After learning that the main army of the Persians had passed through the Cheshi Ancient Road, the Chinese coalition army led by Qingji of more than 70,000 people had formed several phalanxes in a wilderness in Wulei.

This time, the celebration used the relatively old "Fish Beauty Array".

The Array of Yuli was invented and created by Zheng Zhuanggong.

It is said that Zheng Zhuang Gong once saw a farmer fishing with a net in the wild, and he invented a new formation with some understanding.

It is also said that when Zheng Zhuang Gong was tasting the delicious saury fish, he saw the fish scales stacked on top of each other and inspired the new formation he invented!

In the famous Battle of Xuge, when Zheng Zhuang Gong fought against King Zhou Huan, he used the Yuli Array.

This is a formation in which the infantry formation is arranged around the vehicle for evacuation.

I saw the phalanx of the Huaxia Coalition Army at this time, one army with five deviations, one team with five teams, one team with five vehicles, and five deviations and five sides as a side formation.

Such a formation is like a fish team, hence the name of the Fish Beauty Array.

The most prominent feature of this Yuli formation is to give full play to the role of infantry in the chariot battle, that is, to charge the battle with the chariot first, and the infantry to disperse around the chariot, which can make up for the gap in the chariot and effectively kill and injure the enemy!

In fact, Qingji, Sun Wu, Fan Li and others have more clever formations, but it is not convenient to practice and run in in this hurry, so they can only use the Yuli formation, which is most familiar to the armies of the Chinese countries.

"Wu Hou, what kind of formation did this Persian use? I've never seen it."

On the chariot not far away, the master of the Qin State looked at the phalanx formed by the Persian army on the opposite side, and asked in confusion.

Qingji smiled, then looked at the national lieutenant Sun Wu, and asked, "Sun Wu, do you know this formation?"

Sun Wu shook his head and said, "Great King, the minister doesn't know about this formation. However, it is not difficult to break it."

"From the courtier's point of view, the phalanx of the Persian army, the chariot array, is arranged in front of the infantry array, which should be to disrupt the formation of our army first, and the infantry array will follow later, and the cavalry array will be deployed on both flanks of the army, and it should be responsible for the rapid detour from the two flanks to surprise our army."

"Good."

Qingji nodded in agreement.

This kind of phalanx of the Persians, in Qingji's opinion, is still pediatric.

The world's earliest recognized warfare took place in the Sumerian city-states of the valley of the Two Rivers around the 30th century BC.

Humans are a social species, and in ancient times, people formed tribes of various sizes according to blood relations.

Conflicts often arise between tribes over subsistence resources, snatching of opposite-sex mates, and rituals.

In the early days, wars between tribes were often fought in groups with cold weapons such as sticks and stones, without any rules at all, and the number of participants ranged from dozens to hundreds.

Tribes with a large number of adult males and a more savage and cruel personality tend to have the upper hand.

With the continuous development of human civilization and the emergence of tribal alliances, city-states, and even states, the scale of wars has gradually increased, and the number of participants has increased.

It was gradually discovered that the members of the group positioned, attacked, and defended according to the rules agreed in advance, and the side with a small number of people could easily defeat the side with a large number of people, and the party with civilization and kindness could easily defeat the side that was barbaric and cruel.

This is the first germ of the "formation" in the war!

In Qingji's opinion, the Persian phalanx on the opposite side looked a little disorganized.

After all, it is an army of more than 200,000 people, how can it be truly coordinated and unified?

The phalanx of the Persians, the first Qingji recognized.

Presumably similar to the ancient Egyptian formation.

It is composed of three parts: chariot array, troop formation and cavalry array.

The infantry is first organized into different teams according to the different weapons they hold, such as spear teams, short sword teams, catapult teams, bow teams, etc.

These teams then formed a chariot formation with a number of horse-drawn carriages.

But, that's all.

Among the several phalanxes of the Persians, more generals stood at the front, followed closely behind

A group of soldiers, armed with long weapons in one hand and shields in the other, gathered closely together, marching in unison......

If the Wu army used its own phalanx to deal with the Persian army, it would be too bullying.

Wu Jun *** has four formations: infantry formation, chariot formation, cavalry formation, and crossbow formation.

The formation is large-scale, more tactical, more practical, and more powerful.

You know, the formation of a few thousand people and the formation of hundreds of thousands of people are not the same concept at all!

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

The phalanx of the Persian army on the opposite side erupted in bursts of battle cries.

With Darius I's order, the thousands of chariots and thousands of cavalry at the front of the Persian phalanx suddenly rushed towards the phalanx of the Chinese coalition like a flood that had opened the floodgates.

That scene was like a group of demons dancing!

Because the miscellaneous army of the Persians did not have overall battle clothes and armor, some people even wore animal skins, winter clothes, and big felt hats on their heads, and rushed forward with a roar.

There is no order at all!

Elite?

Perhaps, the charioteers and cavalry of the Persians can still be called elite.

After all, it was a heavily armed soldier in armor, different from those ragtag armies that had been put together on an improvised basis.

"Herald!"

Qing Ji stood on top of the chariot and waved his big hand: "Crossbow array, shoot the two wings of the enemy!"

"Spearmen, get out of line!"

"Dongdong Dong!"

The dull and murderous sound of war drums lit up the wilderness.

With Qingji's order, on the building cars on both sides, the soldiers in charge of the order immediately waved the flag and waved the flag.

Between the shrinkage of the shield array, the crossbow array is revealed.

The huge phalanx was full of crossbowmen with crossbows on their backs.

"Ready!"

They sat down, then stepped on the crossbow with one foot, and reluctantly regained their strength, rattling the "kaka" of the bowstring.

Thousands of crossbowmen, all charging at the same moment.

"Put!"

With the wave of the Ling Flag, countless crossbow arrows flew out, densely spread across half of the dome!

"Hugh Hugh!"

"Poof!"

"Ahh

Crossbow arrows, like locusts crossing the border, quickly reaped the lives of the Persian cavalry.

It's the same as cutting leeks, cutting stubble after stubble!

The Persian cavalry, who were still galloping on their horses, were caught off guard and killed by the penetrating crossbow arrows.

Even the heavy armor on their bodies inevitably shot into the holes of blood, and they fell under their horses with a wail as their blood splattered.

What's even worse is that they don't die thoroughly, and eventually they will be trampled by the horse's hooves, and the flesh and blood will die like a puddle of mud.

"Chirp—"

The horses that were shot by the crossbow arrows all screamed and threw the cavalry on horseback down......

As for the chariots of the Persians, even if they were thousands of chariots, they were firmly blocked by the spear array of the Chinese coalition army.