Amidst the sound of the golden drum, Pang Shanmin couldn't help but become nervous.
Although this was not Pang Shanmin's first time, he was still nervous.
Although Huang Zhong showed a relaxed attitude, Pang Shanmin was naturally nervous because he paid too much attention to this war.
What's more, on the surface, the number of troops on both sides is actually not very different.
Pang Shanmin looked back at his surroundings.
On both sides of the military formation, there are hussars soldiers with helmets on their heads. The red tassels on their helmets seem to be the red flowers blooming in the mountains, dotting this cold and cruel world. On the heads of these soldiers are three-color tassels.
The battle flag was fluttering and stretched out, as if he didn't care about the war in front of him, looking lazy.
Ah, the feeling of relaxation.
Pang Shanmin suddenly remembered this word, and then he looked to the opposite side.
Cao's soldiers seemed to be very numerous, and they were arranged in layers along the mountain road, all the way to the corner of the mountain road. The flags of the opponent's generals were faintly visible in the mountain road, and they were fluttering behind the cover of the trees.
This is not his first battle, but it is indeed the first step for Pangshan people to take back their homeland.
Whether he can return to Jingxiang smoothly and whether he can set up the Pang family's flag on Wancheng again, Pang Shanmin is somewhat uneasy, but he also knows that only by taking this step can he truly grow!
Pang Shanmin took a deep breath to stand up straighter and calmer.
Anyone can find excuses not to do the right thing.
After all, doing the right thing will be difficult and hard.
To do something wrong, all you need is an excuse, no matter how lame the excuse is.
But if you want to do the right thing, you have to pay more.
Now, it's all about doing the right thing.
Pang Shanmin said to himself secretly.
This is the most correct thing for Pang and Pang Shanmin himself.
He can't retreat, he can't escape, and he can't make any excuses!
Huang Zhong turned around and glanced at Pang Shanmin, and nodded slightly with relief.
Huang Zhong has a very close relationship with the Huang family and the Pang family. He not only hopes that Pang Tong can continue to develop well, but also hopes that Pang Shanmin can take charge of his own business.
Pang Shanmin is a civil servant and is not good at charging into battle with a sword. Logically speaking, he can retreat and find a safer place, or even lie on a couch in the camp, waiting for the final result. But Pang Shanmin still comes.
He stood in the misty mountains, standing on the mountain road like ordinary hussars, without complaining of suffering or tiredness.
Pang Shanmin can naturally do things that ordinary people can do, and Pang Shanmin must still be able to do things that ordinary people cannot do.
This is the standard for the gentry children that gradually became popular in Guanzhong.
To enjoy more than ordinary people and to have more privileges, you need to work harder than ordinary people.
General Fei Qian knew that it is difficult to change people's bad nature, but it requires someone to do it. It cannot be said that people only think about how to be lazy and greedy in their lives. That is not the same as being raised.
What's the difference between a pig and a pig? Fortunately, under the influence of Shouyama Academy and Qingryu Temple, some of the gentry's children and officials from poor families began to follow this path.
Of course, there are many gentry children who wear robes and feel that they should always be superior. They still refuse to change, looking for various reasons and excuses to evade their due responsibilities, avoid their own problems, indulge in greed, and surrender.
It is also a normal phenomenon for people to commit crimes knowingly and deliberately.
Even though these greedy and lazy nobles still have some status now, they will eventually be replaced by those who are more energetic and more willing to do the right things.
One generation may not be able to see anything, but after three generations...
Maybe some people don't need third generation.
Huang Zhong sighed with emotion and ordered the flag bearer beside him to wave the flag. Immediately, all the ministries recognized the flag and responded. Ru Lin's spear was raised, shining coldly in the sun.
"Forward army attacks!"
Huang Zhong ordered.
The school swordsman formation at the stone bridge followed the order and marched like a wall.
Unlike the military formation of Cao Jun's soldiers, after forming a formation, whenever they advance a few steps or ten steps, they have to stop and reorganize. These swordsmen marched all the way, with neat steps, like a flowing piece of molten steel, sliding
Towards the stone bridge, the military formations remained neat and orderly, without any setbacks or flaws!
It can be seen that Huang Zhong is well-trained in these school swordsmen and has strict formation orders.
Behind the swordsman, another archer followed. The archer bent slightly, separated the left and right parts, and placed the bow and arrow in the appropriate position. They stood outside where Cao Jun could shoot, lined up, and waited at any time.
Order.
Behind and in the middle of the archers are the spearmen and halberdmen. They also neatly stand their spears and halberds in front of them, as if a steel jungle has appeared out of thin air.
Pang Shanmin looked at Huang Zhong's military formation arrangement and seemed to feel a little weak, but he felt that it should be so. Pang Shanmin watched Huang Zhong wave the flag in an orderly manner and issue orders, sometimes to multiple units at the same time, but the various parts were not connected.
There is no clutter. Even on the long and narrow mountain road, the various parts are not crowded together. Instead, they are like swimming fish, full of agile beauty.
Looking from the air, the distance between the two sides is constantly shortening.
Wenpin stared at Huang Zhong's swordsmen who were approaching slowly, and looked at the shields held by those swordsmen and the armor on their bodies.
Without him, this would definitely be a team of guys with thick skin and long blood.
Although Huang Zhong's school swordsman was very powerful, Wen Pin was still a little confused by the arrangement.
Yes, a large shield and thick armor can indeed withstand the damage of melee combat, but with this arrangement, did Huang Zhong really not discover the trap here?
These people are good at resisting close combat, but are not good at resisting long-range combat. They are also difficult to resist against ballistae or other heavy engineering equipment. If these people are allowed to rush in front of Cao Jun's formation, then it will be difficult to resist Cao Jun's tragic morale.
.Coupled with the lack of training of Cao Jun's soldiers, their hand-to-hand combat ability is far inferior to that of their opponents. Therefore, once they actually fight each other in hand-to-hand combat, Cao Jun cannot gain the upper hand.
But no matter how big the shield or how thick the armor is, it is ineffective in the face of magic...well, water and fire damage!
Wenpin didn't see any fire extinguishing equipment carried by these people.
In this way, if these school swordsmen are really led into a trap and then ignite those resisting horses, then what can these school swordsmen do no matter how thick their armor is?
No matter how good it is, if you fight head-on and fight in an upright formation, after defeating this part of Huang Zhong's soldiers in the field, you will definitely be able to greatly dampen the morale of the hussars!
Then I will feel more relaxed...
Thinking of this, the barrier in Wenpin's heart seemed to loosen a little, and he could breathe out a little. At his order, the war drums sounded, and Cao's troops came out one after another, with spears and big shields piled together.
Wenpin's previous attack on Wuguandao resulted in the loss of a large part of his private troops, and they were never supplemented by Jingxiang's troops. Among the current ranks of Cao's troops, there is no way that Wenpin can be like Huang Zhong.
If they use their elite troops to fight against each other, they can only let their troops control some ordinary soldiers of Cao's army to maintain the array.
Under Wenpin's order and the guidance of Wenpin's remaining troops, Cao Jun also formed a dense formation at one end of the stone bridge. However, unlike Huang Zhong, the ones at the front were not sword and shield men, but archers.
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These archers did not wear heavy armor. Most of them wore Cao Jun's standard double armor. This thing consists of a breastplate and a back armor, and is fastened front and back with belts on the shoulders and belted around the waist.
The armpits are not connected. If you say it is armor-pierced, there are many exposed areas. If you say it is not armor-pierced, it is a serious standard armor.
It's like a vest.
It is not only the standard armor of Cao Jun, but also the standard armor for a long time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and even the standard armor from the Three Kingdoms period to the Jin Dynasty and the Five Husties in China...
In fact, the armor in the early Han Dynasty was more similar to the sleeve armor model, but later on, the Han Dynasty court became more and more embarrassed, which was reflected in the soldiers' armor, which was vividly reflected.
What’s interesting is that, no matter in ancient or modern times, at home and abroad, there are always some weird attitudes towards the design of vests.
Gay men wearing vests cannot enter regular places because their clothes are disheveled and do not meet the standard requirements. However, if the same vest is taken off and a lesbian wears it, she can enter regular places...
It's amazing to hit someone with the ball.
It's a pity that the balls of Cao Jun's archers are not big enough, so they are obviously not prepared to fight Huang Zhong's swordsmen in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, they straighten their backs as soon as they come up, take out arrows, put on the bow and shoot furiously!
The arrow roared across the small space between the two sides and flew towards Huang Zhong's swordsman.
In such a short distance and in a relatively narrow area, there is no room to hide at all, so these swordsmen are like crouching pangolins. Before the arrows come, they shrink slightly and cut off pieces.
The scales are facing the direction of the arrow.
The arrows pierced the body of Huang Zhong's swordsman, and some arrows slipped on his legs and screamed, sliding off his shield and armor.
It's not that the archers of Cao's army are soft-handed, but that Huang Zhong's swordsmen are really thick-skinned.
Compared with those archers of Cao Army who had difficulty even hitting people with the ball, Huang Zhong's swordsmen had sufficient nutritional intake from the beginning. In addition, when they were in Wancheng, Jingxiang, they followed Huang Zhong every day when they had nothing to do.
Zhong practices martial arts and tests swordsmanship. Although he is not as good as those from aristocratic families who focus on cultivating military generals since childhood, his combat ability is also quite good, much better than ordinary soldiers.
Facing the overwhelming bows and arrows of Cao's army, the swordsman's breath seemed not to fluctuate much.
There was a crackling sound on the shield and armor, and then under the shield, there was the look and steady breathing of the swordsmen exchanged with each other.
Obviously, these Cao Jun's bows and arrows could not effectively break the defense of Huang Zhong's swordsmen. They were only trying to block and hinder them as much as possible.
Amidst the passionate sound of war drums, the school swordsmen pushed forward like a wall.
In order to avoid injury, the swordsman's speed slowed down slightly, but under the protection of the shield and armor, the swordsman did not suffer any serious damage.
Seeing this scene, Huang Zhong shouted, "Archers! Come forward one by one! Cover!"
The archers standing on both sides of the stone bridge held two arrows and walked forward in a formation.
One of the arrows held by the archer is half-mounted on the bow, and the other arrow is held between the ring finger and little finger, pointing vertically downward. It is not that the archer can only carry two arrows, but
Due to the topography of the stone bridge, the archers were unable to spread out in a wide range behind the stone bridge, so they could only shoot in turns like a rolling wheel.
"Turn in! Rapid fire!"
These archers came forward, and after being close to the position behind the swordsman, they lobbed the two arrows in their hands towards the array of Cao's archers at an extremely fast speed, and then immediately stepped aside to allow the archers behind to step forward and shoot.
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Wenpin on the other side of the stone bridge widened his eyes, "What kind of tactics is this?!"
Unknowingly, the changes of the times have widened the gap between Guanzhong and Shandong, not only in economic terms, but also in many aspects.
Pangshan people have adapted to the changes of the times, and so has Huang Zhong.
Wenpin originally wanted to be in the same era and place as Pangshanmin Huang Zhong, but found that he couldn't understand and couldn't keep up...
When the skill is improved to a certain level, it becomes almost "Tao".
Huang Zhong obviously has a little bit of "Tao" meaning when used in current tactics.
Due to the terrain of the stone bridge, the troops of both sides were unable to deploy smoothly, and the attacking side obviously suffered a greater disadvantage. After all, they wanted to attack the opponent's "T" head vertically, and could easily be attacked by the opponent's concentrated fire.
Therefore, Huang Zhong sent out school swordsmen who were thick-skinned and long-blooded.
These swordsmen with rich combat experience and good equipment were able to withstand Cao Jun's long-range attacks without much damage, thus creating opportunities for the following archers from Huang Zhong's side.
If we still use traditional tactics and old ideas, sword and shield against sword and shield, bow and arrow against bow and arrow, there is no doubt that on terrain like Stone Bridge, the party that cannot expand the queue will suffer a big loss.
But Huang Zhong attacked directly, and also improved the archer's attack mode. Because Huang Zhong now does not need archers to inflict much damage on the opponent, but uses archers to disrupt the opponent's shooting frequency.
Create opportunities for your own school swordsmen!
The different purposes and flexible methods allow Huang Zhong to use a smaller number of people to accomplish the predetermined goals!
Shandong's model relies on the overwhelming number of people to rush upward, and then due to the limitation of the battle surface, most of the time one core is in trouble and seven cores are watching. It should indeed be optimized to some extent.
Among the study materials of the Guanzhong Martial Arts Hall, there is a sentence that is often mentioned, "Water has no fixed position, and soldiers have no constant shape."
Among the recorded cases of Jiangwutang battles, almost all generals, when recording their successes or failures, would emphasize that these were his considerations at the time and place, and may not be suitable for all times and all regions.
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And for many people in Shandong, whether they really understand the art of war or they pretend to understand, they all seem to want to summarize and summarize, refine and refine, and then come up with a universal strategy that suits all situations, all wars, and all enemies.
"Martial strategy", and then draw some "formation diagram", you can fight against tens of millions of enemy troops.
Everything requires specific questions and specific analysis.
What Huang Zhong needs most is not to fight Cao Jun head-on, but to destroy those traps and let Cao Jun shoot himself in the foot. Therefore, Huang Zhong does not let the swordsmen or archers kill as many Cao Jun soldiers as he wants.
Are there any directional and performance indicators?
Under such a goal, Huang Zhong only needed to have the swordsman approach Cao Jun's formation about fifty steps, which was exactly at the end of the lethality of Cao Jun's bows and arrows, which would attract the firepower of Cao Jun's archers.
If you get too close, the bow and arrow will be extremely powerful within ten steps, or even within twenty steps. Paired with armor-piercing arrows, it is completely possible to be shot through the armor, but at fifty steps...
Under such circumstances, the archers from Huang Zhong's side who followed up had the opportunity to approach the opponent directly and give the opponent's archers a direct blow!
In the current era, the shooting distances of long-range units such as archers are actually about the same. The archers on Huang Zhong's side can shoot at the archers of Cao's army, and the archers of Cao's army can also shoot at the position of Huang Zhong's side.
, But here’s the problem. Shandong’s rigid war model means that these Cao army archers do not have the right to change shooting targets at will, and it is even less possible for them to automatically turn to attack the opponent’s long-range targets when they see Huang Zhong’s archers coming forward.
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Even if Cao's archers turned to attack Huang Zhong's archers, Huang Zhong still made a profit.
Because the archers on Huang Zhong's side march forward in columns, the casualties are at most near the two points in front, while the possibility of Cao Jun's archers being hit is the entire ground, and they don't even know how to hide!
As Huang Zhong's archers fired, the archers wearing double armor in Cao's army's array erupted with blood mist, and many of them fell down in an instant. Many Cao's archers seemed stunned after being shot.
He was stunned for a moment, then woke up, rolled to the ground and screamed miserably.
After being attacked, some of Cao Jun's archers wanted to fight back, some wanted to dodge, and some were still continuing their previous actions. Wenpin saw someone on Huang Zhong's line starting to prepare a brazier.
He was shocked, and quickly ordered the archers to focus on suppressing Huang Zhong's archers, and let Cao Jun's sword and shield men come forward to confront Huang Zhong's swordsmen...
Wenpin responded and everything seemed to be fine.
If Huang Zhong's archers are allowed to continue shooting like this, although the damage caused is not too much, it will put a lot of pressure on Cao Jun's archers. More importantly, if those Huang Zhong archers find the opportunity to use
Rocket ignited the trap he had set up on the mountain road, so it was not Huang Zhong and others who suffered, but his side who was still standing on the edge of the trap!
There was no problem with the response, and there was no problem with the order, but the turning point of the entire battle came quietly after Wenpin's order was issued.
