Fang Jie's arrangement didn't work, because Ye Jinnan didn't intend to compete with him for high ground at all. First, the cavalry was sent out to pretend to snatch the banner, but Ye Jinnan turned a blind eye to it. Then he ordered the cavalry to follow and use harassment tactics to slow down the marching speed of Ye Jinnan's army. Ye Jinnan retaliated against him in his own way, and sent cavalry to follow behind the cavalry of Fang Jiejun. In the end, this harassment battle turned into a cat-and-mouse game between cavalry and cavalry.
When Fang Jie saw all this, he couldn't help but shook his head and smiled. A competition with a general who has led the army for more than ten years and has won hundreds of battles is indeed not an easy way to gain advantage. He himself had to admit that the previous small tricks might not work. Ye Jinnan only put on a posture of staying the same and responding to all changes, which seemed to have ruined all his arrangements.
So now, it seems like everything has to be dealt with head on.
In the eyes of those who watched the battle, Fang Jie had already fallen into a disadvantage. Ye Jinnan did not follow the path he set, but he had to walk the path set by Ye Jinnan, although the result was Fang Jie want. He occupies the high slope to defend and Ye Jinnan leads the army to attack, but the feeling of being let down by others is not comfortable at all.
Although the result is the same, what you won by yourself and what others let you will definitely not make people feel the same.
After rushing to the high ground with the men and horses, Fang Jie looked at the surrounding environment and thought through the calculations in his heart again from beginning to end.
This is not a place where one man is in control and ten thousand men are not allowed to open. Although Gao Po is lying in front of Ye Jinnan's army, if he is not for a competition but is actually on the battlefield, Ye Jinnan has no need to attack by force. It can be bypassed casually.
When it was time for a head-to-head confrontation, Ye Jinnan's self-confidence put enormous pressure on Fang Xie.
Others took the initiative to give up the advantage, which proved that Ye Jinnan had absolute confidence in conquering Gaopo. Although the two sides had the same strength, Ye Jinnan obviously didn't feel that he was at a disadvantage.
"Archers don't go to the front!"
Seeing the archers from the Shanzi Camp spontaneously stand at the front, Fang Jie shouted loudly to stop them from setting up their formation: "All go to the back of the high slope, and the shield players and long-lancers line up in front. All the archers stand on the high slope. Behind the slope, there are many rows, listen to my orders and shoot arrows!"
Such an arrangement surprised the soldiers, which was totally against the usual practice. According to past experience, archers are at the forefront of the battle formation, firing arrows to stop the attack, and then quickly retreating to complete the formation change when the enemy is about to rush to the front of the formation. But Fang Jie ordered the archers to retreat behind the high slope, so that the archers of Shanziying would shoot blindly. When the enemy cannot be seen, the feathered arrows are sent to the designated place entirely by the command of the commander.
Wouldn't this greatly reduce the power of the archers
Chen Qianshan looked at the soldiers hesitating, and loudly ordered the soldiers to follow the general's instructions. He was full of respect for Fang Xie, not only because Fang Xie gave him the robe of a sixth-rank captain, but because Fang Xie recognized him. He has been in the army for many years, and he understands what Fang Jie's purpose is.
Although it occupies a high slope, it is a large gentle slope. For the offensive side, it will not be very difficult to run, and the speed will not be greatly affected. At such a distance, there is not much difference between the archer shooting blindly before or after the high slope. Most importantly, Fang Xie knew that Ye Jinnan's troops had brought many huge shields. Therefore, Ye Jinnan's attack method can be expected. When the opponent uses a huge shield to form a shield formation, the threat of the archer is not great.
The giant shield protects the team, like a giant beetle. Rolling forward in this way, the role of the archers is negligible. It is better to let the archers retreat to save their energy and use them as a reserve team when the defense line is not supported.
After finishing the array, Fang Jie turned his head and told Chen Qianshan, "Go, lead someone to cut bamboo, make sure it's more than ten feet long, the more the better."
Chen Qianshan was startled, he didn't understand Fang Jie's intention, but he followed suit and led a group of people to cut green bamboos behind the high slope.
Half an hour after the formation of the Shanzi Battalion, Ye Jinnan's troops slowly pressed up.
Seeing the formation on the high slope, Ye Jinnan put down his clairvoyant Ye Jinnan and couldn't help but smile: "I gave up using archers to stop me from attacking from the beginning, did you see my plan?"
"Shields, form an array!"
He ordered loudly, and the horn sounded immediately.
Six people lined up side by side, erecting the giant shield in front of them. The shield hand at the back lifted up the giant shield and joined them together, and the shields on the side were also next to the shield, leaving only a gap for observation. Between the shield bearers are pikemen, holding wooden sticks in their hands at this time.
Two shield formations were formed, each with 500 people. Ye Jinnan left an elite team of 200 people as a reserve team, and then ordered the super beetles composed of two giant shields to attack the high slope.
On a high slope one mile away, Luo Yao raised his clairvoyant eyes and looked towards this side.
"It's still safe to use troops near the south. The high slope is too short and the slope is very slow. It is most suitable for the shield to squeeze forward, and the archers on the defensive side will not be effective. And this is a competition, and it is not allowed to really hurt people's lives. , so it is impossible and too late for Fang Xie to prepare the log, let alone the ballista, and there are not many ways to deal with the shield formation."
He smiled and said: "Both of them gave up using cavalry. It's really boring to let cavalry join in such a competition. With the speed up of a cavalry team of 100 people, it can completely break through the defense line of 1,000 infantry. I'm interested , is to explain where the one hundred and fifty people are."
Zhan Yao, who was standing beside him, was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at the green bamboo forest behind Gao Po.
Wen Xiaodao glanced at Zhan Yao thoughtfully.
…
…
In Yongzhou city.
In the brothel.
Luo Wen knew that he had no other way to go, he squeezed the elixir left by Shi Yuan and held it in front of his eyes, then shook his head with a wry smile. I have already eaten the first one, so what is there to worry about the second one? He stuffed the emerald green pill into his mouth, then poured a glass of water into his stomach.
Different from the burning pain in the stomach after eating the first elixir, this elixir has a very cool feeling after taking it. The coolness made him feel very comfortable, and the heat and pain in his body were relieved a lot very quickly. This made him heave a long sigh of relief, and his heart was relieved a lot.
But after a while, the pain that was suppressed in the lower abdomen suddenly burst out again violently. The pain this time was far more severe than the pain brought by the first pill, and it made his body twitch in an instant. He rolled over on the bed with his stomach in his arms, and soon his clothes were soaked in sweat.
In the next second, Luo Wen, unable to hold on, still passed out.
When he woke up again, he felt a little cold on his forehead. Opening his eyes with difficulty, he saw a familiar figure sitting beside the bed.
"Uncle Zhong... why are you here?"
Seeing that he was awake, Zhong Bo hurriedly helped him to sit up: "Master...you shouldn't have lied to me, let alone listened to the monk's words...how can you easily touch the things of the Buddhist sect!"
When saying this, Luo Wen felt Zhong Bo's pain.
"I voluntarily..."
Luo Wen squeezed out a smile with difficulty: "One has to fight once, for oneself."
"Master, you are too confused!"
Zhong Bo's eyes were red, and the meanings in his eyes were very complicated, including distress, anger, regret and worry.
"If the general finds out, is it okay?"
"It's just a death."
Luo Wen smiled self-deprecatingly: "He has no other skills other than beating me to death. He didn't intend to give me his things, so he might have thought of beating me to death a long time ago. He killed me." Me, he justifiably gave everything to outsiders."
Hearing these words, Uncle Zhong's face changed: "Young master, why did you say that? Although the general is strict, he is your father after all."
"Pooh!"
Luo Wen spat: "I doubt even now, am I his son!"
"Master!"
Uncle Zhong's face became more and more ugly. He looked at Luo Wen and said eagerly: "Why do you think so, young master? I watched you grow up, young master. Don't you even believe me?"
"I believe you."
Luo Wen forced a smile: "In the whole house, I can trust you. Uncle Zhong... I want to ask you something, you must tell me the truth. This is related to how I will go in the future. If you lie I, I will never forgive you."
"Master, you ask."
"I... Does my father have other children?"
"ah?!"
Zhong Bo's face changed drastically, and he couldn't help but exclaimed. But soon, he shook his head vigorously: "Master, you are the only son of the general, you are the only child of the general."
"I do not believe!"
Luo Wen struggled and stretched out his hand to grab Zhongbo's clothes: "Father caught many wizards back then. What did he do? Zhongbo, you are an old man by your father's side. You have been with him since you were young. I know father Believe you, so you know many things! Now you must tell me, what did my father let those wizards do?"
"Sir, don't think about it! The general is just... just curious about the sorcery of those wizards."
"Don't lie to me... My mother is also a wizard, right? She still has an affair with Bochi, right? That's why she let me go to Cangman Mountain to find Bochi! That's why she helped me hide it from my father. , her appearance has not changed for twenty years, because she also learned witchcraft!"
Zhongbo's body shook violently, and he could hardly stand upright: "That monk... what did he say to you... hateful, hateful!"
"Uncle Zhong!"
Luo Wen took his hand and said eagerly: "Shiyuan Tianzun said that my father intends to give all the family property to an outsider instead of me. Is this true? Now that it is here, do you still want to mention that he is hiding it from me? I beg you, tell me what you know, I don’t want to be kept in the dark anymore! I’ve had enough of this kind of life, please, tell me, okay!”
"Master... You have to believe that the general has no prejudice against you."
Zhong Bo said in a hoarse voice, at this moment he seemed to be ten years older, his body was shaking uncontrollably, as if all the strength in his body had been drained.
"Madam... Madam... I did do some wrong things back then, but the general didn't pursue anything."
He looked at Luo Wen with distress in his eyes: "That's right, madam has learned witchcraft, so she can keep her face unchanged for twenty years. This is the witchcraft invented by Bo Chi for a long time in order to please your mother." … At that time, the madam had a estrangement with the general because of the young master, and there was little contact between the two of them. But the general loved his wife, and tried to find strange things to make her happy. The general knew that Bo Chi could drive her away. Jackals, tigers, leopards, flying birds, poisonous insects, so they sent Bochi to his wife to make her happy, but who knew that Bochi was a beast, and he had dirty thoughts about her..."
"Later the general noticed it vaguely, so he shattered Bo Chi's heart with his own hands. But Bo Chi was prepared in advance and planted insects to save his life. The general thought he was dead and sent someone to throw him out of the city. Madam knew that Bo Chi would not die, so she secretly sent someone to save Bo Chi and send him to Cangman Mountain..."
Luo Wen's face was extremely pale, and he murmured tremblingly: "Shi Yuan...you didn't lie to me..."
He was silent for a long time, and suddenly thought of something and raised his head suddenly.
"Uncle Zhong... tell me, whose child am I...?"
"you… "
Zhong Bo's face contorted for a while, and it took him a long time to squeeze out the words: "Of course...of course it's the child of the general and his wife..."