Crossing the God of Warring States System

Chapter 30 Encyclopedia of Formations
After eating, Zhou Zihao asked the housekeeper Xue Wen to take him back to his room, and then told him not to be disturbed by anyone.

The reason for this rush was because the system that hadn't moved for a long time began to show kindness and reminded him to find a place where no one was around.

After locking the door of the room, with a thought, Zhou Zihao actually entered the inner space in his body. This is the place where he spent a lot of energy to open up when he got the system.

At that time, it had just been opened, although Zhou Zihao came in, but at that time it felt like a soul, not the whole person and body.

In this hundred-acre-sized place, there is still that strange door in the middle. This may be the teleportation door that comes with the system, and Guiguzi's training ground on the mountain may be inside the door.

There might be a world inside this door, Zhou Zihao guessed, and really hoped that this door could be opened now.

However, after pushing him several times in a row, he was prompted that the authority is not enough. There is only an open space here, but the door. Why did the system forcefully bring him here?
It's really confusing, and it's really depressing whether this doubt can be solved at once.

"Welcome the master to enter the body space, and I will lead the master through this stage."

Just when he was wondering, the system's notification sounded, and at the same time, a phantom appeared in front of Zhou Zihao's eyes, and it was solidifying, and it gradually appeared as a human figure.

In an instant, a 12-year-old little loli appeared in front of Zhou Zihao's eyes. She looked sweet. As soon as she appeared, she ran to Zhou Zihao and said cheerfully: "Hello, Master, I am a formation elf, proficient in ancient and modern battles." The essence of various formations."

Zhou Zihao was stunned. He didn't expect the system to be so powerful. Originally, he just wanted to buy a formation book with patterns and text explanations.

He looked at the formation elf carefully for a while, like a child, wearing a set of modern two-dimensional anime costumes, a bit like a little magic fairy, with a delicate baby face, and has maintained a cute face since it came out. Smile.

"You said you said the spirit formation? But I didn't buy this equipment. Where did you come from?"

Zhou Zihao, who was puzzled, couldn't help but ask.

The formation spirit pointed to the formation book in Zhou Zihao's hand, and said, "Open it, there will be an introduction on the first page."

Zhou Zihao opened the book cover of "The Encyclopedia of Arrays", and the picture scroll that caught his eye was the elf. The following text introduced:

The formation spirit is the integration of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth formations.If there is spirit, the formation will be wonderful. This is because it is specially created for the Dharma. The larger the formation, the more spiritual energy is consumed.

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Zhou Zihao didn't even bother to look at the rest, but directly opened the directory of the formation encyclopedia, first to see what formations were used in it, otherwise, how to train soldiers in the future?

In this era of cold weapons, what matters is people and weapons, and the second is the results of their respective military training. What Zhou Zihao wants is a unique army. No matter how high the price is, it must be completed, otherwise it will be difficult to stand on the ground surrounded by countries. Qi State.

There are plenty of people in Qi State, but it is impossible to use them all for fighting. It is necessary to select a soldier who specializes in fighting and let Sun Pang and Sun Pang train. The main point of training is to form an array.

Only after training well in the early stage can the highest effect be exerted on the battlefield, and at the same time, it can be more unexpected. Sun Bin studied the ancient formations, and then summed it up, and came up with an eight-formation map for his own use. It is a good idea, and it is also It can be seen that he has also done a lot of research on the military formation map.

Zhou Zihao continued to open the table of contents in the "Encyclopedia of Formation", Chapter 1 formation, from top to bottom are: square formation, circular formation, sparse formation, number formation, cone formation, wild goose formation, hook formation, Ten formations such as Xuanxiang Formation, Water Formation, and Fire Formation are the concluding part.

After watching for a while, Zhou Zihao did not look carefully at the specific functions and origins of the formation, but looked at the formation elf standing next to him.

He said to the "Xuanxiang Formation" on the catalogue, "Can you show me this?"

"Of course, please see, master."

As the spirit of the formation said, he moved away from Zhou Zihao, waved his hand towards the open space, and a brief background introduction of the formation was displayed.

Zhou Zihao read it carefully.

This is a kind of false formation to confuse the enemy, with a large space between the formations, many flags, the continuous sound of drums, the sound of imitating the marching of military vehicles, and the noise of infantry, as if the number of troops is huge, and various methods are used to deceive the enemy.

During the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang entered Shu and took charge of pacifying the Southern Barbarians, the Shu army's main combat targets were Cao Wei's combined infantry and cavalry forces. The combat areas were mainly mountainous, and Shu lacked horses, so Zhuge Liang rehearsed the "Eight Formations".

The eight formations are actually formations that existed before the Three Kingdoms era.

Sun Tzu has eight formations, and Sun Bin also has "Eight Formations" in "Sun Bin's Art of War", and eight formations were commonly used in combat training in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Zhou Zihao read this, everything in front of him turned into a combination of subtitles and pictures, and a projector appeared.

Starting from the fact that the infantry of the Shu Kingdom was the main force, Zhuge Liang innovated the real formation on the basis of the original ancient eight formations, drew formation maps, and finally formed the "Eight Formation Maps" for training the Shu army.

The so-called formation map is to draw the formation method into a figure, draw it on brocade, paper, the ground or pile it up with sand and stone to form an intuitive object. This is the formation diagram.

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When Zhou Zihao saw this, the elves began to change their tactics and directly displayed the formations one by one.

The Eighth Formation is a group square formation. Each Eighth Formation has eight small formations distributed in eight directions around the central formation. In the center of the Eighth Formation are generals, golden drum flags, and directly subordinate soldiers and horses. It's the center formation.Each small formation has code names such as heaven, earth, wind, cloud, dragon, tiger, bird, and snake.

A pair of pictures were imprinted in Zhou Zihao's mind, and at the same time, the elf also gave him many classic examples of war in history, allowing Zhou Zihao to quickly experience the war as if watching someone else's war game or watching a 3D movie. The advantages and disadvantages of this formation.

The formations in each direction are grouped into six small formations, the middle formations are grouped into sixteen small formations, and the entire large square formation has a total of 64 small formations.

After the large square formation, there are 24 small formations composed of rangers, a total of 88 small formations.

These small phalanxes can be cavalry, infantry, and convoys, ranging from dozens to hundreds of formations. There are eight formations of crossbowmen in the front row, long weaponry in the middle, and short weaponry in the back (sometimes in different order). In order to delay the enemy's attack and give full play to the power of the crossbowmen, obstacles such as charging cars, antlers, and caltrops were also set up during defense.

The Eight Formation is a defensive formation. The advantage is that there are no weaknesses in deployment. It can be attacked from any direction. The overall formation does not need to make fundamental changes. If one place is attacked, the adjacent formations on the two wings can automatically become two wings to protect the formation. Support the formation under attack.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. First of all, such a complex eight-formation requires a lot of time to train, and its mobility is poor. In order to maintain the integrity of the formation, running is not allowed when advancing, and it is not allowed to sprint when retreating.

What makes Zhou Zihao difficult is here, because the current war can be said to be all soldiers. As long as a war is launched, men from all over the country can be organized to go to the battlefield. However, most of them are usually doing farm work. How can they have time to train such complicated men? Array.

The elf didn't give him too long to think, and a sweet voice sounded: "The front is the back, and the future is the front. The front has no speed, and the retreat has no rush. The eight formation can be said to be a very conservative defensive formation. There is no big defeat. It's also difficult to win big."

Zhou Zihao nodded and agreed, "Then can this formation still be used?"

Elf: "The master can use it, because this is only the formation method summed up by Mr. Zhuge during the Three Kingdoms period. He also summed it up based on the actual situation in Sun Bin's Art of War, but he has many changes and can cope with various forms. It can be said that he has overcome it." Lots of downsides.

The eight formations are more suitable for infantry to fight on the plains. When the position is restricted by ditches, forests, etc., it can be adjusted according to the actual situation.There should be various changes in formations when marching and attacking. "

Then, the formation elves restored all the eight Zhuge formations.

"Oh my God, these are the complete eight formations. It's so amazing. No wonder Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms is said to be so amazing. It seems that there are no false scholars under his fame." Zhou Zihao sighed in his heart while looking at it, with a small smile in his eyes. Stars, as if he could dominate the world after possessing this formation.

The Zhuge Eight Formation is no longer just a combat formation, but through the training of the "Eight Formation Map", the Shu Army's combat guiding ideology, organization, and training have been infiltrated into the Shu Army.

After Zhou Zihao finished this passage, it was like watching the important wars of the Three Kingdoms all over again.

Originally, Zhou Zihao thought that the battle was over when he saw this, but what he didn't expect was that the elves changed to another background, from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.

General Li Jing appeared on the formation. On the basis of Zhuge's eight formations, he compiled the six-flower formation, which is like the formation of "six flowers".

The central army is in the center, and the front army, the left army, the left Yuhou army, the rear army, the right army, and the right Yuhou army are distributed around the middle army.

The Liuhua formation has formations such as circular formation, square formation, curved formation, vertical formation, and sharp formation. Each of these five formations has five changes, and there are 25 changes in total. Generals can adopt different formations according to different enemy situations, terrain, offensive and defensive needs formation.

This example gave Zhou Zihao a deeper understanding of this formation. He guessed that the complete set of formations should have been changed according to history. He wondered if it was as powerful as the ones in fantasy novels.

But seeing this, Zhou Zihao has already decided that this book is already very powerful, even if it is not so fantasy, he can use it to realize his dream of dominating the Central Plains.

Then, the description of the elves came to the Song Dynasty. At this time, the enemy became the northern nomads. Due to the lack of sufficient quantity and quality of cavalry, in order to use the main force of infantry to counter the nomadic cavalry on the plain.Among all the dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the dynasty that attaches the most importance to formation.

However, the Song Dynasty practiced "generals from the center". Every time a general goes out to fight, the emperor must "draw the formation, rule the temple to win, give discipline, remote control is cheap, the commander obeys, and the nobles supervise.

Scenes drifted by, making Zhou Zihao a bit like watching a movie, but what he saw was the bloody ancient cold weapon battle, and he also saw the history of the struggle between the agricultural people and the nomadic people at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, in order to better control the generals who lead the troops to battle, they often gave the generals an array map before sending troops, and stipulated the specific tactics of the front line in the deep palace.

Therefore, after the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the wars against the northern minorities ended in failure.

Since the Song Dynasty, the development of formations has gradually become conservative.

The formations commonly used by the Song army mainly include the regular formation, the Pingrong Wanquan formation, and the eight formations of the current dynasty.

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After reading it, Zhou Zihao stood in the open space and thought for a long time. He was planning a Daqi expeditionary army that relied entirely on formations. This army must be equipped with the best armor and best trained soldiers.

First of all, you need to obtain the consent of the father, after all, he is not dead, I am just a prince, but Tian Qi's heart to fight for the world will never change.

　Some Baidu knowledge, I hope you don't mind, I am also learning to describe these formations.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)