277 Using a Weird Method to Break the Formation (1/2)

Hence, one chariot circle formation became the key to deciding the outcome of the Battle of Changping.

Within 10 days, the grain from Henei prefecture had safely been transported to Guanglang City, and the Qin army's grain crisis had been temporarily relieved. Fanju did all he could in Xianyang to make the commoners provide some grain for the military.

One could say that the Qin had placed everything they had on this battle.

As the Zhao army had enough grain, they were determined to outlast the Qin army.

After setting up the chariot circle formation and calming down the situation down south, Zhao Kuo, who was very ambitious, had already set his sights on Ying Bao's troops to the north. Within Gu Pass were 170 thousand troops, and adding with the 50 thousand in Hukou Pass, they absolutely could eat up the 100 thousand men of Ying Bao.

The long face off was also a huge burden for the Zhao. After listening to Zhao Kuo's plan, Zhao Sheng, who was in charge of monitoring the army, didn't disagree.

Although they had successfully taken out the reinforcements and taken down Wang Ling's camp, the situation was still bad for the Qin army. Just as Baiqi said, if they wanted to destroy the Zhao army, they needed to break the formation.

However, with such a legendary formation, and also with the Gu Pass reinforcements to the rear, it wasn't easy to break.

Baiqi stood on top of the Lang Mountain every day and stared at the formation. As he looked at it, it would usually take an entire day. Only until the sun set did he quietly return to his cave.

As many days passed, this wasn't a good plan.

Seeing that Zhao Kuo was already preparing to attack, if he didn't think of any plan, he would have to ask Ying Bao to retreat; the moment he did, it would be the same as announcing that Zhao Kuo's defensive plan worked.

If they wasted more time, the Qin had no ability to provide for such a large army. The best outcome would be for the Qin Army to back off and let the Zhao Country have Shangdou. However, the political outcomes which would arise frightened Baiqi.

Giving up Shangdou prefecture not only broke the eastern path of the Qin. Most importantly, the positions of strength and power would have to be rewritten.

Hence, the Qin Country couldn't lose; they couldn't afford to lose; Baiqi also didn't want to lose!

Since the Battle of Changping happen, there had been several huge battles. The two player forces of the Zhao and Qin armies seemed to be side characters. If one looked closely, however, they were influencing the movement of the battle.

Comparing the two, it was Yanhuang Alliance from the Zhao Country camp that was more eye catching. Shanhai Alliance just followed instructions and didn't suggest any ideas or influence the battlefield.

Compared to the glorious performances in the Battle of Zhuolu and the Battle of Muye, their performance this time looked very dull.

Noticing that point, Ouyang Shuo gathered up all his allies to discuss how to break the formation. Unfortunately, even a first grade general like Baiqi couldn't solve it, how could they?

Ouyang Shuo knew that to break the formation, one couldn't use a normal logic cycle. As in such an aspect, be it the players or historical people like Qianshou, they couldn't compare with Baiqi.

This day, Ouyang Shuo brought two guards and went up to Guanglang City tower. In his mind, he only thought about the chariot circle formation and nothing else.

In the morning sun, a flock of geese flew across the sky.

Ouyang Shuo froze, and an idea flashed across his mind. He tried his best to calm himself down, closing his eyes, he connected what he gained from the geese to the chariot circle formation, to try and catch that glimmer of light.

The chariot circle formation was closely linked with one another, one part depending on the other to not give the enemy a chance. Normally speaking, to break this formation, one could either not bother about it, making the formation useless, or gather up all the troops to attack it from all sides to make the troops in the middle pressured. Then, they naturally wouldn't be able to adapt.

These two methods would absolutely not work.

The first needed absolute patience, and the Zhao troops in the formation had an endless supply of grain from Gu Pass, so even before they ran out, the Qin Army was finished.

The second plan needed a huge army, and after a few hard battles, the Qin Army had lost half their men and couldn't use pure numbers to swarm the formation.

The flying geese gave Ouyang Shuo a brand new idea.

Since traditional methods didn't work, one needed to innovate. Ouyang Shuo was thinking, what if they could be like the modern military and parachute people into the core of the formation? As long as the core was chaotic and as the troops attacked from the outside, the formation was bound to break.

One had to say, the cooperation with the rattlesnake mercenary group had stimulated Ouyang Shuo's thinking and made it more of a mix of modern and ancient thoughts.

The hard part would be how could they parachute? The ancient times didn't have planes where they could drop people off.

Ouyang Shuo opened his eyes, and as he turned to the Daliang Mountain, his eyes brightened.

The Daliang Mountain was in the center of the rivers and stretched to the foot of the Gu Pass, right next to the formation.