Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 287
The combined armies of Meereen and New Ghis soon left the camp, and took up formation facing south of the Ghiscari Road.

Judging from the response speed of the coalition forces and the deployment of this formation, the commanders of New Ghis are obviously different from the flamboyant airs of Meereen or Yunkai. Those who dare to call themselves the successors of the ancient Ghis Empire do have something, but not much.

The formation of the entire coalition was spread out for 2 kilometers. From the aerial view, Ian can clearly observe that on the right wing of the coalition are the New Guiss First and Second Iron Legions directly under the New Guiss Council and a thousand mercenary cavalry. The cavalry was again deployed on the right side of the legion.

The first and second iron legions are the standing army of New Ghis, composed of all veterans over five years old. They wear scale armor and are equipped with spears, throwing spears, short swords and shields.

At the same time, the Third Iron Legion of New Ghis was also located on the right flank of the coalition forces, and was hidden behind the first and second Iron Legion. Because the first two legions stood on a hill about seven or eight meters high, they were placed The Third Iron Legion behind the knoll was not visible even from the nest wagon where Ian's army was located.

The Third Iron Legion of New Ghis, like the Fourth Iron Legion, is a voluntary citizen army. These people come from the property owners of New Ghis. A few grades above the rabble in Meereen next door), they have only served three years and are generally younger.

Located in the center of the coalition army is the Fourth Iron Legion of New Ghis. Behind them are 5000 conscripted militia/slave soldiers from Meereen. Because the center army of the coalition army is on the smoothest road of Gis, they cannot hide here.

However, because the frontal width of the Chinese army is the lowest, their depth reaches 20 rows, and the flanks are protected by the Allied forces. The morale is guaranteed enough, and the possibility of being penetrated by the heavy cavalry is basically eliminated.

The left flank of the coalition army was a forest. They deployed 2000 elite hired spearmen outside the forest, and deployed [-] Meereenian slave soldiers inside.

It is not difficult to imagine that the effect that the new Ghis commander hopes to achieve is to make Ian mistakenly believe that they have deployed the Third Iron Legion in the forest, so as to invest more troops on the right flank (corresponding to the left flank of the Meereen coalition forces). I don’t know. What the New Ghis generals' faces would look like when they learned that Ian could observe their full deployment from the air.

The entire formation of the coalition forces presents a slanted line protruding from left to right, that is, the elite of the right wing is at the forefront, the front team of the Chinese army corresponds to the squadron of the right wing, and the left wing is at the back.

This is a very typical oblique tactic, or called a right uppercut. It allows the elite to engage the enemy first by letting the elite advance with one wing, followed by the center and left flank.In this way, their relatively weak center army and left wing can buy more time for the right wing to defeat the enemy's left wing, complete the outflank from the side, pinch the enemy's center army, and finally completely defeat the enemy.

So why is Ian saying that this new Ghis general has something but not much?
Because this tactic is probably learned from the military classics of the ancient Ghis Empire, and this ancient empire period can basically be judged as before the appearance of the stirrup. This is a typical situation where both sides have no elite cavalry. Straightforward tactics.

If one's own side has superior cavalry, then this outflanking work can be completely handed over to the cavalry, just like the right uppercut was not eliminated after entering the Middle Ages, but this task was handed over to the cavalry.And if one's own side has no superior cavalry, when one's own cavalry is defeated by the enemy, it is oneself who gets the right uppercut.

Ian stood on the tall nest cart of his own army, looking at the enemy's formation in the distance.

Although he himself didn't need this thing, the members of the senior generals around him did need such an observation tool.

Ian invited the senior generals who have the specific position of regimental commander and the best officer trainees he is training here, because this exercise that is closest to actual combat will be a very good lesson for them .The same goes for the soldiers below.

Ian knew that this battle would not be fought, and his bird had been tracking Hizdahr zo Lorak, Lord of Meereen, and Eres zo Emd, Lord Commander of New Ghis, so it was clear They knew that they had begun to deploy in Meereen to murder those principals of House Paarr.

When they give themselves the heads of these people from the Parr family to make amends, they will forgive Meereen and accept the military power of Meereen.

But these officers and soldiers didn't know about this. These officers did a good job of receiving orders on weekdays, but what about when it came to battle?When the enemy is already within visual distance, can they still complete these well-drilled content perfectly?
Ian the Unsullied is not worried, they don't know what fear is, and they are not even human at all.

But for those slaves, Ian was very worried.

These people eat the best food on weekdays, and they are naturally superior to other slaves, so they really work extra hard during training, but when it comes to this time of hard work, these people's performance can reach the usual level , which is still an unknown.

After all, their training time was too short. Ian took off his gloves and wiped the sweat from his palms.

"Let's start." After taking a deep breath, Ian ordered to the standard bearer beside him.

This large watchtower with a height of seven or eight meters has another function besides observation, that is, for Ian at this time, the Lishuai flag is just a morale booster.But this thing is not just used to boost morale on the battlefield.

In the military merit systems of many dynasties in ancient times, capturing the flag and beheading the general were equal credits. Many people left a stereotyped impression because of TV dramas, thinking that this great credit was due to the blow to the morale of the enemy.

In fact, the real effect of capture the flag and beheading is to destroy the enemy's chain of command.

This involves another set of command system besides the golden drum instrument - the flag.

In the ancient wars of the Great Celestial Dynasty, a mature army often has two command systems at the same time. One is the golden drum instrument that Ian currently lets soldiers train, and the other is the flag.

The latter has wider application scenarios than the former, although the latter has some extremely obvious defects, such as:
1. Restricted by the terrain, when the general uses the flag to issue command information, the commandee must be able to see it directly, and if the troops are fighting in hilly and forested areas, there is no guarantee that they can see the flag.

2. Cannot be used in night battles.

3. There are not many colors that can be clearly identified in ancient times. For example, the famous Zhuge Eight Arrays, the eight numbers of "Heaven and Earth Wind and Cloud, Dragon, Tiger, Bird and Snake", must be commanded by four banners and four banners. They can't make up eight at all. Flags come in recognizable colors.

4. The command signal is more difficult to recognize. The battlefield command is a kind of remote command. To let the soldiers in the distance see, the Chinese army must use a large flag. This thing is not like the small flag in the modern semaphore that can play a lot of semaphores. Come on.Judging from the literature that can be found today, all semaphore instructions are few and simple.However, the instructions for musical instruments are free combination codes, which can convey more detailed instructions.

But all of these flaws are nothing bigger than the former flaw, that is, there are only a few kinds of musical instruments that are loud enough and penetrating enough on the battlefield, and the enemy and the enemy use the same ones.If you knock, I will knock, and if you blow, I will blow. Who the hell knows which signal is from which side?

This is the biggest limitation for musical instrument conductors. As for the situation that people often imagine that the sound of musical instruments will be covered by battle roars, it does not conflict with the conductor's requirements.

Because the battlefield orders are rarely issued to the troops that have already engaged in the battle, and the troops that have already engaged in the battle are in the midst of fighting, surrounded by battle cries and the sound of weapons colliding, even if he hears the order at this time, he is unlikely to leave the battle easily .

The real instructions are usually given to the reserve team, and a well-trained reserve team that has not been engaged in battle is far less noisy than the troops that have been engaged in combat, and their probability of successfully receiving orders will be much higher.

When Ian obviously didn't have enough time to complete the two sets of system training, he finally chose to give priority to training musical instrument conductors. The main reason was that the Dothraki did not have golden drums, which would not interfere with Ian's signal.And against pure cavalry like the Dothraki, Ian's ideal war terrain is as complicated as possible.

After enough time, he will make up the training of semaphore command.

As bursts of music played, Ian's army quickly completed the formation according to Ian's intention.

The formation formed by Ian is nothing new, but the famous 'Eight Formation'.

When it comes to the eight formations, many people may already want to laugh, because under the influence of modern film and television works and some novels, it can be said that the reputation of this thing has suffered very seriously.

In particular, the Bagua Formation of Marquis Wu, which was adapted by Zhuge Liang, was first ridiculed by various unrealistic myths, and then because the content of these myths was too outrageous, it attracted ridicule from the crowd.

But in Ian's view, this "simple" formation, which was first proposed by Sun Bin, improved by Zhuge Wuhou, and later improved by Li Weigong, was used by the ancestors for thousands of years. At least in the period of cold weapons, it has powerful actual combat ability.

First of all, the first thing to be clear is that the Bagua formation is not something that is talked about by gods and gods, and it has not been lost (the reason why it is lost is probably because some people find it difficult to accept that the mythical Bagua formation is such a 'simple' thing).

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once asked Li Jing what the so-called "wind and cloud in heaven and earth, dragon, tiger, bird and snake" meant by the eight formations?
Li Jing's answer is "the one who spreads it is wrong."

Li Jing believes that the so-called eight formations are a combat deployment that needs to be changed at any time according to the actual situation on the ground. Yes, they are all just talking nonsense.

As for the reasons why these troops set up numbers and revolve around the Chinese Army, Ian’s judgment is to facilitate the command of the Chinese Army, and to effectively expand the command radius of the Chinese Army by bringing the battlefield closer to the Chinese Army.

The deployment of the eight formations perfectly conforms to the principle of fighting one and defending two in the traditional Chinese art of war. In actual combat, enough reserves can be left to accept the command of the general.

Not only the eight formations that people are familiar with, but also the Liuhua formation and the twelve celestial formations adapted by Li Jing later, all of which divide the army into multiple secondary units and form formations around the central army to achieve this effect.

Of course, the formation that Ian deployed at this moment did not use "Heaven and Earth, Dragon, Tiger, Bird and Snake" to number the units. He used the more straightforward right front army, center front army, left front army, right center army, center army, and left center army , Right rear army, middle rear army and left rear army to refer to.

Although this battle will not really be fought, in order to achieve the greatest effect of actual combat drills, Ian still did a pre-battle analysis very seriously and completed the deployment.

Ian's left front and left middle army placed the first and second legions of the Unsullied, which were in an ordinary dense formation, and there was no passage for the cavalry to attack in the middle.

The position is on the right side of the enemy's central army, leaving a lot of outflanking space for the enemy

This force is completely sufficient to head-on with the elite right wing of New Ghis.

The Yunkai'i army is placed in the front center and front right. Each phalanx has 4000 people in an ordinary dense formation. A lot of passages are left in each centurion, so that the width has been stretched until it is basically aligned with the enemy's left flank. Degree.

The Yunkai'i had not received Ian's training, nor did they need to be commanded. They just had to keep going after the battle, and then engage the enemy's center and left flank.

Behind them, Ian deployed a thousand guard cavalry composed of Dothraki in the front line of the central army. By.

The Second Slave Iron Legion is deployed in the rear of the central army, which is responsible for protecting Ian's handsome flag and preventing the enemy's left wing (to our right wing) from outflanking.

The position of the left rear army deployed the First Iron Slave Legion with the longest training time so far. Ian planned to let this legion go out to the left after the Unsullied fought with the enemy's right wing and attack the side of the Neo Ghis phalanx.

Then, Ian placed the remaining [-] imperial cavalry and [-] mercenary cavalry at a position about two kilometers to the left of the entire formation. The mercenary cavalry was in front and the imperial cavalry was behind. Their positions were farther from the battlefield than the enemy's right flank. .

In this battle, the cavalry does not need to accept the command of the central army. Their task is to attack the enemy cavalry directly after the battle, annihilate or defeat them, and then rush back to the battlefield. , the back of the New Gistiron Legion that was in contact with it, and when the enemy's formation loosened, the Imperial Guard cavalry could start to attack their back and sides.

If the enemy cavalry refuses to fight, then the mercenary cavalry of the Second Sons and Stormcrows will be responsible for staring down the enemy cavalry and driving them away from the battlefield, while the guard cavalry will return to the battlefield to carry out the original plan.

As for the rear center, rear right and center right of the eight formations, Ian chose to leave blank, because Ian has fully understood the enemy's deployment, and the cavalry advantage is on his own side. Ian's army formation is in these three formations. direction, it is difficult to be threatened by the enemy, even if the enemy has a small team assaulting this position, the strength of the Chinese army can completely eliminate them.

According to Ian's set of deployments, the mercenary cavalry should suffer the most losses in the entire battle, followed by the Unsullied and Yunkai's armies. The loss should be reduced a lot, but I don't know the real combat power of the new Gistron Legion.

If possible, I really want to fight this battle to test the actual combat capabilities of these legions!Ian growled in his heart.

But he knows that this battle cannot be won, because whether it is his own army or the new Gist iron army on the opposite side, they will be the main force for him to fight against the horse king. If he fights here, he can directly GG.

Therefore, Ian can only test the organization ability of both sides at the moment and give them an exercise close to actual combat, so that they will not face the enemy for the first time when they see the centaur.

The good news is that both sides have been doing well so far, of course, and that refers to Ian's Iron Slave Legion and the Legion of New Ghis, excluding the rabble of Yunkai and Meereen.

But what does it matter?The mob naturally also has the usage of the mob.

(End of this chapter)