martial arts general

Chapter 104 Long Snake Formation
Luo Ba shot straight at him first, causing Zhao Jiuxiao to dodge sideways, just in time to dodge.

While dodging, he stretched out both palms, turning his palms into three golden dragons, and rushed straight over.

Luo Ba immediately jumped up to avoid it, and the long spear stabbed obliquely in the air, and the tip of the spear turned into a cold light, and fell one after another.

Zhao Jiuxiao immediately drew his sword out of its sheath, cast [Dugu Nine Swords], saw the flaw in the opponent's marksmanship, swung the sword diagonally with his backhand.

The sword light flashed and hit Luo Baxian's arm.

Luo Pa hastily backflipped and landed on the ground, avoiding this move.

And after he landed, he swung his spear and swept across it. The tip of the spear turned into a large cold light and went straight to Zhao Jiuxiao's lower abdomen.

Zhao Jiuxiao turned sideways, and stabbed the opponent's throat with the long sword.

Luo Pa had no choice but to block the opponent's moves first.

The two sides also come and go, fighting each other.

Luo Baxian's marksmanship went straight to the point, making full use of the speed of the horse and the distance of the spear.

However, Zhao Jiuxiao's swordsmanship is more subtle, and he can always find the flaws in the opponent's marksmanship, and attack with one sword.

Under the ebb and flow, Luo Baxian was restrained, unable to exert his full strength.

Zhao Jiuxiao became more courageous as he fought and took the lead.

[Consonant fingering! 】After dozens of strokes, he suddenly stretched out two fingers of his left hand, clamped the spear point directly, and slashed diagonally with the long sword in his right hand.

Luo Pa had no choice but to give up the spear first, and jumped back to avoid it.

Zhao Jiuxiao chased after him, and stabbed out with the long sword.

Luo Pa bowed his head first, avoiding it.

But Zhao Jiuxiao suddenly swung his sword diagonally with his backhand, directly cutting off the opponent's left leg.

"Bah!" Blood spattered out, Luo Ba screamed and fell off the horse, the blood stained the ground red, and his body was trembling constantly.

He roared, "You kill me."

Zhao Jiuxiao nodded: "Okay."

Before he finished speaking, he stabbed out with a sword.

The sword flashed and penetrated Luo Baxian's chest.

The general also died.

After Zhao Jiuxiao beheaded the powerful enemy, Situ Fengxiu's army fell into complete chaos, and he had no choice but to retreat.

But the two armies continued to attack and continued to pursue.

As a result, Situ Fengxiu's soldiers suffered numerous casualties, and their morale dropped sharply.

Zhao Jiuxiao also didn't order the soldiers to go too deep, and just accept it as soon as they are good.

The army then withdrew to the city.

In this battle, he only killed or injured more than 1000 horses, mostly infantry.

Xia Housheng's army had more casualties, about 1 horses.

But Situ Fengxiu lost a lot, at least [-] yuan, and his morale was hard to recover in a short time.

In this way, he can only temporarily stop his troops and cannot rush to attack.

After Zhao Jiuxiao and Xia Housheng won the victory, the soldiers and civilians in the city were deeply encouraged.

However, the two were not too proud.

That night, Zhao Jiuxiao sat in the general's mansion and discussed the next plan with Xia Housheng.

Xia Housheng looked at the map and said slowly, "The enemy has just experienced a major defeat. Although their morale is low and they are unable to attack for the time being, once their morale recovers, they will definitely counterattack in a big way."

Zhao Jiuxiao: "What General Xiahou said is true. I don't know what the general thinks?"

Xia Housheng waved his hand: "I still have to ask General Zhao. If it wasn't for General Zhao, this general would never have won this battle, and Chang'an City would not have been preserved."

Zhao Jiuxiao: "General Xiahou has won the award, but the last general just happened to see the flaws in the fish-scale array."

Xia Housheng: "Since this is the case, then please General Zhao come up with another plan to defeat the enemy."

Zhao Jiuxiao was lost in thought.

He then said: "The enemy army must have guessed that our army will take the opportunity to attack, and must be prepared. If our army attacks at this time, I am afraid it will be in their hands."

Xia Housheng: "According to General Zhao, it is the best policy to stand still?"

Zhao Jiuxiao: "No, we can send a cavalry to repeatedly harass the enemy's food transportation roads. When they are short of food and grass and exhausted, our army will take advantage of the situation to attack, and we will definitely win a big victory."

Xia Housheng: "Good idea, but if the enemy lays an ambush, wouldn't our army be in danger?"

Zhao Jiuxiao waved his hand: "This matter is easy to handle, I have a way to check the enemy's movements."

General Xia Housheng was skeptical: "Then I will trouble General Zhao!"

After speaking, the two rested separately.

The next day, Zhao Jiuxiao sent Xuanyuanfeng and Gongsun Wuji to carefully investigate the enemy forces outside Chang'an.

Gongsun Wuji is proficient in mountain geography, so he naturally knows the terrain here well.

Coupled with Xuanyuanfeng's Wudang super lightness kung fu, the cooperation of the two can be described as sure.

Not long after, they returned to the city and reported to Zhao Jiuxiao the movement of the enemy troops and the specific route of transporting food, and even made it clear about the departure time and arrival time.

After knowing this, Zhao Jiuxiao immediately told Xia Housheng the truth.

Xiahou Sheng was overjoyed and sent [-] cavalry to harass the enemy's grain transportation routes.

Gongsun Wuji has also been closely observing the celestial phenomena and the enemy's movements, in case Situ Fengxiu uses ambushes to deal with him.

In this way, the armies of both sides continued to stand still.

However, Situ Fengxiu's grain transportation team was seriously disturbed and could not operate normally. Either there was a grain grabbing incident, or they were forced to divert, which delayed the grain transportation time.

Situ Fengxiu became even more passive as a result.

Xia Housheng, on the other hand, took precautions day and night to prevent the enemy from having a chance to attack.

On this day, Situ Fengxiu finally couldn't stand it any longer, and mobilized a large army to attack Chang'an City.

However, Zhao Jiuxiao was not afraid of the enemy, but held on to the city, and would not fight easily at all.

Situ Fengxiu set up an formation outside the city.

Standing at the top of the city, Zhao Jiuxiao took a closer look and found that the formation looked like a long snake, with twists and turns.

He couldn't help but think of "Long Snake Formation".

Following Situ Fengxiu's order, the army attacked the city again.

The north gate, east gate, and west gate were attacked by the enemy at the same time, and Xia Housheng was also forced to make defenses to prevent the enemy from rushing into the city.

"Kill!" There were shouts of killing, and a fierce battle began between the two sides.

The shells kept falling on the city wall, killing countless soldiers.

The enemy army under the city was also attacked by artillery shells, especially Situ Fengxiu's cavalry, who were turned on their backs one after another.

However, his formation has played a role, making the three city gates a little precarious, and they will be breached at some point.

Xia Housheng walked up and down like sitting on pins and needles, sighing in his mouth.

Zhao Jiuxiao had already thought of the flaw in the formation, cupped his hands and said: "General Xiahou, don't panic, wait for me to defeat the enemy!"

After speaking, he ordered his [-] troops to divide into two groups to attack the left and right wings of the enemy respectively.

This position is the weakness of the long snake formation.

The previous failure made Situ Fengxiu pay attention to the defense behind him, so he used this formation to attack.

However, he ignored the two wings, and he didn't expect Zhao Jiuxiao to guess the flaw of this formation.

"Kill!" With Zhao Jiuxiao's order, the cavalry rushed over, the infantry set up their formations, and the archers shot a series of sharp arrows from behind.

Before Situ Fengxiu could react, Zhao Jiuxiao had already killed the enemy.

(End of this chapter)