Seeing the village warriors fighting each other with weapons, this was a drill. My younger brother Li Zhuan thought that others were "fighting", and he was very happy to see them, and he chuckled from time to time.

Unlike his younger brother, Li Mengxi was not interested in one-sided sparring. His eyes were more focused on evenly matched battles.

For example, sword versus shield, spear versus spear, or spear versus peck, these are the most common battles on the battlefield.

As for the man who dared to attack a spear and a halberd without even holding a shield, carrying a small broken knife, as far as Li Mengxi knew, there was only one such fierce man in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.

This person is not Lu Bu, nor is he Guan, Zhang, Zhao and Mahuang, but the famous general of Soochow, Ding Feng.

To elaborate on "Ding Feng fought hard in the snow", this incident refers to Ding Feng, the general of Pingbei in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, who ordered his generals and all the troops to take off their armor and helmets during the severe cold and heavy snow. They did not use long spears or halberds, but only

Wearing a short sword, he fought against the Wei soldiers and made the Wei soldiers underestimate the enemy. In the end, he killed the Wei soldiers by surprise and won a complete victory.

Ding Feng is a very cruel person.

Training is just training after all, and it is quite different from actual combat.

Fortunately, the sword and shield soldiers can't hurt anyone with the back of the sword; the spearmen hold their guns upside down, with the tail in front and the head of the gun in the back. Ordinary soldiers' guns have an edge at one end, and the tail of the gun can't hurt anyone.

And using the gun tail does not affect the usability.

But what's the point of taking down the enemy?

The sword blade is much heavier than the gun head, and the sword's center of gravity is very far forward. Holding the sword backwards and stabbing someone with the handle feels terrible, and it feels like a brick falling from behind.

Besides, the use of the Ge is quite different from that of the gun. Li Mengxi looked at it for a while and realized how the Ge was used like an axe. It could be used to chisel from top to bottom, slash, poke, and catch other people's shields, just like a hook.

, can bend other people's shields.

Li Mengxi saw a man who was just holding a sword and a shield soldier. You poke me and I'll chop you down. He was having a lot of fun and was not serious at all.

Li Mengxi frowned, but didn't want to express an opinion. The country warriors used real weapons, and if they were injured, it would be life, so it was normal for them to be timid during training.

It’s not that high-intensity training is impossible, it’s that the gains outweigh the losses.

Guan Yu didn't get angry about the soldiers' training attitude. It seemed that he thought it was normal.

After the village warriors had practiced fighting for several dozen minutes, the cooks finished cooking the rice.

During the meal, Guan Yu specially asked Li Mengxi to come with him.

Guan Yu wanted to take the opportunity to explain to Li Mengxi the formations that the talents had practiced, the characteristics and usage of each formation such as the square formation and the round formation.

There was no talking during the meal.

Li Mengxi drank the porridge quietly, holding a piece of boiled green vegetable with chopsticks and chewing it with a crunch.

Li Mengxi seemed a little absent-minded while eating.

Just now, I watched Guan Yu practice formations in the morning. In fact, it was Li Mengxi's first exposure to ancient military formations.

How can I put it this way? The formations practiced by Guan Yu are indeed well-organized. The coordination between the arms is rigorous and the various formations are changeable.

However, Li Mengxi felt a little unfinished after reading it.

Moreover, perhaps because the training was still insufficient, during the drills, the complex formations changed and there were occasional mistakes.

While eating, Li Mengxi thought about what he saw in the morning. Because he was thinking about something, he finished the porridge without noticing.

Both times had something to say. Guan Yu watched Li Mengxi finish eating and put down his bowl. Guan Yu had just eaten a bowl of porridge, but he wanted to use Li Mengxi's time to explain the knowledge of formation strategy to Li Mengxi first.

Unexpectedly, before Guan Yu could ask the question, Li Mengxi had already spoken first.

"I watched the general perform the formation this morning, and it seems there are some shortcomings." Li Mengxi looked calm and spoke calmly.

Guan Yu was surprised, his red phoenix eyes seemed to be frightened and stunned. It took a while before Guan Yu came back to his senses.

Well, someone's formation is said to be deficient, but Xi'er actually knows the formation? Guan Yu is particularly curious.

Looking at Li Mengxi with a half-smile but not a smile for a moment, Guan Yu stroked his beard and nodded, "Tell me more." He motioned to Li Mengxi to talk.

Li Mengxi naturally doesn't have stage fright, he can say whatever he wants and he is forthright and forthright.

He scratched his head, frowned and thought for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Guan Yu, and said seriously, "I watched the general's formation this morning. The general's square formation, circular formation, the formation was strict, the sergeants were calm and unhurried, and the single cone-shaped formation

I’m not very familiar with the formation.”

Li Mengxi was able to tell the names of various formations, and Guan Yu was already looking at him sideways. When Li Mengxi mentioned the shortcomings of the cone formation again and revealed the problem in one sentence, Guan Yu was even more surprised.

Sure enough, Li Mengxi had some knowledge about military formations, but he didn't know anything about it.

How can he say he doesn't understand the art of war when he knows the strategy of formation? Guan Yu looked confused, he couldn't understand Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi said earlier that he did not understand the art of war. But he clearly knew the formation knowledge of square and round formations.

In fact, for the ancients, the knowledge of simple formations such as square and round formations may be beyond the reach of ordinary people in their lifetime.

However, Li Mengxi is a person from later generations, and comes from an era of advanced information. In various costume movies and TV series, the square array and round array are the most seen.

Because, in these two formations, the visual effects are easy to produce and the rehearsal difficulty is low.

Just because Li Mengxi can name the formation doesn't mean he knows more.

Li Mengxi continued, "I have thought about it for a long time and thought that there are three problems.

First, the training days for the sergeants were short and they were not familiar with the formations. When the generals were practicing formations, they reached the cone formation and there were a lot of confusions.

The second reason is that the sergeants' responsibilities are confusing and their positions are unclear. When changing formations, I saw some sergeants panicking and not knowing where to go.

The third reason is that the formation changes abruptly, which only adds to the complexity. From a circular formation to a cone formation... I can't understand how the circular formation turned into a cone formation."

If there are three articles, the regulations are clear and everything is meaningful.

Guan Yu Danfeng's eyes opened slightly, and he was so surprised that he couldn't help but raise his hands and said, "Let me explain each one in detail."

Li Mengxi touched his nose and organized his thoughts.

"General, all the formations are complete, except for the cone formation, which is not very neat. I have two ways to help the general." Li Mengxi was talking to himself, but he did not notice Guan Yu's surprised and incomprehensible eyes.

"First: the cone formation can be divided into two parts." As he spoke, Li Mengxi lowered his head and looked around on the ground. He picked up a straw stick and drew on the ground. "The general can choose specific ten.

When people come and want to change formation, only these ten or so people will change into a cone shape, while the others will follow the small cone formation without changing formation. In this way, the whole camp does not need to move, and the cone formation can be formed in an instant.

become."

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As Li Mengxi spoke, he thought and understood based on his own observations and drew diagrams on the ground.

Different from Guan Yu's method of changing formations where the whole battalion moves together, Li Mengxi did the next best thing and did not seek to turn the entire formation into a large triangle (cone). He only wanted a small number of elites to form the protruding part of the triangle, and then follow up.

It doesn't matter whether the person is in a cone formation or not.

It's okay to have a small cone formation followed by a square formation, but it's okay to just barely do it if the people behind are in a chaotic formation.

According to Li Mengxi's understanding, the essence of the conical array is to concentrate the attack power on one point to break through the surface. Therefore, the core of the entire conical array is the sharp corner part of the conical array.

Li Mengxi suggested changing the large conical array into a small conical array, which not only took into account the characteristics of the conical array, but also made the change of formation less difficult.

Sitting opposite Li Mengxi, Guan Yu stared at the simple diagram drawn by Li Mengxi on the ground. The diagram was very simple, just a triangle followed by a rectangle.

The picture is simple, but Guan Yu frowned and looked at it for a long time.

Guan Yu was familiar with military books and tactics, and knew formations better than Li Mengxi.

The cone-shaped formation is good at attacking. When the formation is broken, the sharp cone breaks the enemy formation, and the subsequent troops must immediately follow up to open the gap.

The sharp cone must be sharp enough, and it must be a group of strong men with sharp armor, otherwise it will not be enough to break the formation. This is one of the reasons. The follow-up force must also be closely connected, otherwise even if the armor breaks the enemy formation, the soldiers behind will not follow.

It’s easy to fall short.

After a long while, Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi solemnly and said, "This method can be used to turn a big thing into a small thing."

Well, this tricky formation change method was approved by Guan Yu.

Li Mengxi touched his nose and rubbed his feet back and forth on the ground a few times. The traces of triangles and rectangles drawn on the ground were obliterated by his feet.

"The second type." Li Mengxi lowered his head and started drawing again.

"From a circular formation to a conical formation... I don't understand how the general's sergeants have changed. The positioning of the sergeants is too complicated."

"And if we add another round, it will change from a circular array back to a square array, and from a square array to a conical array." As he said, Li Mengxi drew lines of equal length with a straw stick.

Easy, it is very easy to change a circular array into a square array, and it is also easy to change a square array into a conical array. It can be seen that the key lies in the square array. If the square array has nine vertical columns, one of them can be left motionless, which is regarded as the middle column, and the left and right columns are four in sequence.

arrangement."

Li Mengxi drew a finger-long line segment on the ground.

"The left column is based on the head of the middle column, and is staggered one step back." To the left of the first line segment, Li Mengxi drew a second line segment of equal length next to it. The second line segment was farther back than the first line segment.

About one centimeter in length.

"Then follow the second column from the left, taking the first column from the left as the base, and then stagger one step back."

"The third from the left is based on the second from the left, and then you make another wrong step."

"Fourth to the left and miss three steps to the left."

"And then the right wing did the same thing."

"In this way, the cone portion of the cone-shaped array protrudes, and the cone-shaped array will be completed after a few breaths."

That's it.
To be continued...