Now that the battle has been decided, the commander of the Fan Brigade is not polite, he waved the flag and began to command the chariots that had been lined up in a horizontal formation to rearrange the formation. ○

The formation of wild geese is also called "the formation of birds and clouds", it is a kind of oldest car battle offensive formation, it is said that the battle of Mingtiao of Shang Tang and Xia, then "Tang Che Jiuliang with a bird formation of geese", defeated Xia Ji's apprentices.

In the battle of Muye, Taigongwang also laid out a similar "Eagle Yang" array as the wild goose, as the so-called "Wei Shi Shangfu, Shi Wei Yingyang, Liang Biwu King, wanton attack the big merchants", beat the Shang soldiers to the point of losing their armor, and destroyed the Dayi Shang in one day.

Although this formation is primitive, it is also one of the most effective tactics on the Great Plains.

Under the waving of the banner of the commander of the Fan brigade, thirty chariots started one after another, raising a large amount of dust, and under the skillful operation of the royal soldiers, they were arranged into three groups: front, left and right. The front group is the "front sharp" of the straight column, and the left and right are slightly deviated in a horizontal line, which is called "back zhang", also called the left wing and the right wing.

When the dust settled, looking from the direction of Zhao Wuxian, the enemy's car formation was like the "human" shape formed when the geese flew south.

"The array of birds and clouds, scattered into birds, attacked with the shooters on the cart, and disrupted the enemy array; Merge into a cloud and rush into the enemy line in a dense manner! Today's events, first approaching to terrify the Wen pawns, and then rushing them away in one go, the victory is certain! ”

After giving the battle order to everyone, the commander of the Fan brigade also personally stood on the chariot and served as the "teacher", while Fan Jia was in the rear and beat the drum himself.

On the banks of the great river, the rumbling drums are accompanied by the roar of the water, and the collision of ice floes is heard. Thirty chariots began to move slowly, and the target was directly at the thin Zhao soldiers on the opposite side!

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When Zhao Wuxian was in the lower palace. I learned the method of car warfare from Post Wuzheng and Wang Sunqi, so I naturally knew it. This kind of "human" herringbone battle queue of "sharp forward and backward stretching, and running diagonally" can give full play to the strengths of the chariot and avoid the weakness of the chariot that is susceptible to terrain and obstacles.

The formation of the scales spreads so that each vehicle will not be blocked by the vehicle in front of it by running, spinning, and shooting, which can not only ensure the rapid movement of a large number of chariots, but also make the shooting range wide, and give full play to the power of bows and arrows and impacts.

What's even more rare is that these thirty cars are lined up in an orderly manner, so Zhao Wuxian lamented that the commander opposite is indeed a "good use of car attackers".

"It's a pity. Today, if they run into me and you, they will surely be defeated. ”

Zhao Wuxian did not stay on the chariot, he looked at the array of chariots scattered like birds on the opposite side, and asked Xing Ao to drive, carrying Zhao Guangde to join the convoy on the right wing. He himself held a crossbow and stood in a row with the somewhat timid Wen County guards.

"The gentleman is in the same column as you today! Live and die together! ”

The addition of Wu Xian caused a commotion, and Wu Jing, Su Shouyu and other military officials shouted loudly, which immediately made the crossbow-wielding Wen pawns feel imposed.

Although Wen has always been known for his timidity. But to a large extent, he was still harmed by Dr. Wen Zhao Luo, and the main generals could abandon the army and flee, so where did his subordinates still have the courage to continue fighting?

But when Zhao Wuxian personally stood in the front row with a crossbow. The soldiers were flattered for a while, and the gentleman also said that they could defeat the invincible chariot bird formation!

"The gentleman of the Zhao family is a monarch and a pedestrian. The next doctor, but he can stand in the same column with our lowly apprentices. If he is not afraid of death, why should we be afraid? ”

Not to mention. Behind the crossbowmen of Wen Pawn, Zhao Wuxian also took an insurance.

The tall Mucha took the townsfolk guards, looked indifferently at the backs of the crossbowmen, and shouted: "Those who dare to retreat will be dealt with by the new military law, and there will be no forgiveness!" ”

After discovering that the thirty chariots on the opposite side were slowly moving to the sound of drums, Zhao Wuxian ordered loudly: "Le's armor, step forward!" ”

The Song people have a tenacious and stubborn character, and the Le soldiers are the most hated and sad people among all the people. Hatred forgets death, grief and anger do not fear the enemy, Chen Dingguo led the Le's armor, and immediately led them forward after hearing the words, passing through the gap of the crossbowmen.

After standing still, the armor soldiers half-crouched on the ground, put their shields in front of them, and stared at the dust raised by the chariot opposite, motionless.

Their role is not to block the chariots, but to strengthen the courage of the crossbowmen again - you will not be so afraid when you find someone in front of you to suffer death before you.

"All the crossbowmen obey the order, three horizontal columns, all wind!" After Le's soldiers were in place, Zhao Wuxian gave a loud order, and then he was the first to bow his head and draw the arrow.

There were cavalry scouts, and Zhao Wuxian's army seemed to have several miles of eyesight compared to others, and when the enemy was found a few miles away, the crossbow machine had already been adjusted, and the arrows were also carried on their waists, and these thousands of arrows were still a gift from the Han clan.

A squeaky winding sound sounded one after another around them, and the freshly baked crossbowmen would be personally trained by Zhao Wuxian as long as they stopped these days, and this simple operation had already been extremely skilled.

"Yu commanded the first column, Wu Jing commanded the second column, and Su Shouyu commanded the third column. Then I will shoot it myself, and I will not shoot any arrows, and no crossbowmen will be allowed to shoot them. When the arrow is fired, it is the same as the training on weekdays, three columns are lined up in turn, and they shoot one after another, and there must be no mistakes, and those who violate the order will be killed in the temple! ”

"Yui!" Everyone agreed awe-inspiringly, Su Shouyu was originally the chief pawn, and Wu Jing was also familiar with the Wen pawn assigned to him, and they all carried out Zhao Wuxian's orders to the letter.

As the drumbeat became denser, the thirty horse-fighting wagons, which had already advanced four hundred paces away, began to accelerate, and the top of the "human" herringbone queue approached first, and the left and right wings spread out on both sides.

Zhao Wuxian raised the wooden crossbow: "The first column, raise the crossbow flat, aim at the head car, and the second column is ready to step forward at any time!" ”

On the battlefield, three hundred steps away, the Fan's car formation, which had already lined up in formation, began to charge! Although there are only thirty military vehicles, they still have a thunderous momentum when they run fast on the battlefield, and although they have not been contacted, they have already put a lot of pressure on the Wen soldiers.

However, the Le's soldiers in the front row did not move like a mountain, and the Chengxiang soldiers in the back stared at their backs, if they dared to turn around, it was a dead word, so the Wen soldiers just swallowed their saliva and moved their toes, but they didn't dare to make a mistake.

Zhao Wuxian looked at the smoke and dust raised by the chariot soldiers on the opposite side, and held his spear high. The hundreds of apprentices who were stepping forward secretly prayed in their hearts that the "three-stage shooting" they had trained in the past few days would work.

Spring and autumn crossbows and early arquebuses have one thing in common. That is, the range is not long enough, and the launch gap is long. In the rapidly changing field battlefield, it is often reduced to a disposable weapon.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian had an idea, and it was the same as the "three-stage strike" tactics of the European arquebus and flintlock pistol era in later generations. He divided the crossbowmen into three rows, the first row fired after the second row, and the second row switched places when the second row fired, and rewound them in the rear. This cycle repeats itself to ensure that the arrows fired are uninterrupted, causing maximum deterrence and damage to the enemy.

After passing from the state to here. After intermittent training along the way, the Wen soldiers have basically mastered this tactic, and now, they can only pray that they will not make mistakes in actual combat.

If he didn't feel that Wen Zu's psychological endurance was unreliable, why did Zhao Wuxian need to stand in the front row? In terms of command, it is okay to hand it over to the steady Wu Jinglai, but the existence of Zhao Wuxian is equivalent to brushing a morale-boosting buff for everyone, and I only hope that in the next time. They can hold on.

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As the "wedge" of the geese driving array, it is a front sharp composed of six cars, one after the other, about ten steps apart. The van commander was at the end. He squinted at the howling wind.

After launching the charge, he was convinced. After they began to charge, the opposing commanders would rush to block them with ten chariots on the right flank.

And the brigade commander intended to entangle the enemy with twelve vehicles on his left flank. The six vehicles of the forward sharp attacked the enemy's weak central army in turn, and the twelve vehicles on the right flank attacked from the right. Disrupted its array completely, while five hundred of its men reaped the enemy's lives on their heels.

He had already sensed the other party's change in formation, but he smiled contemptuously: "Even if there is another column of armor soldiers in front, it is useless, the array is too thin, there are only four or five layers, how can it withstand the impact of the chariot, once we rush in, Wen Shu will inevitably collapse on the whole line!" ”

Although the two hundred men on the opposite side seemed to be archers, at the speed of the chariot they could shoot at most two rounds, and most of the arrows would be taken by the first chariot draped in leather and armor, and would not do much damage to the next five.

However, when the brigade commander's chariot traveled within 100 paces, he was shocked to find that the array on the opposite side had not yet made noise and movement. The ten chariots were still parked on the right side, unmoved, without the slightest appearance of attack. And the "bow" in the hands of those Wen pawns seems to have a special structure.

"The strength of the soldiers in Wen County has always been extremely small, it would be good to be able to find two hundred strong archers, and today it is a little wrong to be able to open the bow for so long without letting go......"

"Not good!" He suddenly shouted, and hurriedly waved the flag to close the left and right wings in the rear, turning the bird array into a cloud array.

However, the vehicles behind can still slow down and change formation, but the five vehicles in front will be too late. At this moment, Qianrui's first chariot had already marched to a position fifty paces away from the enemy!

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Zhao Wuxian stared at the approaching enemy car formation, and there were no more distractions in his mind, just concentrating on estimating the distance.

The first car had already entered within sixty paces, which was the longest range of the wooden crossbow, but Zhao Wuxian did not shoot a cluster of arrows, he squinted at the Wen pawn next to him who could not help but want to pull the suspension knife of the crossbow machine, and reiterated the order.

"I can't send arrows, the second and third sons are not allowed to send arrows, and those who violate the order will be killed in the temple!"

I have to wait a few more breaths, because the crossbow in my hand is too primitive, and many of its performance are not up to standard, and it can only effectively kill targets within fifty steps, and Zhao Wuxian plans to put them within thirty steps and shoot again!

On the battlefield, more than 20 Fan's chariots began to slow down, turning the unfolding bird array into a closed cloud array. But the five chariots in front of them were speeding like the wind, without stopping, and in front of them, the Wen County crossbowmen, inspired by Zhao Wuxian, tried to control their fear, and they did not attack.

After the first chariot had entered the distance of thirty or forty paces, the horse's legs galloped, the sound of falling hooves was like thunder, the wheels of the carriage were spun around, and the top of the bronze hub was bubbling with a cold light. There is also the Fan Jiashi who has gradually seen the appearance clearly, and Rong Zuo on the opposite side is also estimating the position, and is about to open the bow and release the arrows.

Several Wen pawns finally couldn't bear the pressure anymore, abandoned their crossbows and turned to run away, but they were smashed to the ground by Musha one by one, and the smell of blood filled the array.

The rest of the people were also on the verge of patience, and at this moment, with the sound of a drum, Zhao Wuxian shouted loudly: "First column, shoot!" (To be continued......)

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