Qin Feng frowned when he saw it, it took fifteen minutes to complete the arrangement of a circular formation, and this was the only time it was grinding, what advantage does this kind of formation speed have on the battlefield? Will the enemy wait a quarter of an hour before attacking?

When Cao Cao pursued and killed Liu Bei, Liu Bei set up a camp at the foot of the mountain and turned around to take the initiative to attack, if Cao Cao's soldiers and horses set up a complete military formation within fifteen minutes, could Cao Cao be defeated and retreat twenty miles with a rabble like Liu Bei's?

Qin Feng said: "Go and call all the battalion generals and colonels, I want to give a lecture!" ”

"No!"

The generals of each battalion quickly ran over, climbed up to the handsome platform, and stood in front of Qin Feng.

"All the departments are in a mess, and the circular array is also divided into several blocks, and now they each occupy a block, so they are responsible for arranging the blocks that belong to the circular formation in this song block, your three battalions are in the southeast corner, and the sergeant runs to the northwest corner, what's the matter? Your area is in the southeast corner, no matter what kind of military formation is arranged, you only need to complete the part of the formation in the southeast corner, of course, pay attention to the distinction of troops, such as archers, crossbowmen and cavalry should be placed close to or in the middle of the formation, this is another matter, you can give another order to let them rush over! ”

"Also, all troops, each team, and each tun must act collectively, what is the password used for ordinary drills? It is used to order the sergeant to act in accordance with the military order, and not to leave the team without authorization! You and other corporals are scurrying around like headless flies, soldiers can't find generals, generals can't find soldiers, is this still an army? ”

"What is a prohibition? The colonel officer ordered the sergeant to act, and the sergeant could act, and if they were forbidden to move, they could only stay where they were! Next, I hope to see that any action of each ministry must be disciplined, to advance and retreat to a certain degree, not to be chaotic, if two teams meet, to be courteous to each other, mutual courtesy so that there will be no chaos, and it will also save more time to complete the assembly and deployment, all understand? ”

The generals shouted in unison: "Understood! ”

Qin Feng waved his hand: "Each department will return to its own position, wait for my order, do it again!" ”

The generals clasped their fists together and saluted, then turned away and returned to their ranks.

Qin Feng raised his hand and waved: "Cloth phalanx!" ”

The herald shouted: "Cloth phalanx! ”

Drummers beat drums: "Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock"

The three-way drum sounded, and the flag bearer stood on the Shuai Tai Wanglou and waved the flag to convey the flag.

The cavalry in the circular formation was divided into two parts and left and right, and in the deployment of the large phalanx, the cavalry was deployed in the outermost part of the two wings, so they had to return to their original positions, and the archers quickly returned to their original positions in the direction they came, and the archers quickly returned to their original positions in the direction they came, and the troops returned to their original positions in formations, curves, etc.

The square formation of sword and shield men and pikemen was much easier, and their approximate position did not change, so that the leading officer could find his original position in the unit, even unit, and unit.

This time, the time to arrange the phalanx was much shorter, and Qin Feng asked, "How long?" ”

The timekeeper replied, "About the time of a cup of tea!" ”

The time of a cup of tea is about ten minutes, Qin Feng is not satisfied with this speed, the time is still too long, this is still the simplest phalanx, if other military formations are arranged, wouldn't it take longer?

"Cloth Circle!"

"No!"

As the heralds delivered the orders, the drummers and standard-bearers simultaneously spread the orders throughout the army with drums and flags, and the phalanx in front began to change again.

This time the formation was much smoother than the last, but it still took a lot of time, and the timekeeper reported that it took a cup of tea.

"Continue to set up the phalanx!"

For the next whole day, 16,000 people kept switching between the square formation and the circular formation, Qin Feng deeply understood a truth, the army must rely on training, no matter the wind and rain, or cold and snow, it cannot stop, as long as you study hard and master the correct method, even a donkey can be trained well.

It took three whole days, and there was a constant back and forth conversion between the square array and the circular formation, and finally it only took one-third of the time between the sixteen,000 people to complete the formation conversion, which was less than two minutes, about one and a half minutes, this speed made Qin Feng more satisfied, and he could continue to train in the future, continue to improve the formation conversion speed, and shorten the time.

After completing the relatively simple formation conversion between the phalanx and the circular formation, Qin Feng began to ask the sergeants to switch to a slightly more difficult and complex formation.

"Cloth geese march!"

With the issuance of the military order, the sergeants of each battalion began to rush to the predetermined location under the leadership of the colonel, but the geese marching array was a little more complicated than the phalanx and the circular formation, and the sergeants had not set up the geese marching formation with such a large number of troops before.

The team was still a little disorganized, but it wasn't scurrying around like the headless flies it had been at the beginning.

"It's time for a cup of tea!"

"It's too slow!" Qin Feng frowned and said, "Do it again, turn into a phalanx and start over!" ”

"Yes!"

If you are not familiar with it, you have to practice, and you keep practicing, so after another three days, the time for the soldiers to convert from the phalanx to the geese marching array is finally shortened to twenty breaths, which is about one minute.

With the increasing number of exercises, in the following days, the time required by the soldiers in the formation conversion is getting shorter and shorter, even if they have never practiced the cone-shaped formation, hook formation, Xuanxiang formation, crane wing formation, yoke formation, fish scale formation The transformation between these formations is becoming smoother and smoother, because the sergeants have discovered and applied some of these rules, and have accumulated a lot of experience between formation conversions, and the formation conversion is much easier and easier.

During the entire two-month period, more than 16,000 people practiced all kinds of common military formations, and the conversion between various formations was also simple and straightforward.

This shocked Yang Hong, Xu Shu, Yan Xiang and others, Yang Hong followed Yuan Shu for a long time, and also participated in the eighteenth road princes to discuss Dong, and watched the army formations of the princes of all parties, no prince can practice the military formation so skillfully, especially the conversion between the military formations is fast and not chaotic.

If it's on the battlefield, what an advantage it must have!

It is not enough to just practice the formation layout and conversion well, Qin Feng also asked the soldiers to quickly complete the formation transformation during the march of the army, and not to cause chaos.

Ancient military formations rarely can keep the formation not loose and chaotic in the process of moving, because as long as the military formation moves, it will inevitably lead to a loose formation, and once the formation is loose and chaotic, as long as this opportunity is detected and used by the enemy general, the enemy cavalry deployed on the periphery will come in an instant, rush in from the gap between the chaotic and loose formation, and dismember the military formation to pieces like a cow.