Half to half, the difference in the number of people on the cone side and the phalanx side is negligible.

Both sides are recruiting soldiers who have been trained for about the same amount of time, and they may even be from the same village. There is no gap in the quality of the personnel, and there is no situation where one is tough and bellicose while the other is cowardly.

Therefore, the only factor that determines victory or defeat is the difference in formation.

The distance is only ten steps, from standing still to running, two steps can increase the speed to a trot, and five steps have already increased the speed.

Gouzi, who was rushing forward, held the shield with both hands to protect his chest and abdomen. There was a shield wall three steps ahead. Gouzi gritted his teeth and lowered his head. He raised the shield with both hands and pushed forward. With a low roar, he rushed forward.

go.

Snapped!

boom!

Boom! Boom!

The crackle of shields hitting each other and the muffled sound of bodies colliding sounded simultaneously.

Gouzi knocked the shield hand in front of him back straight away, and his arm was sore from the force of the counterattack.

Ignoring the pain and numbness in his arms, Gouzi pulled away from the shield, lowered his body, and after the shield was a little further away, he pushed the shield violently in an attempt to knock down the person in front of him.

However, the difference in strength between the two sides was not that big. Although the shield soldiers in the phalanx were knocked sideways, they did not fall.

The square formation is tightly arranged, with people in the same row next to each other, and people in the rows in front and behind supporting others. If the people in the first row are hit, the people in the second row can help the people in the first row with a little help.

impact.

As a breakthrough party, although there is only one person on the front, Gouzi has to face the power of many people. He is actually at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

Even if Gouzi charges up, he is fast and has great impact. But when he collides with the shield soldiers standing still in the phalanx, Gouzi cannot hit them.

After the tip of the conical formation collided with the square formation, the people behind them rushed forward.

boom!

boom!

Continuous crashing sounds sounded around Gouzi, mixed with the sound of the shield being overwhelmed and the wood creaking and exploding.

The follow-up force of the cone array continues to hit.

In just a short moment, the people in the cone formation swarmed towards the square formation near Gouzi.

No one has any weapons, only shields. Whoever knocks the other side out first will win.

The shield formation that Gouzi didn't knock away at once was bumped again by the two people who followed closely on the left and right sides of the cone formation. The shield in the hand of the shield hand of the phalanx formation was knocked crooked, and the man took two steps back after being hit.

, almost falling.

Before the opponent could get a lot, the follow-up people from the cone formation came again.

boom!

Bang! Bang!

Under the more ferocious impact, it was like the straw that broke the camel's back. The three or five shield soldiers in front of Gouzi were knocked off their backs.

The phalanx was broken.

The thin two-row square formation was hit hard by three or four people at one point, and then passed through the formation.

There were not many people, and the soldiers were fighting hand to hand. There was a head-on collision, but in the blink of an eye, the victory was decided.

In the first formation, the cone formation successfully defeated the square formation.

Outside the court, Li Mengxi saw clearly.

He found that when the opponent formed a cone formation, the cone formation seemed to have no individual offensive and defensive advantages.

No matter it is when the two formations are connected, or when the cone formation successfully breaks into the square formation and breaks the formation.

The two formations are connected. The person who breaks the cone formation needs to withstand the superimposed force of several rows of people on the opposite side and even has to face the forest of spear points. It can be said that the person who breaks the formation is at a disadvantage.

And even if you break through the first row and cut into the enemy's formation, it will be even more dangerous for the soldiers who break the formation. When rushing into the formation, you only have to guard your eyes and rush into the enemy's formation. There will be enemies on both sides.

Army. A shield cannot completely protect the front. How can we block the enemies on all sides?

Therefore, in terms of commutation ratio, there is no advantage between conic matrix and square matrix.

That is to say, if the quality of the soldiers is the same, the armor is the same, and the weapons are the same, two or three people will die when the cone formation breaks the formation, and only one person will die in the square formation.

In actual combat, the exchange ratio will be even lower. Four will die in the cone formation, and five will kill one in the phalanx. And this is the exchange ratio when the phalanx is also a sword and shield soldier, but there is no spear formation.

The poor exchange ratio does not mean that the cone array is worthless.

A good-looking exchange ratio is not what the cone formation pursues, and killing more enemies is not what the square formation pursues. The cone formation strengthens the offensive capability, and the purpose of forming the cone formation is only one - to break the formation.

When a cone formation is broken, it does not win by exchange ratio, but by exchange.

The cone formation breaks through the surface with points, and the power is concentrated at one point. Even though it may take several or even a dozen people to replace one person. But the square formation only has a limited number of rows of people, and the cone formation follows the manpower in waves like a tide.

With the absolute advantage of local manpower, the cone formation can exchange heads for heads, and can withstand a huge casualty ratio and create holes in the phalanx formation.

So the formation was broken.

After the confrontation, the two sides had stopped. The injured person went off to rest, while the captains of the offensive and defensive teams were very long and began to point their noses and curse.

The guy who said shit is you and you hit me on the head with a shield. The guy who talks about your mother is lying on the ground and you stomp on his face.

It's normal for the killer to be a little angry.

Both sides felt that they did not perform well. The dog who rushed the formation felt that it was embarrassing that the formation was not broken open, while the people who defended the formation felt that the formation was broken and felt ashamed.

The local warriors finally had the will to fight and were no longer so salty. Both the offensive and defensive sides were ready to rest and fight again.

At this time, Li Mengxi fell into deep thought.

He squatted down, picked up a wooden stick at his feet, and drew on the ground with a frown.

The formation showdown just now was, in fact, the first time Li Mengxi had seen a real battle formation confrontation.

In the first battle of Daxing Mountain, Li Mengxi was still in the Yellow Turban Army. He was too busy running for his life and didn't even bother to watch the official army and the Yellow Turban fight.

Besides, the Battle of Daxing Mountain was a one-sided pursuit and there was no battle formation duel.

At the back, Guan Yu led his troops to conquer everywhere, but Li Mengxi did not follow him. Therefore, he still never saw a real battlefield confrontation up close.

Even in Guan Yu's battle formation this morning, he only asked his soldiers to line up in formation, and the sparring exercise was just to let the soldiers disperse and catch and fight.

After Li Mengxi watched the real battle formation confrontation between the local warriors, he found that the formation breaking ability of the cone formation was not as strong as imagined, and it could not be rushed in like a knife cutting through butter.

Also, isn’t the attack power of the cone a bit weak?

Also, the cone formation is a formation that uses points to break the surface. Li Mengxi clearly understands that breaking the formation does not depend on the ferocity of the first impact, but more on the continuous and non-stop impact of the subsequent people.

Then why not use the Long Snake Formation to break the formation? The follow-up power of the Long Snake Formation should be more concentrated.

Using the same number of people as a five-column cone formation to create a three-column long snake formation, the length of the formation can be nearly doubled, the follow-up force will be more concentrated, and more impacts can be launched.

But why is the Long Snake Formation not the first choice for breaking the formation?

Li Mengxi was puzzled.

He took a small wooden stick and drew two formation sketches on the ground.

Triangular cone array, elongated snake array.

He lowered his head, scratched his hair, frowned, and looked back and forth at two simple geometric figures that couldn't be simpler.

Off the court, the second round of the battle began, and Li Mengxi was immersed in studying the formation without raising his head.

What is the difference between the cone formation and the long snake formation?

shape?

Isn't it obvious? A triangle and a rectangle have very different shapes.

Both formations can focus their attacks on one point, and both have relatively strong follow-up attack power. If placed on the battlefield, what is the difference between the two?

There are definitely differences, but they won't be exactly the same.

Li Mengxi vaguely felt that he had grasped the key, but he still didn't know where the key was. He grabbed his hair hard and thought hard.

In his mind, Li Mengxi began to simulate the formation.

Assume that the opponents are all square formations.

In terms of power concentration, the cone formation is not as concentrated as the serpentine formation. Because the cone formation is a triangular formation, the farther back you are, the more people there are, and the power concentrated at one point will theoretically be more dispersed.

The Long Snake Formation is different. There are as many people at the head of the Long Snake Formation as there are at the end.

It seems that the key difference between the cone formation and the long snake formation lies in the second half of the formation.

And the difference in the second half...

Li Mengxi could only think that the difference was in the number of people.

It's the same as not thinking about it. A fool can count the number of people who are different.

A moment ago, the image of the cone formation of the village warriors breaking through the phalanx was still deeply engraved in my mind.

When the cone formation broke through the square formation, it carved out a cone-shaped space in the square formation. The moment after the formation was completely broken, the space cut out was also cone-shaped.
To be continued...