ps: Comparing the map drawn by the author himself, I found that the author had misremembered the locations of Mengshan and Tanshan in the article. Doulian was the guard of Mengshan. All the previous descriptions of Tanshan should actually be Mengshan. I am extremely sorry.
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Zhao Hongrun was involved in the military formation very early on.
The biggest advantage of photographic memory is that Zhao Hongrun can "rubbing" a certain book in his mind by swallowing dates, and then "turning it out" when he has free time in the future, reflecting on it and thinking about it.
This is also the reason why Zhao Hongrun sometimes reads a certain volume in his hand: not only to kill time, but also to make full use of his free time to get more useful things in his head.
As for the military formation, Zhao Hongrun secretly made some mistakes two years ago when he was preparing to go out for the first time to resist the 160,000-strong army of Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo.
In his original impression, Zhao Hongrun always felt that the military formation was a very magical thing, with magical effects as rumored.
But after looking through those military formation pictures in person, he realized that the effect of the military formation was not as miraculous as the rumors said.
Just like two strong men fighting with a 50-50 odds of winning or losing, the existence of the military formation is like a trick. It is very effective when dealing with enemies who are weaker than you or have similar strength to yourself, but when encountering certain things such as strength, When a hero is carrying a cauldron, he will still be knocked over by the opponent's punch.
Deep in Zhao Hongrun's memory, when he once played a game with his companions, the team would often arrange the professions and corresponding responsibilities of the team members in advance. For example, the front row would attract firepower and bear damage, while the back row would be responsible for outputting damage.
In fact, the principle is the same. In the final analysis, military formation is also a kind of accumulation of war experience that teaches generals how to rationally arrange the men in their hands, and effectively harvest enemy soldiers and expand their victory.
For example, the cone-shaped formation used by the Chu general Doulian opposite at this moment is, as the name suggests, a sharp cone-like object that is used to quickly penetrate the enemy's center and touch the opponent's own formation as quickly as possible.
In this era, once a certain army attacks the enemy's main formation, it almost means that this army has won the battle, and there is rarely the possibility of a fatal blow from the opponent.
Because of this, when generals notice that the opponent is using a cone formation, they will subconsciously strengthen the central army to prevent the enemy from drilling through the formation and causing immeasurable losses.
However, Xu Yin, the general of the Fenxing Army, did not do that. Facing the conical formation of more than a thousand Chu troops, he chose the most common formation, the one-word formation, to put it nicely, it is a relatively dense horizontal formation. One word array.
To be fair, the one-word formation is not suitable for fighting on the battlefield at all. It is more used for sweeping, searching in the wilderness, or chasing after victory.
Especially when the enemy uses a cone formation, using a one-line formation is like fighting the opponent with your hands tied. Under normal circumstances, unless the strength of the two armies is very different, there is no possibility of victory.
To be able to win under such circumstances is simply unreasonable!
However, at this moment, the Fenxing Army made Zhao Hongrun and others watch an "unreasonable" confrontation with dumbfounded eyes.
It was also a battle of more than a thousand soldiers against more than a thousand soldiers. Who would have thought that the cone-shaped formation composed of more than a thousand Chu troops could not break through the one-word formation of the Fenxing army of Wei State. This is simply a miracle.
No, the generals who knew about the formation, including Zhao Hongrun, Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and others, were stunned and speechless for a while.
"The main army...the main army of Chu State, is it possible that it has become corrupted to this point?"
Qu Cheng murmured.
Beside him, several Wei generals from Chu State looked not very good-looking.
Although they had taken refuge in the Wei State, according to Yan Mo, they had never thought of returning to the decadent Chu State. But in the final analysis, they could not deny the fact that they were from the Chu State.
If Chu's army is really weakened to this point, they will not look good.
They would rather the Chu troops they encountered this time were all powerful troops, and then let them defeat the other side.
In this way, they had the confidence to say to Zhao Hongrun: Without us, Your Highness would not have been able to win so smoothly. Therefore, the generous treatment you give us is completely worth it.
But like this scene, how can they have the confidence to say this?
However, Zhao Hongrun did not notice the expressions of Qu Cheng, Yan Mo and others. Furthermore, he did not think that the Chu army opposite was weak.
It's just that the Chu army was unlucky and encountered Wei's best defensive army, the Fenxing Army.
The key point is... Chang Geshou?
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly and focused on the battlefield.
It has to be said that he did not attach great importance to weapons like Ge, because in his impression, this weapon had almost disappeared from history in the later period.
But facts have proven that since weapons like Ge will appear, there is a reason for their emergence.
The so-called Ge is a kind of curved-headed weapon. There is a bifurcation in the front section, which bifurcates into a sharp blade facing forward and a horizontal horizontal blade. There are blades on both sides of the sharp blade, a bit like a spear; and the horizontal blade
It is edged on one side.
This kind of weapon is compared to a spear. The advantage of a spear is that it can kill and injure the enemy while also pushing the enemy away. This advantage is not possessed by spears.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Fenxing Army, which was responsible for guarding Fenxing Fortress in the past, chose the Ge as a permanent weapon.
In contrast to the Fenxing Army, armies like the Dangshan Army, which never undertake the task of defending cities or fortifications, choose weapons such as spears that focus on offensive power.
Just as Zhao Hongrun guessed, Chang Geshou was indeed the hero of this battle that prevented the more than a thousand Chu troops from breaking through the Fenxing army's formation.
I saw two rows of swordsmen in the back row, holding the swords tightly with both hands, and extending the swords from the gap in the shields of the swordsmen and shieldsmen in the front row.
And here, there is a detail: the two Changgemen actually have different divisions of labor.
The Changge Gauntlet is responsible for stopping the killing, using the Changge to prevent the enemy from approaching the sword and shield hand's companions. The erect Changge seems to form a line of defense, forcibly stabbing the Chu army rushing over to death to death in the front section of the Changge.
On the blade, it prevents them from continuing to charge forward; as for Changge Hand B, it actually repeats the forward pushing action, pushing out the enemies who were stabbed to death on the Changge Hand Armor weapon, so that the Changge Hand Armor can stop killing again.
enemy.
This fighting method of one main and one auxiliary opened Zhao Hongrun's eyes.
In contrast, Zhao Hongrun originally thought that the sword and shield wielders would be the key point in this battle, but his limelight was completely overshadowed by the long sword wielders who had a clear division of labor. At best, they were just a flesh-and-blood defense line to protect the long sword wielders at the rear.
"puff"
"puff"
With the sound of sharp blades piercing the chest, countless Chu soldiers who tried to penetrate the Wei army's formation were stabbed to death on the Changge.
Among them, a Chu soldier gritted his teeth and rushed forward. However, before the weapon in his hand could hit the shield of the Wei sword and shield soldier on the opposite side, a Chang Ge was quickly thrust out from the gap between the shields, and he used
The sharp blade pierced his abdomen.
It may be due to the pride in his heart, or the Chu soldier knew that he would not be spared and wanted to take advantage of the enemy.
Unfortunately, it was the Chang Ge that stabbed him in the abdomen, not the spear.
Due to the restriction of Chang Ge's horizontal blade, the Chu soldier was unable to move forward at all. He could only watch helplessly as another Chang Ge stabbed out from the front and plunged into his body with a pop.
"Puff"
The two long swords were retracted back and forth, and the Chu soldier fell weakly in front of the Wei sword and shield wielder on the opposite side.
During this period, some Chu soldiers were smart and thought that they could just fend off those Chang Ge with their swords.
But unfortunately, when the Chu soldier used the weapon in his hand to deflect an oncoming Chang Ge, before he had time to rejoice, the second Chang Ge quietly pierced his body.
Immediately, when the two Changges were retracted, there was another warm corpse on the ground.
Unable to break through!
Can't be penetrated!
The more than a thousand Chu soldiers, or to be precise, only half of the Chu soldiers left, stopped charging in front of the more than a thousand Fenxing soldiers at some point, and looked at the row of Wei sword and shield soldiers in front of them in confusion, as if
I saw the insurmountable mountains.
In this case, the Chu general Dou Lian seemed unwilling to just taste the taste of defeat, and once again invested a thousand soldiers.
But the question is, can the current situation on the battlefield be restored by investing a thousand soldiers?
What's more, are you the only one who can increase the number of troops?
The Fenxing Army has a total of fifteen thousand people!
Sure enough, Xu Yin, the general of the Fenxing Army who saw the Chu army increasing its troops, also added a thousand soldiers, making the defense line more stable.
But to increase the number of troops, to be honest, Xu Yin was a little confused.
He felt that no matter whether this confrontation was considered a test or not, in short it was an inexplicable fight.
Dou Lian...then what exactly is General Chu planning? He doesn't really want to delay time, does he?
Xu Yin raised his head and glanced at the sky.
It was still early at this time, and there were still about two hours before dusk.
Although these two hours were not enough for the Wei army to completely build the camp, there was no problem in surrounding the minimum barracks.
Of course, the premise is that the Chu general Dou Lian on the opposite side is more sensible and leaves early after the first trial.
"It's not really a calculation, is it?"
Xu Yin muttered and ordered someone to summon one of his fierce generals, General Cai Qinhu of the Western Wei Ying Ying.
Cai Qinhu, whose original name is unknown, was one of the bandits in the Shangcai area. Xu Yin heard about this man's bravery, so he led his troops to capture him.
The specific process is unknown, but since then, Cai Qinhu has become a fierce general in the Fenxing army, with Xu Yin leading the way.
It is said that this man's bravery even surpassed that of Bai Fangming of the Dangshan Army, Feng Su of the Chenggao Army, and Li Wei of the Junshui Army. He was a ferocious man who could kill tigers with his bare hands.
"General!"
After a while, the fierce general Cai Qinhu came to Xu Yin's side. He saw that this man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his face was full of stubble. He looked really powerful, and was even more intimidating than Xu Yin.
"Qinhu." Xu Yin summoned Cai Qinhu to his side and gave him a few instructions in a low voice.
After hearing this, the latter laughed loudly, patted his chest and said boldly: "Why bother? I just killed the Chu general Doulian for the general formation!"
"Proceed with caution, I suspect that the Chu army may have a trick."
"General, don't worry."
Cai Qinhu left with a confident look on his face.
After a while, the Fenxing army made a new move. A team of about a thousand people circled the battlefield from the west and pierced the Chu army's main formation like a sharp knife. (To be continued.)