230,000 Qi troops, minus the part of the troops defending the city, the remaining 200,000 is indeed huge. The number is not surprising, and during this time the divisions were mentally prepared. It's just that compared to the number, what kind of formation will the 200,000 Qi army put up to meet the battle, this is the question that Xiong Jing and the generals want to know the most.

If the Qi army put on a thin horizontal formation without any fancy like Xin Wu back then, and then was stabbed through by his own side, it would certainly be the best. But this is obviously impossible, the Qi people have a strange imagination, the formation has the most tricks, although one force will drop ten times, but the Qi army has an absolute advantage in numbers, if the Qi people can make good use of their reserves, the consequences will be unimaginable.

On this day, the shogunate did not discuss the war, but only mobilized the whole army accordingly. In addition to the four infantry divisions, the cavalry boys, the transporters, and the engineers, as long as they can go to the battlefield, must wear armor and prepare to fight in formation.

Thus, in addition to the seventy-two soldiers and the nineteen thousand, there were about nine thousand foot soldiers, most of whom were cavalry boys—more than four thousand horses, and more than four thousand boys. Except for the 500 who continued to fight with the heavy cavalry, the rest were incorporated into the combat unit.

There are also 3,600 transporters, who are not fully qualified as regular foot soldiers, but can still defend with spears. In addition, there are sappers. Each brigade has a sapper establishment, and each division will be reinforced by a sapper, and four divisions are equal to twenty sappers, making a total of 2,000 men.

In order to maximize the width of the battle array, thirty-six archers per pawn were also required to fight with spears. They numbered more than 2,500 men, and the depth of five men could list a military formation of more than 500 columns wide. It's just that more than 2,500 people are included in the 72 soldiers and more than 19,000 people, and the whole army still has more than 28,000 foot soldiers who actually fight.

In addition to the 28,000 people, there were more than 3,900 cavalry (including 500 boys), 2,000 artillery soldiers, and more than 1,000 shogunate, guards, communications, boats, and baggage personnel. According to the statistics of the army, there were 35,879 living creatures walking on two legs in the entire Yingshi, and more than 1,700 people actually participated in the battle without holding weapons.

The maximum increase in the number of combatants, the increase of 9,000 people is a huge force. If five men were to go deep, the width of the entire army would reach an astonishing 5,500 meters (nine non-combatants per soldier). Of course, this is the width of the formation in extreme cases, and it is necessary to keep a reserve in hand during the battle. It is impossible for the eight guards around Xiong Jing to be at the forefront of the military formation, fill the gap or wait for an opportunity to break through, this is their use.

Considering that the Qi army had 50,000 halberd-wielding men in huge armor, the depth of the array to defend against halberd-wielding men should be increased to eight people. Although the width of the 50,000 men is unknown, it is obviously necessary to reduce the number of columns by 1,000 columns to strengthen the formation. The final military formation of more than 28,000 foot soldiers should be 4,000 meters.

The cavalry must be used intensively, either on the left or right side of the formation, or even in the middle of the formation, rather than evenly distributed on the left and right flanks. More than 3,400 cavalry will occupy about 500 meters of the width of the formation, so the width of the entire army formation will reach 4,500 meters, which is wider than the western wall of Linzi City. There were also nine reserves of 2,430 men.

However, is the military formation arranged in a horizontal formation, or in a concave formation, a concave formation, a convex formation, that is, a hooking formation and a goose marching formation? Is the cavalry on the left, on the right, or in the middle? Is it facing away from the canal, or facing the west city wall of Linzi? These must be decided according to the formation of the Qi army.

'The soldier is like water, the shape of water, avoiding the high and tending down, the shape of the soldier, avoiding the real and hitting the false. The water is controlled by the land, and the soldiers are defeated by the enemy. Therefore, the army is impermanent, the water is impermanent, and those who can win due to the change of the enemy are called gods. Sun Tzu said.

'Since the battle in formation, the formation has changed in a thousand ways, and there are many formations. However, the way to defeat is nothing more than two: one is to crush the enemy's army and promote its defeat; The second is to hook the enemy's two wings and force them to flee. Lian Po said.

During the three-day wait, Xiong Jing couldn't help but feel a little anxious. The Yingshi is his private army, and the Chu army implements a new military system, changing from a flower team to a pure team, and evolving from a bronze soldier to a giant soldier, all of which he is vigorously promoting. In the hearts of the generals, the first battle of Chu will be General Xiang Yan, and the second battle will be Xinping Jun Lianpo, but the trust in him is by no means inferior to the first two.

However, he is actually a rookie, without Xiang Yan's old scheming, without Lian Po's old and serious, and most importantly, without Ruoao's solitary battlefield smell, which is especially important when there are fewer troops.

There is no theory, but there is no practice or little practice. In such a battle with a huge disparity in troops, once the formation was wrong or the command was improper, the Chu army simply did not have enough reserves to save the situation, and in the end it could only sit back and wait for defeat.

This was one of the reasons for the distress, and the other that made him quite distressed was that the generals of the divisions did not know whether they were intentional or unintentional, and did not advise him on how to fight. Perhaps, it is because they don't understand how to command a multi-arm joint operation under a pure team, and it is more likely that they deliberately do not say: the king will never be wrong. If the king is wrong, it must be the minister's mistake; If the king is really wrong, it is also the minister's mistake that makes the king not good......

The three-day wait seems longer than the previous three months. The barracks were no longer as noisy as they had been a few days ago, and there was only the sound of iron. Although they had already been prepared, such as the sappers and boys, who were already in great armor and weapons, the 3,600 transporters lacked not only weapons but also armor.

It is easy to deal with the lack of armor, they are listed at the bottom of the military formation, and it is difficult to deal with the lack of weapons. The army searched for a while, and in the end there were still a few hundred spears left. These hundreds of spears can only be cut down on a temporary basis, and the carpenters in the army do the sage, and the blacksmiths forge the spearheads and counterweights day and night. The jingling sound made people upset, and the shogunate couldn't stay still, so Xiong Jing had to go out of the tent and wander around.

"I've seen the king." Most of the boys were transferred, and the knights had to feed the horses and brush the horses themselves. When Xiong Jing walked to the cavalry camp, most of the knights were brushing their horses, and some people were practicing horse archery. The commander of the Third Cavalry Division abandoned his heel and saw Xiong Jing coming in person, which was a little unexpected.

"Brush the horse." Xiong Jing didn't know how he got here, let alone what to say.

"Yes." Most of the knights in the army were young people. They wore a pair of rhino armor that they usually wore and jade ornaments around their waists. Seeing Xiong Jing coming, some people hurriedly wanted to remove the ornament on the left.

"There is no need to be polite in the army." Xiong Jing stopped them, he pointed at the target and said, "I see ......" He gestured behind him and said, "I have never seen this kind of shooting." ”

"This building is annoying." Abandon the heel road. Last spring, Xiong Jing went to Jicheng and brought back two annoying buildings. These two men taught the Chu army a lot of riding skills, and the return horse shooting method was one of them.

"Lou annoying rider?" Xiong Jing only remembered the two Lou Fu generals at this time, he completely forgot their names, but he didn't expect them to teach back horse arrows. The horseback arrow is to the effect that the cavalry pretends to be afraid after encountering the enemy, and then fights the horse and flees, if the enemy is in hot pursuit, when chasing at full speed, they will suddenly turn back and shoot a deadly arrow, which is impossible to prevent.

"Yes, yes." He replied. "They also want to come to Zizi with our army......"

General Lou Fu only taught riding skills in the military academy, and never intervened in the daily training of the cavalry of the Chu army, and the reason for this is very clear to everyone. It is even more impossible to fight, and it is a pity to abandon the heel, but Xiong Jing does not have this feeling.

The so-called 'two Mamluk cavalry can definitely win three French cavalry; One hundred French cavalry were evenly matched with one hundred Mamluks; Three hundred French cavalry were mostly able to defeat three hundred Mamluk soldiers; A thousand French cavalry could always defeat fifteen hundred Mamluk soldiers. ’

He was convinced that the modern cavalry could completely destroy the ancient cavalry. However, it is not easy to do this, in addition to the selection of the horses themselves, a very important issue is the pace of the war horses. The pace of the horses must be the same in order for the knights to form a wall of horsemen, and to form a wall of horses to form enough impact force to crush the opposing cavalry or infantry. This is difficult for even the more than 100 heavy riders to do, and the team rushing towards it is not riding on a wall but in an arc......

"Tell the king...... "A herald hurried." Jun Sima asked the king to come to the shogunate quickly. ”

"What?" Xiong Jing was puzzled, everything that should be arranged had already been arranged, Zhuang Wudi was in such a hurry to invite, could it be that there was intelligence?

"The villain doesn't know." The herald is a fresh face, and it is estimated that Zhuang Wudi saw that he was not there, and the matter was urgent, so he could only send dozens of heralds to search around.

"Yes." Xiong Jing glanced back at the abandoned heel, and the others hurriedly took a deep look.

"King, there is a report from the Hou spy in the city." As Xiong Jing thought, there was indeed intelligence.

"What do you mean?" Xiong Jing was not excited, since the envoy came to make an appointment and said that he would fight in three days, there was more news in the city. The outlets of the drainage canals in Linzi City are small stone holes to prevent people from entering the city through the drainage canals. These stone holes would intercept the floating objects placed by Hou Spy at night, so the Qi people imitated handwriting and often concocted some false information.

"Just say Shen Chi." Zhuang Wudi took out a spy report. "It's written without a shadow."

The so-called shadowless pen is a hidden text written with milk and goat's milk, which can only be used by the senior Hou spy who knows the bisi. Xiong Jing couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, he walked to the sand table and looked at Shenchi in the west of Linzi Town.

Shenchi is in the southwest of Linzi, and it can be seen out of the west gate of the small city (also known as Shenmen). This is a spring that comes out of the ground and joins the water. Because there is a pond, bamboo and wood are planted all around the Shen Pond, and the spear and wood that are needed to transport the Lifu are cut here. The Qi people were also in a hurry, and it was supposed that the trees around the city should be cut down to defend the city, but this dense bamboo forest was unscathed.

"The minister thinks that the forest of Shenchi can be ambushed, please burn it." Zhuang Wudi said. The bamboo forest around Shen Chi is several miles in radius, and there are pavilions and pavilions in it, which should be the palace of King Qi, and the more he looks at this bamboo forest, the more he feels that it is easy to ambush.