September 26th, at the beginning of noon.

On the north bank of Qishui, an infantry of 1,500 people was lined up in a neat and slightly loose rectangular formation, slowly advancing from west to east.

The group training chief Lu Datou held the spear's gun with one hand and the Yanling knife on his shoulder with the other hand. A pack of packed armor was hung on the scabbard, and he rushed to the road with a breath.

The armor in the bag was not his own, but a comrade-in-arms who was slightly injured, and he was still wearing his own armor.

In order to prevent enemy harassment that may occur at any time, Zuodushi asked all uninjured soldiers to march in armor and be ready to change formations to respond to the enemy at any time. This further slowed down the marching speed and was also a severe test for the willpower of the new recruits.

"Boss, there are still twenty miles to go back to the county town. If the bandits and cavalry really surround us on the plains, what should we do? Why don't you take advantage of the fact that there is no enemy situation around you and quickly move forward with light clothes."

A personal soldier next to him was a little exhausted and drank the water from the bamboo tube in big gulps, whispering to complain.

"No matter how much Xu Daoba talks, I won't beat you! How dare you question Dusi's army! Now it's time to see that there are no thieves, but as long as the cavalry appears in the sky, it will be in front of you in a cup of tea. You have to change your formation and wear armor, so how can you have time?"

Lu Datou said, and with a reasonable attitude, he rewarded the personal soldier with a scabbard, and the opponent staggered.

They were originally dock workers in Huangfengkou Town. When Shen Tongzhi recruited team training, all dock workers with innocent and healthy experience were basically recruited.

So today Zuo Zixiong was going to burn the Huangqikou Town to burn the walls and clear the fields, so the resistance was not that great. Who made the strong men in the town eat the imperial grain?

Lu Datou is the most powerful among dock workers. At the beginning, hundreds of people followed him. After joining the army, Shen Tongzhi was also very particular about using talents. After testing Lu Datou's strength and water quality, he gave him a general position, which made him very grateful.

In the early morning battle just now, the team he was in experienced the most intense melee battle in the whole game, and five robes died. He himself used his huge force to stab three thieves and cavalry to death with a spear. The spear was broken, so he had to pick up one from the body of the robes to continue using it.

Lu Datou could see that the brothers were more or less confused. Victory made everyone less afraid, but they became suspicious of the arrangement of tactical tasks. Along the way, he had to try every means to boost morale.

Lu Datou was knocking on Xu Daoba, and by the way he intimidated other comrades. Several horses from the back team galloped past. Lu Datou quickly ordered his brothers to stand up. When he turned around, he saw that Zuo Dusi was here to inspect.

Seeing that the captain's spearman was listless, Zuo Zixiong also attached great importance to it and stopped:

"Lu Datou! Why is the formation so scattered? But what are the difficulties? If any injured soldier is getting worse, he should report it in time. It is not up to your helper to carry armor when fighting, they will accept your affection!"

Lu Datou immediately stood up: "Return to Dusi... No, there is no difficulty. The bidding was as you just told me, encouraging and comforting my brothers, saying that Liu Xiong had fallen into the plan of Tongzhi and had been crippled this time. Even if he dared to come back to take revenge, his combat power would only become weaker and weaker."

Zuo Zixiong nodded and said nothing.

All of this was also repeated before he set out to tell all the hundreds of families under his command, and let them take advantage of the victory in the morning, strike while the iron is hot, and promote the morale, and clearly explain the advantages of our army to every soldier.

In this way, the soldiers will not be afraid after the subsequent field battle.

Zuo Zixiong led his troops for many years. Although he had not systematically read the military strategy, he was very clear about the psychological thoughts of the soldiers. He knew very well that a new force, confidence was always the most important thing for the first few times he went to the battlefield, and it was more important than weapons and training.

The key skill in determining victory or defeat is not after the battle, but inspiring people before and between war. Not only can you be able to kill enemies, but you can also be able to blow, blowing the inspiration effect of a head into three or five to fully tap the potential.

If everyone in the enemy can believe that they have fallen into our army's plan, and everyone in the army can believe that the enemy has fallen into our army's plan, they will win 80% of the battle without fighting.

Zuo Zixiong was very cautious. He did not just listen to Lu Datou's words, but he randomly selected several soldiers in this team who seemed to be depressed. He walked and asked them why the enemy lost so badly in the early morning battle, and asked them what the enemy had defeated because they had master Tongzhi.

The soldiers who were drawn did not embarrass Lu Datou, and they answered in a lot of ways. Zuo Zixiong nodded with satisfaction.

The last question he asked was Xu Daoba who was scolded by Lu Datou just now. Xu Daoba seemed to be injured and was quite resentful of Paoze's death. After answering, he couldn't help but question Zuo Zixiong a little:

"Mr. Dusi! We kept saying that the thief army was captured by Tongzhi's plan to lure the enemy, so we ran so far away and were exhausted and sent to us for free.

Then let us new recruits be spearmen, withstood the storm of the bandits and cavalry, and create opportunities for the trusted servants who are hiding behind as musketeers, all of them are in the plan of Lord Tongzhi? His plan is to use our cheap life to fill the pit?"

As soon as these words came out, hundreds of people nearby pricked their ears and couldn't help but feel a little turbulent.

Indeed, "our generals are in charge of making great achievements" is very encouraging, but the soldiers who are used as bait and are responsible for "faking defeat and seducing the enemy" will not feel good.

Because of this, the troops responsible for luring the enemy into tricks in ancient and modern times must be the most elite soldiers, otherwise they will not be able to withstand this psychological pressure at all, and mutiny is possible.

Zuo Zixiong's face changed. He wanted to punish Xu Daoba, but he knew that it was the most important thing to convince the public at this moment and that the new recruits could not amplify the resentment. He said selflessly:

"The specific tactics have nothing to do with Lord Tongzhi! I am the general who adapts to the situation. Lord Tongzhi is Wenquxing, and it is enough to think about those major policies and strategies!

As for the assignment of soldiers, it is determined by their talents, physical strength, and martial arts. Since the troops have been determined, orders must be banned during wartime!

If you want to be a musketeer, why don’t three arrows hit the target during the recruitment assessment? Anyone who knows shooting skills will not be like this! Since you have been assigned to a spearman, then kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. Tongzhi is clearly rewarded and punished. In the future, when expanding the army, you will naturally place veterans in a more important position and give better weapons.

Everyone earns their future. Our army will never be qualified or nepotist, and everything will be based on ability! We will speak based on credit!

For example, Mr. Lu, who stabbed three thieves to death with his own hands today. After returning to the city, I will naturally transfer the merit book to Tongzhi in detail. If he wants to transfer to command the musket soldiers, Tongzhi will definitely agree! You are not injured by an enemy and have not rescued your comrades. Why should you transfer you away!"

Zuo Zixiong's words were righteous and the recruits who were originally confused by him slowly came back to the point where they completely accepted the status quo.

As long as you fight well, you still have the chance to change troops and upgrade your equipment!

I believe this is the first time. Let’s go back and see how Lord Tongzhi fulfills it.

As soon as Zuo Zixiong was cheering up his morale, the front army heard a burst of exclamations. As expected, the bandit cavalry who had rested in the morning regrouped and began to encircle.

"Array!" Zuo Zixiong roared, allowing the troops to fine-tune quickly, forming a trapezoidal array transformed from the Spanish square formation.

The normal Spanish phalanx, in a decisive battle on the Great Plains, requires spears to be facing outward on all sides, and the corridor between spears is allowed to move the musketeers forward.

At this moment, because one side is leaning against the river, it only has a trapezoidal shape and three sides. The side near the river is the longest bottom edge, and there is no need to deploy personnel, and use a slightly narrower top edge and two waists to face the enemy.

Zuo Zixiong had just adjusted his formation, and Liu Xiong's cavalry had already surrounded him from three directions.

Liu Xiong himself led three or four hundred cavalry to block the easternmost, namely between Zuo Zixiong and Qizhou County, cutting off Zuo Zixiong's direction of progress.

Yidougu, who was injured, took half of the remaining cavalry and went back to the tail of Zuo Zixiong's troops, and drove them from west to east to attack the tail.

The remaining six or seven hundred horse-riding infantry stretched loosely in the north of Zuo Zixiong's army, distracting Zuo Zixiong's army from its attention and defensive forces, and preventing Zuo Zixiong from leaving too many reserve teams to block the mouth.

After everything was done, the two sides were still thirteen or fourteen miles away from Qizhou County, and they were just stalemate there. As long as they moved a little further east, Zuo Zixiong could see the tower at the west gate of Qizhou City, but Liu Xiong obviously would not let him retreat easily.

"Keep the formation and keep moving forward!"

Zuo Zixiong waited for a while, but Liu Xiong surrounded him without attacking for a while, and wasted him like that. Zuo Zixiong could only move slowly eastward in a trapezoidal square formation.

While maintaining a dense array, the troops may not be able to travel five miles in one hour, which is a huge consumption of physical strength and attention.

However, the enemy cavalry can stand or sit with the advantage of mobility. If Zuo Zixiong dares to chase them out, they will retreat, and it is impossible to catch up with the horses if they have the advantage.

If Zuo Zixiong's troops relax a little, Yidougu, who is old in military affairs, will seize the opportunity and send dozens of elite cavalry who are good at riding and shooting, and shoot arrows from afar through more than a hundred steps.

Although these arrows are almost impossible to shoot at people, they can also make the official army nervous. Dozens of people rush into formations can make hundreds of people rush to wait and consume a lot of physical strength.

The official army fought back with bird guns. Because it was too far away, the lead bullet could not hit the loose ranger. In half an hour, only four or five guns were shot, killing four or five elite thieves and archers.

Time was just three o'clock in the afternoon. It was already late autumn, and the scorching sun at noon was still annoying.

The infantry were fully armed and on guard, and after walking for only three miles for half an hour, they were all sweating profusely.

Only ten miles away from Qizhou, and the city tower can be seen, Zuo Zixiong's face was terrifyingly gloomy.

"According to the information of torture the prisoners before, at the latest, Liu Xiyao's army of 10,000 or 20,000 will definitely arrive at Huangchongkou Town, and give him another hour to get here.

Our army only takes two hours to enter the city after walking these ten miles. We must not be able to consume the dense formation at such a speed. Liu Xiong refused to rush to my dense formation, so he had to take some risks and let him see some hope..."

When the hedgehog and the porcupine are rolled together, it makes no sense to complain that the wolfhog doesn't come to bite him. After all, the wolfhog is not mentally retarded. If it is not mobile, it wants to break the other person's teeth, so it can only let the hedgehog loosens a little.

"The front army accelerates forward, loosens the formation and keeps a distance between each other! He will only welcome the enemy when he sees the bandit army charge! If he doesn't charge, he will ignore them!" Zuo Zixiong gritted his teeth and sold another flaw.

These operations are actually not very consistent with the art of war, but there is no way. If they are too consistent with the art of war, enemies with the advantage of organic power will not give you the chance to fight hard.

Even gamers know that when one side is confident in starting a team to fight a position war, the other side is not stupid and will not come to pick up the team at all. At this time, it is inevitable that some teammates will sell it and pretend to be alone, so that the enemy will come to pick up the team.

The soldiers were as if they were amnesty and accelerated their pace and began to rush.

Liu Xiong and Yidougu on the opposite side were overjoyed when they saw that the official army finally began to "escape". They first kept following up, and then Liu Xiong and Yidougu also ordered the cavalry to inform each other of the situation and set a countermeasure.

"Let Yidou Valley attack the main attack! Fight the tail of the official army! The enemy's formation becomes loose and the marching accelerates, and they will inevitably have no intention of fighting. Chase from the tail. As long as you break through a little, the entire army will collapse! The official army was exposed for an hour and was exhausted!"

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