Chapter 877: Xue Rengui sets up the Dragon Gate Formation
Chapter 877 Xue Rengui sets up the Dragon Gate Formation
Chapter 875: Xue Rengui sets up the Dragon Gate Formation
Xue Rengui stood in the center of the catapult convoy and looked coldly at Li Shimin, who was at the head of the opposite formation. He originally thought that Li Shimin would intercept and kill him while he was retreating, but he didn't expect that he still didn't take action.
“Li Shimin is so cautious this time. It seems that after suffering the last loss, Li Shimin has completely lost his memory. Now the ordinary tactics of luring the enemy will not work on him at all.”
Xue Rengui secretly thought that he actually wanted the Liang army to charge directly, because the scattered Xiliang cavalry were easier to deal with. However, Li Shimin didn't know whether he saw through his mind or wanted to be safe, but he watched the coalition troops withdraw.
"It seems that this battle is not going to be easy, so we have to fight head-on."
Xue Rengui estimated in his mind that the total number of cavalrymen leaving the Liang Army was probably more than 10,000. Among the 10,000 troops he currently had, there were still 3,000 trapped in the camp. The defense formation would be able to last until the reinforcements arrived.
Gao Shun was seriously injured in the previous battle in Jingbei and is still recovering in Nanyang. However, he was brought out of the trapped camp by Qin Haofei, and this time he was handed over to Xue Rengui's command.
"Li Shimin brought out all the cavalry in Hulao Pass this time. It seems that he is determined to destroy our army's catapult. Unfortunately, my lord, he had expected this. Li Shimin is destined to be defeated this time."
The trapped camp has not yet lost a battle. Now that this ace unit is in his hands, Xue Rengui is naturally full of confidence in it.
Xue Rengui looked coldly at the Liang Army cavalry on the opposite side, slowly pulled out the long sword from his waist, and shouted: "Come forward from the trapped camp, set up a pack of wolves and shields."
Xue Rengui and Gao Shun have a very good relationship. The two often discuss battle experiences together. Therefore, he may not be as good as Gao Shun in commanding the rising and falling formations, but he is one of the most skillful people in the current Qin army.
“The ambition to be trapped in battle is to die but not to live…”
Three thousand soldiers from the Thousand Entrapment camp rushed forward quickly while shouting, forming a large group of two hundred people, and then activated the small mechanism on the shield.
The soldiers connected the shields on the left and right to form a giant shield. Soon fifteen huge shields were assembled on the battlefield, completely dividing the coalition army and the Liang army.
After seeing this, not only the Liang army in the front, but also the coalition forces in the rear were shocked.
This is too high-tech, right? None of us country folk have ever seen it!
Li Shimin frowned. He had never seen such an advanced shield formation. Fortunately, he had collected information about the trapped camp in advance and knew that Liu Xiu was defeated by this formation in the Battle of Jingbei, so he was not ignorant of the depth. to test randomly.
"Xue Rengui, my goal is just to destroy the catapult. You want to use this turtle-speed shield formation to stop me, but you made the wrong idea."
Li Shimin sneered and shouted, and then led the cavalry forward, but still did not launch an attack, and a large number of Liang army infantry still poured out from the city gate behind.
"not good."
Xue Rengui immediately exclaimed. Li Shimin had noticed the weakness of the shield formation's slow speed. If he used the half-moon formation to defend, Li Shimin would definitely use his speed advantage to avoid the sharp edge and then attack the weak rear. Therefore, Xue Rengui had to change his formation. OK.
Xue Rengui quickly waved the command flag and shouted: "Change the formation, Bulongmen formation."
The Longmen Formation is a large formation, and it requires at least 70,000 people to set it up. At this time, Xue Rengui only has 10,000 people at his disposal. Naturally, he cannot set up a full version of the ancient formation, so he can only make do with an all-round one. A neutered version of defense.
As soon as Xue Rengui finished speaking, the 10,000 Kwantung Allied Forces were immediately divided into ten, and with the catapult convoy as the center, they quickly formed a strange formation in the shape of a round ten-cornered rhombus. As the trapping formation of sword and shield men, at the outermost edge of the formation, the pikemen are in the middle, the archers are in the back, and the center is the sling caravan.
Of the ten gates belonging to the Longmen Formation, five are real gates, and five are virtual gates. The combination of virtual and real gates is specially used to confuse and trap the enemy.
Now these ten gates are guarded by ten generals: Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Xu Chu, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Yin Shou, Gongsun Xuanyuan, Ran Min, and Jiang Song, while Xue Rengui is in the middle to suppress the formation.
The small dragon gate formation of ten thousand people has gathered eleven powerful generals from the coalition forces. Such a lineup is simply luxurious.
Seeing Xue Rengui's change of formation, Li Shimin immediately led the infantry under his command to contain the enemy in the front, and personally led the cavalry to bypass the rear of the coalition forces for a sneak attack. However, when his coalition forces bypassed the rear of the coalition forces, Xue Rengui's Xiaolongmen formation had already been deployed.
Xue Rengui, who was in the center of the formation, secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and thought: It was so dangerous, but luckily we caught up!
Li Shimin saw that this formation was full of murderous intent and the defensive layout had no flaws. He immediately frowned and asked to his left and right, "What kind of formation is this?"
“I have been in the army for half my life, but I have never seen this formation before. There is no strategy in the war strategy book, and it does not look like the Five Elements and Bagua formation.” Yin Kaishan said with a bitter smile.
At this moment, the main gate of the eight gates of Longmen opened wide, Xue Rengui revealed his figure and shouted: "Li Shimin, do you know what formation this is?"
"General Xue, please clarify my doubts." Li Shimin asked calmly.
Xue Rengui frowned slightly when he saw this, but smiled lightly and said: "This is the Longmen Formation. If you don't break this formation, you can't even think of destroying the catapult convoy."
Li Shimin smiled disdainfully and said sarcastically: "General Xue, you changed the Bagua Formation and called it Longmen Formation? You can deceive others, but you can't deceive me. If you want to see my ability to break the formation, just create another formation. This formation This will be easy to break.”
Of course Xue Rengui couldn't really believe it. The Longmen Formation was the strongest formation he had mastered. If even this formation couldn't stop Li Shimin, then he really had nothing to do.
“Li Shimin, you are a frog in a well with little knowledge. Just because you don’t know the Longmen Formation doesn’t mean you don’t have it. I want to see how you break this formation.”
Li Shimin frowned immediately after hearing this, and Lu Bu beside him asked: "General Shimin, our time is limited, so we can't delay it too much."
"Yes, if we delay any longer, the coalition reinforcements will arrive, and it will not be so easy to destroy the coalition's catapults." Wu Yunzhao said anxiously.
"General, please give the order quickly. From which door do you enter and exit? Should you kill when you encounter a red flag, or flee when you encounter a white flag?" Hou Yi said lightly.
Li Shimin stared coldly at the large formation in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "This formation has ten doors open, and there are ten doors to enter. However, there are real and false. If you enter the true, you will be blocked, and if you enter the false, you will be trapped. If you keep fighting to the end. Of course it's fine, but if something changes along the way and the path becomes diverged and lost, we'll either be captured alive or turned into meat..."
As soon as Li Shimin said this, the generals of the Liang Army knew the danger of this formation and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
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(End of this chapter)