Not to mention that your career is not guaranteed, even your head may not be able to be guaranteed.

Under the city walls, heart-wrenching shouts came, children, women, men, and elderly, intertwined.

A group of ragged people were stopped outside by officers and soldiers. Some people had already had their faces and were as scattered as firewood.

He rushed out of the city wall with his teeth and claws, but was beaten back by thick sticks.

From time to time, a painful scream came, and the whole scene was like a hell on earth.

People everywhere are already in vain. At this time, General Ye and Ma Teng are immersed in the formation, as if they don’t know the world.

Ma Teng took a sip of tea and said:

"In fact, in the war, the changes and development of the formation went through a process from simple to complex, from small troops to large troops. Ma believed that there were four most important factors in military struggle."

General Ye said: "I wonder which four Mr. Ma said?"

Ma Teng said word by word: "These four are formations, momentum, change, and power.

The array is placed in the first position, and the names of cone-shaped arrays, goose-shaped arrays, hook-shaped arrays, Xuanxiang arrays, and Jifeng arrays are listed.

A cone-shaped formation is an attack formation arrangement like a sword edge and a sharp cone.

When launching an attack, first insert the enemy with elite troops, and then use powerful follow-up troops to tear open the cracks in the enemy's formation to expand the results of the battle. This formation is neither complex nor mysterious.

From the analysis of its formation or formation arrangement, it can be roughly divided into two forms.”

"What kind of form is it?" General Ye asked.

Ma Teng continued: "One of these is a square array and the other is a circular array. The changes in the formation all start from measuring the square and circle.

The square array is square or rectangular, which is the basic form of the formation.

Because all levels of the army have their own ranks, they are always square or rectangular when arranged neatly.

The basic configuration of military combat is often the combination of the central army and the left and right armies, which is a horizontal rectangular formation.

Ma Teng continued: "There are many records about square arrays in the old documents, such as tens of thousands of people who think they are square arrays, and square arrays attack together, etc. This kind of square array is used for a long time.

Another main form of a formation is a circular formation.

The square formation is mainly an offensive formation, while the circular formation is a defensive formation."

"Why is this?" General Ye didn't understand the difference between the two.

"This is because whenever the enemy advances to its own side, in order to minimize the enemy's attack surface and minimize the defense line as much as possible, the original evacuation formation must be reduced into a dense formation, and it can be an organic defense system as much as possible.

If there are high hills and hills as the support behind it, they are usually arranged in a semicircular form of the Yanyue Camp.

In addition, whenever you are on the flat ground, you adopt a dense circular array. This is the square array, so it is the rudiment; the circular array is the rudiment.

Simply put, square formations are used for attack, and round formations are used to gather troops for defense. The round formation is solid because it is the meaning of this."

General Ye had some insight and said, "The so-called "All changes will not leave the roots, but the main mistake is nothing more than that."

Ma Teng said: "It is precisely this principle. Formation, as an important part of tactical thought, plays an important role in guiding combat."

"Mr. These words were really enlightening, and Ye benefited a lot." General Ye saw Ma Teng talking endlessly, with reasonable and evidence, and respectful respect.

"Ye didn't know what important role the formation played in the war, please

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Teach Mr. Ma”

To sum up, there are four main functions of formations in ancient wars.”

"I wonder which four are there?" General Ye asked.

"First, strictly rank formation. The role of a formation is to ensure that soldiers maintain the most appropriate rank formation in combat according to strict organization.

In a battle, the general must implement the combat intentions throughout the army.

For example, if the heart uses the arms and the arms and fingers, thousands, tens of thousands or even more troops must cooperate in combat, and they can fight on their own in special circumstances.

This requires the entire army to be strictly organized on the battlefield and arranged in a certain formation to enter the battle. This is the "The way of fighting is to be strict".

The ‘position’ here refers to the position of soldiers in the queue.

The ancient formations were a combat method that arranged in a certain formation according to the needs of combat and arranged according to the army.

As long as soldiers at all levels can be organized seriously in a certain formation, they will be easy to command and advance and unify.

The outcome of the battle is often closely related to the survival of the formation. Once the battle formation is dispersed and disrupted, it means failure.

Therefore, the strictness of the formation and the role of the formation are particularly important.”

"Ye understands one of these, what about the second one?"

Ma Teng continued: "Secondly, give full play to the combat effectiveness of the army. The ancient army had chariots, infantry and cavalry, and there were also a variety of weapons.

One of the main purposes of the ancients' research on formations was to maximize the combat effectiveness of various types of troops and weapons in battle.

The chariots are easy to form and launch an attack on the enemy on the vast battlefield, and it is also easy to form a chariot battalion for temporary defense."

Ma Teng paused and asked, "Can you know the characteristics of infantry?"

General Ye naturally knew it and said: "The characteristics of infantry are maneuvering and flexible, capable of attacking and defending, especially being good at climbing highs over danger.

It can overcome obstacles to various terrain and conduct relatively continuous combat."

Ma Teng nodded with a smile and asked again: "Can you know what the characteristics of the cavalry are?"

"The characteristics of cavalry are speed, flexibility, strong impact, and good at long-distance emergency attacks." General Ye said.

When a general commands a war, it is the most basic requirement to understand the characteristics of the troops.

After hearing this, Ma Teng said, "That's right. In a battle, how to fully utilize the strengths of the three armies and avoid their weaknesses.

How to make the three work in the best combination and work together under different circumstances to form the greatest group combat power. This is often the main content of formulating various formations."

"Mr. Ma is very right!" General Ye said in a timely manner.

"Third, we must adapt to and utilize the terrain.

Fighting on a vast battlefield will inevitably encounter various terrain conditions. Different arrangements and deployments are made according to various terrain conditions, which is to use different formations.

From a strategic perspective, different regions are divided into nine types: land compete, land interchange, land crossroads, land subsidence, land encirclement, land dead, land dead.

The regional terrain that comes from the battlefield is divided into six types: connecting, hanging, supporting, narrow, dangerous, and far,

According to the six terrain, the main generals must arrange their troops in different ways to win.

The so-called "terrain is the help of the army. It is expected that the enemy will win, and the plan will be dangerous and far, which is the way of the general. Those who know this and use this will win, and those who do not know this will lose.

All the formations are formulated accordingly

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This principle.”

General Ye nodded and agreed.

"Fourth, adapt to changes in enemy situations. The enemy situation changes greatly in war, and the deployment of the army must adapt to these changes and take corresponding measures.

Different formations can be used according to the enemy's offensive and defensive posture, military composition, main weapons, combat effectiveness and quality.

Even in a battle, if the enemy situation changes, the corresponding formation should be used."

General Ye said: "Since the formation can play such an important role in combat, Ye will have to practice more in this area in the future to make practice perfect.

But there must be many things to pay attention to in this section of formation, right?”

Ma Teng replied: "Yes. The formations are ever-changing, but no matter how the formation is arranged and how the formation changes, there are always certain rules to follow.

The so-called "depending on the ground, the enemy, the formation is ordered"; "All formations are only sparse, wars are only secrets, and soldiers are only mixed."

"I wonder if Mr. Ma can explain in detail?" General Ye asked.

"That is to say, first of all, we must decide what kind of formation to adopt based on the terrain and the enemy situation. When setting up the formation, we must pay attention to the evacuation of the formation. The troops should be dense during battles and the equipment should be diverse.

The ranks should be evacuated, which means that between soldiers, the ranks should not be too close, and there should be a certain distance between them.

Only by using various weapons can the formation change."

General Ye raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Then what kind of interval is the most suitable?"

"Generally speaking, each infantry has two steps of land; each cavalry has four steps of land.

In addition to the relationship between soldiers' positions, rows and columns, from the perspective of the entire army, the overall arrangement should also be at a certain distance.

A complete array can often be divided into four parts: array head, array abdomen, array wings, and array tail.

The head of the formation is the vanguard or vanguard of the entire formation, the abdomen of the entire formation is the main force or the overall reserve force of the entire formation, the wing of the formation is used to cover the main force of the central government and the mobile forces that carry out roundabout or raids against the enemy, and the tail of the formation is the guard force behind or behind the entire formation."

"Ye is not talented, I don't know how to distribute these four parts?"

"The formation head should not be farther away from these four parts. The formation tail must be changed. The abdomen of the formation must be solid and the formation wings should be lightly tilted.

In this way, the entire array can be flexibly maneuvered, discretely aggregated, and orderly.

The military strength should be dense, which means that the reason why an overall strike force can be formed during combat depends on the organic overall combat power rather than the combat power of individual attacks and kills.

This includes the close cooperation of all troops, as well as the contact support between battalions and small formations, left and right response, internal and external cooperation.

Only when there is a formation in the formation and a team in the formation can one achieve a time of breaking and rescue of the formations.

Only in this way can tactics be concentrated, dispersed, filled and transferred according to needs on the battlefield.

As for the "soldiers are just a mess", it is a weapon with various functions.

In the use of the array, Ma emphasized that the array is amorphous.

Formation is a cleverness, and the battle is followed by formation, which is the constant of military strategy; the wonderful use lies in one mind.

The cleverness of the formation means that the formation should be flexibly used according to the specific situation, and cannot force a picture to be executed mechanically.

Only by paying attention to the formation diagram and being able to adapt to the formation can we master the amorphous shape and the mystery of using the formation."

After speaking, Ma Teng asked General Ye: "General, when Ma was talking about the formation just now, he saw the general thinking hard, and he didn't know what he was doing?"
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