338. Advanced tactics
Next, those Li Jing's soldiers attacked several times, but they were not able to kill the enemy. And later, even four, five, or even six or seven people were sent to besiege the three soldiers of this Jingwen. But they were not able to defeat them, but with the cooperation of the three of them, they were constantly "killed". And the soldiers under Li Jing all felt shameless, because their numbers were about to reach three times that of the other party, but they still couldn't defeat the enemy, which was a little speechless.
And Jingwen wrote about the soldiers, but in groups of three, they cooperated very well, covering each other and helping each other, so that the enemy had almost no way to break through. And this situation was seen by Li Jing and Jingwen who were standing in the distance, and Li Jing also felt disgraced.
"Jingwen, your soldier is a kind of formation, right? You actually created a formation for a group of three soldiers, no wonder you still use this weapon. Li Jing said.
And Jingwen also continued: "If you want to talk about this kind of formation, you can't talk about this kind of weapon. This weapon is much shorter than a long spear, let's call it a super short gun. And I found out that our jumpers are not very agile with swords and shields. The knife also weighs a few pounds, and the shield is not light, and it is not easy to use it flexibly. In dogfights, the killing effect does not depend on the ability to defend, but on the ability to be flexible. And my Jumping Soldier short-handled heavy knife also gave up the small round shield and picked up this ultra-short gun. And I also made a few moves for the soldiers, which they were able to learn very quickly. And giving up those heavy knives and round shields can be said to be much lighter, and it is much easier to assassinate. With this kind of three-person cover, it can be said that there are not too many loopholes. If you want to kill these soldiers of mine, you must let the soldiers who are several times their size attack, and even pay a lot of price. However, there is another way to let the heavily armored person attack, so that you can also break through. And also. That is, so that the spearmen can also break through my formation. ”
"Then since there are so many loopholes, why do you still have to make a formation?" Li Jing asked.
"Because they're jumpers!" Jingwen explained.
Jingwen's explanation has already explained a lot. Jumpers are the ones who are responsible for dogfight, while pikemen and spearmen are the classes that are responsible for fighting cavalry. As for the heavily armored soldiers, they simply could not have been on the front line of such a melee. So, while there are several classes that can fight them, none of them are the enemy of the Jumpers. If it does, blame them for their bad luck. There is no kind of army in this world that can conquer the world, so Jingwen does not think that his soldiers can be absolutely invincible in the face of all arms, because the arms are mutually restrained.
"That kind of weapon. How did you come up with this? And this formation, why did you think of giving ordinary soldiers a formation? Li Jing asked.
Jingwen said casually: "I just patted my head and came up with this weapon, I didn't expect it to have such an effect." ”
Of course, Jingwen would not say that this short gun was actually based on the later bayonet, and the bayonet was a weapon when it was a hot weapon. But now the bayonet tactics are used on the short gun, which is also very good. And the bayonet tactics are very easy to train, at least much easier than those knife techniques in ancient times. For a soldier, the simpler the thing, the better and more effective. Although many combat techniques have been handed down since ancient times. But according to the vast majority of soldiers, when they go to the battlefield, what they can really use is those few tricks. And those more complex techniques actually take many years. Or even more than a dozen years of training. But can an ordinary soldier, from a farmer to a soldier, give you more than ten years of training? So, those who know how to use advanced techniques. It is impossible to be the mainstream of the battlefield.
As for this bayonet tactic, it was also moved by Jingwen from later generations. During the anti-Japanese period in later generations, the bayonets of the Japanese army made the Chinese army suffer a lot. Many people thought that the Chinese army was better at fighting bayonets than the Japanese. In fact, this is just a statement in film and television dramas. The real situation is that the Japanese are not only better than the Chinese in terms of physical elements, but also better than the Chinese in the technique of fighting bayonets. The Japanese army was originally a team of two, covering each other back to back, plus excellent physical elements, which could kill several times their Chinese troops. This has made the Chinese army suffer a lot.
Only in the late period of the anti-Japanese war, when countless experienced soldiers crawled out of the pile of dead and trained a group of veterans through blood and fire, could the Chinese army gradually catch up with the Japanese army. Later, China also developed the tactics of three-person tactics that Jingwen now teaches his soldiers, which in turn restrained the Japanese army. In the later period of the Anti-Japanese War, because China's tactics caught up with the Japanese army, and a large number of Japanese veterans were killed, the Japanese army used new recruits to deal with the veterans trained by China from the war, and the result was inferior to the Chinese soldiers.
The tactics developed by Jingwen for those jumping soldiers were actually the formation of the Chinese army fighting bayonets in groups of three. If one person is killed, then use the Japanese two-man tactical formation, which can kill several times the enemy army. Therefore, the army of the Tang Dynasty suffered very much, and perhaps paid several times the price of the enemy, and was unable to kill the other party. Coupled with the widespread use of knives by soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, this made them even more incomparable to bayonets.
Jingwen often scolded those anti-Japanese films in later generations, saying that the big knife is the nemesis of bayonets, but in fact, this is all bullshit. In fact, the knife is more difficult than the bayonet, and the defense of the bayonet with a broadsword requires a very experienced person to be able to do this. But the bayonet is a big sword, and it is enough to put the bayonet horizontally. Moreover, although the broadsword is powerful, it has a short attack range, and can only be used in those places where it is not open or the terrain is more complicated. In fact, if we exclude the fact that the gap between the soldiers is too far apart, or that the terrain is not very good for the bayonet, the probability of a truly fair battle and the bayonet victory is much greater.
Now the Tang army is using a knife, so it just happened to suffer the loss of Jingwen's ultra-short gun transformed from a bayonet.
However, this can only be effective in the Jumping Soldiers, and other classes have other tactics of the troops, and they can't all be copied. The reason why later generations were able to study the tactics of this kind of jumping soldier so thoroughly is because other arms in later generations have been eliminated, only the jumping soldier is the last in the cold weapon class, and the soldier charges with a bayonet, which is actually just a jumping soldier. Now Jingwen used the tactics of jumping soldiers more than a thousand years later to deal with the ancients, and the ancients immediately suffered a big loss. (To be continued......)