Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1692 Fighting Yuan (卌六)
For the first time, Gao Yushi, who commanded the cavalry seriously, set a record for himself: the first time he drew his sword and charged on the battlefield.

Although there are five hundred elite cavalry around him, and the precious sword in his hand, which is said to be able to cut iron like mud, probably will not have a real chance of seeing blood, but as a literary commander, no matter what, this time It was true that he drew his sword and charged forward.

Gao Yushi's decision to charge at this moment is essentially a gamble. This can be regarded as the first time in his ten-year military command career, which is enough to prove that Brihatu is really his number one in the military so far. archenemy.

But what Gao Wushi didn't know was that Brihatu was also extremely nervous at the moment.If Gao Yushi had a [-]% chance of winning this bet, then in his own opinion, Burihatu's chance of winning was only a mere [-]%.

Dare to bet his life with a [-]% chance of winning. This does not mean that Burihatu has a strong gambler characteristic. In fact, he just can't find a way to get a bigger chance of winning. At this moment, Daming's overall strength is too strong. Strong, it is lucky to find a battle with a [-]% chance of winning.If you don't gamble again at this time, you may not even be eligible to be on the gambling table in the future.

Brihatu's nervousness was not only because the chances of winning were not big enough, but also because his arrangement was more complicated than that of the Ming army.

In fact, things like tactics have never been more complicated and powerful. On the contrary, the more complicated the tactics are, the more likely they are to make mistakes.Han Xin dared to say that the more troops he used, the better. That was truly extraordinary self-confidence, and it was a manifestation of his god-like confidence in commanding from the macro to the micro level, which is by no means something ordinary generals can have.

Many film and television dramas make Zhuge Liang's Eight Diagrams the same as the Eight Diagrams Array. Putting a pile of stones will prevent the enemy's mighty army from getting out. In fact, it is just a typical ignorance. In fact, the army array is not so mysterious at all. .

China's military formations originated very early. In "Historical Records Zhou Benji", it is written that King Wu defeated Zhou. In it, King Zhou said: "What happened today is only six steps or seven steps, but it is only Qi Yan, Master! It is not more than four steps. Five cuts, six cuts, seven cuts, stop Qi Yan, and encourage you, master! Shang Huanhuan is like a tiger like a jackal, like a jackal like a liar, in the suburbs of Shang, he does not guard against the scorpion, and wants to conquer the western lands, I encourage you, master! Mian, it kills you."

This passage is actually talking about the "military formation" at that time, but the so-called military formation at that time... was too simple, because what King Wu meant was this:
You have to stop every six or seven steps to form a team, and you can't run around. Every time you cut someone, you have to have a rhythm. I said that if you cut someone once, you can't cut twice.In this way, following my order and chopping them six or seven knives, it is roughly the same.Be careful, I'm never allowed to stop while you're still chopping, or I'll chop you off.

Look, this is the earliest military formation.Putting this level in modern society, a group of first-year high school students who have just passed a week of military training may not be able to beat them.However, this is really an army formation.

From then on, until the early Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the battles were simply lined up in a row of three lines from the left, the middle, and the right, with a total of three phalanxes, almost without exception.The first person to break this rigid combat was Zheng Zhuanggong, and he created a Yuli formation.

Simply put, the Yuli formation is an inverted formation, with the left and right sides placed in front, and the Chinese army at the back—all subsequent changes in the formation were born from this.The advantage of Yuli's formation is that the military formation has been deepened since then. It is no longer a flat A all the way, but a wave of flow... But I won't say much here, so as not to digress.

Here is a brief talk about the so-called "eight formations" in the eight formations. The origin of the "Eight Arrays", judging from the information available for later generations, has a high probability that it first came from "Sun Bin's Art of War".This military book is very strong, and two of them are mainly about formations, one is called "Eight Formations" and the other is called "Ten Formations".

However, the two articles "Eight Arrays" and "Ten Arrays" do not mean that Sun Bin created eighteen kinds of arrays. The "eight" in "Eight Arrays" here is not a quantifier, but should be regarded as a noun; Ten" is the quantifier.In this regard, "Tang Li Wen Dui" explained that "eight formations" actually means "eight bodies in one formation".

This "eight formations" formation method originated from the well field system in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. "Eight formations" actually follow the shape of the word "well", and put nine square formations in the space drawn by two horizontal and two vertical lines. This is the eight formations. .The so-called "the well is divided into four ways, and the eight families are located in it. It is shaped like a well, and there are nine prescriptions."

He also said: "There are nine in the formation, and the one with zero in the center will be held by the general. There are four heads and eight tails, and the contact point is the head. If the enemy rushes into it, both ends will be rescued."

So don't ask why the nine phalanxes are called eight formations. That's because the middle one is the phalanx where the coach is. Usually, it is mainly responsible for central scheduling, not directly rushing out to fight.

This phalanx is basically a "three three three" to apply the later generations of football formations.However, because it is a tic-tac-toe grid, there is a saying that "the four sides are positive, and the four corners are odd".It means that the square where the main general is located is the center, his front, back, left, and right are "positive", and the left front, right front, left rear, and right rear are "odd".

Of course, it is not true that Sun Bin's Chinese army should not be used as a combat force. In fact, his arrangement is to "hold the odds"-in fact, it is to master the reserve team, to master a team that can be used at the most critical moment and at the most critical position at any time. mobile force.

Now let’s talk about Zhuge Liang’s eight formations. It is actually based on the nine armies and eight formations, with 24 cavalry squads added as mobile forces separated from the main body of the phalanx.Fighting guerrillas, robbing food and grass, raiding enemy camps, and patrolling all directions are all responsible for these 24 cavalry squads.

Why did Gao Yushi know?Because he was good at Ming history in his previous life, the person who knew the restoration of the Eight Arrays was Mao Yuanyi of the Ming Dynasty.This gentleman went to the Yufu River to study the stone formations, drew the formation diagrams, and included them in "Wu Bei Zhi", so the formation diagrams were handed down to the world, and Gao Wushi had seen them in his previous life, and he also understood the advantages of the eight formation diagrams.

Originally, Sun Bin's eight formations looked like a "solid square formation", but from the perspective of formation thinking, it was actually a circular formation.That is to say, no matter which direction the enemy is attacking from, it can respond to the enemy with a balanced force.

However, the defect of this formation is the same as that of the circular formation. Its defense is very strong, but its attack power is almost zero.Unless the opponent takes the initiative to attack, you can only advance slowly, otherwise the formation will be broken.

The bright spot of Zhuge Liang's creativity is that his core is the nine armies and eight formations with super defensive power, and then arranged 24 cavalry squads as mobile forces to harass the enemy.In this way, when the disturbance becomes unbearable to the enemy, and they are completely annoyed, they will naturally come to attack and kick the iron plate.

As for whether Zhuge Liang is better than Sun Bin, I don’t think so because Sun Bin didn’t have such an arrangement mainly because the cavalry in his era couldn’t fight independently (without saddles and stirrups), so it’s probably not unexpected, but objective The conditions are indeed not met.

Of course, Zhuge Liang is still very powerful. As long as the Shu army has at least eight formations, as long as they follow this method to fight, although there is no guarantee of winning, at least it is not easy to lose. Is it wrong?

It's not that Sima can't fight, it's just that he can't think of a way to break through the tortoise and hedgehog formation.In other words, it's not that you can't fight, but that if you fight, it will be a stalemate at best. It has no strategic significance, so it's better not to fight.

However, Zhuge Liang's eight formations are very complicated to command, and the arms used are also very comprehensive, especially a large number of crossbowmen are equipped to strengthen the "hedgehog" attribute.At the same time, except for the 24 cavalry squads who were ordered in advance and acted at their own discretion, the rest of the troops were under the command of the Chinese Army.

Gao Yushi commanded the cavalry for the first time, and there were only cavalry, so there were very few formations available at this time.What he was familiar with in the past was either the formation of all arms or the formation of pure infantry. At this moment, he can only rely on some general principles used by cavalry in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and lacks more specific things. Hatu is a professional who has played cavalry for 30 to [-] years.

What can I do if micromanagement is inferior?Make a miracle with all your strength, anyway, the distance has been shortened, relying on the strength of armored soldiers to charge directly, and drop ten times with one force!

Coincidentally, this move happened to be the source of Brihatu's nervousness.According to Brihatu's thinking, the two wings of our side were quietly strengthened through the wheel battle, and by this time it was clear that we would use the two wings to attack the Ming army's rear.So at this time, the Ming army should urgently protect the rear, lest the main force be attacked by the enemy after the battle. How could the always cautious and highly pragmatic ignore such an obvious crisis?

Could it be... My backhand has been seen through?
This is the name of a person and the shadow of a tree. Brihatu overestimated his highly pragmatic direct tactical command ability, and instead made himself suspicious.In fact, Gao Yushi never personally commanded the front-line troops in the past, and the current situation is completely performing at a normal level.However, it was precisely because of this that Burhatu had to really fight head-on with the main force of the half-armored cavalry of the Ming army who had rushed over in order to ensure the final "backhand".

"Ruling? Ruling!" The cronies around Brihatu saw that he was distracted, so they hurriedly woke up.

When Burhatu was woken up by him, he suddenly found that the forward of the Ming army had entered the range, and quickly ordered: "Shoot!" The cronies beside him waved their hands violently, and the four knights not far away blew two short horns at the same time.

The shooting of the Mongolian army does not require too much careful command, but any Mongolian army that thinks it can shoot into the range of the Ming army quickly throws an arrow, and then hangs up the bow and changes the knife without waiting for other orders-the two sides are facing each other, they are out of turn. When the second arrow is shot, the Ming army will not have a second chance to fire.

But the strange thing is that the Ming army is now less than two hundred steps away from the Mongolian army, and they can actually fire in a hedging situation, but their lances are all silent, for some reason.

At this time, the two sides were about to fight, and Brihatu also concentrated all his energy on the battle.He trembled slightly in his heart, knowing that the scene in front of him actually meant that the training level and fighting will of the Ming army had been further improved compared to a few years ago.

Sure enough, when the distance between the two armies was only 120 steps, the sound of one heavy and two light and very fast golden gongs was heard from the Ming army.

Perhaps it was precisely because only a few people in front had a chance to fire once when charging into the formation, so the Ming army pulled the firing distance so close to ensure the lethality of this round of salvo.

When the gunshots rang out, Brihatu was too lazy to care about how much he had suffered. Instead, he ordered the trumpeter to blow the horn even louder, and the two cavalry finally came together.

The scene in front of him may be the bloodiest one Gao Yushi has ever seen with his own eyes. The elite cavalry from both sides who were charging at the forefront turned their backs on their backs at the same time in an extremely fast time.I don't know how many cavalry fell off their horses almost at the same time after just a moment of confrontation, and were then submerged by the torrent behind them.

Whether it's riding skills or equipment, it doesn't seem to play much role in this moment of head-on confrontation.But the horse is a psychic animal, and at this time began to act purely on instinct.The entire battlefield seemed like two different torrents rushed together and began to gradually spread to both sides. As a result, the battle lines between the two sides rapidly expanded from the middle to the outer edge.

Soon, the situation of the torrent confrontation quickly "easing", because neither the Ming and Mongolian armies could defeat the enemy in an instant, and the battle situation began to turn into a melee fight.

Brihatu subconsciously looked towards his right side, blocked by the shadows, and vaguely saw that there seemed to be smoke and dust, and he couldn't help but feel happy.Then he wanted to see if the Ming army had been outflanked by his previous two-winged cavalry, but unfortunately he was trapped in the battlefield, but his sight was blocked and he couldn't see it.

At this moment, Gao Yushi didn't care about other things, because he himself could not see the situation on the periphery of the battlefield clearly under the close protection of five hundred cavalry.He can only judge from the few flags that are still held high not far away, that Xu Long, Panggui and other troops on the left and right wings of his command are desperately fighting for the front of the Chinese army-presumably they really dare not let Gao Jinglue I personally meet the enemy, I would rather die than stand in front of him and stop him.

Gao Yushi was a little parched, and for the first time in his life, he had the urge to personally kill the enemy.It's a pity that the momentum of the two sides' attack has now exhausted, and the Ming army is squeezing in the middle again. His own cavalry even spontaneously formed a dense formation. It seems that as long as the army has not collapsed, he wants to appear in front of him. It is really not easy for the Mongols to come.

Seeing that he couldn't help himself in the current battle situation, Gao Yushi took the time to look back.At this time, the rear part of the army has been out of touch with the main force, and is desperately entangled with the Mongolian army together with the three columns supported by the two wings.

However, there are some problems with the movement of the Mongolian army. Gao Wushi found that they did not really want to destroy their own rear army, but concentrated while fighting, as if they had other tasks.

Gao Wushi's heart trembled: Could it be that they plan to leave only some of them to entangle the rear army, and gather the rest of them to backstab our army by force by taking advantage of their horse speed?

Just in doubt, the Mongolian army that was already behind the main battlefield gathered some troops and broke away from the battle. The banner bearer raised the battle flag high and waved it violently.Although no more than a thousand people could gather in the melee, they really came from the rear with desperate shouts!
Gao Yushi looked around quickly, and the guerrilla generals and flags were basically in front of him or in front of him. At present, the most established troops in the rear are only responsible for their own defense tasks, [-] cavalry.

"Gao Funiu!" Gao Wushi shouted loudly: "Transfer the whole army and prepare for a surprise attack from the rear!"

"Master, just feel at ease, there is no need to use a ox knife to kill chickens, the younger ones can just take three hundred riders!" Gao Funiu, the commander of the cavalry, responded loudly.Not only was he not afraid, but after he quickly turned his horse's head and immediately raised the flag to indicate which three centurions to call, he even said loudly, "Master, please wait a moment, and you guys will go back as soon as you go!"
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