Spring and Autumn I Am King

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In the past few years, Liu Xiazhi has been rampant around the big lake, rarely meeting an opponent, and he claims to be a "good soldier in the world". It was not until he encountered Zhao Wuxi's military **** that his group of thieves really tasted the war. taste.

The line of soldiers who marched neatly and pressed down like a mountain, the long spears could pass them through, and the armored men who hid their bodies behind the large shields would aim at the group of thieves who were full of flaws. The array slammed into it, overturned you to the ground, and after a loud roar, a sharp dagger pierced into the heart. Those bizarre crossbow machines, and the arrows shot out in unison, can easily pierce the thin brown clothes of the thieves, and nail them deep into the flesh.

There are also knights with big bows and leather armor, who can't see their faces. The roar of the earth fills the whole world when they charge with spears...

For ordinary pirates, a little taste of the above is enough to make them collapse, just like the last chase outside Kanyi. But this time was different. Although they fell into an ambush, more people gritted their teeth and continued to persevere under the shouts of Robber Zhi. They formed a good formation, took up bamboo spears, sickles and open farm implements to hold their positions, fought and retreated, and fought a **** path under the leadership of Liu Xiazhi.

After hurriedly running for a few miles, I didn't care to count the casualties. The five or six hundred people who were left behind didn't need to be reimbursed all, and three or four hundred were left on the road. This desperate resistance only caused a hundred people to the military soldiers. There were casualties, all the food, money, and silk that had just been snatched were thrown on the road, and those who held on to their belongings fell behind and became prisoners.

It failed again, but this trip to Yuncheng was not without results. What made Liu Xiazhi ecstatic was that he also seemed to have glimpsed the tactics of the military **** line phalanx, and even the weakness of the knights who came and went like the wind.

Onozawa and Lu country are full of hills and ravines, vertical and horizontal rivers and canals, and narrow roads. The large and dense battle formation of the military **** line phalanx is the nemesis of chariots and pawns, but it is difficult to adapt to the combat needs of this terrain. Robber Zhi felt that as long as he avoided confrontation with him, he could lure him into the forest, ambush him, and divide him, and he would be able to pull out their carapace and thorns just like catching hedgehogs and tortoises. Eat the soft meat inside.

But in the frontal confrontation, Liu Xiazhi couldn't think of how to defeat Zhao Wuxi's invincible frontal line square for the time being.

According to his vision, perhaps only hoplites with the same training and equipment can do this. Line column to line column, a dignified duel. It is the best way to solve those bronze hedgehogs (spears) and wooden turtle shells (sword shields).

However, it is impossible for a group of thieves to be scattered and disorderly. In this world, perhaps only the Wei Xianzi phalanx of the Zhongxing clan and the Wei clan, and the large phalanx of foot soldiers from the southern state of Wu can fight against it.

As for light knights. Robber Zhi believes that its main feature is fast maneuvering, and it has a strong and violent assault force, which is especially conducive to mobile operations in the plains and wilderness and general mountains and hills. In the past, Zhao Wuxi's victories showed that when he made detours, surprise attacks, cut off his back, and harassed the enemy's rear, he could often play an unexpected effect.

However, cavalry combat is not suitable for narrow and swampy places, and it is not conducive to sieging cities and seizing fortresses. It is good at trekking mountains and waters, and it is enough to avoid the range of activities of light knights.

At this moment, Liu Xiazhi suddenly realized that there was a rustling chaos in the team.

Last night, the thieves Kun's father and brothers in Onozawa embarked on the journey together. They got the promise of Liu Xiazhi's future, and they were anxious when they set off. This robbery is not like the past, where the last meal is unknown, but a return to their homeland, a once and for all adventure, they dream of winning wealth and land.

But the result was frustrating.

"Failed again!"

"The food that was copied is gone again!"

"Going hungry again tonight!"

"No clothes and no browns this winter. What should I do?"

The group of thieves retreated to the lake under the urging of Liuxiazhi's cronies. Anger and despair followed.

Liu Xiazhi shouted loudly, trying to suppress the feeling of defeat: "At least we are still alive, there is still a boat by the lake, and there are still people on the island, this time Zhao Wuxi has tried his best but still has not kept us. Wait until next time. You can beat it!"

After seeing through the weakness of Wuzu, he has such confidence!

However, before Liu Xiazhi finished speaking, one of his men pointed to the lakeshore they were about to reach and shouted, "General, there's smoke! There's a fire over there!"

...

Liu Xiazhi looked at the thick smoke on the lakeshore with a livid face. He knew that it was the direction of the moored boat. It was the beacon on the lakeshore who warned him just now that he realized that he was caught in the trap. He was found when he wanted to exterminate the more than 100 people he had left to guard the ship.

Now, they still succeeded. After the more than 200 ships were destroyed, they and the remaining 2,000 thieves lost the fastest way to escape. On land, they may be surrounded again at any time!

The group of thieves have no masters and are in a mess. What has been destroyed is the fishing boat they usually rely on to survive, and it is also the means of transportation that they rely on to escape back to the island in the heart of the lake. What should I do now?

"Don't panic! I'm leaving behind!"

Robber Zhi turned around again and shouted loudly in the crowd. The chaotic noise gradually dissipated. Everyone looked at him pleadingly, their only hope!

"Go south along the shore of the lake. There are dozens of boats there, and hundreds of fishermen from Dongyuan Island are waiting to meet us..."

Liu Xiazhi, never just make one preparation!

He let the group of thieves find hope again, and then said: "But first, we must defeat these Zhao soldiers in front of us first!"

The group of thieves turned their heads, only to realize that they did not know when, on the beach on the lake shore, a broad line of soldiers had appeared, holding flags, beating small drums, and forming a strange formation, slowly approaching them.

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Standing at the front of the queue holding the flag diagonally, Ran Qiu was not in a good mood.

There is annoyance about mistakes, and there is nervousness about the imminent battle.

Zhao Wuxi has always praised him for his stable combat and invincibility in previous drills, so he was entrusted with the important task of training this new type of formation day and night for the past few months.

Who would have guessed that something went wrong in the first battle.

His task was to command the five hundred soldiers and the soldiers of Ting from the lake shore, raid the robbers left by the lake, destroy their ships, and then complete the encirclement inland. Unexpectedly, the robbers learned to use them alive, so that people climbed on the beacon tower to watch, and when they saw them approaching, they took off their clothes and ignited the smoke, causing the ambush to be exposed.

"The robbers have arrived, and only we can stop them. The reinforcements from the robbers can arrive."

Originally, this formation, which had been practiced for several months, was only used as an auxiliary to try the effect, but it turned out to be the last line of defense to prevent the thieves from escaping. Ran Qiu could only bite the bullet. But his subordinates did not make this consciousness, and their faces were pale. There are quite a few who fight with arms and legs. If it is more to fight less, they are naturally not afraid, but now they are facing two thousand people with five hundred! Can you win?

"The apprentices of the robbers kill innocent people every day, and they live with the flesh of people, and they are violent and unscrupulous. They rob people, drive away cattle and horses, and take women. It's time to repent."

Ran Qiu shouted in the friendly Xilu dialect of the soldiers, exaggerating the disgust of the robbers and arousing their hatred.

"The pirate has an order, whoever kills and steals one person will have ten acres of land and one person will be captured. Ten acres of land can be sent to him, and the robber Zhi himself can be captured, with three hundred acres of land, and Zhuoba will be an official." , Ran Qiu threw out the reward again, and these promised rewards and merits immediately refreshed the spirits of the patriarchs who were a little nervous.

"Dare to retreat from the latter, those who escape from the battle, those who walk indiscriminately, and deal with them by military law!"

while intimidating. Ran Qiu is also watching to see if their formations spread out as they did during training.

The opposite Liu Xiazhi also noticed that the array of Zhao soldiers in front of him was quite special, very different from the dense linear phalanx, and even the army of any lord or doctor was very different. It is a loose two-row line, and each column is more than ten steps apart. If a group of thieves rush over together, this formation will not be able to stop them!

"This is probably not an elite military pawn, but an ordinary Yi Ting pawn."

Liu Xiazhi confidently encouraged the group of thieves: "We have more than 2,000 people, and the other generation has only five or six hundred. As long as they break through their thin array, they can flee along the lake shore. The ground here is soft, and the light knights can't The meeting will come, and the military soldier was hindered by the person who broke the back, and it is still several miles away, and it will take at least half a moment to arrive."

In just half a moment, it is the key to decide the victory or defeat!

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There were more than 500 men under Ran Qiu's men, who formed two loose long formations. There were twenty-five columns in the first and second rows, with eleven people as a team.

Why is the front of each team long, that is, the position where Ran Qiu stood holding the flag, leading the army before the battle, and commanding and supervising after the battle. There are five symmetrical people on the left and right sides behind him. They are different from the single spears and swords and shields in the linear spear array, and they hold very different weapons.

The first to bear the brunt are two short soldiers with vine shields and short spears, and several short-handled spears on their backs. Most of them are prudent people with great strength and courage. They can use the shield to block the arrows, stones and bamboo spears thrown by the robbers to cover the advance of the rear team; they can also throw spears to counterattack, or fight with the enemy. Assault Melee

The next two are the wolf hands, holding the wolf. The so-called wolf wood is to use the bamboo that grows around Onozawa, choose the old and firm ones, cut the bamboo end obliquely into a pointed shape, and leave sharp branches all around. And bold, so the usage is straightforward and easy to learn. The wolf hand uses the sharp blade at the front of the wolf to assassinate the enemy, and uses it to cover the advance of the shield hand and the attack of the spear hand behind.

Once again, there were four spearmen with ten-meter spears, two on the left and right, respectively taking care of the shield and wolf hands on the left and right in front.

At the bottom are two soldiers holding "boring palladium" to serve as vigilance, support, etc.~www.wuxiahere.com~ This is something that was born out of the usual digging tools.

It was such an array with seemingly messy and nondescript weapons, which stood in the way of the robbers who were returning to their hearts like arrows. At first glance, compared to the neat and dense line of spears, it seemed to be vulnerable.

Having said that, when the loose array on the opposite side began to change, Rogue Zhi couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and had a bad idea.

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"Raise a soldier for a thousand days, use a soldier for a time, how to practice on weekdays, and how to display it today. Advance with a card, save the card with a wolf, save the card with a spear, save a pike with a short soldier, advance when combined, retreat when divided, and must not be confused. out of order!"

Ran Qiu remembered that when Zhao Wuxi discussed and practiced this new formation with him mysteriously, he gave it a strange name and had a strange smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Each unit is symmetrical on the left and right, just like the mandarin ducks in Onozawa, what about the mandarin duck array?"

That's right, this is the mandarin duck formation of "I'm not afraid of my wife" General Qi Da, known as the "Terminator of Japanese pirates"! Because of Zhao Wuxi, the Second Formation came out two thousand years in advance, although it was also dealing with the likes of Lake Pirates. (To be continued.)