Chapter 837

The method of setting up the formation is to form a team first.

Zhang Renzheng kept in mind the art of war. Although Zhang Renzheng was a regiment-level captain, he was also a leader among the younger generation.

The archers who were preparing for the battle before the battle only knew that Captain Zhang had been trained in the lecture hall of Yulin Palace, but no one knew that Zhang Renzheng's father was Zhang Shigui, the Duke of Guo, and the general who led the left army of the Twelve Guards of Nanya. Today's emperor is in chaos.

Everyone only knows that Captain Zhang has been admired by Duke Wei since he went south with Duke Wei from Chang'an. The Duke of Wei went east to the south and often gave lectures in his spare time to teach the officers the art of war. Captain Zhang performed very well. It is said that they all directly worshiped Duke Wei and were disciples.

"When the enemy wants to fight, he must form a column!"

Zhang Renzheng thrust his Mo Dao fiercely into the ground beside him, with the longbow in his hand, his aura surged.

When he called out the formation lock, the 400 archers and 400 crossbowmen under his command knew that he was going to use the formation formation method.

Stacked array is also known as stacked array.

Stacking and stacking are the tactical characteristics of formations, but the formation itself is the foundation.

Qin Lang taught Zhang Renzheng and other young officers more than once that formation is the embodiment of army organization and discipline, and the prerequisite for the commander to carry out his combat intentions to the entire army. There is no team, it is just a mob in a mess.

The stacked formation is a formation that Qin Lang adjusted and improved according to the combat method of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. The long spear is in the front and cannot sit up. The second strongest bow is the second strongest bow. Secondary archers, supplemented by cavalry on both sides as cover.

Generally speaking, this is the usual tactics of Tang soldiers.

The spearmen are in the front, the archers and crossbowmen are in the back, and the cavalry is on both sides. The soldiers and horses are arranged in three horizontal lines, so it is also called the three formations.

However, in the tactics of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the past, the crossbowman was usually in the front, the archer was second, the spearman was last, the swordsmen were on the left and right, and the cavalry was covering the wings.

What stands out is the tactical thinking of long-range strike first with bows and crossbows? As the saying goes, there are only three arrows before a battle?

Those archers with strong backs can also turn into big swordsmen with armored swords when they turn around? These high-level arms? So they have always acted as the vanguard and put them at the forefront.

But now Qin Lang's stacked formation is still an echelon of troops? But the spearmen are placed in the front? The crossbowmen are placed at the end? The archers are placed in the middle.

It seems to be a simple adjustment of the position? But it is a completely different tactical thinking on the battlefield.

Especially right now.

The Tang army who went ashore totaled 2,800 people, including 400 archers and 400 crossbowmen each. The number of long-range soldiers was not many, facing ten times the enemy, Qin Lang was reluctant to fight these high-level troops.

What's more, the enemy sent cavalry first, so the archers' original advantage in dealing with enemy infantry was greatly reduced. Although infantry bows can defeat cavalry, they are also afraid of the impact of cavalry.

But in order to ensure the sight of the archers? Although Qin Lang put the spearmen in the front row? But at the beginning of the battle, he asked them to sit on the ground and give up their sight.

Although crossbowmen are not as strong as archers? But the range of crossbows is farther than that of bows and arrows. Therefore, Qin Lang's stacked formation requires that the last crossbowmen attack first when fighting, so the archers also knelt on one knee at the beginning , allowing the crossbowmen behind to play steadily.

The archer did not release the arrow until the enemy got closer.

As the enemy rushed closer, the spearmen stood up and fought hand-to-hand again.

Flags are flying.

Each team has a team flag, which is represented by colors, animals and other patterns. Each team is a pure team, a single-armed team, a team of archers or a team of crossbowmen.

In Qin Lang's stacked formation, he deliberately gathered all kinds of arms to form an army formation.

There are 2,800 troops, 800 bowmen, 1,000 spearmen, 500 sword-shieldmen, and 500 cavalry, which are mobile forces and reserve troops.

The Tang army formed formations and used pure formations. There were very few flower formations that combined bows, spears, knives and shields. Compared with mixed flower formations, pure formations were more suitable for large-scale battles, while flower formations were more suitable for small-scale battles.

A number of pure teams of arms are combined into formations and mixed into formations.

The drums of war were beating.

It's over.

The spearmen are lined up.

Another drumbeat.

The spearmen didn't care about the slippery and muddy ground, they all sat down on the ground, leveling their spears, swords, knives and axes.

The third drum beats again.

The four teams of infantry in the middle consisted of two hundred people. These infantrymen from the Guanzhong area were all hulking, tall, and full of beards. After the drum, they immediately knelt on the ground on one knee.

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"Lock array!"

The lock formation is the key point and the essence of the formation formation.

The formation is locked by rejecting horses and connected by iron chains.

In an instant, the cabinet horses composed of countless cabinet guns stood up, three guns and six guns, all of which had blades, and the rejecting horses connected by iron cables were not disposable equipment temporarily tied with wooden stakes and sharpened ropes in the rear position.

This is an artifact that can be quickly assembled and disassembled, and is easy to carry and transport, but also fierce and sharp.

The three horse refusal guns are sharp at both ends, and there is a hole in the middle. Together with a bolt to lock the three horse refusal guns, they form an extremely ferocious horse refusal.

Then use iron chains to combine these refusal horses to form a row of refusal horse walls.

The refusal horse composed of a large number of refusal horse guns not only erected a refusal horse wall in front of the formation, but Zhang Renzheng also ordered people to surround the entire left-wing infantry with a circle of refusal horses, and even set up many soldiers inside the circle. A few rejecting horses are scattered in the formation.

The battle has not yet started, but he has surrounded himself first.

On Tuomi Mountain, Miss Nong San and others, who were only about two miles away, watched the battle from a high position, and they could see it clearly.

"What do you mean?"

Fu San was thoughtful, "It seems that they used chariot formations. It is said that when the Han people fought against the nomadic cavalry on the northern grasslands, they often surrounded the formation with chariots and used it as a screen for the infantry in order to deal with the cavalry. They want to use this carbine-rejecting gun instead of forming a chariot formation to stop our cavalry."

Mrs. Nong San watched for a while, "But in this way, don't those Tang soldiers all become turtles in their shells? And you see, the Tang people put the cavalry behind the infantry, but their horses stood in a circle. But they stood between the infantry and the cavalry. In this way, wouldn't their cavalry be blocked behind? And look at how many horses stood up, and their own soldiers were all blocked inside the horses. They're not going to come out?"

Of course, in war, one cannot just be beaten and not fight back. Even if the city is besieged, no one will block the city gate. Even if the city gate is the easiest to break through, it cannot be blocked, because although it is a loophole, it is also a way to fight back out of the city.

Who fights the war foolishly tied up his hands and feet, stays there and fights?

Even a siege doesn't work like this, let alone a field battle on flat ground?

Nong Tiangui had even started to mock Qin Lang for his namelessness.

But Mrs. Nong San thinks it may not be so.

"Perhaps the surname Qin knows that the soldiers and horses are far inferior to ours, so he intentionally restrains the soldiers in such a way that the soldiers will not be afraid to run away."

There was water on all sides, and another circle of refusal to lock up the horses was set up. This style of play made Nong Sanniang and others feel confident.

Although Juma defeated the cavalry, but the opponent played this way, the initiative was entirely in their hands.

In front of the Tang army.

The battle formation has been locked, the army drums have stopped, and only the red flags are left.

Zhang Renzheng looked at the enemy cavalry who were galloping closer and closer. These donkey-like pony horses ran really slowly. He turned his head and looked around.

The two hundred archers and the two hundred crossbowmen all held their breath, not a single one looked around.

Those circles of refusals gave them a great sense of security.

If the army is determined, it must be full.

For a crossbowman, the most important thing is to concentrate without being disturbed, so that the bowstring can be fully drawn, and the power of the crossbow can be maximized.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, chariot battles were popular, and during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, chariot battles were popular.

The chariot formations that prevailed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties were actually designed to restrain the cavalry charge and give the crossbowmen a stable output of armor-piercing.

But now, under this special terrain, Qin Lang ordered formations to face ten times as many enemies, deliberately using his body as bait to lure the barbarians to fight. It seemed that he was too conceited, but it was all carefully calculated.

Under such a battle situation, the Tang army, which only had more than 2,000 people, did not need to maneuver at all. What it needed was to be able to withstand the enemy's attack. The enemy was outnumbered, and the enemy would continue to pounce on them, so defensive counterattack was the last word.

Fortunately, in such a narrow terrain, the barbarians didn't have elephants or armored cavalry, otherwise Qin Lang, who refused to fight horses and horses, couldn't defend against them at all.

But war will not always be static, and it has to be adjusted according to the enemy's situation. Now this method of warfare is very suitable for the current situation.

Although the barbarian cavalry was far inferior to the cavalry of the Central Plains or the grassland, they still rushed close by stepping on the mud.

Zhang Renzheng looked at the distance with his eyes, but at this moment his heart calmed down.

He is not the first brother in the battlefield.

"Break the crossbow and get ready!"

"put!"

There are seven kinds of military crossbows in the Tang Dynasty, namely, breaking Zhang crossbow, horn bow crossbow, wooden single crossbow, large wooden single crossbow, bamboo pole crossbow, large bamboo pole crossbow and Fuyuan crossbow.

Among them, the crossbow is a single infantry crossbow, the horned crossbow is a single cavalry crossbow, and the other five crossbows are all medium and large crossbows, which require multiple people to operate.

Splitting crossbows are crossbows that are drawn by hand. Relatively speaking, the shooting range is stronger than that of bows.

However, the longer the shooting range, the lower the accuracy. In order to ensure the lethality, generally the crossbow is fired about a hundred steps away from the enemy.

The crossbow has a long range, but it is slow to string. Often, once the crossbow is stringed, the archer can shoot a few arrows, but the power of the crossbow is strong, especially those that are driven by feet, or even lathe crossbows that are pulled by oxen. That is even more powerful, and the crossbow spears used are directly thicker and longer than infantry spears.

Especially when the crossbowmen are standing on the top of the city, they are even more fierce. Of course, in field battles, if there are chariots to rely on, or directly mess up the arrows, they are also very sharp, and can directly strike the enemy from a long distance. Fang, especially when the enemy is charging intensively, is even more powerful.

Two hundred crossbowmen each carried a broken crossbow.

At this time, the enemy cavalry was still one hundred and fifty paces away.

Zhang Renzheng ordered the launch.

The crossbowmen held the Sangzhe crossbows that had been wound up a long time ago. They were a group of crossbowmen from Jianghuai.

Jianghuai crossbowmen are the most famous and best crossbowmen in the world. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they have been known all over the world. Especially in the confrontation between the north and the south, the Jianghuai crossbowmen have shown their power again and again.

In the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang conquered the Liao Dynasty, and also recruited Jianghuai crossbowmen several times to participate in the battle.

These Jianghuai crossbowmen are not as tall and burly as the infantry archers from Guanzhong, but they are also strong men among the southerners. Although the drawing of the crossbow is not as demanding as the infantry longbow, it also requires two brute force.

The enemy approached one hundred and fifty paces.

For crossbowmen with a range of up to 300 paces, 150 paces is a proven shooting distance, which can guarantee both power and accuracy.