Final Volume Chapter 85

Chapter 85 of the final volume

In the battle of Wangxi Plain, the Sichuan Army deployed the most typical offensive formation - the front arrow formation. The Ninth Corps, as the main force, acted as the vanguard in the entire army, like an arrow pointing to the front, and the Eleventh Corps and the Seventeenth Corps, as auxiliary troops, followed like the tail of an arrow to assist in the defense of the two wings of the Ninth Army. {Please search 138 Reading on Baidu for the first full text reading}

The overall formation of the Sichuan Army has both defense and attack, with a clear division of labor. On the other hand, the rebels used a disorganized human wave tactic. Among the rebels, there were almost no people who had systematically studied the art of war. To be precise, there were no generals who were proficient in the art of war and strategies among their senior leaders. Until now, they still retained the style of bandits, and they would rush forward in a swarm when fighting.

When encountering ordinary enemies, with the tradition of bravery and fearlessness of the Zhen people, they could defeat the enemy even without a formation, but when encountering the regular central army, and even a corps battle, the disadvantages of not paying attention to the formation were completely exposed.

In a corps battle, the role that a single soldier can play is too limited. What matters is the overall coordination between the corps and the proficiency in mastering and using the tactics. These are the strengths of the regular Sichuan Army, and they are precisely the weakest points of the rebels.

So when the forces of both sides were equal, the Zhen Army did not have the upper hand from the beginning of the battle. It was the Zhen Army that could fight the Sichuan Army on equal terms with such a tactic of rushing forward without any rules, and even engage in a long-term battle with it. If it were a group of such a mob, let alone 200,000, even 2 million would have been defeated by the Sichuan Army long ago.

Tao Yuanfeng, who was watching the battle with Li Shu behind, had a knot in his brows at this time. Looking at the Zhen Army, which was like a headless fly in the Luanma Camp, he shook his head secretly. This was a corps battle, why did the Zhen Army still seem to be fighting a chaotic battle?

He said to Li Shu: "General, the Sichuan Army uses the most powerful arrow array, and our army should break it with the crescent array!"

The crescent array, as its name suggests, is like a crescent, with a concave middle and convex wings. This array focuses on the attack on the two wings, just avoiding the sharp edge of the Sichuan Army's arrow array breaking through the center, and hitting the Sichuan Army's soft spot from the two wings.

However, Li Shu's next words left Tao Yuanfeng completely speechless. "Ah, General Tao, I don't know what the crescent array is?"

"..." Tao Yuanfeng had already started cursing in his heart. You don't even know what the crescent array is, what kind of battle are you fighting? It is really a miracle that the Zhen Army, which does not pay attention to the formation, can persist for so long in front of the Sichuan Army's arrow array.

He held it in for a long time before squeezing out a sentence from his teeth: "General, this battle... our army is really hard to win, or, let's withdraw for the time being!"

"Haha——" Li Shu laughed and waved his hand and said: "General Tao, I don't know what Yanyue Formation you are talking about. We Zhen people have been fighting like this since ancient times. We don't talk about any formations, we only talk about success or failure, we only talk about going forward bravely and killing the enemy. Either the enemy dies or we die. Among us Zhen people, there are only warriors who die on horseback, and there are never cowards who retreat without fighting!"

Li Shu's words made many counselors and generals around him nod their heads, which is also the tradition of the Zhen army. Seeing this, Tao Yuanfeng stopped talking and cursed in his heart, so it's right that your Zhen country was destroyed. Such an alien deserves to die.

The Zhen army fought against the neatly-formed Sichuan army in a chaotic way, which was indeed incredible in Tao Yuanfeng's view.

The battle was still going on, and it seemed to be endless. The regiments at the front were all wiped out in full formation, but new regiments immediately joined the battle, and the casualties of the soldiers on both sides also rose sharply.

The sky gradually darkened during the fierce battle between the Chuan and Zhen armies. Neither side had the intention of retreating and truce, and then started a night battle.

At this time, the Zhen army began to lose the upper hand, and the advantage of the Chuan army in the formation gradually emerged, but the disadvantage shown by the Zhen army at a disadvantage was not very large, and it could still grit its teeth and continue to persevere.

The intensity of the night battle was far less intense than that during the day, but both sides still suffered a lot of casualties in the battle.

Then, the battle between the two sides entered the second day. The situation of the battle on the second day was similar to that of the night battle. The Chuan army had the upper hand and the Zhen army was at a disadvantage. It might not be obvious at a cold glance, but it could be clearly felt through the changes in the positions of both sides. The Chuan army advanced more than a mile, while the Zhen army was pushed back more than a mile.

Seeing that the Zhen army was gradually losing, the next battle would only make the Zhen army more and more disadvantaged, and the casualties would increase. As the military supervisor, Tao Yuanfeng once again proposed to Li Shu that the whole army should retreat temporarily and choose an opportunity to fight to the death with the Sichuan army.

But Li Shu's reply remained the same, vowing to never retreat, and would rather die in battle than retreat in the face of the enemy. The fierceness of the Zhen people that Li Shu exuded from his bones made Tao Yuanfeng completely helpless. He was the commander of the whole army, and if he didn't order a retreat, he couldn't do anything.

The fierce battle between the two sides entered the third day after a day and night.

At this time, both sides were exhausted and had already used up all the tactics they knew. It was no longer a battle of combat power, tactics, coordination or formation, but a battle of willpower between the soldiers on both sides.

The strengths of Zhenren finally showed at this time. He was tenacious, ferocious and fierce. He could endure the pain and withstand the fear of death. There were no extra thoughts in his mind, and even the word "escape" would not appear in his mind. He only had the desire to survive, either kill the enemy or be killed.

In this regard, the Sichuan people are far inferior to the Zhen people, or no one can compare to the Zhen people.

After three days of continuous fierce fighting, all they could see were broken limbs and bloody bodies that were trampled and deformed. People here were no longer human, just like animals. Many Sichuan soldiers were on the verge of collapse.

The soldiers in the front were fighting bloody battles, while those in the back were cooking. The Sichuan army paid attention to formations. In the fierce battle, they could replace the soldiers with full stomachs to replace those who were thirsty and hungry. However, the Zhen army had no formations to speak of. The soldiers in the front could not get down at all. If they wanted to leave the battle, there were only two ways: either they were killed by the enemy or they ended the battle.

But the battle had lasted for three days, and it was unknown how long it would last. The Zhen soldiers fighting in the front would also drink and be hungry. In order to have the physical strength to continue fighting and to survive, they had to eat and drink. But being in the center of the battle, where could they find food to fill their stomachs?

At this time, the soldiers of the Zhen Army made a move that stunned and numbed the Sichuan Army on the opposite side. People dismembered the corpses scattered on the battlefield into pieces, and then picked them up and ate them with big mouthfuls. Looking at the Zhen Army again, their eyes were red, their faces were red, and even their teeth turned blood red. People drank human blood and ate human flesh while holding weapons in one hand, screaming incoherently and continuing to rush towards the Sichuan Army.

In the eyes of the Sichuan people who always regarded themselves as the most civilized, the Zhen Army on the opposite side was not human, but beasts and demons, anyway, they were not like humans.

Many Sichuan soldiers who were on the verge of collapse saw the terrifying scene of the Zhen Army eating people. Some Zhen people even rushed to the Sichuan people like mad dogs and bit off their throats and sucked their blood. Their nerves completely collapsed, and they screamed and fled to the rear regardless of anything.

Such a scene made Tao Yuanfeng, who was in the same camp as the Zhen army and far away from the battlefield, feel horrified and frightened. This was simply a devil army. If the Sichuan army at this time was replaced by the Feng army, it would probably be scared away by the terrifying Zhen people in groups like the Sichuan army now...

Supporting the Zhen people is really raising a tiger to harm oneself. If Li Shu really allows his power to grow and become stronger, the Sichuan Kingdom will certainly be unlucky in the future, but it will definitely become a major concern for the Feng Kingdom!

At this time, Tao Yuanfeng really felt a sense of fear towards the Zhen people, which was a fear from the bottom of his heart.

And the fear he now had also directly affected the attitude of the Feng Kingdom towards Li Shu's power later. Of course, this is a later story.

Seeing the chaos in the front army and a large number of soldiers fleeing, the commander of the Sichuan army responded very quickly and immediately sent out the supervision army to stabilize the collapse of the front army.

Under the strong pressure of the supervision army, the front army of the Sichuan army finally gradually stabilized, and people continued to fight against the Zhen people on the opposite side. For the Sichuan Army, this battle was the most difficult nightmare in their lives.

The battle continued from the third day to the fifth day. The five-day and night fierce battle completely destroyed the combat power of the Sichuan and Zhen armies. The casualties on both sides were so high that it was difficult to count. The center of the battlefield was piled with corpses. People no longer stood on the ground to fight, but stepped on the corpses to fight.

At this point, the tenacious willpower of the Zhen people was almost gone. Many soldiers were so tired that they couldn't even pick up their weapons and could only wrestle with the enemy with their bare hands. What's worse, they were so tired that they couldn't even stand up. They sat next to the enemy, panting and staring at each other.

If the current situation continues, the two sides will have the same result in the end, and both sides will perish. At this point, neither side is the winner, and both have lost miserably.

In the end, it was the Sichuan Army that took the lead in sending envoys to make peace with the Zhen Army. Li Shu did not insist this time and accepted the peace talks of the Sichuan Army. Both sides ceased fighting and withdrew their troops.

This long-lasting battle on Wangxi Plain finally ended when the Sichuan and Zhen armies were exhausted.

In this battle, the Ninth Corps of the Sichuan Army was killed and wounded, and the Eleventh and Seventeenth Corps suffered heavy losses. In the end, only more than 60,000 people were left in the 200,000-strong army.

As for the Zhen Army, the casualty rate was almost the same as that of the Sichuan Army. Of the more than 200,000 people, only 80,000 people withdrew in the end. It can be said that after the battle on Wangxi Plain, the forces of both sides of Sichuan and Zhen were crippled and there was no winner. However, in terms of overall strategy, the Sichuan Army won. They withstood the offensive of the rebels and defended Fantiao County, while the Zhen Army lost miserably and was slapped back to Bainan County by the enemy. Moreover, it was difficult to recover its forces in a short period of time. Then it could only bear the passive situation of being beaten for a long time.

In the battle of Wangxi Plain, the Sichuan Army deployed the most typical offensive formation - the front arrow formation. The Ninth Corps, as the main force, acted as the vanguard in the entire army, like an arrow pointing to the front. The Eleventh Corps and the Seventeenth Corps, as auxiliary troops, followed like the tail of an arrow to assist in the defense of the two wings of the Ninth Army.

The overall formation of the Sichuan Army has both defense and attack, with a clear division of labor. On the other hand, the rebels used a disorganized human sea tactic. Among the rebels, there were almost no people who had systematically studied military tactics. To be precise, there were no generals who were proficient in military tactics and strategies in their senior ranks. Until now, they still retained the style of bandits, and they would rush forward in a swarm when fighting.

When encountering ordinary enemies, with the tradition of bravery and fearlessness of the Zhen people, they could defeat the enemy even without a formation, but when encountering the regular central army, and it was a corps battle, the disadvantages of not paying attention to the formation were completely exposed.

In a corps battle, the role that a single soldier can play is too limited. What matters is the overall coordination between the corps and the proficiency in mastering and using the tactics. These are the strengths of the regular Sichuan Army, and they are precisely the weakest points of the rebels.

So when the forces of both sides were equal, the Zhen Army did not have the upper hand from the beginning of the battle. It was the Zhen Army that could fight the Sichuan Army on equal terms with such a tactic of rushing forward without any rules, and even engage in a long-term battle with it. If it were a group of such a mob, let alone 200,000, even if there were 2 million, they would have been defeated by the Sichuan Army long ago.

Tao Yuanfeng, who was watching the battle with Li Shu behind, had a knotted brow at this time. Looking at the Zhen Army, which was like a headless fly in the Luanma Camp, he shook his head secretly. This was a corps battle, why did the Zhen Army still seem to be fighting a chaotic battle?

He said to Li Shu: "General, the Sichuan Army uses the most powerful arrow array, and our army should break it with the crescent array!"

The crescent array, as its name suggests, is like a crescent, with a concave middle and convex wings. This array focuses on the attack on the two wings, just avoiding the sharp edge of the Sichuan Army's arrow array breaking through the center, and hitting the Sichuan Army's soft spot from the two wings.

However, Li Shu's next words left Tao Yuanfeng completely speechless. "Ah, General Tao, I don't know what the crescent array is?"

"..." Tao Yuanfeng had already started cursing in his heart. You don't even know what the crescent array is, what kind of battle are you fighting? It is really a miracle that the Zhen Army, which does not pay attention to the formation, can persist for so long in front of the Sichuan Army's arrow array.

He held it in for a long time before squeezing out a sentence from his teeth: "General, this battle... our army is really hard to win, or, let's withdraw for the time being!"

"Haha——" Li Shu laughed and waved his hand and said: "General Tao, I don't know what Yanyue Formation you are talking about. We Zhen people have been fighting like this since ancient times. We don't talk about any formations, we only talk about success or failure, we only talk about going forward bravely and killing the enemy. Either the enemy dies or we die. Among us Zhen people, there are only warriors who die on horseback, and there are never cowards who retreat without fighting!"

Li Shu's words made many counselors and generals around him nod their heads, which is also the tradition of the Zhen army. Seeing this, Tao Yuanfeng stopped talking and cursed in his heart, so it's right that your Zhen country was destroyed. Such an alien deserves to die.

The Zhen army fought against the neatly-formed Sichuan army in a chaotic way, which was indeed incredible in Tao Yuanfeng's view.

The battle was still going on, and it seemed to be endless. The regiments at the front were all wiped out in full formation, but new regiments immediately joined the battle, and the casualties of the soldiers on both sides also rose sharply.

The sky gradually darkened during the fierce battle between the Chuan and Zhen armies. Neither side had the intention of retreating and truce, and then started a night battle.

At this time, the Zhen army began to lose the upper hand, and the advantage of the Chuan army in the formation gradually emerged, but the disadvantage shown by the Zhen army at a disadvantage was not very large, and it could still grit its teeth and continue to persevere.

The intensity of the night battle was far less intense than that during the day, but both sides still suffered a lot of casualties in the battle.

Then, the battle between the two sides entered the second day. The situation of the battle on the second day was similar to that of the night battle. The Chuan army had the upper hand and the Zhen army was at a disadvantage. It might not be obvious at a cold glance, but it could be clearly felt through the changes in the positions of both sides. The Chuan army advanced more than a mile, while the Zhen army was pushed back more than a mile.

Seeing that the Zhen army was gradually losing, the next battle would only make the Zhen army more and more disadvantaged, and the casualties would increase. As the military supervisor, Tao Yuanfeng once again proposed to Li Shu that the whole army should retreat temporarily and choose an opportunity to fight to the death with the Sichuan army.

But Li Shu's reply remained the same, vowing to never retreat, and would rather die in battle than retreat in the face of the enemy. The fierceness of the Zhen people that Li Shu exuded from his bones made Tao Yuanfeng completely helpless. He was the commander of the whole army, and if he didn't order a retreat, he couldn't do anything.

The fierce battle between the two sides entered the third day after a day and night.

At this time, both sides were exhausted and had already used up all the tactics they knew. It was no longer a battle of combat power, tactics, coordination or formation, but a battle of willpower between the soldiers on both sides.

The strengths of the Zhen people finally showed up at this time. They were tough, ferocious, able to endure pain, able to withstand the fear of death, and had no extra thoughts in their minds. They would not even think of running away. They only had the desire to survive, either to kill the enemy or to be killed.

In this regard, the Sichuan people were far inferior to the Zhen people, or no one could compare to the Zhen people.

After three days of continuous fierce fighting, all they could see were broken limbs and arms, bloody and deformed corpses. People here were no longer human, just like animals. Many Sichuan soldiers were on the verge of collapse.

The soldiers in front were fighting bloody battles, while those in the back were cooking. The Sichuan army paid attention to formations. In the fierce battle, they could replace the corps with the corps, allowing the soldiers who were full to replace those who were thirsty and hungry. However, there was no formation on the Zhen army side. The soldiers who rushed to the front could not get down at all. If they wanted to leave the battle, there were only two ways: either to be killed by the enemy or to end the battle.

But the battle has been going on for three days, and it is unknown how long it will last. The Zhen army soldiers fighting in the front will also feel hungry and thirsty. In order to have the strength to continue fighting and to survive, they must eat and drink. But being in the center of the battle, where can they find food to fill their stomachs?

At this time, the soldiers of the Zhen Army made a move that stunned and numbed the Sichuan Army on the opposite side. People dismembered the corpses scattered on the battlefield into pieces, and then picked them up and ate them with big mouthfuls. Looking at the Zhen Army again, their eyes were red, their faces were red, and even their teeth turned blood red. People drank human blood and ate human flesh while holding weapons in one hand, screaming incoherently and continuing to rush towards the Sichuan Army.

In the eyes of the Sichuan people who always regarded themselves as the most civilized, the Zhen Army on the opposite side was not human at all, but beasts and demons, anyway, they were not like humans.

Many Sichuan soldiers who were on the verge of collapse saw the terrifying scene of the Zhen Army eating people. Some Zhen people even rushed to the Sichuan people like mad dogs and bit off their throats and sucked their blood. Their nerves completely collapsed, and they screamed and fled to the rear regardless of anything.

Such a scene made Tao Yuanfeng, who was in the same camp as the Zhen army and far away from the battlefield, feel horrified and frightened. This was simply a devil army. If the Sichuan army at this time was replaced by the Feng army, it would probably be scared away by the terrifying Zhen people in groups like the Sichuan army now...

Supporting the Zhen people is really raising a tiger to harm oneself. If Li Shu really allows his power to grow and become stronger, the Sichuan Kingdom will certainly be unlucky in the future, but it will definitely become a major concern for the Feng Kingdom!

At this time, Tao Yuanfeng really felt a sense of fear towards the Zhen people, which was a fear from the bottom of his heart.

And the fear he now had also directly affected the attitude of the Feng Kingdom towards Li Shu's power later. Of course, this is a later story.

Seeing the chaos in the front army and a large number of soldiers fleeing, the commander of the Sichuan army responded very quickly and immediately sent out the supervision army to stabilize the collapse of the front army.

Under the strong pressure of the supervision army, the front army of the Sichuan army finally gradually stabilized, and people continued to fight against the Zhen people on the opposite side. For the Sichuan Army, this battle was the most difficult nightmare in their lives.

The battle continued from the third day to the fifth day. The five-day and night fierce battle completely destroyed the combat power of the Sichuan and Zhen armies. The casualties on both sides were so high that it was difficult to count. The center of the battlefield was piled with corpses. People no longer stood on the ground to fight, but stepped on the corpses to fight.

At this point, the tenacious willpower of the Zhen people was almost gone. Many soldiers were so tired that they couldn't even pick up their weapons and could only wrestle with the enemy with their bare hands. What's worse, they were so tired that they couldn't even stand up. They sat next to the enemy, panting and staring at each other.

If the current situation continues, the two sides will have the same result in the end, and both sides will perish. At this point, neither side is the winner, and both have lost miserably.

In the end, it was the Sichuan Army that took the lead in sending envoys to make peace with the Zhen Army. Li Shu did not insist this time and accepted the peace talks of the Sichuan Army. Both sides ceased fighting and withdrew their troops.

This long-lasting battle on Wangxi Plain finally ended when the Sichuan and Zhen armies were exhausted.

In this battle, the Ninth Corps of the Sichuan Army was killed and wounded, and the Eleventh and Seventeenth Corps suffered heavy losses. In the end, only more than 60,000 people were left in the 200,000-strong army.

As for the Zhen Army, the casualty rate was not much different from that of the Sichuan Army. More than 200,000 people, and only 80,000 people withdrew in the end. It can be said that after the battle on Wangxi Plain, the forces of both sides of Sichuan and Zhen were crippled, and there was no winner. However, in terms of overall strategy, the Sichuan Army won. They withstood the offensive of the rebels and defended Fantiao County, while the Zhen Army lost miserably and was slapped back to Bainan County by the enemy. Moreover, it was difficult to recover its forces in a short period of time, and it could only bear the passive situation of being beaten for a long time.