According to rumors, everyone who inherits these three famous swords is a very capable person, and these three people are not necessarily from Miao Jiang, but they must all be people who can take charge of themselves.

This is also the reason why Miaojiang, a small country, can prosper and develop and become strong.

Against such an opponent, even if the opponent is defenseless, they must go all out and be cautious, because they will definitely have a way to deal with Xingzhe.

In terms of formation, Xingzhe chose the Xuanxiang Formation, which is one of the formations that Lin Xiao explained to Xingzhe, but listening to Lin Xiao, Xingzhe is still a little vague about the formation.

But after Lin Xiao formed the Xuanxiang Array, Xingzhe could basically handle it by himself, but this time the opponent was not simple, so Xingzhe still gave Lin Xiao the opportunity to set up the formation, and he also carefully observed the process of Lin Xiao's formation.

The Xuanxiang array is a kind of false formation to confuse the enemy, the queue spacing is very large, most of the flags, the drums are endless, the sound of simulated troop vehicles marching, and the sound of foot soldiers is noisy, as if the number of troops is huge, and various methods are used to deceive the enemy.

And what is embarrassing is that in this area of research, even in this world, the Japanese still occupy the leading position, and in many Japanese Three Kingdoms games and films, we can see the shadow of Sun Bin Shijin.

During the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang entered Shu to pacify the Southern Barbarians, the main combat object of the Shu army was mainly Cao Wei's infantry cavalry combined troops, and the combat area was mainly mountainous, and Shu lacked horses, so Zhuge Liang rehearsed the "Eight Formations".

The Eight Formations were actually formations that had existed long before the Three Kingdoms era. Sun Tzu has eight formations, and Sun Bin also has the "Eight Formations" chapter in "Sun Bin Art of War", and the eight formations are commonly used in combat training in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhuge Liang proceeded from the reality of Shu infantry as the main force, innovated the real formation on the basis of the original ancient eight formations, drew the formation map, and finally formed the "eight formation map" to train the Shu army.

The so-called formation diagram is to draw the formation into a figure, draw it on the brocade, paper, on the ground or pile it up with sand and gravel to form an intuitive physical object, which is the formation diagram. Zhuge Liang's text recording the formation has not been handed down, and the eight formation diagram has been lost in the Tang Dynasty.

But it is said that Zhuge Liang once made eight formations of stones, it is said that the remains of the eight eight sixty-four piles of stones by the fish belly river, is the eight formations left by Zhuge Liang, combined with a few words about Zhuge Liang's eight formations, for reasonable simulation, modern soldiers believe that the eight formations are a kind of group phalanx, each eight formations have eight small formations distributed in the eight directions around the central formation, the center of the eight formations is the general, the golden drum banner, and the soldiers and horses directly under it, this is the middle formation.

Each small array has code names such as heaven, earth, wind, clouds, dragons, tigers, birds, snakes, etc. This is the saying in "Li Tang Asks Right" that "the number of formations is nine", so the Song Dynasty also called the eight formations the nine army formations.

The formation of each direction is six small formations, the middle formation is sixteen small formations, and the entire large phalanx has a total of sixty-four small formations, which is just in line with the number of eight eight sixty-four piles of stone relics in the fish belly river. After the large phalanx, there may be twenty-four small formations composed of rangers, for a total of eighty-eight small formations.

These small phalanxes can be cavalry, infantry, and convoys, ranging from tens to hundreds, with crossbowmen in the front row, long weaponmen in the middle, and short weaponmen in the back, sometimes in a different order.

In order to delay the enemy's attack and give full play to the power of the Shu army's crossbowmen, the eight formations also set up obstacles such as rushing cars, antlers, and thistles when defending. Zhuge Eight Formations belong to defensive formations, the advantage is that there is no weakness in deployment, any direction is attacked, the overall large array does not need to make fundamental changes, one is attacked, the two adjacent formations can automatically become two wings, protecting and supporting the attacked array. But the shortcomings are also obvious, first of all, such a complex Zhuge Eight Formation requires a lot of time to train, and the mobility is poor, in order to maintain the integrity of the formation, it is not allowed to run when it is forward, and it is not allowed to run when it is backward.

This is "the front is the back, the future is the front, there is no speed in the front, and there is no retreat and no reluctance" in "Li Tang Asks the Right". Therefore, the eight formations are a very conservative formation of defensive nature. Without a big defeat, it is also difficult to achieve a big victory. Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan six times, and Jiang Wei also attacked Wei many times, without major defeats and no major victories, and it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with the Shu army's use of eight formations to fight.

But I personally think that the above is only the basis or prototype of the Zhuge Eight Formations, because relying on such a rigid formation, it seems impossible to compete with Cao Wei for decades without a major defeat with the weak strength of the Shu State, and it is not commensurate with the position of the Zhuge Eight Formations that has been praised for thousands of years, and the combat area belongs to the mountainous environment, and the Eight Formations are more suitable for infantry to fight in the plains.

Therefore, I personally believe that there should be many changes in the Zhuge Eight Formation, and when there are restrictions on the position, such as ditches and trees, they should be adjusted according to the actual situation. Moreover, when marching, there should be various changes in formation during the attack, but due to the limitation of information, it is quite difficult to study Zhuge Liang's eight formations in more depth.

Moreover, I personally believe that the so-called Zhuge Eight Formations is not only a combat formation, but through the training of the "Eight Formations", the Shu Army's operational guiding ideology, establishment, and training will be infiltrated into the Shu Army......

And Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty was based on the Zhuge Eight Arrays and arranged the Six Flower Arrays......

The so-called six-flower array is a formation like "six flowers". The Chinese army is in the center, and the front army, the left army, the left Yu Hou army, the rear army, the right army, and the right Yu Hou army are distributed around the Chinese army.

According to the record of "Li Weigong Asks the Right", the Liuhua Formation has a circular formation, a square formation, a curved formation, a vertical formation, a sharp formation and other formations, each of these five formations has five variations, a total of 25 variations, and the generals can adopt different formations according to different enemy conditions, terrain, offensive and defensive needs. This is also one of the reasons why I think Zhuge Liang's "Eight Arrays" will have various changes.

Due to the threat of the northern nomads, the Song itself lacked sufficient quantity and quality of cavalry, in order to counter the nomadic cavalry with the main infantry force on the plain. Therefore, among the dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the dynasty that attaches the most importance to the array......

However, the Song Dynasty implemented the "general from the middle of the emperor", every time the general went out to fight, the emperor must "draw a formation, rule the temple to win, give discipline, remote control is cheap, the commander obeys, and the nobles supervise......

In order to better control the generals who lead the troops into battle, the generals are often awarded the formation map before the troops are dispatched, and the specific tactics of the front line are stipulated in the deep palace. Therefore, after the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the wars against the ethnic minorities in the north ended in failure...... Since the Song Dynasty, the development of the formation has gradually tended to be conservative. According to the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the main formations commonly used by the Song army were the Chang Formation, the Pingrong Wanquan Formation, and the Eight Formations of the Ben Dynasty.

Xingzhe spent more than a week selecting the Xuanxiang Array, and then delved into its usage and effect, so as not to be unable to understand the situation on the battlefield when he was fighting.