Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 49
"Three thousand infantry and one thousand wolf cavalry?" Zhang Xun looked at the scout's report and couldn't help but wonder.

This number did not exceed Zhang Xun's estimate of the total strength of Quac City, but...could it be that there were only a thousand people in ambush?

Thousands of people want to sneak attack on their own general station and use a beheading tactic?So arrogant?
But then Zhang Xun shook his head and said: "They must have used laborers, right? Hehe, it's a little clever."

The servants of Cheng Ji's synthesis have no combat effectiveness, but they are used to put on a show and walk with the real army, so they will not be exposed easily.

However, once there is a real battle, the labor union will collapse instantly, which will easily disrupt one's own military formation...

"Okay, this way, nine out of ten soldiers and horses in the city will be eliminated. As long as we defeat them, Qu'a can defeat them with a snap of his fingers!" Zhang Xun became a little excited.

As for why Chen Gong took the risk?

Zhang Xun didn't doubt anything about this. After all, in his opinion, it was only a matter of time to conquer Qu'a. For him, being delayed for a month or two was just because the consumption of military rations was too heavy, but for the enemy, it was not. It's a matter of life and death, so of course we have to make a bet!
Not long after, Chen Gong came to the other side of the agreed-upon battle formation and also began to build a platform. Zhang Xun also had time to wait as promised.

By the time Chen Gong's men set up the platform, the appointed time was almost here.

When the time came, Zhang Xun first heard a provocative war cry, and then the two armies began to line up under the command of flags and drums...

"Phalanx formation? Hey, are we using new soldiers to make up the numbers?" When Chen Gong saw Zhang Xun's thoughts on the high platform, he immediately knew that Bai Gong's plan was working.

At this time, Chen Gong had already completed the "Force of Horns" and was just waiting for Kaifeng to see blood. However, with four thousand against twenty thousand, it was a bit reluctant to face the enemy head-on, abandoning fire and water attacks. Therefore, Chen Gong's idea was Make a fight.

Shiling Zhang Xun understood that siege could not win quickly, and then induced the opponent to join the fight.

Although in a war, I believe that the opponents are all Song Xianggong, and it is too idealistic that they will respect the rules of the battle by default, but... even if the opponent will regret it and will reinforce, since it is a battle formation, the other soldiers will definitely fight against the battle formation. As always, they are still some distance away from the place of battle.

In this way, a time difference can be made!

And Duke Bai's previous false ambush undoubtedly caused Zhang Xun to divide his troops to ambush again, further reducing the timeliness of reinforcements.

At the same time, when I saw in Chen Gong that Zhang Xun actually chose the "square formation", I knew that there must be a large number of recruits in the military formation that the other party wanted to fight!

Phalanx does not refer to a real square array of 1 people, but to small arrays, forming a stable square as a whole, with more troops around and less troops in the center, and a balance of offense and defense...

And the other type, the array is arranged around the flags and drums to form a "circular array" of circular defense, which is the most basic tactics.

It is generally suitable for new recruits and old and weak soldiers - Han Xin chose the phalanx formation during his "last battle", and took advantage of the terrain surrounded by water on three sides to avoid being exposed to changes in the opponent's military formation, and could only face the enemy head-on. At the same time, it also restricted The troops on his side fled, and in the end they defeated the many with less.

But now in the open terrain, the changes of the phalanx are limited, and Chen Gong has determined from Zhang Xun's previous strategic style that this should be a very good person, and it is impossible to choose such a basic military formation as the "phalanx" for no reason!
There were only 4000 men on Chen Gong's side, of which a thousand Bingzhou wolves were hanging alone outside the main formation. They did not need Chen Gong's command, but only needed to cooperate - Lu Bu's tactical intuition would guide him to attack the enemy's weakest point and seize the weakest point. A fleeting opportunity.

The three thousand Qu'a spearmen were divided into eighteen formations, all eight levels deep, and they moved quite neatly.

The real Macedonian phalanx is sixteen levels deep. During the battle, the three or four rows in the front point their spears forward, and the depth behind them points diagonally towards the sky, waiting for orders...

In the military formation style of the Han Dynasty, the sixteen-layer infantry array was too redundant and could easily be targeted, so Chen Gong only used eight layers.

After all, in terms of tactical concepts at this time, the Central Plains had already adopted military formations that combined arrays as the mainstream. In this way, with arrays as units, the military formations were more varied, instead of the entire army being piled into one array for a head-on confrontation.

At this time, Zhang Xun was on the high platform and saw Chen Gong's infantry. The weapons they held were indeed very strange - not because Zhang Xun had good eyesight, but because the spears of these two or three people were really eye-catching.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, even the prototype of Zhang Fei's eight-foot-long snake spear was not eight feet long, but a one-foot-long pole with an eight-inch tip, which was one-third shorter than the one before Qu Ajun.

And they did it right away!

"It's inexplicable, one inch long and one inch strong... But how can the infantry attack with such a long weapon? Heh... the skills stop here! The front army advances..." Zhang Xun didn't take it seriously, ordered the flag drummers, and played steadily Signal for advancement.

Although half of the military formation is new recruits, but... on Qu'a's side, except for a thousand wolf cavalry, aren't the others all new recruits?
Zhang Xun thought to himself that even if there was no deceit among Chen Gong's troops, they were indeed soldiers. With his absolute advantage, there was no reason to lose.

I saw Zhang Xun's phalanx gradually thinning out and moving forward. The formations in the front were also composed of veterans, and the new soldiers were spaced apart in the formation behind.

As for the formation chosen by Chen Gong, Zhang Xun was stunned when he saw it: "This is... the fish scale formation? Isn't he also commanding new recruits? No, he still has a lot of servants mixed in! He actually chose the fish scale formation?"

Zhang Xun couldn't understand it for a while, so he could only attribute it to being mysterious. At the same time, he tried his best to adjust his mentality first.

"Don't underestimate your opponent, the lion must fight the rabbit with all his strength!" Zhang Xun warned himself.

As the two armies began to fight, Zhang Xun chose the most basic square formation - in order to take care of most of the recruits in the formation.

Both sides placed their cavalry outside the entire military formation, but Zhang Xun divided the two thousand cavalry into four teams and placed them on both wings of the square formation as support, while Lu Bu's thousand cavalry were like swords hanging high. Still keeping the overall position on the right side, slowly press up together with the infantry.

The characteristic of the square formation is that it is both solid on the outside and virtual on the inside, capable of both offense and defense, while the fish scale formation is usually divided into several sections. Each section itself, both front and rear, has a dense formation, but the gaps between the arrays are very large, and it is easy for their own arrays to be separated. Being divided, it is also easy to divide the enemy army!

Zhang Xun didn't quite understand why Chen Gong chose this formation, but a tentative confrontation began immediately.

I saw that Qu'a's spearmen, under the command of Chen Gong, gradually began to insert themselves into Zhang Xun's formation, not worrying about the numerical disadvantage at all.

The attack method of Zhang Xun's square formation is just the simplest "sparse formation" - that is, gradually sparse the formation and use it to move!
Therefore, it is easy to be embedded in the "Fish Scale Formation".

However, Zhang Xun is not in a hurry. His side has an absolute numerical advantage. Even if they are separated from each other, at worst, they will fight separately!
"Huh? No! What, what's going on? Morale... morale hasn't collapsed! Why don't we fight?" Zhang Xun's eyes suddenly widened.

(End of this chapter)