Three days later, the Taiji Chamber of Commerce was formally established: Li Hong was the president, Li Er and Li San were the vice presidents, in charge of accounts, housekeeping, money, and business, and his subordinates were 36,000 chickens, 30,000 male slaves, and 5,000 female slaves; Li Yi was the leader of the caravan, with 3,600 shieldmen, 3,600 archers, 3,600 spearmen, and 3,600 warriors, and Li Tian added 3,600 mounts, totaling 18,000 people. The configuration of the number of team members is the number of Li Tian's weekdays.

Looking at the team that couldn't see the head shop at a glance, Li Tian stood in front of the team, his head was big: "How can there be so many people?"

Hearing Li Tian's inquiry, Li Er and Li San, who were behind him, immediately ran in front of him, bowed to Li Tian and said, "Please forgive us for expanding the caravan a hundred times without authorization! In fact, such a caravan can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized caravan in our place, because it is difficult for the team to survive in long distances if the team is small. ”

The answers of the two immediately reminded Li Tian of the velociraptor and the hunter ghost dragon he had encountered before: "You have done a lot, how can I blame you? I said that I don't know the specific situation, and you can solve the details by yourself." It's just that there are so many people, can we afford it?"

Seeing that the eldest brother did not blame himself, but was only a little worried about such a large-scale operation, Li San immediately replied: "Eldest brother, you can rest assured! I used all my savings for thousands of years to buy the most sought-after goods in Baiju Pass, and the profits I obtained could fully cover all our expenses; and then I monopolized all the escorts to Baiju Pass through my relationship with Tu Feiyuan, and these are our surpluses; and I had already sent my younger brothers Li Bingyi and Li Binger three days ago····· Li Bing's eight or eight people, go to Baiju Guan to pull relations, and engage in interpersonal relationships!"

This Li San has staked all his blood and capital, and Li Tian must be grateful for this, but there is no need to show it: "The third child, what did you say: 'Li Bingyi, what is going on with Li Bingba?'"

"Big brother is like this, since they followed me, they are your subordinates, big brother. I was afraid that you wouldn't accept my little brothers, so I changed their names privately. Ah San begged the eldest brother to punish!" After speaking, Li San knelt on the ground with a "poof".

How could Li Tian, who was already grateful to Li San, blame him for such a trivial matter? Stretched out his hand to help Li San, who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "Didn't I say, don't kneel down at every turn, I'm not used to it! Just accept it, let's talk about Bingyi, what does Bingba mean?"

"In the days to come, I don't know how many younger brothers the eldest brother will receive, C one is the meaning of three one, so that in the future, the eldest brother's younger brother can be called A one, and the second brother will be called B one!"

Hearing Li San's explanation, Li Tian nodded with a smile: "It seems that you are attentive! Okay, very good! I will order it in a while: The caravan will set off in a few days, and I will be of great use in selecting twelve clever and loyal ones from your brothers." ”

Round array, so Hiki also (槫, sound zhuan, two tones). Under the pretense of being a regiment, the meaning is to adopt a ring defense. The circular array is a formation in the era of cold weapons, and its function is: when the army turns to defense in the field, it must change from a phalanx to a circular formation and adopt a circular defense.

One use: when advancing back and forth to meet the enemy, first fire a salvo with a bow and arrow, then retreat to the right, then the bow team, retreat to the right after a volley, then the vanguard charge, withdraw to the right, and the second team charge, withdraw to the right, and shoot with the bow and arrows....and so on.

Second-use: The general is located in the center of the formation, the peripheral forces are laid out layer by layer, and the mobile forces are outside, forming a number of formations, rotating in the same direction when the battle is about to be fought, and attacking the enemy formation in turn, like a rotating wheel. The significance of this is to constantly put pressure on one part of the enemy's army, so that it collapses from exhaustion, while its own side is replenished and recuperated by taking turns to attack.

Shieldmen, archers, spearmen, and fighters are each a detachment, and the detachment leader is General Wei, and General Wei is privately assigned to the guards; each detachment is divided into three brigades, the captain is 1,000 households, and each brigade is 1,200 people, and the thousand households are equipped with attendants; the brigade has three battalions, called pipe belts, and is equipped with guards; each battalion has three squadrons, and the squad leader is also called a hundred chiefs, and each squad has 120 people; each squad is composed of 100 phalanxes, and every 12 people are also called detachments, and the detachment leader is also called 10 chiefs. The whole team implements a supervised and joint sitting system, and no single person is allowed, and at least three people are together when going out, and at least two people must be guaranteed in the barracks.

The phalanx is a common formation used by ancient armies in battle, and the armies are arranged in a square formation on the open field in the field. The phalanx is composed of the front army, the middle army and the rear army nested and arranged with each other, and the plane of the phalanx presents the shape of the word "Hui", which reflects a political and geographical structure in the ancient concept, and also alludes to the Taoist cosmology of "the sky is round and the place is round".

The personnel used for combat are organized into the zodiac phalanx shown below, which consists of twelve small formations marked with "child rats" and so on:

The rat is ugly, the cow is the tiger, the rabbit

Hai Pig Command Center Chenlong

Dog Reserve Personnel Snake

Rooster Shen monkey is not sheep afternoon horse

The mounts are directly subordinate to General Wei and do not fight again.

Half a month later, everything was done. The army assembled in the southern suburbs of the western city of Tuyuan City, held a simple ceremony to confer the title, and set off. But just as the army moved and the caravan was ready to depart, an army several times its own size descended from the sky and blocked the way.

General Wei Li Bingjia led three thousand households to reply in front of the formation: "In Xia Li Bingjia, I don't know which friend blocked the way of our army?

On both sides of the opposite army, a number of horsemen walked out from the middle, and the person at the head had a big waist on his back, and sat on a riding velociraptor with round eyes, and his voice was like a loud bell: "It's a shameless child, and you dare to talk nonsense here! General Ben is the general of Tuyuan Chengxi, who let you build an army privately? General Ben now orders you to disband your arms on the spot, otherwise you will be dealt with as a chaotic army on the spot!"

His own team can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized civilian armed force in this land, which is clearly made out of nothing. Li Bingjia is by no means a brainless person if he can sit on this Wei general, and whispered to the three thousand households behind him: "C B, C C, C Ding, go down quickly and prepare for battle." ”

After the three of them retreated, they said loudly: "General Yuan, we are all martial arts people, there is no need to come to these fancy intestines." Why don't we give it a try and then decide if we want to make a big move?"

This Yuan Xiba is one of the best masters in Tuyuan City, seeing that the opponent's manpower is less than one-tenth of his own, I really don't know why the city lord wants to ask for it himself, and he thinks in his heart: "This ignorant child may be the team that saw it, and he was stunned, so he called his subordinates to go and report it." But he was afraid that he would take responsibility, so he wanted to make up for his timidity with a small battle. ”

How could he let his treacherous plan succeed, so he pulled out the sword at his waist and moved forward: "Attack with all your might! Annihilate this group of rebels! Kill a soldier and reward 1,000 trees; kill a general, and those who take back their ranks will be given the same rank!"

This reward and punishment system seems to greatly encourage soldiers to fight bravely, but the disadvantages are even greater, at the end of a battle, when cleaning the battlefield, it often causes internal friction on their own side, but those who survive are brave people. Such a tiger and wolf army poured like a flash flood.

"Bing Ding 1 Barracks Junction: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and DE Ten Heavenly Official Arrays!"

With Li Bingjia's order, Li Bingding, who had already assembled and was on standby, immediately ordered: Ten phalanxes composed of a total of 1,200 people in a barracks were blocked in a straight line in front of the entire brigade. To block the opponent's million-strong division with 1,200 men is undoubtedly to send them to death. But the fate of male slaves is like this here, they can only be cannon fodder at all times. If you fight, you will have a chance to live; if you don't fight, you will wait for death, and now they are all at the forefront, and if you take a step back, you will die. So they were lifeless, and commanded the action according to the banner of the formation.

Just when everyone thought they were going to die, they found that it was like an impregnable wall blocking the outbreak of the flood. The rats, the ugly cows, the tigers, and the rabbits in front of them were a little tired, and the roosters, monkeys, sheep, and horses would immediately replace them according to the command of the banner. After a while, the corpses of the soldiers of Tuyuan City became a mountain in front of them, and Yuan Xiba had to order people to remove the corpses before launching an attack, but this undoubtedly gave Li Bingjia and his soldiers time to rest.

"Outflank! Outflank! General! We can outflank Li Bingjia's two wings!" this is Yuan Xiba's military advisor.

However, when their troops passed, they found that on the left and right flanks of the people's army, the ten-square Tianguan array of the Bingyi barracks and the ten-fang Tianguan array of the Bingbingyi barracks were waiting for them!

Now that the war has begun, where is there any reason to stop, for a while, except for the west city of Tuyuan City behind the army, there are large-scale battles on all three sides of the army. On that side, there were 1,200 men against tens of thousands. When the first barracks are overwhelmed, the second barracks will make up for it; when the second barracks are tired, the third barracks will go up again; if the third barracks is not enough, the barracks will be repeated again, and so on.

A battle that was supposed to be immediately clear was fought from sunrise to noon, and from noon to sunset.

"Ding, ding, ding", Yuan Xiba ordered to knock the chime to collect the troops and prepare to fight again tomorrow. Just as the team returned to the cage, there were countless chickens and dragons catching up behind. Before the troops could understand what was going on, they had already rushed into the ranks. Only then did I find that there were three people sitting on each of the chicken-like dragons: one driving like a chicken-like dragon, one killing the enemy on the left, and one killing the enemy on the right, and at the same time they kept shouting: "Surrender the gun and don't kill, abandon the weapon and surrender and kneel down to spare your life!"

When the infantry met the cavalry, it was faced with a massacre; in addition, the Tuyuan army had been fighting fiercely for a day, and they were already sleepy and lacking horses, and half of these Tuyuan troops were male slaves, and they thought: Who are you with, surrender can save your life, why don't you surrender? So, one by one, they put down their weapons and knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands.