On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Julu City, the city lord's palace, and Liu Bei also returned to Zhuozhou. Zhang Fei was hunting outside and did not return. Only Guan Yu and Li Mengxi were left.

On this day, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu were deducing formations. To be precise, after all the important matters were finished, Guan Yu and Li Mengxi finally had time to review the battle against Huangfu Song's tribe.

At this time, more than half a month had passed since the fighting that day.

After arriving at Julu City after the war, for more than half a month, I was busy every day, with no free time and no time to review the war.

On the low table, a roll of cloth was spread out. On the cloth, a flying formation of geese was painted.

After Li Mengxi stared at the formation diagram for a long time, he raised his head and frowned and asked, "General Guan, if the enemy uses this flying geese formation, what formation should I use to defeat it?"

Guan Yu stroked his beard and replied, "Use the Yanyue Formation."

"The Crescent Moon Formation..." Li Mengxi muttered to himself, and his brows furrowed even more tightly. The Crescent Moon Formation is also a crescent-shaped formation, which means dark clouds covering the moon.

Li Mengxi stared at the formation diagram and thought about it. He raised his hand and drew a crescent moon opposite the flying geese formation on the diagram.

The formations are opposite each other, like a flying geese formation with two wings spread out against a crescent-shaped crescent formation.

Li Mengxi looked left and right, thinking in various ways. He really couldn't figure out why the crescent-shaped Crescent Moon Formation was the nemesis of the Flying Geese Formation.

Really unable to figure out the reason, Li Mengxi had to ask Guan Yu again, "I don't understand why the Yanyue Formation can restrain the Yanxing Formation. Is it because the troops are concentrated and the center is broken through?"

But when it comes to concentration of troops, wouldn’t a cone formation be better?”

Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi, smiled and shook his head, "Yanyue Formation, you drew it wrong."

Li Mengxi was stunned. He lowered his head and looked at the formation diagram. On the picture, the back of the crescent moon of the Crescent Formation was facing the Flying Geese Formation. Li Mengxi suddenly thought, "Oh! The painting is backwards!"

Suddenly enlightened, Li Mengxi took a pen and scribbled over the old picture, reversing the direction of the crescent moon in the Crescent Moon Formation.

Li Mengxi thought that this was right.

The Yanyue Formation is divided into front and rear, just like other formations are also divided into front and back.

Guan Yu looked at the Yanyue Formation that Li Mengxi had redrawn, and Guan Yu smiled even more happily, "Haha, it's still wrong." Guan Yu laughed.

After laughing, Guan Yu picked up the pen and took another section of the cloth. On the new cloth, Guan Yu first drew a flying geese formation. The flying geese formation was like a V, with the left and right branches separated forward.

After that, Guan Yu picked up his pen and drew two crescents. Each crescent was facing a branch of flying geese.

"This is the method of breaking the movement of wild geese in the moonlight." Guan Yu said as he threw his pen.

Li Mengxi looked at the formation diagram, then looked up at Guan Yu, then looked down at the diagram, then looked up at Guan Yu again, and did this several times, with a look of astonishment on Li Mengxi's face.

Li Mengxi understood the formation diagram at once. The Yanyue Formation is like a crescent moon, and the crescent moon is like a semi-circular enclosing circle. Then, the two branches of the Wild Geese Formation are equal to two obliquely long one-word long snake formations, with two crescents.

Facing two long snake formations, Li Mengxi immediately thought of a small game of soybeans eating cubes. Soybeans opened his mouth wide and swallowed all the cubes.

The crescent moon of the Yanyue Formation looks more like a big open mouth. The two obliquely long snake formations of the Wild Geese Formation are thin and crisp. Aren't they just food delivered to your door? The formations are in conflict with each other, and the formations of the Wild Geese Formation are in conflict with each other.

The wings rushed into the crescent of the Yanyue Formation. The crescent of the Yanyue Formation was a standard semicircle.

It is conceivable that when the opponent's cavalry rushes into the semi-encirclement, they will immediately be greeted by a hail of arrows from a 180-degree direction.

The Flying Geese Formation is better than the two-wing harassment and roundabout. However, in the Wild Goose Formation, the two wings are stretched too long, and the troops are too scattered in the front and rear. Facing the thick and wide-open crescent-shaped Yanyue Formation, they will be surrounded and killed layer by layer.

Li Mengxi, who was greatly educated, nodded solemnly with a serious face, "It turns out that the Yanyue Formation can still be used in this way. It turns out that multiple Yanyue Small Formations can be used together!"

Guan Yu chuckled, "That's it, I didn't say anything, I can only talk about it for a while."

Wonderful, what a good one, it didn’t say that only one formation can be against one formation, and it is not mandatory that one formation must correspond to another formation in battle.

Just this sentence instantly led Li Mengxi to a new level of formation.

In an instant, Li Mengxi's thinking broadened a lot.

He thought that if the enemy came at once, I could force him away, but there was another option. I could confront the enemy in several small formations.

For example, the method of breaking the formation of the flying geese formation. The enemy used the flying geese formation to attack my two wings, but I used two small formations of crescent moons to intercept and kill the two branches of his flying geese formation.

For another example, if the enemy is pressed by a large square formation, I can also use a large square formation to press against it. Or, the second method is to form a front line with multiple small square formations, and then press back, and fight with the entire enemy.

Compared with the large square formation, the small formation is less stable, but has more flexibility and the tactical choice of dividing and encircling to the left and right.

After thinking through everything, Li Mengxi sighed with emotion, "This Yanyue Formation can really break the Yanyue Formation. I originally thought that the one who could defeat the Wild Goose Walker would be the Cone Formation."

Speaking of the cone formation, Li Mengxi frowned again, and he thought of another question.

“The cavalry is good at making roundabout flank attacks, and is also good at charging and drilling.

But if we fight cavalry against cavalry, between cavalry formation and cavalry formation, is detouring better than charging? Is charging better than detouring? With equal strength, if the flying geese and the conical formations fight against the enemy, who will be the winner?"

Li Mengxi looked at Guan Yu in confusion.

Li Mengxi's question also stopped Guan Yu, causing Guan Yu to frown.

After a long while, Guan Yu said, "The flying geese and the cone-shaped formation are not mutually exclusive.

If we talk about flying geese and cone formation, who is better than the other, this..."

Guan Yu could not tell the truth.

As Li Mengxi said, the cavalry moves around the two wings and flanks the encirclement tactics, which is very sharp. However, the cavalry can charge in a cone formation and penetrate the enemy, which is also the main combat method of the cavalry.

But in the final analysis, when two cavalry are fighting against one another, will the cone formation win, or the flying goose formation win?

Did the cone formation disperse the Yan Xing, or did the Yan Xing flank the cone formation?

Caught in a difficult situation, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu began to deduce it seriously.

One of them held a flying goose and the other held a cone formation. They broke off wooden sticks to serve as cavalry and formed a formation.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Guan Yu held the wild goose, and Li Mengxi held the cone formation. They attacked each other several times, but they could not get a solution.

Li Mengxi frowned, looking at the formation map and thinking, "It's hard to tell the difference between the same troops... It's better to divide them based on their differences."

"That's fine." Guan Yu said, "The differences between the cavalry include lance cavalry, crossbow cavalry, armored cavalry, and unarmored cavalry..."

"Light cavalry, heavy cavalry!" Li Mengxi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he slapped his thigh, interrupting Guan Yu's words.

"I understand!" Li Mengxi looked at Guan Yu excitedly, "This is based on the enemy's conditions! The cavalry is strong and can charge in roundabout ways.

If the enemy is heavily armored and I am lightly cavalry, then the enemy's frontal charge capability will be far stronger than mine.

At this time, if I are fighting with the enemy, I should avoid charging head-on with the enemy. If the enemy's heavy cavalry comes in a cone formation, I should use flying geese to avoid charging directly and attack in a roundabout way.

Exactly, the heavy cavalry lacks agility and maneuverability, and is circuitous, making it no match for my light cavalry!"

After Li Mengxi's analysis, Guan Yu was also inspired.

Guan Yu's eyes lit up and he nodded, "That's right! If our army is armored and heavily cavalry, and the enemy's army is light cavalry, then my charging power will be better than the enemy's, and my detour and harassment power will not be as good as the enemy's.

Therefore, if I use heavy cavalry to fight against the enemy's light cavalry, I must use a cone formation to charge them head-on, and I will definitely win the battle!"

It's very clear, we should take measures according to the enemy's conditions.

If our army is heavily armored cavalry, it will definitely have to find ways to charge with the enemy's light cavalry. If the heavy armored cavalry charges against the light cavalry, it will crush them.

On the contrary, if the enemy's heavily armored cavalry and our light cavalry are engaged, we should try our best to avoid charging head-on with them.

The reason is obvious.

In the cavalry cone formation and the cavalry flying formation, who is weaker and who is stronger depends solely on the enemy's conditions. The one who can adapt to the situation and exploit his strengths and avoid his weaknesses will win.

We have figured out the applicable scenarios of the Flying Geese Formation and the Cone Formation, but it seems that the core problem is still not solved. With the same strength and the same quality of cavalry, who can be stronger than the other between the Flying Geese Formation and the Cone Formation?

As the discussion continued, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu's discussion spread to the factor of battlefield.

The cavalry formation occupies a larger area than the infantry. The width of the formation of a dozen cavalry is longer than the width of the formation of a hundred infantry.

If the cavalry formation fights against the cavalry formation, the battlefield will be even larger.

Here, the forces of the Cone Formation are concentrated, and the range of the formation is obviously much smaller than that of the Flying Geese Formation. Similarly, the Wild Geese Formation has higher requirements on the width of the battlefield. Similarly, in a relatively narrow area, there may not be enough space for the Flying Geese Formation to make a detour.

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In the same way, the cone-shaped formation can be used regardless of the width of the battlefield, while the flying geese formation cannot be used when the battlefield is small.

Therefore, the difference between the conical formation and the flying goose formation, and the frequency of use of the cavalry conical formation is actually far greater than that of the flying goose formation.

From this, it can be further deduced that the cavalry's piercing and destructive power seems to be comparable to the destructive power of roundabout side attacks, but in fact, in the Central Plains, the frequency of use of cavalry's piercing ability is much higher than that of roundabout ability.

Going further back, since the ability to penetrate is more important, the cavalry in the army should be equipped with armored heavy cavalry as much as possible. Although heavy cavalry has its own advantages over light cavalry, in the Central Plains region, the winning rate of heavy cavalry must be higher than that of light cavalry.

This is no longer the case in the northern grasslands. The northern grasslands are a vast cavalry battlefield thousands of miles away, and heavy cavalry cannot be killed.

At this point in the discussion, both Li Mengxi and Guan Yu believed that it would be better for the cavalry in the army to be heavily armored.

The two only talked about armored cavalry, and they had a tacit understanding not to discuss the cost of heavy armored cavalry. They knew very well that heavy armored cavalry would cost a lot, and they seemed unable to afford it in a short period of time...

When cavalry wins, cone formations are often used in flying geese formations. Heavy cavalry is better than light cavalry.

However, the key question is that if the battlefield is large enough for the Flying Geese Formation to be deployed, the troops are of the same strength, and the cavalry are all heavy cavalry, then who will win, the Flying Geese Formation or the Cone Formation?

If one day, the enemy cavalry comes to kill, I will also ride to kill. The formations commonly used by cavalry are the cone formation and the flying goose formation. So, which one is slightly better, the flying goose formation or the cone formation?

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu have deduced the game dozens of times, and it is difficult to distinguish the two battles.

Adjusting measures to the enemy's conditions and local conditions. It seems that in the battle between cavalry, the terrain and the factors between ourselves and the enemy are particularly important.

In the end, it was really impossible to tell the difference between the two formations. Li Mengxi even thought of the time factor. The cone formation had concentrated troops and went straight forward, so the natural battle process was rapid. However, the flying geese formation was stretched out and wide, and the troops were dispersed and detoured.

Go, the battle rhythm is naturally slow.
To be continued...