Chapter 16: A Great Victory
Chapter 16 is a great victory
Sun Shangxiang's soldiers in front of a row of 10 people were armed with spears, and the 40 people behind were all wooden knives, a simple wooden board as a shield, after all, most of the day, there were not many weapons.
On the other hand, Liu Hou on his side, they lined up in a dense phalanx of 7x7, seven hundred and forty-nine people, Liu Hou chose a tall and sturdy female soldier to stand in the middle of the phalanx, as his own mount, and he rode on her shoulders in the way of riding a bull cow. The first row of soldiers in each direction of the phalanx were empty-handed, except that in front of them there would be a long branch, and the branches and leaves of the branch were still there. The soldiers in the phalanx were all armed with bows and arrows, ready to shoot at any time.
Sun Shangxiang felt inexplicable, did they plan to use these bows and arrows to defeat us? As long as we concentrate our forces and are fast enough, we can rush into the opponent's formation with a single charge, and when the time comes, in the face of pure archers, we will not let us cut and kill? But what are those branches for?
Sun Shangxiang was very puzzled in his heart, but he couldn't care about so much now, so he ordered the sword and shield hands to step forward and form a "sharp arrow formation" formation, preparing to concentrate his forces to break through Liu Hou's formation in one go.
At this time, many soldiers in the barracks arrived at the school field and surrounded the two teams. After all, it's all women, what an eye-catcher. After all, "three years in the army, the sow Diao Chan", no matter the beauty or ugliness, in the eyes of these sergeants who have been controlled by military regulations for a long time and cannot get close to women, they have all become the four beauties. However, because it was Mrs. Sun who led the team, everyone did not dare to be presumptuous, but just watched quietly.
Sun Shangxiang gave an order, and the sword and shield hand accelerated to kill. Seeing that the other party didn't make any moves, Sun Shangxiang and the onlookers felt inexplicable, could this Adou really be an idiot? Alas, too, it's just a three-year-old little hairy child, and I guess I'm stupid when I saw this scene.
When Sun Shangxiang's female soldiers rushed to about 50 meters, Liu Hou gave an order, and the female soldiers in the first row of the phalanx leaned over and knelt on one leg and lifted the branches on the ground. They propped the branch on the thigh that had not knelt down, and clasped it tightly with both hands, and the branch pointed diagonally forward at forty-five degrees, full of branches and leaves, one end facing the rushing enemy, and the other head against the root.
The female soldier who was rushing up saw the trees suddenly appear in front of her, she was startled, and suddenly braked to stop, but unfortunately, the people behind couldn't see it, and still rushed forward, and the front and rear rows collided together, and they knocked down a piece when they landed.
At this time, the bowstring on Liu Hou's side sounded, because Sun Shangxiang's soldiers had already entered the range of 10 meters, Liu Hou decisively issued an order to shoot arrows.
Sun Shang's aroma of seven orifices smoked, shouting again and again, asking everyone to regroup and continue to charge.
On Liu Hou's side, the six rows of people behind were interspersed with each other in every two rows, changing into three rows, and the three rows of archers took turns shooting. Liu Hou used the "three-stage strike" on archers, which effectively made up for the slow rate of fire of these female soldiers.
Although the range of bows and arrows is limited, and Sun Shangxiang's sword and shield soldiers have shields, but the shield is as big as a basin, how many places can it cover? By the time the sword and shield soldiers rushed to the branches, they had already lost more than half of them.
However, the matter was not over, because Liu Hou's formation was very dense, and the branches were also dense, the sword and shield soldiers who rushed to him were blocked by the branches, and they couldn't rush for a while. Liu Hou's two rows of archers were honestly unceremonious, facing an enemy who was only 3 meters away, and almost every blow was a sure hit.
The lieutenant who was the referee didn't expect that the attrition speed could be as fast as this at first, and he couldn't be busy at all, but then he grabbed a few soldiers who were watching the battle around him to help, and constantly dragged down those sword and shield soldiers who were hit by arrows and refused to go down. As for whether they used their hands in the process of pulling the female soldiers off the field, it is unknown whether they took advantage of them.
It didn't take long for the 40 sword and shield soldiers to be depleted. Sun Shangxiang looked at the battlefield in front of him blankly, his mouth was bitter, and he muttered: "How is it possible, how can this be." Looking at the remaining 10 pikemen around me, I wanted to cry without tears. Even if these people fill in, it will not help, and maybe they will die faster because of the lack of shield protection.
Liu Hou's words sounded in her mind: "Facts speak louder than words." ”
Sun Shangxiang has been defeated, however, she obviously can't accept this fact. "You're fooling!" She yelled and rushed towards Liu Hou.
The female soldiers on both sides are her own soldiers, and when she rushes over, naturally no one will stop her. The phalanx separated a path from the middle, and soon she followed this path to Liu Hou.
"What did I do?" Liu Hou was puzzled, touched his nose and asked.
"What is this, what is this? Is this also a weapon? She asked, pointing to the branches. Aren't you playing tricks on you to stop us from attacking with all this nonsense? Is there such a war? It's simply unheard of. ”
Liu Hou began his habitual eye-rolling motion again. "Why is this not a weapon, we didn't stipulate what kind of weapon to use yesterday, only the size of the blade, so as not to hurt people. As for the fact that you haven't seen it, it means that you are lonely and unheard, but it doesn't mean that you don't. ”
Liu Hou thought to himself, "If you want to see it, you have to wait more than 1,000 years, and if you can see it, there will be ghosts." ”
It turned out that his inspiration for using these branches came from Qi Jiguang. He used to read online novels when he had nothing to do, and once read a novel whose name he forgot about the mandarin duck formation used by Qi Jiguang to resist the Japanese.
Of course, the Mandarin Duck Formation is not that simple, and what Liu Hou remembers is also very limited. But what impressed him the most was that there was a class of troops in the formation, and its weapons were made of bamboo with branches and leaves. This kind of thing is called the wolf sword, which can effectively block the fierce Japanese from fighting quickly in close combat, which is conducive to the other troops in the formation to calmly kill the enemy.
Of course, the real wolf is not so simple, Qi Jiguang installed an iron spear head on the top of the long and knotted bamboo, and the thorns on both sides were ironed with fire, and then poured tung oil and applied poison. During the battle, although the long knife of the wolf is sharp, but it cuts the soft branches, the bamboo is layer deep, which can block the spear from penetrating, the wolf soldier rushes in front, the pikeman follows closely on the left and right, and the big knife responds to the back, killing the Japanese invaders countless casualties.
However, Liu Hou and the others only have half a day to make weapons, and naturally the simpler the better, so they can use the branches directly cut down. Anyway, the other party also uses wooden weapons, no iron weapons, and wants to cut off branches, unless you live in the world of Jin Yong's novels and have more than a skill of Jiazi.
"You, you, you, you're just nonsense, do you have such a war?" Sun Shangxiang was simply mad. The opponent did not lose a single person, and he was completely annihilated, such a record is definitely a shame.
Liu Houke didn't care if she was angry or not, anyway, he continued to be angry with her: "Who stipulates how to fight?" Who reasoned with you on the battlefield? If you can win, it is the truth, and if you can win, the way you can win is the good way. The enemy has cut off your head, and you tell him that your method is wrong, and you shouldn't fight like this, does it make sense? The sage said, 'It doesn't matter if it's a white cat or a black cat, the one who catches a mouse is a good cat.' Haven't you heard that this is the truth? ”
Sun Shangxiang loves martial arts, and he doesn't have much culture in his stomach, so he didn't find anything wrong with this sage cloud. Anyway, she didn't know a few words of "Sage Cloud", she thought that there was really such a "Sage Cloud", and as for the Sage Cloud, she didn't care about it.
"You, you, you ......" Sun Shangxiang was already mad, her pretty face was so red that she couldn't speak.
"I, I, I'm a genius, right? No one used it before, but from now on, someone will use it. Since ancient times, famous generals are not confined to the form, many famous generals have innovated, and the examples they fought have not been fought before, so the victory they fought will become a classic battle, and it will be passed down through the ages for future generations to learn. Liu Hou said very stinkyly.
"If you think about it, if a general's battle example is before, then who will learn his tactics, it must be the predecessors who created this tactics."
"And the first person to create this classic example, would you say that he didn't fight right? No, just praise him. I'm the famous general who created a classic example, why don't you praise me, return you, you, you. ”
Sun Shangxiang was speechless by Liu Hou, and in terms of eloquence, the two are really far apart.
"Hmph, you'll see." Although Sun Shangxiang was furious, what Liu Hou said was reasonable, and she had no way to refute it. Fortunately, she has the bold character of a martial artist, losing is losing, and winning is winning. After losing, it's a big deal to find a way to win it back.
So she set up again and prepared to start the second round. In this round, she put out a "crane wing array", planning to divide her troops to outflank Liu Hou from the left and right wings.
However, Liu Hou's left and right flanks are also equipped with wolf branches, and only the people in the first row need to support the big branches to effectively block the enemy, and the people in the inner row can shoot calmly, and they don't even need to change formations.
This is also because Liu Hou knew that they didn't have time to train to adapt to the new formations and new tactics, so he simply asked them to cut down more branches and put this kind of big branches on the sides of the phalanx 4, so that no matter where the enemy came from, they could quickly organize their defense without changing the formation, and prevent confusion caused by changing the formation without skillful training.
Sure enough, Sun Shangxiang's side was quickly defeated, and then she tried many formations such as "Glaive Array", "Fish Scale Array", "Fangyuan Array", and "Goose Walking Array". All ended in failure. There was even a time when she personally led her troops to charge in front, but was "shot" in the end.
There is no way, in fact, she said that Liu Hou did not completely wronged him. Because in the actual war, this kind of branch can be cut by sharp weapons, and there will always be a time when it will be consumed, but now Liu Hou is bullying them to use wooden tools, and it will be useless for them to cut it no matter how they cut it.
In this way, they will not have a second ending at all, except for losing again and again. In fact, this is just because of the mutual restraint of the troops, because of the rush of time, everyone has built relatively simple and relatively single weapons. On Liu Hou's side, there were branches to block the enemy's advance, and there were a large number of bows and arrows for long-range strikes; On the other hand, on Sun Shangxiang's side, according to the habits of ordinary training, they are equipped with a large number of melee weapons, knives, and a small number of spears for medium-range attacks, but they have no long-range strike force.
In other words, Sun Shangxiang has a congenital defect on her side, so no matter how hard she tries, she can't win. Finally, when it was time to eat, the battle ended in Sun Shangxiang's indignation. Liu's side won all of them, and they were all big wins with no loss or only a handful of men in individual rounds.
After the battle, none of the female soldiers on Liu Hou's side were injured, and on Sun Shangxiang's side, because they wanted to forcibly pass through the guò branch formation, many female soldiers' bare skin was scarred by the branches. For girls who love beauty, it is indeed a tragic experience.
Sun Shangxiang, who was even more angry than the Angry Birds, almost roared and said to Liu Hou, "Fight again tomorrow!" Liu Hou agreed indifferently. After Sun Shangxiang led the female soldiers back to the backyard where they lived, she finally calmed down, rolled her eyes, and had an idea.
She immediately came to Liu Hou again and told him that today's weapon was too badly damaged, and she would go to the woods tomorrow to make weapons, and re-agreed to fight again the day after tomorrow. Of course, Liu Hou understood what he was thinking, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and agreed.