(ps: third update today) Zhou Yu was unhappy and pointed at Zhuge Liang and said: "Zhuge Liang, if any of us loses this time, we will put on women's clothes and walk around in front of the army. What do you think?"
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"It's a deal!" Zhuge Liang agreed without hesitation.
As the saying goes, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu seem to be natural rivals. There is a deep cold light in their eyes, and they both seem to want to defeat the other through this battle.
The two men turned their horses' heads at the same time and returned to the camp at the same time. They began to gather their generals and gave instructions on how to deal with the opponent's formation.
Formation, simply put, is the field formation of the ancient army. It is the product of the development of human warfare to a certain historical stage. It prevailed in the age of cold weapons and died in the age of hot weapons.
In the clan society, human wars were manifested in tribal conflicts. There was no army at that time, and there was no command. Most of the battles were swarmed, like group fights, so naturally there was no such thing as "formation".
With the development of history, slave countries emerged. In order to consolidate their rule and plunder slaves (war captives were the main source of slaves), slave owners began to form organized armies and adopt certain formations. This was the primitive "formation".
"Formation" emerged in the process of the creation of the army because of the need to organize the army and command battles. It is the result of ancient military system and tactics. The Eastern battle formation originated in China.
The earliest formations in China are said to have originated from the Yellow Emperor. In order to defeat Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor learned the formations from the gods. However, this is just a legend. The only evidence that can be tested is in the late Shang Dynasty. The early formations were relatively simple, according to the "three
The formation of "divisions" was arranged in a straight line or a square. The formation warfare method was extremely popular in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period. It was a common situation at that time: two armies were scheduled to fight at a certain place, arrayed neatly, and attacked each other...
Formation drill is an important method of running the army in ancient times. Through drill, the soldiers are taught the rules of advance and retreat, and the rules of gathering and dispersion, so that they can become familiar with various signals and commands, and be able to execute orders and prohibitions in a coordinated manner during battle. Only in this way can soldiers
Give full play to the combined force of the whole. Formation drills are an effective way to train a mob into an army.
Approach. The formations used by armies of various countries today are the remnants of ancient formation drills. Currently, all countries use Western-style formations. The original Eastern formations are no longer visible, but the basic principles are the same. Western-style formations are more serious and tidy than Eastern formations, and the command is
Passwords are mostly used, and in the Eastern style, flags, gold and drums are the main ones.
China's military art attaches great importance to strategy, and formations are in a secondary position. This is because the scale of China's wars is relatively large. In wars that often involve "a thousand good generals and a hundred thousand armor", the army commander mainly conducts strategy and battles.
In terms of thinking at a higher level, tactics are secondary. At the same time, due to respect for Confucianism and emphasis on literature over martial arts, insufficient attention is paid to the study of battle tactics.
However, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu preferred the study of formations, believing that as long as there was a good formation, no matter how powerful the army was, it could not be shaken. In addition, Sima Yi and Pang Tong both liked to study these formations and often studied "Six Tao"
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These four men were both military commanders and tactical commanders and had to study formations intensively. Therefore, when Zhou Yu asked Zhuge Liang to fight in formations, Zhuge Liang agreed without even thinking about it. The purpose was to apply what he had learned in his life to war.
Thus influencing the war.
It is not difficult to see from Zhuge Liang's particularity in setting up camp that Zhuge Liang has quite a lot of research on battle formations. Zhou Yu is also a master in formations, otherwise he would never have seen the shortcomings of Zhuge Liang's camp, and Sun Ce would not have led three thousand soldiers last night.
A classic example of a light cavalry defeating a crowd of 110,000.
On Wu Jun's side, Zhou Yu has roughly completed his deployment and ordered all the generals around him. What he has set up is the Fish Scale Formation, which is a charge and attack battle formation. The Fish Scale Formation, as its name suggests, divides the army into five or six sections.
Laminate a layer such as
Same as the fish scales on the body. The general is in the middle of the formation, and the main troops are assembled in the center. They are divided into a number of small fish scale-shaped square formations. They are arranged in echelons and have a slightly convex front end. They belong to the offensive formation. The main tactical idea is, "
"Central Breakthrough".
Zhuge Liang was stunned because he first saw Zhou Yu setting up this offensive fish-scale formation, so he arranged a skip-shaped formation.
The Ji-shaped formation is actually a W-shaped formation with an inverted V in it. The cleverness lies here. The inverted V in it is mostly long-distance attack units such as archers and crossbowmen, so it can provide cover for the attack. However, because of the clever arrangement,
, so you won’t hit your own people in the front, but unfortunately there is an inverted V in the middle, so you can’t surround and attack together. Therefore, it is a flat formation developed from the wild goose formation with a low casualty rate, and it is a defensive formation.
This means that Zhuge Liang took the defensive position in the first round and let Zhou Yu take the initiative to attack. He did this because of the actual situation. He had just suffered heavy losses last night and the soldiers were exhausted, so the attack power would be slightly insufficient.
, it is more practical to take a defensive stance.
As long as he can defend Zhou Yu's fish scale formation's stepped and continuous attacks, he will be the winner.
The two armies faced each other, and the arrangements were completely arranged. Fu Tong, Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, Fei Guan, and Liu Yan were all in their respective positions under Zhuge Liang's account. Each of them was responsible for commanding a part of the troops, while he retreated completely to the rear of the army and asked someone to lead a group of troops.
There is a carriage, and I sit in the carriage and watch.
"Dong dong dong..."
At this time, Wu Jun beat the first war drum, Wu Jun's shield soldiers in the first echelon formation were ready, and the cavalry in the second echelon formation led by Ling Cao were also ready to make up for the first echelon formation at any time.
The troops are insufficient.
"Dong dong dong..."
Wu Jun beat the war drum for the second time, and the two echelon formations behind Ling Cao were also ready and ready to go.
The battle is about to break out, and the battle between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang will officially begin. Just as the two armies are confronting each other, a group of more than ten cavalrymen quietly climbed up a high slope. The leader picked up a telescope and looked at it from a distance.
He looked over and saw that Wu Jun and Han Jun were all in different formations, and he said calmly: "It's just the right time. This is a wonderful battle, not to be missed. The battle between these two heroes, Zhuge Kongming and Zhou Gongjin, will be revealed today."
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The speaker was none other than Sima Yi, the general of the Huaxia Kingdom in the South. Last night he received a message from Chen Wu, saying that Zhuge Liang first surrendered to the Wu army, then rebelled against the Wu army, and was besieging Changsha City. Although he knew that this was a trick made out of nothing, he
I came here at Xingye because I wanted to see who was more powerful between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.
Of course, Wu general Chen Wu was detained by him in the army, and he also marched lightly, bringing only Niu Jin and thirteen cavalry, and a group of fifteen cavalry arrived secretly.
"General, this place is too close to Wu Jun. If Wu Jun discovers us, we won't be able to escape even if we want to." Niu Jin looked around and felt that this place was too close to the battlefield and was a bit unsafe.
Sima Yi said: "Don't worry, the Wu army and the Han army have all their attention focused on the battle formation, no one will pay attention to us at all, and no one would have expected that we would come from two hundred miles away overnight, but
Just to watch the fight.”
"General, isn't it just a battle formation? What's there to see?" Niu Jin asked in confusion.
"Haha, I will let you slowly understand the subtleties of the formation in the future..." Speaking of this, Sima Yi suddenly saw something unusual from the telescope. He saw that Zhou Yu's fish scale formation was very cleverly arranged, and he actually used three
The infantrymen holding shields were placed on the first step, and the cavalry with high mobility were placed on the second step. They couldn't help but exclaimed, "Huh? What does Zhou Yu mean by this?"
Looking at the Han army's Ji-shaped formation, among the 30,000-strong army, there were actually only 2,000 cavalry. The rest were all archers, crossbowmen and spearmen. It was a formation dominated by infantry. Seeing this, Sima Yi finally understood.
Why is Zhou Yu like this?
Arranged. He smiled knowingly, opened the telescope into the distance, and saw the figures of people shaking on the Changsha City. Many soldiers actually descended from the high wall. There were many flags on the city, but the guards were relatively sparse. He couldn't help but
One more eye.
"General, the formation is in front, why are you looking to the side and behind?" Niu Jin asked as he watched Sima Yi start to pay attention to Changsha City.
Sima Yi took the telescope and saw clearly what was going on in Changsha City. After putting down the telescope, he thought about it for a while, then picked up the telescope again to look, and saw that there was a forest in the north of Changsha City that was shaking constantly.
The still trees were covered with snow, but now they all fell down, as if someone was walking through the woods.
After taking a closer look, he discovered something unusual. He saw a group of soldiers wearing white cloaks walking cautiously in the dense forest. The leader turned out to be Sun Ce.
When he saw this, Sima Yi hurriedly moved the telescope to the Han army camp, but saw that the northern end and rear of the Han army camp were empty, and most of the soldiers gathered around the front army to watch the fun. After seeing all this, his face showed
Smiling, he said to himself: "Zhuge Liang will definitely lose this battle. He is still too young. Against the experienced Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang does seem a bit too young."
After hearing this, Niu Jin asked: "General, how do you know that Zhuge Liang will be defeated?"
"Secret." Sima Yi said with a smile.
Niu Jin thought about it and felt something was wrong, so he asked: "General, Zhuge Liang wants to surrender to our army. His soldiers and horses will belong to our Huaxia Kingdom from now on. Since General, we expect that Zhuge Liang will be defeated, shall we stop it?"
What happened to this situation? After all, if someone dies, our country of China will lose one soldier..."
Sima Yi looked at Niu Jin with confusion on his face, patted Niu Jin on the shoulder, and said: "I just want Zhuge Liang to be defeated. This time, the more people he kills, the better."
"Why... why?" Niu Jin said in surprise.
"Zhuge Liang is too confident. Overconfidence is arrogance. He has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command. After surrendering to our army, he will definitely ask for command of the original soldiers and horses, which is not good for our country. Therefore, in this battle, he lost
The worse it is, the better. It is best to annihilate the whole army. In this way, Zhuge Liang loses his trump card and can only be at the mercy of the emperor."
"Great general, how come my subordinates didn't think of this?" Niu Jin worshiped.
"If you had thought about it, how could I be your general?" A sinister smile appeared on Sima Yi's face.
"Dong dong dong..."
At this moment, the third war drum beat, and a roaring sound came from the huge battlefield. The first echelon formation of the Wu army rushed forward quickly, everyone holding a shield to protect themselves.
His body pressed against the Han army's formation.
After Sima Yi heard this voice, he quickly took out his telescope, looked towards the battlefield, and said to Niu Jin: "Watch carefully, Zhou Yu will completely defeat Wolong in this battle."
"No!" Niu Jin is just a young general, and there are only a handful of telescopes in China, and not many are made. The main reason is that crystals are hard to find. If you can't find crystal mines, you can't polish the telescopes. I discovered it accidentally before.
That crystal mine was purely due to the bad luck of the Huaxia Kingdom, but the quantity was very small. Therefore, telescopes are usually issued to officers of the third rank or above. Niu Jin is only an officer of the fourth rank now, which is two levels behind.
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Therefore, Niu Jin and others could only watch from a distance, looking around, watching the ants-like black mass of people begin to rush forward.
Sima Yi could only see the details, but Niu Jin and others could only see the general outline.
The Wu army's first wave of three thousand infantrymen holding shields rushed forward, and the Han army immediately fired thousands of arrows. The crossbowmen pulled the trigger and released the crossbow arrows, while the archers opened their bows and arrows, looked up to the sky, and fired, performing a full-scale strike.
The sword and shield soldiers stayed at their posts with sharp eyes, while the pike soldiers held their spears tightly in their hands and stood ready.
The battle started. Wu Jun's three thousand shield soldiers rushed forward very fast. These were infantrymen who had experienced battles for a long time. They used their shields to cover their vital points while rushing forward quickly. But the arrows were merciless, and many arrows were like
Like eyes, it landed directly on the feet or legs of the Wu soldiers. Some soldiers who were hit by arrows fell to the ground, then reluctantly got up and rushed forward.
The first wave of arrows fell, and more than 200 Wu army's 3,000 shield soldiers were wounded. More than 200 people fell behind, but the rest were unscathed.
Immediately afterwards, the Han army fired a second wave of arrows. This time, the density was much greater than the first time. The wave of arrows shot over and immediately killed more than 200 Wu soldiers and more than 300 soldiers.
Injured, but still continued to rush forward.
The third wave and the fourth wave of arrows came one after another. The dense arrows covered the sky and blocked the sun, like countless flying locusts, taking the lives of the Wu army soldiers.
In Wu Jun's camp, Ling Cao could no longer hold himself any longer. He turned around and glanced at Zhou Yu. Seeing Zhou Yu frowning and not speaking, he shouted: "Captain, charge!"
"Wait a minute! Wait until the first echelon formation rushes to the front of the Han army's formation!" Zhou Yu was also very worried, but he had his own plans and must not change his strategy easily. At least those who rushed over would die in vain.