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Chapter 326 Capture the Flag Battle

The day before the competition, the eldest prince will announce the content of the competition.

So in the early morning of the next day, shortly after the content of the competition was announced, it spread throughout Pingwei City.

The items of this competition did not exceed everyone's expectations.

The location of the competition is Changhua Mountain, twenty miles west of Pingwei City.

To the west of Qiansong Kingdom is the tall and long Luyun Mountain Range, which divides Qiansong and the Prairie Kingdom into two. If it weren't for the existence of the Luyun Mountain Range, it would be difficult for Qiansong Kingdom to stop the all-pervasive cavalry of the Prairie Kingdom.

However, there are naturally canyons and lowlands between the mountains. In the past, the steppe country was invaded from these places.

Changhua Mountain is a mountain in the Luyun Mountains. Changhua Mountain with a radius of more than [-] miles is one of the main barriers of Pingwei City.

The content of the competition is capture the flag.

Before the competition, the eldest prince would order someone to hide a flag anywhere in Changhua Mountain.

The 2000 people from Xie Shaoying and Bai Jinghuan needed to find the flag within [-] miles of Changhua Mountain, and then rushed to the top of Changhua Mountain with this flag.In the end, using the top of the mountain as a base, defending the flag for an hour is considered a victory.

It sounds like this competition isn't that complicated, it's even a bit like a game.

However, it is not easy.

With a radius of more than ten miles, and all surrounded by mountains and forests, it is not easy to find a flag, even with 2000 people.

And if the opponent finds out the flag first, the situation will be very passive.

From the top of the mountain, it is not too difficult for the opponent to suppress the snatch of the enemy below.

In the end, when looking for the flag, the two sides can also fight each other.

In fact, the key to this competition may not be the flag, but the jungle battle. Before the 2000 people found the flag, they might have already fought each other until there were only a few hundred people left.

In the restaurant in the city, many young masters who came to watch the excitement naturally also got the news.

"Is it a capture-the-flag battle? This battle is not easy!"

Zhao Xing, the son of the commander of the palace guards, was the first to express his opinion on this competition.

His good friend, Gu Ying, the son of Gu Rui, the servant of the Ministry of War, nodded and said: "That's right, if all 1000 people are scattered, within a range of [-] miles, the first person will not be able to respond at all. If the opponent's people are in groups of three or five, then the flag has not yet been found." , they will be strangled by the opponent’s people in the dense forest and suffer heavy casualties.”

Zhao Xing said solemnly: "But if there are groups of three or four, the search range will be much smaller, and the search speed will be much slower. If the opponent is the first to find the flag, and then rushes to the top of the mountain to set up the bow and arrow, the following It's really too difficult for someone who wants to break through..."

Both of them are descendants of the military, and they can see the key to this kind of competition at a glance.

It is necessary to find the flag as soon as possible, but also try not to be beaten by the opponent in the jungle. The balance among these is the focus of this competition.

But after all, there are still people who haven't heard of this kind of capture the flag.

Immediately, someone said: "What's so difficult about this? If I were them, I could go straight to the top of the mountain and build defenses in advance instead of looking for the flag! In this way, even if the other party finds the flag, what's the use? They won't be able to get up at all! "

This idea is reasonable and easy to think of.

However, many people who knew the inside story laughed secretly after hearing this sentence.

Xi Feiyuan by the window said indifferently: "This idea is not feasible, because no one is allowed to enter within five miles around the top of the mountain until the flag is found! Only those who captured the flag passed the inspection of the guards five miles away, and those who captured the flag Only one side can go up the mountain! And the side that didn’t capture the flag can only enter that range after a quarter of an hour.”

"This...isn't this unfair to those who didn't capture the flag?" The previous person was not the only one who didn't know the inside story.

Xi Feiyuan chuckled lightly: "What's so unfair? Why didn't you find the flag first?"

"Unfortunately, this competition is a forest battle, which is not conducive to watching!" Someone sighed.

Gu Ying said with a smile: "It's okay, we can go to Dale Mountain next to Changhua Mountain. Most of you are practitioners, so you can see everything at a glance when you stand on a high place?"

"I don't know how Xie Shaoying performed this time."

"Of course he's going to lose. If it's a tough battle on flat ground, he can still use the advantage of having one more extreme master to fight recklessly with Bai Jinghuan. In this mountain forest, even if he wants to fight recklessly, it's hard to find the enemy. It's easy. They were all broken!"

……

On the other side, Xie Shaoying and others were naturally the first to get news of the competition.

At this time, it was Lin Si, Mu Zheping, Xie Shaoying and Ji Fu's three guards who were sitting in the tent.

As for Lin Yong, they will not participate in tactical discussions, and will only passively accept orders.

After getting the news at first, Lin Si, who didn't know the rules, also put forward the same idea as the man in the tavern, wanting to set up an ambush on the mountain in advance.

But he was immediately dispelled by a few words from the guards of the Ji Mansion.

"Looking at it this way, it's useless to set up an ambush five miles away! Within a radius of five miles from the top of the mountain, if you want to completely prevent the enemy from going up the mountain, 1000 people are not enough! They may go up the mountain from any direction." Lin Si scratched his chin and said in distress.

Rao Zhan, the guard of the Ji Mansion, said with a smile: "Brother Lin is right, the key to this competition is to be the first to find the flag."

After these few days of training together, the three guards and Lin Mu became more and more familiar with each other. Especially yesterday, Lin Si showed some archery skills, which made them take a high look.

Mu Zheping frowned and said, "With 1000 people, they searched for the flag within a range of [-] miles, and the terrain is extremely complicated, with trees, bushes and fallen leaves everywhere. Finding the flag in such an environment is simply impossible!"

Xie Shaoying was also very depressed, he didn't know where to start this competition.Originally, he thought he could do a big kill, but now it seems that it will be difficult to find someone to fight when the time comes.

Without the helpers around him, he would definitely be helpless now.

"Isn't this all luck? Whoever finds the flag first wins?" he complained.

Another guard, Jiang Yuanliang, smiled and shook his head: "No, to find the flag, you have to be able to get to the pass safely. It's normal to encounter enemies blocking and robbing you along the way. And looking for the flag is to consider the formation of troops place."

"That's right! How to distribute these 1000 people, and at the same time spread them out, can not only respond to each other, but not be defeated by the enemy one by one. At the same time, we can expand the search area as much as possible, this is the most critical point!" Lin Si finished speaking. , then thought hard.

The three guards of the Ji Mansion next to them started a heated discussion.

"A group of three, right? The distance between each group is more than ten feet, so that more than 300 groups can be separated! The search area is not small." Jiang Yuanliang said.

Rao Zhan shook his head and said: "A group of three is too dangerous. If you encounter an enemy at a distance of more than ten feet, it will be difficult to rescue them in time. After all, it is a mountain forest. In my opinion, a group of ten is safer."

Another guard, Wu Ning, smiled and said, "A group of ten people? It's safe, but the search range is greatly reduced. There is almost no hope of finding the flag. I think it's better to have a group of five people. This way the search range is not small, but at the same time Don't be afraid to meet the enemy!"

Jiang Yuanliang said: "Your method seems to have both. But in fact, no matter whether it is finding the flag or killing the enemy, it does not have any advantage. Moreover, a group of five people cannot search all of them in a short time. The whole mountain..."

"Then what do you say?"

"Why don't we gather everyone together and push forward directly, so that the small group of enemies we encounter will not be our opponents! They will be defeated by us one by one!"

"Hey, this is even more unacceptable! You gather 1000 people and move forward. The momentum is so great that you can spot it from tens of feet away! And after the opponent has been wiped out a few teams, if you can't react, you will be deaf! They could have gathered and surrounded us..."

"Yeah, and who knows if the other party will find out the flag in advance when we get together."

……

All their conversation fell on the ears of Lin Si and Mu Zheping, and they had to admit that what they said had some truth.

How to choose is really a difficult problem!

Lin Si closed his eyes tightly, and the formation diagrams in "Thirteen Chapters of the Military Formation" appeared in his mind. However, how could he, who had never really commanded a battle, come up with a perfect solution so easily?

In fact, how to allocate the people under him, the biggest problem is how to make them respond to each other.

Each group of soldiers marched forward at a distance of tens or even tens of feet, slowly searching for the flag. It was too difficult to take care of each other and cooperate with each other to meet the enemy at such a distance.

How to do it?

Until noon, several people thought about how many formations, but they were all eliminated one by one.

If everyone in the tavern heard about their discussion at this time, they might change their original views.

Indeed, Xie Shaoying himself did not have any idea about this competition. If it hadn't been discussed by everyone, he would not even know that there are so many details in the original allocation of 1000 people.

But after all, he has the three guards of the Ji Mansion. They are all under forty years old, and they have seen many similar competitions.Although they are not members of the military, if they want to talk about their own opinions, they all have a lot of baskets.

Moreover, this competition does not pay much attention to the requirements of the command in front of the battle, the main thing is the arrangement before the battle.

Once all the men and horses under him were scattered into Changhua Mountain, it would be difficult to continue commanding one by one.

On the contrary, this made up for Xie Shaoying's biggest shortcoming. If it was a plain field battle, I'm afraid Xie Shaoying and the others would be in a hurry, and the disadvantage would be even greater.

For Bai Jinghuan on the other side, they were nothing more than calculating a formation that they thought was the most reasonable, and then looking for the flag like Xie Shaoying.

From this point of view, the eldest prince really 'favored' Xie Shaoying once.

……

Until lunch time, Lin Si was still unconsciously chopping rice while drawing on the table with his fingers.

No one could understand the strange patterns he drew.But everyone can guess that this should be some thoughts about formation in his mind.

This guy is obsessed!Even Lin Yong and the others who were not far away could not help but secretly startled when they saw Lin Si like this.

How could they understand that Lin Si often did things unbelievable to outsiders, in addition to talent, this crazy obsession is also an important reason.

At a certain moment, Lin Si suddenly slapped the dining table and burst out laughing!

The others looked at him like a madman, thinking that this guy was really crazy.If there really was a perfect formation and it was so easy to think about, then there would have been a set of so-called fixed tactics for this capture-the-flag battle.

Lin Si stopped his fingers and began to eat with big mouthfuls.

Seeing his expression, Xie Shaoying and Mu Zheping became excited, they understood that Lin Si had another coup!

(End of this chapter)