Liu Bei Tongkong was divergent, he was pondering Zhang Fei's words, and felt that it made sense, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Zhang Fei really doesn't know the importance of the bottom Qiantou?

Without them, where would the taxes, the soldiers, and the food come from to feed them.

Didn't Qin Neng dominate the world back then mobilize these Qiantou leaders? At that time, there were many romantic figures in the Six Kingdoms, but not all of them turned into flowing water in Qin's iron-blooded heroes.

So Liu Bei had the heart to refute, but when the words came to his mouth, he stopped again, because he thought of the second meaning of Zhang Fei's words. Is Zhang Fei really not aware of the importance of Qianshou?

He thought of his and Zhang Fei's identities, their ranger team, as well as a series of people like Gongsun Zhan, they all have a common identity, that is, soldiers. In times like these, they don't rely on each other to form a team, so who else can they rely on?

Do you rely on the ministers who have already brought a bad smell in Kyoto? Speaking of which, no matter how much powder these people put on, they still can't hide the unique smell of their old people.

"Brother, hurry up and eat. This cake is just out of the pot, and it is not crispy when it is cold."

Zhang Fei's words interrupted Liu Bei's reverie, he lowered his head to look at the golden cake, and suddenly asked:

"Where did we get the sesame oil?"

Zhang Fei shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Before we set out, we got up from Xingyang Dongchengcang. As for Brother Gongsun, they took the lead in opening a position. It is said that at that time, many people ran out of Xingyang City, saying that this warehouse belonged to them. Later, he was whipped and cried by Brother Gongsun. These people cried and said, do you know who we are? It's really a joke, let's come all the way to Xingyang to help them suppress the thieves, what's wrong with getting some sesame oil?"

Liu Bei frowned and interrupted Zhang Fei:

"How do you know that? You went with you?"

Zhang Fei choked, and the original words became when they came to his mouth:

"Aren't these sesame oils also taken by these people? None of the things that are full of things have been taken out of the hands of the state."

Liu Bei stopped squeaking, and only ate the Hu cake in his hand, but it was cold and tasteless.

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The 6th year of light and the 28th of August.

After defeating the Kaifeng soldiers and capturing the banners of their troops, the Taishan army continued north. Its front two departments, Li Damu and Dian Wei, were the first to arrive near Xingze.

Along the way, the Taishan army was strictly disciplined, blocking the Quartet and not disturbing the people. The Youzhou Raiders who went south felt that they were foreign soldiers, and they ran rampant, capturing female cadres along the way, killing pigs and cattle, demolishing houses, and emptying a township every time they arrived.

The two armies are in stark contrast. Now these comparisons will have little effect on the upcoming battle of Xingyang, but the people in these troubled times will eventually vote with their own feet and choose who to support.

Li Damu and Dian Wei were opened to the Yan clan before. There, it was learned from the soldiers and horses on the right who stayed behind that Zhang Dan, the right lieutenant, had already led the main force to ambush in order to resist the Han army heading south. But so far no news has reached the camp.

As soon as Li Damu and Dian Wei heard this, they guessed that Zhang Danbu had an accident.

They are very good with Zhang Dan, whether it is public or private, they all need to go up to the rescue. The two discussed it, and after sending a letter to the main force of the Chinese army behind, they led the army to supply a batch of supplies from the Yan camp. ….

Li Damu and Dian Wei are both lions and tigers, and the two battalions under their command are the oldest battalion leaders of the Taishan Army, with high morale and elite armor, and they are first-class powerhouses. Yes, Li Damu and Dian Wei didn't think much about the rescue, they just did it when they thought about it.

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He was both covered in sweat, and if he didn't order all his troops to march in armor before they were about to join the battlefield, he would have collapsed with both two or two thousand elites.

Under normal circumstances, an infantry soldier would be devastating if it was attacked by a cavalry on the march. Because during the march, in order to reduce the load, all the armor stomachs were loaded on the baggage carts. And once they encounter a cavalry charge at this time, these infantry have neither time to put on armor nor time to form a formation, so they can only be slaughtered under the charging iron cavalry.

The 2,000 people of the 2nd battalion of Li and Dian were directly arranged into a large phalanx according to the drill code. But this phalanx was completely different from anything the Han army had ever seen.

This phalanx is a new type of large array that Zhang Chong reorganized by drawing on the experience of the Changshe War. At that time, during the Battle of Changshe, the Taishan Army also encountered the charge of the main cavalry of the Han Army, and the victory at that time mainly relied on Zhang Chong's proper dispatch and Guan Yu's personal bravery.

After the war, Zhang Chong saw that the main force of the Han army he encountered in the future was either an elite cavalry corps or an elite infantry corps like the Xiliang Legion, so he took Li Damu and Dian Wei as a pilot to compile this new formation. In Zhang Chong's plan, this kind of thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, will become the main force in the future battle, and their success or failure will determine the success or failure of the battle.

The phalanx of Han soldiers in the past has a wide front. In the first row, there are both spears and swordsmen. But now in the new big formation, the first row is a two-section narrow spear formation.

The phalanx composed of Li and Dian, the spears in the front row can no longer be called spears, to be precise, they are rifles, because their length is five meters.

Originally, the spears of the Han soldiers were generally more than three meters, and such a length of spears was strong and had the advantage of flexibility and resistance to the enemy. The Han soldiers had only two enemies, one was the Qiang people in the northwest and the other was the Xianbei people in the north.

The Qiang people are both foot riders, but they are mainly good at walking in the foot. The more than three-meter-long spear in the hands of the Han soldiers was enough to withstand the impact of the Qiang people. In the face of the Xianbei cavalry, the grassland cavalry is all peripheral guerrilla and will not rush into battle, so the three-meter-long Ge spear is enough.

But now the main enemy of the Taishan army is the Han army, then the whole situation has changed. The cavalry of the Han army is mostly a sudden cavalry, which will charge into battle, and the main infantry of the Han army is also a strict division, and it is a division that can stand against the Taishan army.

At this time, the length of the Han army's standard spear in the hands of the Taishan army was not enough. Because of the need for infantry phalanxes and resistance to cavalry charges, Zhang Chong decided to take the lead in using infantry lances with a length of up to five meters in the Li and Dian Divisions. In this way, the infantry fighting in the first line will have a longer space to resist the enemy and will be able to hit the enemy first. ….

And this tendency to lengthen the spear also appeared in the Tarzan army assault cavalry. Zhang Chong also lengthened the horses of Yan Gang's hundred-man team, and in order to balance and lengthen the cavalry spear in the charge, Zhang Chong's artisan battalion specially built a hook on the armor stomach to hang the cavalry spear, so that the cavalry could extend farther.

In addition, the earliest military formation of the Taishan Army was listed by Yang Mao, the deputy of the army, in accordance with the Han law, so the wide formation was used in the front row, which had the advantage of being the first to defeat the narrow-sided enemy on the right side.

However, as the Taishan army's demand for the confrontation of the infantry army deepened, Zhang Chong decided to use a narrow and wide strip army formation with a large depth to oppose the Han army.

Because Zhang Chong found in the first line of confrontation that when the elite army formation confronted, both sides would show a very strong sense of battle and well-equipped fighting equipment. Therefore, it is difficult to say whose military formation is broken in a short period of time, and it is often a stalemate on the military line.

At this time, the key to victory comes from squeezing. This squeeze comes from the pressure of the rear robe. It's like tug-of-war. There is a very different difference between one person and two people. At this time, the military formation with a longer depth has a stronger squeezing force, and it is more able to overwhelm the opposite side, and then collapse.

This confrontation is so good that the weapons in hand are not even useful. Because everyone in the front row is a soldier, the more you squeeze the spear, the more you can't stab yourself, and the first row will even be crowded with people, and your face will be close to your face.

In other words, the brutal line of the infantry phalanx even became a squeezing competition of strength.

In addition, the first row of the new large array is all pure team, a water of foot soldiers. In the past, the Han soldiers would actually put a few particularly brave soldiers on the front line, wearing several layers of armor and wielding halberds and axes to kill the enemy.

Some elite marksmen will also be on the front line, so that they can have a wide enough field of view to accurately strike the officers in the enemy's line. Even like the Qiang people, who are brave and not afraid of death, they will even arrange lightly armed daggers on the front line, and when they are on the line, they will crawl under the spear of the Han army and use the dagger to cut the meat to stab the *** of the Han army, which is very vicious.

Zhang Chong had the ability to reform the military formation than all the generals in this life. Since Zhang Chong had no choice but to be involved in this troubled era four years ago, he has been fighting on the front line.

The generals of the Han army paid attention to winning thousands of miles away, and decided the planning of the battle in the big tent, and drew a formation table for the leading generals before the battle. These people are educated and innovative, but they have never fought on the front line, and they don't know what the front line is like. And those who are fighting on the front line, although they feel that this is not good, that is a bit of a problem, but they do not have enough literacy to reorganize the military formation. As a result, the Han army's military formation could not adapt to the specific development of the war.

But Zhang Chong is different, he is more educated than everyone else, he is more able to summarize, and he has been fighting on the front line for many years, so he took the lead in adapting the military formation under his command.

In fact, Zhang Chong's adaptation of his subordinates is the adaptation of each family in the Three Kingdoms period in the future. At that time, the military struggle skills of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were all at their peak, and they all attached great importance to the ability of the starting army to confront.

Back here, Zhang Chong was the first to find that in the same level of infantry confrontation, the original flower team was no longer good. In the first few rows, the spearmen, swordsmen, axemen, and archers are mixed, and the damage to the impact of the line is far greater than the damage to the enemy. ….

Zhang Chong used his own personal experience to conclude that the most fundamental factor in the infantry formation is the squeezing ability of the dense infantry lancers.

Of course, Zhang Chong would not arrange all the battalions under his command according to the two departments of Li and Dian. Because the wide array and the deep array have their own advantages. The former is long in flanking and the latter in squeezing the enemy's line. A good commander needs to have a lot of toolbox in his hand, not just a hammer in his hand and a hammer when he sees everything.

It's war, it's a combination of art and science, but it's not just art or science.

And now, on the edge of this Yingze, an infantry army of 2,000 people formed such a new large formation in a hurry. There were twenty men on the first side of the formation, and fifty men stood in each column. In other words, the depth surface is almost three times that of the wide surface. And then the other paragraph is laid out like this.

Therefore, in front of the Han army's Youzhou Tucai, there are two such long military formations. The sky-high lance was strange and intimidating. The war horses under the crotch of the Han cavalry snorted and circled with their front hooves uneasily at the thought of rushing at these terrible, giant thorny monsters from behind.

The Han knights each had their own way of appeasing their crotch partners, and their hearts were also full of uneasiness.

But as everyone knows, at this time, the mighty military formation of the three thousand Han cavalry also made the Taishan army in the front row anxious and afraid.

The three thousand horsemen were on the southeast side of the formation, with the sun on their backs, and they were bathed in the sun, exuding an infinite golden light.

In this glow, the three thousand horsemen were divided into three huge thousand cavalry phalanxes, one red flag with the name of their respective commander written in black, and more banners with the word "Han" written on them, announcing their identity to the group of moth thieves opposite.

Naigong is the strongest cavalry regiment of the Han Dynasty - Youzhou Assault Cavalry.

At this time, there was a burst of horns in the Youzhou Assault Cavalry Formation, and then the three thousand-man cavalry regiments each divided into two hundred-man cavalry teams, all of them were bearded and whipped, and they were obviously Wuhuan people.

These Wuhuan people rushed to two hundred paces in front of the two armies of Li and Dian and began to separate to the two wings, and then roared along the periphery of the Taishan army formation.

On the one hand, the Taishan army on the left and right endured the rain of arrows, and on the other hand, they had to listen to the ghost cries of those Wuhuan people from time to time. At this time, the archers of the Taishan Army in the formation also began to fight back at the Wuhuan cavalry cruising on the periphery, but in the face of the high-speed moving cavalry, the effect was not great.

But in fact, the rain of arrows of the Wuhuan cavalry did not have much effect. The sergeants of the Li and Dian Divisions all wore four-petal helmets, which were iron helmets made up of four pieces of formed iron connected by a rope. This iron helmet has a ring of cornices around it. It has very good protection against missed arrows.

Therefore, the Wuhuan cavalry also looked at the momentum, for the Taishan army armed to the teeth

, not much harm.

The cavalry commander on the opposite side also clearly saw this. Then the flag on the opposite side waved, and another Han army rode slowly out of the line towards the Taishan army line.

The Taishan army in the front row couldn't stop the sweat in the palms of their hands at this time, it wasn't that these rifles had grooves to grasp, it was estimated that many of them couldn't grasp the rifles. Of course, the weight of this lance is also a reason, the five-meter-long lance can only be held vertically at this time, and once it is put down, it will no longer be able to be lifted.

Seeing that the Han army on the opposite side began to slowly increase the speed of the horse, the high-ranking generals of the two front rows of the Taishan army began to order:

"Let go."

Suddenly, in the front row, Rulin's lance smashed down directly. Then the Tarzan army infantry soldier in the front row took out a layer of wooden planks from behind his back, and then laboriously lifted the tail end of the rifle from the ground, and stood the plank as a frame for the rifle.

After doing this, the senior Shi in the front row will order again:

"Lance."

With this order, the lances in the first row were lifted outward at a low angle by relying on the principle of levers. For a time, the giant beast of the Taishan Army opened its fangs to the Han cavalry.

Just when the Taishan army in the front row gritted its teeth and prepared to withstand the first wave of Han cavalry charges, the opposite side made a loud noise. Then these Han cavalry who were about to charge went around one after another and returned to their own military formation. After that, these Han cavalry retreated in the direction of Xingyang.

Li Damu and Dian Wei were still wondering about the behavior of the Han army in their respective military formations, and they saw a puff of smoke and dust floating from the southeast, and a large pole with the word "Tian" swaying.

Cavalry support from the Tarzan Army came.

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