Ever since he saw Xiong Jing riding a horse, Lian Po knew that this king loved horses. Thinking of King Zhuang hundreds of years ago, such a wise person actually wanted to bury the BMW with the gift of a doctor, which shows how much the Chu State in the south attaches great importance to and desires for military horses.

Lian Po couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Does the king want to hear the truth or lie?" ”

"I, of course, are telling the truth." Xiong Jing looked at Lian Po and probably guessed what he meant, he preemptively said: "I have made something that is conducive to archery and fighting on horses, and can introduce good horses in Zhongzhou, if I train cavalry, I will defeat the Qin people." ”

Xiong Jing was able to stand on a horse when he rode a horse, although he didn't know what the mystery was under his clothes, but Lian Po still understood the function of this 'good for archery and fighting', he shook his head and said: "Since the king wants to listen to the truth, then I will say that I am not guilty." If the things created by the king were used in the army, they would definitely be learned by the Qin people in fighting with the Qin army. Perhaps the king can train a cavalry that is not weaker than the Qin people, but the Qin army can train ten times the cavalry of the king. With ten strikes to one, who does the king think will win? ”

"Naturally, the Qin people can win." Xiong Jing also thought about this question, "However, if I only use it during the decisive battle, it will be too late for the Qin army to know." The current situation in this world is determined by a number of decisive battles. ”

"The king thinks that he has to defeat the Qin army a few times before he can save the current situation in the world?" Lian Po's tongue suddenly sharpened. "How does the king know that cavalry that is not used in a decisive battle can help our army win a battle?"

"I don't know." Both of these questions are fatal, and Xiong Jing really doesn't understand how to use the cavalry, or heavy cavalry.

"Rong Di was born on a horse, and it does not cost money to herd horses on the grassland, but after eating one piece of pasture, move to another place. Qin, Zhao, and Yan all had cavalry, and although the daily expenses were high, they were not unbearable. If the king trains cavalry, where do the knights come from? How much does it cost to spend a horse? After the war, how to replenish the loss of knights and injuries to horses?

The war of the nations is not the elite war of the past, but the war of the whole nation and the people. Or there can be a small victory, but the formation is learned by the Qin people, and it is too late to regret it. After living in Chu for several years, I watched the chief of the Chu country, when he was in the boat, the apprentice, the bow and crossbow, not the chariot and the knight. The two formations practiced by the king are both vain formations, and if the whole country learns it, the Qin people will be afraid. ”

Lian Po's words can be regarded as bitter, Xiong Jing was stunned for a long time and said: "I train cavalry in order to break the enemy's formation in the battle, without cavalry, how can I break the formation?" ”

"How did the Great King Yingdu break the enemy's array?" Lian Po asked rhetorically, he knew some of the battles of Yingdu.

"This, this ......" Xiong Jing immediately looked at Yan, who was one of the captains who led the troops to break the formation at that time.

"King Yu, the battle of Yingdu, the end will be broken with a spear." Yan said very seriously.

"At that time, the rebels surrounded me, and the depth of their formation was only ten lines, if the two armies were facing each other, how could the depth be only ten lines?" Xiong Jing sighed, he thought that the battle of Yingdu was just a special case.

"King, the battle between the two armies is just a matter of profit and loss. The spear is sharp, and one person can break three people when he rushes into battle, and then he is followed by the spearmen in the back row, and then by the spearmen in the back row. Fifteen lines of enemy troops, five rows of spearmen of our army can break it, and thirty lines of enemy troops, ten rows of spearmen of our army can break it. If our army gains but does not lose, it will be able to break out. ”

"Really?" Yan is a rough man, and Xiong Jing was surprised when he said this.

"That's exactly the truth, my lord." Lian Po chimed in. "Two armies fight, the enemy kills one of us, and I kill the other, and if both armies have ten men, then both armies are exhausted; If one of our army dies, we can kill three of the enemy, thirty of the enemy, ten of our army, sixty of the enemy, and twenty of our army. Then ......" Speaking of this, Lian Po looked at Yan, "When you rush into battle, how do you wait to line up?" ”

"I can't wait in a neat queue." Yan's answer was beyond Lian Po's expectations.

"If you don't have an even queue, how can you prevent the enemy's attack?" Lian Po asked again, and looked at the phalanx of spearmen in front, he was very confused about the military formation, and he had always been afraid that the flanks would be hooked, so the actions between the formations must be consistent, in case there is a gap in the front and the enemy will take advantage of it. It is not that a long soldier like a spear cannot form a single formation, but in an engagement, any army formation must advance and retreat together, and must not turn, stop, or sprint, and once this happens, there will be a gap in the complete and consistent front. Lian Po thought that Gong Jia had his own strategy to break the formation, but he didn't expect that it was a strategy to break the formation in disregard of the integrity of the whole army's front, and his face suddenly showed disappointment.

"How did you break the formation?" Yan was asked by Lian Po and didn't know how to answer, and then Xiong Jing asked again.

"King Yu, at that time, our army was a rebel army in front and behind, and General Cai ordered us to take ten people as a column, so as to break through the enemy formation in the north first, and to kill the enemy's archers first. We did not hesitate to move left and right, but followed closely in front of us, so we broke through the rebel array in one fell swoop. Yan replied roughly, and he looked at the front of the chariot again, "The last general is clumsy, and he also asks the king to summon the other captains." ”

"Your Majesty, General Deng also had to worry about the orderly formation during the exercise, but General Cai thought that he couldn't rush into battle quickly if he was worried about the array, so he asked me to wait and follow closely before and after, and I didn't need to worry about the left and right." The battle of Yingdu broke 4,000 with 1,500 people, this battle not only made Gong Jia proud, but also made Gong Jia think deeply.

"What will happen to our army if the enemy strikes?" Lian Po was only listening, and now Xiong Jing was asking. He had a vague feeling that something was wrong. It is important to know that the standard Macedonian spear phalanx has no ability to rush through the formation, and their function is to form a complete and solid chopping board to entangle the enemy, while the primitive shock cavalry will hit the enemy from the flanks or from the rear, like a hammer, smashing the enemy on the chopping board.

The chopping board is stable, it is impossible to run, and it is impossible to pierce through the enemy's thick array, but the seven pawns in front of Xiong Jing are flying chopping boards, they can not only fly, but also shatter the enemy's array in flight. Although Xiong Jing did not know much about the essence of Macedonia's 'chopping board and hammer' tactic, he also knew that the chopping board could not fly.

"King Yu: During the drill with the sanitation, if the sanitation hooks my flank, the front and rear of my formation will stretch out the spears on the left and right, so the sanitation can only hit me with javelins, and when the javelins are used up, they will have nothing to do." The tiger replied in detail, and the chopping board flew up during frequent drills with sword and shield soldiers. "And in the run, the soldiers only need to follow closely in the front, and do not have to align the left and right. However, when the columns marched, the commander at the head of the column would take care of the left and right, so the military formation was still neat and consistent, and in case of a hook attack, the side columns could break away from the military formation and refuse. ”

"......" Xiong Jing and Lian Po were speechless at this time, especially Lian Po, it was difficult for him to imagine what the scene of the Yispear Formation running and breaking the formation regardless of the integrity of the front line was, but the Battle of Yingdu was won in this situation of disregarding the integrity of the front. Of course, the victory also came at a cost, and most of the soldiers who protected the Xiongjing carriage were killed when the spear formation broke the enemy's army, which was impossible in a normal war with an intact front, because the main general would not risk a broken line to make one of the formations run and attack. This is actually a life-threatening style of play, betting on who can't bear the casualties first and collapses.

"King, the last general thinks ......" Another pawn saluted Xiong Jing, this person is Zhuang Quji, after the Gong clan, the only one of the three pawns who defended the southern front in the battle of Yingdu.

"You say." Xiong Jing was familiar with him, and he was naturally smarter than Yan and the others, but Xiong Jing did not give him preferential treatment just because he was a prince.

"The last general thinks that the spear array needs to be organized into some crossbowmen, and if the enemy strikes me with bows and crossbows, our army can counterattack with bows and crossbows." Zhuang Quji's words were the result of the deliberations of the commanders, and the reason why Cai Bao ordered in the Battle of Yingdu to 'chase and kill the enemy's archers was because the crossbowmen were the great enemies of the Yispear array.

"And the sword and shield sanitation, the last general thinks that it is ......," Zhuang went after a pause before saying, "The last general thinks that the sword and shield array is different from the spear array." The array of razing spears, with thick as the key, gathered all the people to die in one place and attacked it, and it was extremely fierce. This is not the case with the sword and shield array, which is like a fish, never fighting the enemy head-on, but striking its flanks. Just like the battle of the right talent, the Qin army rushed with a long force, and the sword and shield array avoided its edge, and divided into two to attack its flank.

If you want to perfect the spear array, in addition to the bow and crossbow, you should set up a number of small long formations, which are mainly to spy on the enemy's reality and disturb its square inches. When you know the strength of the enemy and the shallowness of the array, you can use the spear array to break it. ”

Zhuang Quji's words were not unreasonable, but the conclusion was unexpected: he didn't want the sword and shield soldiers to be made up with him. But if you think about it again, there is some truth in what he said above. The Yimao array is a phalanx, and the characteristic of the phalanx is to gather superior forces in one place, and then strongly impact the weak points of the enemy's army, break through the enemy's array, and cause the enemy's large-scale and organized chaos and rout;

The sword and shield are not like this, it is not aimed at breaking through the enemy's battle formation, it is to kill all the enemies, line by line, so the third line needs to be rotated from time to time, this is the third winning method in addition to the hit and hook attack. More precisely, it is not a formation, but a line, you can cut it, but after cutting it off, it will regroup elsewhere and stick to you again to fight with you;

Moreover, it is extremely efficient in killing. A phalanx, always only the front row of people can kill the enemy, even if the length of the military formation, there are only the front row of short Ge, halberd, and the rear beryllium or pyrium can kill, if the depth of the military formation is ten, then the pawn of the battle is three-tenths, if the depth is twenty people, then the pawn of the battle is three-tenths, but the sword and shield is not, it only has three rows of rotation, and its pawn of the battle is several times and more than ten times of the phalanx......

"King, do you still want to make rounds?" The Qin army has withdrawn to 500 steps away, and it seems that the decisive battle cannot be fought, so the right history has this question.

"Patrolling? Why not make rounds. Xiong Jing was still thinking about the characteristics of the sword and shield, and he didn't want to inspect it. And when the flag continued to move forward, the Chu army aroused bursts of cheers, and the king of heroic warriors came to inspect again.