novellhall Chapter 313 The Story of the Army Formation (Skipable)
Chapter 313 The Story of the Army Formation (Skipable)
Chapter 313 The Story of the Army Formation (Skipable)
In the core area of the gossip tortoise formation, several carriages formed a high command platform, and Mu Lan stood on the command platform to control the army formation.
There are four battle drums standing behind Mu Lan, and there are also several standard bearers holding flags who can wave the flags at any time to issue orders, so that the military officers in the tortoise shield formation around can hear the orders of the war drums and peek at the instructions of these flags , leading the entire army formation to change,
The core area of this military formation commands around the high platform, and there are five square shield formations guarding the command platform in a five-element posture. Inside these square shield formations, a thousand crossbowmen are hidden and ambushed. They are the last force guarding the military formation command platform. .
There is also a space of about [-] steps between the core area of the army formation and the outer area of the army formation. This is a buffer zone for adjusting the changes in the army formation. Enter the outer military formation area.
Of course, at this moment the entire military formation seemed quiet, without any sound of commotion.
The Zhu guards hiding in the tortoise-shell shields were just peeping out through the gaps in the shields. As they breathed, it seemed that invisible murderous aura emanated from the shields that looked like giant tortoises, making the whole body The gossip tortoise armor array seems to constitute a fierce place with a mysterious aura.
Huang Zhong led his troops to rush to the front, looked at Mu Lan's formation, and frowned.
Today's Huang Zhong is only 45 or [-] years old. He is in his prime, and it can be regarded as the peak period of his life. But now facing the army formation that Mulan has set up, Huang Zhong can't help but be very surprised.
From this point of view, it is not easy to break through the formation. The passages that seem to allow Huang Zhong's soldiers to enter the army formation are definitely roads to rob and kill Huang Zhong's soldiers.
With the change of Mulan's command at the core of the army formation, Huang Zhong's soldiers who rushed in could suddenly face the shield wall and knife mountain, and fell into a meat-chopping situation.
Huang Zhongshi didn't expect that Zhu Wei could actually set up such a military formation. This was not something that just anyone could create. Even Huang Zhong himself only knew the formation, but he didn't have enough confidence to do it. Train elite soldiers who can exert the power of the military formation.
The military formations formed by the army on the battlefield have existed since ancient times. The names of many military formations sound very mysterious, such as the one-word long snake formation, the two dragons emerging from the water formation, and so on.
In fact, the military formations that are actually used against the enemy on the battlefield are, in simple terms, marching formations, offensive formations, and defensive formations.
Needless to say, the marching formation is the arrangement of different arms when the army is marching, so that it can respond to possible enemy surprise attacks in time, and can also speed up the speed and efficiency of the march.
The offensive formation is the arrangement of the units and forces that charge into the formation. The main thing is to place which units in which positions, so that they can use the specialties of different units, find the flaws in the enemy's formation and rush in, so as to gain the advantage of troops on the battlefield.
However, in cold weapon wars, the so-called formations are mostly defensive formations, that is, arranging an army to guard a place to prevent the enemy from passing through, and to realize other military strategic arrangements.
If there is time for this kind of defense, it is to construct a temporary camp like a military fortress, so as to guard a key passage with the help of fortifications, but if there is not much time, then you can only use some equipment or defensive tools to construct a temporary camp. defense line.
With the development of military warfare, defensive formations were created with the help of soldiers' positions, shields and other equipment, which became the so-called military formations. The most famous of these are Zhuge Liang's Eight Formation Maps and the later Tang Dynasty military gods. Li Jing evolved the six-flower formation based on the eight formations.
However, Zhuge Liang's Eight Diagrams are said to have originally originated from the method of Huangdi Qiujing.
It can be said that Zhuge Liang's Eight Diagrams evolved from Sun Wu's Eight Diagrams. The basic principle of this is to use about nine small army formations to form an overall large formation according to the eight directions of the Eight Diagrams. Such a large formation can accommodate small formations. , the front formation can be used as the back formation, and the rear formation can also be used as the front formation.
Once the enemy enters this formation, the attack cannot quickly attack the generals in the center, and it is very difficult to withdraw from this formation, so they are caught in a dilemma, and then they are swallowed up by the army formation bit by bit.
But in general, this kind of military formation can only be deployed on a fixed battlefield, and it is impossible to pursue and move, so it can only be used as a defensive military formation that sticks to one area.
Now the gossip tortoise formation that Mu Lan puts out is actually a type of gossip formation. Wang Yuyan, Mu Lan, and Pang Yan are all instilled with the military knowledge of the Three Kingdoms game system. They are all system-customized military divisions and general-level talents, so they are naturally familiar with them. How to arrange the army array.
Therefore, during military training, various military formations will be trained, so that various military formations can be arranged at any time on the battlefield.
Of course, the so-called gossip array is not as magical as the legends say, after all, the soldiers that make up the army array are ordinary people, not robots, and it is impossible to remember the positions of the army array that are too complicated, and it will only be because of a small disorder He messed up himself.
As far as the gossip tortoise armor formation that Mu Lan puts out now is mainly to let the soldiers with large shields, small shields and ring swords form a circular tortoise armor formation, and then under the command of the military lord, the tortoise armor army The soldiers in the formation only need to move in a certain direction, and then use shields and manpower to disperse the enemy troops entering the formation, so as to achieve a situation within a certain range of fighting more and fighting less, and finally wipe out the enemy troops entering the formation .
Therefore, the movement of soldiers in this kind of army formation is also very simple. As long as the military commanders in charge of commanding each tortoise army formation grasp a policy of "fixed number of steps and neat maneuvers", they can move around and change in the overall army formation. Confusion is less likely to occur.
In fact, it means that the soldiers in the tortoise armor formation that constitute the overall formation can only move a certain number of steps in a specific direction forever, and then recalculate the number of steps to change the direction of movement.
It can be said that on the whole, these soldiers circulate in the army formation in the form of eight trigrams, so that the entire eight trigrams tortoise shell formation can maintain the stability of the overall formation during the movement and changes.
Of course, if there is a tortoise-shell army team that really can't find its own way during the change of the army formation, it will retreat into the buffer zone of the core area of the army formation, give room for other teams to move, and then find their position again Just plug it back in.
As long as the soldiers in such an formation move in a certain direction, and then use their large shields and small shields to squeeze the enemy troops into the formation together, they can divide the enemy troops time and time again, and then pass the encirclement. For a small group of enemy troops, it is enough to use your own superior forces to destroy this group of enemy troops.
Of course, once someone on one's side is injured or dies during the battle, there will be people from the small tortoise formation immediately to replace them. In this way, in the eyes of the enemy, it seems that there is an endless supply of people, surrounding and killing themselves.
At the same time, in order that the army formation will not be affected by the presence of corpses on the ground, no matter whether it is an injured or dead enemy soldier or his own companions, there will be soldiers of the turtle army who are not responsible for fighting and transporting the corpses immediately. Go outside the formation and protect the wounded soldiers on your side to the center of the formation.
In this way, during the fighting of the army formation, there will never be any corpses or wounded on the ground, which can also make the army formation appear more mysterious.
Of course, such an army formation is not completely without a solution. A general who is also familiar with the army formation can lead troops into the army formation, and forcibly block the movement route of the soldiers in the army formation, so that the army formation cannot circulate. If you get up, you won't be able to play the role of the army formation.
In this way, it becomes an ordinary battlefield where people pile up and fight.
However, at this time, the commanding general at the core of the army formation will also appoint powerful generals and military lords to forcibly break through the gathering points of enemy generals and soldiers in the army formation, revitalize the operation of the army formation again, and once again rely on the army The change of the formation divides the enemy army and exerts the killing effect of the army formation.
But in this case, it depends on which side's generals and soldiers have stronger fighting power, so an army formation often needs generals with a certain force to hold the formation, which is the reason.
Of course, there is not only one way to move an army formation. Sometimes the general in command of the army formation can change the formation and change the direction of the blocked army formation after discovering that the enemy has cracked the current formation movement. move up.
It's just that this is always the same. The enemy general who knows the principle of the movement of the army can still find new loopholes to break the formation again.
However, if you want to build an army formation, you also need well-trained elite soldiers. Otherwise, without the enemy attacking, the army formation will be distorted and invalidated by the movement of your own soldiers.
Fortunately, Zhu Wei's soldiers were all trained through the Three Kingdoms game system, so there is no need to worry about this, but in this realistic Three Kingdoms world, if you want to train a soldier that can be deployed, you need to designate a special army , and then it takes a lot of energy and time to carry out special training.
So now that Huang Zhong sees the gossip tortoise armor formation set up by Mu Lan, he can only look in awe, because he knows that it is really difficult to train an army that can be deployed, but once it can be trained, it will have the potential to change the situation of the battle. Ability of special forces.
It can be said that an army formation composed of a well-trained army, if they are arranged in an important place, can stand like a Qing stone under the scouring of rivers and rivers.
Sometimes it only takes a few thousand troops to form an army formation, which can block the enemy's attack several times larger than oneself. If the enemy troops attacking the army formation are a mob, then the behavior of attacking the army formation again and again will only be repeated. He died in vain.
This is the power of those famous military generals in history.
Fighting a war is not a simple matter. The famous historical generals who can leave their names since ancient times are not simply possessed of force, but also need to have this kind of military ability. Otherwise, they can only be called brave, and cannot be regarded as real military masters .
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that Zhuge Liang set up the gossip stone formation, which blocked Lu Xun's [-] Eastern Wu soldiers who took advantage of the victory to pursue Liu Bei's defeated army after burning the company battalion. It is said that Lu Xun was caught in the gossip formation at that time. , Lu Xun will die in the gossip array or something.
Although it is still uncertain what the state of the gossip stone array laid by Zhuge Liang is, there is a high possibility that a broken elite infantry from Western Shu used stones to form a gossip stone array, thus forming a line of defense against Eastern Wu chasing troops. , thus blocking the [-] Soochow pursuers commanded by Lu Xun.
Liu Bei relied on the blocking of the gossip stone array to gain a chance to breathe, and then retreated to Tuogu in Baishi City with the remnants of the Western Shu army.
However, Lu Xun lost the opportunity to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. Considering the threat of Cao Wei's surprise attack on Soochow, he withdrew his troops accordingly.
Although the Romance of the Three Kingdoms may have a lot of exaggerated words about Zhuge Liang, in real history, it is possible that Lu Xun may have personally led troops into the gossip stone formation, and was almost killed by this army formation.
As for how Huang Chengyan saved Lu Xun, there is no way to verify what exactly happened.
Well, let’s stop talking about this, anyway, now that Huang Zhong saw the gossip tortoise shell formation that Mu Lan put up, as a general who is also familiar with military books, he can naturally see the horror of this formation...
(End of this chapter)