When forming an array, you must first organize your troops.

Soldiers must have the concept of attacking when they hear the drum and retreating when they hear the gold.

As for the specific arrangement during the formation, whether to attack directly or in a roundabout way, it is decided by junior officers such as the corps commander, following the command of the military flag.

The most basic organization in the past is the corps, and the members of the first corps are a small fighting group.

Mainly long weapons and long-range weapons are mainly used. Short weapons are mostly held by elite or mid-level and senior officers.

Among them, the crossbowmen stand in the first row, and retreat to the end during close combat. The shield soldiers stand in the second row, and move to the first row when the two armies are shooting at each other.

Then there are long weapons at the back, mainly thrusting, and the main combat targets are the opponent's combat personnel, and each team advances forward in a column.

A corps is the smallest combat unit in the formation, two corps is a shi, five shi is a battalion, five battalions is a brigade, five brigades are a division, and five divisions are an army.

Since the Li countries have been at war for a long time, their standing armies were large and effective.

Its temporarily recruited soldiers also have high combat skills and a strong sense of discipline.

This also objectively ensures that they can carry out effective formation arrangements.

It also ensures that the generals can effectively deploy the formation they want to deploy, which is most suitable for the battlefield situation and the comparison of the forces of both sides.

This was also the biggest difference between the Liguo army and the Southern Wilderness tribe at this time.

Once arrayed in battle, the people of the South Wilderness are almost indistinguishable from the rabble.

But once they entered the jungle and conducted a small-scale raid, the Southern Wilders immediately gained the upper hand.

At this time, the flags on the reviewing stand were changed, and new orders were issued.

The head and tail of the one-word long snake formation change, and the other end turns around to form a two-dragon water formation.

Then move forward in the middle to form the Three Talents Formation of Heaven and Earth.

Then the two ends retreat to form a four-door pocket formation, interspersed with each other, and become a five-tiger formation.

Then arrange them according to the six Ding Liujia formation to become the Six Ding Liujia formation.

Then half of it was stretched into a line, and the other half was like a four-door pocket formation.

At this time, Wu Feng was shocked. Isn't this the Big Dipper array?

The Big Dipper array is circled in a circle, arranged according to the Eight Diagrams array, leaving eight exits, turning it into a square, and then arranged according to the nine palaces. The soldiers in each square will be interspersed, gradually becoming one, and intersecting with each other, forming a nine-character continuous array.

In the end, it turned into an ambush formation from ten sides. The ten formations changed endlessly and changed repeatedly, which made people's eyes dizzy.

At the end, under the command of General Qi on the review stage, the 60,000-strong army transformed into a group phalanx.

It consists of eight small formations distributed in eight directions around the central formation. In the center of the eight formations is the golden drum flag of the general, as well as his directly subordinate troops and horses. This is the central formation.

Each small formation has codes such as sky, earth, wind, cloud, dragon, tiger, bird, snake, etc.

The arrays in each direction are organized into six small arrays, the central array is organized into sixteen small arrays, and the entire large square array has a total of sixty-four small arrays.

After the large square formation, there are twenty-four small formations composed of rangers, for a total of eighty-eight small formations.

These small square formations are composed of cavalry, infantry, and convoys, ranging from dozens to hundreds. The front row is archers, the middle is long weapons, and the back is short weapons.

This formation is a defensive formation. It has no weaknesses in deployment and can be attacked in any direction. The overall formation does not need to make fundamental changes. If one place is attacked, the adjacent formations on the two wings can automatically become two wings to protect and support the formation.

Attack formation.

However, the shortcomings of this formation are also obvious. First of all, such a complex formation requires a lot of time to train, and its mobility is poor. In order to maintain the integrity of the formation, running is not allowed when moving forward, and sprinting is not allowed when retreating.

However, the current combat area is a mountainous and dense forest environment, and the Eighth Formation is more suitable for fighting on the plains.

Everyone in the audience was very puzzled by General Zhengnan's practice of such a formation, especially people like Zuo Qing and others, whose faces were full of contempt, and they obviously didn't think much of General Zhengnan's battlefield skills.

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If General Zhengnan copied this formation in actual combat and did not make adjustments according to the actual situation when the position was restricted by ditches, trees, etc., he would be in danger of a major defeat.

When the armies of the past countries fought against northern enemies in the Great Plains, they often divided their troops into forward, rear, and other parts, and then each part formed a formation, and then combined them together to fight.

The vanguard formation is a battle formation composed of vanguard troops.

The mission of the vanguard troops is to "charge forward, trap strong formations, and attack sharp divisions", so the vanguard formations often select elite soldiers.

The spearhead formation is a battle formation composed of troops supporting the vanguard, "arranged behind the vanguard formation".

When the vanguard resists the enemy or the troops are outnumbered, this formation is used as a "response" to prevent the enemy from "rushing".

The Grand Formation, also known as the Central Army Formation, is a battle formation composed of the main force, usually a long formation or a square formation.

When arranging the formation, the infantry, spearmen and swordsmen were in front, mixed with side signs and javelins, and the formation was equipped with wood to block the horses, or carts were sometimes arranged behind them, and strong bows and crossbows were arranged behind them to form a formation to defend against the enemy on all sides.

When it is time to go into battle, open the doors on all sides and let the "team" go out to fight.

The front formation is the surprise troops deployed in front of the main formation of the Chinese army.

The east-west wing formation is a formation that directly protects the main formation, and is the left and right wings of the main formation.

The landless horses are mobile troops controlled by the Chinese army's formation.

The rear-rejection formation, also known as the "rear-rear formation", is a battle formation composed of rear-guard troops, deployed behind the main formation of the central army to prevent the enemy from attacking from behind.

The Ce Palace Rear Formation is composed of troops from the Ce Palace Rear Area, and is deployed between the Rejection Rear Area Formation and the main force.

General Zhengnan went through all the formations that needed to be practiced in the national army and ordered them to be drilled one by one. He practiced almost all of them once and for all, and finally ordered the drill of the National Zhenguo Grand Formation.

The Zhenguo Formation was personally made by the first king of the country and passed on to the military for generations, so it is highly valued.

Its formation is composed of five armies, front, rear, left, center and right, with a square formation tens of miles square.

This expanded depth of the phalanx can compress the enemy's maneuvering space, deploy the main infantry in the center of the formation, strengthen the chariots, enhance the defensive and offensive capabilities of the infantry, and deploy the cavalry at the front, rear, left and right to guard and cover the central formation.

This is a conservative defensive formation. The Chinese army formation is composed of three square formations and is the main force of the entire formation.

If arranged according to the standard formations of the past countries, each square formation has a circumference of 20 miles, and each square formation has a total of 36,680 infantrymen. The three square formations have a total of 110,040 people.

Including 240 sentries, the total number of infantry is 110,280.

There are two columns of cavalry in the front formation and the rear formation.

There are sixty-two cavalry teams in the front line, each with fifty cavalry, for a total of 3,100 cavalry. There are sixty-two cavalry teams at the back, each with thirty cavalry, for a total of one thousand eight hundred and sixty cavalry.

There are a total of 4,960 cavalry in the two columns, plus forty cavalry spies, for a total of 5,000 cavalry, and a total of 10,000 cavalry in the front and rear formations.

There are two columns on the left and right, with one hundred and twenty-five teams in the front, each with fifty cavalry, for a total of six thousand two hundred and fifty cavalry.

There are one hundred and twenty-five teams at the back, each with thirty cavalry, for a total of 3,750 cavalry.

Each formation has a total of 10,000 cavalry and 650 spies, for a total of 20,650 cavalry.

If it were a standard complete formation, the total number of troops used would be 140,903.

However, General Zhengnan only had a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses. Of course, he could not form a complete formation, but simply made a large formation.

Among them, crossbow formation and stacked formation are the most important.

The crossbow formation is a type of formation that develops the force-stretched crossbow. This is a crossbow that is strung with pedals, and is more powerful than an arm-stretched crossbow that is strung with hands.

The sergeants were divided into three rows, from back to front, the first row cocked the crossbow, the second row loaded the arrow into the crossbow, and the third row aimed and fired.

After the third row fires, it passes through the gap between the two rows and returns to the first row to cock the crossbow. After the second row enters the crossbow, it enters the aiming and shooting state. This cycle is repeated to obtain a sustained and dense long-range strike capability.

The stacked formation is also divided into three rows. Those with swords and spears are in the front, the bows are in the back, and finally the crossbow. When fighting, the whole army kneels down. When the enemy approaches to a hundred paces, an archer is asked to stand up and shoot to measure the range. If

If you can enter the enemy's formation, all the archers will fire.

When the enemy approaches half a hundred paces, have a level archer stand up and shoot at him. If he can enter the enemy's formation, then both level archers should fire.

When the enemy comes and resists the horse, the spearmen fight hand-to-hand with him.

In this way, long-range strike weapons are used to intercept and defend layer by layer, weakening the enemy's ability to maneuver quickly.

However, the more General Zhengnan arranged his troops in formation, the more doubtful the people in the audience became.
Chapter completed!