As a liberal arts student, Yunzheng liked to visit some history forums. He often found that friends who liked history and military often asked questions about "formation". What is "formation"? To put it simply in "historical language",
"Formation" 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 cold weapon era and disappeared in the clan society of the hot weapon era. Human wars manifested themselves as tribal conflicts. At that time, there were no
The army has no command. Most of the battles are swarmed, like a group fight. Naturally, there is no "formation". With the development of history, slave countries emerged. In order to consolidate their rule and plunder slaves, slave owners (war captives are the main source of slaves)
Source), began to form an organized army and adopt a certain formation. This is the original "formation". "Formation" appeared in the process of the creation of the army because of the need to organize the army and command battles. It is a fusion of ancient times.
The achievements of military science and tactics. The origin of the Eastern War Formation, of course, started in China.
The earliest formation in China is said to have originated from the Yellow Emperor. In order to defeat Chi You, the Yellow Emperor learned the formation from the gods. Of course, this is just a legend. The well-documented evidence is that in the late Shang Dynasty in the 12th century BC, King Wu Yi of Shang went to Wuding to formulate the formation.
The "three divisions" on the left, middle and right, judging from the naming of the "three divisions", have adopted a fixed formation. In 1066 BC, King Wu defeated Zhou, "the Zhou divisions were three hundred and fifty times, Chen Yu Muye", "Chen Chen"
"Through the "formation", it can be seen that at this time, there must have been a "formation"
The early formations were relatively simple. According to the organization of the "Three Divisions", they were arranged in a 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.
The formations are in order, attacking each other...
Ancient Chinese formations developed and matured in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Representatives of this achievement include "Six Tao", "Wu Zi" and "Sun Bin's Art of War". "Six Tao" is also called "Tai Gong's Art of War". It is said that Jiang Shang of the Western Zhou Dynasty
It was written by later generations, and according to research, it was written in the pre-Qin or early Han Dynasty, but there is no conclusion yet; "Wu Zi" is the art of war of the famous Warring States general Wu Qi, which is somewhat credible. The above two art of war mainly introduce the chariot formation, infantry and cavalry after the Warring States period.
Chariots replaced chariots as the main formation of the army, and formations changed and developed. Later generations unearthed "Sun Bin's Art of War", which describes ten formations (square formation, circular formation, conical formation, etc.), and their
The method used in the contemporary "Wei Liao Zi" originally had a "Formation Chapter", which has been lost to later generations, but Yun Zheng was very pleased to find this time that this book was included in their Yun family's collection of military books.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, military strategists in the past dynasties also developed the strategy of battle: Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, wrote "The New Book of Mengde", which has a special chapter describing the method of marching and forming formations; (Shu) Prime Minister Zhuge Liang of the Han Dynasty "deduced the art of war and made eight battle formations."
, "Wuhou's Eight Formations" were passed down to later generations and had a wide influence. "Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and Li Weigong Questioned" deeply studied the formation methods. Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty left a fragment of the art of war to teach the formation methods. Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty wrote "New Book of Records" and "Records of Military Training".
Explaining the formations in detail, Qi Jiguang also created his own "Yuanyang Formation" and "Sancai Formation", which showed their power in the Anti-Japanese War. It can be said that the armies of all dynasties in ancient China practiced formations
The Wei Dynasty continued from Tang Zuo, and the formations were quite similar to those of the Tang Dynasty. In detail, they can be divided into "ten formations": square formation, circular formation, sparse formation, number formation, cone formation, flying goose formation, hook formation.
The Formation Formation, Xuanxiang's Formation, Fire Formation, and Water Formation all come from "Sun Bin's Art of War? Ten Formations" written in the middle of the Warring States Period (well, there is another theory that the ten formations are: a long snake formation, a two-dragon water formation,
The Three Talents Formation of Heaven and Earth, the Four Door Pocket Formation, the Five Tigers and Herds Formation, the Six Ding and Liujia Formations, the Seven Stars Beidou Formation, the Eight Doors Golden Lock Formation, the Nine-Character Chain Formation, the Ambush Formation from Flying Daggers... and he swore that Taizu was the one who could defeat Principal Chiang.
The "four-door pocket formation" was used, and it was said that each of the four field armies fought with one door. Ahem, this... our Marshal Yun should stop being so magical?) The Yun family has guarded Northern Xinjiang for nearly two hundred years. Among all the generals in the past,
Yun Zheng's grandfather, Yun Yu, was the most proficient in formations. He created the eight formations of "fish scales, sharp arrows, crane wings, Yan Yue, square circle, flying geese, coiled snakes, and horizontal swords", which were extremely powerful. From then on, he became Yun Zheng.
The formations that must be practiced by the family army. The formation rehearsals of these eight formations are not complicated, and they are not deliberately kept secret. Therefore, all armies in the Wei Dynasty can now perform them. However, due to the armament establishment and other factors, only the Yun family army can do it.
The greatest power exerted
In this formation exercise, Yunzheng's Ying Yangwei is going to practice one of the Yun Family Army's special skills: "Yunmen Eight Formations"
----------------------------------------The sky is high and the sea is vast, and the rising sun rises in the east of Hai'an County near the sea.
In a huge open space, 33,000 Ying Yang Guards were already lined up. This place was originally a salt farm, but it was later abandoned. Because the location was relatively remote and not a prosperous port, it has been abandoned and unused, but this place
The terrain is flat, which is perfect for formation drills this time.
Although the salt field is not small, due to the large space required for the formation performance, when the formation changes of more than 30,000 people at a time, it may not take more than ten miles to move around, so this formation performance is to enter one David at a time.
Cao Rui and several supervisors stood on a specially made platform to watch. One David finished the drill, and the second David entered the venue for the drill. Therefore, in the abandoned salt field, only the Yingyang Guards lined up.
this
This general platform is not so much a "table" as a "building". In order to see the formation more clearly, this general platform is two feet high, almost as high as a three-story building.
Yun Zheng did not personally direct the formation changes this time. Although he inherited the memory of "Yun Zheng", he had never cared much about it, so he did not study the formation very deeply, but Yun Yi's formation drills were from childhood.
The Eagle Academy has always been quite outstanding. With him taking command, Yun Zheng felt that he was more trustworthy than taking the command himself.
Since he, Marshal Yun, is not commanding himself, he will naturally have a seat on the general stage. The atmosphere on the general stage today is a bit tense. Yun Zheng naturally knows the reason. It is simply that Ying Yangwei's performance yesterday was too conspicuous, which made them feel uncomfortable.
There is a bit more fear and involuntary rejection of the several supervisors who came here to select the performances today. The supervisors of Longxiang Guards are Song Ming and Song Guangyuan, the supervisors of Tiger Wings are Wang Yue and Wang Wushan, and the supervisors of Langya Guards are Lei Yuan and Lei Yinlong.
These three people all received hints or even explicit instructions from their own families early on, asking to "press down Yun Zheng". Now Yun Zheng does not direct the formation, but instead smiles and goes to the general stage. Now the evaluation is about
Doing it in front of Yunzheng... some of these things are not so easy to say. There is a difference between acquitting someone behind the scenes and acquitting someone in front of them.
As for Fengwu Guard Commander Shao Guang Shaohua and Yuanjia Guard Commander Zhong Yuan and Zhong Shengtu, they were instructed to try their best to help Yunzheng. Together with Yingyang Guard's own commander Xu Shaoyang, this way
Among the six supervisors, Ying Yangwei accounted for about three votes. However, even so, the most critical vote went to Cao Rui. Yun Zheng obviously did not expect the votes in his hands, so Yun Zheng came to order them himself.
The purpose of being in charge of Jiangtai is, firstly, to allow Yun Yi, a more professional comrade, to carry out more professional work, and secondly, to put some pressure on these people in Jiangtai. Yun Zheng’s purpose is: Even if you have agreed to pressure me,
Well, you can't be too evil. If you dare to show your conscience and give me a pig's tail, I'll see if I don't destroy you on the spot!
After some pretentious pleasantries, the performance officially began
Yunzheng wears a white silver carp and snowflake robe inside, and a full set of jade dragon, silver tooth and fish scale armor outside. He has a three-pronged crown with dragon horns on his head, and behind him is a flying snow and brocade cloud robe. His whole body is silvery white, and it is so bright that it is dazzling. This outfit can be replaced by ordinary clothes.
When a general puts it on the battlefield, unless he does not go into battle at all, he is just a dazzling target. Only a guy like Yun Zheng, who used to be too envious of the handsomeness and majesty of ancient armor, especially likes to wear it to show off. Of course, he is also confident in himself
His martial arts skills are such that he would be killed after wearing such high-grade armor.
Yun Zheng solemnly handed the Yunying Commander Flag (not the big flag, here the command flag) representing the Commander Command to Yun Yi, expressing his formal authorization to Yun Yi to command this formation exercise.
Yun Yi knelt down on one knee, raised his hands high, took the command flag, raised the command flag high again, walked out of the stage to the command position, raised the command flag, and shouted: "Commanders, obey the order! Form a square formation
Change the fish scale array!"
The six commanders waved the command flags in their hands, and each led his troops to change according to the direction of the fish scale formation. The fish scale formation divided the corps into five or six sections. The position of the commander of the layer-by-layer formation was in the middle and rear of the fish scale formation.
The difference between the cone formation and the cone formation lies in the width of the triangle. The troops in the front are usually the same as those protecting the general. This arrangement causes a different result from the cone formation. The cone formation is more scattered, so they push each other.
The squeezing effect is small, and the Fish Scale, which moves very fast but slightly slower, can carry out a powerful assault (because the troops at the front are very dense, the whole army will not be scattered, but the cone shape will). Of course, Fish Scale is related to Crane Wing.
They are all so-called "civilian formations", that is, the general does not need to lead the attack in front, but hides behind (for example, Zhuge Liang can only do this). However, the defensive power of the Fish Scale Formation is very weak. If someone rushes from behind, it will basically immediately
The whole army collapsed because too much was exposed behind them
Simply put, the fish scale formation means that after the general is in the middle of the formation, the main troops are assembled in the center, divided into a number of small fish scale-shaped square formations, arranged in echelons, with a slightly convex front end, and is an offensive formation. Its tactical idea is "central breakthrough"
, concentrate your forces to launch a fierce attack on the center of the enemy's formation. Use it when your own side has the advantage. The weakness of the formation lies on the tail side.
From the perspective of the formation itself, Ying Yangwei's Fish Scale Formation is not special, but in fact everyone on the general stage looked at it very seriously, if for no other reason than that Ying Yangwei's formation change was very orderly -
- It should be said that it is extremely orderly. Although everyone is running to change formations, the 30,000 troops are running together, and it sounds like there is only one step at the general station. It is really amazing. No one can think of Yun
How did Zheng train these people to be so rhythmic?
In fact, it's very simple. What they don't know is Yunzheng's new password: one, two, one (all friends who have undergone military training know it, so I won't go into details). Not only is the rhythm extremely rigorous, but the soldiers' movements are also quite uniform.
, unlike the previous tense changes in the army, Ying Yangwei's change of formation is obviously very fast, but everyone seems to be very leisurely and unhurried. This is the most puzzling thing.
Yun Zheng himself was also a little confused: It’s strange, I just focused on obedience and made a new password, and the effect was so good? It’s strange, why was it that during my military training, one of our class walked so well?
A few days are still mixed and uneven...
The first fish scale formation drill was designed by Yunzheng himself. The reason why he was particularly interested in the fish scale formation was because Genghis Khan's fish scale formation in previous history had actually appeared in the West, but the large fish scale formation created by Genghis Khan was the most
At the front of a typical Genghis Khan's fish scale formation is the vanguard formation with fewer troops, followed by the second and third echelon vanguard formations with more troops and stronger strength. They first harass the enemy's formation. If the enemy's battle formation
If there is no confusion, the impact of the second and third level troops will begin immediately. Once the impact is effective and the enemy's military formation is chaotic, then the commander will lead all his forces to rush towards the enemy and annihilate them all. If after several attacks, the army
If the formation still does not work, they will retreat and lure the opponent's battle formation to protrude forward. In the process of protruding, some of the opponent's weaknesses will be exposed. Identify these weaknesses and then go back to attack them. This is the great battle of Genghis Khan.
The Advantages of the Fish Scale Array: Genghis Khan created a legend and a myth. However, its prosperity was booming and its demise was sudden. After the ups and downs, the big fish scale array was filled with the dust of loneliness. However, in any case, the fish scale array is Yunzheng's favorite.
The clear one, so it is the first one to demonstrate
The next demonstration was the forward formation: the general was in the middle and rear of the formation, the main troops were assembled in the center, and the forwards were spread out in an arrow shape, which was also an offensive formation. The tactical idea was still "central breakthrough". The forward attack formation was more defensive.
The fish scale formation is better. The open "arrow" in the forward can resist the pressure from the enemy's flanks, but it is less offensive and the weakness of the formation is still on the tail side.
Then there is the Yanyue Formation, which is a formation that Yun Yi particularly likes. The entire army is arranged in an arc, shaped like a crescent moon. It is an asymmetrical formation. The general's formation is usually located at the bottom of the concave crescent. Combat
At the same time, focus on attacking the flanks, and use thick crescents to resist the enemy. The inner recess of the crescent may seem weak, but it contains dangers. The general's formation should have strong combat power. It is suitable for brave generals with strong soldiers, and it is also suitable for certain asymmetrical situations.
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Yunzheng was on the stage looking at the Ying Yangwei changing formations in the salt field in an orderly manner. He felt very satisfied. He glanced at the gloomy-looking Cao Rui and his mood suddenly became smoother.
If you like to play tricks and play dirty tricks, you can do whatever you want. Whether I am training an elite soldier or not, you will know by a test on the battlefield. Why am I fighting with you here?
