Troubled times are nothing more than this, no one wants to make anyone better, and the means are still the right way to use them to the extreme, and when it comes to the frequent use of assassins, it is a critical moment.

Doesn't seem right either? The Xiang clan is already using assassins against some small leaders and little nobles who do not return, and it is precisely because of this that Huan Chu will feel jealous of the Xiang clan, and he is afraid that there will be no end after he returns.

After discussing the strategy with Kuaitong, Lu Zhe said to Su Lie: "The four Yuecheng are stepping up to make Chongkai, and the seven thousand strong men will be fully armed in three months." ”

Su Lie was always paying attention, how could he not know this? Without waiting for Lu Zhe to ask, he said, "There are two thousand who have been training for half a year, and now there is only a shortage of training formations. The remaining 5,000 only trained for two months, and the body lì needed another month. ”

Lu Zhe attached much more importance to the 7,000 heavy infantry than other arms, and many times he would personally watch the drills, and he would often talk to Su Lie about the tactics and tactics of the Sui and Tang heavy infantry, so Su Lie has recently become familiar with the tactics of combining infantry and cavalry.

It is obviously not so easy to train 7,000 heavy infantry into Mo Dao Hands, and not all heavy infantry can be called Mo Dao Hands. Even if you wear heavy armor and hold a three-pointed two-edged knife and can push through a wall, it is only in shape. The essence of the Modao Formation has long been lost in later generations, and some classics only talk about the formation of the military formation, and the combination of cavalry, crossbowmen, and light infantry.

Lu Zhe taught Su Lie everything he knew, and the rest was only to rely on Su Lie to explore it himself.

“…… It is very effective to control the march of the military formation with the sound of drums, "Su Lie loves heavy infantry, and often listens to Lu Zhe talk about the heavy infantry tactics of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and has recently joined the rhythm of using war drums to control the military formation according to Lu Zhe, "For the cooperation of the crossbowmen, I already have a general idea of it, and the two thousand armor soldiers have been cooperating with the crossbowmen recently. He paused at this point, and said with some shame, "The cooperation with the cavalry is about controlling the battle. The job has not touched the threshold. ”

In fact, axe-throwers or spear-throwers should also be added, so that the Mo knife formation can be considered complete. It's a pity that the coordination of multiple arms is very complicated, and the requirements for the arrangement of troops and the level between the arms are very high.

So far, Su Lie has not been able to control the formation of too many troops, he can only take his time from simple to complex.

At present, the Mo Sword Formation in Su Lie's hands was in the front row of five rows of heavy infantry armed with three-pointed and two-edged swords, the sixth row began with ten consecutive rows of archers, and then fifteen rows of crossbowmen. The method of warfare is nothing more than waiting in formation. The enemy attack is attacked by crossbowmen as a precursor, and when the enemy approaches, they are fought hand-to-hand with heavy infantry.

In Lu Zhe's view, Su Lie's approach was completely inseparable from the influence of the Qin army's battle formation, as long as the heavy infantry was replaced with spearmen, it would be the most traditional square formation of the two arms of infantry and bow. The most terrible thing is that Su Lie himself feels that he can't control the cavalry, in fact, he can't grasp the timing and when to invest in the cavalry, and to put it more bluntly, Su Lie has little confidence in his overall situation.

The reason why Su Lie was left behind was because of this matter. If Su Lie's training method is followed, the heavy infantry will have more than enough defense. But there is no offense at all, and you can't practice the Mo Dao Formation after practicing for a hundred years.

A little earlier, he was not free, but now that Lu Zhe is free, he needs to correct it, "Lie." Go and gather troops," he turned to look at Kuaitong, "If the gentleman is fine, let's go together?" ”

Su Lie, who had been waiting for this day for two months, excitedly responded, "Hey! ”。 Use the running ones to gather troops.

Kuai informed Lu Zhe that Su Lie was training heavy infantry, and he also knew that Lu Zhe attached great importance to it, but he never had the opportunity to meet him. Right now. Lu Zhe invited, how could he refuse?

Inform the wing flail to prepare for the escort work, waiting for the pro-army to be ready, but when Lu Zhe was about to send it, he received an official letter from Yan Bi from Changsha County.

Yan Bi has been going to Changsha County for eight days, and the main reason for his visit is to invite Wu Rui to come to Nanling City in person. In addition, Yan Bi was also ordered to go to see what was going on with the elephant soldiers of the Lian clan.

Lu Zhe suddenly removed the seal paint of the box, and there were actually two letters inside? He first picked out Yan Bi's official letter and read it word by word.

Wu Rui and the Four Clans fought fiercely, and were once oppressed by the Four Clans to the upper reaches of the Xiangshui River, and there was a tendency to resist insufficient and defeat.

"The house leak was rainy, and the boat encountered a head wind." It is very appropriate to use this sentence to describe Wu Rui's experience, the battle ahead is unfavorable, and Lu Zhe on the side captured Qianzhong County and marched in Linyuan, it can be said that the situation has reached the most critical moment.

In this situation, Wu Rui actually borrowed 30,000 troops to Lu Zhe in exchange for 3,000 weapons and 200,000 arrows, and sent Wu Ying to express his willingness to take Lu Zhe's horse-led attitude, fearing that Lu Zhe's heavy troops in Linyuan would suddenly attack.

How could Lu Zhe have the spare strength to attack Changsha County, but Wu Rui didn't know this. Wu Rui only knew that the war with the four clans was unfavorable, and the battle line was really unbearable if it was broken again and again, whether it was the four clans uniting Ang or Lu Zhe intervening, he could not avoid defeat, so he could only choose to surrender to Lu Zhe.

In addition to informing Wu Rui that he had agreed to go to Nanjun, the official document written by Yan Bi from Changsha County also attached a handwritten letter from Wu Rui requesting Lu Zhe to send troops into Changsha County.

"Send troops into Changsha?" Lu Zhe smiled bitterly instantly, under the threat of an attack by 300,000 Qin troops, how could there be troops sent to Changsha County? He handed the two letters to Kuaitong on the side, "The combined forces of the Lian clan, the Huang clan, the Yang clan, and the Yong clan have successively broken through several lines of defense set up by Wu Rui, and he asks me to send troops into Changsha County. ”

Kuaitong read the letter very slowly, closed his eyes and thought for about half a moment after reading it, and said slowly: "Combined with the previous information, Wu Rui's attitude is very sincere, not a ploy. ”

Lu Zhe knew that it was not a ploy, it was a choice that Wu Rui had no choice, but he couldn't take care of Changsha County now.

"Lian's elephant soldiers are very powerful?" Kuaitong has never seen elephant soldiers, and Yan Bi's description is more ambiguous, what body is huge, what skin is thick and thick can only shoot his eyes with bows and arrows, "More than 300 elephant soldiers run and shake the mountains, and the soldiers and soldiers can't stop it?" ”

"It's just a domesticated elephant," Lu Zhe was a little disapproving, "All animals are afraid of fire, why hasn't Wu Rui thought about this?" ”

"It's useless if the fire is small, unless it's a large-scale arson, or an attack with an instrument like a bed crossbow." After Kuaitong added, "hahaha" burst into laughter, but after laughing, he said: "Lord, now send troops, it is useless to have less, and our deployment will be affected if there is more." What do you mean? ”

"Let Xu Zhi and Luo Shao threaten the rear of the four clans from Cangwu County, forcing them to send people back to defend." Lu Zhe felt that this would be fine. There is no way to send a large-scale army to exchange guards with Wu Rui, it is better to let them continue to stalemate back and forth.

With very little time to write the receipt, Lu Zhe asked the messenger to return the same way, and then set off for the barracks of the heavy infantry.

Su Lie, who was anxious, had already assembled his troops and waited, and after waiting left and right finally gave Lu Zhe a look, he couldn't wait to meet him: "Two thousand armor soldiers, five thousand crossbowmen, one thousand cavalry, five thousand light infantry." ”

Lu Zhe had already seen the waiting troops, and he got off his horse and walked straight onto the high platform where he could see the overall situation. When looking down. The military formation was indeed a square formation, and Su Lie finally knew what he wanted to do by dividing the cavalry into the left and right wings, but the five thousand jumping soldiers were mixed in the arrow array of the crossbowmen?

The five hundred masters are really the five hundred masters, even if he has been a captain for eight months, Su Lie has not yet gone through the limitations of systematic learning.

"The heavy infantry was replaced with at least five columns, three in the front and three in the rear, five paces apart. There should be such an arrangement in all four directions, and the whole formation should become a prismatic formation. Lu Zhe was depressed, and only the heavy infantry was arranged in front. Is that called the Mo Dao Formation? He went on to arrange, "Behind each line of heavy infantry, there should be five paces behind the archers and the heavy infantry in front, and two rows of close jumpers between the archers and the heavy infantry. Then there were twelve rows of archers. Crossbowman...... Well? What kind of crossbow is their crossbow? Lu Zhe was far away and didn't see it clearly.

Su Lie listened intently, and immediately replied, "It's our homemade wasp crossbow, which has a range of up to four hundred and fifty paces. ”

"Four hundred and fifty steps? That's thirty columns. Lu Zhe secretly calculated one, the killing range of crossbowmen ranged from four hundred and fifty steps to two hundred and fifty steps. No matter how close it is, it is a flat shot without an angle, and the front is blocked by your own people, and a flat shot is not advisable. The range of an archer is within 200 paces. There are fifty steps in the middle that are killing blank areas, and we have to find a way to fill this gap.

"See? Such a prismatic array with heavy infantry on all sides, it has four edges and corners, and they are sharp! Lu Zhe pointed at Su Lie, but saw that Su Lie's eyes were a little distracted, and he didn't know if he understood.

"The edges and corners in front of it should be cone-shaped, which is called the head of the formation, and the effect is the same as that of the fish scale array. The edges and corners of the left and right should not be too sharp, and the cavalry should be divided into left and right wings on the outside. In addition to the jumpers needed for the spacers, at the rear of the entire prismatic array, the jumpers are also needed to form a rear formation to form a rear wing arch formation. Lu Zhe looked at the soldiers below who were setting up a formation according to the order, and looked at Su Lie very strictly: "The entire formation is divided into archers, crossbowmen, garrisons, battle strikers, horse troops, jumpers, surprise soldiers, and so on. I will write it down later, you need to study it carefully! ”

Su Lie showed a longing expression and nodded constantly.

"Whenever the battle began, and the enemy was at a hundred and fifty paces, the crossbowmen began to fire. When the enemy was at sixty paces, the archers began to shoot arrows. When the enemy advanced twenty paces, the spearmen ...... after the crossbowmen fired their arrows, "Lu Zhe didn't see the spearmen, the real Mo Dao Formation actually has spearmen, and they are the dead soldiers of the Mo Dao Formation's counterattack," what about the spearmen?" ”

Su Lie shouted loudly, and asked people to quickly assemble the spearmen.

"The spearmen and the vanguard team are fighting together, and after the hoplites and the enemy infantry are in close contact, the odd soldiers, the horse army, and the jumping army are not allowed to act rashly." The more Lu Zhe spoke, the lower he became, these are not things that can be practiced in a short period of time. Putting aside his distractions, he continued: "If the battle situation of the infantry in front is not going well, the jumping and strange soldiers, and the horse army can meet the enemy in front of them, and the heavy infantry will retreat and reorganize and prepare to reinforce. If the jumping, odd soldiers, and horse army attack unfavorably, all infantry troops must cooperate with the horse army to fight at the same time. When the enemy retreats, the horse army must not pursue lightly, and must confirm that the enemy is truly defeated before they can cover up and kill one after another. ”

Su Lie's eyes were already straight, and he was completely stunned to speak very responsibly. (To be continued......)