If one day, our cavalry needs to quickly resolve a battle with the enemy's cavalry, then naturally, using a cone formation to duel can quickly determine the outcome, so that it can quickly break away and quickly support the infantry formation.

On the other hand, if one day, the mission of our cavalry is to hold off the enemy's cavalry as much as possible, then it will be natural to use the flying geese formation to fight with the enemy. In the flying geese formation, you go back and I go back. I went around for a long time without touching.

And if the cone formation and the cone formation are facing each other, and if they can't kill each other, the winner will be decided.

Adapting measures to the enemy's conditions, local conditions, and timely conditions seems to be the key to the battle between cavalry and cavalry.

[If you adapt to the enemy's conditions, if the enemy values ​​​​me more than we value, then avoid the enemy and attack each other, and use the formation of flying geese to detour around it, and you can win.

If the enemy underestimates us and we are serious, we should use a cone formation to attack the enemy and win by charging and killing them.]

[According to local conditions, in the formation of flying geese, the soldiers are scattered but the formation is spread out; in the formation of the cone shape, the troops are gathered but the formation is narrow. Here, in a wide place, both the flying geese and the cone formation can be used. In a narrow place, the cone formation can be used but not the flying geese.

Therefore, the conical formation is often used for flying geese. In other words, the conical formation is often used for flying geese. It follows that the power of cavalry to charge and penetrate is more important than the power of detour. That is, although light cavalry and heavy cavalry have their own victory, but in the Central Plains

In this land, heavy cavalry wins more games than light cavalry.

When encountering a battle in the Central Plains, there are six narrow areas and four wide areas. Therefore, 60% of the area is narrow, and the cavalry formation can only form in a cone formation but cannot fly. Therefore, 60% of the area is narrow, and heavy cavalry is better than light cavalry.

On a 40% wide area, the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry fought against each other in a roundabout way, and the victory was even half. Therefore, the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry each won 20%.

In summary, in the Central Plains cavalry battles, heavy cavalry wins 80% of the time.]

[According to the circumstances of the time, the conical formations are converging and the troops are gathering together to fight quickly. They clash and clash, and the victory and defeat are determined by the sum of the numbers. The flying geese formations are circuitous and slow.

In terms of the whole battle, if our cavalry needs to urgently decide the outcome with the enemy's cavalry, we can charge them with a cone formation;

On the other hand, if the priority of our cavalry is to delay the enemy's cavalry, we will use the flying geese formation to encircle them in a roundabout way.]

At the end, Li Mengxi had written down all the essentials of the Flying Geese in the Riding Formation and the Cone Formation. Li Mengxi still didn't know the answer to the last question.

He still didn't know which formation would win in a battle between hundreds of cavalry and hundreds of cavalry, all heavily armored cavalry. If the cone formation faced off against the flying geese.

It seems that there is also a difference in tactical literacy.

Does the cavalry regiment charge in clusters have higher requirements on the quality of the cavalry, or does roundabout fighting have higher requirements on the quality of the cavalry?

It seems that cluster charge requires higher training level.

Referring to the prairie cavalry, the nomads on the prairie, without any training, go directly to the battlefield, and they will naturally use roundabout tactics to harass the sparrows.

However, it seems that the cavalry must at least be strictly trained before they can form a formation to charge. At the very least, hundreds of cavalry are neatly arranged in a tight formation. Without training, it is difficult to even form a formation, let alone charge.

Therefore, if the training of the cavalry is not good enough, you can still use the flying geese formation to harass and bypass the enemy, and you can barely hold back the enemy. If the quality of the cavalry is not good, you can hedge against others and be defeated directly.

On the contrary, our cavalry army is elite and the enemy's cavalry is a weak army. Therefore, if we force the enemy to form a formation with us and charge, we will have a greater advantage over our army.

Otherwise, if we follow the enemy in a roundabout way across the battlefield, although the enemy is weak, it is instinct to avoid and flee. Our army pursues it, but the enemy retreats, retreats for a while, and then comes back to harass us. In this situation, our army's strongest

The advantage of organization and training is difficult to maximize, and the gap in combat power with the enemy cannot be widened. In this situation, we are at a huge disadvantage.

Therefore, when a well-trained cavalry is fighting against an under-trained cavalry, it is best for the well-trained cavalry to charge in a formation with it, that is, in a cone formation; conversely, if the enemy is well-trained and our cavalry is poorly trained,

Then attack in roundabout ways and harass them, avoid frontal combat, that is, use flying geese formations and other roundabout tactics, but are determined not to use cone formations to rush and kill.

Hedging in cavalry formations requires extremely high quality of cavalry. After one or two hedging formations, the weaker ones will simply collapse.

From this, we also know that the method of cavalry warfare is imitated by the grassland barbarians. Why don't the grassland barbarians charge into a decisive battle with the Central Plains armored cavalry?

Therefore, there are some barbarians who dare to charge in groups with the Central Plains armored cavalry, but these barbarians are often wiped out in one wave.

Therefore, when the armament and technical training of the grasslands was obviously not as good as that of the Central Plains, under the brutal elimination, the barbarians who dared to rush to kill had long since perished.

The only feasible tactic for the low-quality cavalry in the grassland to fight against the elite cavalry in the Central Plains is to come roaring in, roar back again, and only attack in roundabout ways, never charging head-on.

The tactics of the grassland barbarians are obviously feasible. From this, it is not difficult to know that frontal confrontation is actually a sharp weapon to test the quality of the cavalry. It is also known that the strong attacks the weak, rushes them, the weak attacks the strong, and detours to harass them, and adjust the strength to the weak.

When the weak cavalry and the high-quality cavalry are arrayed against each other, the gap in combat power is the largest; when the two disperse and attack each other in a roundabout way, the gap in combat power is the smallest.

It is not difficult to understand how to adapt to the enemy's conditions.

After rehearsing the cavalry formation, the whole morning was spent.

Guan Yu and Li Mengxi, who were still unfinished, had lunch in a hurry and continued to talk about other things.

Twenty days ago, during the confrontation with Huangfu Song, the Zhuozhou rebels used earthen fortress tactics to force Huangfu Song into a position where he could not escape.

Now, twenty days later, when reviewing the battle situation at that time, a key question is: if the offensive and defensive forces change, and if the enemy forces surround our camp with earthen forts in the future, how will our army defeat them?

On the linen cloth, Li Mengxi drew a detailed picture of the battle formation at that time.

The formation diagram shows Huangfu Song's camp. A hundred and fifty steps away is a circle. Behind the ditch is an earth fort. On the earth fort is a chariot formation. Behind the chariot formation is the Zhuozhou Army's 100,000 troops.

In such a formation, if the offensive and defensive positions change, Li Mengxi frowned and stared at the formation map for a long time.

"If the offensive and defensive positions change... then our army will be trapped. Even if we have enough food and grass to hold on for a long time, we will not be able to hold on for a long time. If we hold on for a day, the enemy's trench will become ten feet wider. One will decrease and the other will increase. This is a desperate situation for us.

Therefore, I thought that once I was surrounded by a stronghold, I should not hesitate for a moment and immediately attack and rush out."

Speaking of this, Li Mengxi looked serious and stared at the formation map intently, "If you rush out and attack the earthen fortress, if you wait to attack the city... No! It's more difficult than attacking the city. Attacking the city can be done easily. Our army is trapped in the encirclement."

It's like being trapped in an urn city and trying to force the city again, it's very difficult!"

"Fortunately, the earthen ramparts are low after all and are far less tall than the city walls. Although the trenches are wide, they are far less strong and deep than the moats. Even if they are attacked by force, it is much easier to attack the city.

The art of breaking down earthen fortresses requires overcoming earthen barriers and deep trenches. Crossing trenches requires wooden bridges, and crossing earthen barriers requires long ladders. The difficulty is that when the wilderness is surrounded, how can the army get enough wood to make siege equipment?"

"Think about it, if the wilderness is besieged, the only wood the army can raise is the frame of the carriage.

There is enough wood to make a ladder using a wheel, but all that is needed is the craftsman's ax and saw."

"It can be seen that the key to attacking a fortress lies in craftsmen, axes and saws, and field engineering capabilities."

"Besides this," Li Mengxi touched his chin, frowning and thinking, "it may also be in the frame itself. If our army's vehicles can be connected with each other, they can be connected to fill the trenches. After filling the trenches, they can be used as bridges.

After that, the soldiers crossed the bridge as if they were walking on flat ground.

If there is such a car, and several cars can be connected together, then the car needs to have a long axle to connect it. If the car can walk on flat ground, then the car needs to have a flat and wide carriage...

How about a sidecar? A sidecar can be used for riding, but it is not suitable for setting up trenches. It needs to be built as a special vehicle."

"You don't need a lot of this kind of carriage. You can carry dozens or twenty of them when marching, which is enough for crossing trenches in the field."
Chapter completed!