Shu Chen

Chapter 236
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's central army is indeed undergoing a change of formation.

It seems that it is still evenly matched with Wei Da Sima Caozhen's headquarters, but if you look carefully, you will find that the Yuli formation that came parallel to the original, and a cone-shaped formation quietly forming on the right (Wei left).

When the two armies are fighting, it is a taboo to change formation before the battle.

If a single soldier moves around randomly during the formation change, it will cause the formation of the entire army to be disordered, so that the party who is fighting with it will find an opportunity to break the formation and drive in.

Throughout the ages, few generals have dared to do it.

But now Prime Minister Zhuge has done so and succeeded.

Seeing Cao Zhen, who had been a soldier all his life, couldn't help feeling a ray of admiration in his heart.

At first, Wei Guo's understanding of Zhuge Liang was limited to a genius in internal affairs.For example, every time the Shu Han conquered, he often guarded the rear and made the front line full of soldiers and food, just like Xun Lingjun in Wei State in the past.But who would have expected that when he led the expedition, he would also have the qualifications of a famous general?Perhaps, in the battle of Yiling in the past, if Liu Xuande let this person follow him, I am afraid that Jiangdong Lu Boyan will not be well-known in the world!

After inexplicably sighing, Cao Zhen put his mind back to the battlefield, put his hand on his chin, and narrowed his eyes.

He is waiting.

The small conical formation that was equally divided was completely separated from Prime Minister Zhuge's central army.

It sounds ridiculous.

He clearly knew that Prime Minister Zhuge wanted to use this small conical formation to attack the left flank of his army, so as to help the Han army over there to enter the front line as soon as possible.However, he did not immediately send other departments to support and contain them, but instead allowed the enemy to fully display them.As if he didn't know that once Zhao Yan's left-wing front collapsed, his own central army would usher in a pincer attack and follow in the footsteps.

"Great Sima, if you don't send troops to help, the left army may be difficult to support."

Even the staff who followed him couldn't bear the eagerness, and said in a low voice, half persuading and half urging one step forward.

"Um"

However, Cao Zhen only made a nasal sound, noncommittal.

It also made the staff quickly bow their heads and bow their hands to retreat, not daring to make any more noise: Da Sima is very human!If you know it but don't do it, you must have other intentions.

Indeed, Cao Zhen had no second thoughts.

The two armies have been fighting fiercely for nearly half an hour, and he has gradually seen the clues of their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Although he led more than [-] soldiers, which was more than the Han army, the battle developed against his own army.

The Shu army is too vigorous!
From the beginning to the present, the cries of a deadly battle have been heard endlessly, and the fighting spirit has not disappeared.

Now that the two armies seem to be evenly matched, the biggest flaw of the Wei army is that the left front has been wedged into a few gaps.But if it lasts for a long time, the fighting spirit of the Wei army may not be comparable to that of the Han army.

Without him, Wei Jun was not fully prepared for this battle.

At least the cavalry was not dispatched.

The Wei State is dominated by cavalry, and the soldiers have long been accustomed to the tactics of coordinating infantry and cavalry combat. They have a psychological gap for this kind of encounter without the expectation of "cavalry is the final word".

You can't see anything at the beginning of the battle, but when you get into a fierce battle, this disadvantage will appear.

Especially against the Bashu army, which is the most powerful in mountain warfare.

War can't last long!

Cao Zhenxin quietly made up his mind.

Yiran also focused on Qingqugai, who had not stopped moving forward slowly, and was only guarded by soldiers from the three schools.

The most efficient way to end a war is to kill the general or capture the flag.

Coincidentally, Zhuge Liang has already stepped forward!
Of course, Cao Zhen didn't expect to kill Prime Minister Zhuge in front of the battle.

But with the Han army coming with the car, he has been silently calculating the approaching distance, the time required for his own elite to attack, and how to prevent the Han army on the two wings from returning to the central army.

The cavalry with strong mobility has the most advantage in attacking the enemy's heart and capturing the flag.

But he has no cavalry at his side now.

Perhaps Zhuge Liang deceived me that I had no cavalry, so he dared to go forward?

Cao Zhen, who squinted his eyes, became colder and colder.

"You go and pass the order."

Grinning slightly, Cao Zhen looked back at the staff and said calmly, "Let Cui Ya lead the headquarters and go to the left wing to supervise the battle on my behalf. And pass on my general order, which means that the soldiers on the left wing who dare to retreat after the battle They must be investigated! And offend the family members, no matter the old and weak, women and children, they will never be slaves!"

The staff member was stunned upon hearing this.

After being stunned for a while, he didn't react until he saw the cold light in Cao Zhen's eyes.

"Follow the orders!"

Quickly responded loudly, quickly turned around and climbed down the high platform to leave.

He didn't question Cao Zhen's decision to send only one general to supervise the war, which would make it difficult to turn around the situation on the left.

But Cao Zhen, who has always been sympathetic to soldiers, is so decisive now.

The military law of the Wei State is known for its strictness.

Even the generals who have fought for the country for many years and have made great contributions would rather die in battle when they are in poverty, and dare not surrender to the enemy for fear of implicating the family.Not to mention those soldiers whose whole family's life and death are controlled by the government because of the "Soldier System".

Cao Zhen's general order is equivalent to cutting off the survival of those soldiers.

Either fight to the death and never retreat, or the family members would be worse off than die after the war, there is no third choice.

It's just that this general order has great disadvantages.

Threats of death can certainly make soldiers brave for a while.

However, the Nishu Central Army had already leaned to the left. If Cao Zhen hadn't sent troops to help, the front line would still be defeated after all.And with no way out, those soldiers might have resigned in anger!
People are not grass and trees.

In desperation, who can predict what he will do?
When the staff member left, he was also speculating in his heart.

With Da Sima's general strategy, it is impossible not to see such consequences, but he still dispatches like this, could it be...
Did Da Sima want to take this opportunity to defeat the Chinese army against Shu? !
In the Wei army, as the staff member of Da Sima, he is also one of the people who is qualified to read the secrets in the army.

I also know that there are several units in Prime Minister Zhuge's army that can be called elites, such as the Tiger Infantry Army, the Qingqiang Five Divisions, etc., all of which have now been sent to the left and right wings.

I also know that Cao Zhen has more than a thousand personal guards, and he can be called the master of tigers and wolves.

Because these more than a thousand parts have the same origin as the Tiger Guard Army, one of the emperor's pro-armies in Wei State, which was established in Wei Wu Cao Cao's time.

At the beginning, this army was known as the Tiger Warrior, and Xu Chu's generals were all swordsmen.

Wei Wu Cao Cao got it, thought they were all strong men, and worshiped him as a general today.

Later, when he joined the army, dozens of tiger soldiers worshiped as generals and marquises with military merits, and more than a hundred people were appointed captains and school lieutenants.

Later, after Cao Rui ascended the throne, Cao Wei's imperial family was gradually fading away, and only Cao Zhen was the country's military force with great hard work, so he specially bestowed five hundred tiger guards as the bodyguard trilogy to show his great honor.

Therefore, the staff member believed in his own deduction more and more.

If Zhuge Liang, the prime minister against Shu, continued to dump his troops to the left, Cao Zhen would not miss the opportunity.

Just as the Shu army put the elite on the left and right flanks, imitating Tian Ji's horse race with the upper four against the lower four, intending to break through the front from the flanks and pinch the central army, Cao Zhen can also treat his opponents in the same way.

With these tiger guards as the forerunners, the elite soldiers of the headquarters as the follow-up, the pigs assaulted the Chinese army in Bashu!
In the same way, Cao Zhen is equivalent to scheming and grasping the initiative on the battlefield-instead of passively sending troops to suppress the crumbling left wing, it is better to take the initiative as a bait.

If the Han army has been pinning the hope of breaking the formation on the left wing.

In fact, the staff guessed seven or eight points of Cao Zhen's intentions.

The remaining two or three points were due to sudden changes on the battlefield, and even Cao Zhen himself was not sure whether the development of the situation would go as he wished.

Therefore, he is also working hard to prepare.

After the prime minister sent the small conical formation formed by the Chinese army to the left wing of the Wei army, he asked the former army to divide a part and advance while fighting. echo of the

However, he did not get his wish.

Because the prime minister's next move was even bolder.

It is to pour all the troops of the central army to the left wing of the Wei army.

It seems that once Jufu and Wudang Feijun break through the front line, they will drive troops to sweep Wei's troops and rush in?

Or, seeing that Wei Zhongjun sent a troop across the gap, thinking that Wei Jun did not support the left wing, but wanted to lure Jufu and Wudang's flying army to go deep and outflank, so they drove troops to protect the rear?

Cao Zhen's eyebrows furrowed even deeper.

He raised his chin slightly, and looked at the banner of the Han army opposite him.

His eyesight is already a little poor.

I can only roughly see the outline of a human figure under the cover of Qingqu, but I can't distinguish the Eguan Bo belt of Prime Minister Zhuge.

Just like he couldn't figure out where Prime Minister Zhuge relied on his unreasonable dispatches again and again.

Of course!

Whether it is to divide the Chinese army into a small formation, or to slowly shift all the troops to the left, it is a strange move on the battlefield!
For example, Cao Zhen can now just sit back and watch the Han army lean to the left, and then concentrate all the troops of the army, go to the right and encircle and wipe out the two thousand Qiang cavalry and tiger infantry!
With the spirit of a strong man breaking his wrist, he gambled with the Han army.

With the collapse of Wei Zuoyi in exchange for the disappearance of the Hanhu infantry, both sides will suffer!
No matter what kind of result it is, it is acceptable to Cao Zhen.

He never had the idea of ​​destroying Bashu in a single battle.

This time, with the support of the emperor Cao Rui and the strength of the Guanzhong, it is just to exhaust the war background of the Han army, so that it has no troops to enter Hexi and continue to be weak!
However, he also hesitated.

Zhuge Liang, who was against Shu, even succeeded in the unimaginable change of formation before the battle. Now that the central army is slowly turning to press the left flank, is it because he wants me to abandon the left flank and attack the tiger infantry?

With such thoughts in mind, Cao Zhen once again turned his attention to the right wing.

Immediately, I felt something unusual: Compared with the battle on the left wing, the attack on the right wing was really not that intense.

The right wing of the Wei army was the tens of thousands of soldiers he had transferred from Xia Houru.

In terms of proficiency in combat and morale, it is almost the same as the soldiers supervised by the leftist Zhao Yan.

But with the elite Nishu tiger infantry, compared with the Banyu barbarians attacking the left wing and the Shengliao barbarians, the difference in the results is so great?

And the two thousand Qiang cavalry who could not be found to disrupt the formation and attack from the side, why didn't Zhuge Liang dispatch them to the central army or the left wing to find fighters?

Perhaps, it was a deliberate show of weakness!

Cao Zhenxin said secretly.

Afterwards, people went to the right wing to send orders to the general.

I don't expect him to be able to repel the Nishu tiger infantry and the two thousand Qiang cavalry, but he must be delayed.

When necessary, at any cost!
It also means that Cao Zhen gave up his idea of ​​talent and resisted the temptation to encircle and wipe out the tiger infantry.

Therefore, his eyes began to wander back and forth between Zhao Yan's left wing and the big banner of the Han army.

The battle on the left wing has long been extremely tragic.

After Wudang Feijun approached the battle, he not only wedged a few gaps, but also killed the Wei army's front line to retreat nearly ten feet away.

Husband battle, courage also!

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted!

"kill!"

Encouraged by Jufu, he couldn't miss the opportunity, once again gathered more than [-] people around him, made a sound of urging the battle, and set an example to charge forward desperately.

The intention is to take advantage of this vigor to completely defeat the morale of the Wei army.

After fighting for a long time, many soldiers were killed and killed.But Wei Jun's array is still densely packed, full of people, not only can't see the end, even the light can't get through.

Who knows that there are so many troops against Wei!
Moreover, the morale of the soldiers who clearly opposed the Wei just now has faintly collapsed, and some soldiers showed fear and did not dare to move forward to make up for the gap in the front line!But for some reason, it didn't take long for these Wei Jun to become red-eyed and fearless again?
Very strange!
Suizheng, who has been with Jufu for many years, couldn't help but be amazed by this.

But did not delve into it.

The morale against Wei is high again, so what?
Since my big man can defeat once, he can defeat the second time!countless times!
Don't you see, since my Han soldiers left Longyou, countless soldiers have lost their land against the Wei Dynasty?

Don't you hear, in Bashu and Guanzhong, Li and Shu all proclaimed "the prophecy of the golden sword", and the family of the Han family with the surname Liu is the destiny?
The Wei family, surnamed Cao, stole artifacts and disregarded the destiny of heaven. Even his descendants were punished by heaven.

Destiny is in the Han Dynasty, this battle must be won, whether it is possible or not!

"Recover the Central Plains!"

Ju Fu's voice was stern, and he threw his hand to the side, and stabbed the Wei soldier who was caught off guard with a spear, and then pulled out the ring sword from his waist, dancing with the sword and spear, step by step.

The Wudang Flying Army is more generous than him.

They had already killed red eyes, so they didn't care how many Wei troops were in front of them, they just killed them all!
In particular, the sound of drums from the prime minister in the rear became more and more urgent, and a group of two thousand soldiers from the central army was getting closer.

Those who are invincible are invincible!

They felt that if they could defeat the enemy with the support of the Chinese army, they would feel sorry for Jianhao.

Time passed slowly.

Unknowingly, the two armies have been fighting fiercely for more than an hour.

Standing on the high platform and watching the battle, Cao Zhen, in addition to dispatching General Cui Ya to lead his headquarters to the left flank, will order most of the Chinese army to move forward slowly and fight with Prime Minister Zhuge's Chinese army.

But it did not curb the intention of the Han army to rush to the left.

Moreover, he left behind the headquarters to guard the big banner, and there are still five thousand elites and more than a thousand personal soldiers under his tent.

It seems to be well versed in the fact that the governor should be careful.

The small snowflakes that kept falling from the sky had already accumulated a thin layer on his shoulders.

In the winter, he is bound to be plagued by minor illnesses, and his body has long since become bulky, and he already has a faint pain of not being able to stand for a long time, but he still stands tall like a mountain, motionless.

However, soon, he squinted for a long time and suddenly opened his eyes.

Because it is inevitable, Wei Jun's left-wing front is about to collapse!
And Prime Minister Zhuge's central army's strength has already shifted to the left for the most part!
(End of this chapter)