Volume 1, Chapter 26: Terrifying Countermeasures

"Order, the entire army's formation will shrink! The front row will have people next to people, horses next to horses, and all shields will be placed in front. Only room will be left for the archers to perform."

Bai Qi said confidently.

Yang Paifeng conveyed the order without hesitation.

In an instant, the formation tightened sharply, and the area occupied was only one tenth of the previous size.

"Huh?"

"What are they doing?"

The generals on the Hun side were all puzzled.

"Just playing tricks." The Hun general sneered.

The First Khan frowned. As he was well-versed in Sun Tzu's Art of War, he always felt that something was wrong.

On Yang Paifeng's side, there are also many thousands of generals who are confused.

Bai Qi explained: "There are two advantages to doing this."

"First, it reduces the number of enemies that come into direct contact."

"For example, if you want to cross a bridge, a dozen people can walk side by side, but what if the bridge is turned into a single-plank bridge?"

"Even if you have thousands of troops, only one can cross the bridge at the same time!"

In an instant, Yang Paifeng and others understood.

"I see. We must tighten our formation to prevent the enemy cavalry from taking advantage of their numbers."

"At the same time and in the same space, the number of enemies we face will definitely be ten times less. They can't deploy their formation and can only crowd together."

"No matter how many cavalry there are in the rear, they can only watch the show!"

"The pressure we face is instantly reduced by 90%."

"Awesome, awesome!"

The thousands of generals were full of admiration.

Now they understand how important military strategy is.

It can instantly reverse the strength of the enemy and ourselves.

"What's the second benefit of a tight formation?"

someone asked impatiently.

Yang Paifeng answered for Bai Qi at this time. She said heroically: "Reduce the impact of cavalry on the formation!"

"Before, there were a thousand horses that could attack our formation at the same time."

"But after the formation was tightened, there were only a hundred horses that could attack our formation at the same time."

"What do you think, is it easier to defend against the attack of a thousand horses?"

"Or is it easier to defend against the attack of a hundred horses?"

The soldiers gasped.

With such intuitive explanation, even ordinary soldiers can understand what kind of profound truth is contained in this small change.

Bai Qi continued to add: "What's more important is that after the formation is tightened, our defense has also become stronger."

"Originally, the shield soldiers could only form one layer of defense, but now they can form three or five layers."

"Our front row of people are next to each other, and the horses are next to each other. If they want to rely on the cavalry charge to directly break up our formation, the difficulty will increase by more than ten times!"

After Bai Qi finished explaining, Erniu and the others were dumbfounded.

There are too many tricks involved here.

No wonder the head of the village said that scholars are powerful.

In fact, they all understand these principles. For example, when defending a city gate, the more people defending inside the gate, the more difficult it will be for the enemy to break open the gate.

But if you change the scenario, they simply won’t do that.

Yang Paifeng also had bright eyes. Even if he had six Yang Tianbaos, they probably couldn't analyze as thoroughly as Bai Qi.

"Perhaps only my godfather Yang Wudi can compete with Bai Qi in military strategy!"

She felt infinite emotion in her heart.

"Bai Qi, next, should we use crossbows to shoot the enemies in the front row and consume their manpower?"

The thousand generals were already impatient to pass on the order.

"No!"

"There's no use shooting the enemy."

Bai Qi shook his head.

Don't shoot the enemy? Are we just going to watch them rush over? "The soldiers were confused.

Even Yang Paifeng was puzzled.

Everyone pricked up their ears, wanting to hear Bai Qi's explanation.

Bai Qi smiled and said, "Shooting people will only cause casualties to the enemy. It will not play a crucial role in our defense against this wave of cavalry charge. "

We can't shoot people, we have to shoot horses! "

"Whether they are shot to death or injured, a large number of horses in the front row falling to the ground will directly trip up the cavalry in the back row. " "

In this way, the speed of their charge will be reduced instantly. "

"If the cavalry loses its speed, it will never be able to break through our formation. Only in this way can we be invincible! "

Boom -

Bai Qi's words, like a thunderclap, instantly opened the minds of these soldiers.

"Yes! "

"As long as they lose their speed and fight us in hand-to-hand combat, we will be able to defeat them even if we are wearing armor. "

The soldiers' eyes were full of ecstasy.

They didn't expect that the battle could be fought like this!

"Crossbowmen, listen to my order. Shoot the horses, not the people. Only shoot the front row. Release your arrows! "

Yang Paifeng immediately gave the order.

The crossbowman immediately took out the crossbow and arrows, sat on the ground and pushed hard with his feet to string the crossbow.

There are two types of crossbows in the Great Zhou Dynasty. One type pursues range. Ordinary people can't even string a crossbow and need to use their feet. This type of crossbow has a very long range.

The other type pursues shooting speed and has a very short range.

In the battle with the Huns, they are equipped with this type of crossbow that pursues range, and they want to use range to suppress the Huns' archers.

"Swoosh, swish, swish! "

The archers in the first row fired their crossbows, and each arrow pierced the warhorses.

The warhorses jumped around in pain. The horses, which were running at high speed, suddenly went crazy and knocked down three or four cavalrymen behind them in an instant, causing people and horses to fall to the ground.

"Okay! "

Yang Paifeng was overjoyed. As more and more horses fell in the front row, the charging cavalry became more and more confused and their speed dropped drastically.

The cavalry at the back couldn't even run anymore. They were all stuck together like a traffic jam.

Yang Paifeng was about to praise Bai Qi, but she saw an even more shocking scene.

Bai Qi had picked up a crossbow and was shooting crazily.

Why was it called crazy?

Because Bai Qi strung the crossbow with just a light pull of his hand, and it was done instantly.

In contrast, other crossbowmen took dozens of breaths just to strung the crossbow, and they were panting from exhaustion.

Some crossbowmen are even only responsible for shooting, with four or five crossbowmen behind them who are specifically responsible for restringing the crossbow for them.

But even so, it couldn't match Bai Qi's shooting speed.

Bai Qi finished drawing the bow and shooting in one breath.

Bai Qi actually used this crossbow used for long-range sniping to create the effect of a repeating crossbow.

Yang Paifeng looked at the crossbow arrows shot by Bai Qi again and was shocked to find that Bai Qi only shot at the horse's eyes.

The sharp arrow pierced the warhorse's eyes.

As we all know, eyes are the most vulnerable part of the body, and the fear brought by losing sight is the most deadly.

The warhorse was going mad with pain, kicking and bumping around everywhere, directly knocking over seven or eight other warhorses.

Finally, the Hun cavalry came over and chopped off the horse's head with one sword, which prevented the warhorse from causing greater casualties.

"How powerful is this man?"

Yang Paifeng was shocked beyond words.

I admire Bai Qi's ability to grasp the opportunity and his extraordinary mind, using the smallest cost to inflict the greatest damage!

The system notification sound in Bai Qi's mind was like a screen refresh. [

Congratulations to the host for successfully killing an ordinary enemy, experience value +10]

[Congratulations to the host for successfully killing an ordinary enemy, experience value +10]

...

Every time Bai Qi shot an arrow, this system prompt sound would appear seven or eight times.

That is because any cavalryman in the rear row who was knocked down by an injured horse would definitely be trampled to death by the following cavalrymen.

For every horse injured, seven or eight cavalrymen died.

This is the horror of Bai Qi's tactics.

[Ding, congratulations to the host, you have accumulated enough experience points to level up! 】

【Has the host been upgraded? Bai

Qi laughed. He hadn’t even finished shooting ten arrows, but the experience points he gained from killing enemies were enough to allow him to level up again.

This kind of large-scale war is like a meat grinder.

"Kill!"

Bai Qi did not choose to upgrade, but continued to kill crazily.

Kill enemies, accumulate experience points, and become stronger!

This is Bai Qi’s chance!

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The archers were even more excited. They killed the enemies too quickly. If they were judged by their military merits, at least one of them would be promoted two levels when they returned.

With the crazy shooting of the archers, the speed of the Hun cavalry was completely slowed down.

Except for the twenty or so scattered war horses in the front row who could maintain the charging speed, the charging speed of the other cavalry was not as fast as anyone else.

"How could this happen?"

The Hun general in the rear was extremely anxious and kept giving orders, asking the cavalry to speed up their charge.

But if the people in front can’t run away, what can the cavalry behind do?

There were less than 30,000 people who could actually run and charge, and the more than 100,000 people behind them were basically marking time.

"Awesome!"

"It turns out that tightening the formation can really limit cavalry charges."

"Sure enough, what Sun Tzu said in The Art of War is right, 'The art of war is all about deception! '"

"Who would have thought that a mere change of formation could have such a strong practical effect."

The First Khan's eyes were full of admiration.

The Huns worshipped the strong the most.

Today, he saw a battlefield genius who perfectly restrained his Hun cavalry.

He admired it very much.

"We lost!"

The First Khan shook his head slightly. He stroked the golden scimitar and felt that there were many talented people in the Central Plains. He was completely defeated in this confrontation.

"No, we can still win! I will definitely be able to capture them and kill all these people!"

The Hun general was unwilling to believe that his 200,000 cavalrymen could not break up the enemy's formation.

He waved the flag himself and ordered the charge to continue.