Liu Qi, the eldest son of the Three Kingdoms

() Hundreds of thousands of Cao troops swarmed like wolves and tigers, like dark clouds destroying the city.However, no matter how powerful Cao Cao's army is, Liu Qi's Jingzhou army will also have to fight. The Xiliang iron cavalry has now arrived in Jingzhou. Under the iron heel.In order to prevent Jingzhou from being overly destroyed by the Xiliang army, Liu Qi could only break through Cao Cao as soon as possible to resolve the crisis in Jingnan.

The [-] army and the three armies on foot and water were all dispatched by Liu Qi.In this battle, the Jingzhou army took the Xuanxiang formation as the main formation.It's a pity that Zhuge Liang is not there. Although Zhuge Liang is aggressive in strategy, conservative in tactics, he is perfect in battle.So impeccable, the self-created and improved gossip array has historically left Sima Yi helpless.Otherwise, arrange eight formations here, and the chances of winning will be even better.But Pang Tong is also good, after all, he is a figure comparable to Zhuge Liang.The Xuanxiang formation it arranged is also very perfect.

The Xuanxiang Formation is relatively complicated, and it can be used freely unless it is well-trained, and its power is also great, which is equivalent to the coordination of arms of a large army.With the abilities of Pang Tong and Jia Xu, it is easy to train the army, and the Jingzhou army became familiar with this formation in a short period of time.The crossbowmen in the formation are in the front formation, and retreat after shooting, the chariot soldiers are on both sides, the halberds are in the middle formation, and the spears are in the rear formation. The emphasis is on wave after wave of attacks.

The defensive counterattack is to deal with Cao Cao's Xiliang cavalry, through battle formation, crossbowmen, archers, spears, heavy halberds, chariots and other methods to break the unstoppable charge of Xiliang cavalry.In tactics, offense is the main strategy, and in combat, it is defensive counterattack.

Liu Qi led the army himself as the commander-in-chief of Liu Qi's army, Pang Tong as the deputy commander-in-chief, Jia Xu as the military adviser, Yang Yi as the army, and Lu Su, Liao Li and others.Nominally, Liu Qi commanded the entire army, but in fact Pang Tongtong was in command of the army alone. After all, the talent of "Phoenix Cub" is not a vain name, it is far better than Jingzhou's "Kirin".

The entire formation of Liu Qi's army is divided into five parts, namely the front army, rear army, left wing, right wing, and central army.The entire Xuanxiang formation is oval in shape, stretching for ten miles, there is enough space to consume the impact speed of the cavalry.And it can better defend against enemy forces from all directions, so that it has no dead ends or weaknesses to speak of.

The front line is two phalanxes of 5000 spearmen, defending the enemy side by side.The former military governor was Wei Yan, who led a phalanx of 5000 spearmen.General Xu Sheng led another phalanx of pikemen.The ravines, horses and antlers arranged in front of the formation were specially prepared for the cavalry, forming the first line of defense of Liu Qi's army.

A phalanx of 5000 spearmen consists of three lines of defense, the first line is shield soldiers and heavy halberd soldiers.A group of two people is a group of one thousand.One person holds a shield, and the other holds a three-meter heavy halberd. The shield soldier squats in front of the shield, firmly resisting the shield. As a pillar, the heavy halberd soldier puts the heavy halberd on the shield. weapons.Between the shield and the shield is a tripping rope.Tripping ropes are all applications of inertia.Suddenly the rope was pulled at the place where Cao Jun's cavalry passed, and the rope caught the horse's leg and caused the cavalry to fall forward from the horse.

Followed by a row of hook and sickle spearmen, about 2000 people.A hook sickle is a long spear with a barb on the tip edge.The length of the gun is seven feet two inches, of which the tip is eight inches.The tip of the gun is sharp, and the lower part has a barb protruding laterally, and the tip of the hook is curved inward.The gun shaft is six feet long and four inches in diameter. It is made of wood. There is an iron rod at the end of the shaft and it is four inches long.The tip of the hooked sickle gun is the same as that of a normal spear, and it plays the role of assassination. The barbs on the side can be used not only to slash the enemy, but also to hook the enemy, effectively preventing the enemy from running away.Although the hook has the effect of assisting in killing the enemy, it also has the effect of preventing the tip of the spear from piercing too deep.

The ancestor of this hooked spear was the halberd.The early halberds had a tip at the front and horizontal thorns on the side. The difference from the hook and sickle gun was that the thorns on the side were not bent.That is: bend the horizontal edge of the halberd inward to become a hooked sickle spear.Liu Qi improved the long halberd and turned the long halberd into a hook and sickle spear, which was specially used to deal with the cavalry in the Central Plains.Because Liu Qi's future cavalry will inevitably be on the weak side, and it is inevitable that they will encounter a large-scale cavalry team of the enemy, so the early appearance of the hook and sickle spear is also necessary.

In the cavalry army, if you encounter heavy cavalry, you will build iron armor to wrap the men and horses. Five cavalry will form a group.If the enemy cavalry breaks through the heavy halberds, their speed will inevitably drop.At that time, the hooked gunmen can take the opportunity to use the hooked gun to hold the enemy's horse's leg horizontally. Once pulled, the cavalry's horse's leg will be broken, and only the slaughter will be left.

Behind is the spear formation, and more than a thousand people are responsible for "filling up the guns". If the fish that slipped through the net breaks through here, they will be responsible for dragging down the enemy cavalry.

Behind the front is the Chinese army, and the governor of the Chinese army is Huang Zhong, who is mainly responsible for the affairs of the crossbow formation.Immediately behind the front army are nine thousand crossbowmen, divided into three battalions.They are led by Zhu Ran, Lu Xun and Su Fei respectively.The crossbow array is divided into three rows, the first row is Zhuge Liannu array with a range of eighty steps, and the commander is Su Fei who leads [-] troops.This column has the closest process and is also the column with the highest attack density.

It was followed by the God Arm Crossbow Battalion.The general is Zhu Ran, which is close to the requirements of actual combat. When fighting, the whole army kneels and sits. When the enemy approaches a hundred paces, ask a god-armed archer to stand up and shoot it (this is for measuring distance). Both the archers with the divine arms will shoot. When the enemy approaches to [-] paces, order a level she archer to stand up and shoot it.When the enemy comes to reject the horse, the spearmen will fight with them hand-to-hand.In this way, the use of long-range strike weapons to intercept and defend layer by layer weakens the ability of the enemy cavalry to maneuver quickly, making it possible to fight cavalry in the field.

The last is the crossbow formation, which is a crossbow that is pulled up by pedals and is more powerful than an arm-strung crossbow that is stringed by hands.Divided into three rows, from back to front, the first row is stringed, the second row is loaded with arrows into the crossbow, and the third row is aimed at shooting.When in use, after the third row shoots, pass through the gap between the two rows, return to the first row and wind up behind the back, and after the second row enters the crossbow, enter the state of aiming and shooting, and the cycle repeats.Obtain a sustained and intensive long-range strike capability.Its general was Lu Xun, who led three thousand troops.

The crossbow array is the core strength of Liu Qi's army. Liu Qi cavalry is no match for the northern nomads, so he has to work hard on the crossbow.The three kinds of crossbows, as Liu Qi's strategic weapons, finally came out today, as the ultimate force against Cao Cao.Although there are many bows and crossbows, the time is limited. In case of being attacked by cavalry and infantry, melee combat will be useless.The crossbowman is Liu Qi's dear flesh, but he is reluctant to fight hand-to-hand.

So Liu Qi asked Huang Zhong to play by ear, and retreat immediately as soon as the enemy troops rushed into the crossbow array, as a reserve force, to be used at the last moment.The enemy army that rushed in, let the troops behind take charge of the battle.

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