The Liguo square formation is generally equipped with a spear about two meters, a huge round shield that covers the torso. It is wearing an exquisite copper breastplate, a copper Corinthian helmet with good protection, and a copper grey armor on its legs. It also carries a short sword with you to deal with close combat.

During the battle, under the command of the officers, they formed a tight formation, connected the shields into a line, and the spears moved forward and slowly rhythmically. They first used the spears to kill and injure the enemy in front of them. Once they fell into a melee, they gave up the spears and drew out the daggers to fight with their hands.

The huge round shield can not only provide effective protection in melee combat, but also resist the killing of enemy long-range weapons. In order to deal with emergencies, the square array is generally square and can turn freely when encountering threats on the side or rear.

During heavy infantry operations as the main force, auxiliary troops of archers, javeliners and light cavalry, including archers, javeliners and light cavalry, will provide them with limited fire support and flanking cover.

However, although the combat effectiveness of the Liguo phalanx has been highly praised, its shortcomings are also obvious.

The phalanx troops in various countries were composed of single, monotonous tactics, and overly relied on melee infantry and ignored the coordination of multiple troops. The spear length was short, making it difficult to form an effective barrier to block the enemy's closeness, the soldier equipment was expensive, and the source of troops was limited. These defects seriously limited the combat effectiveness of heavy infantry.

Therefore, today's Li King has been constantly improving the phalanx tactics.

First, Liguo increased the length of the spear so that they could at least ensure that the first 5 platoons of soldiers would hold the spears level to increase the attack distance, and form a wall of spears that is difficult to break in front of the square.

At the same time, more and more excellent archers are added, which greatly enhances their multi-army coordination ability.

In addition, stricter military discipline is implemented, which makes them more efficient when fighting in clusters.

The new spear phalanx advances steadily in accordance with the command during combat, and the dense spear walls are enough to stab any enemy troops who are trying to attack head-on into honeycombs.

On the flank of the team, the cavalry concentrated all their strength to form a powerful assault force, repeatedly rushing the enemy in front of them to prevent their flanks from being encircled, and restrained by various auxiliary miscellaneous infantry.

With the close cooperation of three people on the left, center and right, the enemy was forced to disarray and finally defeat them.

In this way, when individual soldiers are at a disadvantage in combat effectiveness, they can still rely on good coordination capabilities to gain advantages, but this also makes their deployment more demanding on terrain.

Especially the weakening of individual soldiers' combat effectiveness makes it easier to face collapse once the team is split.

However, the third-tier queue of Liguo did not have such concerns. This queue is based on the standing army supported by the state and is divided into three fronts: old, middle-aged and young people according to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

The first row in front of the team is equipped with light shields and javelins, responsible for receiving harassment and alertness before the enemy.

The main force in the second row is the core of the entire legion. They have the most excellent equipment in the entire legion. They hold large square shields and heavy javelins with extremely strong lethality. They wear excellent protection capabilities and are not

The inflexible ring armor, after the front army completed the harassment and retreated, they formed a rhythmic formation to advance slowly towards the enemy. Before receiving the enemy, they threw the powerful heavy javelins in their hands one by one, completely disrupting the enemy's formation.

Then they used their shields as a cover to block the opponent's impact and flexibly assassinate the enemy in close combat with the daggers they carried with them.

In close combat, we cooperate with each other and cover each other, giving each other great damage.

If this doesn't work, veterans of the third row of reserve legions will carry spears and shields to launch the final impact.

Moreover, these veterans can also use the spears and shields in their hands to resist the few cavalry that occasionally appear in the enemy.

If you encounter the opponent's long-range firepower, the legion will use shields to form a tortoise shell formation to resist the enemy's rain of arrows.

In addition to infantry, each legion is also equipped with attached cavalry and archers to deal with different battle situations on the battlefield.

In case of a tough battle, they can also get support from artillery firepower such as crossbows and catapults.

In the face of the complete military configuration of the Liguo Legion, the chaotic and unruly barbarians such as the northern tribes seemed so vulnerable that they soon became defeated subordinates of the Liguo.

In order for infantry to be prevented from being defeated by enemy cavalry, an effective formation that is defeated by impact, a shield wall formation that adapts to low-quality auxiliary infantry to resist cavalry impact was born.-

This is a formation of defense lines composed of shields. The shield is placed on the ground, and the spear is placed on the shield to form a temporary simple defense line and hide behind it. It can not only guard against the impact of enemy cavalry, but also effectively resist enemy arrows.

The shield wall array is mainly composed of round shields. In order to obtain better protection, two rows of shield walls are generally used.

The specific method is to stand the shield on the ground and half-squat, hold the spear flat, and the soldiers in the back stand behind the front row, with a flat shield, and lift the spear flat over the shoulder. The two rows of spears are placed on the shield. Usually there is a certain number of reserve teams behind the defense line to supplement the reduction in the front.

The shield wall is usually used to slow down the enemy's offensive and consume its sharpness when the enemy attacks. Then the main force hiding behind the shield wall takes the opportunity to fight back.

In addition, there is a kite-shaped shield. The kite-shaped shield is round at the top and pointed at the bottom. Its appearance is close to the human body curve and has a larger protection area than the round shield.

Shield walls arranged with kite-shaped shields are usually arranged in single lines. When laying out the array, the pointed bottom of the kite-shaped shield is inserted into the soil, and then the spear is mounted to form a more stable line of defense.

However, this also completely lost the ability to move.

So a new formation appeared.

The shields in the hands of the soldiers in the square array protected their left side while also covering the right side of their adjacent comrades' bodies. Once the soldiers in the front row fell down, the soldiers originally in the second row would quickly fill in the gap left by him.

The essence of the entire phalanx tactics is that all soldiers work together and advance together, and those who escape at the battle will be punished the most severely.

The length of the light infantry spear is shorter and the diameter of the shield is

It is bigger and can cover the whole body of the kneeling soldiers. The armor is lighter and the mobility is better.

The heavy cavalry held a spear in his hand. When they were waiting for battle, they often placed their spears on their shoulders, and the spear head was slightly downward. When charging, the spears were stabbed downwards. After stabbing the first enemy, they often left the spears in their body and were not pulled out. Then they continued to fight with swords and waited until the battle was over, and then they went to retrieve the spears.

The auxiliary soldiers' armor is very light or even armor-free, with javelins, bows and stone casters as the main weapons.

During combat, there are long horizontal lines, and there is a large gap between soldiers. The spearheads of the soldiers in front of the square head are aimed at the front, and the positions of soldiers holding spears in the back are inclined, and some are perpendicular to the ground, and each row of soldiers in the row are different. The three people in the row and one person at the end of each row are key positions, so brave and highly skilled soldiers are selected.

During combat, the entire phalanx often runs forward in a solid and dense formation, just like a siege hammer violently hitting the enemy's team.

In order to protect the flanks and rear, before the battle began, light-equipped spearmen lined up in a large depth of horizontal lines behind the phalanx, while auxiliary soldiers lined up in a scattered line in front of the phalanx, with cavalry and a certain number of light-equipped spearmen on both wings.

This kind of infantry phalanx must be closely coordinated with the cavalry. It is not easy to win simply by relying on the phalanx. When fighting, Liguo will arrange the phalanx into an oblique array, that is, a right-angle triangle or right-angle body with an inclined surface facing outward, so that the enemy will be surrounded from one side according to specific needs.

Generally, enemies will not be killed immediately in front of such square formations. This square formation can be integrated as a whole, pushing the front from behind, and then rushing over like a wall. Most of them will be trapped by them and do their best to avoid many spearheads, which is exactly what the square formation wants.

The enemy was placed on a large chopping board, and the knife was the cavalry of Liguo.

They walked around their heads from behind and hit hard from behind, just like chopping the meat on a cutting board with a knife.

This requires the coordination of infantry and cavalry, not too late or too early, and has high mobility, and can rush towards the enemy with a complete horizontal lineup, giving a heavier blow to the enemy who has not recovered from the cavalry attack.

Compared with the heavy infantry phalanx, the new phalanx has slightly inferior defensive ability, but its attack is much more fierce.

Every soldier who attacks the new formation must deal with at least ten spear heads at the same time.

But this square also has a fatal weakness, that is, as long as you try not to have a unified battlefield, and only attack its wings or back, and not attack its front, you can put it to death.

Once the opponent breaks through the flank, it will be difficult for the spearmen in the spear formation to resist the attack of the short swordsmen. The ability to deal with the dense arrow formation is weak. Whether it is the light cavalry shooting soldiers or the infantry shooting group, as long as the light infantry can be dispersed, the spearmen in the array will be almost allowed to shoot and kill.
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