The country soldiers have been defeated twice in a row and their morale has been taken away. They no longer have any arrogance and dare not underestimate the soldiers of the Julu Army. Harrier

Li Mengxi once again invited the two sides to fight. He asked the village soldiers, "Do you dare to fight again? If you can hold on for a moment, how about I still reward you with meat?"

The conditions have been lowered, and we no longer insist on holding on. We only need to hold on for a moment. However, the confidence of the rural soldiers has been damaged, and they no longer have the confidence to fight anymore.

Seeing that all the village soldiers were silent and had no fighting spirit at all, Li Mengxi simply made a decision for them, "We are all seven-foot men, why are we afraid of a battle? Get ready for another fight!"

Both sides returned to their respective positions. The country soldiers returned to the defense line again, while the soldiers returned a hundred steps away and began to repair.

Li Mengxi looked at the demoralized rural soldiers beside him and saw that the rural soldiers had not made any other preparations. If so, they would definitely be defeated.

Li Mengxi kindly reminded, "Before it starts, think about how to block it. Don't just watch. If you just watch, can you win?"

When the country soldiers won easily before, the country soldiers were not willing to let them think about tactics. Now, they are in decline, and they have to use their brains even if they don't want to. Harrier

Li Mengxi took the opportunity to add another big bet. He shouted to everyone, "Use your brains and think carefully. Whoever can come up with a good idea will be rewarded with fifty catties of meat!"

Fifty kilograms of meat was considered a heavy reward. As soon as this reward was announced, the morale of the rural soldiers increased and the voices began to grow louder.

Li Mengxi was not in a hurry, he waited quietly.

The low-pitched discussion of the village soldiers nearby fell completely on Li Mengxi's ears.

A soldier from the village realized it later and said, "If I had known that the ditch would be so easy to cross, we would have dug deeper."

Li Mengxi looked towards the trench. It was indeed not too deep, but the depth of more than one person was definitely enough for the defense line in the countryside. Furthermore, although the trench was not deep enough, it was long, so long that each village could dig it on average.

To build trenches that are several miles long, there are two trade-offs: either dig a trench that is deep enough, or, while basically ensuring the depth of the trench, dig the trench as long as possible so that every village in the defense line can be connected continuously. There is no doubt that

, the latter is the most cost-effective.

The village soldiers later realized that the ditch was shallow. This was already their thinking and their gain. Harrier

Another soldier beeped, and the soldier said to the person next to him, "Hey, if we make the stick longer, we can poke it from the other side if we stand at this end. Are we still afraid of him?"

Li Mengxi's eyes lit up when he heard it.

He looked at the trench and its width, and immediately felt that it was not possible. The trench was too wide, and even a two-foot long spear could not reach the other side.

Something seemed wrong, Li Mengxi stared at the ditch thoughtfully.

It stands to reason that the wider the trench, the better. The wider the trench, the harder it will be for the other side to jump across, and the harder it will be for the enemy to fill up the trench. However, if the trench is too wide, there will be no way to use [Rejection from across the bank]

】 Tactic, there is no way to poke the enemy with a gun from one end to the other end, and the enemy will not be able to get close to the trench.

So, in the end, does the wider trench have greater advantages, or does the "rejection from across the bank" have greater tactical advantages?

I don’t know. Li Mengxi’s eyes were a little confused. Harrier

Comparing the two trench strategies, if the trench is too wide, the too-wide trench will actually form a distance between the two sides. That is, if the trench is too wide, the defender will not be able to stop the attacker on the other side of the trench...

(Wrong!) Li Mengxi suddenly felt something in his heart, (Crossbow...)

Ignore it, who said that if the ditch is wide, there will be no way to stop it. The gun cannot reach it, but the bow and crossbow can also reach it.

But if you think about it carefully, crossbows are not the same as spears. Crossbows shoot to kill, while spears thrust. It is also known that if the enemy is a heavily armored man with a good stomach and a large shield, in this case,

Even shooting with a powerful crossbow at close range is not enough to effectively kill the enemy. In this case, the crossbow is weak, and the spear can push the enemy back by thrusting.

Under the extreme conditions where the enemy's armor and stomach are extremely sophisticated, this place is blocked by the ditch. The narrow ditch can make the spear useful, and the defender has a greater advantage.

However, if you jump out of this small spot on the edge of the ditch and look at the entire ditch, you will see that if the ditch is narrow, the long gun can indeed be used. Even if the ditch is narrow, the long gun and the crossbow can form a combined attack, and the long gun can overturn the enemy's armor.

Soldiers, long spears push away the enemy shields, and bows and crossbows take advantage of the opportunity to enter. This will produce a result of one plus one greater than two. However, the problem is that if we look at the overall situation and the entire trench fortifications, the defenders can only shoot when the trench is narrow.

Combined with the crossbow, it can exert great lethality at a small distance from the edge of the ditch. However, if the ditch is narrow, it will also make it easy for the enemy to fill the ditch with soil and people.

A wide trench or a narrow trench is the difference between tactics and strategy. If the trench is narrow, there is a tactical advantage. If the trench is wide, the enemy will have to spend several times the time and several days to fill the trench. Therefore, it is the tactical advantage that is important.

Is strategic advantage still important? Harrier

After thinking about it, it seems that we should adapt measures to local conditions.

Different battlefields require different optimal strategies.

If it is a large army operation, the strategic advantage is more important. In a large army operation, the wider the trench, the better. The wider the trench, the longer it will take for the enemy to conquer the trench. At the same time, in a large army operation, there are subtle tactical advantages.

, is not as important as the overall strategic advantage.

On the contrary, if it is a small-scale battle, such as a rural battle, where both sides have few troops, the strategic advantage is not as important as the tactical advantage. In rural battles, the strategic advantage is not even used. For example, a group of rural soldiers with three soldiers

A group of soldiers brought food for a day. The result was that no matter which group of soldiers, they didn't want to fight after waiting for less than half a day and went home.

In small-scale battles, the immediate tactical advantage is more important than the strategic advantage. For example, when thieves come to attack, as long as the village soldiers can poke a few thieves across the ditch at the beginning of the battle, the thieves will not be easy to fight.

They simply took a detour. On the contrary, if the trench was too wide and the tactical advantage could not be exerted immediately, the rebels would immediately mobilize a large number of people to carry soil to fill the trench. After waiting for a long time, the village soldiers might not be able to bear it.

The pressure is going to break.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Mengxi came to the conclusion that in small-scale battles, tactical advantages are important, and in larger-scale battles, strategic advantages are more important.

Therefore, in terms of trenches and defensive trenches in the countryside, it should be that narrower trenches are better. Harrier

It is best for the ditch to be so narrow that the enemy cannot leap across it, but we can attack across the ditch. Best, in order to cooperate with the defense of the ditch, we can specially equip some extra-long long rafters to take advantage of the length of the long rafters.

, if the enemy is unprepared, they can only be poked without any ability to counterattack.

In an offensive and defensive environment like a trench, the defender is much more relaxed than the attacker. Even if the defender uses a three-foot-long rafter, or even if two people carry one rafter, they can still beat the attacker to the death.

It is already clear that for small-scale battles, it is better for the trenches to be slightly narrower. However, considering that too narrow a trench will make it easy for the enemy to fill the trench, so without changing the width of the trench, the trench can be deepened to make the trench narrower and more

Deep, in this way, the defender can not only exert its tactical advantage, but also increase the difficulty of filling the trench for the enemy.

Thinking about the Julu Army's own trench-breaking tactics, the Julu Army's trench-breaking tactics included the filling method, the trench bridge method, the shield bridge method, and the Xuanwu chariot filling trench method.

Focusing on the other side of the ditch, I simulated it in my mind. If the enemy pushed a van into the ditch in an attempt to fill it up, how would they carry it?

The first method of resistance is that if the ditch is not wide, the defender can hold the long rafter and poke it directly to the other side. It can stop the opponent's carriage so that it cannot push the cart into the ditch easily.

Therefore, in order to resist vehicles, the fork rods in the city defense equipment can be used here. The fork rods are not easy to slip and are suitable for resisting vehicles. Harrier

The second method of resistance, Li Mengxi thought, was to modify the trench and build a steep slope on the other side of the trench. In this way, the enemy soldiers had to climb the slope first if they wanted to approach the trench, and the enemy vans also had to climb the slope if they wanted to approach the trench.

It is conceivable that on a steep slope, the vehicle will slide down without support. In this situation, it is difficult for the enemy to push the vehicle, but our army took the long fork pole and stepped back slightly to push the enemy's vehicle down.

A small slope of soil is a formidable enemy of trench-filling vehicles.

After thinking about it, Li Mengxi quickly took out the pen and paper he carried with him and wrote down in detail what he had just learned.

One of the results is that the wider the trench, the better. Using the limit method to reason, if the trench is as wide as the limit, it is just a canyon. The canyon isolates the two sides. In addition to the strategic advantage, the defender has no tactics.

What is the advantage? The hypothetical scenario is that the defender does not have enough food and grass, and must fight quickly to repel the enemy in order to win. However, the trench is wide enough to become a canyon, and the enemy simply stops attacking and is wasting away. The defender does not have enough food and grass, and is strategically in decline.

Only tactics can reverse the situation. But if the trench is so wide that it isolates both sides, neither side will have a tactical advantage, and the defender will be unable to reverse the situation.

Therefore, when the defenders are short of food and are eager to fight, the trenches should be narrow and the tactical advantages should be emphasized.

The limit method is also used. The trench is as narrow as the limit, narrow enough to be spanned in one step. At this time, there is no trench.

A trench cannot be narrow or wide, so the optimal trench should be neither wide nor narrow.

There are two types of trenches: strategic advantages and tactical advantages. The strategic advantage type is naturally wider, while the tactical advantage is that the trench is narrow enough to prevent enemy soldiers from jumping, and our long guns can penetrate the opposite side, and crossbows and firearms can

The degree of combined attack.Harrier

In the trench [tactical advantage type] offensive and defensive method, when defending, the defender can specially prepare extra-long rafters for blocking, and can be equipped with fork poles to block enemy trench-filling vehicles. You can also build a trench on the opposite bank.

Steep slopes to make it more difficult for the enemy to use vehicles.

For the attacker, if the defender sets up a steep slope in front of the trench, they can accelerate and push the vehicle from a distance, causing the vehicle to rush into the trench.

If the defenders are equipped with long rafters in advance, if we are not prepared, we will inevitably be at a disadvantage in the face of the enemy. The first way to defeat the enemy is to use the long rafters against the long rafters. When fighting across trenches, our side must have long rafters as a backup.

They guarded the trenches with long rafters, and I used bows and crossbows to kill the soldiers behind the trenches. After killing all the soldiers behind the trenches, I could calmly cross the trenches.

From this point on, the defender can take advantage of the trench and use the length of the rafters. The infantry has already gained the upper hand, but is still afraid of crossbows. At this time, a wooden wall half the height of the trench can be erected behind the trench.

, the wooden wall can not only provide cover, but also the super long gun can be placed on the wooden wall to gain strength.

In fact, if you break down the combat factors, in the battle, there are archers, infantry, and cavalry. There are various components. Archers are inferior, but infantry and cavalry are superior, so they can still win. Archers and infantry are both inferior, and cavalry is superior, so they can still win.

win.

However, if all arms are at a disadvantage, the chances of winning will be slim.

In trench offensive and defensive battles, the defender took advantage of the trench and the length of the rafters, giving the defender's infantry a complete advantage. Of course, the enemy could still use bows and crossbows to restrain it, but the attacker was already at a disadvantage.

Harrier

The attacking infantry was no match for the defender, so as a last resort, crossbows were brought in to suppress the defender's infantry, but the defender also had crossbowmen.

The attacking crossbow team was forced to shoot at the defender's long rafters who were covering behind the wooden wall. At this time, the defending crossbow team could completely counterattack and suppress the attacking crossbowmen.

Although the two sides were firing crossbows at each other, the efficiency of the two sides was completely different. The attackers fired at the heavily armored infantry under the cover of the wooden wall, while the defenders directly fired at the attacking side's crossbow units with thin armor and no fortifications to cover them.

One had to shoot at the turtle, and the other could shoot the crispy one comfortably. Moreover, due to strategic needs, the crispy one had to shoot the turtle with all his strength to remove the obstacle, and had no way to fight back.

Therefore, although the lengthening of the trench and the rafters only increases the advantage of the infantry, when one side's infantry becomes superior, a chain reaction will occur, forcing the other side to invest in other aspects of strength, and the other side will invest in other aspects of strength.

Strength will make one party inevitably weak in other aspects.

After Li Mengxi finished recording all his gains, he took back his paper and pen, raised his head, and found a person standing in front of him. The person in front of him was dressed in coarse linen and had a green scarf wrapped around his forehead, looking like a country soldier.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing Li Mengxi looking over, the village soldier hesitated and said, "We want to light a fire, can that be done?" Harrier
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