Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 377 Sun Wu ([-])

another three months later

Summer has just arrived, and various mosquitoes, snakes and rats have begun to breed, which is the season for disease outbreaks.

The area north of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou has been completely occupied by Yuan Shao, and even the area south of the Yangtze River has surrendered to Yuan Shao.

Under Yuan Shao's order, the army was stationed in Wulin to build ships and train for water combat. A large number of craftsmen and civilian husbands were recruited. Hundreds of thousands of people were densely packed together, which was more conducive to the spread of diseases.

Today, the fog is so thick that you can't see your fingers on the Yangtze River.

Sun Quan came to Chibi with some soldiers, and began to carefully investigate Wulin's situation to see how Yuan Jun's navy was trained.

Suddenly, Sun Quan's boat left the foggy area, and Dang even was spotted by Yuan Jun.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

"Get ready!—let it go!"

shhhhhh!
Yuan Jun threw arrows at Sun Quan's boat, and Sun Quan fled in fright. His boat was already full of arrows.

another month later

After realizing that Yuan Shao's navy was weak, Sun Quan's navy often criss-crossed the waters of the Yangtze River, bullying Yuan Shao's navy who was alone.

Now, except for the base camp of Wulin, Yuan Shao's water army dare not go anywhere, because their water combat ability is too poor.

However, while training the navy to prepare for the decisive battle, Yuan Shao did not just sit still, but sent Lu Weihuang to lead [-] Xianbei cavalry to cross the river first, in an attempt to threaten Sun Quan from land.

These Xianbei cavalry were all surrendered to Yuan Zhao after being defeated by Wang Jue, and accepted the recruitment of the Mobei Protectorate to come to the Central Plains to fight. They are equivalent to free mercenaries, or servants.

Southwest of Chibi

After the five thousand Xianbei cavalry crossed the river, they rushed non-stop along the Jiangan Plain on the south bank of the Yangtze River towards Chibi, the headquarters of Sun Quan's navy.

To defeat the navy, it is not necessary to use the navy.

Hearing that [-] Xianbei cavalry entered the country and were heading towards Chibi, Sun Quan was shocked. His Jiangdong soldiers were invincible in water warfare, and the plain warfare was extremely difficult. Facing the cavalry in the plain was Sun Quan's eternal nightmare.

If you let him face 20 troops on the water, he will have confidence, but if you let him face [-] cavalry on the plain, he will lose confidence.

Fortunately, although Sun Quan's Jiangdong soldiers can't fight on the plains, Liu Bei can fight.

Although Liu Bei has been losing, but if he loses a lot, he has experience. At least he knows how to deal with cavalry better than Sun Quan.

Although the current Liu Bei lost Xu Shu during his escape because Xu Shu's mother was captured by Yuan Jun, he got Pang Tong again.

Liu Bei led [-] infantry to block the passage of Xianbei cavalry to the river bank plain leading to Chibi.

Not only that, Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei's military adviser, also creatively created a military formation called "Bagua Formation".

The so-called [Bagua Formation] is an army formation specially used to deal with cavalry on the plains. It is characterized by both offensive and defensive capabilities, fast transmission of military orders, and fast response speed. In other words, only the elite infantry can form the gossip formation, and ordinary infantry can't coordinate it.

The two wings of a general army formation are spread too wide, and the left and right wings cannot hear the sound of musical instruments. Some of them can't even see the commander-in-chief's flag-bearer waving the military flag clearly, so he can only watch the messengers go to convey military orders to him. The reaction speed of the array is extremely slow, and the efficiency of conveying military orders is very low.

The [Bagua Array] was created to solve this problem. It shrinks the two wings to prevent officers and soldiers who are too far away from hearing the voice of the commander's commanding instrument.

The entire [Eight Diagrams Formation] is actually a nine-square grid, which is composed of nine square formations.

Probably something like this:

【Plane】【Phase】【Phase】

【Plane】【Phase】【Phase】

【Plane】【Phase】【Phase】

This is the Eight Diagrams formation, because the square formation in the middle is the commander's command post and the reserve team, and does not participate in direct combat. Only the eight square formations on the side are in contact with the enemy, so it is called the Eight Diagrams formation.

Except for the square formation in the middle that has no name and is just a reserve team, the eight square formations outside have Zhuge Liang's own names, corresponding to the eight hexagrams in "Book of Changes - Eight Diagrams".

The name corresponds to the square matrix like this:

【Bird Soaring】【Cloud Crying】【Tiger Wing】

【Tianfu】【Command】【Feng Yang】

【Long Fei】【Earth Condensation】【Snake Coil】

The name of the Eight Diagrams Array is not important, it is essentially a variant combination of a circular array and a square array, so you can call it a nine palace array, a round and a square array, or a nine square array.

The circular array is strong in defense, but poor in attack, and the square array is strong in attack, but poor in defense.

Therefore, the army formation created by Zhuge Liang can not only have good defensiveness, but also have good offensiveness, and it is ready for both offense and defense.

As for those flying around, they are just for arty, the name of the army is not important, you can call him one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

For example, the army formation created by Wang Jue, you can call it the Tiangou formation, the missing moon formation, the circle with a gap formation, the Phoenix formation, the Flying dragon formation, the Invincible formation, whatever you want. It doesn't matter, what matters is its function.

When the chief general of the phalanx in the middle of the gossip array ordered the adjutant to knock the gold foil, it was telling the [Shepan] phalanx to prepare to receive military orders, and all military orders in the command post were to order the [Shepan] phalanx to do what.

When the adjutant rang the gong, it was telling [Tiger Wings] that the phalanx was ready to receive military orders from the command post.

When the adjutant lightly beat the gong twice in a row, it was telling [Yunchui] that the phalanx was ready to receive military orders.

When the copper gong is struck first, and then the gold leaf is struck, it is to tell [Tianfu] that the phalanx is ready.

When the gold leaf is struck first, and then the gong is struck, it is to tell [Feng Yang] to prepare.

The corresponding gossip array is probably like this:

【Copper 3】【Copper 2】【Copper 1】

【Gold Bronze】【Command】【Bronze Gold】

【Gold 3】【Gold 2】【Gold 1】

"Bronze 3" means to strike the gong three times, and "Gold 3" means to strike the gold leaf three times. This command method is much more complicated than ordinary square and circular formations, so ordinary militiamen cannot gossip Yes, when you strike the instrument, he doesn't understand what it means, and he won't follow your instructions.

Seeing the Xianbei cavalry charging towards them, Zhuge Liang stood on a chariot in the middle of the formation. Only by standing high can he see far, and he commanded calmly.

clang--

clang clang-

clang clang-

Ma Su next to Zhuge Liang rang the gong three times, once for the first time, twice in a row for the second time, and three times in a row for the third time.

This is to tell the three phalanxes at the top [Niaoxiang] [Yunchui] [Tiger Wings] to prepare quickly and issue orders to you at the same time.

In this gossip formation, there are 1000 people in each army formation around it, and 2000 people in the reserve formation in the middle, a total of 1 people.

Looking at the Xianbei cavalry in the distance, Zhuge Liang said to Ma Di.

(End of this chapter)