Chapter 46 Each has his own calculations

In the face of enemy archers, how can the army assembled in a phalanx reduce casualties? In this regard, the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wise. Defensive theorists believe that 360-degree protection without dead ends will become a nightmare for enemy archers, and the original intention of the establishment of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry probably stems from this.

When the archers are ineffective against heavily armoured soldiers (whether heavy infantry or heavy cavalry), they can only watch as the hoplites or cavalry approach them little by little, allowing them to create a hell on earth, and they themselves become victims of their swords. Huge impact, perfect protection, if it weren't for the limitations of speed and flexibility, if it weren't for the huge consumption of financial resources and manpower, the heavy soldiers would become the most perfect class of troops on the battlefield! Not one of them!

When the commanders of both sides of a war are engaged in hoplites or hoplites, it is often the time to decide the winner! If they don't move, they can crush the enemy's last line of defense! Decide the outcome of the war!

In the eyes of the heavily armed soldiers, the rain of arrows unleashed by the archers was nothing more than a drizzle of ordinary ones. They do have plenty of reason to be proud, because archers are a fast class (with the exception of marksmen), and every hoplite selected is a battle-hardened elite! It's just that this is also destined to be on the battlefield of the Warring States Period, where there are hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and the heavily armored soldiers can only be regarded as surprise soldiers, not the main force!

In all the countries of the world, the largest type of troops is the light infantry, and this group of soldiers armed with long swords, shields or long ges is the largest number in the armed sequence of each country. In every war, the casualties are also the greatest! Of course, it is also the largest force that determines the outcome of a war!

Based on such a reality, how to weaken the role of enemy archers gave rise to speedists.

Speed theorists emphasize light protection, which at first sounds, it seems to be a fallacy. Because a dense rain of arrows is a nightmare for all light infantry. On the battlefield, the first duel of a war is often between archers and light infantry. If the light infantry protection were weaker, the casualty rate would be enough to drive countries crazy.

But in the view of speed theorists, only when the protection is reduced to the minimum, the weight can be the lowest, and the speed can be the fastest! To know. No matter how many archers there are in the enemy, the range of the bow determines the range of the archers, and as long as the light infantry can approach the enemy archers as quickly as possible, the archers are useless. Because the archer bends the bow and fires arrows in enough time for a well-trained light infantry to kill the archer three times! Of course, if the archers are all skilled in melee combat and can be transformed into light infantry at any time, that is an exception! On the battlefield, the division of labor and cooperation are emphasized, and the system of serving as soldiers in wartime and farming in peacetime determines that countries do not have enough time to train soldiers, whether to become archers or light infantry. You can only choose one of the two. If you can survive the battles, you will naturally be the elite of a hundred battles! This is also the survival of the fittest of nature, being familiar with one's own responsibilities and obeying the command of the commander is the only law to save one's life on the battlefield!

The last argument is the equilibrium theory, since the light infantry does not have the protection of heavy soldiers, nor the speed of cavalry, it is better to form a fish-scale formation. Protected by the shield held high by the shieldbearer, leaving no gaps. Quickly approach enemy archers instead of top speed.

If the Han army did not have a trebuchet that frightened the Qi army, Tian Wei was willing to take a compromise approach and attack the Han army camp in the form of a cone-shaped assault in a fish scale array, but the trebuchet that caused 5,000 casualties at once really frightened the Qi army. Although everyone is prepared to die when they set foot on the battlefield, there are differences in the way of death. And it's a big difference! No one wants to be torn apart by the brains of the stones or completely unrecognizable, if they have to choose a way to die, I believe that the Qi army would prefer to be killed by the arrows of the Han army.

Therefore, Tian Wei commanded his thousands of generals to spread out the running formation, and everyone rushed forward with all their strength. With room to move around, the casualty rate can be reduced considerably. Of course, the rain of arrows and stones of the South Korean army are all launched intensively, and there is always an area where there is no dodge and no way to avoid it, and in such a situation, you can only resign yourself to fate!

From the charge from only three miles away from the Han army camp to the arrival at the gate of the Han army camp, the Qi army was only a short two hundred seconds, but in this tea effort, the Qi army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and many seriously wounded Qi soldiers lay on this battlefield in various distorted postures, moaning and wailing, no one will rescue them, even if the Han army now aims at the main target of more than 6,000 Qi troops who are close at hand, and the rescue will not be shot by the Korean archers at this time.

Because everyone knows that the Qi army does not have so many medical treatments for seriously injured soldiers, and even if they do, it is difficult to save them. On the battlefield, serious injuries often mean death, and if you read the friendship of the robe, you may be able to give the other party a good time! However, in most cases, these seriously wounded people tend to wait slowly on the battlefield for death to come, and some who are not injured can even survive the night, but at this time, the longer they live, the more painful they are, and they are outcasts after completing their mission. On the contrary, it is those who are lightly wounded, especially those who can return to the battlefield, who are considered by all countries to be valuable assets. However, wound infections can often kill many wounded, and it takes a little luck to survive.

Tian Wei's luck was good, or rather, his status saved him. In these two hundred seconds, three soldiers died trying to save him, but Tian Wei didn't have any time to sigh or be sad. He only knew that he had led more than 6,000 soldiers to kill the Korean army; He only saw that the archers of the Korean army retreated in a hurry, and there was no more calmness before! The previous sacrifices have finally paid off, and whether or not more than 3,000 soldiers can be sacrificed in vain depends on the next battle.

Tian Wei had no way out, and he had already been defeated once under his carelessness. Although he is sure that it would be a big defeat to be someone else, this is not a reason to escape responsibility. The prime minister gave himself a chance, and whether he could grasp it or not depends on himself! It's done, I will be my own partial general again, and if I lose, maybe I will be a captain in peace, and even a thousand people will be a hundred generals!

The more than 6,000 Qi troops had no way to retreat, because as long as they did not break through the Korean army camp, the threat of Korean archers was still there. If he returned empty-handed, no one could be sure that he would be lucky again and survive the rain of arrows released by the archers of the Korean army. Let alone. The prime minister promised a heavy reward, he didn't take it this time, and next time, maybe it would be someone else's turn. Qi's military rewards are far less generous than those of Qin and Korea, and it was hard to meet them, who would want to miss it?!

The South Korean army has no way out. If the army is defeated, it will be killed, and these screaming Qi troops are here to take their own lives, not to talk to themselves. Let them in, and the gap in the camp will not be filled. Although the Han army is brave and good at fighting, it can't stand the 200,000 Qi army, not to mention, behind the Qi army, there is a more brave Zhao army. The order received by the Han army was to defend to the death, as long as there was only one person alive. We can't let the camp fall into the hands of the enemy.

No one wants to die, but who would give up if they had a chance to live?! But some people want to die by themselves, and they want to use their lives to gain military merit, and of course the Korean army does not agree! Since you don't want to die, let the invading Qi army die!

So at the very beginning, there was no temptation on both sides, and they went straight to the white heat. Two groups of people who had never been alive. For the sake of their own interests, they killed like enemies of life and death! Even in previous years. Han Jun has always been good friends with Qi Jun, even if a few years ago, the two sides may have sheltered from the rain under the same roof and stayed in the same inn, but now, but at this moment. They need to distinguish a winner and a winner and a life and death.

The Korean army was in groups of three or five, using their numerical superiority to strangle the incoming Qi army, and the Qi army may have been aroused or carried away by interests. It is also a-for-tat without showing weakness! Blood soon stained the earth, the snow was long gone, and the ground beneath their feet became muddy, but this did not affect the fighting spirit of both sides in the slightest.

In the end, the Han army was numb, but the bravery of the Qi army still caused great trouble to the Han army, the Han army could kill the Qi army, but many Qi soldiers did not forget to pull a Korean army pad before they died, and the Qi army was completely desperate for their lives, gritting their teeth and insisting. In the face of such an enemy, the usual training was useless. For example, if you stab Qi Jun's shoulder, under normal circumstances, Qi Jun will dodge, and the robe next to him can just cut off the opponent's head with a sword, but Qi Jun just doesn't dodge or dodge, but exchanges one shoulder for one of your thighs; Or you go to stab Qi Jun's heart, Qi Jun does not dodge or dodge, but also stabs your heart, even if he is half a beat slower than you, he will successfully kill you with huge inertia!

Hou Sheng stared at the stalemate of the battle, but did not give any instructions. Everyone knows that the Qi army in front of them is inferior to the Korean army on the opposite side, both in terms of body and quantity, and in terms of quality and quality. Therefore, the adjutant general on the side hinted several times that after victory, he could send follow-up reinforcements. But Hou Sheng ignored it, but looked at the battlefield stunned.

Just when the adjutant general thought that Hou Sheng wanted to use the Han army to borrow a knife to kill people and get rid of Tian Wei, things took a turn for the better, and Hou Sheng ordered to invest 20,000 troops to reinforce Tian Wei. The adjutant general was overjoyed, if he could, who would want to watch his soldiers being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy step by step! What's more, Tian Wei has already led his soldiers to gain a firm foothold, and at this time, going to reinforcements must be a steady military achievement!

The rumbling war drums sounded again, and this sound was in Tian Wei's ears, and in the ears of Tian Wei's soldiers, it was tantamount to the sound of heaven, which meant that reinforcements had finally arrived in the direction behind him! Although the Qi army is getting smaller and smaller, there are still more than 4,000 people, and it will not be a problem to hold out until the reinforcements arrive. Tian Wei knew that he could be reinstated! Even if he and the reinforcements are defeated and retreated, there is no credit and hard work, and the prime minister is a nostalgic person after all!

It seems that the Qi army has sent a large number of reinforcements, and the Korean army, which is engaged with the Qi army, seems to be a little panicked; It seems that knowing that reinforcements are imminent, the morale of the participating Qi army was greatly boosted, and for a while, the Qi army, which was originally at a disadvantage, faintly fought with the Han army, which had an advantage in numbers!

The 20,000 Qi troops who rushed to reinforce repeated their old tricks and crossed the "stone rain" and "arrow rain" of the Korean army in batches at the fastest speed, but also paid the price of more than 5,000 casualties. Although he was a little distressed, Qi Jun estimated that there should be no extra stones for the Han army! After all, the Han army's camp needs to be defended on all sides, and the Qi army has identified the west to attack, and the Korean army must always take care of the Qi army's trick of attacking the west!

More than 13,000 people died under the "rain of stones" and "arrows" of the South Korean army, in exchange for nearly 20,000 Qi troops and the South Korean army fighting together, Hou Sheng felt that it was worth it! (More than 500 sons immediately changed it)

In the face of enemy archers, how can the army assembled in a phalanx reduce casualties? In this regard, the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the wise. Defensive theorists believe that 360-degree protection without dead ends will become a nightmare for enemy archers, and the original intention of the establishment of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry probably stems from this.

When the archers are ineffective against heavily armoured soldiers (whether heavy infantry or heavy cavalry), they can only watch as the hoplites or cavalry approach them little by little, allowing them to create a hell on earth, and they themselves become victims of their swords. Huge impact, perfect protection, if it weren't for the limitations of speed and flexibility, if it weren't for the huge consumption of financial resources and manpower, the heavy soldiers would become the most perfect class of troops on the battlefield! Not one of them!

When the commanders of both sides of a war are engaged in hoplites or hoplites, it is often the time to decide the winner! If they don't move, they can crush the enemy's last line of defense! Decide the outcome of the war!

In the eyes of the heavily armed soldiers, the rain of arrows unleashed by the archers was nothing more than a drizzle of ordinary ones. They do have plenty of reason to be proud, because archers are a fast class (with the exception of marksmen), and every hoplite selected is a battle-hardened elite! It's just that this is also destined to be on the battlefield of the Warring States Period, where there are hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and the heavily armored soldiers can only be regarded as surprise soldiers, not the main force!

In all the countries of the world, the largest type of troops is the light infantry, and this group of soldiers armed with long swords, shields or long ges is the largest number in the armed sequence of each country. In every war, the casualties are also the greatest! Of course, it is also the largest force that determines the outcome of a war!

Based on such a reality, how to weaken the role of enemy archers gave rise to speedists.

Speed theorists emphasize light protection, which at first sounds, it seems to be a fallacy. Because a dense rain of arrows is the nightmare of all light infantry, and on the battlefield, the first duel of a war is often staged between archers and light infantry. If the light infantry protection were weaker, the casualty rate would be enough to drive countries crazy. (To be continued......)