I heard that King Yun had a lot of experience in battle tactics, and his military exploits far surpassed that of General Ye.

Because of this, General Ye now believes that if he wants to surpass King Yun, he must learn the art of formations.

Ma Teng said slowly: "Suppose there are three square formations in the formation.

The three square formations first formed a long snake formation, and the attacking square attacked either the head or the tail of the long snake formation.

The other end can be turned around to form a two-dragon water formation. As long as the third team moves forward, it immediately forms a heaven and earth three-talent formation; then the two ends retreat to form a four-door pocket bottom formation.

Finally, they interspersed with each other and became the Five Tigers and Sheep Formation;

Then arrange them according to the six Ding Liujia formation, that is, the Six Ding Liujia formation;

Then half of it was stretched into a line, and the other half was like a four-door pocket array, which is the Big Dipper array;

Make a circle, arrange the formation according to the Bagua formation, leave eight exits, and turn it into a square, which becomes the eight-door golden lock formation;

Then they are arranged according to the nine palaces, and the soldiers in each square are interspersed, gradually becoming like one body, and intersecting with each other, that is, it becomes a nine-character continuous formation, and finally it becomes an ambush formation from ten sides."

Listening to what Ma Teng said, it seemed that the changes in the ten formations were just sudden.

General Ye just felt that the formation was unpredictable. Before he could finish digesting the previous formation, a new formation appeared. It was really hard to understand.

Originally, according to General Ye's idea, no matter what formation you set up, I will charge all the way to you. What can you do to me?

As I listened, I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly at my initial thoughts.

Ma Teng is by no means an idle person. He was able to design this formation and take all kinds of situations into consideration.

The following nine changes are the countermeasures adopted according to the enemy's different attack methods:

If you attack one wing, the other wing will come over to encircle it; if you attack the center, both sides will come over to form an encirclement. In short, you cannot attack it without concern.

If according to his initial thoughts, if the enemy formed an ambush from all sides, then he would have no choice but to fight his way out.

"Mr. Ma is really wise!" General Ye couldn't help but admire.

After listening to Ma Teng's explanation of the formation, General Ye quickly imagined several possibilities in his mind, but he was unable to crack them for the moment, hence his sigh!

When Ma Teng saw General Ye saying this, he was no longer modest and said: "Ma has indeed done some research on military formations."

However, after General Ye thought about it, he said again:

"Mr. Ma, I just had a second thought. As the most common formation from ancient times to the present, the long snake formation is a common formation for the side with superior troops.

But the shortcomings of the Long Snake Formation are also obvious."

"Oh? General, please tell me, what are the shortcomings?" Ma Teng was a little curious.

General Ye took a sip of tea and said: "If we deploy the formation evenly, there will be weaknesses everywhere.

Wouldn't it be possible to concentrate our forces to attack the Long Snake Formation at one or more points, open a gap, and then divide and encircle it?

The key to this problem lies in the speed of the other party's reaction.

If the opponent reacts quickly, they will be surrounded by the enemy before you can open the gap, and it will be hopeless!"

Ma Teng heard it, but he smiled and said nothing. He just looked at him and signaled General Ye to continue talking.

General Ye continued: "The key to the enemy's response is the enemy's general, who is the commander in the middle.

You must know that on the battlefield, you can only rely on war drums and war flags to direct the army to fight.

The personnel responsible for issuing orders are the most important on the battlefield.

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factors, especially in the case of formation operations.

If we can concentrate our forces to attack one point, break through the encirclement, and then use surprise troops to quickly eliminate the commander, wouldn't all the so-called formations be able to be used in the next step?

No matter how skilled the soldiers are in training, they still become headless flies without anyone to command them, allowing others to outflank and slaughter them?"

Having said this, General Ye couldn't help but smile.

Ma Teng said: "I wonder if the enemy the general is currently facing is a small border country?"

"Exactly. These people only know how to rush and kill without knowing any battle formations." General Ye said matter-of-factly.

"In this case, we should consider the battle formation even more. If we know the formation, the enemy will be vulnerable." Ma Teng did not agree with General Ye's blind attack.

"What Mr. Ma said is true, but for future considerations, we must practice the battle formation. If we encounter a genius who knows some battle formations, we can take preventive measures before they happen."

When General Ye heard what Ma Teng said, he felt that it was not unreasonable. He respected Ma Teng even more in his heart.

General Ye was very impressed when he heard Ma Teng talk about formations, and asked: "I wonder if there are other necessary preparations besides formations during war?"

Ma Teng said: "This is natural, and it is necessary to prepare a surprise army. Even if it is not used in this regard at the moment, it will come in handy one day, and maybe it can also establish a special force."

General Ye was a little confused: "What kind of team can be considered a surprise soldier?"

Ma Teng smiled and said: "A thousand elite cavalry are selected from ten thousand horses.

If we select ten people from these thousand people and then carefully train them, what kind of combat effectiveness will these ten people have?

If these ten people were to perform some special tasks, some tasks that are not suitable for large troops to perform, would it be possible to get twice the result with half the effort?"

After hearing this, General Ye couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Ma Teng is indeed a very thoughtful person.

If used in combat, utilizing these rare soldiers will definitely bring a lot of benefits to the battle.

Ma Teng saw that General Ye was quite enlightened and continued: "Moreover, the prairie will definitely become one of the battle locations in the future.

Although there is no need to think too much about the enemy's use of battle formations to deal with it, when our troops are at a disadvantage, we can use battle formations to defeat more with less;

When the enemy and our forces are equal or our forces have a slight upper hand, we should consider an offensive formation while minimizing losses."

Hearing this, General Ye fell into deep thought and began to write and draw pictures in his mind. As if drums were beating in his ears, the sound of horses neighing gradually came.

Slowly, an idea jumped out and gradually became clear.

Ma Teng said: "If an army has carefully selected elite divisions, and the basic qualities of the soldiers are top-notch, then you might as well try practicing the formation.

This is very helpful to improve the combat effectiveness of the army."

"Oh, please make it clear to Mr. Ma. Ye has little research on formations. I just want to give Ye some insights." Ma Teng said with a smile.

"General, you are too humble. Ma is just talking about it, and General is just listening to it." Ma Teng continued, "Well, let Ma first tell me about the origin of the formation."

General Ye looked at Ma Teng and listened carefully.

Ma Teng said: "To put it simply, the formation is the field formation of the army.

In ancient times, human wars took the form of tribal conflicts. At that time, there was no

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There is an army but no command.

Most battles are fought in a swarm, like a group fight, so formations naturally don't matter.

With the development of history, organized armies began to be organized and adopted certain formations. This is the primitive formation."

General Ye is a rough man who only knows a little bit about historical development.

Ma Teng explained: "The earliest formations are said to have originated from the Yellow Emperor. In order to defeat Chi You, the Yellow Emperor learned the formations from the gods. It is said to be the Eight Formations Behind the Wind.

About 4,500 years ago, Chi You launched an army to invade the Central Plains. The Yellow Emperor was defeated by Chi You in nine battles because his few generals lacked skills, so he led his troops to retreat to Yundang Palace to practice military training and build Xuanyuan Huangdi Palace.

In order to conquer Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor worshiped Fenghou and appointed him as generals, including Chang Xian and Dahong. Here he and Fenghou developed the "Eight Formations of War Art".

There are nine pictures in this picture, one is the main picture of the eight formations, and the other eight pictures are the formation pictures. There are text explanations next to each picture to introduce the key points of attack and defense.

Then someone compiled the 'three divisions' of left, center and right. Judging from the naming of the 'three divisions', a fixed formation has been adopted."

General Ye was fascinated by what he heard and asked: "What is the formation method of the third division?".

Ma Teng explained: "The early formations were relatively simple, and were arranged in a line or a square according to the organization of the 'three divisions'.

The formation method of warfare was extremely popular a thousand years ago. At that time, it was common for two armies to meet at a certain place, arrange themselves in order, and attack each other.

Later, infantry and cavalry replaced chariots as the main composition of the army, and formations changed and developed."

"Ye knows a little about these. I just heard that there are ten formations in ancient books. Is this true?" General Ye asked.

"The ancient books do describe ten formations and their methods of use. It's true." Ma Teng said with a smile. It seems that General Ye is not ignorant.

General Ye asked: "Ye heard that these ten formations are square formation, circular formation, sparse formation, number formation, cone formation, goose formation, hook formation, Xuanxiang formation, water formation, fire formation, etc. But."

mistaken?"

Ma Teng said: "The water formation and the fire formation are about the tactics of water warfare and fire warfare, not just simple battle formations.

So even though there are ten formations, there are actually only eight basic battle formations."

General Ye said: "That's it."

Ma Teng continued: "The formation not only has an early origin, but also has rich formation ideas. Paying attention to the formation is a common and very important content in tactical thinking.

The so-called formation and then fighting is a common practice in the art of war.

Formation is the experience and lessons learned by military strategists who can achieve different effects by summarizing the different arrangements of troops in combat.

These are several methods of adjusting formations and deploying troops that were formed more than a thousand years ago.

Until now, there is still a saying of arranging troops, and the central content of formation is arranging troops.

Therefore, in ancient times, commanding the army was also called formation, and sometimes there was even the official position of formation envoy in the army."

General Ye was fascinated by what he heard and did not interrupt.

Ma Teng continued: "When the army is fighting, it must be arranged into a certain battle queue or formation according to the specific situation.

Ye believed that the formation should be set up before the army can fight, and every battle means using one's own formation to attack the enemy's formation, or one's own formation to meet the enemy's attack in a certain formation.

Ancient books point out: "Don't attack the majestic formations", which is to warn people not to attack the formations with strict formations and strong strength.

In battle, if you can maintain your formation to resist and stabilize your position, you will have saved your position.
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