Chapter 37: New Formations

The musketeers were ready to attack, but they had no chance to shoot. The vine armor soldiers were already fighting with the Eastern Wu army, and their vision was not clear at night, so no one dared to shoot indiscriminately at this time.

Just kidding, although it is said that the current muskets have rifling and crosshairs, but the accuracy is really not complimentary. Who can be sure that every shot will be on the right foot? If any, they're all in the special forces. So the musketeers who were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people had to stare there, and only occasionally when they saw a lone Eastern Wu soldier, did they put a few cold guns.

Needless to say, the battle situation was one-sided, the Eastern Wu soldiers were constantly slashed and killed, the vine armor soldiers were more stabbed, not many casualties, they were all as brave as Iron Man, and five hundred Iron Men can imagine how terrible it was.

After many previous battles, Liu Hou finally realized that one move has many shortcomings, so recently, he asked the veterans of the vine armor soldiers to start practicing two more moves: horizontal slash and diagonal slash.

A veteran is a soldier who has been in the Vine Armor Army for a long time and has practiced the oblique chopping movement perfectly. Diagonal splitting is still the main training subject for new recruits in the vine armor army, and only when this move is fully mastered can they start practicing those two advanced moves.

These two tricks are actually very simple.,Horizontal slashing is to cut the knife horizontally in the enemy's abdomen.,If you succeed.,The enemy's water will fall all over the ground.,And the day of the seppuku himself has the same idea.,It's just that one is cut by yourself.,One is someone else to help him cut.。

Diagonal slashing is the opposite of diagonal slashing, when the knife is underneath, it is tilted up diagonally at a 45-degree angle, which can often make the enemy unguardable. At the same time, it is mainly for the connection of the oblique splitting action.

For example, when a rattan soldier raises his sword and slashes diagonally from the enemy's upper right to the lower left, and the enemy retreats to dodge, at this time, the vine soldier can take a step forward to close the distance between the enemy and the enemy, and then only need to flip the blade and take advantage of the situation to pull the knife from the bottom left to the top right.

Then do the reverse diagonal slash action, so that the knife is offensive whether it goes down or up, the attack efficiency is doubled, the enemy is more difficult to defend against, and the attack frequency is increased so that many enemies have no time to dodge.

In the past, after a diagonal slash, you had to raise the knife above your head and slash again, a process that took a lot of time, enough for an experienced enemy to stab you. Although it is protected by rattan armor, it will not be injured under normal circumstances, but the impact force from the knife will still act on the body, and even some unlucky ones will die when they are stabbed in the eye.

Therefore, the two new moves, especially the oblique teasing, have raised the combat effectiveness of these rattan armor soldiers to a new level, although they have been training these two tricks for a short time and are not skilled enough, but they have already played a good role in this battle.

The Eastern Wu soldiers were quickly cleared, and soon more than half of them were killed or wounded, and finally, after the musketeers sniped the leading generals of the Eastern Wu with cold guns, the Eastern Wu army finally collapsed.

The Eastern Wu soldiers scattered and fled, because in the dark night, the surrounding situation was unknown, and the Shu army did not dare to pursue, so they could only collect their troops and return. And before the 6th battalion of vine armor soldiers ended the battle, Ehuan had already sent a second blocking team.

It turned out that the hot air balloon warned again, saying that an enemy of 3,000 men was coming from the northeast. Up to now, three hot air balloons have gathered around the tunnel entrance, and they are monitoring the movement of the Soochow Army in three directions and giving early warning to the ground troops in time.

During this time, more than 1,000 more people entered the city through the guò tunnel, and Ehuan felt that he had plenty of troops, so he did not hesitate to send a thousand men to stop this 3,000-strong force.

When the 6th Battalion returned, E Huan sent another 1,500-strong team to intercept a 5,000-strong Soochow army coming from the north. At this time, the vine armor soldiers of the third division had already come up with a full 10,000 troops, and the troops were very sufficient. Now the musketeers of the 4th Regiment of the 1st Division are coming up, and the regiment commander is Zhang Bai.

According to the plan, after the musketeers of this regiment came up, it was the turn of the remaining 5,000 wisteria armor of the third division to enter the city. Soon, the troops sent to this side by the Eastern Wu army were wiped out by the blocking teams sent by Ehuan and Guanxing.

This kind of refueling tactics played into the hands of the Shu army, and the Eastern Wu army added a total of six teams, with a total number of about 30,000 people, almost 20,000 were annihilated, and the rest of the men and horses were scattered without a trace.

Lu Xun finally found the problem and immediately issued an order to stop this tactically refueling tactic. He strictly ordered that all troops should not fight in private, and that all troops should first assemble in one place and wait for orders on the spot.

The main reason for the Soochow Army's refueling tactics is that some time ago, because the barracks were frequently attacked by air raids, Lu Xun mixed his troops into the houses.

With so many people, it is easy to disperse, but it is even more difficult to gather. As soon as Lu Xun received the news that the Shu army had entered the city, he immediately issued an order for the troops to assemble. Unfortunately, it was difficult to gather the soldiers scattered in the vast number of houses.

In those days, there were no loudspeakers, so the heralds had to beat gongs and drums while shouting loudly, and walking the streets and alleys to convey orders.

This process will definitely not be fast, especially in some places where the alleys are deeper, and you may not be able to hear the shouts of these people. What's more, because of the scattered people's houses, the officers' restrictions on the soldiers were much looser, and the liberal ideas of many soldiers began to spread.

As a result, there are those who secretly drink, those who sleep lazily, and those who gamble for money, and even those who seek flowers and willows.

It is not known whether there are any violations of the law and crimes and the scourge of the people, but in short, it is really not an easy task to urgently assemble the soldiers in the middle of the night in such a laissez-faire state.

This has led to the rapid build-up of some troops and the late arrival of soldiers in some units. As a result, those who were assembled first were thrown into battle first, serving as lamp oil for refueling tactics. Those who came late saved their lives for the time being.

Originally, this kind of refueling tactic is usually correct, when you know that there is a gap in your nest and an enemy enters through this gap, it is very common for people to temporarily resist it to prevent more enemies from pouring in and avoid further expansion of the situation.

Before, when the Eastern Wu army attacked the Shu camp through the guò tunnel, the response method adopted by the Shu army was probably the same. However, the difference was that the combat strength of the two armies was too far apart, and the Shu army's refueling tactics could effectively eliminate the incoming enemy, and not only did the situation not expand, but continued to compress the territory occupied by the Eastern Wu army.

And now it is the turn of the Eastern Wu army to add oil, and the oil added by the Eastern Wu army is constantly consumed, and the territory occupied by the Shu army and the troops pouring in are increasing.

Lu Xun decisively canceled the refueling tactic and gathered troops in a large open field about 3 miles from the tunnel entrance. It is planned to wait for the gathered troops to reach a certain size, and then seek a decisive battle of the Shu army in one go. However, such a large-scale movement of the Eastern Wu Army has long been detected by a hot air balloon in the sky.

The hot air balloon immediately reported the situation to the ground forces. E Huan convened Guan Xing, Zhang Bai and other generals to discuss countermeasures. In fact, there is no need to discuss much, if the mountain is not for me, I will go to the mountain, and if the enemy does not come to attack me, I will take the initiative to attack the enemy.

The Shu army came in this time not to fight soy sauce, but to seek a decisive battle, and there will be a place to wait for others to fight as before. The generals simply exchanged a few words of opinion, and then made a decision, and finally E Huan made the decision, took the initiative, and did what he did.

This time, E Huan decided to send 5,000 rattan armor soldiers, plus 1,005 musketeers from Guan Xing's second regiment, to act together to kill this large pile of Eastern Wu soldiers. In this operation, Ehuan decided to experiment with a new method of arranging troops.

In the past few wars, the vine armor soldiers and musketeers have had many collaborative experiences, but there has never been a fixed method of warfare, and many times, the method of arranging troops is improvised by the main general and designated at will.

Most of the time, it was simply a matter of letting the musketeers hide behind the rattan armor and wait for the opportunity to fire their guns. In this way, the cooperation between the two arms is not tacit, and there are many stumbles.

In view of this, Liu Hou developed a new method of arranging troops, of course, this method has not been tested in large-scale battles, and it is difficult to say whether it is easy to use or not.

This method of arranging the formation is actually not complicated, that is, two rows of rattan armor soldiers are in front of the first, followed by a row of musketeers, and finally a row of rattan armor soldiers. Of course, there was also a rattan soldier on each side of the musketeer's platoon.

To put it bluntly, it is to use rattan armor soldiers to surround the musket regiment in the middle. That's it, a total of four platoons of soldiers acted together as a combat unit. The two rows of rattan armor soldiers in the front were responsible for frontal combat, and the musketeers in the middle were responsible for long-range shooting. There was also a row of vine armor soldiers guarding the back road.

Since it was now a street battle and there was not much open space, this time each platoon was divided into squad platoons, and four platoons formed a combat unit. In a narrow area, each row is ten people, and four rows of forty people form a combat unit.

When it comes to an open place, if there is a condition to spread out, these small combat units are combined into a platoon of 30 people, so that such a combat unit is 120 people.

Soon, the various squads and platoons lined up in formation, and as soon as E Huan gave the order, the troops set off and rushed towards the assembly place of the Eastern Wu Army.

The Soochow Army originally planned to attack the enemy after it assembled, so it did not take any defensive measures at this temporary assembly site. There were no fortifications, and even the soldiers responsible for the defense were not assigned.

All the troops were in a mess, chatting and farting, complaining, yawning, and even finding a place to lean and doze off. Who can be woken up in the middle of the night to have a good mood and good spirit?

It was under this circumstance that the Shu army formed a formation and rushed headlong into the unsuspecting Eastern Wu army. When the Dongwu army boarded, it was like an ant that had blown up its nest, and it responded to the battle in a hurry, and its combat effectiveness in peacetime was only two or three percent.

The battle was one-sided, and each combat unit of the Shu army was like a lawnmower, or bulldozer, and there was no grass growing everywhere it passed.

Dozens of combat units, that is, dozens of bulldozers and lawn mowers, came and went on the battlefield, and the soldiers of Eastern Wu were cut down by stubble. The rattan armor soldiers in the front row killed the most, and when it came to the value of killing targets, it was the musketeers who had the advantage. As soon as the musketeers came up, they singled out officers at all levels in the Eastern Wu army to snipe.

Once they find a valuable target, they often call a few people around them to gather fire to greet the target to ensure the sniping effect. The Soochow Army lost a large number of officers at all levels in the first place, and the command system was paralyzed immediately, and the troops that were already chaotic enough were even more chaotic.