No one knew what this seventy-nine-year-old general, the descendant of the War Saint, wanted to do.
Guan Zhenshan might be old, but when Wang Youdao faced him, it was a little like when Wu Zhao 'er met Lin Yi. It was clearly a feeling of being beaten into submission and fear.
"This old general has never done anything useless in his life. There must be something fishy about this. Report twice every hour and make sure you know every move of the Wu Dynasty army.”
"Yes, sir!"
Thanks to the binoculars made by Lin Yi, this thing was now popular among scouts.
With this thing, the scouts did not have to take the risk to scout in dangerous places, and the number of casualties was also significantly reduced.
"Brother Lin, come, come, let's discuss our defensive strategy if we attack through Mount Zhen.”
Lin Yi no longer wanted to discuss this with Wang Youdao.
He was too weak against Guan Zhenshan. He had never thought about attacking, and all he thought about was defense.
If a general did not have the heart to make progress, what was the point of fighting this war?
However, Guan Zhenshan was still the same.
Another month passed, and the new year was about to arrive. The old general still ordered the soldiers to train every day, and the sounds of the Wu Dynasty army killing could be heard from the camp every day.
"Commander, Guan Zhenshan is still training his soldiers. He was very happy before the battle today and even played a few rounds personally.”
"So many days have passed, and all they did was train their soldiers. Didn't you get any other information?”
"Commander-in-chief, Wu Dynasty's army is indeed training their soldiers. It's the same as our training, but they're much more hardworking than us. Their soldiers are more orderly and stronger.”
Wang Youdao did not expect himself to be so worried.
Guan Zhenshan really did not play any tricks. He was really just training his soldiers!
As for Lin Yi, he had already despised Wang Youdao for more than a month.
On the day of the new year, the soldiers did not dare to relax. Lin Yi and the others were most afraid of the other party suddenly attacking the camp.
However, Guan Zhenshan still did not move. He only slept soundly in the tent.
Lin Yi naturally knew that Guan Zhenshan was not satisfied with the quality of his soldiers after two consecutive months.
The other was also using the strategy of exhausting the troops.
The so-called strategy of exhausting soldiers was not as simple as making your soldiers tired and unable to fight.
The last time Lin Yi beat the gong and beat the drum at Wolf Head Mountain, it could be considered a use of this tactic, and it was used on the surface.
But Guan Zhenshan used it in secret.
After two months of not fighting a single battle, the Yan Han Army would get used to this kind of life. Once a person fell into a fixed pattern of life and became used to it, it would be very difficult to adapt to anything else.
As long as a person persisted for a month, they would be able to turn something repetitive into a habit.
It had been more than two months since they passed through Mount Zhen. The Yan Han Army had not fought for a long time and was gradually relaxing. This was not a good thing!
Therefore, while Guan Zhenshan was training his soldiers, Lin Yi decided to organize a military martial arts tournament.
They agreed that the martial arts competition would begin in ten days and set the Dragon and Tiger List. The top 100 in the army would be rewarded handsomely.
Those who ranked 1,000 in the army on the Tiger List were rewarded.
Everyone was in the same military camp, so they naturally needed money to support their families. The Dragon and Tiger Ranking List represented the recognition of one's strength and the elite of the elite!
Everyone wanted to show off and stand out from their brothers.
After all, after so many years of war, there were no cowards or good-for-nothings who could survive.
The martial arts tournament was set to be held in ten days.
Early in the morning, the soldiers trained and sparred, much more diligent than usual.
In the past, he had to urge them to practice, but now, he didn't even need to urge them.
Ten days later, it was still freezing cold, but the snow had stopped.
On the side of the Wu Dynasty army, the soldiers were still practicing. Guan Zhenshan would take a four-wheeled carriage to circle around the camp every day to observe the situation of the Yan Han army.
The martial arts tournament was also successfully held.
Military personnel were not allowed to participate in this martial arts competition, and the non-military personnel were not allowed to participate. This gave the ordinary soldiers a fair chance to compete.
The martial arts tournament had been going on for three days. The soldiers were so excited that their shouts and cheers surpassed even the military camp of the Wu Dynasty.
When the Dragon and Tiger Roll was released and the rewards were given out, the morale of the soldiers reached its peak.
The shouts shook the heavens and earth, and it was truly majestic!
Guan Zhenshan sat on the four-wheeled carriage, his eyes filled with praise and disappointment.
He knew that there were experts in the Yan Han Army who had seen through his intentions.
He was disappointed that this person was working for Flame Han and would be his direct opponent. This was probably not a good thing.
Lin Yi used the three-day martial arts tournament to crack the fatigue strategy that Guan Zhenshan had been running for two months. The weather gradually warmed up.
Guan Zhenshan was barely satisfied with the quality of his soldiers.
In his opinion, these soldiers had basically reached the minimum strength to fight.
At this moment, not counting the soldiers stationed in the other five provinces, Guan Zhenshan commanded an army of 200,000.
They set up camp on the mountain, the camp was like a dragon coiling around a tiger, stretching for dozens of miles.
On Wang Youdao and Lin Yi's side, another 60,000 soldiers were added to the 100,000 soldiers. This was all that Flame Han could offer.
Spring was warm and the snow was melting. It was the time when the Turks were pillaging the south, and the war in the north was tense.
While Yan Han was focused on dealing with the Wu Dynasty, the fence sitter Dai Country was waiting for an opportunity to move.
One moment he was smiling at you, the next moment he might fight. You never knew when he would stab you in the back. You had to be on guard.
Coupled with the years of fighting against the Wu Dynasty, Yan Han's strength was ultimately not as deep as the Wu Dynasty's.
One had to know that the Wu Dynasty was already dragged down by the war, and it was difficult to earn money in the country.
The fact that Yan Han was able to mobilize 160,000 troops to defend against the Wu Dynasty was already the greatest strength he could muster!
At this moment, Guanzhen Mountain finally moved!
Guan Zhenshan sent scouts to Flame Han Camp and issued a challenge.
"The two countries are fighting for their own masters."
"This old man obtained a new formation in my seventies. Why don't we make a deal? You and I will deploy 40,000 soldiers for a battle. If Yan Han wins, this old man will lead 200,000 troops back to the Wu Dynasty and stop the conquest.”
"If this old man wins, the Yan Han Army will retreat a hundred miles and choose a date to fight with me. This date and battlefield will be decided by this old man.”
"If you are a hero, you should accept this battle. If you are an ordinary person, you should be a coward and enjoy your life.”
A letter of challenge. To put it bluntly, Guan Zhenshan wanted to fight Yan Han head-on.
Both sides sent out 40,000 people to set up a formation, and the two armies broke through each other's formation to determine the victor.
Wang Youdao sighed.
"Old Guan Zhenshan is seventy-nine years old, but he's still as heroic as ever! Since he was so ambitious and led the army back to the Wu Dynasty if he couldn't win, it was obvious that he had a plan in mind and couldn't underestimate the enemy.”
Lin Yi nodded. How could he not see the deeper meaning behind this?
Guan Zhenshan never thought that he would lose, but Guan Zhenshan won. He personally chose the terrain that was advantageous to him as the battlefield for the final battle. He decided on the date for Yan Han to fight.
If you don't respond to the challenge letter, you are timid and afraid. Once the commander is timid, the morale of the army will be shaken.
People could point at you and call you a thousand-year-old tyrant or a ten-thousand-year-old turtle.
If he accepted the challenge, what would happen if he lost?
If Yan Han loses, it will be a lifetime of fame for the old general. You, Yan Han, have 160,000 people to accept the challenge, but if you lose, you won't fulfill your promise.
Then the entire Yan Han would lose face. In the future, your country would be synonymous with shamelessness!
Therefore, Lin Yi knew that if he wanted to fight, he had to either win or draw!
However, this old general was so determined. It could be seen how powerful his army was.
To be honest, Lin Yi's inheritance also had a lot of array formations that could be used.
The One-line Snake Formation, the Dragon Soaring Tiger Roaring Formation, the Six-pointed Lotus Formation…
These were formations that could be set up by thousands to tens of thousands of people.
If he went further up, there was the Big Dipper Six Directions Killing Formation and the Twenty-Seven Chain Armor Formation.
And in the Law of Marquis Wu that Lin Yi had drawn, there was even Zhuge Kongming's Eight Formations.
In the end, Lin Yi decided to choose between the Heavenly Constellation Six Directions Killing Formation and the Eight Formation Diagram.
The Six Directions Killing Formation was created by Han Xin, but he had not experienced actual combat, so he had never had the chance to use it.
As for Zhuge Wuhou's Eight Formation Diagram, he had many achievements.
When Lu Xun was trapped, the two armies faced each other with eight formations to humiliate Sima Yi. If they faced each other in Guanzhen Mountain, Lin Yi would definitely use one of these two formations.
"Brother Lin Yi, what do you think about this battle array?”
Wang Youdao wasn't confident that they would really fight in a battle formation. He felt that the chances of losing were very high.
When he asked Lin Yi what he meant by making a decision, Wang Youdao's subtext was:
"Brother Lin Yi, can you take this job? If you have an array, we'll fight with him. If you don't, we'll just obediently hide and be turtles.”
How could Lin Yi retreat?
It wasn't easy to meet a real opponent, so why not have a good fight?
"Come on, I'm quite proficient in formations.”
"Alright, then it's settled!"
The Yan Han camp accepted the challenge and sent messengers to Guan Zhen Mountain to set a date. Fifteen days later, the two armies would fight in the open ground under the Chessboard Mountain.
The distance between this place and the camps of both sides was about the same, and there was a large open area to use, so it was relatively fair.
The formation that passed through the Zhenshan Mountain was formed when he suddenly had a dream when he was seventy-six years old. Then, he changed a secret killing formation left behind by his ancestors and increased its power.
This formation was natural and contained the power of the Great Dao. Guan Zhenshan had been suffering from being unable to use the formation, and no one knew about his life's work.
However, this time, the Martial Emperor actually chose him as the commander. One of the important reasons for his return was that he wanted to use this array and leave a legend in the world!
Guan Zhenshan named this formation the Heaven and Earth Completion Formation. He believed that this Heaven and Earth Completion Formation was more powerful than any formation created by the militarists.
After Lin Yi drew out the general diagram of the Heavenly Constellation Six Directions Killing Formation and the Eight Formation Diagram, he analyzed it and frowned.
Marquis Zhuge's Eight Formation Diagram was not an ordinary Eight Trigrams Formation. His formation contained 64 variables of the Bright and Dark Eight Trigrams Formation, which made a total of 128 combat techniques.
It was easier said than done to practice all 128 combat techniques in 15 days.
However, Han Xin's Tiangang Six Directions Killing Formation had fewer changes than the Eight Formation Diagram, but it had higher requirements for soldiers.
Moreover, each position had to be perfect and precise, and the positions were not as easy to remember as the Eight Formation Diagram.
According to the actual situation, Lin Yi finally chose the Eight Formation Diagram to deal with the enemy.
However, he did not know if he could make it in time in these fifteen days.
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