The 230,000 Qi army, minus the part of the troops guarding the city, the remaining one is indeed 200,000. The number is not surprising. Each division was mentally prepared during this period. However, compared with the number, what kind of formation will the 200,000 Qi army form to fight, is the question that Xiong Jing and the generals want to know the most.

If the Qi army set up a fancy thin horizontal formation like Xin Wu back then and then was stabbed through by his own side, that would be the best. But this is obviously impossible. The Qi people have strange imaginations and the formations are the most varied. Although one force is reduced to ten times, the Qi army has an absolute advantage in numbers. If the Qi people can make good use of their reserve team, the consequences will be unimaginable.

On this day, the shogunate did not discuss war, but only mobilized the entire army accordingly. Outside the four infantry divisions, the cavalry children, the transport force, engineers, and anyone who could go to the battlefield would have to wear armor to prepare for battle.

In this way, in addition to the 72 soldiers and 19,000 people, there were about 9,000 infantrymen, most of these people were cavalry children - more than 4,000 horses, and more than 4,000 children. In addition to the five hundred who continued to fight with the heavy cavalry, the rest were all incorporated into combat troops.

There are also 3,600 transport stewards. They are not fully qualified as regular infantrymen and can still be competent for defending with spears. In addition, there are engineers. Each brigade has one engineer organization (old-style soldiers, each hundred soldiers), and each division will strengthen one soldier. Four divisions are equal to twenty engineers, which totals two thousand.

In order to maximize the width of the battle formation, each soldier had to fight with a spear. They had more than 2,500 people, and five people could list more than 500 military formations in depth. However, these more than 2,500 people were included in the more than 19,000 soldiers of 72 soldiers, and the actual infantry in the entire army was still more than 28,000.

In addition to more than 28,000 infantrymen, there were more than 3,900 cavalry (including 500 children), 2,000 soldiers, and more than 1,000 shogunate, military, communication, boats, and baggage personnel. According to statistics from the military, there were a total of 35,879 living creatures walking on two legs of the Ying Division, and more than 1,700 people who actually participated in the battle without holding weapons.

To increase the number of combatants to the greatest extent, the increased 9,000 people is a huge force. If the five people are in depth, the width of the entire army listed military battle will reach an astonishing 5,500 meters (there are nine non-combatants per soldier according to the organization). Of course, this is the width of the formation in extreme cases, and a reserve team must be retained in his hands during combat. The eight guards around Xiong Jing cannot be put into the forefront of the military formation, fill the gap or wait for an opportunity to break the formation. This is their use.

Considering that the Qi army had 50,000 halberd-held men wearing huge armor, the depth of the array to defend against halberd men would increase to eight. Although I don’t know that the width of the 50,000 people was, it was obviously very necessary to reduce one thousand rows to strengthen the military formation. The last width of the military formation that more than 28,000 infantry could list should be four thousand meters.

Cavalry must be used in a concentrated manner, either on the left or on the right, or even on the middle of the military formation, rather than even on the left and right wings. More than 3,400 cavalrymen will occupy about 500 meters of formation width, so the entire army's formation width will reach 4,500 meters, which is almost close to the length of the western wall of Linzi City. There are also nine reserve teams of 2,430 soldiers.

However, should the military formation be arranged in a horizontal formation, or a concave formation, that is, the hook formation, the geese formation? Should the cavalry be placed on the left, on the right, or in the middle? Should the formation be arranged with the back to the canal, or facing the west city wall of Linzi? These are all determined based on the formation of the Qi army.

‘The soldier looks like water, the shape of water, avoids high and goes downward, the soldier is in shape, avoids solid and attacks the weak. Water controls flow according to the ground, and soldiers win because of the enemy. Therefore, the soldier has no constant momentum, and water has no constant shape. Those who can win because of the changes of the enemy are called gods.’ Sun Tzu said this.

‘Since the formations were formed and the battles have changed, and there were many formations. However, the methods of victory were nothing more than two: one was to defeat the enemy's central army and promote its collapse; the other was to attack the enemy's wings and force it to escape.’ Lian Po said this.

During the three-day waiting, Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel a little nervous and distressed. Ying's army was his private army. The Chu army implemented a new military system, changing from a Hua team to a pure team, and he was vigorously promoting it. In the hearts of the general, the first general of Chu was General Xiang Yan, and the second general was Xinping Jun Lianpo, but his trust in him was never lower than the previous two.

However, he is actually a rookie. He is not as scheming as Xiang Yan, as well as Lian Po's conscientiousness, nor Ruo Ao's sense of battlefield smell. This sense of smell is particularly important when there are fewer troops.

There is only theory, no practice, or there is little practice. In this kind of formation battle with huge disparity, if the formation is wrong or the command is improper, the Chu army does not have enough reserves to save the situation, and in the end they can only wait for defeat.

This is one of the reasons for his distress. Another thing that made him quite distressed was that the generals of each division did not suggest to him in terms of whether intentional or unintentional combat. Perhaps, they did not understand how to command the multi-army contract battle under the pure team, and more likely they did not say it intentionally: the king will never be wrong. If the king is wrong, it must be the ministers and others to read it wrong; if the king is really wrong, it is the ministers and others to make the kings bad...

The three-day wait seemed to be longer than the previous three months. The military camp was no longer as noisy as before, but only the sound of iron. Although I was prepared for a long time, such as the engineers and the children had large armor and weapons, the 3,600 transport stewards were not only lacking weapons but also armor.

It is easy to deal with if there is a lack of armor. The last thing they are listed in the military is that it is difficult to deal with if there is no weapon. After a search in the army, hundreds of barbarian spears were missing. These hundreds of barbarian spears could only be cut down trees temporarily. The carpenters in the army made slaughter, and the blacksmiths forged the spearhead and counterweight day and night. The ding-dangling sound made people feel upset and could not stay in the shogunate, so Xiong Jing had to go out of the tent and wander around.

"I've seen the king." Most of the knights were transferred away, and the knights wanted to feed the horses and brush the horses themselves. When Xiong Jing walked to the cavalry camp, most of the knights were brushing the horses, and some were practicing riding and shooting. The commander of the Third Cavalry Division, Qi Jizeng, saw Xiong Jing coming in person, was unexpected.

"Brush the horse." Xiong Jing didn't know how he got here, let alone what he said.

"Yes." Most of the knights in the army were children of the Ge clans, and they were young. They wore rhinoceros armor they usually wore and had jade ornaments hanging around their waists. Seeing Xiong Jing coming, some people hurriedly wanted to remove the ornaments on the left.

"There is no need to be too polite in the army." Xiong Jing stopped them, and pointed at the target and said, "I see..." He compared a shooting posture behind him, and said, "I have never seen this shooting method before."

"This is the best horse rider who is taught by the cavalry in this building." Qi Jizeng said. Last spring, Xiong Jing went to Jicheng and brought back two cavalry. These two people taught the Chu army a lot of riding skills, and the return horse shooting method was one of them.

"Lufan Cavalry General?" Xiong Jing remembered the two generals Loufan at this time. He had forgotten his name completely. Unexpectedly, they also taught the horse arrow. The horse arrow was that the cavalry pretended to be afraid when they met the enemy, and then fled. If the enemy chased them closely, when they were chasing at full speed, they would suddenly turn around and shoot a fatal arrow back, which was unbearable to defend.

"That's right." Qi Jizeng replied. "They still want to come to Linzi with our army..."

General Lou Fan only taught riding skills in the military academy and never intervened in the daily training of the Chu cavalry. Everyone knew the reasons. It was even more impossible to fight. Qi Jizhi was a little regretful, but Xiong Jing didn't feel this way.

The so-called "two Mamulique cavalry can definitely defeat three French cavalry; one hundred French cavalry and one hundred Mamulique soldiers are evenly matched; three hundred French cavalry can defeat three hundred Mamulique soldiers; one thousand French cavalry can defeat one thousand five hundred Mamulique soldiers."

He firmly believed that modern cavalry could completely outburst ancient cavalry. However, it was not easy to do this. In addition to the selection and breeding of horses themselves, a very important issue is the pace of war horses. The pace of war horses must be consistent to enable the knights to form a wall, and to form a wall to have enough impact to defeat the opponent's cavalry or infantry. This is difficult for more than a hundred veterans of heavy cavalry to achieve this. The team that rushed towards was not a wall but an arc...

"Report to the king..." A messenger rushed over. "The army Sima asked the king to go to the shogunate quickly."

"What's the matter?" Xiong Jing was puzzled. Everything that should be arranged had been arranged. Zhuang Wudi came so anxious to invite him. Could it be that there was information?

"The villain doesn't know." The messenger was a naive face. It was probably because Zhuang Wudi saw that he was not here and the matter was urgent, so he could only send dozens of messengers to search everywhere.

"Yeah." Xiong Jing turned around and looked at Qi Jizhi, and Qi Jizhi and others hurriedly bowed deeply.

"King, the spies in the city will be reported." As Xiong Jing thought, there was indeed information.

"What does it mean?" Xiong Jing was not excited. Since Qi sent an appointment and said that he would go to war three days later, more news came from the city. The exit of the drainage channel in Linzi City was small stone holes, which was to prevent someone from entering the city from the drainage channel. These stone holes would intercept the floating objects placed by the Hou spy at night, so Qi people imitated their handwriting and often fabricated some fake information.

"Just talk about Shen Chi." Zhuang Wudi took out a piece of spy. "This is written by the shadowless pen."

The so-called shadowless pen is a hidden text written with cow and goat milk. This is only used by senior Marquis who know the enemy. Xiong Jing was moved when he heard this. He walked to the sand table and looked at Shen Chi, west of Linzi City.

Shenchi is in the southwest of Linzi, and can be seen from the west gate of the small town (also known as Shenmen). This is a spring water that emerges from the ground and flows into the corpse water. Because there is a pool, bamboo and wood are planted all over the Shenchi, and the scoundrels and wood slaughter needed by the transporting laborers are cut down here. The Qi people were also hastily. According to the law, the trees around the city should be cut down all the trees around the city, but this dense bamboo and wood forest is unscathed.
Chapter completed!