Chapter 378. Jiangzuo Danyang, array shield Senhuang
The annoying infantry thought that showing their thick legs could scare Wang Hou, but they didn't know that their mouth had leaked the military information in advance.
It's so important to know the opposing coach in advance! Especially for Wang Hou, who has played a lot of various games in the Three Kingdoms, and is catchy for the American wolf!
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On the third day after the confrontation with the Fuwei, Sun Wu's army came to the door as promised.
In the slightly noisy footsteps of the soft plain, under the walled city of Biling, in front of the flat field that had been trampled by the peasants who came and went to transport grain, a neat team of Wu troops appeared in front of the city of Biling.
It is said that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is one's own, but for Wang Hou, Wu Jun is also a mysterious existence!
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms had their own merits, Wei was strong in the strong border cavalry regiment and an extremely large number of infantry teams, the Shu army was stronger than the mountain infantry, and the Wu army was stronger than the water division, but whether it was the official history of the Three Kingdoms and the chronicles, there was not much ink on Eastern Wu, compared to the catchy Five Tiger Generals, Five Good Generals, Eastern Wu always seemed to be out of a supporting role, and it was hazy that people could not see the full face.
Even if it was Wang Hou who traveled from later generations, this was the first time he had witnessed the whole picture of Wu Jun.
Trained!
This is Wang Hou's first evaluation of Wu Jun!
Sun Wu's main force is the Danyang soldiers, this army is also effective under Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Liu Xian, Danyang is the later generation of Anhui, the terrain here is mountainous, the plains are narrow, the terrain is difficult and dangerous, the mountains are more Tibetan and the Han people who carry taxes, in order to compete for survival resources, the clans are constantly fighting, so as to train this strong soldier.
Before enlisting in the army, these Wu troops may have experienced many small wars between clans, although the formation is not as absolutely uniform as the Qingzhou army, but the Wu army, which is composed of clan tribes, is definitely superior in organization.
In the few records of them in the history books, another extraordinarily big feature of this army is the sword and shield!
There is a road that is long in the north and short in the south, in the south of the Yangtze River, the living environment is vertical and horizontal, the plain is dense with water network, and the water is hot and humid, most of the Jiangdong infantry are equipped with short weapons, even if Sun Jian went north to participate in the crusade against the Yellow Turban, a series of wars against Dong Zhuo, absorbing some of the combat characteristics of the northern infantry, the proportion of pikemen in the Wu army is still not much, only in the front row there are one or two layers, the back is a piece, most of them are sword and shield hands, and then behind, there are light soldiers to cover the rear formation, forming a battle phalanx of about 400 people.
Compared with when they were in the mountains, when they joined the regular Wu army, the armor rate of the Danyang soldiers was improved, and there were about sixty percent of the armorers, only the light infantry archers in the rear wore cloth uniforms, but the Wu army was mostly equipped with buffalo leather armor, holding a Wu Gou scimitar in one hand, and a large shield made of buffalo leather in the other hand.
This shield is about to catch up with the size of the northern oars, but compared to the line of resistance, to resist the impact of cavalry and chariots, the turrets and shields made of heavy large wood, these leather shields are large in area, but at the same time, they are much lighter.
This part of the Wu army vaguely reminded Wang Hou of another army in the West with great achievements, the Roman legions! It's just that the javelins used by the Romans for long-range weapons, and the bamboo bows used by the Wu army in the south of the Yangtze River are not much different from the bamboo bows used by the Wu army that were fighting between the two reeds that day.
Later generations recorded that there were many archers in Eastern Wu, although the performance of bamboo work was far less than that of the northern bow, but the material was too easy to take! Forty percent of light infantry, one bow per person, this bow rate is far better than two percent of Cao Military Region!
However, compared with the Wu Zixu Wu army that invaded the Yingdu of Chu State six hundred years ago and almost destroyed Chu State, and the Wu Chu Southern Army, which formed Xiang Yu's main infantry more than three hundred years ago, this army has not developed much in terms of equipment or tactics.
After all, for more than 300 years of the Han Dynasty, except for the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and the battle of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to destroy South Vietnam, there was basically no major war in the south, while the north was constantly confronted by the powerful Xiongnu, from the forest in Liaodong to the 36 countries in the Western Regions, especially in the recent turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, in the frequent wars, the war skills of the northern army should be more refined.
And the northern army has an absolute overwhelming advantage over the southern army, Ma Duo!
Indeed, this swamp and reeds are everywhere, and it is not a big ravine, which is really not suitable for the primitive horse breeding industry.
Well-trained, good at melee hand-to-hand combat, and with a lot of bows! Light armor! Cavalry is almost none! This is Wang Hou's first impression of this Wu army!
With the first Wu army formation into the battlefield, Zhou Yu's strategic skills were also reflected, in later generations, the American wolf should be a good investment expert, well versed in the principle of not putting eggs in one basket, the total number is not Wang Hou's expectations, the Wu army that came was about 20,000 people, but it was also divided into five by Zhou Yu, the left and right four divisions each about three thousand, the Chinese army is extraordinarily heavy, when there are about eight thousand, and the interval between the military formations is wider than the northern army formation.
Not to mention, the cross-section of the military array is very large, visually it is really overwhelming, the flags are all over, it is scary to look at, compared to the Wu army, Wang Houlie is more than 10,000 troops under the walled city of Biling, and the formation is only one-third of the Wu army.
This array method is also related to the national conditions of Eastern Wu, compared with the large army of Cao Wei and even Shu Han, the soldiers are all different from the country, and the military system of Eastern Wu is more feudal, very similar to the medieval West!
After all, the Sun family does not have as deep a reputation and connections as the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, and even Cao Cao after the eunuchs is not as good, so in the process of Sun Ce's brothers establishing Eastern Wu, they can only exert grace and power on the local clans, and cannot completely deprive them of their military rights for themselves, so most of the Wu army is composed of Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Tai Shici, Ling Cao, and so on.
The dispersion of command is not a good thing, forcibly gathering the army together, but it can't be twisted into a fist, so the Wu army's formation is generally this kind of adjacent family soldiers gathered for a while, widening the array space, and allowing each formation to play freely.
This kind of military thinking has continued throughout Eastern Wu, Sun Quan's expedition to Hefei, Zhuge Ke's Northern Expedition, all of which are the same, and even until the fall of Wu later, Lu Xun's grandson Lu Ji led the troops of Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu, and the battle of Qilijian of Sima Yi, the king of Changsha.
In the sound of golden drums, the formation of the Wu army lasted for about 30 minutes, during this period, Wang Hou did not send troops to attack and disturb, just waited for the battle, calm and tense confrontation, 400 meters outside the wall, the Wu army set up the formation properly, and then there was a rapid sound of golden drums, and the Wu army rarely dozens of horsemen carried war horses to the front of the central main array.
A big banner of Zhouzi is fluttering in the morning breeze hunting, the first distant general, wearing a golden helmet, is also a gorgeous gold silk leaf armor, on the shoulders, two huge shoulder guards and wings hang down like that, at first glance, he is not personally fighting, and he is so handsome that he is dressed up.
What makes Wang Hou even more jealous and depressed is that this guy lives up to the name of Jiangdong Mei Zhoulang, this little face with a mustache is simply the same as the tough guy Xiaosheng who is the protagonist of the TV series in later generations, and his face is so handsome that he is scum.
Much more handsome than a certain state shepherd!!
Just like Wang Hou looked at Wu Jun, he looked at the "Shanyue Rebellion Army" in front of him! Zhou Yu also frowned and glanced at each other, and after about two or three minutes of confrontation, Zhou Yu actually carried a war horse, and led his personal cavalry to march forward for more than fifty meters, and at the same time shouted at the top of his voice, shouting at Wang Houjun's formation in extremely standard northern official dialect.
"Which Montenegrin leader is coming, would you like to go before Zhou Yu for a while?"