There are a total of seven princes in the middle of the coalition. It sounds like the number of princes is greater than that on the right wing. It doesn't look like a wedge formation at all, but if you analyze it one by one, you will understand how powerful these seven princes are.
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First of all, a certain guy who is called a prince can actually be ignored. This person is Wang Kuang, the nominal governor of Hanoi.
As a chess piece used by Yuan Shao to test Dong Zhuo, Wang Kuang was completely defeated by Dong Zhuo before the princes gathered for an alliance. His Hanoi County has now become a golden pimple in Li Shushi's pocket, and he is determined not to spit it out.
To a certain extent, it was precisely because of Wang Kuang's destruction that the allies united so quickly, because everyone saw the consequences of fighting Dong Zhuo alone. This was why Wang Kuang was able to defeat Yuan Shao.
There is another unspeakable reason why he still retains the title of prince under the protection of the emperor.
Of course, Wang Kuang, who has lost his territory in the army and does not have a solid backing like Cao Cao, should not count on it. Being able to provide a thousand people as personal guards to fill the facade is already Wang Kuang's limit now.
Then there are Yuan Shao, Han Fu, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei, the four troops whose theoretical combat effectiveness ranks among the Allied forces and can compete for the top five. Yes, these four troops are absolutely excellent in terms of the combat effectiveness of their soldiers.
They are outstanding, and in terms of generals, whether they are Gao Lan and Jiang Qi under Yuan Shao, Zhang Fei under Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan's younger brother Gongsun Yue, Gongsun Fan, etc., they are all generals with outstanding strength and experience.
but……
But their numbers are a bit too small.
If Gongsun Zan's elite troops were mostly destroyed due to the battle with Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, then the troops of the other three families were entirely due to the containment of Li Shushi's Bingzhou Army in the Hebei area. Not only did Yuan Shao's main troops not come to Henan
,and
In order to ensure that they would not be stabbed in the back, the other three armies had to send trusted generals to lead a considerable number of troops back to Hebei. While resisting Li Shushi's possible attack, they also looked for opportunities to open up a second battlefield, leaving Dong Zhuo exhausted in multi-front operations.
Therefore, among the princes of the Central Route Army, only two brothers, Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao, are actually here.
The troops of these two brothers... If Zhang Miao finally got some advice from Cao Cao, then Zhang Chao completely lost his sight. And Chen Liu because of the relationship between Li Shushi and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang.
This "baptism", the powerful people in the county were subjected to
The damage was serious and the population was lost a lot. Zhang Chao's Guangling was even more harassed by nearby pirates. Haixi County in the northeast had long refused to listen to his orders as the prefect of Guangling because of civil unrest. Such a prefect's subordinates
The combat effectiveness of the troops can be imagined.
By the way, the leader of the pirates in Guangling is called Xuezhou, and he has a population of more than 10,000 households. It is said that this was the population of a large county at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms. In other words, this guy
It can also be called
It became a self-contained kingdom. In the end, it was the strongman Chen Dengen who finally solved this group of people by suppressing and using them. From this, it can be seen how low the political level of the scholars Zhang Chao and Zhao Yu is, and these two seem to be still
They were all celebrities from that time.
Think about the many celebrities in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then think about some celebrities in this era. Apart from being relatively famous, they are really useless.
To sum up, the total strength of Yuan Shao's middle route army is about 50,000, but the combat effectiveness of only half of them is quite questionable.
Of course, it's not all bad news. At least Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao know their own level and are very convinced of Yuan Shao, the scholar leader, so when they are in command, they will not disobey the general's orders because of their arrogance.
The problem is, after driving the most unstable Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei to the forward position, Yuan Shao's 40,000 troops in the middle army can be said to be completely subordinate to Yuan Shao's troops.
As for the left wing of the coalition, it is estimated that both Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, as the commander, knew in their hearts that as long as they can ensure that the left wing can not collapse before the right wing defeats the enemy on the opposite side, it is enough. Don't think too much about the rest, it is useless.
The main force should originally be Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's troops, and it stands to reason that with the abilities of these two men and their subordinates, the left wing should still be somewhat interesting.
only……
Well, I'm afraid of everything these days, but turning words like this.
Sun Jian's problem is known to everyone on earth. After being defeated by Dong Zhuo's army and losing General Zu Mao, although some troops were replenished from other places, these troops were absolutely inferior in terms of number, training level, and command difficulty.
To Sun Jian's satisfaction, if it weren't for the fact that these soldiers had followed Chen
If Wang Liu Chong was at least stronger than ordinary newly recruited soldiers and better at bows and crossbows, I'm afraid Sun Jian would have given up his choice and gone to a small dark room to vent his anger. Therefore, Sun Jian would have to rely more on the bravery of himself and his men to maintain the order.
The morale of this new army was improved to prevent a large-scale collapse of this new army.
Yuan Shu's troops actually faced some similar problems as Yuan Shao - Yuan Shao needed to leave a large number of troops to deal with the powerful enemy Li Shushi in the north, and Yuan Shu also needed to leave enough troops to defend the south. It seemed that the integration of Jingzhou was quite smooth.
On the one hand, Liu Biao also needed to eliminate the less obedient forces in Nanyang to ensure that he had control over his favorite base.
It is precisely for this reason that the troops that Yuan Shu can invest here are actually not much more than Yuan Shao. Although most of them are elites in Yuan Shu's army, the elites in Yuan Shu's army are not the same as the real hundred soldiers in Sun Jian, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shao's army.
Compared with the elite warriors, their strength is far inferior, so no one can say how Yuan Shujun, who has lost his numerical advantage, will perform.
As for the governor of Yuzhou, Kong Min, and the prefect of Shanyang, Yuan Yi, their military combat effectiveness is at the same level as Qiao Mao, Zhang Chao and others. Although Yuan Yi is a good learner and truly practices the "live to death, learn to die"
"This is the most noble ideal. Kong Ni is also known as a man of erudition and eloquence, but they are really lackluster in military matters.
Perhaps the only thing that makes Kong Yi's army stronger than Yuan Yi's army is that Kong Yi is the governor of Yuzhou, so he can have more soldiers than Yuan Yi, who only has a population of more than 100,000 households in Shanyang County. Well, that's it.
, nothing more.
The total number of soldiers on the left wing is about thirty thousand, and their combat effectiveness is low. As a commander, Yuan Shu has little experience in commanding operations, so the only things they can rely on are Sun Jian who can be more active and the azure dragon in the sky.
What kind of "miracle" can it bring to them?
All in all, for the officers and soldiers on the left wing, being able to survive this battle was their greatest success.
This requirement is really not high, but if you want to complete it...it seems really difficult.
Dong Zhuojun, on the other hand, adopted a formation similar to the Yuli Formation, which is also known as the Fish Scale Formation as we say.
The Yuli Formation, also known as the Fish Scale Formation, the tactical guiding principle of this formation is to break through the center - aiming to push the enemy to both sides. After the enemy's center is weak, all the main forces hidden in the formation will be thrown in to penetrate the enemy's center.
The core of the army. If the enemy takes the opportunity to attack our flanks, we need to avoid using the troops on the two wings to meet the enemy, and use the hook-shaped troops at the rear to resist.
The core tactics of this formation can be summed up as concentrating troops to launch a fierce attack on the center of the enemy's formation, continuously weakening the enemy's forces in local areas in the center while containing the enemy's flank forces, and destroying the enemy's command system with the force of thunder.
The weakness of this formation is the tail side - most of the troops are concentrated in the center and the main energy of the formation is also in the center. Except for the hook-shaped troops on the two wings of the tail used to contain the attacking troops on the enemy's flanks, the entire formation has no
The troops are used for defense, so once the defensive troops are defeated, the entire formation may be cut off in half.
However, although the Yuli Formation is a central breakthrough formation with full offensive power, it can evolve into a variety of formations with different purposes such as Crane Wing Formation, Yanyue Formation and Spindle Formation according to changes in the situation, thereby achieving corresponding tactical purposes and thus changing the situation.
You have to advance, you can attack, you can retreat, you can defend. But this has very high requirements for the commander's commanding ability. If you are not very confident in your own ability, it is better not to use this formation when the situation is at a disadvantage.
Of course, if we can really ensure that the formation operates like a finger, then its multiplication effect will be amazing.
The total strength of the coalition forces is about 167,000, and Dong Zhuo has only more than 100,000 troops because some of them are still in Chenggao. However, it is obvious to him that at least half of the coalition forces will be under Dong Zhuo's control.
In his eyes, the chickens and tile dogs were the first to sell, so he had enough confidence to set up such a formation, with the purpose of directly capturing Yuan Shao's central army.
He didn't know Yuan Shao's arrangement, but he believed that even if Yuan Shao put all his elites in the central army, Dong Zhuo would be able to penetrate it. After all, most of the people in Yuan Shao's army were either literati who did not understand military affairs or were not educated.
After a few battlefields, the children of aristocratic families were at best gilded, and a pack of wolves led by a sheep could only eventually produce guys like Big Big Wolf who were defeated in many battles.
Of course, if Dong Zhuo knew that Yuan Shao had placed heavy troops on his flanks, he might have applauded Yuan Shao's attack with his palms in his hands.
But even if Dong Zhuo didn't know clearly, he still cautiously made corresponding arrangements.
Dong Zhuo used Li Jue and Guo Si as the hook-shaped troops on the two wings of the Yuli Formation, and Hu Zhen and Yang Ding as the assault force in the middle. He hoped to place several strong generals of the Xiliang Army in the most important positions of the formation.
This place ensures the operation and stability of the formation.
Li Zhuo and the Northern Army of the Bingzhou Gang were placed on both sides of the rear of the "Yuzui". These Northern Army soldiers were quite outstanding in terms of combat ability as long as they were well commanded, but they were unable to compete with them in terms of fighting will.
Compared with the Xiliang Army, the position arranged on both sides behind the sudden Xiliang Army can not only provide sufficient support for the Xiliang Army, but also prevent them from directly facing the enemy because of the problem of willpower and being unable to effectively open up the enemy's possibilities.
The thick Chinese army appeared.
The center of the entire Yuli Formation is naturally the Chinese army led by Dong Zhuo. As the vanguard of the Chinese army, it is Dong Zhuo's favorite general Fan Chou. His strong personal ability is probably also the leader in the Xiliang army, especially in
Today Huaxiong has been poached by Li Shushi.
Now, the two armies have set up their positions, waiting for the "flares" sent by the two sacred beasts in the sky to represent the sprint.
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