Chapter 269: The Formation of the Moon
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"Scrape ~ snort ~! ~Roar~! As the minutes ticked by, the sound of the door panel cracking at the front gate and the roar of the Yaksha became more frequent.
The gate is about to be breached by the claws of the Yaksha!
"Ouyang, you let us put on the armor and find these shields, what are we going to do? Build a place with a round sky and then resist and rush out? The stallion asked.
"No, let's keep it guard, and let's all move the box to the innermost part of the locked, to the big locked iron door." I beckoned everyone to hurry up.
"This is the last box, it's not too far away, but I'm tired of killing it all the way." The stallion said as he collapsed over a box.
"How are you going to keep it? Although we have weapons, they are all 2,000 years old, and you don't know how long they will last. Yue Mingmo asked.
"Young Master Ouyang, if we are trapped here and run out of weapons, it will be very dangerous. Why don't we take these guys with us, take as much as we can, go to the door, and take those Yaksha by surprise when they break the door, and kill them with our shields. Lao Zhou suggested.
"Don't worry about the quality of the weapon, I've carefully checked the samples, they are all very well preserved, and the durability is no problem, don't just look at me, sit down and rest, use the last bit of time, I will talk about the next tactics." I said.
"Hehe, Young Master Ouyang just said it, I just hope to have a good time!" Long Mouth smiled.
"Don't worry, it's definitely enjoyable for you guys, according to the specific situation of this venue, and our current numbers, put a place that has only appeared once in history." But the Moon Array' is very suitable, if we rush outside, our physical strength can not support for long, and in the end it will be the end of being besieged, it is better to fight them here, use these weapons to reduce the vital power of the Yaksha as much as possible, and when the crossbow arrows are exhausted, our physical strength will be almost recovered, and it will be much easier to break through at that time, I don't believe that these Yaksha are endless! Besides, this is where the arsenal of the fourth floor is located, and the door behind us, although I don't know what is inside, we are all in a desperate situation anyway, so we might as well take a gamble, and wait a while to listen to my orders to open the lock and see what is inside. I patted the dragon shield and said in a deep voice.
The Array of the Moon was created by Liu Yu, a military genius during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
In ancient times, when the two armies opened a posture to fight against each other, cavalry was the sharpest existence, and under normal circumstances, cavalry could crush infantry with basically no casualties.
Li Mu, the god of war during the Warring States Period, once relied on the excellent cavalry under his command to beat the mother of the famous general Wang Jian of the Qin State who couldn't recognize him, Qin Shi Huang was anxious and said You can't do it, this is the second Zhao State, you can't do it, Zhao Guo has already let your predecessors kill hundreds of thousands of people in vain, you can't beat it, will it be embarrassing? How can I destroy the Six Nations if I continue like this?
When Wang Jian heard this, he thought to himself, hey, my king, this is Li Mu, I originally wanted to fight to the death with him, so I had to go down the three roads.
So Wang Jian bribed the ministers around King Zhao Xiaocheng, slandered Li Mu for supporting the army and self-respecting, intending to rebel, and killed Li Mu with a counter-plot, so that the Qin State could destroy the Zhao State, otherwise the time for Qin Shi Huang to unify the world would have to be postponed.
However, Liu Yu was more divine than Li Mu in a battle, posing for the "Moon Formation", and defeated the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty with 2,000 infantry, creating an unrepeatable miracle in the history of ancient warfare.
Why a miracle that can't be replicated? Because the conditions for launching the Moon Array are very harsh, including geographical conditions, weapons, types of troops, and troop allocation.
The specific arrangement method of this array is to use a chariot hundred times at a distance of more than 100 steps from the water, lay down an arc-shaped "moon array", hug the river at both ends, and take the river bank as the moon string.
Each chariot has a staff guard; After the formation was set, soldiers were sent ashore to meet them, and they carried large crossbows, and soldiers were added to each chariot, and shields were placed on the wheels to protect the chariots.
Because the "moon array" is an arc, from the perspective of physics, the arc can disperse the force at the force point and has good impact resistance; The soldiers in the formation have weapons such as rods, crossbows, and lances, so they are very lethal; At the same time, the soldiers in the formation can have the effect of "putting them to death and coming back to life".
When I was in college, when I talked about riding on foot with people in my dormitory, I would always say that "the moon is in formation".
What is puzzling is that the "Moon Array" is like a flash in the pan, although the history books are detailed, but after this battle, no one uses this array.
This is because the requirements of the Moon Formation are very large, and if there is a mistake, there is a danger of being interspersed by the opposing cavalry from the flank, or from the rear flank.
For example, if the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty copied from behind, Liu Yu's Moon Formation would be difficult to achieve.
However, because there was no high-tech communication equipment such as telephones and telegraphs at that time, the Northern Wei Tuoba ordered Changsun Song and others to first aid Hou Qin, so the Northern Wei cavalry rashly attacked the Moon Formation without thinking, how could it be undefeated?
Liu Yu took advantage of the enemy's eagerness to make this formation appropriately advantageous and achieved this ingenious battle.
Since then, the Si people have passed away, the situation has changed suddenly, but the moon array is no longer seen.
Now, I'm going to take advantage of the situation we find ourselves in and bring this miracle back to life!
"At the beginning of the moment, everyone will shoot vigorously with the Qin crossbow, and if we find that there are more and more Yakshas, we will do this - Shar Pei in the middle, Lao Zhou and Manjiro Ojisan on the left and right, stallions and big ears on the left and right of the two of you, and the five of you holding dragon shields in the shape of a half-moon in front of you; I, the sister of the Yue family, Brother Takumi, Nagazui and Dean Kato are in the middle of the formation with their backs to the gate, and continue to use the Qin crossbow to shoot the attacking Yaksha, if there is a Yaksha rushing to the front, it will trouble Brother Takuku to solve it quickly, and Nagazui will listen to my order to open the lock when the time comes. I hope that the simplicity of this cottage but the moon array will work. I said.
We have our backs to the gate, and although we are still under siege, at least we don't have to worry about the back.
As for why I didn't let the long mouth open the door now, it was because I was also afraid that if there was a fiercer guy behind the door that was sealed inside, we would be finished early.
Let's fight with the Yaksha for a while, it's so big, if there's any living creature inside, it's time to make some movement, if there's no movement, then I'll let the longmouth immediately open the lock and look for a glimmer of life.
"Ouyang, don't forget that these yaksha dumplings will climb the wall." The stallion reminded.
"Don't worry too much about this, because the door of this room is not very big, and the number of Yaksha coming in at one time is limited, and we can kill in one fell swoop, and the ground in front of us is flat, which is very conducive to us shooting with crossbow arrows." I said.
"Crackle~! Boom!!! ”
"Roar!!"
Yaksha outside the door seemed unwilling to give us any more time to prepare, and finally broke down the door.
"Shoot!" I stared coldly at the direction of the light, and began to shout at the figures that were swarming towards us.
Come on, Yaksha, come and have a good taste of the power of the "Moon Array"!