Although the terrain of the low hills is gentle, and the highest one is only about ten feet high, many places still cannot accommodate a large battle formation.
At this moment, the one in the lead is a part of Pinglu's army, all of them are infantry, there are more than ten thousand soldiers. Under the arrangement of Shangguan Qingcheng, the more than ten thousand people were divided into hundreds of shares, each with about a hundred people, that is, a capital, and under the leadership of the capital, they entered the hilly area in a fan shape.
In slopes and hills with gentle terrain and few trees, several teams can work together, and in narrow terrain, even one team can be divided into several teams.
Shangguan Qingcheng's idea is very simple, since her trilogy can't form a big battle formation, so can Sun Ru's soldiers and horses.
Because the marching ranks are no longer concentrated on the official road, they will no longer be pinched in a narrow area. When the number of soldiers of the two armies is large enough to cover a wide area, then encountering each other in the wilderness is nothing more than a head-on collision with the capital as a unit. That's all.
A few forests, thorns, rocks and other obstacles, even if the monks in the army cleared them up, it would not cause much trouble. Even where there is no road, with the strength of the monks in Yidu, it is fast enough to open up a passable passage.
This is Shangguan Qingcheng's "straight forward" tactic.
In less than half an hour, the advance team of the Pinglu army found the whereabouts of the Wu army in the gentle hills. Although there are many Wu troops ambushing here, they are also divided into pieces by the terrain. There are thousands of people in one place, and a few hundred people gather together.
Compared with the Pinglu army, they are relatively densely distributed, and there are many places that are not suitable for combat at all. There are also a large number of soldiers huddled together and lurking, so their connections with each other are relatively close.
They kept staring at Lin Zhongguandao.
Their goal is to rush out of the hills and forests and kill the enemy on the official road after receiving the order.
Although the Pinglu army was aggressively promoting it, they have been paying attention to controlling the movement. Like the beast tide, the cover of the forest terrain also covered their whereabouts a lot, which allowed them to successfully approach the Wu army.
But when the two were more than a hundred steps apart, it was still impossible to avoid Wu Jun's eyes and ears.
And this distance is enough for them to show their ferocious fangs and launch a fearless charge to Wu Jun.
"Look, what's that?"
"It's the enemy army... how come there are so many enemy troops? How did they appear here?"
"Enemy attack, enemy attack! Report to the general!"
"They rushed over, what should we do?!"
"... against, against..."
The soldiers of the Wu army who were crowded together showed their elite qualities while being horrified. The generals and schools of all ministries quickly ordered the queue to change directions, put up a defensive position, and quickly reported the news.
Layers upon layers of Wu Jun's trilogy, one by one raised their blades to adjust their direction, and the scene was like waves passing by.
Their response was appropriate enough, but they lost the opportunity to prepare for the battle when they lost the sentry of the monks in front and were approached by the enemy to this distance to launch a surprise attack.
The division of labor in the charge of the Pinglu Army was clear, and the monks in the capital were assembled on the front line. As they rushed forward, they swung the weapons and magic weapons in their hands quickly, hitting waves of aura and wind blades, smashing the thorns, The shrubs were all smashed and cleared.
It is not easy to travel in the forest, not to mention birds, beasts, poisonous snakes and pests, just thorns and shrubs are enough to make ordinary soldiers deterred from moving, let alone charging.
But with the monks clearing the obstacles in front, the thorns and shrubs have become carpets under their feet, leaving only tall trees. Although the army is still unable to form a formation, it is still enough for the soldiers of the Pinglu Army with the capital and the team as the unit. Run smoothly.
Seeing such arbitrarily charging style of the Pinglu army, the generals and soldiers of the Wu army who had not had time to adjust their formations and ranks were already panicked, but now they are even more stunned. His palms were sweating.
Everyone in the world knows that Pinglu's army is elite and powerful, with extraordinary combat power.
Many insightful people are also clear about the strengths of the Pinglu army: apart from the excellent armor and the baptism of the soldiers in several wars, the most important thing is that the army has a high proportion of monks.
Zhu Wen got the support of the Taoist sect, and a large number of Taoist disciples rushed into the army to take up military positions, improving the overall combat power of the Xuanwu Army. But even under such circumstances, Zhu Yin was still defeated head-on by Shangguan Qingcheng in the battle of Yuanju County.
Li Ye, who does not have the support of Taoism, has not only recruited monks from the entire Pinglu five states for his own use after many years of operation in Pinglu, but also cultivated many monks himself, so the proportion of monks in the army is much higher than that of Zhu Wen, who has the support of Taoism. Not bad.
And Wu Jun has no Taoist support.
Facing Zhao Nianci's vanguard army with many military generals, they could not face it head-on. Now facing the Pinglu army, the situation is not fundamentally different. The difference is that the former is crushed by warriors leading military formations, while the latter is fought by countless monks.
In the vast hilly area, teams of Pinglu soldiers were like herds of beasts, opening the way with sharp blades, rushing to the Wu soldiers in front of the rushing Wu soldiers among the thorns and vegetation debris flying like heavy snow.
All of a sudden, those aura wind blades that were showing off their power in the forest before, now, like ten thousand fish going out to sea, wave after wave blasted into the Wu army group like a river embankment.
The raised shield shattered, the horizontal blades were broken into several pieces, and the standing or crouching soldiers flew upside down and scattered. A splash of fresh blood splattered in the air, reflecting off the fragments of the weapon and armor, causing endless screams.
The embankment is in chaos.
As the cornerstone of the army, the captains, captains, commanders and other middle and lower ranks of the Wu army jumped out of the fish with red faces and roaring, and sacrificed magic weapons to meet the invading enemy. Fireballs, wind blades, and ice arrows streaked across the heads of the soldiers.
Their blockade worked, and the rushing monks of the Pinglu army suffered casualties. Some people fell to the ground constantly, and some people flew upside down and bumped into their comrades, blood spilled all the way.
The officers of the Wu army knew that they had to restrain the Pinglu army. Batches of Pinglu troops emerged one after another in the mountains and plains, sweeping in like floods. If they couldn't win a chance to form a solid formation for their comrades behind them, everyone would have to perish today.
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But in the blink of an eye, the monks in the front team of the Pinglu Army fought hand-to-hand with the officers of the Wu Army on hills, valleys, and even hillsides.
The fighting momentum among the monks was astonishing, and the sound of explosions was like the sound of firecrackers on the Lantern Festival, endless. The crooked and dodged magic spells bombarded the trees, rocks, and wild grass, and the trees were cut off and the grass was wiped out. The overflowing waves of spiritual energy blew gusts of wind, and the place of the battle was full of flying sand and stones, and demons dancing wildly.
Among the crowd of Pinglu soldiers scrambling to cross the hill, Shangguan Qingcheng stood on the top of a hill, holding his sword and looking forward.
A moment later, Zhou Mingrui, the military commander of the Zhongwu Army, smiled behind her and said, "Wu Jun is also brave, no wonder there were victories in Xiao County and Dangshan before."
He spoke easily, as if he was joking, but the fear in his eyes could not be completely concealed.
Wu Jun is naturally not such a passable evaluation as "but also brave".
If the Wu army under Sun Ru's command was not elite, it would not have been able to defeat Zhao Nianci's trilogy outside Xiao County before—even if Zhao Nianci had already lost in Surabaya first. Even if her men panicked after hearing the news of her defeat, because there was no food in the army, there were after all twenty or so generals in the army outside Xiao County at that time.
Undoubtedly, it was an excellent chance for Wu Jun to win by Sun Ru. But opportunities are also divided into big and small, difficult and easy, not everyone has the ability to grasp the opportunity.
If Wu Jun was weak and incompetent, how could it be possible that Zhao Nianci's trilogy could not be withdrawn safely
Although Xue Wei, the governor of the Tianping Army, is a rough man, after all these years of fighting, he still has some insight. He stared at the Wu army column with a solemn expression: "I don't know if you heard, there are many generals in the Wu army, and they are fighting impassionedly." General Shangguan should be able to hear more clearly what he said to the soldiers beside him.
"That should be something like 'a man who kills the enemy and serves the country at this time', 'this battle is invincible, if Huaibei is lost, Huainan will not be saved, and our wives and children will be slaves'. Look at the soldiers of the Wu army they shouted, one by one They all seem to have taken pills, their eyes are determined, their actions are fast and brave, and they have gained a lot of strength out of thin air—but they are just ordinary soldiers, and they can't take pills, and they didn't take them."
Zhou Mingrui was only focused on slandering Zhao Nianci and flattering Shangguan Qingcheng just now, and didn't pay attention to observing Wu Jun's movements. Now that he heard Xue Wei's words, he quickly discovered this strange phenomenon.
This surprised him, not knowing what had happened.
If there were only three or five generals of the Wu army who shouted like this, then it would be reasonable, after all, there are always some generals in the army who are good at rallying the morale of the army. But looking around now, there are some such generals and schools in almost every hill, slope, and flat valley where hundreds of people gather, which is very intriguing.
Zhao Nianci lowered his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes.
When she fought Sun Ru before, she had never encountered such a situation.
At this point in the war, ordinary soldiers from both sides had already clashed in large numbers, fighting each other and fighting together. Because most of the combat units are only a hundred people, the entire battlefield looks very chaotic, with fierce fighting and bloodshed all over the mountains and plains.
In the face of the situation of rushing to the battle, and the battle situation was completely different from what was expected in advance, facing the world's most sharp Lu army, the Wu army did not collapse at the first touch.
Under the shouting and leading fight of the middle and lower ranks, even though they were killed and injured heavily by the monks of the Pinglu Army, they continued to press forward and refused to retreat half a step.
Although there are already corpses of comrades around him.
——The officers of the Wu army who jumped out first, with more and more Pinglu troops charging in place and the strength of the monks continued to increase, they were all dead and injured at this moment, and only 20 to 30% of them had the opportunity to retreat to the formation for temporary healing.
But it is precisely because of their selfless fighting and paying the price of their lives that it is possible for the large and small Wu army ranks to adjust their ranks to face the enemy in a serious manner.
If not, the Wu army has been completely defeated.
Wu Jun's fighting strength and will are very different from Sun Ru's performance when he confronted her for the first time in Dangshan.
Not only is it very different, it is completely different.
This further shows that the reason why Sun Ru retreated from Dangshan that day was a game from beginning to end!
A strategy to gather and wipe out more than 200,000 soldiers under her command!
Zhao Nianci couldn't help lowering his head, clenched his fists and clenched his teeth.
The different tactics and the different strengths invested show that in Sun Ru's view, there is a huge difference between Zhao Nianci and Shangguan Qingcheng.
Shangguan Qingcheng said slowly: "That's a Confucian scholar."