In the past few years, Liu Xiazu has been rampant on the shores of the Great Lake, rarely meeting opponents, and also boasting of "the world's good use of soldiers", until he encountered Zhao Wuxian's soldiers, his group of thieves really tasted the taste of war.

The line of foot soldiers who marched in unison like a mountain, their spears piercing their bodies, and the armorers who hid their bodies behind their shields would aim at the flawed array of thieves and dash at you, knocking you to the ground, roaring and stabbing their sharp short swords into the heart. Those strange crossbow machines, the crossbow arrows that flew out in unison could easily pierce the thin brown of the group of thieves and nail them deep between the flesh and bones.

There are also knights with big bows on their backs, covered in leather armor, and their faces cannot be seen, and the roar of the earth fills the whole world when they charge with spears......

For the average robber, a little taste of this would be enough to break down, just like the last chase outside Kanyi. But this time it was different, although they fell into an ambush, under the shouts of the thieves, more people gritted their teeth and continued to persevere. They lined up in formation, picked up bamboo spears, sickles and agricultural tools to hold their positions, fought and retreated, and fought their way out under the leadership of Liu Xiajiao.

After running a few miles in a hurry, he didn't care about counting the casualties, and the five or six hundred people who were left behind didn't have to think about all the reimbursements, and three or four hundred were left on the road, but this desperate resistance only caused 100 deaths and injuries to the soldiers, and all the food and money that had just been robbed were thrown on the road, and those who held on to their belongings were left behind as prisoners.

Another failure, but this trip to Yuncheng was not without gains, and what made Liu Xia Xuan ecstatic was that he also seemed to have a glimpse of the tactics of the square formation of the military pawn line, and even the weakness of the knights who came and went like a light wind.

Onozawa and Lu are full of hills and ravines, rivers and canals, and narrow roads. The large and dense battle formations of the phalanx of the warrior line are the nemesis of the chariot and the pawn. However, it is difficult to adapt to the operational needs of this terrain. The thief felt that he could just avoid confronting him head-on. Lure into the mountains and forests and ambush them. Divide it, and you can pull out their carapaces and spikes like catching hedgehogs and turtles, and eat the soft flesh inside.

But in the head-on confrontation, Liu Xiajiao couldn't think of how to defeat Zhao Wuxian's frontal invincible line phalanx for the time being.

According to his vision, perhaps only hoplites with the same training and equipment could do this. Line to line, dignified duel is the best way to solve those bronze hedgehogs (spears) and wooden bark tortoise shells (swords and shields).

But scattered bandits are out of the question. In this world, perhaps only the Wei Xianzi phalanx of the Zhongxing clan and the Wei clan, as well as the infantry phalanx of the southern Wu country, can fight against it.

As for the light knights, the thieves believe that their main characteristics are rapid maneuvering, with strong and fierce assault power, especially conducive to plains and wilderness and general mountains and hills. Zhao Wuxian's victories in the past have shown that he can often exert unexpected effects when making detours, surprise attacks, cutting off his rear route, and harassing the enemy's rear.

However, cavalry warfare was not suitable for dangerous waters. It is not conducive to the siege of the city, this is its weakness, it only needs to be used well, and the group of thieves is familiar with the road conditions. Good at trekking through mountains and rivers, just avoid the range of light knights.

At this moment, Liu Xia Plantar suddenly realized. There was a rush of confusion in the ranks.

Last night, the group of thieves in Onozawa, Kun's father and brothers, embarked on a journey together. They were promised the future by Liu Xiashi, and they set off in an urgent mood. This loot is not like the past, it is a robbery, I don't know the next one. It's a return to their homeland, an adventure once and for all, and they dream of winning wealth and land.

But the results were frustrating.

"Defeated again!"

"The stolen food is gone again!"

"I'm going to starve again tonight!"

"What should I do if I have no clothes and no brown this winter?"

The bandits, urged by their cronies, retreated to the lake, complaining as they went, anger and despair ensuing as the flame of hope was extinguished.

Liu Xiajiao shouted loudly, trying to suppress the emotions of defeat: "At least we are still alive, there are still boats on the lake, and there are still people on the island, this time Zhao Wuxian tried his best but still did not keep us, wait until next time, you can defeat it!" ”

After seeing through the weakness of the warriors, he has such confidence!

However, before Yanagi could finish speaking, one of his men pointed in the direction of the lake shore they were about to reach and shouted: "General, there is smoke!" There's a fire over there! ”

……

Liu Xia's face was pale, looking at the thick smoke on the shore of the lake, he knew that it was the direction of the moored boat, it was the beacon warning on the shore of the lake just now, he realized that he had fallen into the trap, presumably Zhao Wuxian also sent people on the shore of the lake, and was discovered when he wanted to exterminate the more than 100 people he left to guard the boat.

Now, they still succeeded, after the destruction of more than 200 ships, they and the remaining group of thieves of more than 2,000 people lost the fastest way to escape, and on land, they could fall into siege again at any time!

The bandits have been left in a mess, and what has been destroyed is the fishing boat they usually rely on for survival, and it is also the means of transportation that they rely on to escape back to the island in the middle of the lake.

"Don't panic! I'm holding back! ”

The thief turned back again and shouted loudly in the crowd, the noise gradually dissipated, and everyone looked at him pleadingly, their only hope!

"Walking south along the shore of the lake, there are still dozens of boats, and hundreds of fishermen from Higashihara Island are waiting to meet our ......."

Willow plantar never just makes a preparation!

He regained hope for the group of thieves, and then said, "But first, we have to defeat these Zhao soldiers in front of us first!" ”

The group of thieves turned around, only to realize that they didn't know when, there was already a broad column of soldiers on the tidal flats on the shore of the lake, holding flags, beating small drums, and forming a strange formation, and was slowly approaching them.

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Standing at the front of the queue with the flag in his hand, Ran Qiu was not in a good mood.

There is the frustration of the mistake, and the tension of the imminent big war.

Zhao Wuxian has always praised him for his steady combat and invincibility in previous drills, so he was entrusted with an important task, and he has been training this new formation day and night in the past few months.

Who knew that the first time I went into battle, something went wrong.

His task was to command 500 soldiers and pavilion guards from the shore of the lake to raid the men left by the robbers. and destroy their ships, then complete the encirclement inland. What is the material to steal the foot, live and learn. He actually let people climb on the beacon platform to look, and saw their approach. He took off his clothes and lit the smoke, exposing the ambush.

"The robbers have arrived, only we can stop them, and the reinforcements of the Sikou will arrive."

Originally, this formation, which had been practiced for several months, was only used as an auxiliary to try the effect, but in the end, it became the last line of defense to prevent the group of thieves from escaping. But his subordinates did not have this awareness, their faces were pale, and there were many who fought with weapons and legs. If they fight more and fight less, they are naturally not afraid. But now it's 500 against 2,000! Can you win?

"The thieves kill innocent people every day, the flesh of the liver and the flesh, the violent and wanton, the cardinal household of the cave chamber, the drive of cattle and horses, and the taking of women. You and the others are all natives of Yuncheng, and they have suffered a lot from it on weekdays, and today is the time to repay their grievances. ”

Ran Qiu shouted in the Xilu dialect that made the soldiers kind, exaggerating the disgusting nature of the thieves. Inspire their hatred.

"Si Kou has an order, whoever kills and steals one person, ten acres of land, and one person is captured. Ten acres of land, and can be subordinated to it, capture the thief himself. The field is 300 acres, and Zhuo Ba is the official. "When the anger of the people is rampant. Ran Qiu threw out the rewards again, and these promised rewards and merit books suddenly lifted the spirits of the pavilion guards who were a little apprehensive.

"Dare to retreat from the latter. Those who escaped from the battle, those who walked, and those who were court-martialed! ”

While intimidating them, Ran Qiu was also observing whether their formation spread out as they did during training.

And the willow foot on the opposite side also noticed that the array of Zhao soldiers in front of him was quite special, very different from the dense line phalanx, and even the soldiers of any prince and doctor were very different, it was a loose two rows of lines, each column was more than ten steps apart, if the group of thieves rushed over together, this formation could not stop them at all!

"This is probably not an elite soldier, but an ordinary soldier pavilion soldier."

Liu Xiajiao confidently cheered for the group of thieves: "There are more than two thousand of us, and there are only five or six hundred of them, as long as we break through their thin array, we can escape along the shore of the lake." The ground here is soft, the light knights will not come, and the warriors have only been hindered by the broken man, and they are still miles away, and it will take at least half a moment to arrive. ”

In just half a moment, it is the key to determining the survival of victory or defeat!

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Ran Qiu had a total of more than 500 people, and two loose long formations were discharged, the first row and the second row had twenty-five columns, with eleven people as a team.

The first person in each team is the leader, that is, the position where Ran Qiu stands with the flag, leading the army before the battle, and commanding and supervising after the battle. Behind him, there were five symmetrical figures on the left and right sides, and they were different from the spears and swords and shields that were more unitary in the line of spear formations, and they held very different weapons.

The first to bear the brunt were two men with rattan shields and short spears, and several short spears on their backs. Most of them are stable people with great strength and courage, and they can use rattan cards to block arrows and stones thrown by robbers, and bamboo spears to cover the advance of the rear team; You can also throw a spear to counterattack, or engage in melee combat with enemy assaults

The next two are wolf wrestlers, holding wolf whizzers. The so-called wolf whisk is the use of the bamboo that grows around Onozawa, select its old and solid, cut the end of the bamboo obliquely into a pointed shape, and leave sharp branches around it, each wolf whisk is one and a half zhang long, its use is to cover the body and strengthen the courage, so the usage is clear and easy to learn. The Wolf Warrior uses the blade at the front of the Wolf Lance to assassinate enemies, and covers the Shieldman's advance and the spearman's attack from behind.

Again, there were four spearmen with spears in their hands, two on the left and two on the right and two on the right, respectively to take care of the shield bearers and wolf wrestlers on the left and right sides of the front.

At the bottom are two soldiers holding "boring palladium" to serve as guards, support and other work, which is born out of the usual earth-turning farm tools.

It was such a chaotic and nondescript array of weapons, standing in front of the thieves who were like arrows, and at first glance, compared to the tight and dense line of spear phalanx, it seemed to be vulnerable.

Having said that, when the loose array on the opposite side began to change formations, the thief couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and gave birth to a bad idea.

……

"Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, how to practice on weekdays, how to use today. A card forward, wolf to save the card, spear to save the spear, short soldiers to save the spear, the combination is to advance, the division is to retreat, do not mess up the order! ”

Ran Qiu remembered that when Zhao Wuxian mysteriously discussed with him about practicing this new formation, he also gave it a strange name, and at the same time, there was a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Each unit is symmetrical on the left and right, just like the mandarin ducks in Onozawa, how can it be called the mandarin duck array?"

That's right, this is the mandarin duck array of "I'm just not afraid of my wife" General Qi, known as the "Terminator of the Japanese Invaders"! Because of Zhao Wuxian, the second array came out two thousand years in advance, although it was also dealing with lake pirates and the like. (To be continued......)