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Chapter 25 Shield Array 3

Since seeing Xiong Jing riding a horse, Lian Po knew that this king loved horses. Thinking of King Zhuang hundreds of years ago, such a wise man actually wanted to bury the BMW with the courtesy of a doctor. It can be seen how much Chu State, located in the south, attached and longed for military horses.

Lian Po couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Would the king want to hear the truth or the lies?"

"I, of course, is the truth." Xiong Jing looked at Lian Po and guessed what he meant. He said first: "I have made things that are conducive to archery and fighting, and can introduce good horses in Zhongzhou. If you practice cavalry, you will definitely beat the Qin people."

Xiong Jing was able to stand on the horse while riding a horse. Although he didn't know what the mystery was under his clothes, Lian Po still understood the function of "a thing that is conducive to archery and fighting". He shook his head and said, "Since the king wants to listen to the truth, I will say no guilt. If the things created by the king are used in the army, they will be learned by the Qin people when fighting with the Qin army. Perhaps the king can train a cavalry that is not weaker than the Qin people, but the Qin army can train a cavalry that is ten times that of the king. With ten strikes, who can win?"

"Of course, the Qin people can win." Xiong Jing also thought about this question, "But if I only use it during the decisive battle, the Qin army would know it would be too late. The current situation in the world was determined by several decisive battles."

"The king thought that he would win the Qin army several times before he could save the current situation in the world?" Lian Po's verbal speech suddenly became sharp. "How could the king know that cavalry, which is not used for decisive battles, can help our army win in one battle?"

"I don't know." Both questions are fatal. Xiong Jing really doesn't understand how cavalry or heavy cavalry should be used.

"The people of Rongdi were born on horseback. Herding horses on the grasslands did not cost money. After eating a piece of grass, they moved to another place. Qin, Zhao and Yan all had cavalry. Although the daily expenses were expensive, they were not unbearable. If the king practiced cavalry, where did the knights come from? How much did the horses consume? After the war, the knights lost and the horses were injured, how should they be supplemented?

The battles of the nations were not the elite battles of the past, but the battles of the nation and the people. They had to attack the strengths of others with their own shortcomings, which was not wise. They might have a small victory, but the formations were learned by the Qin people and regretted them later. After living in Chu for several years, I saw the strengths of the Chu country, and I should be in boats, slaughtered soldiers, bows and crossbows, not in chariots or knights. The two formations practiced by the king were all in the formations of soldiers. If the whole country practiced them, the Qin people would be afraid."

Lian Po's words were also thoughtful. Xiong Jing was stunned for a long time and said, "I practice cavalry to break the enemy's formation in formation battles. Without cavalry, how can I break the formation?"

"How did the great king break the enemy's formation at the time of Yingdu?" Lian Po asked back, he knew some of the battle in Yingdu.

"This, this..." Xiong Jing immediately looked at Yan. He was one of the soldiers who led his troops to break the formation at that time.

"Report to the King, in the Battle of Yingdu, the last step will be to break the formation with a spear of the barbarians." Yan reported very seriously.

"At that time, the rebels surrounded me, and the depth of the formation was only ten lines. If the two armies were facing each other, how could there be only ten lines in depth?" Xiong Jing sighed. He thought that the battle of Yingdu Yijiu broke the formation was just an exception.

"King, the battle between the two armies is just a matter of profit and loss. The barbarian spear is sharp. When the formation is rushing, one person can defeat three people. The person will be followed by the next spearhead, and the person will be followed by the next spearhead. The enemy's fifteen elements, our five rows of spearheads can be defeated. The enemy's thirty lines, our ten rows of spearheads can be defeated. The formation battle is exhausted. If our army is full but not losing, we will be able to break the formation and come out."

"Is this true?" Yan was a rough man, and Xiong Jing was surprised when he said this.

"King, this is the reason." Lian Po echoed on the side. "The two armies fight, and the enemy kills one of us, and I kill one of our enemies. If both armies have ten people, then the two armies will be all over; if one of our army dies, three enemy soldiers can kill three enemy soldiers, and thirty enemy soldiers, and ten of our army can be, and sixty enemy soldiers, and twenty of our army can be. But..." Speaking of this, Lian Po looked at Yan, "When you charge, how can you line up?"

"We are not in a row." Yan's answer was beyond Lian Po's expectations.

"If the formation is not intact, how do you prevent the enemy from being attacked?" Lian Po asked again, looking at the Yijiuzhu square formation in front of him, all of whom were confused - the military formation was always afraid of being attacked by others, so the action between the formation must be consistent to prevent the gaps in the front line and be taken advantage of by the enemy. Long soldiers like Yijiu cannot form formations alone, but in the battle, any military formation must advance and retreat together, and must not turn, stop, or go quickly. Once this happens, a gap will appear in a complete and consistent front. Lian Po originally thought that Gong Jia had his own strategy to break the formation, but he did not expect that he would ignore the complete strategy of breaking the formation of the entire army, and his face suddenly showed disappointment.

"How did you break the formation?" Yan was asked by Lian Po and didn't know how to answer. At this time, Xiong Jing asked again.

"Reported to the king, at that time, our army was full of rebels. General Cai ordered us to take ten people as a leader, and to first break through the enemy's enemy formation in the north, and to expel and kill the enemy's archers. We did not worry about the left and right movements, but only followed the front and back, so we broke through the rebel formation in one fell swoop." Yan answered roughly, and he looked at the chariot again, "I finally asked the king to summon other soldiers to ask the king for help."

"Reported to the king, General Deng was also worried about being in a uniform lineup during the drill. However, General Cai thought that he was worried that he would not be able to rush forward quickly, so he asked us to follow closely, so he didn't have to worry about it." The battle of Yingdu defeated 4,000 people. This battle not only made Gong Jia feel proud, but also made Gong Jia deeply think. The long tiger was the one who thought deeply.

"If the enemy attacks, what should our army do?" Lian Po was only listening. Now Xiong Jing was asking. He vaguely felt that something was wrong. You must know that the standard Macedonian spear formation did not have the ability to run wildly to break the formation. Their function was to form a complete and solid chopping board that would entangle the enemy tightly. The primitive cavalry would hit the enemy from the flank or from the rear when facing each other, just like a hammer, smashing the enemy on the chopping board.

The chopping board is stable because it is impossible to run quickly because it is necessary to take into account the complete line, and it is even more impossible to penetrate the thick array of enemies. However, the seven spearmen in front of Xiong Jing are flying chopping boards. They not only fly more, but also can smash the enemy's arrays in flight. Although Xiong Jing doesn't know much about the essence of the Macedonian "cutting board plus hammer" tactic, he also knows that the chopping board cannot fly.

"Report to the King: When practicing with the sanitation, if the sanitation attacks my flanks, spears will be extended on all sides of the front, back and left and right sides of my formation. In this way, the sanitation can only hit me with a javelin. When the javelin is used up, they will have no choice but to do anything." Hu replied in detail. The chopping board was flying up during frequent drills with sword and shield soldiers. "While running, the soldiers only need to follow the front line closely, not to align the left and right. Even so, the sergeant of the heads of each row will take care of the left and right side, so the military formation is still intact. If there is an attack, the side line can leave the military formation and reject it."

"..." Xiong Jing and Lian Po were speechless now, especially Lian Po. It was hard for him to imagine what the Yijiu formation was like, which ran and broke the formation without carving the complete line. But the Battle of Yingdu was won in this situation without caring for carving. Of course, victory also came at a price. When the Yijiu formation defeated the enemy, most of the soldiers who protected Xiong Jing's carriage were killed in battle. This situation is normal. Pay attention to the complete line of the front, because the main general would not risk the loss of the front line and let a certain array in the military formation run and attack. This is actually a way of fighting with life, and betting that who cannot withstand the casualties first and then collapses the formation.

"King, the last general thinks..." Another soldier chief spoke to Xiong Jing. This man was the only one remaining among the three soldier chiefs who defended the southern line in the Battle of Yingdu.

"You said." Xiong Jing was familiar with him, so he was naturally smarter than Yan and others, but Xiong Jing did not give him preferential treatment just because he was a public clan.

"The last general thought that the spear formation needs to be incorporated into some crossbowmen. If the enemy attacks us with crossbows, our army can counterattack with crossbows." Zhuang Quji's words were the result of discussions between the soldiers and soldiers. The reason why Cai Bao ordered "to kill the enemy's archer" in the Battle of Yingdu was that the crossbowmen was the enemy of the Yijiu formation.

"And the sword and shield sanitation, the last general thought..." Zhuang Quji paused and said, "The last general thought that the sword and shield formation is different from the Yishui formation. The Yishui formation is thick as the key, and gathers all soldiers to attack it in one place, which is extremely strong. The sword and shield formation is not the case. The sword and shield formation is like a fish, and it never fights head-on with the enemy of a long soldier, but attacks its flanks. It is like a battle just now. The Qin army rushed to it with long troops, and the sword and shield formation avoids its sharp edge, split into two and goes to its flanks to attack it. This kind of war technique ultimately general thought that it was inconvenient to cooperate with the spear formation.

If you want to improve the spear formation, in addition to tying the crossbow, you should set up a number of long-soldier formations. This small formation is important to spy on the enemy's weakness and strength and disturb the squareness. Only when you know the strength of the enemy and the shallowness of the formation can you use the spear formation to defeat it vigorously."

Zhuang Quji's words are not unreasonable, but the conclusion is unexpected: he doesn't want the sword and shield soldiers to be combined with him. But when he thinks about his words above, there is something wrong with him. The Yi Ju formation is a square formation, and the characteristic of the square formation is to gather superior forces in one place, and then strongly attack the weak areas of the enemy, break through the enemy's array, causing large-scale enemy areas, and forming institutional chaos and defeat;

The sword and shield are not like this. It does not aim to break through the enemy's battle formation. It is to kill all the enemies and kill all the enemies one by one. Therefore, the three lines need to be rotated from time to time. This is the third winning method besides hitting and hooking. To be more precise, it is not a formation, but a line. You can cut it off, but after it is cut off, it will gather again in other places and stick to fight with you again;

Moreover, its killing efficiency is extremely high. A square formation can always only have a row of people in front to kill the enemy. Even if the military formation is of mutually beneficial length, there are only short spears, halberds, and beryllium or stears in the front row to kill people. If the military formation is ten people in depth, then the soldiers who fight are three tens. If the soldiers who fight are twenty people in depth, then the soldiers who fight are three twenty, but the sword and shield are not. It only has three rows of rotation, and its soldiers who fight are several times, dozens of times the soldiers who fight are...

"King, do you still need to inspect?" The Qin army had retreated to five hundred steps away. It seemed that the decisive battle could not be fought, so the Right Historian had this question.
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