As soon as the number of people increases, the battlefield will expand. The two armies faced each other, and it was not a crowded city where both sides would have dense troops, and then an order was given, and everyone was carrying knives to open the film. In this way, it is not a battle, but a hooligan fight.

A regular military battle formation requires a fairly open battlefield. Generally speaking, in a battle formation, each side uses a basic military formation of several hundred people to complete specific combat missions. The commander-in-chief of the first army effectively commands every basic military establishment through means of communication such as flags, drums, and jinduo.

A basic military unit of 4 to 500 people is a "department" or "tun" in the Han army, and a "small marshal" in the Yellow Turban army. In order for the non-commissioned officers to fully deploy their weapons without accidentally injuring their own personnel, the non-commissioned officers within a basic military unit need to be separated by more than one step between each other. Even if it is just arranged into a basic ten-person deep phalanx, it will take about fifty steps, that is, seventy or eighty meters.

And between the two basic military units, unless there is a special arrangement, they must be separated by more than ten paces from each other. This distance is to facilitate the movement of one's own soldiers and soldiers, and also to prevent the stability of one basic military unit from affecting the stability of other basic military units after the defeat.

If it were like a gangster brawl, everyone rushed up, and as long as there was a rout in one part, it would inevitably affect the whole army. Nowhere is this more evident than in the lack of effective organization of the displaced people's brigades.

The rabble, which liked to gather together in battle, was the favorite type of enemy of the Han army. As long as these people are given a ferocious killing, even the displaced people who have an absolute advantage in numbers will definitely be defeated. In actual battles, there were often situations in which the Han army, numbering no more than a few hundred people, dared to chase and attack tens of thousands of displaced people.

When the Yellow Turban Army first started, it suffered a lot of such losses. For example, the "flesh" of "arrogance", before his current "consciousness" has not crossed, the battle he participated in was such a failure.

In that battle, as many as five or six thousand strong men who were mobilized by the Taiping Dao gathered together indiscriminately without organization. As a result, the Yellow Turban Army, which was engaged in such a battle, was shot with a bow and crossbow by the Han army and county soldiers of no more than 1,000 people, killing and wounding more than 100 people at once, and then began a comprehensive retreat.

In the end, this extremely undignified "battle" injured the "arrogant" head, and was able to make the soul of the "liberal arts students" from later generations succeed.

Therefore, there needs to be enough space between the two basic military units to avoid interference with each other. Moreover, if the losses of the military formation personnel in the front are too large to support it, they can also withdraw from the first-line positions through these reserved military formation passages. At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the army will send a reserve in the rear to fill the vacant positions to maintain the integrity of the military formation.

For this reason, in a large military formation, it is necessary to leave several avenues with a width of forty or fifty paces to facilitate military dispatch on the battlefield.

All of the above are infantry. If the formation is cavalry, then multiply the front, back, left, and right of each soldier by one two. The space that a thousand-man cavalry should occupy in an array is usually no less than that of a four-thousand-man foot soldier.

Calculated in this way, an average battle of 10,000 people already requires a battlefield no less than three miles wide to be placed. In the big battle planned by Zhang Liang, there were more than 100,000 people on both sides combined. If it weren't for the width of ten miles, the Yellow Turban Army would not be able to use it at all.

However, in ancient times, when transportation was basically relied on walking, and communication was basically based on roaring, as long as the battle line was stretched to more than five miles, the orders issued by the commander-in-chief of the army could not be conveyed smoothly. Even if there is a command with golden drums and banners, the commander's command of a large army of more than 10,000 people can only rely on the presence of his generals.

As for this, all the magistrates only need to try it and see if they can observe a colored flag two or three miles away with the naked eye, and they will be able to understand it. As for the sound of drums and trumpets and Jin Duo, they are transmitted to a distance of several miles, and if you don't calm down and listen to them, I'm afraid you won't be able to hear them. In that case, the outcome of the battle will only be decided by God.

Therefore, even if the number of the Yellow Turban Army is doubled, in the face of a total of only 20,000 enemies, I am afraid that there are only a few thousand people who can contact the battle. For the rest of them, if they don't wait for the troops at the front to die or be defeated, no matter how anxious they are, no matter how high the mood for fighting is, it is useless.

Many of the soldiers who participated in such a 100,000-strong battle waited leisurely in the rear all day, and without even seeing the enemy, they were about to collect their troops and return to the camp. If the battle is fierce and the winner is decided in one day, then there will be many warriors, who have not even seen the enemy's face, and will be victorious or defeated involuntarily.

In other words, in ancient wars, there were always many more people in the back row than in the front row fighting desperately.

Therefore, the two partial divisions sent out by Zhang Liang are actually just an insurance. The real victory or defeat depends on the battle situation of the Chinese army headquarters. If the Yellow Turban Army wins, most of the partial divisions that have made a long detour on the two roads will return in vain. However, if the Chinese army is defeated, under the threat of the oppression of these two partial divisions, the pursuit of the Han army cannot be effectively launched. This is also the main purpose for which the partial division was sent out

Moreover, compared with the Yellow Turban Army, which had enough troops to effectively command, the Han army was a little thinner in terms of numbers. If the two partial divisions can allow Dong Zhuo to allocate a part of his forces to intercept them, the pressure on the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in the middle can be reduced.

-- That's enough.

Although Zhang Liang is not as good as "Bo Cai Shuai" in terms of his ability to command the army, he is not much different. After months of training, Zhang Liang commanded tens of thousands of troops, which was already decent. He knew the limits of the number of commands he commanded, and did not dare to challenge himself and surpass himself in such an important battle.

It's autumn now, and the weather is noticeably cooler, and even after the sun rises, the heat on your clothes and armor only helps to drive away the coolness of the morning. If the time is rewind to the hot summer of two months ago, under the scorching sun, let alone armor, even if you are only wearing a single clothes, it is enough to make people suffer from heat stroke.

Therefore, Lu Zhi has only confronted the Yellow Turban Army for several months, and there has been no large-scale fighting, in fact, there is a reason for the weather. It's just that the power of Tianshi is not as good as that of the angel [Messenger of the Son of Heaven], and Lu Zhi's imprisonment can be regarded as unjust.

The two opposing armies, under the warm morning sun, began to deploy their own formations.

The so-called formation is a kind of battlefield troop arrangement made by the two warring parties in order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the army. No matter what kind of mysterious name the literati give to the formation, the essence of it is still an organizational method that is conducive to the combat power of their own soldiers and allows the enemy's combat power to be limited as much as possible.

When two armies are fighting, if one side has lined up its formation, but the other side fails to set up its formation, or if the formation is forcibly destroyed, the outcome of the battle can basically be predicted.

Why can a strong man at the level of "Thousand People Broken" have a very high prestige in the army?

It was because they possessed the terrible force to force a breakthrough of the enemy's military formation, which was enough to determine the outcome of a battle of 1,000 men that was evenly matched. In contrast, the strength of the "100 people slash" can only affect the victory or defeat of the battle on the scale of 100 people, and does not have much battlefield deterrence.

Therefore, when Dong Zhuo saw that the Yellow Turban Army began to set up a formation, he did not hesitate to send a powerful cavalry in his hand to interfere with the enemy.

A group of cavalry numbering about two or three hundred people, under Dong Zhuo's order, approached the Yellow Turban Army camp unhurriedly.

As soon as this cavalry appeared, it immediately caused a commotion among the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army. No way, the emblems of these cavalry are too eye-catching. As long as you have a little understanding of the composition of the Han army, you can recognize them at a glance.

Because, these cavalrymen, all of them rode white horses.

- White Horse Righteous Servant!

-- Led by Gongsun Zhan, the "Long History of the White Horse", the "White Horse Yicong" whose reputation is still above the "Tiger Yicong" under the command of Sun Jian, the "Jiangdong Tiger"!

Bai Ma Yi has never been worthy of their prestige, and as soon as he appeared, he gave the little marshals of the Yellow Turban Army who were arranging the formation.

Under the gaze of the people, the white horse knights in their early 200s lined up in a neat galloping formation, like a long snake, swimming in front of the Yellow Turban Army. Whenever they passed in front of a Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army would involuntarily waver, seriously disrupting the Yellow Turban Army's pre-war formation operations.

Even if Bai Ma Yi has never made a move, he is still a hundred steps away.

A handsome person can't stand it anymore.

Facing the approaching White Horse Yicong, this little handsome man roared loudly:

"What a panic! Don't raise your shield! , they're still so far away, what are they afraid of! ”

was yelled at by Xiao Shuai like this, and the Yellow Turban sergeants under him had to put the newly erected shield back down, and started a new round of parade in a chaotic manner. Many soldiers saw that Bai Ma Yicong had already passed through the territory of four or five little marshals and did not launch any attacks, and they couldn't help but feel lucky.

However, whatever you are afraid of, you will come.

Gongsun Chan hid his handsome face under an iron face armor. However, his eagle-sharp gaze had been wandering through the enemy formations that were miles wide. Whenever an enemy formation began to become flustered because of the approach of Bai Ma Yicong, and put on a posture as if he was facing a great enemy, it would make Gongsun Chan sneer in his heart.

Then, Gongsun Zhan saw a Yellow Turban army in the face of the world-famous "White Horse Righteous Servants", who did not quickly set up their shields and guns, but were still arranging their formations.

Gongsun Chan stopped sneering.

Gongsun Chan laughed!

ps: Thank you for the reward from the mystery man's book friend, and thank you again for the reward from Lin Buxu's book friend. The figures in this book are rather bleak, but I will continue to write about them. This is the benefit of part-time writing.?

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