Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 50: Corner Formation
Zhang Xun was now in a panic. He suddenly discovered that his own formation, for some reason, did not attack the Qu'a infantry that was in front of them!
His eyes hurt from staring so hard, and he finally saw clearly that it was not that he didn't attack, but that he was blocked...
Because the opponent's fish scale formation is only one layer embedded in another, the enemy they face is only on one side.
When the battle broke out, the front row of the Qu'a spearmen all half-knelt down, took down the large shields behind them, held them tightly with their right arms, and drew out the short weapons at their waists with their left hands.
Only the equipment of the first row is different from that of the people behind them.
The spearmen in the second row placed their extra-long spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row. The shoulder guards made by Cheng Ji had a specially made ingenious groove for the spear handles.
At the same time, the spearmen in the second row also stepped forward and bent their waists, so that the spearmen in the third row who were half-crouching could also put their spears on their shoulders. The fourth row also put their spears on the spearmen in the third row.
The spearmen in the second row hold the middle section of the spears, the next two rows hold the back half, and the four rows further back just hold their shields and wait. When the soldiers in front die, they will move forward to fill their positions!
The shield and sword infantry in the first row were designed by Chen Gong himself based on the Han Dynasty's ordinary heavy infantry. They are better at defense and preventing the enemy from breaking into the formation. They have been taught in training that if the infantry in the first row are sacrificed, the infantry in the second row will directly abandon their guns and continue to use the heavy shields left by the teammates in the first row!
At the same time, the spearmen in the second row repeated the two actions of "retracting" and "stabbing" when the enemy approached, while the next two rows only needed to "shake". The toughness of the gun barrel material combined with its extra-long length gave the gun a good lethality when shaken.
Zhang Xun couldn't see it so clearly, but he could see that the enemy's infantry formation looked like a hedgehog when facing the enemy, and the first three or four rows were actually attacking.
The soldiers facing this "hedgehog" on the front line were even more frustrated. There was no room for them to get close to him as the long spears of the forest stabbed or swept...
Dense formation is the soul of the Macedonian phalanx. The sparse super-long spear infantry are just lambs to be slaughtered if they are approached.
How can such a long gun be used flexibly and used for attack in infantry combat?
A doubt flashed through Zhang Xun's mind, but he immediately gave up thinking about it - Lu Bu's wolf cavalry was coming.
The cone formation is not divided into arrays. It is just the most basic, simple formation with the general as the absolute vanguard, with strong wings, and good at tearing apart the enemy's formation.
However, now the tip of the cone is Lu Bu, and the ones building the cone formation are the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry!
The simple cone-shaped formation was like a black sickle, shaving directly into Zhang Xun's formation and reaping Zhang Xun's soldiers.
At this time, Lu Bu's armor was something Bai Tu had never seen before.
Among the three types of armor, the Wood and Stone Armor looks like just a basic exoskeleton, making the user look just a little taller, with little change in body shape.
The gilded armor has complex-looking limbs, and although it covers a large part of the body, it looks very thin.
And now Lu Bu has finally used the golden jade armor, which looks like a three-meter-tall crimson mecha. The body part is also extremely thick. Even the helmet covers most of the face, leaving only a "T"-shaped gap, revealing the eyes, nose and mouth.
The Fang Tian Huaji also became exceptionally thick, and the crescent on the tip of the halberd was completely condensed by lasers. With Lu Bu's strength, it could expand to half a person's width. When it was wielded, even in the army, it had the momentum of mowing the grass!
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was a cavalry established by Bingzhou to fight against the Hetao Qiang people. They fought with the Qiang people all year round and absorbed and learned the characteristics of the Qiang cavalry, thus possessing greater combat effectiveness than the Qiang cavalry.
The reason why Bingzhou has a sparse population is that since the early Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huns who had surrendered to the Hetao region began to migrate inland, and the Han people were relocated to the east of Changshan Pass. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Hetao region had become a battlefield fought over by the Qiang people and the Southern Huns.
Today's Bingzhou is only a small strip east of the Hetao area with Taiyuan County as its core. There are only Han people registered in Chengji. Bingzhou east of the Hetao area serves as the base camp for resisting the Qiang people.
Of course, with the remaining power of the Han Dynasty, they would never be "bullied" no matter what. Whether it was the Qiang people and Xiongnu people in Hetao, or the Xianbei people in Hexi, when confronting the Han army in Liangzhou and Bingzhou, they actually suffered more defeats than victories.
Before, when the Qiang people took advantage of the Han Dynasty's weakness and killed officials in rebellion, they pushed forward Han Sui as their nominal leader, but did not dare to directly challenge the Han Dynasty. The Liaoxi Xianbei and Wuhuan were still being beaten by Gongsun Zan, and the Hexi Xianbei had not yet recovered from the psychological shadow of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. It was just that the Han Dynasty could no longer actually control Hetao, Hexi, and Liaoxi.
After all, even the wise men in the Central Plains did not realize that the Han Dynasty had fallen, and the Qiang people, Xianbei people, and Southern Xiongnu people naturally could not have imagined that there would be a chance to move south in the future...
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry absorbed the characteristics of the Qiang cavalry. They were lightly armored and had no shields, and were good at charging. At the same time, because they had been fighting the Qiang people for a long time, they had restrained themselves and developed their riding and archery skills - they were weak against long-range attacks, but not weak in long-range attacks!
Each rider was equipped with both a spear and a scimitar. They would use the spear to attack the enemy during a charge. When their momentum was weaker and they were trapped in the enemy formation, they could also draw their swords and kill. This was a stance that borrowed a lot from the strengths of the Qiang and Xiongnu riders, while also taking advantage of the Han army's well-equipped equipment.
At this time, he began to show his power in Jiangdong. Wherever he passed, Zhang Xun's army scattered like birds and beasts.
It was effortless to tear apart Zhang Xun’s army’s defensive array , and then disperse and defeat them!
Directly killing soldiers actually only has about 10% chance, but tearing the enemy's formation apart can accelerate the collapse of the enemy's morale. In addition, Lu Bu can directly "name" officers above the rank of lieutenant, making it like entering an empty land...
A formation of 500 men was reduced to only 400 fleeing soldiers in just one raid!
This is also the special effect of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry - the wolf rushes and rushes, crashing into the enemy formation during the charge, which can make the enemy's morale collapse more easily.
"Raise the flag, raise the flag! East four, South three... Stick to the north... What are they doing?" Zhang Xun was not going to sit there and wait for death, and immediately began to command the resistance.
On the one hand, he ordered the four teams of covering cavalry to intercept, and on the other hand, he ordered the adjacent arrays to "score formations" - the opposite of "sparse formations", which means to concentrate into dense queues!
If the infantry concentrates to fight against the cavalry, there will be considerable casualties, but... if they don't concentrate, they will be completely defeated.
However, when Zhang Xun's flags and drums were in full swing, he found that none of the formations were obedient!
Logically speaking, the morale of the formation that was charged by the Bingzhou cavalry was just beginning to collapse, and it shouldn't have much impact on the overall situation. How come they all disobeyed orders?
Zhang Xun was so anxious that his vision and hearing were somewhat blinded. Finally, he squinted his eyes and vaguely saw some clues - it was the enemy's new infantry recruits!
The infantry of Qu'a were like walls at this time, completely isolating the actions of Zhang Xun's army. Moreover, when Chen Gong was commanding the formation, he also completely restrained Zhang Xun and was able to block the vital points of Zhang Xun's army in advance.
For a moment, Zhang Xun's army seemed to be trapped in a moving maze, and in this maze there were Bingzhou cavalry scything across it, harvesting morale...
"This is not a fish scale formation, this is not a fish scale formation!" Zhang Xun said with his feet stomped and teeth bared.
Of course it is not the fish scale formation, but it does refer to the nature of the fish scale formation. This is Chen Gong’s self-created military formation - the corner formation!
