"If I want to strike at the crowd with less, I have no deep grass, and I have no narrow road, the enemy has arrived, and it is not suitable for the twilight; I have no great powers, and I have no help from my neighbors to take a detour, so I will make the deep grass and go far away. This article was published by www. lwχｓ520。 com The first start is like the art of war, and after the Qi people pass through the bushes and deep grass, the formation is indeed slow and scattered. ”

Standing on the horse chariot with a good view, Zhao Wuxian smiled, today he does not plan to "take the lead" as before, he will be the commander of the overall situation.

All the methods of the handsome teacher, should first wait far away, go to the enemy for 200 miles, and God knows where the enemy is.

Because of the light and swift cavalry, the eyes of the warriors were able to be placed far away, and the monitoring of the aligners began from the green mountains thirty miles away. Their numbers, their troops, their marching formations, their banners, and even their distance from this place, were reported every other moment.

The light chariots and apprentices of the Qi people couldn't catch up with the single horseman, so they could only sigh with admiration, just like a fly that couldn't get rid of it, and they didn't care too much about their own soldiers.

In this era when cavalry was rare, Zhao Wuxian's more than 20 horsemen had achieved the ideal state of deaf and blind the enemy, allowing them to find themselves after entering the battlefield prepared in advance.

That's the advantage of having one more tactical class.

The main force of 500 soldiers led by Zhao Wuxian set up a battle two miles away from Zhenyi after the morning meal, waiting for the arrival of the Qi people.

The reason why he chose this distance was because early in the morning, he asked Dou Ping, a mathematics student, to take people to the front to visually inspect the farthest distance that the other party would find his own military formation.

"As long as the whole army is allowed to sit on the ground and the smoke and dust are not raised, then if the enemy does not have scouts to watch closely, he can only be detected with the naked eye when he is two miles away!"

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian chose a place two miles away from the vast shrub and deep grass area, and the whole army died down. Sit on the floor and wait.

His method of anticipating the enemy really worked, and when the Qi people found the warriors, they happened to march into the deep grass of the bushes and the generals did not come out.

Zhao Wuxian decisively got into the car and waved the flag: "The whole army is in formation!" ”

The guards shouted, "Get up! ”

They anticipate the enemy first. Treat the near and far, and wait for the work. Wait for hunger. And the method of changing the formation, round and square, sit and get up, stop and act, left and right, front and back, divide and combine, knot and dissolve. They all trained every day in Shangqiu and even after arriving in Zhenyi, and at this time, everyone stood up, with spears, swords and shields in their hands, and they were neat and quiet.

At this time, Yu Xi also came back in person to report back and informed Wuxian of the general formation of Qi people.

"Five hundred on the left, center, and right? Heavy in the front and light in the back? ”

After thinking for a moment, he waved the flags and issued orders one after another, and began to adjust the shape according to the situation against the enemy.

"It is divided into three horizontal formations, left, center and right, and there is a group of spearmen in the center. Twenty-five people in a row, four people in a row. ”

"On the left flank and on the right flank, there are two formations of spearmen, a row of ten. a column of five people; a burst of sword and shield hands, five in a row, ten in a row; Then there was a group of crossbowmen, ten people in a row, five people in a column, four formations in a concave and convex shape, with the spear in front, and the sword, shield, and crossbow arrows in the back. ”

"Light knights roam the edge of the right flank, watch out for enemy flank vehicles."

This is one of the formations that Zhao Wuxian and the other commanders have studied and practiced in the past few months. After the array is unfolded, they will face the enemy's left, center, and right Qi men of 500 each. No matter how you look at it, it is at an absolute disadvantage, especially in the weak center. Hold off five times as many enemy attacks.

"Don't worry about the second and third sons, I will personally sit in the center!"

After Zhao Wuxian's words, the left-wing spearmen who were originally a little apprehensive were slightly relieved.

The advantages of hard training combined with modern methods on weekdays began to be reflected, and after the soldiers changed formations, the Qi army on the opposite side had not yet fully deployed, and they were still assembling in the bushes with difficulty, and the scene was quite messy.

The opportunity could not be missed, Zhao Wuxian stood on top of the chariot, waved the flag and pointed straight ahead: "The whole army is slowly moving forward, until it is three hundred steps!" ”

In the Zhenyi raider a few days ago, the soldiers all participated in the battle, although the damage was not large, but they had seen blood. Who would have thought that the first battle in the field was actually at a disadvantage, and the training effect in the past two months or so depends on today's battle!

The musician-turned-drummer beats the leather drum around his waist, finding the same rhythm is the basic skill of this profession, and the drum beat encourages people while keeping the pace of the warriors in a disorderly manner.

Qi Wan, a native of Mengcheng, was on the right side of the larger number of people, and he didn't know why he was fighting like this, and he didn't ask.

In the past two months, they have been trained to obey the orders of the two commanders, and to listen to the beat of the drums and move forward. When he attacked Zhenyi, he was forcibly ordered by the commander to kill a guard who did not surrender, so he was not very afraid now, and the Qi people on the opposite side were like the quagmire and ravines during training, which was an obstacle that had to be overcome.

The only thing he was worried about was his cousin Qi Bai, who was in the weak array in the center, Qi Wan's eyes glanced to the left from time to time, and he could vaguely see that the cousin standing in the second row of the phalanx had a slightly pale face.

The new pawns behaved similarly to him, but the old pawns were resolute, most of them were old townsmen, and they had experienced the tragic offensive and defensive battles that night. The spearmen in the middle of the battle were also specially thickened today, with an extra set of braided leather armor taken from the Zhenyi treasury and guards, and the two rows of spearmen in front were equipped with wooden shields.

There are pointed copper protrusions at the bottom of the spear shaft, which is added by the brigade commander to the caster, and if the spear tip is broken, it can also be turned upside down, and it can also be deeply inserted into the soil as a temporary thistle terrestris.

The spears were often placed under the arms during the march, with the sharp blades pointed diagonally upward. As he walked slowly, the wooden poles of hundreds of spears trembled slightly, as if the lacquer forest of Mengcheng was swaying in the wind.

Their commander, Wu Jing, wore a shirt and walked on the far left side of the second row, staring at the pace of the crowd. The brigade commander's chariot was slowly marching in the rear, and Tian Ben was holding a shield on the chariot to protect it. Although this hero who broke through Zhenyi a few days ago was extremely brave, once this weak formation was broken up, the brigade commander would still face the enemy's blades!

Qi Wan and his fifty sword and shield guards were assigned to the right wing, and their main weapon was a bronze sword about two feet long, which could be used for melee assassination. In addition, there was a large shield, the whole of which was made of poplar wood, wrapped in thick leather, fastened to their forearms with leather straps, and the left hand was tight enough to hold the handle and cover the vital points of the chest and abdomen.

On their flanks were two formations of spearmen, as well as fifty loosely formed crossbowmen, under the leadership of Su Shouyu, a native of Wenxian County, who formed a horizontal formation, with a depth of five columns, which meant that they could perform the "five-stage shooting" that they were good at.

Twenty light knights were also on the right flank, and they formed a diamond-shaped formation, and Yu Xi, wearing a leather crown, was at the rear where he could see the whole situation, and he had taken his bow and arrows out of his quiver on the side of his horse, ready to shoot arrows at any moment.

The soldiers maintained the usual level of training, and after slowing down on the flat ground for half a moment, they had advanced to a position only half a mile away from the opposite horizontal formation, but they were still in formation. And it is stretched as wide as the array on the opposite side, which means that the opponent's numerical advantage will be negated at the moment of engagement.

Although these "dense phalanxes" are not much stronger than the middle school student phalanxes in the sports meeting in Zhao Wuxian's opinion, in the eyes of the Qi people on the opposite side, they are already a strong army that they have never seen before!

The soldiers of the Qi State looked at the phalanx of soldiers who pressed over, and couldn't help but gasp and said, "The Jin people are so tight ...... formation"

The formation, which is the formation of the army, has long been in place since Xia Yinzhou.

Before the battle, the war between human groups was all about rushing together, and then the soldiers and the enemy generally engaged in scattered and disorderly combat, and the final victory generally depended on which side had more soldiers and were better at fighting.

From the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the role of foot soldiers became more and more significant, so the stragglers who used to follow the chariot gradually became a close phalanx with long and short weapons.

Although the era of chariots has not yet passed, the formation of infantry soldiers has become very common, and the so-called pawn two corps are set up for the convenience of formation

At the same time as the reform of the Jin state, the military reform of the Qi state began in the era of Sima Sui Tho. The infantry formation replaced the chariot soldiers as the main force, and the position of the soldiers in the formation was distributed according to the left and right ranks, and it was important to be strict and orderly.

After the Uya Brigade inherited the position of Doctor Liqiu, they dealt with the Lu people who were extremely opportunistic and would collapse when they encountered setbacks, as well as the robbers of Onozawa, and now it was the first time that they faced an enemy with a stronger formation than their own.

He looked at the Jin people array that had maintained the same formation since he started to take steps, and felt a trace of pressure: "I didn't expect that the Jin people on the opposite side are not weak, everyone is wearing armor, and they can still list such a tight array, I'm afraid it is the elite of the Qing clan!" ”

"Doctor, why don't you let the archers come forward to meet them, disrupt their array with arrows, and then attack them with their numerical superiority!"

As the deputy commander, Yi Sima was also a little unconfident, he gave Dr. Liqiu such an idea on the side, Wuya Brigade wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, looked at the number of 1,500 people on his side, as well as 500 armor soldiers, and ten chariots, and regained confidence.

"Sima Fa has clouds, where the battle is light, it is dangerous to act lightly, and it is defeated if it is light, so the battle is heavy."

This means that in general operations: the use of small units against the enemy's small forces may be dangerous, and the use of small units against the enemy's large forces will fail, and the battle is a comparison and contest of the forces of the two sides.

Based on the experience of the Uya Brigade, if the difference in equipment between the two sides is not large, the difference in numbers by more than two times can basically determine the outcome of a war.

"Go and give orders! So far, there can only be a battle, the enemy's center flank is weak, and the command vehicle is also there, let the ten chariots attack first, as long as they can break it and capture the opponent's brigade commander, the victory is certain! ”

At this moment, the soldiers on the opposite side stopped, they followed the commander's command and the beat of the drum to pause, and their right foot was raised and stomped down in vain!

"Smack!"

The sound of neat footsteps raised dust, and its momentum seemed to shake the earth slightly, startling the Wuya brigade, and the chariot Rong You also hurriedly raised a shield to defend, and the Qi soldiers couldn't help but take half a step back, and looked at the probe. (To be continued)

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