Zhang Ju returned to the city and went straight back to the city lord's palace. When he saw everyone, Zhang Ju burst into laughter and seemed to be in a very good mood.

When everyone saw this, they quickly asked Zhang Ju if he had won.

Zhang Ju showed disdain, sneered, and said proudly, "Although there are many officers and soldiers, they have no courage to fight with one person. I think we can only defeat the enemy in a few days."

With Zhang Ju's words and the cheers coming from the city wall a moment ago as evidence, everyone in the city lord's palace really believed Zhang Ju's words and really believed that the army was vulnerable to a single blow and would be able to defeat it soon.

The panicked people felt at ease.

At the same time, outside the city, Guan Yu's troops, Zhang Fei's troops and other troops who were approaching the city gate to deter the enemy also retreated.

In this battle, both sides can be said to have their own victories. The bandit army was at a complete disadvantage. Due to the clever response of the bandit general Zhang Ju, they were able to reverse the shaky morale in an incredible way. This was a huge tactical victory.

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As for the Julu Army, the strategic purpose of the Julu Army at the beginning was just to deter the enemy. It only prevented the enemy from leaving the city to counterattack, so it took the initiative to intimidate and wait for the defense. Therefore, even though the enemy counterattacked in adversity and performed exceptionally, the enemy still did not jump.

Get out of the big layout of the Julu Army.

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu's strategy of using offense instead of defense was completely successful. After a series of confusing actions, the enemy mistakenly thought that the Julu Army was eager to fight. The enemy thought they were smart and wanted to avoid the Julu Army's sharp attack and wanted to remain calm.

Wait, this is exactly what the Julu Army wants.

The enemy troops will not easily come out again, and they will not be able to retreat, so they will not disturb the encirclement formation outside the city, which allows the encirclement hastily set up overnight to be adjusted calmly.

In fact, night operations are very difficult, especially when carried out by a large number of poorly trained soldiers.

The early morning had passed and the sun began to heat up. After the enemy troops retreated into the city, the Julu Army's magnificent and long front line began to take the opportunity to rest.

Returning to the rear formation, Li Mengxi rode his horse around the car formation for inspection. From his perspective, the car formation hastily set up last night was crooked, neither neat nor rigorous, and the personnel were not in place.

The coordination between the various sections was not close and was simply poor. Seeing this, Li Mengxi couldn't help but feel lucky. Fortunately, he had frightened the enemy. Otherwise, if the enemy really rushed out and rushed the formation, he would probably not be able to withstand it. Even if he could,

Even if you can live there, you will have to pay a lot of casualties.

The Julu Army has accumulated enough experience in the car formation. As early as the smear operation last night, the corresponding tools were already prepared. During the smear operation in the dark, ropes were needed to assist positioning. Now it is dawn.

, to organize the front, the rope once again played a role.

At this time, the Julu Army's position looked more like a construction site than a military formation. There were noisy people and busy figures everywhere. The soldiers went to the formation to pull up the rope nailed in front of the vehicle formation, and then pulled the rope again.

Straighten the rope and tighten it, then insert the spear into the soil to anchor it.

After the ropes used for positioning were reorganized, the vehicle array began to be dismantled. The soldiers pushed the scattered chariots forward one by one, and started to rearrange the array next to the ropes that were pulled up. Everything was in place.

It's going on in full swing.

The steps to arrange the vehicle array are very simple. They just need to decide the position, pull the chariots over, and connect them one by one end to end. The Julu Army's vehicle array is a little more complicated. In order to improve the defense of the vehicle array, each vehicle's

There are still small holes in the chassis. Use the spear as a wooden drill to insert it through the hole, and then use a heavy object to ram it into the soil. The chariot is nailed to the spot.

, the chariot nailed to the ground will not be easily knocked down or pushed, and its resistance can be increased several times.

Arranging a car formation is not difficult at first, but it is extremely difficult to arrange the simplest car formation at night. Now during the day, even the most complicated car formation is easy to do.

In just two quarters of an hour, the rearrangement of the car formation was completed. In just two moments, the car formation had undergone earth-shaking changes. Two moments ago, the overly long car formation was uneven, jagged, and had many problems.

The connection was not tight and the defense was not tight. After just two moments, the car array was reorganized with ropes and surrounded the huge Yuyang City. An extremely huge encirclement was formed three to four hundred paces away from the city. It was as long as

The long rope stretches from east to west, then from west to south, and then from south to north. The continuous rope is as straight as a straight line. Naturally, the car array is rearranged next to the rope as well.

It will be straight.

The transformation of the vehicle formation from messy to straight and orderly was only a superficial change. The internal change was that, after just two quarters of an hour of adjustment, the orderliness of the vehicle formation had increased by more than ten times. The tanks in the formation were connected end to end.

, there is no longer a single chariot that is tilted head to tail, and from a row of dozens or hundreds of chariots, there is not a single chariot that has a large deflection, and even the direction is exactly the same.

The car array seems to have become a real copper wall and an iron wall. Not only does it have the same defensive power as a copper wall, but its appearance is as neat and regular as a long wall.

At this time, I looked at the Julu military vehicle formation again, and saw that in the long vehicle formation defense line, although the tanks were of varying heights, new and old, each tank was filled with tense soldiers.

, there are even more uniform queues of infantry waiting behind them. Between the queues, there are clearly marked flags. The infantrymen are holding spears in their hands, and the spears are standing straight, as neatly as a forest.

Such a formation is worthy of a battle.

It is useful to intimidate Yuyang City to attack instead of defend it. Intimidating the city eliminates the possibility of the enemy troops leaving the city to attack, and gives the vehicle formation a chance to reorganize. With the opportunity to reorganize, in just two moments, these two

How important is the role of time?

With these two moments to reorganize the front line, the defensive power of the Julu Army Vehicle Formation suddenly doubled. If the enemy attacked at this time, the enemy's casualties would be at least 30% higher.

Looking around the entire front line, Li Mengxi felt that he was not afraid of the enemy troops leaving the city for a decisive battle. With such a tight formation of vehicles, the enemy troops were not afraid at all even if they came out in full force.

Reviewing all the tactics involving car formations in his mind, Li Mengxi thought that car formations relied on bows and arrows, and the bow and arrow tactics included red feather arrow tactics. The red feather arrow tactics meant that before the war started, a large number of eye-catching red rods were fired onto the battlefield.

Arrows with red feathers, when a large number of arrows with red feathers are thrown onto the battlefield, will form a red eye-catching area at the impact point. This is the distance that the crossbow can reach. When the battle begins, the enemy's infantry and cavalry rush over,

As soon as you step into the landing point of the red feather arrow, there is no need for the commander to measure the distance, nor for the crossbowman to judge by himself. You can directly see with the naked eye that the enemy is within range.

The significance of the Akabane Arrow tactic is that it saves the process of judging the attack distance and greatly improves combat efficiency.

After thinking for a while, Li Mengxi went to look at the car formation and saw that the craftsmen camp was pulling in carts of hoes and shovels. It seemed that they were preparing to dig trenches and build forts. After thinking about it, he thought that besides his own soldiers and equipment, they had Akabane.

Arrows, a large number of rural soldiers only lost ordinary arrows, the battlefield was too big, there were not enough red feather arrows, and the red feather arrow range display tactic could not be used.

He raised his head and looked into the distance. Yuyang City in the distance was quiet and quiet, and the enemy showed no signs of wanting to attack with all their troops. This was good. The enemy would not come out, and the battlefield preparations could be as leisurely as possible.

There were insufficient red feather arrows, and the pre-war gauge method was extremely useful, so Li Mengxi decided to use other methods to mark the shooting distance. The method was to directly measure the shooting distance with a rope.

In order to cooperate with vehicle formation tactics and for engineering surveying and other matters, the army is equipped with a sufficient number of rope rulers. Now, these rope rulers have played an unexpected role.

The order was issued, requiring each team to measure the distance based on their respective vehicle formations. The rope ruler was handed out, and each team picked up the rope to start a new round of work.

At this time, Li Mengxi suddenly realized a problem that he had never thought about before. He looked at the soldiers who were busy holding ropes across the car formation, and couldn't help but think that it is not difficult to measure the battlefield at this time, and there is enough time to complete the measurement of the battlefield. However,

What distance should be used as the best attack distance for a crossbow?

The crossbow has a limit range. At the limit range, should the farthest attack distance be used as the starting point of the attack so as to have the most attack time, or should the crossbow start the attack at the distance where the crossbow has the most lethality and accuracy.

Li Mengxi cannot know which one is the most efficient.

As soon as the enemy reaches the shooting limit position, we launch an attack immediately. Naturally, this will have the longest attack distance, and we can project the largest number of waves of arrow rain. However, at the same time, if the distance is too far, the arrows will lose their accuracy.

The strength of the bow is greatly reduced. At this time, the crossbow still has the lethality, but the lethality is extremely insufficient.

It is known that in the battle formation, you can only miss three times when facing the enemy. Even if you start shooting early at the limit range of crossbow shooting, the enemy will rush in with only four or five seconds at most, just like in the age of flintlock guns.

, in the era of flintlock muskets, because the reloading time of flintlock muskets was too slow and the attack interval was too long, if you fired early when the enemy was far away, you would waste a precious attack opportunity. The crossbow was still acceptable when approaching the enemy.

Three shots were missed. At this time, the flintlock gun could only fire one round and have only one chance to attack. If this only one shot chance failed to severely damage the enemy, the situation would be very bad.

There should be an optimal balance point among the three factors, distance, shooting frequency, and shooting interval.

If the crossbow and the flintlock gun are the same, then the best tactic for the flintlock gun is to shoot at close range, and the highest killing efficiency of the crossbow should be to shoot at close range. That is, the crossbow should not be fired at the enemy.

The army should shoot as soon as it reaches the limit of the range, but it should be at a closer distance.

This is an inference based on the model of crossbows and flintlocks. But what if these two types of weapons cannot be considered together?

Thinking more about it, Li Mengxi also hesitated. It seemed that crossbows and flintlock guns were really very different. First of all, crossbows fired at a high frequency and the shooting interval was extremely short. Therefore, the shooting interval had little impact on combat.

Like a musket, attacking one step early means directly wasting one-third or more of the shooting rounds.

The problem has reached a dead end. Li Mengxi can't figure out whether he should launch an attack from as far away as possible to shoot as many arrows as possible, or move the enemy closer so that each round of arrow rain is enough.

The killing effect is to maximize the overall killing efficiency. These are two necessarily contradictory logics. One is right, and the other is definitely wrong.

Li Mengxi is not good at mathematics, but he has a keen sense that this can probably be calculated using functions and the like. Just like when clothes are sold in a shopping mall, if they are expensive, the sales will be low, if they are cheap, the sales will be high, but

At the same time, if you sell an expensive unit, the profit will be high, and if you sell a cheap unit, the profit will be low. The point where the total profit is the highest is neither the highest nor the lowest price, but a value somewhere in the middle.

In the same way, the same goes for the crossbow shooting model. It is neither the case where the most arrows are thrown, but the most damage, nor the most damage when attacking at close range.

You must know that the most arrows can be projected when attacking from the farthest point, but some of the arrows are for long-distance attacks, and their strength and accuracy are extremely insufficient; while when shooting at close range, the strength and accuracy of the arrows can be fully exerted, but

Because of the close shooting, the total number of arrows lost is less. In short, it is neither the more arrows lost, nor the more precise and powerful the arrows fired, the better, but the difference between the number of arrows lost and the quality of the arrows.

Find a balance point in the middle to maximize the overall killing effect.

If it is a flintlock gun, there are future generations of wisdom to refer to. The flintlock gun must have the best shooting effect when it is close to it. By analogy to a crossbow, the biggest difference between a crossbow and a flintlock gun is in two points. One is the power difference, and the other is the difference in power.

It is the difference in attack frequency, but the power does not need to be considered. In terms of power, the power of the flintlock will decay with distance, and the same is true for the bow and crossbow. Therefore, in combat, the power of the two is different, but the attack model is the same.

The key is only the "firing frequency". The firing speed of the flintlock gun is so slow. In addition, the attack range of the original flintlock gun is limited. The attack distance is limited and the attack speed is extremely slow. In essence, the flintlock gun can attack repeatedly.

, but in the first wave of engagement, it was only equivalent to a disposable weapon and could only attack once. After shooting once, the enemy troops had already rushed up. At this time, the second reloading of the flintlock had not yet been completed.

It's too late to launch a second attack.

Rather than saying that shooting at close range is the best attack tactic for flintlock guns, it is better to say that it is the only effective tactic.

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I wonder if I should apply the musket point-and-shoot tactics to crossbows.

Using the method of proof by contradiction, suppose there is a weapon with a relatively short attack distance. Its power will be greatly attenuated as the attack distance changes, and its attack frequency is extremely slow. In actual combat, it can only fire one or two rounds during the safe shooting interval.

There is no doubt that although such a weapon is not a musket, it is similar to a musket in every aspect, and the best shooting tactics of a musket are equally suitable for this weapon.

At this stage of reasoning, the problem still remains. Bows and crossbows can only miss three shots in battle. The gap between shooting and muskets is too different, and it seems that they still cannot be classified into the same category.

Li Mengxi wondered, is there any? Is there anything with a slower attack speed than a matchlock gun?

There is no doubt that Mr. Li is a smart man. When the mountain cannot be overcome, that person will go over and think backwards. If he cannot find a weapon with an attack speed as slow as a musket, then abandon the weapon itself and think instead about what is going on.
To be continued...