"Your sister also fought against the demon clan?" Xia Xu's thoughts broke away from the heroine.

Zong Hu replied: "Of course, but her greatest achievement back then was the battle against the Long Qi Kingdom!"

"Fighting against the Long Qi Kingdom?" Xia Xu raised his eyebrows.

Everyone knows that the Eastern Sui Kingdom and the Longqi State are hostile, while the Liuye Kingdom is an alliance relationship.

"That year, it should have been three years ago, Long Qi invaded my border again, and the border guard will be killed, it just so happens that my sister Zong Xia is patrolling the border, as the eldest lady of the Duke's Palace, she has the obligation to patrol the border and patrol instead of me!"

Zong Hu continued: "But the war is about to break out, and it doesn't give people a chance to hesitate at all, my sister Zong Xia directly put on armor and went into battle and commanded thousands of troops!"

"It seems that your sister still has a set of marching and fighting!" Xia Xu nodded and said.

"This is natural, my sister and I have been taught by our father since we were children, not only marching and fighting, but also proficient in arranging troops, my sister Zong Xia is good at arranging formations!"

"Oh, I didn't expect her to be proficient in formations!She's a formation master!" Xia Xu was finally slightly moved!

In the Longchen Continent, array divisions are very rare!

Often, a single division can decide the outcome of a battle!

Formation, how important!

Since ancient times, there have been ancestors who have studied formations!

At present, there are four main common formations in the Eastern Sui Kingdom!

The first is ten arrays, and there are ten arrays: there are square arrays, circular arrays, sparse arrays, several arrays, cone arrays, geese arrays, hook arrays, Xuanxiang arrays, fire arrays, and water arrays.

The second is the Star Scattering Array, which is created by the Zong family!" It is the benefit of the cavalry, the iron cavalry rushes, my stepping skills are poor, and the tactics of Shuzhong are not available. ”

It is intended to create a law, the name is "Scattering Xing Chen", it is not often divided and combined, and when it hears the drum, it gathers, and when it smells the gold, it is scattered.

When the cavalry arrived, the first army was divided into dozens of clusters! The Jin people then divided their troops, and then they gathered in drums. Suddenly, the number of points and combinations changed, and the golden people were at a loss, and then attacked them vertically, so as to win.

Then there is the Mandarin Duck Formation, which is a squad tactic created by the old commander of the Eastern Sui Kingdom to fight against the demon clan, the commander of the twelve people is in the middle, and the all-round substitute firefighter is in the back, leaving two groups of five people:

A wolf warrior is at the forefront, resisting the slashing of a katana, a sword and shield bearer guards the wolf warrior, and a palladium boring hand and two spearmen are in charge of the advance.

The wolf and the sword and shield are the protective forces, and the mandarin duck array can be broken down into a small three-talent array, that is, the protective force is in the center to resist, and the spears on both wings are pushed into the bag. Finally, there is the Yuli Formation, a formation in ancient times that arranged the formation of foot soldiers around the chariot for evacuation.

"Manbo is the right refusal, the sacrifice of Zhongzu is the left refusal, and the original Fan and Gao Qu Mi take the Chinese army as the formation of Yuli. First biased and then ranked, Wu Chengmi, fought in Ruge. ”

The twenty-fifth station is biased, with the car in front, followed by the army, the gap of the deviation, and the gap is also missing.

A team of five. This Gaiyuli formation.

That is to say, the army has five deviations in one army, five teams in one team, five vehicles in one team, and five deviations and five sides as one formation, with the division in the front, and the army team follows in the rear to make up for the gap.

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

This is the earliest record of the use of formations in specific battles in the history of warfare.

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

To put it simply, the "formation" is the field formation of various imperial kingdoms, which is the product of the development of the Terran war to a certain historical stage, and prevailed in the era of cold weapons!

In the clan society, human warfare was manifested as tribal conflicts, there was no army at that time, and there was no command, and most of the battles were rushed up, like group fights, so naturally there was no "formation".

With the development of history, slave countries appeared, and slave owners in order to consolidate their rule and plunder slaves, prisoners of war were the main source of slaves, and began to form an organized army, 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 it fused the achievements of military system and tactics.

The battle arrays in the East originated from Great Qin. The earliest formation of Great Qin is said to have begun with the Yellow Emperor, who learned the formation Tianyi Dunjia from the Nine Heavens Xuannu in order to defeat Chi You, but this is only a legend, and it is well documented that it was in the late ancient era.

Wu Ding compiled the left, center, and right "three divisions", and judging from the naming of the "three divisions", a fixed formation has been adopted.

"Zhou Shi three hundred and fifty times, Chen Yu Muye"!

The early formation was relatively simple, according to the establishment of the "three divisions", in a word or square arrangement, the formation method of battle was extremely prevalent in ancient times, and it was common to have such a situation at that time: the two armies were about to meet in a certain place, and the formation was neat, attacking each other......

But Zong Hu's sister Zong Xia is not ordinary.

She's smart and smart, and she can create her own formations!

At that time, six people, including the three passes of the Kasugabe Division, the Tushi of the Nakawei Sheren, and the Dazaifu Daibi Kibi Shinbei and other generals practiced the "Eight Formations of Wuhou" and Sun Tzu's "Nine Places" in the army, and since the beginning of the Genhei War, it has been widely used in actual combat.

After the baptism of previous wars, combined with the actual situation of Japan, the "Wuhou Eight Formations" developed into fish scales, sharp arrows, crane wings, glaives, square circles, wild geese, long snakes, and yokes.

According to this formation, Zong Xia evolved a new formation by herself!

At that time, Zong Xia hurriedly fought against the army of the Dragon Qi Kingdom, and the first thing he used was the fish scale array!

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.

The tactical idea of this formation is "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.

Then, Zong Xia began to fight back, and she created her own Arrow Formation!

This formation 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 thinking is also a "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.

This formation kills thousands!

Then there is the crane wing formation, the general Zong Xia is located in the middle of the formation, surrounded by heavy troops, and the wings of the crane are spread 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.

Then there is the glaive formation, the whole army is in an arc configuration, shaped like a crescent, is an asymmetrical formation, and the general's formation is usually located at the bottom of the crescent concave.

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.

Finally, there is the square 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 are 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.

In this way, a series of formations made the army of Longqi Kingdom retreat!!

Zong Xia won!

She's a heroine!

She's the formation everyone!

However, Zong Xia also used the geese marching array to launch a pursuit, and the troop configuration was like a geese flying diagonally, so as to give full play to the power of the shooting troops.

Nowadays, the battlefield is dominated by white-knuckle warfare, and the geese marching array is relatively rarely used, but it should also be combined with specific situations! "Riding iron" is very suitable for use.

But Long Qi still has a response, and there are ambushes!

So Zong Xia arranged a long snake formation, which was used for marching or pursuing a column, with strong mobility and weak combat effectiveness.

Getting rid of the ambush, Zong Xia was not afraid and continued to fight!

She finally came up with the formation at the bottom of the box!

Yoke Array!

This formation is similar to the long snake, using 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 constrained by the terrain, and it must be easy to maneuver! It requires the generals to have superb tactical command ability, and they should be good at finding fighters and avoiding omissions in the rotation of the troops! The combat strength is long-lasting, but it is not conducive to a quick decision.

In addition, Zong Xia also created its own Hu Tao, Wolong, Wheel Violation, Da Delirium, Tiger Chao, Ranjian, Yunlong, Flying Bird, Songpi, Popular, Jing Yan Xingzhi, Shogi Head, Don't Handle Straight and other formations.

This is all Zong Hu told Xia Xu in detail!

Zong Hu didn't care how the military advisor Zhao Fangjie around him rolled his eyes, he only said what he wanted to say!

Say it almost unreservedly!

The details of some formations were also said, not for anything else, just to make Xia Xu feel Zong Hu's honesty!

It's obvious to make friends!

This represents Zonghu's position!

It is also an alliance, and it is also an alliance to reassure Xia Xu!

Even, Zong Hu also carefully explained to Xia Xu how to practice the formation, and in the process of finding the Eastern Emperor Grass!

Formation training is an important method for administering the army.

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.

Formation drills are an effective way to train a rabble into an army.

The queues used by the armies of the countries of the Longchen Continent are the remnants of the ancient formation exercises.

At present, all countries use Western-style queues, and the original oriental queues are no longer visible, but the basic principle is the same.

Compared with the Eastern-style queue, the Western-style queue is more serious and neat, and the command mostly uses passwords, while the Eastern-style queue is dominated by flags, gold, and drums, and uses military flags, conch shells, taiko drums, bells, and military equipment.

Takeda Shingen, a famous general of the Warring States period, is good at formation training, and Takeda's military appearance often makes people feel dangerous.

The art of war attaches great importance to strategy, and the formation is in a secondary position, while the demon clan is quite important. This is because the scale of the war of the demon race is far larger than that of the human race, and in the war of "1,000 good generals and 100,000 armor" at every turn, the army commander mainly thinks about strategy and campaign, and tactics are secondary.

And the wars of the demon clan are mostly at the thousand-level, and the commander of the army is also a tactical commander, so he can't help but study the formation, the demon clan has been a samurai regime since Kamakura, and the formation has been tempered in previous wars, and finally bore fruitful fruit.

It's just that Xia Xu just smiled when he heard this!

Who is Xia Xu!

Once a god of war!

This kind of formation, in Xia Xu's eyes, is just a pediatric!

The formation of the outer battlefield is even more profound and powerful!

It's just that many of the formations in the Outer Heaven Battlefield have also evolved from ancient times!

Everyone has the same roots!

The arrays of the extraterrestrial battlefield are completely and systematically divided into eight formations, namely: "square, circle, cone, goose, hook, xuanxiang, sparse, sparse, several, fire, and water." ”

The latter two are used only in the case of special tactics, and are generally square, round, and cone-based.

These three are used in the battle array, depending on the troops, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and the number of chariots, and there are not many mysteries at all, as long as the queue is neat.

The main attack of the cone marching formation, placing the most elite chariots in the front line for impact, the circle formation is the main defense, and the chariots are placed in the center of the array.

The phalanx is both offensive and defensive, and the chariots are placed in the rear to ensure that the formation has sufficient thickness and strength to counter-impact.

Sparse formation, several formations are based on the infantry to fight the chariot tactics, similar to the later straggler formations, with a small group of mixed infantry to fight alone in the ranks of the Shiwu, especially Wu, the use of chariots is less, it is not that the equipment is not affordable, it is not very useful, the water network is dense, not suitable for the galloping of chariots.

The wild goose line array is a special tactic of crossbowmen, the advantage is to increase the crossbowmen's frontal long-range firepower density, Xuanxiang, hook line is more complicated, unless well-trained, can be used freely, the power is also great, equivalent to the large corps of arms cooperation, take Xuanxiang as an example, crossbowmen in the front formation, retreat after shooting, the chariot soldiers on both sides, halberds in the middle formation, spears in the rear formation, pay attention to the attack wave after wave, the Central Plains at that time may only Wei, Qin and the two countries can line this array to meet the enemy. There is a section of the Qin army attacking South Korea, and the scene of the Xuanxiang formation is very beautiful, black clothes and black armor, there is a dead silence on the battlefield, and all the troops attack in turn, which is very imposing.

The hook line formation is the ultimate formation of the standard chariot soldiers, the chariot soldiers are arranged at both ends of the hook in advance, and the crossbows, halberds, and spears are placed in the middle.

In addition, there are all kinds of 'arrays'. For example, when shooting, use the "cloud array", surround the enemy army with the "win Wei" formation, use the "close Sui" formation for surprise attacks, and use the "Fengqi" formation to the mountains, anyway, the total total will not be less than 20 kinds of formations.

When it comes to the array, first of all, we must manage the troops, so that the soldiers can do the concept of hearing the drum and attacking, and the concept of hearing the gold retreat, specific to the arrangement of the array, direct attack or detour, by the two, the commander and other subordinate officers look at the military flag, the members of the first army itself is a small combat collective, roughly divided into five soldiers, Ge, halberd, spear, crossbow, mainly long weapons and long-range weapons, the lack of short soldiers is also related to the lack of bronze casting technology at that time, it is difficult to create a long sword suitable for short soldiers, and then go to the big shield, which is the crossbow station in the first row of close combat to the last shield station The second row of the two armies to shoot to the first row, under which is Ge, halberd, spear three long weapons, Ge in the front, mainly sweeping, mainly to deal with the opponent's chariots and horses, halberds can be swept and stabbed, belong to the multi-functional arms, spears are mainly thorns, the main combat object is the opponent's combatants, the army is the smallest combat unit in the formation of a column forward in a column, the fourth army is one or two, five two is a brigade, five brigades are a division, five divisions are an army, all are the military system before the Spring and Autumn Period.

It is strictly forbidden to have the appearance of individual heroism, and to put it more directly, it is not allowed to be brave, which is probably the reason why there were not many cases of single cavalry in the Qin Dynasty before a single chariot, the assault is well-trained, the cooperation is skilled, and the heavy formation with halberd and spear as the main weapon is no different from sending it to death!

The condition of the weapons is also important for the formation!

It may be helpful to understand why the front formation is so popular!

As mentioned earlier, it is impossible to make a short blade in the Bronze Age very long, such a short blade has poor toughness and is easy to break, so it seems not suitable to be used as a main battle weapon.

The main battle weapon is stability, and the offensive is secondary, and the halberd, spear and chariot are the main weapons, when you are close.

Especially in the face of the infantry is mainly short soldiers, it will suffer a lot Wu Yue's casting process is more developed than the Central Plains at that time, which can be seen from the Yue Wang sword, after all, the long halberd of two feet and four feet is far inferior to the short sword, although there is also a short spear of one foot and two feet long, but it is to throw as the main mode of combat, and it can also be close combat, the result is that as long as the opponent can rush in, the side of the long weapon will almost be defeated, in order to effectively carry out the confrontation, only so that the opponent can not be close, which requires cooperation, but also objectively promotes the development of the array。

Only when Ge, halberd, and spear are effectively coordinated can the opponent not be close to each other, and this reason is actually very easy to understand.

Another point is that due to the long-term war, the standing armies of various countries are large and effective, and even the temporarily conscripted soldiers have high combat skills and a strong sense of discipline, because they are often called up, which also objectively ensures that the formation can effectively restrain them!

It also ensures that the generals can effectively discharge the position they want to discharge, which is most suitable for the battlefield situation and the comparison of forces between the two sides, which is very important, and it is also a large number of rabble in the army at this time and in the future Chinese war!

Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, the world was unified, and during the second reign of Qin, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, and the world was in turmoil again, and two influential rebel armies emerged.

One is Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and the other is Liu Bang, the king of Han.

It should be said that at this time, the infantry formation in the Longchen Continent has almost developed to a climax, with the main force of more than 300,000 Qin troops being defeated by Xiang Yu in Julu, there was almost no large corps in the early Chu and Han hegemony, and the array was used for war in an organized manner.

In this way, Xiang Yu, who was stronger than Liu Bang, took advantage of it, and once beat Liu Bang to the point of a wolf and collapsed.

It was only after the appearance of Han Xin that the Han army relied on its excellent use of troops, effective battle formations, both of which were indispensable, no matter how strong the strategy, no matter how sudden the surprise attack, the soldiers were undisciplined and in vain, just imagine the battle of Han, Zhao Jingcheng, 10,000 old and weak Han troops can defeat 200,000 Zhao troops, and the battle against the water is true, but if there is no effective formation, it can hold on until the Han cavalry sneak attack is successful, and finally defeat the invincible, only with the courage of the Western Chu tactical overlord.

In general, it was only a rabble contest, and there were very few cases of effective use of the array.

With the repeated invasion of the demon army, the Terran infantry is almost useless, unable to win, unable to chase victory, unable to escape defeat, so they have to rely on their strong national strength to form a huge cavalry cluster!

And the cavalry is unlikely to advance and retreat in an orderly formation like the infantry, and the honor guard may be able to do it, but the large-scale cavalry is stuck in the formation and cannot boldly assault, so the advantage of the cavalry is completely abandoned, and at the same time, the infantry formation is almost completely abandoned.

Only the crossbowmen's tactical goose march remains!

Most of the time the tactics of cavalry are frontal assaults, long-distance attacks, strategic encirclement, cutting off the enemy's rear routes, etc., even the ancestors of cavalry tactics, the Huns, have only these.

But at this time, the Han hussar general figured out a new tactic, the car suspension.

In fact, the car suspension is also a strengthened version of the assault tactics, but it is much more domineering than the assault, and it is not like the assault which swarms like a swarm, and pays more attention to the interval between the horses, the front and back, the left and right, and the use of each weapon, and sometimes even intentionally stretches the interval between the horizontal columns a little larger, so that the enemy has a gap to hide, so as not to block the road of the front army, leaving the cavalry behind to pack up and cooperate, which is equal to a cavalry version of the cone formation, the difference is that the width is larger, and the depth is narrower.

Because the car suspension formation can not be regarded as a formation in the strict sense, at least relative to the infantry formation, there is no effective cooperation between the various arms, pure cavalry impact tactics, so most of the later generations of soldiers do not think that there is such a formation, all have a noncommittal attitude towards this formation, I personally think that it is still real, but with the weakening of the cavalry, future generations can not personally feel its power.

In general, the development of the array during this period was in a state of stagnation, or even regression, because the infantry was only in the position of defending the city and guarding it, and they were not asked to fight in battle.

The human race has lost its advantage over the demon clan in terms of cavalry, whether it is the source of the war horse, the number, or the soldiers who are good at horsemanship, so that at that time, the evaluation of a general's martial arts proficiency should also be expressed by "skilled bow and horse", and this was a very normal thing in the two Han Dynasty, because at that time, a large number of good families in the border areas had to return to their old business, and put forward the east and east of the array.

But at this time, the power of the infantry array was not as good as before, first of all, the opponents encountered in the formation were different from those in the Warring States period, of course, they were also different, and they were mostly mixed with infantry cavalry, so they couldn't put cavalry in the infantry formation, right?

This will greatly reduce the power of the cavalry, but will not be able to effectively play the role of the cavalry, this general is almost a defeated general. In addition, the number of soldiers at this time is also a big problem, the population is unimaginably small, and the number of people who can lift weapons to the battlefield is even rarer, less than one million people, and there are more than 100,000 soldiers.

This result makes the quality of the soldiers in this period poor to the point of no return, of course, there are a small number of elite soldiers, and it is impossible to train them effectively, wars are frequent, time waits for no one, you haven't trained well, the enemy army is coming, you have to go up, and the Hexi soldiers are all after years of training to come out, so what should I do?

The most typical is the fighting style of the Eastern Sui Kingdom, he can be said to know the aos of the array, not in the number of soldiers, but in whether the discipline is strict and whether the soldiers have enough combat effectiveness.

Although the truth is very simple and easy to understand, but it is not easy to really do this, many mediocre people only know its shape, do not know its essence, and finally draw the tiger into an anti-dog) to choose its elite, training into elite soldiers, the time is very long, and it is also very effective, because their commander and cavalry alone to carry out strategic purposes such as rapid attack and encirclement.

The so-called Zhenghe and Qiqi victory, that is, the pure infantry as the main formation, the cavalry as the decisive force, do not pursue the gains and losses of one city and one place, and do not seek numerical superiority, which is also the main reason why he can defeat ten times the demon army with 20,000 soldiers.

From the Demon Clan's Qingzhou soldiers to the war against the Demon Clan, nearly ten years, this time is the reason why the Eastern Sui Kingdom cannot have and is defeated has a lot to do with this.

In general, the formation is divided into a long snake array, two dragons out of the water array, three mountains and Yue'er array, four doors doudi array, five tigers Bashan array, six jia ecstasy array, seven capture and seven vertical arrays, gossip yin and yang son and mother array, nine palace gossip array, ten generations of Ming King array, heaven and earth three talent array, all-encompassing array!

A brief description of the ten formation changes: attack the head or tail of a long snake formation, and turn the other end to form a two-dragon water formation. The middle is forward, forming the three talent arrays of heaven and earth.

The two ends retreated, forming a four-door bottom formation, interspersed with each other, and turned into a five-tiger flock formation. Then it is arranged according to the Liuding Liujia, that is, the Liuding Liujia Formation.

Then half of it can be changed at will by pulling it into a line, and half of it is like a four-door bottom array, that is, the Big Dipper Seven Star Array.

Circle around, arrange the array according to the Bagua Array, leave eight exits, and turn into a square, that is, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array.

According to the arrangement of the nine palaces, each grid of soldiers will be interspersed, gradually like a whole, intersecting each other, that is, the nine-character chain array.

In the end, it became an ambush array on all sides.

The ten formations are endlessly changing, and it is difficult to resist!