Song Yi, as a doctor of the Jixia Academy, has always been well-informed in the court, but he could never have imagined that at this time, Master Yingshi had set up camp more than thirty miles northeast of Linzi.

The laborers traveled 2,500 miles, and the whole army arrived safely more than 30 miles away from the capital of Qi, such a feat made every soldier feel excited. However, the commanders of the divisions have not yet conveyed the battle order, let alone announced the specific arrangements for tomorrow's formation, which makes the officers of the various divisions a little anxious, which is equivalent to saying that the king and the generals have not yet decided how to fight tomorrow.

Combat, especially the formation of troops, is an extremely important thing, which requires not only geographical advantages, but also timing. While getting the right time and place, you can't be constrained by the right time and place, otherwise you will be taken advantage of by the enemy. Don't be taken advantage of by the enemy, but instead set up a formation against the enemy's weak points, which is really a headache.

All the officers had attended military academies, and although they had not yet graduated, they had learned all the factors that could affect the battle, especially the formations. The Yingshi division was less than 30,000, and after subtracting the cavalry, artillery, engineers, baggage, communications, guards, shogunate, etc., there were only 72 soldiers (including eight guards) who actually participated in the battle, and the number was less than 20,000. Linzi is the capital of Qi State, no matter how there is an army of 100,000, the difference in strength is so great, the battle will naturally take so long.

The junior officers waited for the final battle order with a tolerant mood, and the controversy over the surprise attack or the battle on the winged warship was still unfinished. Surprise attacks pay attention to timing and luck, and it is not necessary to make a surprise attack a success; The battle is also exquisite, and the Qi army sticks to the fortified city, so it can be without fighting. Even in the battle, more than 200,000 Qi troops fought against the Yingshi, which was less than 30,000 people, and the hope of the Yingshi victory was extremely slim.

Just think about it: 200,000 people spread out even if it is 40 people in depth, and the width of the formation is 5,000 meters; And the Yingshi only has seventy-two pawns, even if the depth is only ten, it is only 1,620 meters. With such a gap, the Qi army could have surrounded the Yingshi regiments from the very beginning, so that the whole army fell into a bitter battle.

The deduction proved that there was no hope of victory in the battle, and there was no way to capture the city without a surprise attack. In the face of such a result, Yan Qiu, who insisted on achieving a dignified victory, also fell silent, only Xiong Jing smiled silently. He thought calmly for a while, then reversed the previous result and relined the troops on the chipboard, this time, the width of the Yingshi array reached an astonishing five thousand meters.

"This ......" looked at the thin array of Yingshi on the chipboard, whether it was raising a child, Deng Sui, or Yan Qiu, all of them had grown their mouths.

"How can the king be like this?" Yang Yu pointed to the thin front of the Ying Division, if this military formation was not Xiongjing's platoon, he would almost scold.

"Why can't that?" Xiong Jing avoided the heavy and light: "The archers can also line up after shooting arrows, and the engineers, baggage, and transport ......"

In addition to the valuable technical arms of artillery, guards, communications, and shogunate, real non-combatants, including the transport of the Lifu Xiongjing, were also sent. But Yang Yu's surprise was not this, he pointed to the chip again, and said with some excitement: "Our army is only five elements in depth, once the Qi people break through the military formation, our army will be defeated." ”

"How about the five elements of depth?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically. "The spear formation is strong, and it is not seeking to break the enemy formation, and the five elements are enough. In the Battle of Yingdu that year, Cai Bao broke the rebels with the Five Elements. ”

How much the depth of the military formation behaves well is a difficult topic to answer. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the depth of the military formation was the five elements, but Wei Wushu proved that the depth of the five elements was not enough at all, and then all countries chose to train elite soldiers, making each other's battle formations thicker and thicker. Now in the face of the beryllium sharps of the Qin State, the array is often thickened to forty lines, and the standard depth is fifteen lines.

However, these are the depth of the military formation in the era of leather armor and bronze soldiers, and the Yingshi wearing huge armor does not seek to attack the five elements in the face of the Qi people holding bronze soldiers. As for facing the 50,000 elites of the Qi army who were dressed in refusal and holding huge blades, the depth of the Five Elements was indeed very unsafe. If the Qi army used the big shield to push forward, the Yingshi army would collapse, but Xiong Jing believed that it was impossible for them to use the big shield.

"The five elements can only be guarded, dare to ask the king why he wins?" Deng Sui knew that Cai Bao used the Five Elements Array to break the rebels back then, but he was just a little worried about the 50,000 elite armor of the Qi army.

"How do you win?" Xiong Jing's gaze finally fell on Yu Jing, and he replied loudly: "Cavalry wins." ”

More than 4,000 horses were brought, and although there were attritions, the cavalry was not much. Xiong Jing believed that there were not many cavalry in Linzi City, and according to the military system of the Qi State, the mobile force of the Qi army was still mainly chariots, and the cavalry was only auxiliary.

"Cavalry wins?" For a while, everyone's eyes were all fixed on Yu Jing, and there were envy, expectations, and even more puzzlement.

"There are still three thousand four hundred cavalry in our army, of which five hundred are heavy cavalry, and the rest are light cavalry." Xiong Jing Road. "In the battle of Chen Ying, the Qin army set up a huge horizontal formation when it was fighting, and after the spearmen broke through the array of the Qin army, the cavalry lightly won the first rank of Xin Sheng......"

"The king, if the general does not go out of the city, but commands in the city, what is it?" Xicheng Third Division Shen Buxian asked. He felt that it was inappropriate to compare the example of defending a city to a siege.

"That's the Battle of Jucheng." Xiong Jing had to change the example. "The cavalry slammed the back of the enemy's formation, and the enemy's formation was broken and crushed."

"The battle of Jucheng is exactly the battle with the Qi army...... Shen Bu endured it halfway through, he felt that it was best not to use the same tactic twice, because the second use of the enemy army would inevitably be guarded.

Xiong Jing's view is the opposite. When the two armies faced each other, the cavalry hooked the flank of the army and there was almost no solution. The only one that can stop the cavalry is another cavalry, but the cavalry of the Qi army and even the cavalry of the Qin army cannot do this. Once the cavalry led by Fu Jing hooked the Qi army's formation from the flank, with the situation of the Qi army's two hearts, the result would definitely be defeated.

"The Qi army was defeated in a big battle, but if Linzi ......can't defend it," Deng Sui asked.

"The 200,000 Qi army is defeated, even if Linzi can't defend it, our army can step on their corpses to enter the city." Xiong Jing smiled lightly, he had seen a lot of things about the sea of corpse mountains and blood, and many times the corpse mountains were built up in the blink of an eye.

"Dare to ask the king why he fights?" Yan Qiu finally spoke, he still hoped that Xiong Jing could defeat the Qi people in a dignified manner.

"Battle." Xiong Jing, who thought he was in control, replied.

"If we can't win the battle, our army is in danger!" Raising a big hurry.

"Can you win by surprise?" Xiong Jing looked at him with a smile. "Cavalry is necessary for a surprise attack, and the cavalry is only three thousand or four hundred, how can we hold the city gate before the whole army arrives? Even the nearest north gate is more than thirty miles away. The cavalry had to hold the city gate for at least half an hour before our army could arrive. If the Qi army lowers the hanging door and desperately counterattacks, what can I do? ”

The hanging gate is the standard configuration of the city gate, once it is lowered to isolate the inside and outside of the city, the cavalry has no way to hold it. Even if they used wooden stakes against the hanging gate that fell overhead, it would be difficult to hold on to the backlash of the Qi army. As long as any section of the city gate hole with a length of more than 30 meters is lost, the road ahead will be blocked.

"And Linzi is not as good as Yingdu. Guan Zhong once said: The big city cannot be completed, Guo Zhou cannot be connected to the outside, the inner area cannot be crossed, Lu Min cannot be closed, and the palace wall cannot be closed without repair. Xiong Jing turned out the map of Linzi City, pointed to the dense streets in the city and said: "Even if the city gate is lost, the Qi army can defend the territory to the death, and the field battle becomes a street battle, which is better than a field battle." ”

Before the Song Dynasty, the cities were fortified with each other, and each mile and square were all closed structures. If you don't fight with the Qi army in the field, then you have to fight with the Qi army in the streets. Field battles can play a high exchange ratio, but street battles cannot, street battles do not have the so-called flank back, and cavalry cannot play at all.

"Indeed, it should be a battle." Not to mention whether the cavalry can defend the city gate first, seeing the dense market in Linzi City, the scalps of the generals began to tingle. Qi is a big country in the Central Plains, Linzi has been built for more than 600 years, and after several expansions, the internal defense is not something that outsiders can imagine.

The state of Chu is different, the state of Chu has not built the capital for hundreds of years, until the king of Chu Wen is the capital, and it is still 'the city is not confined'. During the reign of King Zhao of Chu, in order to guard against the Wu army, Yin Zichang wanted to increase and repair the Yingdu, but Sima Shen Yinxu objected, and the so-called 'Zichang must die!' If you can't defend it, the city will be useless. ’

In the middle of the night, the long pre-war meeting finally ended. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers, baggage, transport, and ...... officers of all arms of the armed forces convened a meeting of their subordinates as soon as they returned to explain in detail the specific arrangements for the day's battle. Hearing that there might be a battle with 200,000 Qi troops, officers at all levels were inevitably stunned.

"The king's will." Looking at the riders under his command, Fu Jing said this sentence very calmly.

"Why can't you attack the city like the Mulberry Tunnel?" As Fu Jing's partner, Xiang Chao has been serving in the cavalry. The main reason why he did not attend the meeting today was because of seasickness. Hearing that his army was about to face 200,000 Qi troops, his brain was even more dizzy, and he felt that the heavens and the earth were turning.

"There are many domains in Linzi City," Fei Jing naturally had the same idea as raising a Yu at first, but those domains in Linzi City made him completely change his mind. "If it is a street battle, our army has no hope of winning, and only by fighting in the field with the Qi army can we have a chance to win."

"Our army attacked the city, the Qi army was terrified, why did the street fight come from?" Xiang Chao pressed his head in pain, he saw Cheng Kui sitting there unmoved, and he was concentrating on wiping his twelve-stone longbow, and immediately pulled him, "Why don't you say anything?" ”

"Fifty miles from Linzi City, ten vertical and ten horizontal in the city, full of lilu, our army is small, and we really want to attract people to come out to fight." Cheng Kui was short and avoided Xiang Yan's pull, and his attention was still on his bow.

"Huh?" Xiang Chao thought that Cheng Kui would agree with him, but he didn't expect that he would also think that he would fight.

"Do you have any objections?" Yan Jing smiled on his face and looked at the rest of the generals with a smile.

"No objections." The riders replied in unison. Compared with Xiang Chao's yearning for the attack on the city, they actually prefer the feeling of winning or losing with a hammer, and the cavalry is the hammer that determines the outcome of the entire war.