Chapter 80 The Horse and the Sword, Collapsed
Silver-faced Wei Tuo Qin Yong led eighteen Qin family soldiers out slowly.
They have also noticed the uninvited guest.
"Array!"
Qin Yong strode forward, walked directly to the front and stood still, inserted the coiling dragon stick into the ground, took out two pots of sixty feathered arrows, stuck the arrows in the ground, and carried the other pot on his back.
Longbow strung.
A tall young man followed closely behind, holding a spear with a black pennant hanging from the sharp tip. Two short but stout men stood on his left and right sides. They didn't hold spears, but each had a horizontal knife at their waists, a dough card in their hands, and a longbow on their backs.
Another four men silently stepped forward and stood in the third row.
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Qin Lang stepped out of the tent, stood in the camp surrounded by camels, and looked at Qin Yong and the others who were arrayed outside the circle.
Wei Zheng also put away the book and stood beside him to look at it.
"As expected of Duke Qi's personal army, this position is the most standard team. The leader of the team stands at the front, the flag bearer and the flag guard follow closely behind, and then the number of rows increases, and the last row is the deputy commander of the team to supervise the battle. "
"There are team leaders leading the battle, there are team deputy supervisors, there are spear and shield players, and there are also sword and card players jumping soldiers, and everyone is holding a bow to lead the crossbow. The whole team is in a triangular assault formation, full of offensive momentum!"
Over there, Liu Jiu and Liu San also felt a strong murderous aura after seeing the positions of the nineteen Qin family soldiers.
"Damn, there are only nineteen people, an incomplete team, but it looks like a battle group of coercion, amazing. Saner, let's help the brothers hold down the battle!"
Liu Jiu and Lin San recruited twenty knights under their command, and each of them formed a team of ten men. They got on their horses and stood on both sides of the camp, guarding the camp and supporting Qin Yong's team at any time.
Wei Zheng looked around at them a few times, "As expected of a ranger on the frontier, this riding and shooting is really a natural ability, and the coordination of cavalry and cavalry, although there are only more than 30 people in the district, even if you face ten times as many bandits, you are still stable. .”
To tell the truth, it was the first time Qin Lang saw such a formal method of warfare. Although he had a thousand or two thousand people with him at Xuanwumen before, they were all mobs.
Qin Yong and the others are few now, but this position, this momentum is completely different.
"Why not form a square?" Qin Lang asked.
He remembered those cold weapon wars in foreigner movies, and his favorite was the dense array of spears, the denser the better, and they were all square.
For example, the Roman legionary infantry formation, such as the Macedonian phalanx, the Spanish pike formation, etc.
Wei Zheng glanced at Qin Lang in surprise, thinking that as the son of a general, he shouldn't ask such a layman's question.
"Does Saburo know what is an army and what is an array?"
"Isn't an army just a soldier, isn't an formation just a formation?"
Wei Zheng shook his head, "It's wrong, it's a big mistake, the formation is not the formation, the formation is the combat system and the command system. A standard tactical regiment in the Tang Dynasty has 2,800 soldiers, including 1,800 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. .”
"The infantry is the main force, and the infantry is divided into three categories. The first category is the basic infantry. Five hundred and fifty people form a team. There are ten teams in total. The formation is a triangular formation with a side length of ten feet. The captain must stand at the end. The front end is called leading the battle. The team leader must be the bravest and most able to fight."
The deputy of the team stood at the back with a long knife and was the supervisor of the battle. Anyone who dared to retreat and escape would be chopped with a knife. A team of fifty people, a total of eight lines, one captain in the first line, three flag bearers and two flag guards in the second line, seven infantry in the third line, eight infantry in the fourth line, and eleven in the seventh line Infantry, one deputy in the eighth row.
This kind of team is the most basic tactical team in Datang, and it can be built like building blocks to form arrays of different sizes. The most commonly used is a large team of 150 people in the three teams of the first and the second.
Then according to the situation on the battlefield, these teams can be arranged into several fronts and fronts.
Then the second category of the Tang army's infantry is the crossbowmen. They are basically deployed on both sides of the basic team.
The third team of infantry is mobile infantry, also 500 people, forming ten mobile teams as a reserve team.
Then the cavalry is deployed on both sides.
"See, the core tactics of our Datang army is infantry. The core of infantry is the basic battle team. Every battle team has a flag bearer. This is because the team flag is the core of the command of the army. The generals and lieutenants pass orders The flag directly commands each team on the battlefield, and each team advances and retreats according to the banner of the flag bearer."
"Supplemented with gongs, drums and bugles, we have a complete army formation. As long as an army is well-trained, familiar with orders, and cooperates tacitly, then theoretically even a hundred thousand people can all be placed on a battlefield. Through the banner of the commander, the banner of the general, the team flags of each team, the order of the golden drum, and the watch of the chariot, the troops on the battlefield of more than ten miles can be made to obey the command."
According to Wei Zheng's words, no matter how many people an army has, it must have such a command system before it can be called an army formation. Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, it will be just a mob.
As for an army, once the command system collapses, the army array also collapses.
"Warfighting is a science, and commanding is a profound skill. If you are only brave and able to fight, then at most you are only suitable to be the leader of a team leading a war. But any general who commands a regiment or an army must know how to command a party. .”
Speaking of this, Wei Zheng looked at Qin Lang suspiciously, "Does Sanlang not understand these things?"
"It's not that I don't understand, it's that I don't remember." Qin Lang argued, "I was injured when I fell from a horse while playing ball, so I don't remember many things."
"That's a pity. Commanding operations cannot be learned overnight."
Qin Lang didn't care about Wei Zheng's pity, but he understood a lot of the military combat thinking of this era. Why did Qin Yong and the others use a conical formation? Why do foreigners like to use square arrays?
This reflects Tang Jun's tactical thinking of focusing on offense.
The infantry is also divided into three types, supplemented by cavalry. This kind of multi-arms coordinated operations is extremely advanced.
The kind of people who carry a machete and chop from Nantianmen to Penglai East Road, from morning to night, can only be fights between gangsters, or at most, fights between bandits.
But anyone who can be called an army with a little more formality cannot be hacked like this.
The army pays attention to orders and prohibitions, advances when it needs to advance, stops when it needs to stop, and retreats when it needs to retreat, condensing each team into a whole, one by one, and finally condensing into an army formation with steely will.
Even before the war, you have to formulate a formation plan based on the number, strength and weakness of the enemy.
But they still lined up in several rows, and Qin Yong personally led the battle.
"Will there be too few people in this team, which will affect the effectiveness of the team?"
Qin Yong, the big hammer boy, said confidently, "Sanlang, don't underestimate them. Back then, Ayong and I led Alang's army. What kind of vicious battles have we never fought? Those who wade out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood have thousands of troops. Killed by Mali."
"But they don't wear armor!"
Qin Lang came out wearing armor, but Qin Yong and the others did not wear armor.
"No need, if you really want to put on armor, the bandit knows it's a trap and has already run away. Even now, with Ah Yong and the others forming up like this, any bandit with some knowledge will run away."
Indeed, which caravan guard can put on the formation of a regular army, which caravan guard can have so many spears, longbows, horizontal knives, and shields?
Although the imperial court forbade the folks from owning bows, arrows and short knives, the possession of long swords and swords was as strictly prohibited as armor.
Qin Qiong bravely won the three armies, and among the generals of the imperial court, he was definitely one of the best.
You must know that Qin Qiong has been under Li Shimin's command for seven years. He has fought in the east, the west, the south and the north.
And Qin Qiong always jumps the horse and raises the spear directly, rushing directly into the enemy army, and will surely stab the enemy general on the horse and behead him.
Suppressing the enemy's aura every time is icy cold, and Qin Qiong is absolutely sure about temperament.
What kind of generals, there will naturally be what kind of soldiers, Qin Yong, Qin Qiong's family soldiers, which one is not the trumpet Qin Qiong, all of them are brave and unparalleled.
If it wasn't for Qin Lang's intention to lure the thieves, they would be too lazy to do so. It would be too shameful for Qin Qiong's pro-army, the majestic **** of war, to deal with a group of thieves.
Qin Lang stared at it with great interest.
In the darkness, thieves gather.
They were invisible before, but now they came close, but they deliberately howled and shouted.
It's a pity that there was no panic in the small campsite, which surprised them very much. They were even more surprised when they saw Qin Yong waiting for the small team.
"Could it be the private guards of some Chang'an dignitaries? They still look good."
"I'm afraid of a bird, there are only a dozen or so people, and it's all over with a knife and a sword. This team has brought a lot of valuables, so we can't let this big fat sheep go!"
From beginning to end, Qin Yong and his subordinates did not say a word.
The thief gradually approached.
Qin Yong's white face remains the same, without any change.
"Put out the fire!"
With a shout, the fire inside and outside the camp was immediately extinguished, and it was pitch black everywhere. Under the bleak moonlight, there were only some faint shadows.
The thieves didn't seem to be surprised. When the fire went out here, they all lit torches on the other side.
The torches lit up one by one, like little fireflies.
"I don't know how to live or die!"
Qin Yong snorted coldly, but he had already raised his bow, shot an arrow, and suddenly a torch shook across from him, but the thief holding the torch was shot dead by the arrow, and the torch fell to the ground.
"Straight mother thief, what a fierce arrow!"
The thief screamed.
The eighteen Qin family soldiers behind Qin Yong all drew their bows and arrows, shooting non-stop.
Every time an arrow is shot, a torch falls on the opposite side.
Qin Lang watched in admiration from behind, this is the elite, this is the fierce soldier.
Wei Zheng yawned.
"I'll go to bed first, call me when I'm done, so I can credit everyone."
The culprits screamed again and again, they didn't expect that the archery skills of the dozen or so people were so strong, but the culprits were not reconciled, and shouted to rush over together.
"Go, kill them!"
The thieves rushed in all directions like a swarm, but Qin Yong still kept shooting, almost never missing.
Seeing that the thief was approaching, Qin Yong dropped the bow at his feet, raised his Coiling Dragon Staff, and rushed forward with a whistling sound.
The stick danced like a dragon, slapping, throwing, pumping, and smashing. The thief who finally rushed to the front was knocked down all at once, and the dozen or so veterans behind him followed closely with swords, shields and spears. When the knife slashed, the spearmen came out even more.
Over there, Liu Jiu saw that Qin Yong and his party were as fierce as a red-hot knife stabbing into butter, and couldn't help spitting, "Damn, hurry up, or we won't even be able to drink soup!"
Immediately, the knights clamped their horses' belly, and urged their mounts to kill them.
Liu Jiu and Lin San fought out from the wings, and the culprits were defeated and scattered.
Qin Lang watched and shook his head. In less than a cup of tea, at least hundreds of thieves attacked, but in the blink of an eye, they were killed by Qin Yong, Liu Jiu and the others in thirty steps.
"It's nothing to watch, it's boring to abuse food!"
Shaking his head, Qin Lang also retreated into the tent, it's not worth being bitten by mosquitoes for such a battle.
(end of this chapter)