Chapter 7 Drill Formation

In the afternoon, not long after defeating the demon soldiers under Han Yi's banner, Du Wenyu squatted on the sand alone and thoughtfully continued to draw various formations with fine sand.

Since Han Yi fully ceded power to himself and believed in himself, how could Du Wenyu live up to his kindness!

For the formation, Du Wenyu doesn't know very well, after all, in the case of a large number of people, it can play a huge role, if it is just a single battle, it will not be useful at all!

In the past, Du Wenyu didn't use the formation at all, at most he was to transfer troops and make reasonable arrangements, but in this situation where the enemy is strong and I am weak, if the formation is not used, then there is almost no possibility of victory.

So in this case, it is necessary to use the power of the formation.

Du Wenyu desperately recalled in his mind, and then sketched in the sand, wanting to stimulate his inspiration in this way.

Du Wenyu first drew the Bagua Array in the sand, which was created by Sun Bin, a great military strategist during the Warring States Period, and is said to be inspired by the Bagua Diagram of the Book of Changes, so it is also called the Bagua Array.

The specific formation is that the general is in the center, and a team of regular soldiers is distributed on each side, and four teams of mobile combat odd soldiers are sent between the regular soldiers to form eight formations. The eight arrays are scattered into eight, and they become one, and they divide and merge to form sixty-four arrays.

While Du Wenyu was drawing, he was also simulating the process of training demon soldiers in his mind, and it was almost conceivable that once the practice was successful, it would bring how powerful it would be!

However, the Bagua Array is too subtle, and it still needs to be gradual and progressive, from shallow to deep, so that the demons can accept it.

Erasing the gossip array, Du Wenyu began to evolve into a star array again.

The Star Scattering Array is the formation of the famous Southern Song Dynasty general Yue Fei to break the "kidnapping horse" of the golden soldiers. The formation of the Star Scattering Array was like stars, and when the "kidnapping horses" rushed in a row, the soldiers scattered but did not gather, causing the enemy to pounce into the air. When the enemy retreated, the scattered soldiers gathered again, pounced on the enemy, and slashed the horse's leg with a knife to break the "kidnapping horse".

The enemy does not ride horses, this set of star scattering arrays is not very useful, and after reaching this set of conclusions, Du Wenyu began to draw out the mandarin duck array again.

The Mandarin Duck Formation is a formation created by the Ming Dynasty general Qi Jiguang to fight against the Japanese invaders. He divided the soldiers into three groups, the first group of soldiers fired firearms when the enemy advanced to 100 paces, the second group of soldiers fired crossbow arrows when the enemy advanced to 60 paces, and the third group of soldiers charged at the enemy with swords and spears when the enemy advanced to 10 paces.

This is not bad, the division of labor and cooperation, concentrated firepower and separate shooting, you can learn from it!

Du Wenyu was reminiscing and learning at the same time! It was not an easy task to completely take these formations into his own possession.

Formation, to put it simply, is the field formation of the ancient army, which is the product of the development of human warfare to a certain historical stage, which prevailed in the era of cold weapons and died out in the age of hot weapons.

With the development of history, slave countries appeared, and slave owners began to organize an army in order to consolidate their rule and plunder slaves, and adopted a certain formation, which was the primitive "array".

The "array" appeared in the process of the formation of the army, because of the need to organize the army and command the battle, and integrated the achievements of ancient military science and tactics. The battle formations of the East originated in China. The earliest formation in China is said to have begun with the Yellow Emperor, who learned Tianyi Dunjia from the Nine Heavens Xuannu in order to defeat Chiyou, but this is only a legend, and it is well documented that it was in the late Shang Dynasty.

Fish scale formation: After the general is located in the formation, the main forces are assembled in the center, divided into a number of small phalanxes in the shape of fish scales, arranged according to echelons, and the front end is slightly convex, which belongs to the offensive formation.

Tactical idea: "Central breakthrough". Concentrate forces to launch a fierce attack on the center of the enemy formation, and use it when the side has an advantage, and the weak point of the formation is on the tail side.

Arrow Formation: The general is located in the middle of the formation, the main forces are gathered in the center, and the forward is spread out in the shape of an arrow, which is also an offensive formation. Tactical idea: "Central breakthrough".

The defensive nature of the Arrow Formation is better than that of the Fish Scale Formation, and the "arrows" of the forward can resist the pressure from the enemy's flanks, but the offensive is slightly weaker, and the weak point of the formation is still on the tail side.

Crane Wing Formation: The general is located in the middle and rear of the formation, surrounded by heavy troops, and the wings of the crane are spread out on the left and right, which is a formation that has both offense and defense. Tactical thinking: outflanking left and right.

The crane wing formation requires that the generals should have a relatively high tactical command ability, and the two wings should be opened and closed freely, which can be used to copy the enemy's flanks and can also work together to flank the enemy who has broken through into the middle of the formation; the generals should defend their own formations strictly to prevent them from being broken through by the enemy; the two wings should be mobile and flexible, closely coordinated, and attack fiercely, otherwise they will not be able to achieve their goal. Glaive Formation: The whole army is in an arc-shaped configuration, shaped like a crescent, which is an asymmetrical formation, and the general's formation is usually located at the bottom of the crescent concave moon.

When fighting, pay attention to attacking the flank, resist the enemy with a thick moon wheel, the recess of the crescent moon seems to be weak, but it contains danger, the general should have a strong combat power in this formation, and the strong generals are suitable for the brave, and it is also suitable for some asymmetrical terrain.

Fangyuan array: the general is located in the center of the formation, the peripheral forces are deployed layer by layer, spears, bows and arrows are outside, and mobile forces are included, which is used when engaging superior enemy forces, tactical thinking: intensive defense. The formation of the square circle array is dense and the defense is strong, because the dense formation restricts maneuver and lacks changes, it is difficult for the enemy to pursue when the enemy retreats, and the offensive is poor.

Wild Goose Formation: The deployment of troops is like a wild goose flying diagonally, so as to give full play to the power of the shooting class. In the era of cold weapons, white-knuckle warfare was the mainstay, and the goose marching array was rarely used, but it should also be combined with specific situations.

Personally, I think that "riding iron" is very suitable for use. Long Snake Formation: A column used for marching or pursuit, with strong mobility and weak combat effectiveness.

Yoke Array: Similar to the long snake, it adopts the form of multiple columns side by side, and the combat effectiveness is long and the snake formation is strong.

The "Takeda Eight Formations" is a very representative formation, and a car suspension formation is also introduced, which was created by the famous Japanese Warring States general Uesugi Kenshin. The difference is that the mobile forces are outside, forming a number of formations, rotating in the same direction when the battle is about to take turns, taking turns to attack the enemy formation, like a rotating wheel.

The significance of this is to constantly put pressure on one part of the enemy's army, so that it collapses from exhaustion, while its own side is replenished and recuperated by taking turns to attack. There can be no doubt that this tactic is excellent. The vehicle suspension array is greatly restricted by the terrain and must be easy to maneuver; the generals are required to have superb tactical command ability, and they should be good at finding fighters and avoiding omissions in the rotation of troops; and the combat strength is long-lasting but not conducive to quick resolution.

In addition, there are Tiger Tao, Wolong, Wheel Violation, Da Delirium, Tiger Chao, Chaotic Sword, Cloud Dragon, Flying Bird, Songpi, Popular, Jing Yan Xingzhi, Shogi Head, Don't Hand Straight and other formations.

Through continuous recollection and analysis in his mind, Du Wenyu gradually had a preliminary idea.

It's just that for the practice of the formation, Du Wenyu is still a little lacking in confidence.

Formation drills are an effective way to train a rabble into an army. Formation training was an important method for managing the army in ancient times. Through drills, the soldiers are taught the rules of advance and retreat, and the law of gathering and dispersing, so that they are familiar with all kinds of signals and passwords, and when they are fighting, they can carry out orders and prohibitions and coordinate with each other, and only in this way can they give full play to the overall joint force.

When it comes to the array, first of all, we must manage the troops, and we must make the soldiers do the concept of hearing the drum and attacking, and the concept of hearing the gold and retreating, specific to the arrangement of the formation, direct attack or roundabout, determined by the army, the captain and other subordinate officers look at the military flag, and the members of the first army themselves are a small combat collective, roughly divided into five categories of generals: near, medium, far, defense, and auxiliary, with great power and ultra-long-range attacks!

It seems that he not only needs to think of the commander's password, but also must arrange the captain and the captain, only in this way can he command accurately!

In addition, he also needs to make these demon soldiers have high combat skills and a strong sense of discipline, so that they can be effectively restrained, and it also ensures that the generals can effectively discharge the formation they want to discharge, which is most suitable for the battlefield situation and the comparison of the forces of the two sides.

This is very important, if there are no longer many soldiers but fine, if it is just a group of rabble, no matter how large the number is, it will not achieve the desired effect at all.

In addition to the formation, morale is also very important, of course, morale, for these demons, is an easy thing to master, as long as they are enthusiastic, they have unparalleled excitement and combat effectiveness.

Du Wenyu believes that the battle formation is a source of morale, especially for the side whose individual combat ability is weaker than the opponent, and it is more necessary to pay more attention to maintaining the formation. Only by maintaining the formation can the power of group combat be brought into play.

After integrating all the steps that needed to be understood and perfected in his mind, Du Wenyu felt that it was time to take action, presumably Han Yi and those demons were also impatient!

There is no other reason, Du Wenyu led these demon beasts of average strength to defeat the twelve most powerful demon beasts led by Han Yi, and it has already spread throughout the entire beast group, and Han Yi has also ordered Du Wenyu to make reforms, so that every demon beast must learn the formation!

The demon beasts were also highly motivated, and after learning that it was possible to bring the overall combat effectiveness to a new level, of course, they were eager to try it and couldn't wait!

After sorting out the thoughts in his mind, Du Wenyu first discussed with Han Yi, asking him to first screen out some demon beasts with good wisdom and leadership ability, and let them choose their own warriors and start the first step of training!

In addition, Du Wenyu also asked Han Yi to distinguish the five types of demon soldiers from near, medium, far, defense, and auxiliary, and chose the outstanding ones among them to lead!

After a lot of preparations, the drill of the formation finally kicked off!

In the ocean, in the sky, and on the land, all kinds of demon beasts began their long-awaited formation drills!

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I'll admit that this chapter introduces a lot of terms, but that's because I'm not too familiar with these myself, and I'm going to write it in a jumping style, and the next chapter is the big war!