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

Chapter 47 Li Xi Jiangong Biography ([-])
"put!"

The bow and arrow troops hiding behind the infantry phalanx each shot towards the opponent's infantry phalanx. Since there is still a relatively long distance, there is no need to worry about shooting their own teammates.

shhhhhh!
clang--

clang--

"what--"

"Bastard, you stepped on my hand!"

Thousands of arrows were thrown into the opponent's infantry phalanx in a parabola, but most of them were blocked by the square shields of the infantry phalanx, and only a small number of unlucky ones were shot at the unprotected lower body knees by the arrows. He fell to the ground and howled continuously.

But teammates can't stop just to save him alone, causing the formation of the phalanx to be scattered, thus giving the enemy a chance to defeat him in one fell swoop.

Therefore, these Han soldiers and Fujian-Vietnamese soldiers who were unfortunately shot by the opponent's archers could only crawl under the crotches of their teammates, crawl from the crotches of their teammates, and retreat to the back of the infantry phalanx. Back to their respective camps.

In this process, it is inevitable that some soldiers were accidentally trampled on their hands, or even directly trampled to death.

Finally, the infantry phalanxes of both sides collided together.

The soldiers in the first two rows threw down their shields and held their spears tightly with both hands, which was more stable than holding them with one hand, so as to prevent the spears from falling out of their hands during the battle.

The infantry in the last few rows still held their shields above their heads to protect themselves and prevent the opponent's archers from killing them.

And when a soldier in the front row dies, the soldiers in the second row will immediately make up for the first row, and at the same time, the soldiers in the third row will also drop their shields and advance to the second row , ready to replace the first row that is about to die at any time.

Due to the high mortality rate in the front row, no matter where they are, the rewards for the soldiers in the front row are more generous. It is also killing an enemy, killing one in the front row is a great achievement, and killing one in the back row may be a small achievement , and the soldiers in the front row also have additional subsidies. Even if they die, the pension is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. With so many preferential treatment, only soldiers are willing to be in the front row.

As the infantry phalanxes of the two sides came into contact with each other, the archers in the rear had to give up archery. After all, the enemy held up a shield to defend the front, and the backs of their teammates had no shield protection against the archers. From the perspective of probability, The chance of shooting your teammates is far greater than the chance of shooting the enemy.

The archers retreated under the command of the commander, not because they were so benevolent and unwilling to shoot their teammates, but just because the chance of shooting their teammates to death in this situation was far greater than that of the enemy.

clang--

clang--

呲——

Pfft!

"what--"

A series of long spears stabbed forward neatly, and soldiers of the Han army and soldiers of Fujian and Yue were stabbed to death, but the phalanxes of both sides remained in place, and no one took a step back.

Due to the large number of long spears, there was a very strange scene. In one area, dozens of Han army long spears and dozens of Fujian and Yue long spears were twisted together. It was like a knot, and no one could get out. At the same time, it cannot be returned.

Boom boom boom!
In the infantry phalanx of the Han army, officers stood in the back row one by one, beating the small drums hanging on their chests, and using the drums of different rhythms to order the "soldiers in the formation" to move out.

In a battle of this level, the commander Li Xi would not personally issue military orders. That would be proper micro-management, and micro-management usually would not end well.

After all, "Sun Tzu's Art of War Nine Changes" also said that all methods of using soldiers will be ordered by the emperor, and the army will gather together.There is nothing left in ruined land, crossed lands intersect, nothing is left behind in desperate land, plots are encircled, battles are fought in dead places, there are certain roads that cannot be controlled, troops cannot be attacked, cities cannot be attacked, land cannot be contested, and the ruler's orders cannot be resisted.

Sun Tzu has long criticized the commander or king forcibly micro-manipulating the probability that it will bring disastrous consequences to the troops fighting at the front line. Li Xi has also read military books, so naturally he would not make such a low-level mistake.

Therefore, the middle and lower-level officers of the front-line commanders exert their subjective initiative, consciously seek and choose the time to issue military orders.

Therefore, whether an army can win depends not only on whether the commander is wise, but also on whether the middle and lower officers are wise, because it is impossible for a specific battle to be commanded by a wise commander. In the gap, the army has been defeated.

Moreover, no matter how wise the coach is, he himself did not stab the enemy in the first row, so he can only understand the general situation of the battle. How can he know the specific state of the soldiers at the front line?

Forcibly interfering in specific combat operations without knowing the specific combat situation will instead cause soldiers to execute wrong military orders in the wrong state, and such wrong military orders will also magnify the consequences because of the time gap in the transmission of military orders.

Under such circumstances, if an army just wants to win a few battles by chance, it only needs a wise coach to do it, but if it wants to be undefeated in a hundred battles, it must have a wise coach and at the same time cultivate a A middle- and lower-level officer who is literate, understands the art of war, and knows how to adapt to changes, and a group of elite soldiers with military discipline and absolute obedience to superior military orders.

The coaches of today's big Han are not necessarily smarter than those of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors period, but even with the same weapons, the army of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors period is by no means an opponent of the current Han army under the same number of circumstances.

Because the gap is not mainly in the coach, but in the fact that the Han army has many literate and educated low-level officers.

Under the two advantages of the Han army officers being better at adapting to changes and the Han army soldiers being better at military discipline, the Han army infantry of the Chinese army gradually gained the advantage and moved forward.

At the same time, under the command of the officers of the Han army, the "soldiers" came to the place where the spears of the two sides stabbed each other. They squatted under the spears and stabbed the unarmored Fujian and Yue soldiers with their short swords. Protective palm.

"what--"

"Uh--"

Many Fujian and Yue soldiers were stabbed by daggers in their palms, screamed and dropped their spears, and then were pierced through their bodies by the spears of the Han army on the opposite side, and fell to the ground dead with a wail.

These "squad soldiers" are a special type of arms that are specially designed for when the infantry phalanxes of both sides are entangled.

Minyue naturally has this kind of special arms, but the number is far less than that of the Han army.

More than a dozen Fujian and Yue "soldiers" also got under the spears one after another, and took out their daggers to stab the palms of the soldiers of the Han army.

"what--"

More and more soldiers of the Han army were stabbed in the palms, and were shot to death by Fujian and Yue infantry.

As time progressed, the "soldiers" on both sides hacked and killed under the forest of spears.

At this time, a Minyue bow cavalry of about 50 people came to the rear of the left flank of the Han army, and shot arrows at the back of the Han army while keeping a distance.

shhhhhh!
Under round after round of arrows, dozens of left-wing Han soldiers fell to the ground.

The right wing of the Minyue infantry phalanx took the opportunity to advance a few steps forward, gradually suppressing the momentum of the Han army phalanx.

"Let the cavalry of the flying dragon team chase and kill those Minyue bow cavalry, and the rest of the light cavalry will continue to attack the enemy's left-wing infantry according to the previous military order." On the high platform, Li Xi commanded like this.

(End of this chapter)