Chapter 242 Seeing the Shence Army from afar
Everyone hid and held their breath. The forest was silent, with only a few occasional birds singing, but it made the mountain even more secluded.
The footsteps became more and more obvious, and others could already hear them.
Taking advantage of the gap between the grass nest, Wei Renshi saw a group of people coming over.
"Wait." The man who was in charge suddenly stopped, raised his hand and signaled, and stopped the patrolman.
"There are footprints here, which seem to be from not long ago." said the man to the person behind him: "Everyone is very careful. Although you can't see the camp in this direction, you must be careful of someone hiding it."
"Yes!" the others took the order.
They looked around and saw no figures, so they continued to patrol down carefully.
When they walked away, they could not hear the footsteps, and waited for a while to prevent them from shooting back.
After that, everyone crawled out of the grass nest.
"Good thing, it's really a good thing!" Li Liang said excitedly: "The leader is right in front of my face just now. His feet can pick me up with one more step, but he didn't see it!"
Everyone also expressed their feelings.
At this time, they were not afraid of the patrol soldiers appearing. Because they had not yet reached the west mountain, they had no way to talk about spy on the Shence Army camp. As long as they showed their identity and said they were coming to the west mountain for a spring outing, there would be no problem.
However, hiding like this made these dandy feel very excited.
"Okay, go up quickly!" Wei Renshi would not forget his purpose and hurriedly urged everyone.
Everyone continued to wear disguised clothes and went up the mountain, resting intermittently in the middle, and for another half an hour, Wei Ren realized that he had become a burden in the team.
"Brother Renshi, let me carry you." Li Liang said, looking at Wei Renshi, who couldn't breathe.
Wei Renshi shook his head and said, "No, it's almost here anyway, I'll take a break."
Everyone sat down to rest. Wei Renshi took a few breaths and said with a smile: "It seems that I should exercise more often. Who can teach me, brothers, who can teach me if I can pass on the martial arts skills?”
"If you want me to say it doesn't require martial arts. Brother Renshi just needs to follow us every day." Li Chun smiled.
Wei Renshi thought for a while and said, "I should run away."
While resting, everyone joked for a few words. After calming down for a while, they began to get up and walk up again.
After about one stick of incense, I finally reached the top of the mountain.
The surrounding scenery is unobstructed, with endless mists in the distance, and nearby are wild flowers blooming in the mountains in spring, making the scenery particularly pleasant.
A warm and differential caress came over it, making it even more comfortable.
"Brother Renshi, look there, there is the Shence Army camp." Li Liang pointed to a place below the valley in the distance and said to everyone.
Wei Renshi looked over and looked at it, but he could see a building there, but he couldn't see the specific details clearly. As expected, he couldn't even see the layout clearly.
"Now our magic weapon comes in handy." Wei Renshi said, taking out the telescope and looking at it.
Through the telescope, the Shence Army camp gradually became clearer. Although the soldiers inside could not see their appearance, they could see their actions clearly.
The soldiers of the Shence Army in the camp were practicing the array at this moment. Although Wei Renshi couldn't hear how the command was inside, he could see that the soldiers inside turned into round formations and square formations in an orderly manner.
The formation changes can be completed in just a few blinks of an eye.
This alone shows that the strength of the Shence Army is indeed not to be underestimated.
In ancient times, when fighting, arrays were arranged, and once the rush began, the test of personal martial arts was actually very small. The most important thing about a military formation was not how strong the martial arts of many people were, but the uniform formation of a military formation.
The long spear in the hands of the infantry formed an invincible forest of guns and advanced forward together.
The most critical function of a soldier in an infringement is to follow everyone and assassinate them together, and even if they die, they must keep the military formation neat. Once a military formation is dispersed, the soldiers will either be cut into two sections by the rushing cavalry like chopping winter melons, or they will be overturned by horse hooves and stepped into meat sauce.
Facing a battlefield full of swords and guns, no matter how high a person's martial arts are, there is actually not much room for swing. At most, just persist for a while.
The formation changes as the orders, without panic, without breaking the formation, the direction of the flag, and the military formation changes accordingly, without dragging on the mud, it is a good army.
This can be done by those 1,100 people nowadays. They usually practice orders in order to avoid being distracted when changing arrays and be able to quickly complete the transition of formations.
Generally speaking, two armies are facing each other, square or cone array is used for attack, and circular array is used for defense. This is all the same.
However, after watching for a long time, Wei Renshi, the methods practiced in the Shence Army, if used in battle, seem to be mainly based on the stair formation and head-on contact with the enemy. Then he is supplemented by the bow formation to cover the formation of the party and disrupt the opponent.
Wei Renshi also realized that each soldier in the Shence Army had a bow. In this way, although the invasion formation could be transformed into a bow formation, it could be used to cooperate with the formation transformation and interchange.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang army was mainly engaged in cavalry. Infantry took over the enemy only to block the enemy's offensive. The specific annihilation of the enemy and breaking through the enemy's military formation was completed by the cavalry. Similarly, after the enemy collapsed, the cavalry also completed the main pursuit task.
Later, the Tang Dynasty's national strength declined, and the loss of several important sources of war horses, the infantry gradually played a greater role.
But overall, the most common way for the Tang army to use in combat is to let infantry take chariots and go hand in hand with cavalry, and cavalry and infantry taking chariots reach the battlefield together.
If the enemy attacks first, the Tang army will use a crossbow to attack the opponent with arrows first, and then use a knife formation to fight against the enemy. The cavalry will give way and wait for the enemy to reach the front of the touchdown. When the two armies are fighting together, they will quickly disturb the enemy's rear from the flanks. In this way, the infantry will be in front and cavalry will be in the back, and attack the opponent in the two lines. If the Tang army takes the initiative to attack, the cavalry will be mainly responsible for disturbing the enemy's rear from the side and back, relocating the opponent's main force, and using the speed of the cavalry to lead the enemy's main force to run behind the cavalry and disperse the troops to arrange the formation. At this time, the infantry will start to advance with a knife formation, and finally achieve encirclement and annihilation of the enemy, and the cavalry will return to charge.
The training of Shen Ce Army below does reflect this.
Everyone hid on the west mountain and observed the training of soldiers in the Shence Army camp through a telescope.
The longest training time for them is array and array change, followed by equestrian and bows and arrows, and the shortest training time for other weapons.
Moreover, Wei Renshi also encountered a more serious problem.
Chapter completed!