Early the next morning

A large number of troops were lined up on both sides, and they were preparing to fight again on the battlefield of yesterday, and both sides adjusted their team configurations, Mordor increased the cooperation between the strong orcs and the half-orcs, the wolf cavalry was slightly reduced, and the Terrans added the use of peasant soldiers, and yesterday's battle peasant soldiers proved themselves in a certain level.

"Woo~Woo~Woo~"

The battle horn sounded again, and the armies of both sides lined up again under the horn, and the two huge phalanxes began to slowly move together.

Yesterday's battle was extraordinarily sudden, so the two sides were entangled together, but now that there are preparations, yesterday's melee will not appear, and the direct confrontation of the battle array will be reflected at this moment.

Ancient wars, in fact, whether it is the Western-style melee where the crowd is mixed together, or the Eastern-style generals who take on the onlookers alone, are very rare, such as yesterday's melee, which is a situation that occurs when one side pursues, one side suddenly appears, and both sides have no intention of retreating, plus morale is available.

If any of the above conditions are not met, there will be no big melee, the ancient war is actually the same in the East and the West, the East pays attention to the formation, and the West is called the combination of troops.

However, the most common way to fight is one of the most common ways to fight, that is, the infantry is gathered in the middle, the crossbowmen attack if they are capable, and wait for the opportunity if they are not, but what really determines the strength of the war is the duel of cavalry.

Whenever there is a stalemate between one side, for example, when the infantry phalanxes on both sides cannot rush through, or are unable to do the right thing, the cavalry will become the decisive force, whether it is attacking the weakly defended flanks or charging around the rear, the cavalry will change the situation of the entire battlefield.

And there are even cases where the infantry watched the whole process, the cavalry of both sides fought, and after one side failed, the whole army retreated, because for the side that lost the cavalry, they had lost the initiative on the battlefield, and without the initiative on the battlefield, they didn't have to talk about any confrontation.

An infantry brigade is the body of a duel man, while a cavalry is a weapon that person holds in his hand.

On the second day of the confrontation at this time, the two sides, who are well prepared, will stage a war that can truly be called an art here, rather than the large-scale weapon battle with a clear division of labor like yesterday.

"Order, the left flank has previously marched slowly fifty meters, and the cavalry is half a step behind to cover, and then concentrate the crossbowmen on the left flank and prepare to attack!"

Libert started to make moves first today, and the first to strike had more initiative, and Libert didn't give Kakar a chance to make the first move.

The left flank, which had been ordered by Liebert, began to move slowly, but they were actually very slow, because they had to do their best to keep the formation intact, and behind them, a group of cavalry gathered together, slowly hanging behind them, covering their rear and flanks against enemy cavalry attacks.

A large number of crossbowmen don't care about the formation and run towards the right flank, they have shallow protection, so they don't need to care about the formation, speed is what they should consider.

The left flank of the Terran army began to bulge forward, like a giant's left fist.

The actions of the left flank did not affect the center and the right flank in the slightest, they still maintained the established formation, watching the situation on the left, ancient wars often appeared in a certain area of bloody battles, but the other side was leisurely watching, the battle was actually unreasonable.

This point often appeared in ancient China, although the history of war development in ancient China is not comparable to that of the West, but it can also be said that it is not far behind, starting from Zhou.

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the strength of the various princes had almost developed, and there was already enough economic strength and manpower to participate in the war, and some guys with flexible brains began to find that fighting also had to be about strategy, and China's serious war began to move from group fighting to fighting.

With whom? You definitely can't fight with Zhou Tianzi. If you beat Zhou Tianzi, you will rebel, and you will be besieged and beaten by other vassal states, and the ending will be a living "Les Miserables", and you can only pick a single vassal state to fight.

Before fighting, you have to send a secretary to write an announcement, the main content is as follows: On a certain day in a certain year, a certain month, you let out a fart when you visited the Son of Heaven, and not only did you not apologize but also snickered after the release, which is extremely disrespectful to the Son of Heaven, and even a good old man like me can't stand it, so I want to crusade against you!

The central idea of this announcement is threefold:

1. You're not right;

2, I help Zhou Tianzi to be angry and is a teacher of justice;

3. Listen to the other vassal states, whoever helps him is against Zhou Tianzi (this hat is very fastened).

Then the two sides agreed on a time and chose an open place to prepare for war!

There are two problems here: one is what if the agreed time is up. This problem is not easy to happen, because at that time, people valued "faith" more than anything else, and they could not beat it, but it was absolutely impossible to lose face, otherwise they would not be able to mix in the rivers and lakes in the future, and they would be spurned by all mankind. Moreover, at that time, there was no such complicated immigration policy, and once the monarch was disgraced, citizens with a sense of justice would move to other countries, and the national strength would be greatly weakened.

The second question is why you should choose open land. Because there were no cavalry at that time, the war mainly relied on chariots (the combination of infantry and chariots, which is not much different from the current tank warfare). If there was no open field, there would be no need to fight this battle, because the chariots would not have been able to go at all.

The configuration of the chariot is generally three people, one person is responsible for long-distance sniping with a bow and arrow, one person is responsible for close-range combat and clearing obstacles with a long ge, and one person is responsible for being the driver. The driver only has a short sword on his body, and he is generally not required to kill the enemy with his own hands, and when it is his turn to do it, the chariot has basically turned over, and his short sword has no other great use than suicide.

The chariot soldiers were generally well-trained soldiers, but the quality of the infantry was of poor quality, usually made up of peasants or slaves, and their way of defeating the enemy was the oldest tradition of fighting in groups.

Before the battle, the two sides lined up in formation, but it was not a one-word plane as some people say, because such a formation did not have the thickness and it was difficult to give full play to the advantages of coordinated operations. So at that time, the line was a phalanx, and it should not be too dense, and there should be enough gap between the cars.

The purpose of this gap is to allow the opponent's chariot to pass when both sides charge. Why leave a gap for the opponent's chariot? The chariots of both sides rushed towards the opponent at high speed, and then the soldiers on the chariot poked people or slashed people or smashed the chariots, and after a charge, the two sides turned around and set up a phalanx to continue the charge until one side confessed.

If there is no gap, this is not a war, it is a collision, and no one is reluctant to do it - the chariot is very valuable and easy to fight!

When fighting, the chief commander does not need to go to the battlefield, his role is to stand under a special big flag, in addition to judging the battlefield situation, there is only one purpose: "Brothers, brother I am here, brother did not run, brother is always with you!" Of course, who is especially afraid of death, my brother also sees it! ”

At that time, there were no radios and no signal flares, so the direction of command was the flag, pointing where to shoot; It was the musical instruments that issued the order, the drums were beaten, and the gongs were sounded to collect the troops.

Then there are the chariot soldiers against the chariot soldiers, and the infantry against the infantry. Why is there such a convention? First of all, the infantry is reluctant to fight the chariots, just as the current infantry is unwilling to fight against tanks and armored vehicles, obviously unable to do it; Secondly, the chariots are not willing to fight the infantry, because I fight your infantry and you fight my infantry, and in the end, the infantry dies and the chariots fight the chariots, and the troops are just consumed in vain.

Of course, once the chariot overturned, it was a different matter, and it was not impossible for the infantry to rush up and pick up soft persimmons.

Once a side loses, it must be a run, and when it reaches a place where the chariot can't go, it leaves the chariot and runs. In general, in this case, the winner will not continue to chase (the tank can't go, there is no way to chase, and now the tank crew is not willing to get out of the car and fight the opponent's infantry hand-to-hand), the tank rushes over to block the way to escape, and the infantry is responsible for capturing prisoners and grabbing booty.

A battle ended so satisfactorily, and then everyone returned to the negotiating table, it was time to lose money and lose money, and it was time to cede the land.

So did the chief commander personally go into battle and charge? That's definitely there, but it's definitely not a heads-up as written in it, at most it's just a lead to attack the opponent.

In this case, it is generally used to boost morale, if you really expect him to bravely crown the three armies and kill dozens of generals on the other side with seven in and seven out, it is basically impossible - I won't say that you have such good martial arts and luck, whether you have such good physical fitness is a question. Tyson Holyfield is so awesome that he has to rest for three minutes during the game.

This style of fighting was not changed until the late Spring and Autumn period with the advent of Sun Wu, who wrote a book called "The Art of War", which turned war into an art.

From training to combat readiness to arms to deployment to positions to tactics and strategy, Sun Wu has basically designed everything, which is not much different from the basic idea of modern warfare, and there will be no situation in which the main general goes head-to-head.

Therefore, in the Warring States Period, our ancestors finally learned to fight!

The development of this art of war is not much different in Middle-earth, just like now, several successive battles have completely shown that the war between Middle-earth people is not like in the film and television drama, big guys come together and then side by side.

This was the case during the first battle of the White City, Ailong's legion was divided into batches, rhythmically going up, instead of rushing up at the same time, even if they were all sent up, it was definitely the first person to fight, and they couldn't fight back, and the second group of people was on it, so they fought in turns, and there was not much art of war in siege warfare, they relied more on the combat power and equipment technology of the soldiers on both sides, and the siege warfare tools of that family NB, that family had an advantage, of course, it was not impossible to simply pile up the number of people! (Well, it seems a little off-topic!) ）

Lelouch's origin has never been clear, but this does not prevent Lelouch from recognizing Libert's art of leading troops, and the rhythmic battle planning and scheduling make the entire temporarily united Terran legion like an army that has been trained for a long time.

But if Leebert's dispatch made the Terran army look like a united army, then the Mordor Legion dispatched by Kakar combined an army of more than 100,000 people like a giant lying on the ground.

The Terrans are an army, and Mordor's is a giant.

"The Terrans on the other side want the initiative? Okay, I'll show you what it takes to take the initiative! ”

Kakar turned around and raised his right hand:

"Defend the right flank, transfer five thousand wolf cavalry to assemble with the right flank!"

"Press in the middle and concentrate the crossbowmen to shoot!"

"Advance on the left flank in mid-march, give me a stormy attack on the enemy's right flank!"

Libert mobilized a direction of battle, and Kakar made the entire Mordor legion move, Libert wanted to limit the battle to a certain area, but Kakar didn't give Libert a chance at all, three directions, three battles started at the same time, five thousand wolf riders rushed to the left flank of the Terrans, with the original two thousand wolf horses, forming an overwhelming mobile force, these mobile forces hung on the periphery of the left flank of the Terrans, and the overstretched mobile forces on the left flank could not fully defend, so that The left flank had to slow down the already slow march again, and the crossbow troops behind did not dare to move forward too boldly, and their combat effectiveness was greatly hit.

The left flank of the Terrans was suppressed, and the right flank faced the left flank of Mordor who came in stride, their lineup was neat, although the wolf rider was weaker than the mobility of the Terran, but those powerful orc soldiers were able to turn quickly, as long as the Terran knights and wolf riders were entangled together, then the orc soldiers could rush to support as quickly as possible.

That's not all, the Mordor large array in the middle was pressed down, and behind them were a large number of crossbowmen, and after the Terrans lacked the power to counterattack, the Mordor archer troops, who did not have any pressure on the left and right, began to rain arrows in the middle of the Terrans.

The Terran soldiers, who themselves lacked adequate defensive measures, began to fall one after another under the rain of arrows, and the left flank, which was given high hopes by Libert, was suppressed by the wolf cavalry that mobilized almost all the mobile forces, and the corresponding right flank of Mordor also sent a defensive posture, which made Libert a little clueless!

Speaking of which, the number of people in Liebert's hands is even larger, but in the reserve, on the contrary, there is not as much Kakar as the orc army with strong combat power on the opposite side, and in the face of the current situation, Kakar has almost no way to break the game.

"Do you want to fight again?"