Chapter 48 The Second Formation
Mr. Kuku was silent for a moment, and then said, "The full name should be 'Fuxi Congenital Sixty-four Hexagram Fang Yuan Array'......."
The red-haired Charles sighed: "Such a long name, I feel very powerful when I hear it." Only the Baiyou people can inherit and carry forward the things of their ancestors, and the civilizations of the other three ancient civilizations have been broken. ”
"How do you know I'm a Baiyou?" Mr. Kuku asked.
"I don't know. I didn't say either. Charles replied briefly.
"I'm young, but I have a lot of thoughts." Mr. Kuku pointed his finger at Charles, and scolded with a smile: "You want to trick me?" Is it the difference between Baiyou people? ”
"Nothing else!" Charles raised his hand in surrender and shouted: "In fact, the understanding and learning efficiency of Baiyou people for gossip, tai chi, martial arts, etc. is indeed far superior to that of outsiders, which may be related to the cultural inheritance of Baiyou people." I used to be very interested in gossip, but it took me a month to memorize the hexagrams of one of them. However, when it comes to the various deductions and changes associated with other hexagrams, I resolutely ...... Gave up. ”
"Huh?" Mr. Kuku smiled dumbly and continued, "Ah...... It's not too early. Like the previous two days, I will keep watch for the first half of the night, and the second half of the night will be yours. ”
With that, Mr. Kuku walked to the nearest bare rock and unleashed a Chen-level magic pattern: Step by Step.
I saw more than a dozen aerosol-like "lotus flowers" extending upward in threads until the top of the bare rock was relatively flat.
Mr. Kuku climbed up the staircase and sat down cross-legged at the top of the rock.
Not long after he sat down, a star-ring-shaped nine-element group appeared around Mr. Kuku, slowly spinning and flowing. This is also one of the associated phenomena before the release of the Nine-Element Magic Pattern with a higher nuclear force value.
A small piece of magic pattern quickly connected together, and by the time it was completed, it had turned into a brilliant ball of light.
Mr. Kuku throws the ball of light upwards.
In the night sky, fireworks like fireworks bloomed like fire trees and silver flowers, and light spots were scattered in all directions, like an enchantment of a hemisphere, enveloping a radius of tens of meters centered on the bonfire.
The splendor of the moment has not really disappeared.
Several cheetah-sized beasts silently approached the edge of the barrier, and several points of light suddenly lit up.
The beasts hesitated, bared their teeth in the direction of the campfire, and turned away.
The point of light disappeared again.
Mr. Kuku withdrew his gaze from the beasts that melted into the night, and muttered, "The standard value of 100 gongs is 'step by step'....... A quasi-ground rank nine-element magic pattern 'Fire Tree Silver Flower.......' with a standard value of 360 � It seems that the upper limit of one's own nuclear power value has really been blocked by the realm....... It seems that this matter is really right for the Taoist priest. ”
"Please advise!"
Kuku's self-talk was interrupted, and he looked in the direction of the sound to find that Charles had unsheathed his saber and held it in his hand.
With his left hand, he stroked his right chest, bent his knee, pointed the tip of his sword diagonally at the ground, and bowed slightly.
Mr. Kuku shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal, but Charles had already begun the sword dance.
The blade of the sword is straight and slender, and there is a thin blade on one side, which can be stabbed and slashed.
The moves are not complicated, brush, brush, brush, one horizontal, one oblique and one horizontal, it looks like a "Z" letter. However, it is not a "flat" Z letter, most of the time it is a 3D "Z" letter. This is also the basic rhythm of this set of swordsmanship.
The steps are relaxed and casual, and you can clearly find the shadow of the royal court dance steps or minuets.
Laugh at!
There was a soft thud.
Charles stands with his sword on his chest.
A few meters away on a piece of gravel, a palm-sized "Z" remained on it. Under the light of the campfire, you can't see the depth.
Retracting his sword, the tip of the sword pointed diagonally to the ground, his left hand touching his right chest, bending his knee, and bowing slightly again.
The sword is also sheathed.
"Not bad!" Mr. Kuku bowed his head and said, "This enchantment of yours is the work of a master, right?" After all, generally speaking, the Sun's attack must be at least the level of the ground level. ”
Charles gestured upwards to Mr. Kuku and said with a smile: "What has been passed down from our ancestors, the exercises running in the body are the essence. If Mr. Kuku were to comment on my moves, it would have blinded me. ”
"Old Ancestor......" Mr. Kuku sneered, "Yes, if you really count it, our ancestors can be said to be of the same clan......
A trace of solemnity appeared on Charles's face, and he glanced deeply at Mr. Kuku, and then said, "Mr. Kuku is a well-informed person. ”
Mr. Kuku didn't care, waved his hand, and said, "Rest early." ”
Nothing was said all night.
Early the next morning, the three of them packed up and continued to set off.
After walking a distance of about two kilometers in the direction of the predetermined route, there was a burst of high-pitched horns in front of me.
Mr. Kuku and Chayers glanced at each other and exhaled in unison.
Charles gestured to Ari, and Mr. Kuku said to himself, "The first heaven is a square circle, what kind of array will the second heaven be?" ”
.........
Due to the limitation of communication capabilities, in the era of cold weapons, the content information uploaded and issued by commanders at all levels on the battlefield is often relatively brief. The golden drum can only convey a very short message, and there will be a serious time lag in the transmission of long and complex messages, and it will be affected by the battlefield environment such as rain, snow, wind and thunder. As for the use of heralds, it depends on the formation, battle situation, length of the battle line, and so on.
Commanders must anticipate the situation on the battlefield and pre-determine various response plans based on experience; In battle, short and clear orders are conveyed to the next level commander in a loud manner, and then issued layer by layer until the ordinary soldiers know how to deal with it.
The aura of glory of a division of a hundred battles is usually placed on a commander who can achieve "like an arm" in the legion, but it is not! The greatest wealth of such a legion is those middle-level and grass-roots officers and captains, these people are the soul of the legion! Without these cornerstones, any commander in chief will face the dilemma of having "no usable soldiers" in his hands.
On the wasteland, the two armies face each other.
One side poses a long phalanx extending from the left and right, dressed in uniform armor, holding standard weapons, standing silently; The wind is whistling, pulling the flag and hunting; In the rear army's chariots and light cavalry on both wings, the occasional sound of horses snorting and digging sand and gravel was heard. What slightly affected the solemn and murderous atmosphere of the nearly 10,000-strong military formation was actually the shirts and pants exposed outside the armor in the formation, which were actually colorful clothing colors based on pink green, vermilion, pink purple, and sky blue.
On the other side, there is a "ragtag army" that has a loose formation, and its number seems to be nearly six or seven times that of the other side. Only a small part of the body armor or metal half-body armor is clothed, and the rest are only wrapped in animal skin clothes, and their faces are dirty; Weapons are even more varied, with leather shields, stone tools, and even huge animal bones being the mainstream. As for the "motley army", the source of troops is even more diversified: thousands of half-man-tall wild wolves are scattered on the wings; There are nearly 100 half-body "armored" grizzly bears in the front of the center, and those on the back of the grizzly bear that paint themselves like easter eggs are estimated to be the so-called "royal hands"; In addition, dozens or hundreds of beast-clad warriors gathered around each thick totem pole, and the area where these totem poles are located is about where the "Chinese army" is located.
The ragtag army slowly pressed forward at the sound of the horns, and the riders with various feathers on their heads went back and forth between the scattered formations, apparently in the center trying to coordinate the battle.
Around the battlefield, scouts and rangers on both sides have begun to strangle each other, in order to block the battlefield and information.
The captain with a crown of hair tied on his head stood on the left side of the battle formation and waved his hand forward.
"Measure!"
A crossbowman beside the captain stepped on the crossbow arm to wind, took the arrow from the rectangular arrow hanging diagonally behind his back and bit the string, held the crossbow horizontally and slightly lifted the crossbow body diagonally upward, and opened his teeth to look at the mountain and shoot!
Airplanes!
A succession of colorful crossbow bolts plunged into the gravel, and were soon overwhelmed by the stragglers' lines.
The crossbowman on the right side of the battle formation also measured the distance of the crossbow bolts directly in front of him.
The two lieutenants waved a brief flag in the direction of the Chinese army, correcting the wind direction, wind speed and other information.
At this time, the ragtag army that stepped into the firing range began a sparse charge from the front! The two winged wolves came forward, outflanked left and right, and pounced on the flanks of the defenders.
The crossbowman began the first round of attacks.
More than 2,000 crossbowmen lined up in ten rows, calibrated the direction of the crossbow body by the arms of the captains on both sides, fired the crossbow arrows after listening to the command, bowed their waists and quickly retreated from the left side of the queue to the last position, and wound up again to take the arrows and prepare to fire.
More than 2,000 people moved in unison, shooting and retreating like a cloud, repeating the cycle, and before they knew it, they had all retreated behind the car formation!
The crossbowman's attack naturally does not cause much damage to loose enemy troops, and similarly, the enemy army cannot form an effective impact.
"Three-talent car formation! Stand up! Kill all these barbarians!! ”
The lieutenants withdrew their gaze from the direction of the Chinese army and conveyed the general's order.
The rectangular matrix was divided into three sections.
The iron-clad van is connected to each other in a ring at the end of the two, and the long plates on both sides of the van are quickly removed, and then connected to the body with several metal components and fixed on the outward side.
Three sections of tall and thick shield walls appeared!
There were four or five pikemen and a crossbowman on top of each van, and the two vans were equipped with round shield swordsmen in the narrow gap between the two vans, while the rest of the crossbowmen began to drape each other with heavy armor in exchange for the armament of hoplites, and guarded the archers in the rear.
The defenders' three chariot formations were arranged in a zigzag shape, with a circular shield wall outside, hoplites and archers behind the formation, and the rangers, who were originally only a few hundred horsemen, had already lured the wolves to disperse and crisscross the perimeter of the battlefield to harass the enemy with cavalry shooting.
"Throw!"
In the queue of archers, under the command of the captain, the archers were lined up in five rows, all standing in a T-shape, with their waists back. The lieutenant withdrew his gaze from the flag bearer of the van and corrected the direction of his arm.
"Ready!"
Everyone holds the bow in their left hand and takes the arrow in their right hand, and the arrow tip is stuck on the string, and the arrow passes through the tiger's mouth in the left hand, and the body of the arrow is attached to the bow.
"Control!"
The archers stretched out their left arms and pulled the bowstring back with their right hands, and nearly a thousand hard bows were all in the shape of a full moon.
"Shoot!"
As the captain roared, the archer's right hand was released at the same time, and waves of arrows rained up into the sky and poured outward.
A trench about three meters wide appeared in front of the formation.
The crossbowman had retreated from the sand-sprinkled planks in an orderly manner, and it was naturally unhindered.
Now this big gang of barbarian warriors rushed over vigorously, except for the hundreds of people at the front, the rest were stunned on the edge of the trench and silently accepted the baptism of arrow rain. As for the ones under the trenches strung in various postures on the sharpened stakes, even if they were lucky enough to die for a while, they could only wait there.
The motley army responded only with a short lag.
Nearly a hundred grizzly bears scattered horizontally, and at the urging of Mite, they began to forcibly expel the brigade forward, one of the directions was to detour, and the second was to fill the ditch......
Then, from the tallest and most primitive totem pole camp, seven or eight apes, almost as tall as two ordinary people, came out, dragging their long arms that reached to the ground; He was followed by dozens of tattooed warriors who only reached the waist of ordinary people.
The apes stood more than ten meters apart from each other, and successively picked up a tattooed warrior who had already curled up in a ball from his side, hummed and rounded, and threw it out with a rather standard discus throwing motion. The target is those three formations.
Originally, this kind of tattoo target was the best target when it was in the air. However, almost all the archers in the formation missed their target.