The cone formation is used to break the formation, but what happens after the formation is broken?

Are you standing still?

of course not.

After breaking the formation, and waiting for the enemy army to be defeated, it is natural to pursue and kill the enemy army.

"If the enemy army is defeated..." Li Mengxi's brows almost knitted together. He lowered his head and drew on the paper with a pen.

During a rout, if the number of people fighting is large enough and can be ignored individually, in this case, the rout will naturally start from the point where the soldiers from both sides come into contact.

In the era of cold weapons, due to the length of the weapons, the number of soldiers fighting on both sides was only two or three rows at the front.

Assume that an extremely large conical array defeats an extremely large square array. Then, when the square array is defeated, the route of the defeated troops should be from the edge of the conical array, and they will collapse in the opposite direction like water.

In a cone-shaped formation, the center of the rout is a giant triangle that is constantly expanding and moving away. The more the triangle expands, the farther away it is from the cone formation.

In the long snake formation, the broken troops of the square formation form a large long shape that is constantly expanding and moving away. The more it expands, the farther away it is from the snake formation.

And if the party that breaks the formation pursues, the part in the formation will naturally be able to catch up closely with the enemy.

As for those who are still outside the formation, if they want to pursue the defeated troops...

Li Mengxi's fingers were groping back and forth along the edges of the two simple geometric figures. Li Mengxi seemed to be stunned. As he watched, Li Mengxi's eyes suddenly widened.

He suddenly understood where the difference was!

Perhaps the Cone Formation and the Long Snake Formation have similar ability to break formations, but in terms of the ability to break the formation, that is, in terms of chasing down the enemy troops after breaking the enemy formation and expanding the results of the battle, the Long Snake Formation is far inferior to the Cone Formation.

Our army cuts into the formation from the middle and the enemy's troops flee in two directions: the left and right, then the first column of our army that is not connected with the enemy needs to immediately divide its troops to the left and right to pursue the enemy.

Same for the second column.

The same goes for the third column.

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The farther back the cone formation is, the longer the horizontal lines are, when chasing and defeating the troops.

This is equivalent to holding a triangle ruler and walking sideways into a slowly opening elevator.

The elevator is slowly opening, and the triangle ruler is moving into the elevator room.

Although the elevator door is opening and the space is getting larger and larger, as the set square keeps moving in the elevator, the distance between the two sides of the set set ruler is also constantly increasing, so the set set ruler will continue to hit it.

Elevator door.

This was placed on the battlefield, and the elevator doors that slowly opened to both sides were equivalent to the rout of troops disintegrating outwards.

The triangle ruler is equal to a cone-shaped array that keeps moving forward.

This is the pursuit advance amount.

Even if the cone formation only rushes inward, the rear columns with gradually increasing lengths can keep catching up with the defeated troops without having to let the cone formation turn around to catch up.

As long as the cone formation rushes forward with all its strength, the longer and longer rear rows are equivalent to chasing the enemy troops that are scattered to the left and right.

The enemy troops took a step to the left and right, and the rear column of the conical formation also took a step forward. There were a few more people in the rear column than in the front. The extra length of the array just allowed the two outermost men on the horizontal line to catch up with the enemy.

military.

The enemy army collapsed again, and the cone formation continued to advance one step forward. The longer rear column took another step forward, and the rear column became even longer, just enough to catch up with the defeated army...

Use a simple elevator door to simulate it, that is, push the triangle ruler into the elevator door, and the two sides will constantly hit the elevator door. This means that each newly added row of the conical array can catch up with the enemy.

Even if it is impossible to catch up, because there is a span on the left and right of the rear column of the cone formation, it is equivalent to having the lead time to pursue to the left and right, making it easier to catch up with the defeated troops.

When there is sufficient manpower, the length of the last horizontal column of the relatively abnormal conical formation is even longer than that of the enemy's phalanx. With the huge lead time, if the horizontal column is outflanked, it can even directly stop the defeated troops head-on.

As for the Long Snake Formation, there is no lead time for pursuit to the left or right, not at all!

Suddenly I understood everything, it was like seeing the sun when the clouds cleared, and I had a sudden enlightenment.

Li Mengxi breathed a long sigh of relief.

(I declare that the cone formation is the most powerful formation to break!) Li Mengxi announced in his heart.

The cone formation has the best ability to break the formation and the strongest ability to break the formation.

After understanding the principle, Li Mengxi regarded the conical array as the sharpest formation in his mind.

He announced that military strategists of all ages have already understood the function of the cone array in theory and practice. Otherwise, how could the cone array be set as one of the basic formations in the handed down art of war?

Although, Li Mengxi seems to have done nothing.

He spent countless brain cells and pulled out several hairs before he figured out that the cone-shaped formation used for breaking formations and attacking has been delineated by military strategists of all ages. It has strong formation breaking and attacking capabilities.

It feels like a nesting doll.

Li Mengxi seemed to have unknowingly embarked on the same path as the strategists who shocked the past and the present.

Even though many people have read the Art of War, they all know that cone formation is better than breaking formation.

But most people only know that the cone formation is longer than the breaking formation, but they don't know the principle of why the cone formation is longer than the breaking formation. They only know that it is so, but they don't know why.

And Li Mengxi, unintentionally, re-deduce the formation.

This is equivalent to creation.

Although what he created was a formation that already existed.

Li Mengxi's thinking level, for a moment, was almost as high as that of the earliest military sages who created various military formations.

Li Mengxi unknowingly did this without any purpose, it was just an unexpected gain brought about by his extreme enthusiasm and investment in trying to learn how to lead troops in war.

Although he doesn't understand military maneuvers, fighting, marching, managing food and fodder, setting up camps, and even formations. But Li Mengxi has made a little progress now, and he understands it completely.

, the cone formation is the most powerful frontal formation breaking method.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Having completely figured out a problem, Li Mengxi felt several times lighter, both physically and mentally.

This was followed by a long and boring march for half a day.

Li Mengxi tore up small paper balls to serve as soldiers. One paper ball represented ten people.

Then, use the paper as the battlefield and the paper balls as the soldiers and horses, and go back and forth over and over again.

The core point of the cone formation is more advantageous than the long snake formation. Li Mengxi accidentally realized it while playing with paper balls.

The core is that it lies in the efficiency of manpower investment.

Calculated according to the speed of the soldiers' attack, the conical formation is arranged in three, four, five, six... in ascending order, while the long snake formation with the same number of people is arranged in three, three, three, three.

Then at the same time, the number of rows the two formations rush to the enemy's formation is equal.

Assume that a total of five columns of soldiers are deployed in the front line, then the number of people deployed in the five-column horizontal array and the conical array is, 3 4 5 6 7 = 25 people.

As for the long snake formation, 3x5=15.

In just five columns, the number of people delivered was already two-thirds short.

Moreover, as the fighting time becomes longer and longer, the cone formation can devote more and more combat power in an average time, and the enemy will suddenly have the illusion that more and more people are fighting; as for the long snake formation, the manpower that can be invested in the average time is not

changing.

In this way, compared with the method of investing more and more manpower in the conical formation, the long snake formation seems to be slow. It may even happen that the gap opened in the front is too large, and there are too few people following behind to fill the gap.

Case.

As for the conical formation, there is no situation where there are not enough people to consolidate the victory, but there is only a situation where the gap opened is not large enough and people are blocked and unable to rush in.

The key to breaking through a frontal formation is to invest the most people who can engage the enemy at a certain point in the shortest possible time.

There is no doubt that the cone-shaped formation is the optimal formation that not only concentrates attack power but also has strong manpower investment efficiency.

Li Mengxi still lacks experience. He has only witnessed a confrontation between cone array and phalanx today. Li Mengxi's assessment of the exchange ratio between cone array and phalanx is a bit too idealistic.

Li Mengxi believed that breaking the conical formation would result in high casualties, but he calculated this based on the fact that both the offensive and defensive sides had the same armor, the soldiers' armor had the same defensive power, and the soldiers' training levels were also the same.

As for the actual situation, if you ask Guan Yu, Guan Yu will tell Li Mengxi that when the cone formation is broken, the exchange ratio between our army and the enemy will be about two to one, and our army's casualties will be even lower than this. It is not at all like Li Mengxi's guess.

Four to one or even ten to one is so tragic.

The fundamental reason is that when the cone formation is broken, the combat power of the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense is often not the same, but there is a large gap.

If our army breaks the formation, we must gather our soldiers who are heavily armored, use the best weapons, are the most powerful, and have the most skillful combat skills to attack the enemy's weakest point, where the formation is the most scattered, and where the soldiers' armor is the shabbiest.

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Even the attack points of the cone array are often deliberately chosen to be weak points where the enemy's front line will collapse.

It is not impossible to use our army's strongest heavily armored elite troops to attack the enemy's weakest points with zero casualties.

In addition to being forced into a panic and having to bravely charge at the enemy's elite, a fool would ignore the weak point and deliberately hit the enemy's solid front line, causing bloodshed.

There are two key points to breaking the formation. One is to concentrate manpower on one point, and the other is the efficiency of manpower deployment.

When it comes to the concentration of manpower, naturally, the one with the greatest concentration of manpower is the one-word long snake formation.

The one-word long snake formation can ensure that every troop force accurately impacts one point on the enemy's formation.

However, in the long snake formation, the speed of manpower deployment is too slow, and one by one, it is equivalent to losing people's lives.

And if we talk about it, the speed of manpower investment.
To be continued...