The sun slowly fell to the west horizon, and the fierce battle lasted for one day.

The two armies were like two giant beasts. No one would give up until they tried their best.

The sudden collapse of the Zhaozhuang wall made the Goguryeo people immediately ecstatic.

Yuan Gaisuwen straightened his waist suddenly, and his eyes shone.

"Kill, kill in!" During the bloody battle during the day, the fierce resistance of the Tang army caused heavy losses to the Goguryeo army. The current gap is undoubtedly the best opportunity to end this bloody battle.

Village.

The Tang army was greatly hit, and such a big gap could no longer be blocked.

Li Chao shouted loudly and Wang Xuance and other students who wanted to take someone to fill in the vacancy.

"Come back, I can't stop it."

"Prime Minister, let's break through!" Wang Xuance said anxiously.

Such a large gap appeared, and it was impossible to block it. As soon as the Goguryeo people rushed in, the Tang army was over. At this time, it was better to break through the siege.

But Li Chao shook his head.

"The sun has not set completely yet, and there are Liao dogs on all sides. We have no way to break through at the moment." In broad daylight, how could Yuan Gaisuwen let the Tang army go?

"Send the order to retreat, let the divisions retreat, gather again, and we change the formation!"

"Change array?"

Wang Xuance was surprised. It was time, was there any military formation that could save lives?

The village wall has been completely lost, and it will be useless to defend like this, so we can only gather military forces to fight.

However, the large formation of Liao Dynasty cannot be used, and lack of cavalry will be abused.

Li Chao picked up the sword and quickly drew the formation on the ground.

One ring, another ring.

The last five rings are gathered together.

Wang Xuance looked down at the five rings, but he couldn't understand after looking for a long time, "This is a military formation? Is this the one that can defeat the Liao Dog?"

Li Chao shook his head.

"It's not easy to break the enemy. But if this formation is used well, it can still withstand the Goguryeo people for a while. If we can reach the middle of the night, we still have a chance to break through again."

After saying that, Li Chao picked up the sword and drew a circle in the five rings.

"This is a double-row hollow square array. The soldiers in the front row squatted with guns, the soldiers in the back stood and shot, and then the middle of the array was hollow. In order to prevent the impact and penetration of the cavalry, we set up another hollow in the hollow, making the array like a word "Ching", but we made the array into a circle."

Li Chao briefly explained his double-layer hollow array.

In fact, the important advantage of cavalry is not in frontal charge, especially light cavalry, nor is it good at charging and breaking formations. Their advantage lies in mobility. In terms of military use, cavalry units can easily gather superior forces to harass and annihilate operations. In traditional battles, cavalry usually has a rapid impact on the weak links of the enemy, such as attacking weak positions such as flanks and back waists.

Of course, the most powerful part of cavalry is that the war is unfavorable, the cavalry can follow at any time, and the infantry can do nothing. If the infantry is defeated, it is difficult to escape the pursuit of the cavalry.

Of course, in most cases, the number of infantry is larger and the number of cavalry is slightly smaller. In the war, the cavalry is more responsible for the battlefield reserves and serves as the protectors of the infantry's rear wing. They will also pursue the enemy after the infantry defeats the enemy after the battle between the two sides. Or during the battle between the two sides, they will detour from the enemy's rear wing to cooperate in the attack.

Only heavy cavalry is truly used to force the square formation.

However, the cavalry of the Goguryeo people is now light cavalry, which gives Li Chao some confidence in his stance against the cavalry.

If an ordinary infantry phalanx is placed against the cavalry, the cavalry will not rush to the phalanx, but will continue to mount, harass and intimidate outside the formation, so as to make the infantry frightened and disperse.

The advantage of Li Chao's hollow formation is that the outer layer is a spearman, which is a defensive formation. The inner layer is a crossbowman or musketeer, who uses crossbows, grenades, etc. to deal with the enemy's cavalry's proximity to harass and impacts.

Facing the rows of spears on the outer layer, even if the enemy cavalry really rushes to the formation, the setting of the hollow array can attract this impact force. After rushing through one row, the row behind will not be affected. They have to face a row of spears again and face a row of crossbows.

The soldiers formed double obstacles, which made it even more difficult to be dispersed. Li Chao's hollow formation was actually four layers. It would undoubtedly be extremely difficult for the light cavalry to break through the fourth layer of infantry formation.

The battle of fame for this formation was the Battle of Waterloo by Emperor Napoleon. The British army used hollow square formations to repel the attacks of the French cavalry again and again. After that battle, the intensive square formation was completely ended.

Of course, like the Spanish war, the most advantageous part of the hollow square formation is that it is firearms. The front bayonet, the back musket, the hot and cold weapons are coordinated, and the interaction between far and near can make the cavalry unable to speak.

Li Chao has few crossbowmen now, and his muskets are extremely powerful, but he has no other better way to fight the enemy.

If they do not assemble into a formation, the Goguryeo cavalry that rushed in will easily defeat the Tang army, killing them in a big way, and have no power to fight at all.

"retreat!"

“Get together!”

"Go closer to Shuaiqi!"

The order was issued, and the Tang army began to retreat step by step and approach the commander-in-chief.

Li Chao’s hollow square array is actually not so difficult to arrange.

Anyway, they are all infantry, so there is no need to distinguish them.

The only special thing is that teams form a circle, then several small circle arrays form a large circle group, and finally form five large circle arrays, and five large circles form a large circle array.

"Can this array work?"

"If you don't have to use it, you can only do this."

It was a little confused when they gathered together in a hurry, but at least it was still the same.

Goguryeo people flocked to Zhaozhuang.

Yuan Gaisuwen rode into the farm proudly, and looked at the Tang army huddled together in front of him, and chuckled.

"Li Chao is already at the end of his life, and he still wants to resist stubbornly and struggle to die."

"What kind of array is this?"

"Tortoise array, look at it, it's shrinking into balls." Humane said.

"I think it's a hedgehog array, you see, they're all spears outside."

"It's this time, and Li Chao actually protects the women, children, old and weak in the village." Yuan Gai Suwen chuckled.

"It is difficult for a woman to achieve great things."

"kill!'

"Those who capture Li Chao alive will be rewarded with a thousand gold. Those who take Li Chao's head will be rewarded with five hundred gold!"

The Goguryeo people's trumpet was blown.

The center of the five rings is Li Chao's handsome flag. Li Chao stood with a sword under his command. Around him, except for the dozens of musketeers, they were all the women, children and people of Zhaozhuang.

"Bloody battle to the end!"

Countless roars sounded, and the Tang soldiers cheered for themselves.

The Goguryeo cavalry shot arrows around the military formation, and the Tang army in the hollow square formation also shot arrows and threw lightnings to counterattack, but the Tang army had few crossbowmen and few grenades, and the casualties were greater than those of the Goguryeo people.

Continuously falling down.

The hollow array is shrinking.

But the sky has not been dark yet.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Suddenly, a melodious sound of horns came.

In the east of the battlefield, an army appeared.

"It's General Yuchi."

Yuchi Gong arrived and rushed from Linyu Pass with three thousand extremely tired cavalry.

Li Chao had no smile on his face.

"This idiot!"

The three thousand cavalry were useless to this battle. Yuchi Gong came here and was just here to send him off. He came with these three thousand cavalry, and there must be no few left in Linyu Pass. When they were defeated, Linyu Pass could not be defended.

East of the battlefield.

Yuchi Gong looked at Zhao Zhuang in the sunset, looked at the tragic scene, and had a cold face.

Zhao Zhuang's tragic shocked Yuchi Gong. He estimated that the Goguryeo people had at least tens of thousands of casualties, while the Tang army had suffered more than 15,000 casualties.

The Tang army lost more than half of the losses, and the Gaoming Li people also lost more than 20%.

Li Chao and the remaining Tang army were surrounded.

He looked at his subordinates and rushed to Linyu Pass day and night in the past few days, defeating thousands of Liao troops. Before he could get some rest, he learned that Yuan Gai Suwen had retaliated and rushed back, and the rest period was not much longer than a few hours.

The soldiers were tired.

Especially the situation on the battlefield, if you join in, you can't leave.

There is going but not going back.

Yuchi Gong waved his horse spear.

"Are you not afraid of death, come with me!"

After saying that, he took the lead and rushed towards the Goguryeo without hesitation.
To be continued...