"Chapter 82: The Deployment of the Sixth Army"
If we do not respect our child, but only seduce him with rewards or threaten him with punishment, then we are promoting his perception and fear of gaining benefits, and proper education encourages children to be respectful and considerate of others without any baiting or intimidation.
- Krishnamurti (the greatest spiritual teacher of the twentieth century)
Bai Feng, who was in the D'Orville Gorge, did not divide the army under his command into six routes equally, but subdivided the army under his command into six armies with different tasks according to the actual terrain and operational needs, as well as the characteristics of each army.
The Lance Legion, which can barely list the pike phalanx, can be regarded as the elite cannon fodder's death battalion, and the Flame Legion, which has good combat effectiveness, forms the first army under Bai Feng's command, that is, the main army that defends the exit at the southern end of the D'Orville Canyon head-on.
In order to avoid the situation of defeating the temptation troops sent by the Eight Banners in one battle, exposing the true combat strength of his own army, and scaring away the main army of the new Eight Banners, Bai Feng designated his own regiment that was facing the Eight Banners tentative troops head-on as the Lance Legion, rather than the elite Spartan Legion.
Judging from the posture of the pikemen corps that had just learned the pike-phalanx, it was uncertain whether they could withstand the attack of the Eight Banners tentative troops; perhaps, if the Eight Banners cavalry charged a few more times, the pike-legged corps, which was full of new recruits, might be defeated by the Eight Banners cavalry.
The Death Battalion lined up immediately behind the Lancers was designed to prevent such an unexpected situation, and there would be no Death Battalions in front of them, and their loose formation was conducive to the rapid evacuation of the Lancers soldiers who had been routed in front of them from the battlefield.
And they are not afraid of death, and they can play the role of entangling the Eight Banners cavalry and slowing down the attack speed of the Eight Banners cavalry; after the rout of the Spear Legion has withdrawn to a safe position, the Flame Legion can join the battle and block the attack of the Eight Banners Cavalry.
With a full force of 50,000 soldiers, the Flame Legion is a truly elite division, capable of even resisting the frontal charge of 20,000 Eight Banner cavalry, and even if they cannot defeat the invading Eight Banner cavalry, they can ensure that their own canyon defense line will not be penetrated by enemy troops.
The Spartan Legion, which was the absolute main force in the decisive battle, and the Feather Forest Legion, which was the strongest in battle, formed the second army under Bai Feng's command, that is, the main army under Bai Feng's own command, and the barracks of the main army were three miles away from the exit at the southern end of the canyon, and they could reach the canyon within twenty minutes.
However, before Shulhaqi's yellow flag and Muerhaqi's red flag were dispatched, it was impossible for Bai Feng to use his main army; whether it was the Spartan Legion or the Yulin Legion, they were all the trump card divisions prepared by Bai Feng to annihilate the yellow flag and the red flag!
Moreover, facing the Eight Banners Cavalry head-on was a rare opportunity for the Lancer Legion to exercise, even if they paid the price of thousands of soldiers killed because of it, it was worth it in Bai Feng's opinion;
Barsaromu's 74th Army and Felix's 77th Army formed the third army under White Peak, the garrison on the left side of the canyon, while Leopold's 82nd Army and Hoy's 84th Army, both independent armies, were garrisoned on the right side of the canyon.
The extremely mobile Eight Banner cavalry did not necessarily have to attack Bai Feng's army from the D'Orville Gorge, they could use their mobility advantage to bypass the D'Orville Gorge; for this reason, Bai Feng deliberately deployed two large armies on both sides of the canyon.
If the cavalry of the Eight Banners test the army and really bypass the D'Orville Gorge and want to attack Bai Feng's army from behind or from the flank, then the two large armies deployed on both sides of the canyon will buy Bai Feng an extremely valuable buffer time to face the battle.
These four standing regiments, with poor weapons and equipment, poor combat effectiveness, and weak will to fight, could not resist the Eight Banners cavalry for long at all, nor could they hold out for long in a frontal battle; acting as an early warning force was a relatively easy task given to them by Bai Feng.
According to Bai Feng's estimate, the probability that the Eight Banners cavalry really bypassed the Oldville Gorge would not exceed one percent, so the legions of Barsaromu and the others were still very safe, and there was almost no possibility of participating in the battle, but there was no absolute thing on the battlefield, right?
Donald's cavalry corps formed itself as the fifth army under Bai Feng's command, that is, a mobile force that ensured that the supply line behind the army and the connection with the auxiliary army were not cut off by the Eight Banners cavalry;
The cavalry legion with 10,000 trained cavalry has long been unbeatable in combat effectiveness, even if it is a direct confrontation with the cavalry of the Eight Banners, the cavalry legion may not be without the strength of a battle; this is the strength of the trained cavalry, and it is also the strength of the Roman city system!
With four commanders and four independent combat units, the Pro-Guards were the last army under the command of White Peaks, the secret troops hidden in the steep cliffs and forests on both sides of the D'Orville Gorge, and their role was to inflict heavy losses on the enemy's main force in a decisive battle.
Wink's three wings of archers and two wings of crossbowmen, with 9,000 longbowmen and 6,000 crossbowmen, would shoot down the cliffs as soon as the enemy's main army entered the Oldwell Gorge and began a fierce battle with the Spartan legions.
At the same time, the 12,000 elite soldiers of the four infantry wings directly under Luculus will also cover the iron artillery and spearmen under the command of Goto Kiji, taking the opportunity to block the entrance to the northern end of the canyon and launch the fiercest attack on them from behind the main army of the enemy.
Of course, the main role of Goto Kiji and Wink's long-range troops is to attack the Eight Banners cavalry from a safe distance, and the main force that really blocks the entrance to the northern end of the canyon is still the fifty teams of Roman heavy infantry under the command of Agis, who are the key to blocking the enemy's retreat in close combat.
Before the main army of the enemy army came to the Oldwell Gorge, no matter how large the size of the tentative troops they sent, the main army commanded by Bai Feng and the pro-guards hidden on both sides of the canyon would not join the battle, which was also Bai Feng's death order to Wen Ke and the others.
After the deployment of the six armies, Bai Feng calmly waited for the Eight Banners to take the initiative to come to the door; to Bai Feng's surprise, four consecutive days had passed, and the Eight Banners garrison in Langxiang County had not yet sent cavalry troops to test his own army.
Fortunately, before noon on the fifth day, a group of overseers who were in charge of patrolling and cruising ten miles north of the Oldwell Gorge discovered the traces of the red-banner reconnaissance cavalry, and the overseer cavalry, which did not dare to delay, immediately withdrew to the southern end of the gorge while not being discovered by the red-banner cavalry.
Bai Feng, who learned the news, first sent someone to give Cabitus an order to prepare for the enemy, and then took several of his retinues, under the escort of the general's guard, to the position of the Fire Legion in order to observe the development of the battle nearby.
Fifteen minutes after the report of the overseer cavalry, Bai Feng, who had an extremely keen sense of hearing, slowly heard the sound of the earth shaking slightly in the distance directly in front of him, and immediately, in the distant sky, a cloud of smoke like a black dragon rose into the sky.
Bai Feng, who clenched his fists slightly, knew that this was exactly the manifestation of the Eight Banners cavalry on the way forward that began to accelerate; if nothing else, when the Supervising Cavalry discovered the Red Flag Scout Cavalry just now, the Red Flag Scout Cavalry should have also discovered the existence of the Overseer Cavalry.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Red Banner Cavalry from afar to enter the state of acceleration so early; you must know that the grassland war horses under the Eight Banners Cavalry cannot accelerate for a long time, and can only be appropriately accelerated before the charge to improve the impact force when charging.