Chapter 135: Sand Table Deduction
It's like stepping back in time, and the scene is replayed.
General John, Anthony, Princess Arlina and the others stood on a high place, looking down on the battlefield below.
On the battlefield, the Taranto rebels have been defeated, and both generals and soldiers are running for their lives.
Behind them, Aberdeen's cavalry, divided into small detachments, pursued the fleeing rebels in all directions.
Everything is very similar to the scene of the first battle between the two sides.
The only difference, perhaps, was that the infantry of Aberdeen's own camp no longer followed in vain behind their horse-mounted companions in pursuit of the slippery enemy who was destined to be unable to catch up.
This is the eighth battle and the eighth victory.
Along the way, Taranto's side set up a line of defense almost every other way, erected simple or rudimentary fortifications, and sent troops of various sizes to hold back the counterinsurgency army in Aberdeen.
And the result of the battle between the two sides is that the battle is exactly the same.
The rebels shouted and cursed. The Aberdeen forward cavalry units reorganized their formations and charged on horseback. Then the rebels barely withstood a wave or two, the line was breached, and the soldiers fled in an uproar.
In the end, it is the running and chasing that you see in front of you.
Eight wins in a row!
The victory came too easily, too easily, so that the excitement of the generals quickly dropped after the rejoicing of the previous few games. By now, they had watched their soldiers break through the enemy formation and chase down the enemy with their calm and almost numb eyes.
Even General John, who had not taken the rebels seriously from the start, was surprised by how smoothly the battle had turned.
And Tang Feng, who had always been worried that the army was too proud and underestimated the enemy, couldn't help muttering in his heart.
The combat effectiveness of this rebel army is indeed extremely weak. If the entire Taranto army behaved like this, it is not incomprehensible that General John's pride and contempt would have been.
"Let's go back."
A slight sigh pulled Tang Feng's scattered thoughts back.
When he turned his head to look, Anthony on the side had greeted General John and was already walking back. Princess Arlina followed with Caton and the others.
As if imperceptibly, like a spring breeze and rain, moisturizing things silently, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess and others, I don't know when they started, slowly became headed by this genius boy.
Tang Feng confessed his guilt to General John and followed in the direction of everyone.
He is now a middle- and high-level general who commands thousands of troops, and at this time the two armies are at war, and he can't leave the team at will.
It's just that the enemy's combat strength is not mentionable, and the battle has entered the final stage of cleaning up the battlefield, and the "Xinding Army" led by Tang Feng has not even fished for the opportunity to fight. In addition, he has a special status and belongs to the side of Her Royal Highness the Princess, but he is much freer than other Aberdeen generals. As long as he asked for instructions according to the rules of the army and did enough courtesy, General John would not be embarrassed by him in this small matter.
Boarding the spacious carriage specially prepared for Her Royal Highness the Princess and others, Tang Feng saw that Anthony was already sitting cross-legged in the middle, with a small table in front of him, and a pair of sand tables commonly used in the army were placed on the table.
Princess Arlina and Caton sat in the back, talking in low voices.
Lin Zhifeng and Xu Feng stayed outside and did not board the carriage together. They were very amused, knowing that they were not yet qualified to ride in the same carriage with the princess, and despite Antony and Arina's repeated invitations, they followed the carriage like the other guards.
As for Paul, he stayed in the army and led the "Xinding Army" on behalf of Tang Feng.
Tang Feng walked to Anthony and sat down, fiddling with the sand table, while explaining one by one as the sand table in his hand changed.
This scene is repeated after each battle. And what is deduced on the sand table is exactly the situation of the battle between the enemy and us just now. It can also be said that this is a review.
Obviously, Anthony was using the sand table to deduce and review, plus Tang Feng's explanation, to learn the command strategy of marching and fighting.
The leader humbly asked for advice, Tang Feng didn't dare to refuse, so he naturally tried his best to tell what he knew.
This explanation made both Arlina and Caton stunned.
Unexpectedly, this stuffy gourd still has a lot of attainments in leading the army to fight.
Although the two are not generals who lead the army, and their ability to command the troops cannot be discussed, they have some relevant contact. Whether what Tang Feng said is reasonable, or whether it is nonsense, they can still distinguish clearly.
In his own heart, he was also very confused.
In such a one-sided war, the enemy army will collapse as soon as it engages in battle, and there is no room for any formation or command technique to be brought into play, and what is the value of reviewing and studying?
What's more, the focus of the leader's attention seems to be on the lowest and most basic part. For example, how to convey the instructions to move forward and backward, how to ensure that the commander's orders can be accurately executed, and so on.
Is this about learning to conduct from scratch?
But soon, Tang Feng's doubts were replaced by surprise.
Anthony, who is universally recognized as a genius, shows his demonic side in learning. Just like a giant whale absorbing water, the knowledge and skills taught by Tang Feng were all absorbed by him. After "looting" the inventory in Tang Feng's stomach, some shocking situations began to emerge slowly.
Since the review of the fifth war, Tang Feng has nothing new to say. At Anthony's suggestion, after each routine review and commentary, the two began to simulate a "battle".
This is from theoretical learning to practical operation. Tang Feng thought to himself.
Then, he was blown away!
At Anthony's request, he chose the side of the rebels, while Tang Feng commanded the cavalry troops. Tang Feng attacked, Anthony defended.
The result is......
Can't even attack it?!
Tang Feng's eyes widened, staring at the red and blue flags representing the troops of both sides on the sand table, and he couldn't understand how the "battle situation" had developed to this point.
You must know that the combat strength of the "troops" of the two sides is completely deduced and calculated in accordance with reality. In reality, the rebels who were defeated with one blow, when it came to the hands of the leader, how did they become Xiaoqiang who could not be killed? Let him attack or attack, outflank or take the middle palace directly, anyway, he can't attack it!
Although the formation of the "defenders" has been stormed a little scattered. The fortifications laid out have long been ruined and disorganized. Even the original defensive position was lost early, and was overwhelmed by Tang Feng's "cavalry" troops, constantly retreating, and changing the defense in five places in a row.
However, the "rebels" are still like kraft candy, sticking to the "cavalry" troops.
It also jammed their way forward.
How is this possible?!
Tang Feng's cool and cold attitude is somewhat due to conceit. The martial arts cultivation of the Black Iron Realm is certainly not enough to praise. The source of his self-confidence is precisely military talent.
If it is lacking, Tang Feng believes that what he lacks most is actual combat experience.
However, sand table deduction is precisely the least dependent on actual combat experience. But in this battle on paper, he was defeated. Defeat to a teenager who had been in military command for less than a month, even though the boy was the leader he admired the most, still found him unacceptable.
Princess Arina and Caton Sword Saint, who were in the mood of watching the excitement, were also shocked at this time.
Slowly, Caton's eyes narrowed.
He seemed to see a little bit of a doorway.
Tang Feng was so confident that he lost his due composure when he was defeated by a "newcomer" in his most conceited area.
The authorities are obsessed.
Caton, who was watching from the sidelines, saw very clearly that after a very short period of novice jerkiness, Anthony's command became more and more skillful, and he became more and more comfortable in coping.
But what is even more surprising is that every time he gives an order, it is not to deal with a certain impact of the opponent alone. Rather, they are interlocking, paving the way for the next step without a trace.
If it weren't for this, with the weak "army" in his hands, he would not have been able to block the fierce onslaught of the cavalry troops.
A novice who has not been in contact with military command for a long time can "play" the troops to this extent? What a tough, deliberate ability to calculate and derive this requires!
Even if it's just a sand table deduction, even if this demon has created too many miracles, even if he seems to exist to break the "impossible", Caton still thinks it's not very likely.
Because, he thought of another, more plausible explanation.
The teenager actually mastered a complete system of military command knowledge!
It is only due to the extreme lack of practical experience that it appears rusty and clumsy. After mastering Professor Tang Feng's basic introductory knowledge and skills, he was like finally finding the key to his own treasure house, and immediately integrated the knowledge system in his mind and used it flexibly.
Those amazing coping strategies are probably just the result of deducing from a well-established knowledge system.
The reason for this idea is that Caton had had similar conjectures about Anthony's performance before.
Last time, it was in the middle of the horizontal ridge where demonic beasts were rampant. At that time, Caton had doubts about the martial arts used by Anthony.
It was clearly a system that was completely different from the Glorious Empire, and even completely different from the martial arts that were now popular in the Austein Continent.
With this judgment in mind, Caton easily thought of this point.
He guessed right.
The world where the "Oriental Mythology System" is located, the powerful Oriental civilization with a long and ancient historical inheritance and brilliant brilliance, has accumulated countless huge cultural wealth. The military is just a small branch of it.
The military work "The Art of War" compiled by Sun Wu, a generation of military saints, is known as the "holy book of military science". Since its birth, it has spanned countless countries at home and abroad, and spanned tens of thousands of years. Until the "system" left that world, even though the form of war had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the battlefield had moved from the ground to the ethereal starry sky, it still failed to change the supremacy of the Art of War in the military field.
In addition to "Sun Tzu's Art of War", there are also "Wu Zi", "Sun Bin Art of War", "Three Strategies", "Liutao", and "Wei Xuanzi...... And so on and so forth.
One after another amazing masterpieces have created generations of famous generals and gods. And these famous generals and strategists with millions of soldiers have changed the pattern of the entire world through their command skills, and their influence can be described as extremely far-reaching.
All of this now lies quietly in Anthony's mind, ready for him to look up and study at any time.
Thanks to the powerful function of the "system", these cultural inheritances of immeasurable value were instilled into Anthony's sea of knowledge without any care, and even the process of reading was omitted. As long as his mind is together, the content of all his writings will be extracted from memory as if he were his own childhood experience.
In addition to these extremely instructive military theoretical classics, there are also countless practical examples for Anthony's reference and comparison. What's more, these battle examples are not pure text descriptions, but like the so-called 3D movies in another world, they truly reproduce the classic battles one by one. He can look down on the entire battlefield like a god, reviewing and commenting on the gains and losses of all parties. You can also "possess" a small soldier and experience the slaughter and ruthlessness of the battlefield.
As Caton had guessed, Anthony had his own complete body of knowledge of military command. What Lord Sword Master didn't expect was that even the actual combat experience he lacked - the word "experienced in a hundred battles" was not enough to describe Anthony's battlefield experience.
If it weren't for the difference in the marching combat and command habits of the two worlds, and the great difference in the individual combat strength of the soldiers, Anthony needed time to adapt and compare, and those few sand table reviews and Tang Feng's explanations could be avoided.
"Okay." Anthony stroked his palm and chuckled, covering the sand table, "In the end, I still let you rush over, you won this game." ”
On the sand table, there were few red flags left representing the rebels, and they were scattered by a large number of blue flags. Of course, it can't be stopped, but it is very likely to be separated and annihilated.
Tang Feng, who was praised, was not happy, but looked ashamed: "Boss, don't snub me." Even the infantry phalanx was dispatched, and it took more than a dozen rounds to win the game. Fortunately, the commander-in-chief on the other side is not you, otherwise this counterinsurgency battle would be in suspense. ”
Princess Arlina and the Caton Sword Saint on the side nodded in agreement.
It's a pity that the commander on our side is not this speechless peerless demon.
"Or, you will be the president of this Qian, and Paul and I will be your deputy?" Tang Feng cautiously proposed.
Arlina and Caton's eyes lit up. That's a good proposal!
It's a waste to have such a demon left unused. Even if it's just a thousand recruit eggs, in the hands of Anthony, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not play seven ** tricks.
Anthony waved his hand, noncommittal.
"I see that you have been absent-minded, is there something on your mind?"
"Yes." Speaking of business, Tang Feng immediately looked worried.
"Including this one, our army has won eight consecutive victories. This series of big victories came a little too easily. No matter how weak Taranto's armament is, it will not be so weak. If that were the case, Curcis would have had the guts to start a rebellion unless he was an idiot. ”
"I'm worried, is there any fraud in this?"