"The king still wants to train the cavalry?" I had already talked about this issue last time, but Lian Po didn't expect Xiong Jing to still insist.

"I have a last resort." Xiong Jing shook his head, his immature face was an adult's helpless expression, and he looked extremely entangled. "Our cavalry is not as good as the Qin army, so our army does not know the reality of the Qin army, and at this time the Qin army has tens of thousands of people still unknown, and if the battlefield is clear and sunny for the Qin army, it will be like a dark and long night for our army. I only have more than 1,000 cavalry in this battle, and the teacher should have seen the role of these more than 1,000 cavalry. Cavalry, reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, screening the enemy is one, controlling the battlefield and gaining the initiative is two, when the strength is exhausted, hitting the enemy's flank is three, when victory or defeat, pursuit cover is four......"

Xiong Jing did not use the art of war, but explained the reason why he had to train a cavalry with his own opinions. The last few are forgotten, the key is the first and second, how uncomfortable it is for the two armies to fight, and to fight blindly with a black eye. Reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance are the basis of all victories, and what is the one-way transparency on the battlefield?

In addition to scouting, the side with cavalry can also choose the battlefield. In this battle, even if the Chu army wanted to retreat to the south of the Qingshui River, it was impossible, Jiangyi fell, and the Chu army could only fight with its back to the Qingshui River. Although it was safe to rely on the Qingshui River, the north wind was blowing in the sky, and the range of the Chu army's arrows was greatly affected, and the foot soldiers were also troubled by dust, but fortunately, the Qin army did not sprinkle a piece of lime before the charge.

“…… Infantry, cavalry, artillery, and baggage soldiers are all indispensable and must be complete. Xiong Jing continued. It's just that the infantry is complicated, there are crossbowmen, contradictory hands, and spearmen, and in the future, our Chu army will only have these three types of infantry. ”

"Based on the theory of breaking the formation alone, the contradiction is not as good as razing the spear." Turning back to the top topic, after considering it all, Lian Po has this remark.

"Oh?" Xiong Jinggang thought about giving up the sword and shield hand and letting some people turn into contradictory hands, but he didn't expect Lian Po to still think that it was good to use the spear.

"Push the enemy to break the formation with a shield, you can only hold a soldier with one hand, and naturally you can't hold a dozen catties of spears. The spear can hit the short spear, but the short spear cannot hit the spear; At the beginning of the war, I saw that the spearmen were lying flat on all sides, and the enemy could not get close, but they could not use the contradictory hands, so they could only advance in one place, facing the enemy on one side instead of the enemy on all sides. Therefore, the contradictory hand is not as good as the spearman. ”

The sword and shield hands of this battle have fought hard, the spearmen have also fought hard, and the Chu shield hands of the two divisions of the two divisions have also fought hard, and how the first two fought Lian Po saw it with his own eyes, and the latter he personally went to inquire and knew the truth of the war. Speaking of contradictory hands alone, it is natural to add bows and crossbows, and now that the three are compared, he still thinks that the spearman is superior.

"But the spearman's shield is too small!" Xiong Jingyu concluded, "Qin crossbows are shot, the front row is dead, and only one of the seven pawn commanders remains." If I line up with spearmen, and the enemy shoots me with a strong crossbow, what shall I be? ”

"The Korean army is seventy or eighty crossbowmen, what about it?" Lian Po asked rhetorically, with a big look of 'the king's fallacy' on his face.

"What happens after the Korean army is seven or eight crossbows?" Xiong Jing asked, South Korea has long been weakened, and he does not pay attention.

"In the battle of Chenggao between Qin and Han, the Korean army of 100,000 and 80,000 bows and crossbows fired a salvo, the strings were like thunderbolts, the arrows were like dark clouds, and the front row of the Qin army was dead. However, the Qin army took off the skirt armor and arm armor, leaving only the armor skin, raising the shield and advancing slowly. When they reached eighty paces, the 30,000 armor soldiers of the whole army roared in unison, abandoning their shields and angrily charging at the Korean army. Although there were countless arrows, the Han army's crossbowmen were in front and Ge halberders were behind, and they were defeated by the Qin army before they could change formations. In this battle, the Qin army had 30,000 armor soldiers and 5,000 cavalry, 3,000 were killed and 12,000 were wounded, and the 100,000 Han troops were all ink. ”

Lian Po finished talking about the battle of Qin and Han Chenggao eleven years ago, and when Xiong Jing was still imagining the feat of the Qin army's 30,000 armor soldiers desperately attacking the Han army's array, he said again: "In this battle, our army's spearmen also rushed into the crossbow formation, what if? The crossbowman is either injured or killed. ”

"The teacher thinks that the bow and crossbow are not to be feared?" Xiong Jing thought for a while before asking.

"If the bow and crossbow are fearful, the nations should take Korea as their hegemon." Lian Po smiled, but the smile was fleeting and became extremely serious. "Isn't it beautiful that a wise man often thinks, 'I can kill the enemy, but the enemy cannot kill me'? However, those who have this idea are afraid of close combat, and their formations will collapse as soon as they rush, and their heads will have long been Beijing's view, but all strong armies are not proud of bows and crossbows, but are ashamed of bows and crossbows. Without this, how can we speak of a strong army? ”

Lian Po wanted to speak and stopped. Xiong Jing is intelligent and good at making tools, but because of this, he is worried that Xiong Jing will go down the wrong path. Looking ahead and looking backwards, thinking left and right, and always holding the idea that 'I can kill the enemy, but the enemy cannot kill me' is a common problem of smart people, but the army is not a place where smart people should stay. It's a pity that at this time, Xiong Jing thought that 'Qi's skill attack can't meet the Wei clan's warriors, and Wei's warriors can't meet Qin's warriors', and didn't understand what he said.

"Ahem," Youshi coughed, and he said, "Xinping Jun's advice, the king ......"

"The words of the teacher are remembered by the students for the rest of their lives." Right Shi reminded Xiong Jing before he reacted. immediately saluted Lian Po, Lian Po's son avoided it and didn't dare to accept it, but Lian Po accepted it generously. Xiong Jing thought about what he said, 'I can kill the enemy, but the enemy can't kill me', and at the same time thought of what he said to the noble children in front of the battle, 'Courage is honor', and his head couldn't help sweating.

Lian Po is brave, he is as cunning, every hair is angry and unyielding, and he is not brave to be honest, compared to them, he is like a cowardly villain who trembles in two ways. Thinking of this, all the Qi Zhi Techniques and Wei Zhiwu were all forgotten by him.

After the ceremony, Xiong Jing had not yet spoken, Lian Po said: "Yi spear is a long soldier, long soldiers are afraid of close battles, but that day Qin soldiers met my sword and shield, still in the back row of spearmen will be our army sword and shield people out of the formation, so Yi spear must be equipped with a short spear and a short halberd, if the enemy sticks to me, I should use a short spear and a short halberd to counterattack its formation." And the palace armor spearmen are not horizontal but vertical, and they don't have to worry about the left and right fronts when attacking. ”

Any military formation must take into account the left and right and even the whole army front, the front line must not be damaged and indispensable, otherwise the enemy army will attack the flank and back, and the formation will inevitably collapse, but today, looking at the battle of the palace armor, this Yiqi array can be isolated from the whole army array, and can also retreat safely. This was something that surprised Lian Po. You must know that except for the circle formation, there is no military formation that can withstand the enemy on several sides without being defeated.

Although the Gongjia Yi Spear Array Xiong Jing was established after the Macedonian Spear Array, the Yi Spear Array that was practiced was not a Macedonian Array. People's cognition can not transcend the times, Lian Po only thinks that the Gongjia Yi spear array can face the enemy on all sides, which is an advantage that no military formation has, but he did not find that the Yi spear array is not the military formation of this era at all, the military array of this era is only a 'square' array, which needs to be side by side in an array to cover each other, otherwise it cannot survive on the battlefield, it can only face the enemy alone, once the flank loses the cover of its companions, or the array is damaged somewhere so that the enemy can go around, it will collapse,

This is true of the 'square' formation, but not the phalanx. When the phalanx is stationary, it can face the enemy on all sides, and does not need flank cover, and is not afraid of the enemy army going around the rear. Something like this will only make it unable to move, and the Gongjiayi spear formation is a phalanx rather than a 'square' array.

Lian Po didn't know, Xiong Jing only had a vague impression, and didn't think there was much difference, although from a world perspective, the difference between the two was 2,000 years. When he heard what Lian Po said, he immediately drew a sketch, and the sketch was almost a 'hui' character.

"What does the teacher think?" He asked.

A small phalanx (15x15) consisting of nine taels (5x5), with the middle one holding a short spear.

"When it is." Lian Po nodded, and when he saw the short spearman in the middle, he thought of the Qin army that had been annihilated by the shield array. If there were no Chu archers at that time, they might have been able to retreat in one piece.

"Teacher, look at this picture again." Xiong Jing painted again, this array is already 100x100, but the inside is hollow.

"What is this?" The picture is very sketchy, and Lian Po is puzzled by the boxes inside.

"This is a trebuchet, and the crossbowmen are here." Xiong Jing explained. "This formation is a defensive formation, with 100 men in width and width, 10 spearmen in depth, and 80 men in the middle space, with trebuchets, fire carts, and crossbowmen. There were 3,600 long and short spearmen, sixteen times the size of the small formation, and exactly four small formations on each side. If they wanted to attack, 400 short spearmen, 1,200 crossbowmen, and all the artillery men formed a formation to protect themselves, and the remaining 3,200 spearmen formed a 50-man wide and 64-row deep spear formation and charged straight at the enemy.

There was one pawn in each small formation, and in addition to two hundred and twenty-five spearmen, there were seventy-five crossbowmen; The four soldiers were a brigade, and the four brigades were a division, and each division should be equipped with a battalion of eighteen trebuchets with 500 rounds of ammunition and ten ammunition vehicles, except for a small number of crossbows to deter the enemy.

Four divisions were also used as an army, and the first army should be equipped with three battalions and forty-eight trebuchets and one cavalry. There were at least 1,600 cavalry, 400 scouts, 400 light cavalry, and 800 heavy cavalry. ”

"What is the light ride? What about heavy riding? Lian Po listened carefully to Xiong Jing's words, although there were some fallacies, but in general, there was no mistake, but he could not help but be a little curious when he heard the difference in the weight of the cavalry.

Xiong Jing explained: "The light cavalry is the cavalry for killing, and the heavy cavalry is the cavalry for rushing into battle and breaking the enemy. Teacher, do you know that any country has broken the enemy with armored cavalry? ”

"Li Mudai Jun Rong can charge into battle. Qi can also ride a horse, but this is an old thing, and there are no male soldiers in Qi after the king. Lian Po said.

"Can the Qin State have it?" Xiong Jing asked, how Zhao and Qi have nothing to do with each other, the key is Qin.

"The state of Qin may have been." Lian Po's answer is shocking. "I heard that Yan Ying fought a battle, and most of the cavalry who attacked Dengyi were Yiqu cavalry. Yiqu is a Rong person, Rong was born on horseback, and riding into a battle has always been his strategy to break the enemy. If the king wants to train cavalry, he needs to be born on horseback. The boy of Chu State, absolutely not. ”

"General Li Mu has a lot of knights, is it good to lease them to my country?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Lending?" Lian Po was surprised, thinking of the alliance between Chu and Zhao, he only said: "King Zhao may be able to agree, but the land of Chu is difficult to raise horses." I have heard that the Daijun horse herd breeds foals, and in a year, half of the mares can be pregnant, while in the Chu State, in a year, there are only one or two mares who are pregnant. It is not easy to breed like this, and it is not easy to raise horses, and there is no pasture in the Chu State, so it can only be eaten to dig weeds......"

Lian Po shook his head as he spoke, and the grass was levied on the people, how could there be grassland that was cheap and easy to obtain. Even if Zhao Wangzhen agreed to lease the knights, with the 16,000 cavalry of the Chu army per army, the Chu State might not be able to afford it.