99. Stirring VI.
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As the main attacking party, the Xiliang army soon found that the opponent in front of them did not seem to be worse than their own on the surface, at least in terms of courage, the Kwantung people they once thought of as "cowardly" did not seem to have a scene of imminent collapse, and even relied on their stronger armor than the Western Liang army before the blessing of the white tiger bravely confronted the Western Liang army.
Of course, the most important thing is that the situation in the first day of the first battle did not appear as one-sided as Hu Zhen and Yang Ding thought, and the resistance of the coalition forces obviously exceeded their expectations, and Dong Zhuojun's offensive momentum was also slightly frustrated because of this.
It was only at this time that Dong Zhuojun's generals thought that the other party also had an unfathomable holy beast on the top of his head, and although the benefits that Dong Zhuojun could obtain would not necessarily be obtained by the coalition forces on the other side, it was difficult to ensure that there were no strange buffs on them.
Obviously, the Western Liang army forgot that Youzhou, which was also on the border and needed to face the fierce enemy from time to time, also had strong soldiers, and even the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty relied on the cavalry from Youzhou for a long time.
Although such weather and terrain hindered the performance of the Youzhou Turchaun, even as a long-range artillery battery to shoot arrows with a bow, in the face of the obvious target of the Xiliang Army, the cavalry bow in the Youzhou Turquoise cavalry could still bring a lot of casualties - you must know that the Youzhou Turquoise cavalry's riding bow making process is completely derived from the Karasuma people who are good at riding and archery, and the arrows fired are far from being comparable to the Karasuma people.
However, in the face of Dong Zhuojun, who was like an angry wave, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei, who were the pioneers of the Chinese army, were also very uncomfortable.
In fact, how can it be, then these two prefer that they are not as the vanguard to resist the enemy's attack like a tide, but are assigned to the flanks to harass and intersperse tasks, but first, this is the order of the alliance leader, and secondly, in such weather, they cannot fully give full play to the characteristics and strength of their troops, but because of the weather, they fell into an unfavorable situation, and this is also the fundamental reason why the two did not oppose after listening to Yuan Shao's order.
Their opponent not only has strong personal strength, but also the armor and weapons blessed by the white tiger are beyond the imagination of the coalition forces, and most importantly, there is no gap in the battle formation of the opponent in front of them, even if Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei plan to play a local counterattack to relieve the defensive pressure, this result really makes the two of them feel a little frightened
Until this time, Liu Bei began to miss his second brother Pan Gong a little.
Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's main professions are light cavalry, although Zhang Fei has a sub-profession of light infantry, which can ensure that it will not be affected in such an environment, but most of Zhang Fei's martial arts are put into the battle on the horse, although he can win with strength when he is one-on-one on weekdays, but in such a scene, the kind of combat method that consumes a lot of physical consumption even Zhang Fei himself has palpitations.
But Pan Gong is different, he has anti-embalming foot combat experience, even if he is limited by his own strength in the single fight with Zhang Fei, he is always abused to death, but on the battlefield, especially in such a situation, it is obvious that Pan Gong's skills are more suitable.
Of course, what Liu Bei missed the most was actually the light infantry and martial artist troops trained by Pan Gong who were good at foot combat. If these troops were not handed over to Pan Gong to go to Hebei, Liu Bei would have more confidence in continuing to support him.
But this is also a helpless thing, after all, Liu Bei himself can't move, and Zhang Fei's temper makes it easy for him to become a pawn of a resourceful person like Tian Feng and Frustrated.
Therefore, seeing that those fluorescences were getting closer and closer to him, Liu Bei sighed faintly.
Alliance leader, it's not that I, Liu Bei, don't do my best, how can the enemy be too ferocious!
Slightly different from the combat methods of the Bingzhou Army and the Youzhou Army, the combat methods of the Xiliang Army are more "quaint", because the tradition inherited from the old Qin people is to like to travel by car. Nowadays, coupled with the popularity of war horses and the intermingling with the Qiang people, various tactics have been mixed and refined, and the result is the birth of the Xiliang cavalry, a unique type of cavalry, chariot and infantry - you can call it vehicle-mounted infantry, you can also call it charioteer, and it is an excellent cavalry
Unlike the charioteers who relied entirely on the impact of chariots in ancient times to fight, the horses of the Xiliang cavalry were quickly transformed into light cavalry and infantry because of the application of saddles and stirrups and horseshoes (Note 1), and even some Xiliang cavalry with sub-occupations as archers or archers could also provide long-distance support to their companions on the chariot.
Not to mention that these Xiliang cavalry are also proficient in Qiang fighting, and they are very strong in both cavalry and foot combat.
Therefore, the chariot units that have been given a new life have also carried forward the tactics that originally belonged to them.
One of the most typical is this fish scale array.
As mentioned earlier, the predecessor of the Fish Scale Array was the Yuli Array (Note 2), and the earliest to adopt this formation was recorded in the chapter "Zuo Chuan Huan Gong Five Years" Zheng Guo used "Manbo is the right rejection, sacrifice Zhongzu is the left rejection, and Yuan Fan and Gao Qu Mi are the Yuli Formation with the Chinese army Fenggong." First biased and then ranked, Wu Chengmi, fought in Ruge. ”
At the end of the Three Kingdoms, the famous general Du Yu in the early Western Jin Dynasty was a Confucian who loved "Zuo Chuan", just like Guan Yu, he took the book and read it over and over again. Moreover, Du Yu's family background is much better than that of Guan Yu, a fugitive, so he not only has time to read and ponder, but also has the ability to make annotations for "Zuo Chuan", that is, to explain the articles in "Zuo Chuan" according to his own understanding.
Among them, he explained the above passage in the "Zuo Chuan": "Sima Fa": "Twenty-five times of the chariot battle is biased. 'Take the car first, take the army second, bear the gap of deviation, and fill the gap of the gap. A team of five. This Gaiyuli formation.
In other words, the most primitive Yuli formation is an offensive formation with 25 chariots and five infantry behind each chariot, that is, a total of 125 infantry as a combat unit, and then countless combat units are concentrated in the middle and the left and right flanks as protection, and the enemy is continuously attacked in waves to achieve a breakthrough in the middle.
This not only emphasizes the use of the impact force of the chariot to achieve the effect of impacting the enemy formation, but also uses the infantry to follow the chariot to fill the gap between the chariot on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also protect the chariot from the attack of the enemy who escapes the net.
Well, speaking of which, some people may have already reacted, Nima, isn't this the ancient version of Butan synergy!
When the chariot is charging into battle, because of the difference in the weight of the chariot, it is impossible for the chariot to move at the same speed, although it may not be visible from a short distance, but the chariot with a long charge will no longer be on the same plane.
This is like the war horse charge, the so-called cone formation was not a deliberate formation at first, but the war horse because of the difference in its own appearance and the difference in the load on the body, the pace of the war horse is inconsistent, and later with the increase of the war, people realized this, so the martial arts people deliberately arranged at the outermost end, so that it gradually evolved into a formation.
The arc-shaped chariot group of the Yuli Array, which is also the origin of the name of the Yuli Array, is afraid that it has a certain relationship with this.
As a result, under the continuous and continuous wave attacks of groups of Xiliang cavalry, even those who were as strong as the third master also had a feeling of exhaustion. Of course, it's just psychological rather than physical, after all, Qinglong's nourishment for the body is always there, which means that their body can be kept in the best condition at all times.
However, what made Liu Beijun and Gongsun Zhanjun feel a little desperate was that although their opponents didn't have a buff that sounded so powerful like this, the buff on Xiliangjun's body was even more BT, because every once in a while, those Xiliangjun had to collectively go through the "whipping of love" of the white tiger, and then in a burst of pain that was enough to numb them, the HP was completely restored. This means that as long as you don't get killed in seconds, even if you are hit hard and your HP bottoms out, you can temporarily pull to the back of the front line to recover while waiting for the white tiger to heal, and then rush to the front line again.
Well, the attack of the entire Xiliang Army is like a war3 e-sports player with excellent micro-manipulation control, constantly attacking the coalition army in a continuous manner, and its own losses are quite limited. Therefore, although the situation fell into a see-saw for a while, making Dong Zhuojun's fish scale array temporarily fall into a temporary pause, the balance of victory was still obviously tilted in favor of Dong Zhuojun.
In desperation, Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei sent a request to Yuan Shao behind him at the same time, after all, if it continues to support like this, the troops of the two people are only afraid that there will be a danger of annihilation, even if there is no ** to dominate the world in the future, but if you lose the troops you rely on, then it must be very hard to face the murderous grassland tribe in the next few years.
"So fast!"
Speaking of which, Yuan Shao can be said to be a little unprepared for such a situation, although he had foreseen that the troops of the two princes, who were the vanguard of the Chinese army, would be difficult to resist the offensive of Dong Zhuo's army, but he did not expect that they would be unable to hold on so quickly. Of course, Yuan Shao also knows how much water is contained in this so-called "can't hold on".
It will take some time for Cao Cao's right flank to outflank, although Dong Zhuo used the fish scale array to make Cao Cao's outflanking may take less time than imagined, but after all, it is tens of thousands of troops, as a rookie commander who has never commanded an army of this scale, Cao Cao needs time to be proficient even if he is talented.
"Click!"
However, a certain black-bellied azure dragon in the sky may not want the battle to end so quickly, and it is very powerful to provide quite strong support for the coalition soldiers who are fighting on the front line.
The battle seems to have returned to a delicate balance.
Note 1: Horseshoes have been present in Rome since at least BC, and there should be no problem with the spread of Roman conquests to Central Asia and the Western Regions, not to mention the legend that a team once reached the northwest. As for the saddle and stirrup, the steppe peoples were the first to apply and popularize. Therefore, it can be considered that even if there is no participation of the traverser, these three things should at least be popularized in the northwest region, and as the war progresses, other regions should also be gradually promoted, and it can be dealt with without iron palm bronze.
Note 2: There are two interpretations of Du Niang's Yuli Array, but on closer inspection, the main examples actually come from the description of Zheng Guo's battle. And the explanations for it are all from Du Pre's commentary, but there are three explanations in the end, woo hoo and mourn, admiration and admiration, it's really a big chew.  
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