Niu Gao is a standard northern hero, the most heroes in the two rivers, heroes like him have been working hard since he was a child, walking the rivers and lakes, and he is also clear about the Song army's tactics. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When training the village warriors every day, it is also the means of the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army.

The field army of the Song Dynasty paid attention to the heavy armor and hard crossbows, and each battle array was not thick, and the requirement was that the interval between the soldiers and the soldiers should be as small as possible, so that as soon as they stood on the battlefield, even if the soldiers were afraid in their hearts, they were surrounded by the soldiers around them without the slightest room for maneuver, and they could only advance forward without their own hands.

For example, the Song army's great array was a huge stone mill, and in every battle, it relied on strong armor to mercilessly crush forward until there was no more enemy in front of them.

As a result, the Northern Song army maintained an extremely high victory rate in foreign wars. Of course, this kind of turtle shell-like play is really clumsy, and even if you win, you can't pursue the rout, and the decapitation rate is disingenuatingly low.

But Wang Shenjun in front of him actually did the opposite, and the troops were disbanded into a squad of more than a dozen people, and the connection with each other was loose.

Seeing this, Niu Gao's brows couldn't help frowning, and two big bumps formed in the center of his eyebrows.

How could his expression hide from Wang Shen, and smiled: "Bo Yuan doesn't think of our army's tactics?" ”

Niu Gao: "Don't dare to ......" He is also strange in his heart, the Sizhou Army has been fighting every battle for more than a year, so majestic, and he is also yearning for it in Henan. However, the situation in front of him was so strange that he could not understand it.

Wang Shen: "Boyuan, we are all a family now, but it doesn't hurt to say something." ”

Niu Gao: "Military envoy, forgive me...... The last general dared to say, your formation is too strange, and I really can't understand it when you are stupid. However, if it is really used on the battlefield and encounters the Jurchen Tartars, I am afraid that it will be a bad thing. ”

Wang Shen laughed: "Indeed, this array alone cannot be used in large-scale battles. If that's the case, I'm afraid that a certain elite soldier with a lot of troops at hand will not be enough to accompany him. However, the subtlety of the formation lies in one mind, and there is no all-encompassing formation in the world. The need changes from time to time and from place to person. Actually, this formation was specially designed by me for the Mani demon of the bell phase. ”

"Zhong Xiang Demon heard that my Sizhou army came to Hunan a few days ago and gathered the main force to fight with me in Lizhou, but unexpectedly our army won several games in a row. When the thief saw that he was beaten to the ground by our army, he turned it into pieces and entangled with me by relying on water networks, lakes and marshes. Our army was annoyed by its disturbances, and followed with squad to squad. However, it has suffered a lot of losses. ”

Niu Gao was taken aback: "If you are as strong as the Sizhou army, you will also suffer under the Mani demons?" ”

Wang Shen: "The battlefield is ever-changing, and no one dares to say that he is a victorious general." Most of our army are northerners, who are not accustomed to water and do not know how to operate boats, so they can only be confined to land in every battle, and there is little room for maneuver. And Zhong Xiang's demon has lived on this Dongting Lake since he was a child, on the battlefield, roaring in a boat, whistling away. This situation is really a bit like the cavalry of the Jurchens, which can be outflanked and interspersed in the shortest possible time. As a result, our army is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of tactical initiative. Moreover, fighting on the water, the ironclad strong crossbow and thick formation can't be used, if the formation is not changed, it will be beaten piecemeal by others, and sooner or later it will be a defeat. That's how I came up with such a position, hoping to restrain the headache of the Mani demons. ”

Hearing Wang Shen's words, Niu Gao recalled the waterway he had taken this way, and pondered in his heart for a long time. Only then did he sigh and said: "What the military envoy said is extremely true, there are rivers and rivers everywhere, and the enemy can come and go whenever he wants, and it is really a bit like the light cavalry of the Jurchen Tartars, which is indeed a headache." Moreover, compared to the battle with the Jurchens in Lianghe, there is a headache on the Hunan side. The terrain here is divided into small pieces by the river, and for many times the troops are stretched out in a long line by the river embankments and ridges, and it is impossible to form a large formation. If you are the last general, you can only cry out in vain when you encounter such an enemy. However, I think that this kind of small formation newly trained by the general is not surprising except for the strange weapons in the hands of the soldiers. ”

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to the Sizhou sergeant who was training.

Wang Shen pointed to a small formation that was practicing at the front and began to explain.

I saw that there were only twelve people in each of those strange formations, forming an inverted triangle.

At the front are two brand players, not only the shields in their hands are different, but the size, age, and spirit of the soldiers are also different.

On the left is a long card of about 1.50 meters, and the card is held by an old soldier.

Wang Shen said: "At the front of the team are two brand players, and the main task of the long player is to block and block the impact of the thief army, and there is no trick. Generally speaking, they are filled by brave and old people, and they need the courage of Mount Tai to collapse in front of them and remain unchanged. ”

Another player is holding a small round shield.

Wang Shen said again: "In addition to blocking the enemy's attack, this small round shield hand also needs to fight the enemy when necessary, and it is the strongest martial artist in the team, and it is the pivot for the team to turn defense into attack. ”

Behind the two brand players is a man holding a red flag, no need to ask the captain of the team.

On either side of the captain was a soldier with a strange weapon in his hand.

This weapon is very strange, and the tip of the spear is sharp in front, but on all sides of the barrel of the spear is a foot-long iron branch, like a duck's beak like a steel knife, and it is held in the hand like an open iron bamboo branch.

"It's a wolf." Wang Shen explained to Niu Gao: "During the war, Zhang was in front of the battle, so that the thieves were not allowed to approach. ”

"Weird, weird!" Niu Gao couldn't stop saying.

Behind the wolf soldier and the captain was a row of four spearmen, and it was needless to say what role the spearmen played on the battlefield. However, this spear has grown amazingly, and the wolf has grown greatly from one zhang to one zhang two, but this spear has one zhang and five zhang.

There are two palladium boring hands behind the spearman, and the palladium in his hand is not long, less than a zhang, which is considered a short soldier.

Behind the palladium boring, there is an archer.

Wang Shen said: "The brand hand stabilizes the formation and protects the front, the wolf guards the sides, and the archer attacks from a distance." In this way, the long-term, short-term and long-term means are complete, and this formation can be regarded as flawless. ”

Niu Gao: "Military envoy, this kind of small general is indeed unheard of, but I don't know what the name is?" ”

Wang Shen: "The name of this formation is called the Mandarin Duck Array, which I figured out a while ago. "I'm sorry, General Qi Jiguang, I'll plagiarize you first.

A few days ago, Zhong Xiang and him started a guerrilla war, which gave Wang Shen a headache. Even though the back-up army is brave and brave, it is still very embarrassing by others in the unfamiliar terrain.

Wang Shen thought about it for a long time, especially after personally experiencing a sneak attack by a Manichaean cultist, and was shocked by the disregard for life and death of those demons and their excellent martial arts.

Yes, although Zhong Xiang's troops coerced a large number of displaced people, the army under his command was rotten. But the thousands of disciples in the core are all very good, and their martial arts are very special, jumping and interspersing in the reeds of the water network and rivers, like apes, in comparison, the iron armor on the back looks extremely cumbersome in the water.

This situation reminded him of the Ming Dynasty's invasion of the southeast in the Ming Dynasty, and he was inspired to order people to build weapons, train mandarin duck formations, and prepare to break the squad with a team.

Niu Gao: "But I don't know how effective this array is on the battlefield?" ”

Wang Shen shook his head: "I haven't fought yet, and I don't know how, but I have to try it anyway." ”

Niu Gao also shook his head: "Military envoy, General Mo has doubts about your formation. ”

Wang Shen: "Or, Boyuan, you try?" He did not have the slightest doubt about Niu Gao's ability to lead troops to fight, after all, it was recorded in the annals of history. However, what is this person's martial arts, it is inevitable that he is a little curious.

Moreover, to be honest, how effective the Mandarin Duck Array would be in a real battle, Wang Shen was also a little worried in his heart. Why not let Niu Gao test the water and see if there are any loopholes that need to be filled.

When Niu Gao heard him say this, he was also eager to try, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Since the military envoy wants to test the ability of the last general, he doesn't dare to refuse." ”

At that moment, Wang Shen ordered his subordinates to change into weapons during actual combat drills. The spears had their heads removed, and the tips of the wolf's wrecks and the boring palladium had been replaced with wood.

As for the feathered arrows in the hands of the archers, they have also become hammerhead arrows.

Then, Wang Shen ordered someone to bring a set of rope armor for Niu Gao to wear, covering it with a piece of armor and an iron helmet with an iron mask.

Similarly, the soldiers in the mandarin duck formation also wore thick armor.

The great movement here had already alarmed the other soldiers on the school field, and hundreds of people and horses surrounded and stood aside to observe.

Wang Shen: "Boyuan, what kind of weapon do you use, come here, give General Niu a jujube stick." ”

Niu Gao waved his hand: "You don't need long weapons, I heard from the military envoy that most of the elite Mani demons use long knives, and they leap a few feet, like apes." If I use a long weapon, how can I test the quality of this array? The last general brought his own iron hammer, and gave me a bow and arrows with hammer arrows. ”

With a recurve bow and a bag of arrows on his back, Niu Gao waved the iron shovel in his hand, and his blazing eyes were projected from behind the iron mask to the twelve soldiers in front of him: "Be careful! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Niu Gao suddenly jumped forward, jumping high, like a goshawk swooping towards the long player.

A huge wind sounded.

The faces of the onlookers changed at the same time, you must know that Niu Gao's equipment is at least forty pounds, and ordinary people can't stop gasping when they wear it and walk a few steps.

But this black fat general is as light as a feather.

Seeing that he came fiercely, the two brand players in front of him were also terrified.

However, the long card player gritted his teeth and met the long card in one fell swoop.

"Peng!" The iron shovel hit the long card, and the long player was shaken, his face was blood-red, and he almost fell to the ground. It can be imagined how powerful Niu Gao's move is.

The front of the mandarin duck array was shaken by himself, and Niu Gao was about to take a step forward and tear a gap. At this time, suddenly a strangely long wolf whisk opened, and Niu Gao felt as if he had fallen into the thistle bush, although the iron shovel in his hand whistled and hit the wolf whisk, but he was powerless.

The wolf twisted around, and easily dissipated the great force that attacked.

Two spears stabbed at each other, and the speed was amazing.

Niu Gao did not retreat, and a black light danced from the iron shovel in his hand, and he smashed the two spears apart in an instant.

He said secretly in his heart: "This mandarin duck array is not very good!" ”

But at this moment, the small shield collided and obscured his vision. At the same time, the short knife of the round shield hand slashed and fell on him.