Chapter 30: Drill Formation
In addition to the poor equipment, I also found that although the Long family army is well-trained, it lacks formation training, only knows how to rush and kill, and lacks flexibility, although the combat effectiveness of a single soldier is relatively high, but the overall combat effectiveness is a bit unsatisfactory.
I wrote down the areas that the Long family army needed to improve one by one, and then returned to the camp tent, and my father called me back, so he asked, "Yu'er, you have taken a look around the barracks, how do you feel?"
I replied: "I just took a turn in the barracks, it is worthy of the Long Family Army, the soldiers are all well-trained, each of them has strong combat effectiveness, but the number is too small, the equipment is too worn, and you will definitely suffer when you fight with others." ”
The expression on my father's face was full of pride when he heard me say that the Long family was well-trained, and when he heard that the number of people was small and the equipment was poor, his face was full of helplessness and unwillingness, and he was silent for a while and said: " In the past, the Long Family Army had the support of His Majesty the Emperor, and would provide a lot of money every year for the Long Family Army to recruit new people and buy new equipment, but now the Long Family Army is not as good as before, and the money provided by His Majesty the Emperor every year is only enough to barely maintain the Long Family Army from being disbanded, and our Long Family is not as good as before, there is no extra money to provide to the Long Family Army, so the Long Family Army has not recruited new people for many years, and it has no ability to replace new equipment. ”
I comforted my father and said, "Father don't be sad, I will restore the Long Family Army to its former glory." ”
The two generals also chimed in beside him: "The young master is right, the Long family army will not be defeated by anything, and it will one day return to its previous glory." ”
The father smiled with satisfaction and said, "With your ambition, our Long Family Army will definitely restore its previous glory." ”
I still had a question in my heart, and said to my father: "Father, didn't the Long family army use the formation when fighting with the enemy? Why haven't I seen them teach the formation?"
My father and the two generals were puzzled when they heard me talk about the formation, and my father asked, "Is the formation a formation learned by cultivators? Those who have to have cultivation can use it, how can ordinary soldiers use the formation." ”
I shook my head and said, "It's not the formation that my father thought of, it's the formation used by soldiers when they fight, didn't my father use such a formation when he led troops to fight before?"
My father and the two generals were still very confused, so I had to lead them out, called a team of soldiers who were training, and briefly told them about a formation called "goose-shaped formation".
The so-called goose-shaped formation is a kind of battle formation that is spread horizontally, and the left and right wings are arranged forward or backward in echelons, and the forward is a "V" shape, just like the arms of an ape stretched forward, which is a formation used to outflank and detour, but the defense of the rear is relatively weak. If the two wings are more mobile cavalry, then when stationary, they can get the protection and support of the infantry in the center, and can give full play to the power of the attacking cavalry to increase the suddenness.
This is a very simple formation, and the soldiers said that they understood, and then I returned to my father, signaled that the soldiers had just practiced to show my father and the two generals, they are all experienced people, and they all felt shocked after seeing this formation, and this formation can be inverted "V" shape when attacking, directly tear apart other people's formations, it is very easy to charge, and when retreating, it changes into a "V" shape, which can withdraw from the battlefield faster, and it is not easy to be intercepted.
After the drill, they returned to the military tent with their father, and my father looked at me and said: "I didn't expect Yu'er to have the talent to fight, I knew that you had this talent, you didn't want to come to the barracks at the beginning, and I had to force you to come, by the way, where did you learn the formation?"
I thought to myself that if I hadn't crossed over, your former son would definitely not have done this, and I would have thanked the ancients for this, their wisdom is really beyond our imagination, but I can't tell my father about this, and they won't necessarily believe it.
I thought for a moment and lied: "These are all books that I have read and then figured out by myself." ”
The father said happily: "Sure enough, it is my son Long Yunling, and there is hope for the Long family army in the future." ”
I have plagiarized the wisdom of the ancients, and I am really a little embarrassed to be said like this, so I quickly changed the topic and said: "Father, I just practiced a formation, and I still have a formation here." ”
When my father and the two generals heard that I still had a formation, they hurriedly urged me to hurry up and tell them about it.
Then, at their urging, I introduced them to several formations: square formations, circular formations, cone formations, Xuanxiang formations and other formations.
The phalanx is the most basic formation of the army in the era of cold weapons. The large phalanx is composed of small phalanxes, which is called "the formation in the array", Sun Bin believes that the phalanx should be "thin and thick", that is, the strength in the center of the phalanx is small, and the troops around it are more. There are few troops in the middle, and you can bluff. There are many troops around, which can better defend against the enemy's attack, and the phalanx is a relatively balanced formation of attack and defense. The command and other golden drum flags are generally deployed at the rear of the phalanx. The wings are weak and suitable for attacking.
The circle formation is for ring defense. Drums and flags are deployed in the center, and there are no obvious weaknesses.
The cone formation is a battle formation with a forward such as a cone, the cone formation must be sharp and fast, the two wings are strong and powerful, and the enemy can be attacked by the elite forward in a narrow front, break through and cut the enemy's formation, and the two wings expand the results, which is a formation that emphasizes the offensive breakthrough, and the cone formation is also called the peony 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. 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.
Father, they listened to me after listening to these formations for a long time, and it took a long time to come back to their senses, the two generals were so excited that they couldn't do it, and said while running out: "General, childe, we won't be here to accompany you, we have to hurry up and hand over these formations to the soldiers below, with these formations, the combat effectiveness of our Long Family Army will definitely improve a lot." ”
The two walked out of the military tent, and we could still hear the happy laughter of the two and the shouts of the soldiers in the military tent, and my father couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly urged me: "Yu'er, push me out quickly, I can't wait to see the Long family army practice these formations." ”
Seeing that my father and the two generals were busy directing the Long family army to practice the formation, I had nothing to do, so I said: "Father, you and the two generals are in command here, and I have nothing to do, I want to go out for a while." ”
My father was busy, and he didn't look back and said, "If you want to go out, you can go out, I'm going to watch them drill, you don't have to worry about me." ”
I came out of the barracks, wandering around the street while thinking about changing the equipment for the Long Family's army, the equipment of 10,000 soldiers, which requires a lot of money, I don't know how to get such a large sum of money, I thought about it for a long time, and my head hurt and I didn't come up with a way.
After a while, I was thinking about how to get the money, and I was not in the mood to continue wandering the street, so I decided to go home.
When I got home, my mother saw that I was the only one, so she asked, "Yu'er, didn't you go out with your father, why did you come back by yourself, where did your father go?"
"My father was in the barracks watching the soldiers train, and I saw that there was nothing I needed to do, so I came back early. I replied.
"Since you were a child, you don't like the way of life of fighting and killing, and you are very resistant to the life in the barracks, it is rare that you can go to the barracks with your father this time, go back to your room and rest. ”
I nodded and replied, "Well, the boy went back to his room to rest first." ”
Back in the room, I was still worried about making money to change equipment for the Long Family's army, but I couldn't figure it out, I had originally crossed over from the earth, although I had been here for a long time, but I had been cultivating on the Heavenly Slash Peak, and I knew very little about the things in this world, so I didn't know what to do to make a lot of money quickly, it seemed that I had to find someone who was more familiar with this place to help me figure out a way.
So I called Yue'er to the room, and then told her about the need for a lot of money to change equipment for the Long Family's army, and then asked her about the places on the Dragon Continent where she could quickly make a lot of money.
Yue'er thought for a while and said: "I heard them say that the fastest place to make money in Longdu is the auction house, where a large number of rare treasures are auctioned out every day, and most of the people who go to the auction house are the sons and daughters of some big families, all of them have a lot of money, as long as they can come up with something they are interested in, they will not care about the price, so if the young master wants to make a lot of money quickly to change equipment for the Long family's army, he can go around and take a look." ”
Auction house, I used to see the existence of an auction house when I read novels on the earth, and I always wanted to see it with my own eyes, but I didn't expect it to be here, and I really can't wait to see it.
Since I knew that I could make money quickly in the auction house, I decided to take a look at it quickly, so I asked, "Yue'er, do you know where the auction house is?"
Yue'er said in surprise: "Ah, young master, you don't even know where the auction house is, and the auction house is a relatively famous place in Dragon City." ”