Chapter 84: What Shi Wansui Sees
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cpa300_4; "Master Shi Zhuang said what is a stupid war?" Yuwen Wen didn't think it was offensive when he heard this and asked the other party to continue talking. Shi Wansui drank a spoonful of soup and began to present the facts and reason:
The combat mode of the new army is nice to say, defensive counterattack is ugly, it is just waiting for the rabbit, but it is just forming a long spear array waiting for others to hit him and die so that he can almost wipe out the opponent's sharpness and then push back. It's fine to use this routine once or twice, but if you let the interested generals notice it, it's easy to prevent it. Remember the latest chapter of Maopu novel in one second]
A more flexible one is to transfer a large number of crossbowmen to shoot and suppress it. This way, without melee combat, mere shooting, just shooting arrows is enough. A more rigid way is to use a shield formation to confront the shield formation, "I won't move, I won't move." No one stipulates that they will fight with the spear formation as soon as they come.
"Our army's spear formation has good defense, but it always seems weak to attack. We can only wait for the fool to come up and die and lose a lot before pursuing the victory."
If there is more than defense and less attack, this is the view of Shi Wansui.
"Master Shi Zhuang, if this is the case, we can also restrain the opponent's troops and win after friendly forces break through the flank." Yang Ji said. Today, Yuwen Wen informed him in advance to participate in the discussion, so he pretended to be drunk in order to talk to this "future famous general".
"The average monthly military salary for each county duke is only a military brigade that is waiting for the friendly forces to win the victory?" Shi Wansui asked, "What the county duke wants to practice at the beginning is probably a strong army that can turn the situation around, right?"
No matter how hard the spear formation can be defended, it is only a corner of the battle formation. After the enemy concentrates its strength to defeat the other side, the spear formation will either escape or die. Shi Wansui means to strengthen the offensive ability, and cannot sit and see the changes in the battle situation and be unable to intervene. Since Yuwen Wen is willing to spend a lot of money to raise soldiers, he must raise a strong army that can only withstand and rush.
If you just turn into a hedgehog, others dare not bite you, but you can't do anything after you go around. Without that idiot cavalry general, he will be foolishly putting his weaknesses elsewhere and not rushing to you instead of rushing to resist the horse formation.
"Master Shi Zhuang said it well. What is the solution to this?" Yuwen Wen said calmly. He did feel that he had the idea of improving this problem, but now he has to listen to the other party's opinions.
"The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly. If you want to break the enemy, you must seize the opponent's flaws. If the opponent has no flaws, you will create flaws!" Shi Wansui's idea was like this. "Only by letting the opponent feel the obvious threat from our army, they will mobilize soldiers to attack, so that the spear formation can exert its power."
Shi Wansui said that if the military strategy is clouded, he will rescue him. The spear formation threatens the enemy to make the formation unstable. If the opponent wants to ignore it, he hopes that Yuwen Wen can choose a single formation of Ruishi and take the initiative to attack as the vanguard of the formation so that the spear formation will break in. The new army should become a strong infantry army that can create flaws and break through quickly, rather than the hedgehog formation that is now waiting for the rabbit...
‘The classic Swiss phalanx combat method…’ Yuwen Wen thought that the main combat method of his new army’s copycat target, the Swiss phalanx, is to take the initiative to attack, and let skilled veterans form a team to be the vanguard to attack the enemy’s flaws. After tearing a hole, the square that hits the staggering force on foot squeeze in to expand the results.
The best defense is offense. The Swiss phalanx, which has a hiking impact speed and even faster than the heavy armored cavalry, defeated the enemy in this way. Yuwen Wen knew that his new army lacked veterans in a hundred battles, so he couldn't play this tactic, but Shi Wansui had already judged that he really deserved to be a seed of a famous general.
"What Master Shi Zhuang said is very much, but the new army has no skilled soldiers who have just established themselves and can only form a formation to fight back and kill the enemy." Yang Ji felt quite the same. This question also bothered him and Yuwen Wen. "In your opinion, is it appropriate to let the Long Dao Soldier take on the responsibility of the outbreak?"
Shi Wansui said that if the long swords are used with both hands are large, the distance between the soldiers will be lengthened. Such a loose formation will be difficult to insert a heavily defended military formation from the flanks. It is better to mix with other sword soldiers and break through the opponent's spear or sword cards and then get close to kill the enemy.
"These brave soldiers can also be used as scattered soldiers in front of the formation, specifically dealing with those dead soldiers with heavy armor and shields who break through the formation." Yuwen Wen thought for a while and said, Yang Ji agreed with this view. The performance of the new army has experienced several times of fierce warriors is obvious to all. Now, we should be able to choose some people who can fight.
Shi Wansui continued to talk about the second question: the soldiers are not skilled and there are not enough crossbowmen. Although he witnessed the new military formations in the battlefield of Lianghekou with his own eyes, he still held such a view.
He was confident that there was a bloody way to break the spear formation: hundreds of cavalrymen did not dodge or avoid, and directly rushed to the formation and used their flesh and blood to tear a hole. The subsequent cavalry and even infantry rushed in with the momentum, which would be a big melee. If the spearmen were not good at melee skills, they would die.
It is true that cavalry is precious, but is it worth it to use it like this? The new army commander Yuwen Wen is the second son of Yuwen Liang, the general manager of Anzhou. If he breaks the formation, he can poke Yuwen Wen's head with a spear to show his strength to the public to attack the morale of Anzhou soldiers, so what if he dies with three or four hundred cavalry?
Another way to break the formation is to send a large number of crossbowmen to shoot. At that time, the 600 archers in the new army may not be able to deal with it. His opinion is that everyone will bring crossbows when practicing arrows to the battlefield. This way, they will not lose the disadvantage of shooting. Even those who are slingers formed a four-row formation must be equipped with bows. If the money is enough, the crossbows will be better.
After saying that, Shi Wansui thought about it and added: "There are no need to carry too many arrows when these soldiers are in battle. Five... no, three."
'Follow the trend of the times, this guy has a good vision...' Yuwen Wen is increasingly impressed by Shi Wansui's vision. In the weapon configuration of the Tang army in later generations, he was the standard configuration. Imagine that an army of two thousand people had two thousand archers before joining the formation. The three-wheeled arrows were put down and the opponent hung up a bunch of them. Finally, he rushed to the front and threw the bow and pulled his sword and rushed over. He was almost two thousand melee soldiers.
The only disadvantage is that it is cost-effective. A good bow or strong crossbow is not cheap. Before the fight, it is said that it will throw it away. The damage rate is not low, so this way of playing requires strong financial resources. However, it is no big deal for Tang Jun who is equipped with a modao: the expensive modao is not a problem, but there is no need to care about the bending and crossbow!
"What Master Shi Zhuang said is right, I am just that." Yuwen Wen nodded. The problem that can be solved with money is not a problem!
Shi Wansui made suggestions based on the above views: Soldier training should be strengthened. First, everyone should try to wear a bow when practicing archery. Second, spearmen should at least practice practical punching routines. Archers should practice swords so that they can devote themselves to combat during melee.
The most important point is to select strong soldiers as the scattered soldiers in the straits of the formation, so the melee hand-to-hand combat ability must be the best.
"Monday Duke, the spear is like a forest to defend. If you want to destroy the enemy, you must have a tiger in the forest."
"There is a tiger in the forest... Not bad, not bad." Yuwen Wen nodded with a smile. He was quite satisfied with this appropriate statement. "But our army only has Professor Yang Zhuang's two-handed sword technique. If it involves knife and card techniques, there are not many people who are old."
"I am not talented, and I have been leading troops for many years and have a lot of experience in melee combat techniques." Shi Wansui was not humble either. Although he and Yang Ji never won a single fight once, he was quite content with melee sword techniques in the army.
Yang Ji's long swords with both hands are more suitable for scattered soldiers. When the army is in war, the army formations on both sides are crowded and most of the time it is not suitable for such long swords to wield freely. Pure long sword weapons are more suitable for protecting the flanks of the formation against small groups of dead soldiers in the storm.
Seeing that his ideas were recognized, Shi Wansui was also very interested and put forward another view: small formations can be properly practiced to adapt to complex terrain. Today, the basic spear formation consists of a building of 300 people on the flat ground. It doesn’t matter if you go to a mountain path or complex terrain, and it is easy to be confused.
"The Master of Yang Zhuang, a small formation, has a curse and has time to discuss and discuss." Yuwen Wen kept a secret. He had plans for this issue when he was founding the army, but he was too busy to make time to help soldiers practice the spear formation, which strengthened the formation of 300 people. Now if you have free time, you can consider practicing more.
Forming a formation to defend against the enemy is the best state. If you encounter unfavorable terrain of the spear formation or attack during the march, then a small formation is also necessary. There are still many things to learn after only seven months of the establishment of the new army.
"It turns out that the cavalry is simple and crude..." Yuwen Wen smiled helplessly. There are not many cavalrymen and can only try to play tricks on infantry formations. No wonder the Southern Dynasty always failed in all the Northern Expeditions. Infantry can only hold a group to deal with cavalry. However, cavalry has the initiative in the battlefield. There is still time spent. The longer it consumes, the more unfavorable it is for infantry: the logistics pressure is too great.
"It's going to burn money again..."
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In the backyard, Yuwen Wen walked into his wife's room yawning. He had just talked with Yang Ji and Shi Wansui for an hour and had a saliva dry. Finally, he decided the direction of the new army's growth. Because he had the habit of taking naps on weekdays, he couldn't help but yawn.
Because he was drunk, he took a shower and changed his clothes before visiting his wife who was in confinement. After two days of rest, Yuchi Chifan's expression had improved a lot. The son she gave birth to Yuwen Wen was now coaxed by her mother Wang.
Seeing his daughter working hard, Wang accompanied her to provide "professional guidance" to her daughter during confinement every day. Yuchi Shun, the Duke of Angu County, is now leading troops outside, and his youngest daughter Yuchi Mingyue also runs here every day, so Wang simply spends here during the day.
"Have you eaten?" Yuwen Wen sat beside the couch and asked. Although there was no heavy bleeding during delivery, Yuchi Chifan's physical strength was also exhausted. In the past few days, the kitchen has been preparing a lot of supplements to nourish his wife's body.
Seeing his wife nodding, Yuwen Wen held her hand and rubbed her gently. In the past few days, he was burning money outside to celebrate the safety of the mother and son. The most he cooked was on his wife. The medicinal materials and ingredients needed for supplements were the best that could be bought in Anlu City. The daily expenses for eating were the same as the cost of cooking wine just now.
During the confinement period, I couldn't stand the wind. The room was not only closed the doors and windows, but also surrounded the couch with curtains. Yuwen Wen accompanied his wife for a while and then sweated a little. Yuchi Chifan felt a little distressed when he saw him like that: "Go to Sister Yang. I'm so stuffy."
"It's Sister Yang, this is the rules that cannot be messed up." Yuwen Wen corrected that Yang Lihua is a young woman and Yuchi Chifan is a big woman. Even if Yang Lihua is older than Yuchi Chifan, she must be a sister.
Yuchi Chifan was always not used to saying "Sister Yang" when he saw his husband like this, he had to correct it and let him go to "Sister Yang" to stop sweating here. Yuwen Wen was confident: "Mingyue and Eying were watching Brother Que with Miss Xiao, so he would not cause trouble for his husband."
A few days ago, Yuchi Chifan had difficulty giving birth. Miss Xiao thought about it when she heard the news and thought that she had "resisted people" and was later restored to peace after being "stopped" by Yuwen Wen. Yuwen Eying liked this new "Auntie Xiao" very much and pestered her to play with her all day long, and also played with her "best friend" Yuchi Mingyue.
Chapter completed!