angry.Zhao Yingqi, who had slept for a long time, also opened his eyes, looked around, yawned and said, "Is this going to end?"

Liang Xiao shook his head, but did not speak.He didn't think it should end like this, but he couldn't see what kind of arrangement Wu Bei would have.

At this moment, Beta suddenly pointed to the distance and said: "Master, look, the boat."

Liang Xiao immediately stood up, raised his clairvoyance, and looked into the distance.

A building boat bypassed the mountains and went up the river at an extremely fast speed.Immediately afterwards, another building ship appeared in the field of vision, and then another.Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows, he understood Wu Bei's intention, and couldn't help but smile.

Holding Yu Shan with an empty formation, nailing Yu Shan here for a day, he was very nervous, and when the end was about to end, when people's minds returned, he would attack again, and the attack would be from the river, which Yu Shan must have never imagined.

The river was a hundred paces wide, and although it wasn't very deep, it was difficult for people and horses to wade through it. It was precisely in consideration of this that Yu Shan reduced the cover of the left wing.At this moment, it is indeed a strange move for Wu to use the building boat to directly transport the troops to Yu Shan's side.

However, it is easy to use a large ship to transport troops, but it is not so easy for a large ship to dock and launch an attack.What other arrangements does Wu Bei have?
Liang Xiao was very interested, and wanted to see what kind of clever tricks Wu Bei, who was called "the second Huainan quilt" with Lei, used to win more with less.Zhao Yingqi also saw the building boat, guessed Wu Bei's intention, and saw the panic of the Minyue army, so he couldn't help but be overwhelmed.

At this moment, all the thirteen building ships appeared in the field of vision of Liang Xiao and the others, going up against the current and rushing directly towards the left flank of Yu Shan's central army.Yu Shan also discovered Lou Chuan, realized Wu Bei's intentions, and was extremely nervous.He immediately commanded the central army to move south, and at the same time ordered the front and rear left wings and the rear army to move north, forming an interception formation to prevent the disembarkation of the Han army on the upper boat.

At the same time, Wu was launched an offensive, and more than a thousand infantry rushed out of the battle formation, brazenly killing the front army of the Minyue Army.

All of a sudden, the war drums thundered and the flags fluttered. The battlefield that had been silent for a day seemed to come alive suddenly.

The Fujian-Vietnam army changed, and the scene was a bit chaotic.

Liang Xiao looked at the Minyue army who was changing formation, cocked his mouth and laughed.At this time, he finally guessed the plan of Wu Bei and others, and he couldn't help applauding this plan.

"Your Majesty, where are the cavalry, are they on the upper boat?"

Liang Xiao shook his head. "There should not be many people on the big boats, at most there are some archers, otherwise the draft is too deep and it is easy to run aground. Judging from the draft of these high-rise boats, the cavalry should not be on the high-rise boats."

"Where is that?"

Liang Xiao made a fool of himself. "You wait patiently, the cavalry will appear soon. Of course, you can also guess, the answer to the mystery has actually been revealed, it depends on whether you can figure it out."

Zhao Yingqi pursed his lips, raised his clairvoyance, and carefully observed the battle formation.

At this time, the Minyue army camp was in chaos.The Chinese army is moving south, while the rear army and the left wing of the front army are rushing northward, setting up formations along the river to prevent the building boats from docking.The building boats went up, parallel to the central army of the Minyue Army, and the thirteen building boats lined up, constantly approaching the river bank.The distance between the two sides was only forty or fifty steps. The archers all drew their crossbows and fired with all their strength.

The first thousand-man phalanx of the former army and Wu were engaged in battle, and more than 2000 people were killed together, and the shouts of killing were earth-shattering.

The battle was fierce, and no one noticed. As the rear army rushed to the river to stand up, the rear of the Minyue Army had lost its protection and became the weakest link.

Following the protruding corner of the Chinese army, Liang Xiao looked into the distance.

Sure enough, on the mountains in the distance, there were moving figures, and the horses rushed out of the valley and accelerated along the gentle slope of the river bank.The one rushing to the front was Han Shuo and the hundred elite cavalry led by him, followed closely by Wei Qing's battle flag.The sound of horseshoes became more and more urgent and louder, and gradually merged into a surging tide, rushing towards Yu Shan's central army.

"Good!" Liang Xiao slapped his thigh and applauded loudly.

"So ruthless." Zhao Yingqi was dumbfounded as he looked at the galloping cavalry.At this time, he understood the combat intention of the Han army.The previous infantry confrontation and the later building ships were actually all pretense, with only one purpose: to create opportunities for the cavalry to attack.

At this moment, Yu Shan's full attention is on the front army and the battlefield by the river. The formation of the Minyue Army has not been adjusted in place. Even if Yu Shan sees the cavalry, he has no time to react.The only thing he could do was to let the 2000 people on the right flank come forward and intercept him.But the cavalry came so fast that the right-wing Minyue Army had no time to act.If you can't line up, even if you get to the position, you can't stop the cavalry's impact, and you will lose these people in vain.

Liang Xiao was right, the cavalry would appear in ways he couldn't imagine, and once they appeared, it would be a thunderbolt.

Under Zhao Yingqi's watchful eyes, Han Shuo and the others took the lead, rushed down the hillside, ran wildly along the river, shot a rain of arrows, and ran towards the middle army of the Minyue Army.Behind them, the cavalry rushed in like a tidal wave breaking a dike, washing away the formation of the Minyue Army.

The Minyue army changed formation before the battle, and it was a little chaotic at first, but when they saw the cavalry suddenly appearing behind them, they were even more frightened.The attacked rear army first collapsed, and then the central army also appeared in irreparable chaos.As more and more cavalry rushed in, more and more arrows were shot into the formation, and the Minyue Chinese Army quickly lost control, and many people began to retreat eastward.

Although the number of cavalry was not large, the Minyue army was already scared by the cavalry, and they had a psychological shadow. When they saw the cavalry appear, they were three points afraid.Standing on the flat ground, they couldn't see how many cavalry the Han army had. They only knew that there were so many cavalry in front of them, and the fear in their hearts was invisibly magnified several times.

If Yu Shan is calm enough at this time, he may still have a chance to control the situation. Unfortunately, he has too little experience in commanding in front of the battle, and all of them are failures. get other.

In a moment, the Minyue Army fell into total chaos.

The cavalry, like flood peaks, hit the central army of the Minyue Army again and again, spreading fear continuously.

In just three rounds, the central army of the Minyue Army collapsed.Wherever the cavalry went, the Minyue army scattered and fled in all directions, screaming at the sky and the earth, and running like wolves.
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