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Chapter 1518 Que Yue Formation

Without knowing how terrifying his opponent was, the silly Yang Lin directly started a head-on confrontation with Li Jing.

At first, Yang Lin thought that his opponent was a weakling, so he directly ordered his Yingyang Army to charge and attack fiercely. More than 1 cavalrymen under his command rushed to the front, and the infantry followed behind, with an attitude of deciding the outcome of the battle.

This is the experience Yang Lin has accumulated over the years. That is, when facing this kind of weak but strong-looking rookie, the best way is to attack directly and break up the opponent's formation in one go, so that the opponent will all flee.

Not many people will die in our family.

On the contrary, if you choose a more cautious approach and let the infantry fight slowly, although you can definitely wear down the opponent, but your own losses will be great. In addition, the enemy will gradually master the art of battle in the process of grinding, and complete the transformation from a rookie to a veteran, which will be a big problem.

Once Yang Lin made a move, it was Li Jing's turn to respond.

For a general who has studied military tactics normally, the best way to deal with a cavalry charge is to have spearmen in the front, using a large number of spearmen phalanxes composed of long spears to withstand the cavalry charge, and deploy a large number of archers in the rear to shoot and kill the cavalry in large numbers with bows and arrows, and at the same time arrange auxiliary means such as horse traps and caltrops to kill the enemy cavalry.

This is the method taught in military books, and there is nothing wrong with it. If a group of elite soldiers follow this tactic, then no matter how many cavalry come, they will all be killed.

Yang Lin also hoped that the enemy commander would strictly follow the military manual, because the tactics recorded in the military manual were only suitable for real elite soldiers and generals. They were suitable for those veterans who had been trained to the point that they could hold their spears tightly and not disrupt the formation even if they saw the cavalry charging.

But the army reorganized from the Imperial Guards and the City Defense Army obviously could not have such qualities. When these troops saw the imposing charge of thousands of horses, it was as if they saw countless horse hooves stepping on their stomachs and heads, and they were being trampled into meat paste. How could they have the courage to resist at all? I am afraid that at the slightest contact, they would immediately drop their spears and flee in fear.

Therefore, an army that has not undergone sufficiently rigorous training will be unable to execute the tactics in military books. Yang Lin has seen too many such cases in his life. He has also seen too many armies that seem to be standing tall with spears, but will collapse in an instant as long as the cavalry charges.

The Imperial Guards and the City Defense Army had only been able to defend the city and not attack from the beginning to the end, and had never seen a cavalry charge. It had only been two days since the reorganization and the deployment to the battlefield. Yang Lin did not believe that this army could be trained into an iron army in two days and could erect a spear phalanx that could block a cavalry charge.

This is a task that cannot be accomplished by an army that has not been trained for more than three years and has not experienced the test of blood and fire in war.

In fact, Yang Lin's idea was not wrong. Even Li Jing could not train such an army in two days. So after seeing the cavalry charge, the entire coalition army could not help but retreat. The soldiers on the front line had already abandoned their armor and fled madly to the rear before they even started fighting.

Such a situation was naturally in line with Yang Lin's expectations. He couldn't help but smile, and Yang Yong's face was even more ecstatic. It seemed that they were about to win this battle.

Just when the cavalry was about to catch up with the enemy's army, many dark and extremely tall objects suddenly appeared in the enemy's formation. These things formed a semicircular curve like a city wall.

Of course, this curve is not high and is full of various gaps. The fleeing soldiers can easily pass through these things and enter the back of the curve.

However, when the charging Eagle Army cavalrymen saw these things, their faces suddenly became as terrified as pigs being slaughtered. Some soldiers even immediately began to pull the reins and planned to escape in another direction.

Because these things that form a city wall in front of us are special chariots.

Chariots sound like something that only existed in the distant Spring and Autumn Period, or in modern times. Modern chariots are naturally tanks and armored personnel carriers, which are the main weapons on the battlefield. Chariots in the Spring and Autumn Period were also powerful weapons on the battlefield. The entire war revolved around how to use chariots. Powerful countries were also called countries with thousands of chariots, which means that they had more than 1000 chariots and were extremely powerful.

However, after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, chariots, which had become outdated weapons, seemed to disappear from cold weapon wars.

But chariots are still widely used in the army. After all, they are used to transport food and weapons, various large-scale engineering equipment, as well as tents, campfires, fences, chevaux de frise, bows and arrows, armor, etc. for setting up camp.

Every army needs to carry a huge amount of supplies to go into battle, so an army often has hundreds or even thousands of chariots to be responsible for various logistical supplies.

Yang Lin also saw the chariots from afar. He originally thought that these chariots were simply used to transport logistical supplies. However, he now realized that the Great Zhou Dynasty had actually formed a city wall with these chariots early on and hid all the soldiers behind the wall formed by the chariots.

If the cavalry wanted to charge forward and fight, the first step would be to charge at the sturdy and tall wooden bodies of the chariots... Just thinking about it would reveal what a sad and beautiful scene it would be if the cavalry were to attack the chariots.

However, the distance between the two sides was already very close at this time, and it was absolutely too late to stop the horses, so the cavalry in the front immediately began to turn their horses' heads frantically, trying to go around the two sides of the chariot.

However, this kind of detour had never been considered before. Some cavalrymen did not react at all, while others continued to charge forward. Chaos was inevitable in this situation. At least hundreds of cavalrymen collided with their own cavalry in the chaos, and died at the hands of their own people before they could kill any of their opponents.

What’s even more terrible is that after they died, they became living barricades on the ground, so that many cavalrymen rushing over from behind directly crashed into the corpses on the ground and followed their footsteps.

Some of the special forces failed to dodge and crashed directly into the carriage, smashing into pieces.

But those cavalrymen who managed to bypass the enemy were not very lucky.

As mentioned before, these guards and city defense forces are not good at attacking, but they are good at defending.

For defense, the most important military skill is archery.

At this time, these chariots were like city walls, protecting the soldiers behind them, giving them the sense of security they needed most, as well as the opportunity to calm down and shoot arrows.

A large number of arrows suddenly swept in from the back of the chariot formation like a storm. Each of these soldiers was a fierce man who could shoot with both hands and also had advanced archery skills such as continuous arrows.

The rain of arrows from ten thousand soldiers was comparable to that from an army of 3. In the absence of any deliberate or unintentional attack, almost no cavalryman could escape the coverage of the rain of arrows alive. They were all shot into hedgehogs by a large number of arrows. Except for the 5000 cavalrymen who were at the back and were able to escape in time, the rest of the cavalrymen all died on the spot, leaving corpses all over the ground.

When the Yingyang Army's cavalry was defeated, waves of excited shouts broke out within the entire Great Zhou Army. They had wiped out 5000 cavalry in one go with almost no casualties. Is there anything crazier than this in the world?

"Queyue Formation!" Yang Lin, who was far away in the central army, almost vomited blood when he saw this scene, and squeezed out these three words from his mouth at the same time.

This is Liu Jinu's Queyue Formation
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