Use the ditch as a boundary and ambush behind the boundary. During the ambush, lie down and hide.

What is lying on the ground? Lying on the ground with the gun in your hand pressed to the ground is called lying on the ground.

The ground is cold at night. I know that there is no need to lie down on the ground at night.

But tomorrow morning, when it is about to break out, the officers and soldiers will break out of the siege. When the time comes, all the ministries must be well ambush.

But if any team fails to follow orders and the ambush fails, the leader will be killed immediately!"

After the explanation, Li Mengxi ordered the soldiers to practice on the spot.

It was just a matter of lying down on the spot, not very difficult, and all the soldiers completed it neatly.

Then he led all the soldiers and walked forward. After walking seventy or eighty steps, he encountered another dug straight ditch in front of him.

Li Mengxi pointed to the ditch at his feet and said, "The far ditch is used for ambush.

What is the nearby ditch used for?

After the ambush, once the officers and soldiers are enclosed, we have to rush out.

This second ditch is where we will form the formation after we break out."

After Li Mengxi's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.

Li Mengxi once again ordered everyone to line up in the formation, and set up three rows of gun formations in front and behind.

Under the instruction of their respective captains, the infantry formed an array, and the three rows of guns in front and back were completed. The horizontal length of the gun array happened to be about the same as the length of the ditch.

This is not an accident, it is precisely measured.

When the spear formation is arranged, one spearman roughly occupies about half a step of width. As long as you calculate the size of the encirclement and the expected number of troops to invest, you can accurately calculate the length and number of troops in each section of the spear formation.

This is why several groups of infantry seemed to stop randomly at the formation, almost just right. After three rows of gun formations were lined up, the manpower was not too much but not too little.

After the infantry formation was arranged, Li Mengxi took the cavalry to arrange it.

Unlike infantry, infantry lies in ambush and becomes invisible once it lies on the ground.

The target of cavalry is huge, especially because war horses are different from humans. If you let the war horse lie on the ground, the war horse will not be so obedient.

The cavalry must be used to participate in the ambush, and the cavalry must not be discovered. There is only one solution - let the cavalry ambush further.

If the infantry ambush two hundred steps away, the cavalry will ambush further away. The cavalry will be asked to dismount when ambush, further reducing the target and reducing the possibility of exposure.

Li Mengxi led a group of cavalry and walked far away until they reached a bush.

Li Mengxi said, "This is where your troops will ambush."

"Look at your feet." Li Mengxi reminded.

The cavalry all looked down at their feet.

When they came over, they didn't notice anything. They took a torch and looked down at their feet. The cavalry immediately saw that there was a long shallow ditch that spread from a distance to the bushes.

Li Mengxi said to the commander of the cavalry team, "Tomorrow morning, when you hear the sound of the whistle, you should pay attention to the shallow ditch and lead the people forward.

The cavalry is too far back, please move more quickly."

After speaking, Li Mengxi led the cavalry team and returned along the shallow trench.

Walking all the way to the preliminary formation, which is between the two formations of the infantry formation, the shallow ditch suddenly stopped.

Instead, circular pits arranged in triangles were dug into the ground.

The pits are very scattered, ten pits spread over a large area.

Li Mengxi explained to the cavalry, "You and your cavalry will line up in the foot formation.

Do you see those pits? When you line up, ride on each pit, and as long as you stand properly, it will be a cone formation."

The cavalry swept around their feet and saw that the pit left on the ground was very obvious.

As long as it's dawn tomorrow morning, you can line up in the trenches and there's no need to align them. It's very simple.

After Li Mengxi arranged a team of infantry and cavalry, the other centurions also arranged a team of people.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Before the arrangements were made, another group of more than a thousand troops followed.

In a place where the officers and soldiers cannot be seen, a few miles behind the officers and soldiers, in the wilderness, torches are dotted like fireflies.

Mobilizing troops and horses this night is much easier than last time.

The first is that both officers and soldiers at all levels have gained experience and are familiar with the maneuvers.

Second, because it was far away from the officers and soldiers, there was no risk of exposure. The centurions could shout loudly, and the soldiers could light torches openly and move around under the arrangements of the centurions. They could hold open fires and fight with ease.

As for the night mobilization three days ago, it was almost done in the dark under the eyes of the officers and soldiers. At that time, not only did they not dare to light torches, but they also did not dare to mobilize too many people at once for fear of being exposed by the loud footsteps.

The convenience brought by the sudden drop in mobilization difficulty is that ambush can be quickly arranged and a large number of troops can be swarmed.

At 4:00 pm, the first ambush at the crossroads was laid out, and more than 15,000 troops were properly deployed.

The subsequent arrangement is much simpler. Half a mile away from the intersection, on both sides of the avenue, there are flags that have been erected long ago. You only need to follow the formation of the infantry and stay at each flag.

There are three teams of soldiers, just line up in front.

When the time passed, after midnight, Li Mengxi had marched ten miles away and deployed tens of thousands of troops.

Where the Zhuozhou army and the official army were confronting each other, Zhang Fei still led his men to make noise and disturb the sight and hearing of the official army.

Seventy miles away, Guan Yu's troops finally waited until late at night when everyone was quiet. Guan Yu immediately led his men without lighting torches and without knowing the light of the fire, and headed towards Julu City in the dark.

The attack on the city begins.

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At night in Julu City, the four city gates are closed.

Outside the city, there were officers and soldiers on guard and riding in ambush.

In the pitch-black night, a group of crossbowmen quietly headed toward a small forest not far from Julu City.

After approaching the woods, the crossbowmen separated to the left and right and surrounded the woods.

In the forest, the secret sentry of the army's ambush was sitting on a dead tree, dozing off drowsily.

Suddenly a stone flew into the forest and hit the tree trunk with a clang.

The officers and soldiers immediately woke up.

"Who?!" The sentry rider became alert and suddenly stood up. Out of caution, he quickly walked towards the war horse and took off the reins tied to the tree trunk.

winter!

Another stone flew over.

The sentry rider's heart sank, and he immediately knew that someone had touched him.

Without any further hesitation, the sentry rider quickly got on his horse, whipped the horse's butt with a snap, and when the horse was in pain, Herod shouted and jumped out of the woods.

At this time.

Rest, rest, rest!

The arrows suddenly sounded loudly, and the crossbows were like rain, flying towards the place where the sound was heard.

Amidst the rapid whistling of arrows, there was first the frightening cry of a war horse being hit by an arrow, and then the scream of a man being hit by an arrow.

Then, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

The arrow missed and continued shooting for a while before stopping.

After that, the crossbow team quietly went into the forest and found the officer sentries who had been shot to death by random arrows.

A hidden sentry outside the city has been removed.

Huangfu Song had a method for managing the army. If the bows and crossbows just failed to achieve success, and the sentry cavalry was allowed to escape, just one sentry cavalry would be enough to make all attempts to steal the city at night be in vain.

The soldiers under Huangfu Song's command were not bad, but the Zhuozhou army was even more careful in planning. It was no problem to let the officers and soldiers escape if the bows and crossbows could not perform well. There were still cavalry waiting outside the forest, and Guan Yu personally led the team to surround and kill the officers and soldiers.
Chapter completed!