Zuo Liangyu waved his sword and ordered the infantry to attack. [Full text reading. 】

His infantry had already formed a phalanx, and after hearing the general's order, they began to rush forward. Although Zuo Liangyu has never read a book, he has a very good set of training troops to fight, he once specifically asked some military masters for advice on the drills of military formations, the phalanx when attacking, the round formation when defending, the long snake formation with good offense and defense, and even the mandarin duck formation used by Qi Jiguang to deal with the Japanese slaves, he has practiced them one by one in his army. As for the arrangement of troops, Zuo Liangyu also has a unique opinion.

At this time, his infantry began to attack, and at the forefront were three rows of heavy armor soldiers, holding iron shields in one hand and short knives in the other.

Because the Qin army placed the crossbowmen in front of the battle, it was the most ideal choice to place the heavily armored soldiers in front. Iron shields can block crossbow arrows, while short knives are used in hand-to-hand combat. When these three rows of heavy armor soldiers walked in front of the enemy formation and collided with the enemy, the short knives that were more than a foot long could exert their most power, and the spears and halberds could not be used flexibly.

Behind the heavy armor soldiers, there are several rows of pikemen, these people are holding two spears, hiding behind the heavy armor soldiers, stabbing with spears between the cracks, even if the enemy cuts down the heavy armor soldiers, they will be stabbed through by the spears, and they will not be able to rush at all.

Behind them are some free stragglers, with weapons or knives or guns, and even a lot of muskets, which are the main force of the military formation, and can be used at any time to kill the generals after the military formation is deployed, or pursue the fleeing enemy, or engage with stragglers.

The two sides and the back of the military formation are also equipped with troops in the same way, and the entire military array has a total of 10,000 people, which is square and very strict, which shows that Zuo Liangyu has worked hard.

Zuo Liangyu's military formation is very similar to Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation, with heavy armor in front and spears in the back, so that the enemy cannot break through or disperse, and can only be beaten passively.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu felt that if his army did not move, it would be enough, and as long as he was dispatched, he would definitely be victorious.

In fact, his self-confidence is by no means blind, since he led the army to fight alone, Zuo Liangyu has used this formation more than once, defeating many peasant army generals, those peasant troops in front of his army array, simply vulnerable, sometimes he can kill thousands of enemies at the cost of hundreds of casualties.

Zuo Liangyu felt that his military array could already run rampant in the world, and as long as the opponent was not cavalry, he would never be defeated.

But there is one thing he overlooks, and that is that it is always good to read more.

Because people who don't read books will never know how terrible Qin Jun is.

When it comes to military formations, the Warring States period was the heyday, when all countries were dominated by infantry, and the study of military formations had reached an outrageous point. Even so, it was always the Qin State that won the war.

The heavily armored Wei State, the fierce and fierce Chu State, and the stoic and belligerent Zhao State were all smashed in front of the Qin army's military array.

And the one who defeated them was Bai Qi.

At this time, Bai Qi and Li Yan had already led the army to the battlefield, Wang Bao reported the battle situation to Bai Qi, and Bai nodded: "If you repel the cavalry, you have already won half of the victory, Zuo Liangyu will not send cavalry to attack again, prepare to change the formation and meet the official infantry." ”

Sure enough, before the words fell, someone from the front came to report, and the officers and soldiers began to attack in a military formation.

Bai Qi smiled coldly: "I knew he would be like this." He asked, "How many people have come over?" Detective reported: "General Hui, a military formation, the size of which should be no less than 10,000 people." ”

Wang Bao said: "I also have 10,000 men and horses, let me go and give Zuo Liangyu a dismount." ”

Bai nodded: "Okay, your people should be on their heads, and they are not allowed to take a step back." Then ordered Li Yan: "Your men and horses are also lined up, listen to my generals' orders, when there is no general's order, you can only hold on, and you must not attack." ”

Li Yan and Wang Bao both nodded in obedience.

Bai Qi ordered more than 10,000 of his own people to also line up in formation, and more than 40,000 Qin troops lined up in three large formations, in a zigzag structure, ready to meet the battle.

Wang Bao's men and horses bore the brunt of the attack, placed at the forefront, and were also the main target of the official army. He saw the phalanx of the officers and soldiers moving towards his formation, and in front of him were three rows of heavy infantry, and he sneered in his heart and ordered to change the formation.

The Qin army was in front of the crossbowmen to meet the official cavalry, and at this time they listened to the order, the crossbowmen put away their strong crossbows and withdrew to both sides, and thousands of Qin troops poured out from behind, standing in front of the formation.

But there is nothing particularly unusual about these Qin troops, they are also iron shield soldiers, and they also have short weapons such as swords in their hands, the difference is that the armor on these people is very thin, not heavy armor.

Zuo Liangyu saw it from a distance, sneered in his heart, and said to the deputy general of the pro-soldier beside him: "I thought that the Qin army was powerful, but it turned out that it was just ordinary. There is no spearman behind these shield soldiers to cover, and once they are broken through the gap, they are immediately scattered, and they are used in vain, is that all? ”

The people around him laughed.

Qin Jun watched the officers and soldiers approaching his position step by step, the fanaticism in his eyes became stronger and stronger, and many people's hands holding knives were dripping with sweat.

The officers and soldiers had already walked twenty paces away, and suddenly the generals who led the army gave an order, and the heavy armored soldiers in front shouted in unison, rushed up, and slammed into the Qin army with iron shields.

Just when the official army began to attack, Wang Bao ordered someone to blow the horn, and with the sound of the trumpet, the Qin army suddenly showed a strange form.

The first few rows of Qin troops stood in front of them, and their whole bodies shrank behind the iron shields, while the Qin troops behind them raised the iron shields above their heads, and the shields were densely put together like fish scales.

Thousands of Qin troops formed a large turtle shell with shields, which was impervious to wind and rain. Not to mention knives and guns, even the rain that falls is not easy to get drenched on the people below. This is called the Turtle Scale Array, and Bai gave it the name himself.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the strange formation of the Qin army, at this time, the Qin army was like a turtle, the whole body was retracted into the shell, so that you couldn't fight, but in this case, the Qin army would not be able to attack. Do you just want to be beaten?

Before he could figure it out, he saw several rows of soldiers appear in the rear of the Qin army, all of them were wearing heavy armor, wearing iron helmets, only showing their eyes, holding machetes in their hands, there were hundreds of them, and they actually flew and jumped on the shields, stepped on these iron shields, and pounced on the official army.

Zuo Liangyu immediately felt bad, it turned out that those iron shields were used to pave the road, in order to allow these heavy armored soldiers to enter the official army formation.

He immediately gave the order to release the arrows.

But these hundreds of Qin troops are wearing heavy armor and iron helmets, where can arrows get in. They rushed forward desperately, and in the blink of an eye they were between the two formations, and then a tiger jumped, jumped off their shields, and jumped directly into the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

The three rows of heavy armored soldiers in front of the official army were holding iron shields and ramming the Qin army, and they couldn't see the people jumping down above their heads, and the pikemen behind them were stabbing forward with their spears at this time, and when they saw people flying down from their heads, they wanted to put the spears up, but those two-pointed spears were too long, and they lost their heads when they stood up, and the Qin soldiers who jumped down were all wearing heavy armor, and if they didn't stab the vital point, they couldn't exert their killing power at all.

Of the hundreds of heavy armored soldiers of the Qin army, only a dozen were pierced by spears and died, and the rest all fell into the ranks of pikemen in the official army.

The machetes in their hands, four feet long, weighing more than a dozen catties, with a heavy head and a light blade, were specially designed for slashing.

The pikemen of the official army did not have iron armor on their bodies, they were just ordinary uniforms, and the weapons in their hands were long, so they couldn't rotate at all, and they were huddled together, and they didn't even have a place to hide, so they could only watch Qin Jun's big knife slash at their bodies, and the screams were earth-shattering.

The three rows of heavy armored soldiers in front hurriedly turned back to meet the battle, and they were also afraid that the Qin army would cut off their heads in the back, and the formation was chaotic for a while.

At this time, the iron shield soldiers on the Qin army's array suddenly attacked, and they raised their iron shields and slammed forward.

Due to the confusion, the officers and soldiers couldn't take care of the front and the back, and they were either cut down by the machete in the back, or they were knocked over by the iron shield in front, and some of the more clever officers and soldiers hurriedly threw their shields, turned over and fled to both sides, but the heavy armor on their bodies limited their speed, and they couldn't run fast at all, and they were rushed forward by the Qin army and killed on the ground with their guns.

Repelled the heavy armor soldiers in front and scattered the pikemen, the military formation of the official army was completely out of shape, and the soldiers turned around and left.

Wang Bao actually saw the weakness of Zuo Liangyu's military formation, although the official army formation was strictly organized, but it was too heavy and inflexible, once the pikemen were broken, then the heavy armor soldiers in front of them would become wolves that fell into the trap and could be slaughtered.

And if you want to break the pikemen, you must kill in the military formation and use short weapons to restrain long weapons, but it is not easy for the officers and heavy armor soldiers to break through, so he used the tiger leap style of warfare. Since you can't rush in, jump in from above. As long as you jump into the pikemen, those pikemen weapons are too long to fight.

The Qin army that jumped in, known as the trapped, was an elite soldier and a death squad.

This is what Wang Bao learned from Bai Qi, Bai Qi once taught him several military formation tactics, in addition to the Tiger Leap Style, there are also Dragon Swimming Style, Crane Xiang Style, all of which are classic tactics of the military formation.

After killing the advance of the army formation, Wang Bao ordered the whole army to retreat, because there was no general order from Bai Qi, so it could not be pursued, and the officers and soldiers were also relieved and hurriedly retreated.

Wang Bao counted the men and horses, and only killed more than 100 casualties, killing no less than 1,000 officers and soldiers. gave Zuo Liangyu a dismount.

After a small victory, Wang Bao sneered, and returned to Bai Qi's side: "General, why don't you take advantage of the victory to kill?" ”

Bai Qi waved his hand: "What's the hurry, when the two sides are equal, the melee is the most dangerous, once the melee starts, there is no guarantee of victory or defeat, this battle, I want to fight steadily, see the moves, let Zuo Liangyu take out all the skills." ”