Not far from Luoyang City, many of the generals of the coalition army stood on a high platform about one zhang high, made of stones and logs, overlooking the battle situation. In fact, there is a city wall not far behind them, and the view from standing on it is definitely more than standing on the wall above, and it will take a lot of effort to get one of these things out, purely for convenience.

After all, if there is really any order to be delivered, it is necessary to wear and lead the troops to go down from the city wall first, and then run out of the city.

It's just that at this time, looking at the battle situation in the distance, Yang Biao's face was a little ugly.

The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, even if he knows that the danger is not very great, such as Yang Biao and some other ministers, it is impossible to allow Liu Xie to run to the battlefield in person, but this war is fought for the prosperity of the Han family, if the Son of Heaven does not make some expressions, wouldn't it make the courtiers who are fighting a bloody battle chill?

So of course, as the most trusted person of the Son of Heaven at this stage, Yang Biao came to the battlefield on behalf of the Son of Heaven, one is to show the attitude of the Son of Heaven, and the other is to understand the situation on the battlefield.

Before arriving on the battlefield, I don't know how many people had told him that the Xiliang rebels were just a rabble, and they could be easily dealt with. This also gave Yang Biao an idea that the Xiliang rebels could act so recklessly in Chang'an City purely because they didn't have enough soldiers and horses in their hands, as long as there were enough soldiers and horses, it would be easy to deal with them.

This also caused Yang Biao to feel that he no longer had to be afraid of the Xiliang rebels after Cao Cao and Yan Shao arrived, and even reduced the speed of his actions.

But now...

Yang Biao is indeed a little dizzy, but he can't see his current disadvantages...

I thought that after the arrival of the Kwantung soldiers and horses, the Son of Heaven would be safe, and he could even give Li Dao and Guo Yan some punishments for these rebellions, but now it seems that the situation is very bad...

"Lord, look..."Just when Yang Biao was worried, not very far from the podium, Li Ru, who was wearing a mask, was pointing out the battle situation in the field.

In this battle, the coalition forces laid out not a simple long snake formation, but a relatively complex goose marching formation.

The military formation has a very long history, and ancient Chinese warfare was very particular about the formation, that is, the combat formation. If the formation is properly arranged, the combat effectiveness of the army can be brought into full play, and the best efficiency can be brought into play through the rational arrangement of troops and formations, so as to defeat the enemy.

To put it simply, the "formation" is the field formation of the ancient army, which is the product of the development of human warfare to a certain historical stage, which prevailed in the era of cold weapons and died out in the era of hot weapons. In the clan society, human warfare was manifested as tribal conflicts, there was no army at that time, and there was no command, and most of the battles were rushed up, like group fights, so naturally there was no "formation". With the development of history, slave countries appeared, and slave owners began to form organized armies in order to consolidate their rule and plunder slaves (prisoners of war were the main source of slaves), and adopted a certain formation, which was the primitive "array". The "array" appeared in the process of the formation of the army, because of the need to organize the army and command the battle, and integrated the achievements of ancient military science and tactics. The battle formations of the East originated in China. The earliest formation in China is said to have begun with the Yellow Emperor, who learned the formation (Tianyi Dunjia) from the god (Jiutian Xuannu) in order to defeat Chiyou, but this is only a legend, and it is well documented that it was in the late Shang Dynasty. In the 12th century B.C., Shang King Wu Yi to Wu Ding compiled the left, middle and right "three divisions", judging from the naming of the "three divisions", a fixed formation has been adopted. In 1066 B.C., King Wu fell, "Zhou Shi 350 times, Chen Yu Muye", "Chen" through the "array".

The early formation was relatively simple, according to the formation of the "three divisions", in a word or square arrangement, the formation method was extremely popular in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, at that time it was common to have such a situation: the two armies were about to meet in a certain place, lined up neatly, and attacked each other......

China's formation was developed and matured in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the representatives of this achievement are "Liutao", "Wu Zi" and "Sun Bin Art of War". "Liutao" is also known as "Taigong Art of War", according to legend, it was written by Jiang Shang of the Western Zhou Dynasty, according to the examination of the posterity of the pseudo-trust, the book was written in the pre-Qin or early Han Dynasty, and there is no conclusion so far; "Wu Zi" is the art of war of Wu Qi, a famous general of the Warring States Period, which is slightly credible. The above two art of war mainly introduce the car formation. After the Warring States Period, the infantry cavalry replaced the chariot as the main formation of the army, and the formation has changed and developed, and in 1972 unearthed the "Sun Bin Art of War", which describes ten kinds of formations (square formation, circle formation, cone line array, etc.), and the methods used. The contemporaneous "Wei Xuanzi" originally also had a "formation chapter", which has now been lost. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the development of the formation method of the military strategists of the Chinese dynasties also included: Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms, wrote the "New Book of Mengde" (which has been lost, only a few quotations remain), and there is a special chapter on the method of marching and arranging the formation; (Shu) Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang "deduced the art of war, made eight arrays", "Wuhou eight arrays" passed down to later generations, and had a wide influence. "Tang Taizong and Li Weigong ask right" deeply studied the formation. Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty left a fragment of the art of war to teach the formation. Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty wrote the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", explaining the formation in detail, and Qi Jiguang also created his own "Mandarin Duck Array" and "Sancai Array", which showed their power in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The armies of the various dynasties in China practiced their formations so that the soldiers and horses could fight more purely.

The problem is precisely here, the training of soldiers and horses is not only about combat skills, but also about formation drills, etc., usually the better the training, the smoother the formation change.

If you don't practice, then at most you can put up a square or a circle.

For example, the Xiliang army on the opposite side is mostly in large and small phalanxes, and only a few elite soldiers and horses are in a charging formation.

In contrast, the coalition forces were more well-trained. This is especially true in terms of the arrangement of the troops.

Of course, this is not always the case, and the coalition is a very mixed organization. Among them, there are not only the elite Qingzhou Army and the Yanzhou Army, but also the Xiliang Army and the White Wave Thieves and other miscellaneous cards.

"Among the coalition forces, our army and the Xiliang army are the most elite, and they are very proficient in both the arrangement of troops and the conversion of formations. In the Western Liang Army, Yang Feng and Xu Rong's troops were second, among which Xu Rong's troops were the most elite, followed by the White Wave Thieves and Huns. The former has a large number of people, but unfortunately the most mixed ingredients, and the latter is brave in battle, although it is not organized. ”

Li Ru commented on the situation of the coalition army for Yan Shao, although it was a wild goose marching array, but it was also divided into situations.

For example, the white wave thief can only be assigned to a secondary location, and it is basically used as a consumable. Like the Huns, it is generally used alone. The Huns are a nation on horseback, and they don't know what a military formation is, let alone know what a wild goose formation is, even if they are reluctant to let them in, they can only add to the chaos, but it is better to use it as an army alone.

The rest of the Xiliang Army was better, but it was also placed in a secondary position. The core position is Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, and Yan Shao's Qingzhou army is placed in a separate position, after all, Yan Shao's Qingzhou army is a cavalry army, which is not easy to cooperate.

Moreover, when the cavalry is in formation, it is impossible to be as strict as the infantry army. Even if the quality of the cavalry itself is not inferior to that of the infantry army, it may even be better, but what about the war horse? You can't ask for a war horse with the standard of a human being, can you?

People can also choose which step to take according to your commands, but what about war horses? You can't do the same.

Of course, it doesn't mean that all the formations are like this, in fact, most of the formations are mixed with horses, but this time the situation is more special.

Putting these aside for the time being, in the face of the growing advantage, Zhao Yun also felt a little powerless in the front, although his performance was still very active, but the war rarely changed because of personal efforts, and more of it was more about comparing the strength of the enemy and us.

The same is true at the moment, the strength of the coalition army is very strong, but the strength of the Xiliang rebels is obviously a little stronger, that's all.

It's just that, although, just that in the situation, Li Dao and Guo Yan have gained the upper hand, they still think that they are still a little dissatisfied, in their opinion, if they hadn't sent it before, some soldiers and horses went to outflank them, and now the victory may have been locked.

It's a pity that they don't have any regret pills to choose from now.

However, they don't have any regrets, although Jia Xu didn't give any particularly good plans, but now they have the upper hand after all.

Seeing that the victory was already under control, they couldn't help but be a little excited.

"Lao Li, if he catches the Son of Heaven later, this matter can't be settled." Thinking of the hard work along the way, Guo Yan couldn't help but say.

"It's natural, the casualties are so great, if it's just settled, the brothers probably won't agree." How can it be calculated, the casualties this time are so large, if they can't give some explanation, I'm afraid their subordinates won't be able to convince the public.

And in their opinion, it is time to give the emperor some teaching, and even he began to consider whether to learn from Dong Zhuo back then, of course not, to learn Dong Zhuo's tyrannical side, but to do some of the things that Dong Zhuo did in the harem.

Naturally, he wouldn't talk about this kind of thing, the people around him said that the person who did this was the commander of the Xiliang Army, but in her opinion, it was already a matter of time!

At the same time, the person on the other side is also a ghost, just like all the commanders of the Xiliang Army who have been said, they miss Dong Zhuo very much, yes, Dong Zhuo's feat of unifying the Xiliang Army is also nostalgic, almost everyone hopes to be the same as Dong Zhuo back then, naturally everyone who wants to do this will be attacked in the end, because other people are the same, and they don't want to be a stepping stone for others.

People are selfish, especially for these colleagues of the Xiliang Army, even more so, they have already lived that kind of self-respecting life in the Xiliang Army, how can they endure the feeling of being under the fence? Especially when even they think about it.

It can only be said that human beings are very contradictory, and they can barely unite when they face the contradictions outside. But the main thing is that at the slightest chance of victory, they will immediately point the finger at their former partner.

In their eyes now, this victory is already within reach, there is no need to continue to waste time, and they are already a little tired of this part, and they want to be like Dong Zhuo at the beginning, to be able to achieve greater achievements, imprison the little emperor, and get that feeling of self-esteem.

It's just that just when the two of them were already thinking about ghosts and preparing to calculate each other, the situation suddenly changed a little. It should be said that this time is still advantageous for them, after all, their hotel is much stronger than those rabble opposite, and they also occupy many advantages in Bing Lichang, even if the soldiers and horses of the Qingzhou Army and Cao Cao are much more elite than their soldiers and horses, but in terms of quantity, the gap is still too big.

So unless something happens, the chance that they will win in the end is almost more than 100 percent, but the reason why an accident is an accident is because he can't resist and can't predict.

Apparently the accident has happened now, almost really, and the two have already begun to think about whether it is time to turn their faces for a while? A group of soldiers and horses suddenly killed from behind them, these soldiers and horses, the armor is almost exactly the same as them, but there are some differences in a few places, but the same people are very brave like them, the Xiliang army, who was fighting, was suddenly stabbed from behind, and immediately panicked, they didn't understand at all, why there was such a soldier behind them.

Even those two people didn't understand at all, and they couldn't help but shout loudly when they looked at the soldiers and horses that suddenly appeared. "Where the hell did this come from?"

But who will answer his question at this time? Almost everyone is disrupted by the current changes.

Fortunately, among these chaotic people, there is another person who remains sober, and this person is Jia Xu.

Looking at the sudden change, Jia Xu didn't seem to be very surprised, looking at the two people who were panicked, he lowered his head and muttered for a while, yes, the two people spoke.

"This may be Ma Teng's soldiers."

"Impossible."

Hearing his words, both of them couldn't help but reply.

It's no wonder that the two of them would say this, in their opinion, Ma Ma Teng's soldiers and horses are far away in Xiliang, and they are still very far away from here, and in the absence of enough food and grass, it is impossible to run over so boldly.

It's just that things are beyond their expectations, just like the many flags set up in the middle of those soldiers and horses, and a big horse character is written on them, there is no doubt that this is Ma Teng's soldiers and horses.

Especially the young general in the front, with white robe and silver armor, and a dragon horse in his crotch, so he is Ma Teng's eldest son, Ma Chao.