"The king still wants to train the cavalry?" The last time he had already discussed this issue, Lian Po did not expect Xiong Jing to persist.

"I have no choice but to do it." Xiong Jing shook his head, his tender face was helpless expression of an adult, and he looked extremely entangled. "Our cavalry is not as good as the Qin army, so our army does not know the reality of the Qin army. At this time, there are tens of thousands of people in the Qin army. The battlefield is as bright as the sunny day for the Qin army, but it is like a dark night for our army. In this battle, I only have more than a thousand cavalry. How effective are these more than a thousand cavalry? The teacher should have seen it. Cavalry, detecting the enemy situation, and screening the enemy's detectives is one, controlling the battlefield and obtaining the initiative is two, when exhausted, hitting the enemy's side and back is three, when winning or losing, and chasing cover is four..."

Xiong Jing did not use military tactics, but based on his own opinions, the reason why he had to train a cavalry. The last few items were fine, but the key was the first and second. How uncomfortable would it be to fight with two armies when they were fighting with one eye and blindly. Reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance are the basis of all victory. What else can you fight on one-way and transparent battlefield?

In addition to reconnaissance, the party with cavalry can also choose a battlefield. Even if the Chu army wants to retreat south of Qingshui River in this battle, it is impossible for the Chu army to retreat to the south of Qingshui River. Jiangyi fell, and the Chu army could only fight with the Qingshui River. Although it was safe to back the Qingshui River, the north wind was blowing in the sky, the range of the Chu army's arrows was greatly affected, and the infantry was also troubled by dust. Fortunately, the Qin army did not sprinkle a stream of lime before the charge.

"...Infantry, cavalry, artillery, and baggage, all four are indispensable and must be complete." Xiong Jing continued. "It's just that the infantry division is complicated, including crossbowmen, conflicting men, and spearmen. In the future, our Chu army will only have these three types of infantry."

"Only by breaking the formation, contradictions are not as good as barbarian spear." Turning back to the first topic, after comprehensive consideration, Lian Po made this statement.

"Oh?" Xiong Jinggang thought of giving up the sword and shield hand and turning some people into conflict hand. Unexpectedly, Lian Po still thought that Yi Ji was good.

"With a shield pushing the enemy to break through the formation, you can only hold a soldier in one hand, and naturally you can't hold a dozen pounds of barbarian spears. Barbarian spears can hit short spears, and short spears cannot hit barbarian spears. At the beginning of the battle, I saw barbarian spears laying barbarian spears on all sides, and the enemy should not approach them. However, the conflict hand cannot, so they can only advance in one place, facing the enemy instead of facing the enemy in four. Therefore, the conflict hand is not as good as barbarian spears."

In this battle, the sword and shield hands fought hard, and the Yi Jue Guards fought hard, and the Chu Duns fights hard, and the former two divisions of Chen also fought hard. Lian Po saw with his own eyes how the former two fought, and the latter went to inquire about it and learned the truth during the war. Just talking about the conflicting hands, he naturally had to join the crossbow. Now, compared with the three, he still felt that the Yi Jue Guard was the best.

"But the shield of the Yijiuzhe is too small!" Xiong Jing said, "The Qin crossbows are shooting, and the front rows are dead, and only one of the seven soldiers remains. If I line up with the Yijiuzhe, the enemy shoots me with the powerful crossbows, what if?"

"So what if the Korean army is 700 to 800% of crossbowmen?" Lian Po asked back, with a look of 'the king is wrong' on his face.

"What if the Korean army has been 70% or 80% behind the crossbow?" Xiong Jing asked for advice. South Korea has long been weak and he did not pay attention.

"In the battle between Qin and Han Chenggao, there were 100,000 Han troops, 80,000 bows and crossbows, the strings were like thunderbolts, and the arrows were like dark clouds. The front row of Qin troops were all dead. However, the Qin troops removed their skirts and armor, only left their armor and leather armor, raised their shields and slowly advanced. After 80 steps, the entire army roared together and abandoned their shields and rushed towards the Han army. Although countless people were in the arrow, the Han troops were in front and the swords and halberds were behind, and they were defeated by the Qin army before they changed their formation. In this battle, the Qin army had 30,000 armored soldiers, and 3,000 killed in the arrows and 12,000 wounded, but the Han troops were 100,000 in the morning."

Lian Po finished the battle between Han Chenggao eleven years ago in Qin. When Xiong Jing was still imagining the feat of 30,000 Qin soldiers attacking the Han army's array regardless of everything, he said: "In this battle, our army's spearman defeated the sharp soldiers also rushed into the Jiuzhang crossbow formation. What? The crossbowman was either injured or died."

"The teacher thinks that the bow and crossbow should not be afraid?" Xiong Jing thought for a while before asking this question.

"If the bow and crossbow are afraid, the nations should regard Korea as their dominance." Lian Po smiled, but this smile flashed and became extremely serious. "Intellect people often hold the idea of ​​'I can kill the enemy, but the enemy cannot kill me'. Isn't it beautiful to kill the enemy in this way without losing one? However, those who have this idea are afraid of close combat. The formation will collapse when it rushes, and their heads will be in Jingguan. Any strong army will not be proud of the crossbow, but instead are ashamed of the crossbow. The martial soldiers of Wei, Qi's martial soldiers, Qin's fierce soldiers, and Zhao's iron armor are all close combatants who break the formation. Without this, how can we say that the strong army is?"

Lian Po wanted to speak but stopped. Xiong Jing was smart and good at making tools, but because of this, he was worried that Xiong Jing would go on a wrong path. He looked forward and looked back and thought about it, and often had the idea of ​​"I can kill the enemy, but the enemy cannot kill me." This is a common problem for smart people, but the army is not a place where smart people should stay. Unfortunately, Xiong Jing was thinking at this time that "the martial arts of Qi cannot meet the martial soldiers of Wei, and the martial soldiers of Wei cannot meet the fierce soldiers of Qin." He did not understand what he said.

"Cough cough," Youshi coughed, and he bowed, "Xinping Jun's advice, the king..."

"The teacher's words are kept in mind for the rest of my life." As soon as the Right Historian reminded, Xiong Jing realized. He immediately bowed to Lian Po. Lian Po's son avoided the gift and did not dare to accept it, but Lian Po took it openly. Xiong Jing thought about what he said, "I can kill the enemy, but the enemy cannot kill me." At the same time, he thought of what he said to the nobles in front of the formation, "Braveness is honor." He couldn't help but sweat.

Lian Po was brave, just like a cunning man. Every hair was angry and unyielding. To be honest, he was not brave. Compared with them, he was like a cowardly villain who fought. Thinking of this, all the martial arts of Wei were forgotten by him.

After the ceremony, before Xiong Jing spoke, Lian Po said, "The Yi spear is a long soldier. The long soldier is always afraid of close-fitting battles. However, when the Qin soldiers met my sword and shield that day, the spearmen still drove our sword and shield out of the formation. Therefore, the Yi spear must be equipped with a short spear and a short halberd. If the enemy sticks close to me, I should use a short spear and a short halberd to repel it. Moreover, the palace spearmen are not horizontal but vertical, so you don't have to worry about the left and right sides when attacking."

Any military formation must be concerned about the left and right or even the entire army's front. The front must not be broken or gap, otherwise the enemy will inevitably collapse if it attacks the side and back. But today, seeing the battle between the palace armor, this Yijiu formation can be isolated from the entire army's array and can also retreat safely. This is something that surprised Lian Po quite. You must know that except for the circular formation, there is no military formation that can be attacked by the enemy for several sides without collapse.

Although Xiong Jing, the Gong Jiayi Spear Formation, was established with the Macedonian spear formation as an example, the Yi Jue Formation trained was not the Macedonian spear formation. People's cognition cannot surpass the times. Lian Po only felt that the Gong Jiayi Spear Formation can face the enemy in all directions, which is an advantage that no military formation does not exist. However, he did not find that the Yi Jue Formation is not the military formation of this era at all. The military formation of this era is only a "square" formation, and needs to be arranged side by side to cover each other, otherwise it cannot survive on the battlefield. It can only face the enemy alone. Once the flanks lose the cover of companions, or the array is damaged in a certain place so that the enemy can circumvent, the formation will collapse.

This is the case with the formation of the "Fang" and the square formation is not the case. When the formation is still, it can face the enemy in all directions, without the need for flanking protection, nor is it afraid of the enemy going around. Such things will only prevent it from moving. The Gong Jiayi Spear Formation is a square formation rather than a "Fang" formation.

Lian Po didn't know that Xiong Jing had only a vague impression and did not think there were too many differences. Although from a global perspective, the two were apart for two thousand years. He immediately drew a sketch when he heard what Lian Po said, and the sketch was almost the word "未".

"What do the teacher think?" he asked.

A small square matrix (15x15) composed of nine two (5x5) and the middle one or two holds a short spear.

"That's the case." Lian Po nodded. Seeing the short spearman in the middle, he thought of the Qin army that was annihilated by the shield formation. If there were no Chu army archers at that time, they might have escaped without them.

"Teacher looks at this picture again." Xiong Jing drew again. The array was already 100x100, but it was hollow inside.

"Is this?" The picture is very simple, and Lian Po is puzzled by the box inside.

"This is a catapult, and the crossbowman is also here." Xiong Jing explained. "This formation is a defensive formation, with a width of one hundred people, a spearman with ten people in depth, and an empty space in the middle of the sky, with a catapult, a fire bullet chariot, and a crossbowman. The length and short spearmen totaled 3,600, which is sixteen times the small formation, and it happened to be four small formations on each side. If you want to attack, four hundred short spearmen and one thousand two hundred crossbowmen, all artillery formations will be protected by themselves, and the remaining 3,200 spearmen will come out to form fifty people wide, sixty-four rows of deep spear formations, and rush straight to the enemy.

Each small formation has one soldier, except for 225 long and short spearmen, there are seventy-five crossbowmen; the four soldiers are a brigade and the fourth brigade is a division. In addition to a small number of Jing crossbows, each division should be equipped with eighteen catapults, each with five hundred ammunitions and ten ammunition vehicles.

The Fourth Division is also used as the first army. In addition to the 48 catapults of the Third Battalion, the first army should be equipped with a cavalry. The cavalry is at least 1,600, with four hundred cavalry reconnaissance cavalry, four hundred light cavalry, and eight hundred heavy cavalry."

"Why are the light cavalry? Why are the heavy cavalry?" Lian Po listened carefully to Xiong Jing's words. Although there were some fallacies, it was generally correct. However, he could not help but be curious when he heard that there were differences in cavalry.

Xiong Jing explained: "Light cavalry is a cavalry that kills the cavalry and shoots, and heavy cavalry is a cavalry that rushes to break the enemy. Can the teacher know which country has used armored cavalry to break the enemy with overwhelming cavalry?"

"Li Mu can fight against the battlefield. The Wen cavalry of Qi State can also be used. However, this is an old story. After King Min, there will be no more powerful troops in Qi State." Lian Po said.

"Can Qin have it?" Xiong Jing asked, "How is Zhao State and Qi State have nothing to do with it, the key is Qin State.

"There may have been there in Qin State." Lian Po's answer was shocking. "I heard that during the battle of Yan and Ying, most of them were Yiqu cavalry. Yiqu was a Rong man, and Rong was born on horseback. Using a cavalry to rush forward was always his strategy to defeat the enemy. If the king wanted to train cavalry, he had not been able to have a horse, but he still had to be born on horseback. The child of Chu State must not be."

"General Li Mu has many knights, how about renting them to our country?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Rent?" Lian Po was surprised. Thinking of the alliance between Chu and Zhao, he said: "The King of Zhao may agree, but it is difficult to raise horses in the Chu State. I heard that the horses in Dai County breed horses. Half of the mares can be pregnant in a year, but in Chu State, there are only one or two mares pregnant in a year. In this way, it is not easy to raise horses. There is no pasture in Chu State, so you can only eat them with straw vegetarian food..."

Lian Po shook his head while saying that he was trying to conquer the people, so there was no cheap grassland. Even if King Zhao really agreed to rent knights, the Chu State would probably not be able to support each of the Chu army's 1,600 cavalrymen.
Chapter completed!