In general, the military formation is nothing more than divided into two types, offensive and defensive.

Before that, whether it was offensive or defensive, if you didn't look carefully, or if you weren't an insider, it was difficult to see the difference from the immobile military formation.

Because in the past, the emphasis was on the formation, to put it bluntly, it was a dense formation, relying on dense sergeants, a large number of spears and bows and arrows, to reduce the defensive area to the minimum, while ensuring the defensive strength of the military formation, the threat of the defensive area was maximized.

It can be said that before the advent of thermal weapons, land tactics in the world were basically like this, no matter how they developed, they could not do without two words, intensive.

Even the tactics used by the Tang Army at the moment, although some other factors were added, on the premise of not increasing the number of troops, the combat power was raised by a level by using the problem of the ratio of establishment and equipment.

It can be said that there are 1,000 to 10,000, and this tactic is still a type of dense formation, but it is not as dense as the previous battle formation.

The soldiers had no armor on them, which was unbelievable to all.

They are the forbidden army, the elite troops of the elite who defend Chang'an and the Taiji Palace, even if Datang is so poor that it can't support so many troops, it will never reduce the equipment of the forbidden army.

But the reality is that none of the 1,000 forbidden troops are wearing any style of armor.

"Huh?" Wang Xuance soon discovered the difference between the forbidden army's battle formations, or rather, the forbidden army seemed to be different from other armies in terms of organization.

"It's a bit interesting, although it enhances the combat capability of the group, so that the group can kill and injure the enemy more safely and effectively when fighting, but in this way, a thousand people are equivalent to losing one-third of their troops, and they have neither knives nor spears in their hands, and they can't even cooperate!" Song Gang frowned, he also found the difference between the forbidden army's military formation, but in the same way, there were many problems.

The military formation of the forbidden army was changed from the usual two-person team to a three-person team, and in this way, it was necessary to make changes in the establishment, either to add two people to bring it up to the standard of thirteen people in a team, or to reduce one person to return to the original standard of ten people.

The choice of the forbidden army is the latter, while in other units, it is the standard of 11 people, that is, the commander is responsible for commanding and filling in the gaps, and has five combat groups under his command, which are coordinated with each other, between two people, between groups, and between groups.

At first, it was difficult, but when I got used to it and the tacit understanding came up, the power of this battle formation came into play.

However, the choice of the forbidden army was diametrically opposed, with a single commander commanding three combat groups and standing in a different position than the other troops.

A three-person group is at the front, and the leader stands about ten meters behind the group, with the leader as the parallel leader, and the other two groups about five meters to the left and right.

And the distance between people is three meters, that is to say, according to this battle formation, if it is a charge, theoretically only a group of ten people is needed to control a distance of about fifteen meters wide.

Two guys can control 35 meters, and three guys can control 55 meters, but that's just theory.

Even if this theory is on the chessboard, no one dares to boldly conceive it, but no one dares to think about the problem, but in the forbidden army, it is done.

Seeing this, a trace of contempt has appeared in the eyes of many people, such an arrogant forbidden army, but it will only be on paper.

The battle formation of the forbidden army looks a little chaotic and disorderly, which is very inconsistent with the image of the army in the hearts of the generals of the Tang Army.

Such a battle formation, in their opinion, even those rabble will be stronger than them.

And now they seem to gradually understand why the forbidden army doesn't want an opponent, because they can't fight at all, and in order to avoid losing face, they can only let the plank replace the opponent.

Although they continued to despise it in their hearts, the forbidden army on the opposite side had already begun to act, and everyone watched the performance in the field with a so-so mood.

The forbidden army of 1,000 people is 1,000 soldiers, five groups are a team, with the rank of captain, second lieutenant or lieutenant, 20 teams of the whole army, five teams are a company, a company commander is a deputy company commander, and the rank of lieutenant or captain, the whole army has four companies, four companies are a battalion, a battalion commander is a deputy battalion commander, a battalion headquarters is set up, two staff officers are under its jurisdiction, four are communication soldiers, six guards, and the rank of captain or major.

The battalion has 1,000 soldiers, plus 20 captains, 8 chief and deputy company commanders, and the battalion headquarters has a total of 14 people, and the battalion has a full strength of 1,0042 people.

The nature of the forbidden army is special, so many officers are high-matched, one level higher than the normal military rank.

And the 1,000 forbidden army is based on teams, although the scene is chaotic, but if you look closely, you can still see that the entire forbidden army is lined up in three rows, of which the first row has seven teams, the second row has seven teams, and the third row has six teams.

"Lieutenant Colonel Liu, if you send troops to line up like this, won't there be chaos?" Seeing this, Wang Xuance couldn't help it, because the forbidden army had already moved forward.

Although it seems to be neat, but in fact, the queue is so scattered, and it doesn't feel big when it's close, but from their position, it can be seen too clearly.

In fact, the queue is already chaotic, because according to the standards of the Tang Army, when advancing, a row is a line, not to mention that there is no error, but this error will not exceed twenty centimeters, and the left and right are constantly adjusted.

For those soldiers who have been training for many days, they can do it by feeling or the afterglow of their eyes.

"General, it's not chaotic, in fact, on the contrary, the soldiers all know what their mission is, and for the battle array, as long as the gap is not a distance of tens of meters, it is not chaotic." Liu Li didn't want to explain so much, because in his opinion, these were useless, and later, when they really saw the forbidden army's performance, they would understand the reason for this arrangement.

However, Wang Xuance asked, and he had to say, and he couldn't say it so-so, so that people could listen to it, and continued to stretch out his hand and point to the advancing formation and said, "General, please look!" ”

"The battle formation of the forbidden army adopts the tactics of three or three, take the three people in the front as an example, the general please look at their positions, and then look behind them, the three people are a triangular position, and a group of three teams is also the same triangular position, and the middle team leader is protected by nine soldiers, and this position is also more convenient for him to command the whole group to fight.

Looking at the position of this guy and the two guys on either side behind him, it's a larger triangle. Now it's just that the troops are insufficient, and the scene is not big enough, so you can only line up such a battle formation. ”

Listening to Liu Li's explanation, Wang Xuance and the others found that the facts were really as Liu Li said, and they were just confused by this dense and chaotic formation before.

And now consciously block out the people you don't want to see, and the rest is a large and small triangular formation, and this battle array, no matter from which angle, from where it is viewed, except for the four corners, any gang can form a triangular formation with the four gangs in the front and back, left and right.

"With such a big gap, how can you deal with the enemy's cavalry charging quickly?" Wang Xuance continued to ask, the battle formation saw some meaning, but the questions were still those questions.

With such a big gap, once the cavalry rushes in, it is a lion that has entered the flock, and this loose position does not have any blocking effect on the cavalry's back and forth charge, on the contrary, this is the cavalry's favorite battle formation.

"This general will know it right away, and now the general will not be able to tell! Again...... Well, it's time for one or twenty breaths! Liu Li thought for a while, found that he couldn't explain this problem clearly, and then looked at the position of the battle formation, and then said.

The speed of the battle formation is very fast, and the entire battle array is all trotting along the way, and the distance of one or two hundred meters is actually just a moment's effort.

And as Liu Li's words fell, the speed of the battle formation magically slowed down, and I didn't see any officers ordering to slow down, but the speed just slowed down.

And as early as when they were arrayed, the half-length stick that had been hanging behind them was taken into their hands, and it was an extremely strange way.

And the equipment on them is also very strange, especially the leather bag hanging from the waist, the ration bag? It's a little too small.

However, there was not much time left for them to think, because rushing to the front row, they could vaguely see their right hands making an inexplicable movement on the stick, and then behaving abnormally to put a short stick on their shoulders, and their heads were still slightly tilted.

'Bang...... Bang...... Bang......'

Bursts of smoke rose rapidly, from the burning of gunpowder to the dry dust on the ground.

And the officers who were still watching the play before were instantly frightened and trembled.

"This ...... Is this artillery? Wang Xuance was stunned, he finally understood why he arranged the battle formation like this, but seeing that there was no trace of the explosion of the shells on the opposite side, he had some doubts in his heart.

"General, this is a musket! To be precise, it should be an improved musket. Liu Li solemnly introduced at this time.

Except for a few people, the others didn't bother to listen to Liu Li's introduction at all.

A pair of eyes looked directly at the scene in the field, the wolf smoke was constantly in the temporary martial arts field, and what made them even more strange was that the musket seemed to have endless bullets, from the beginning of the gunshot, the speed of advance was a lot slower, but it was always advancing, and with the advancement of the battle formation, more and more people joined the ranks of shooting.

This movement can be heard within a radius of several miles, and as for the effect, who knows how the effect is?

"Why are you lying down?"