Chapter 186: A New Military Perspective
Seeing that all the soldiers were listening carefully, Xiao Jiu took a slender bamboo pole handed over by Dahan, pointed to the pattern on the board and said, "I call this the minimum cooperation, that is, the basis of all cooperation. As he spoke, he picked up an arrow on the table and folded it into two sections, and then took two more and broke it hard, and the three were not broken together. He continued: "Because one person is the most vulnerable on the battlefield, and two people are better together, and three people are together, and when they attack, someone is protecting, this is cooperation." This kind of cooperation is the complete trust of giving oneself to one's comrades-in-arms, that is, the cooperation of completely handing over one's own life to one's comrades-in-arms. β
Then he began to talk about how the cooperation of the three people forms a trinity, how to protect one person when encountering a tough opponent, how to attack one person to attack when encountering a weak opponent, how to form a position when advancing, how to stand when retreating, and even how the officer and his own guards form a three-person combination, after carefully explaining it and seeing that everyone understands it, he ordered everyone to carry out the combination of three people as quickly as possible. After the combination is completed, it is ordered to start the three-in-one formation drill now, and you can also fight with your bare hands in the drill, so as to experience the cooperation effect between the three people and experience the change of mutual positions between the three people. At the end, the three of them must be together in sleeping, eating, and exercising, and to achieve the meaning of each person's small movements in the familiar combination of the three people, they must have the same mind and can understand at the same time in an instant.
On the second day, after continuing to train the cooperation of the three people, on the fourth day, every four groups became a squadron, every four squadrons became a squadron, every four squadrons became a brigade, four brigades were one battalion, four battalions were one battalion, and four battalions were one battalion. The four battalions are the new establishment of the army, and after the establishment is completed, Xiao Jiu began to talk about how the three-person combination cooperates with each other among the four combinations in a team, and uses the change and application of the four-elephant array as the basis, explaining the position of the four teams in each formation, until the sequence of the army is arranged in the order of one, two, three, and four, and the position of the commander is changed and trained, as well as the position of the officer at each level and the alternation of the commander after the death.
After a month of training, Xiao Jiu saw that officers at all levels could find their positions very skillfully, and after being able to quickly return to everyone after being disrupted, Xiao Jiu began to talk about the arrangement of the military formation and the use of the arrow formation, and explained the shooting method of the offensive and defensive arrows of the arrow formation. How to shoot a collective salvo in the offensive. The formation of a concentrated formation of the instant impact of the rain of arrows, in order to clear all obstacles on the way forward, open the way for the charge, can also be used as a sweep of the enemy's attacking phalanx, so that the archers are required to be clear about their position and the direction of shooting, strength, to have a very high overall unity. This kind of arrow formation has a great effect on destroying the opponent's morale and the soldier's will, but the effectiveness of the arrow is relatively low. The second is the commonly used full shot, which now requires everyone to maintain a continuous rain of arrows. This is to maintain the continuity by alternating the front, middle and back three or four rows with each other with the support of the formation, but this kind of archery is very tiring to the archers, so everyone will automatically stop after a few rounds of drawing the bow and firing arrows. If arranged in this formation. Drawing the bow and firing the arrows in one row and preparing the other two rows to rest in the second row can make the continuous arrow rain more than double the time, and can also avoid the phenomenon of weak arms and vulnerable to attack after shooting. The third is a technical archery method. There are many ways to do this, such as combining the first and second methods to attack the enemy like a tidal wave. The second type of attack can be used to block the enemy, and the first type can be used to cut off the enemy, so that the enemy can become a staged attack, and everyone knows that this kind of attack is powerless and will not cause us too much pressure. Finally, he talked about the combined use of bows and arrows, because although the distance of crossbow arrows is similar to that of bows and arrows, the shafts of crossbow arrows are short, and they are easy to deviate in too long flights, which affects the shooting accuracy. It is also very difficult to build this arrow, so in order to get the most out of it, it is to use it at close range, using accurate shots and dense and fast arrow rain to kill all opponents. The reasonable usage should be to use bows and arrows at a distance and crossbow arrows at close range, and match each other to achieve the goal of victory. The use of crossbow arrows can be used in the formation of the original bow and arrow to squat in two rows, or the method of shooting while moving, so the key is determined by everyone's proficiency in the use of crossbow arrows. In order to use the weapon together, it is recommended to use the crossbow in the left hand as much as possible, and use the weapon in the right hand together to enhance your own abilities.
When all the soldiers in the audience heard that they usually use the most ordinary bows and arrows, pulling the bow and releasing arrows can produce so many effects under different methods, it was really an eye-opener. Although the crossbow arrows had just been dispensed and were shocked by the huge power of the crossbow arrows, it was estimated that they might replace the bow and arrows, and when Xiao Jiu said this, everyone understood the use of these two weapons. This was followed by the practice of these formations. After these formations are proficient, Xiao Jiu talked about the coordinated operation of the infantry cavalry, how the cavalry attacked the position of the infantry, and how the infantry used different methods to wipe out the enemy after the cavalry disrupted the enemy's formation. These four formations absorbed all the essence of their previous lives and witnessed the changes in the war, and then refined them according to their own research on the formations. The cloud-breaking formation is to impact the opponent's formation, like a sharp arrow directly inserting into the center of the opponent's military formation, and divide the formation, just like a sharp arrow, cutting through the dark clouds in the sky. The Rock Formation is used for defense, like a stubborn rock, which is not moved by the impact. The Wind Whirlwind Formation is a formation based on encirclement and siege. The silence formation is to destroy the opponent, this formation Xiao Jiu takes into account that once it reaches the point of life and death, it is bound to put out this formation, and one party will never give up if he does not die, so in this formation, Xiao Jiu uses the gathering spirit strangulation two sets of immortal arrays based on the change, once this formation is placed, all the aura around the formation will be absorbed, to provide the formation with aura, and all the encircled people's qi locked, using the power of the strangulation array, the encircled people to carry out all-round strangulation, until all the locked opponents are eliminated to stop the operation of the big arrayγ In the subsequent formation practice exercises, Xiao Jiu only practiced the first three formations repeatedly, and only practiced the formation of the Annihilation Formation, and the operation of the entire formation was as if he had forgotten, and he did not move at all.
The general and the generals in front of him saw Xiao Jiu constantly issuing command orders, and the herald next to him waved the order flag in his hand, waving the order flag according to Xiao Jiu's order, and the army of more than 200,000 people moved in an orderly manner, changing every formation and running every formation, and everyone who watched it was amazed. One of the generals said: "I can't even imagine that this is the army we have led before, and it can be so neatly drilled, it's incredible." But I don't know how powerful these formations of Childe are, I really want to experience them for myself, I don't know if I can. β
The general called a herald and told Xiao Jiu what everyone meant. After a while, the herald ran over and said, "Childe said that it is completely okay, for the sake of insurance, I can only let the generals experience the two formations of the rock and the wind." Childe said that the generals should come over. As he spoke, he motioned to the general to go over now.
The general led these generals to the front of the military formation, and at this time, Xiao Jiu had already come down from the command platform, came to the generals and said: "I have already set up the Rock Formation with the number of an army, please let go of the attack no matter what method or position you use, and see if you can break through the defense." Then I'll change the formation again. After speaking, he took the generals to the high platform of the command and watched the attacks of the generals.
I saw all the generals waving their big swords, attacking the soldiers from all directions with shields and swords, no matter what they tried to do, they couldn't attack the hedgehog-like defense, and the general was also amazed after seeing it, Xiao Jiu said: "This hasn't used crossbow arrows yet, and it hasn't run the formation, just a defensive formation, if the formation turns up, they will already lie on the ground." Seeing that the generals were almost attacking, he said to the herald beside him: "The order changes the formation, becomes a whirlwind formation, moves in a singular number, and tightens in an even number." As Xiao Jiu spoke, the herald had already waved the order flag in his hand and issued an order to the soldiers below him to change the formation.
When the generals were at a loss for what to do, they suddenly saw the stationary iron hedgehog in front of them begin to move. Immediately the crowd of shields and swords began to wander, and after a while, the generals found that there were fewer and fewer companions beside them, and then in a blink of an eye, they were left alone, and then the shield and sword had wrapped themselves tightly, and slowly turned out with the operation of the formation, and after a while, they saw that the generals who were with them were tightly wrapped like themselves, standing on the edge of the big array.
The general waited for the generals to come to him and asked them how they felt, and they all said that they only saw the soldiers start to move, and then they were tightly wrapped and turned out. Everybody says it's amazing. When he heard that the large array was not working when he was attacking, or they would have been lying on the ground a long time ago, he praised him repeatedly. Then Xiao Jiu talked about the application of the instrument, and the application method of the new combination of simple three-piece combinations was demonstrated, and then began to explain how each person's equipment and how to use it with the rotation of the formation, to what position to start assembly, and then to what position to start arranging, and then how to follow the operation of the formation, in what position to start to eliminate, with Xiao Jiu's explanation, the soldiers began to practice. The generals watched the neat and accurate movements of the soldiers, and according to the requirements of Xiao Jiu, driven by the large array, rows of triangular brackets appeared neatly in front of the large array, and after the incident, with the rotation of the large array, the rows of brackets magically disappeared. When everyone is sighing, with the operation of the large array, what is shown is a huge crossbow modified from a chariot, and a modified stone thrower, these instruments are operated by special personnel, and the advance and retreat are also carried out with the operation of the large array, but the route of travel is different from that of the infantry soldiers, the place where they appear is exactly the vacant position in the infantry formation, every three vehicles are a combination, and each combination has a commander who is responsible for directing the firing rhythm of the instrument and observing the command on the command platform. (To be continued......)