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Chapter 63 Don't find a teammate to sell it, how can the enemy accept the group

September 26, at the beginning of noon.

On the north bank of the Qishui River, an infantry force of 500 men, arranged in a neat but slightly loose rectangular formation, slowly advanced from west to east.

The head of the regiment, Lu Datou, leaned on the barrel of the spear in one hand, and carried the Yanling knife on his shoulder in the other hand. There was also a pack of packed armor hanging on the scabbard, and he hurried on the road panting.

The armor in the bag was not his own, it belonged to a slightly wounded comrade, and he was still wearing his own armor.

In order to guard against the enemy's harassment that may appear at any time, Zuo Dusi asked all uninjured soldiers to march in armor and be ready to change formations to meet the enemy at any time.This further slowed down the marching speed, and it was also a severe test of the willpower of the recruits.

"Boss, there are still [-] miles to go back to the county. If the bandit cavalry really surrounds us on the plain, what should we do? Why don't you go forward lightly while there is no enemy in the vicinity?"

A soldier next to him was a little weak, gulping down the water poured from the bamboo tube, and complaining a little shaken.

"Xu Dao Scar, if you talk too much, I won't slap you! How dare you question the military order of the commander! It seems that there are no bandits now, but as long as the cavalry appears in the sky, a cup of tea will be in front of you, and you will change formation again I have to put on armor again, can I make it in time?"

As Lu Datou said, he took the scabbard and rewarded the soldier's brains with a scabbard, causing the opponent to stagger.

They were originally dock laborers in Huanghangkou Town.When Shen Tongzhi recruited for team training, basically all dock workers with clean resumes and healthy bodies were recruited.

So today Zuo Zixiong is going to burn the walls of Huangjiakou Town to clear the fields, and the resistance is not that great. No matter who makes the whole town's strong men eat the imperial food.

Lu Datou is the strongest among the dock workers, and there were hundreds of people following him back then.After joining the army together, Shen Tongzhi used talents eclecticly. After testing Lu Datou's strength and water skills, he was given a general position, which made him very grateful.

In the early morning battle just now, his team experienced the most intense close combat in the field, and five robes were killed. With great strength, he stabbed three rogue cavalrymen to death with a long spear. Picked up one from the dead robe Ze's body and continued to use it.

Lu Datou could see that the brothers were somewhat confused.Victory made everyone less afraid, but he had doubts about the arrangement of tactical tasks, and he had to find ways to boost morale along the way.

Lu Datou was beating Xu Daobang, and by the way, he was intimidating other comrades in arms. A few horses from the rear team galloped by. Lu Datou hurriedly told his brothers to stand still. When he turned around, he saw that Zuo Dusi came to inspect in person.

Zuo Zixiong also took it seriously when he saw that the captain of the spearman was listless, so he reined in his horse and stopped:
"Lu Datou! Why is the formation so loose, but what is the difficulty? If there are wounded soldiers who are seriously injured, they should report it in time. You don't rely on you to help your men back their armor, and they will accept your favor!"

Lu Datou immediately stood up: "Going back to the capital... No, there is no difficulty. Biaoxia has been encouraging and comforting the brothers according to what you explained just now, saying that Liu Xiong has been tricked by Master Tongzhi and has been beaten and disabled this time. .Even if he dares to come back for revenge, his combat power will only get weaker and weaker."

Zuo Zixiong nodded and said nothing more.

All of this is because he repeatedly explained to each of the hundreds of households and generals under his command before he set off, allowing them to take advantage of the victory in the early morning to promote morale while the iron is hot, and clearly explain the advantages of our army to every soldier.

In this way, when the follow-up field battles are fought again, the soldiers will not be easily afraid.

Zuo Zixiong has led troops for many years. Although he has not systematically read the art of war, he has a clear understanding of the psychological thoughts of soldiers.He knows that a new army, the first few times on the battlefield, confidence is always the most important, more important than weapons and training.

The key to determining victory or defeat is not after the start of the fight, but in the inspiration before the battle and between the wars.Not only must you be able to kill the enemy, but you must also be able to blow it, blowing the inspiration effect of a human head into three or five, fully tapping the potential.

If everyone in the enemy army believes that they have fallen into our army's trick, and if we can also convince our soldiers that the enemy army has fallen into our trick, the battle will have been won [-]% without a fight.

Zuo Zixiong was very cautious. He didn't just listen to Lu Datou's words. Instead, he carefully selected a few soldiers in the team who seemed to have low morale, and asked them why the enemy lost the battle in the early morning. The situation was so miserable, and they asked them what trick Master Tongzhi had used to defeat the enemy.

The soldiers who were drawn did not embarrass Lu Datou, they all answered in five hundred and ten, and Zuo Zixiong nodded in satisfaction.

The last question he asked was Xu Dao Scar who was reprimanded by Lu Datou just now. Xu Dao Scar seemed to be a little displeased with his injury and the death of Pao Ze in battle. After answering, he couldn't help but question Zuo Zixiong a little:
"Lord Du Si! We kept saying that the bandit army was tricked by Lord Tongzhi to lure the enemy, so they ran so far and were exhausted and sent them up for us to kill.

Then let us recruits be spearmen, carry the charge of the bandit cavalry, and create opportunities for the cronies who hide behind to be musketeers to kill the enemy, is it also in Master Tongzhi's plan?His strategy is to use our humble lives to fill the hole? "

As soon as these words came out, the hundred and ten people nearby all pricked up their ears, and they couldn't help but feel a little commotion.

Indeed, "one's own generals' clever calculations" are very morale-boosting, but those soldiers who are used as bait and responsible for "causing defeat to lure the enemy" will not feel good.

Because of this, the troops responsible for luring the enemy to use tricks in ancient and modern times must be the most elite soldiers, otherwise they will not be able to bear the psychological pressure at all, and mutiny is possible.

Zuo Zixiong's face changed. He wanted to punish Xu Dao Scar, but he knew that the most important thing at this moment was to serve the crowd, and he could not expand the grievances of the recruits.Immediately said with an open face:
"The specific tactics have nothing to do with Mr. Tongzhi! It's all the general's improvisation. Mr. Tongzhi is the star of Wenqu, so you only need to think about those big political strategies!

As for the task assignment of the soldiers, it is also determined according to each individual's talent, physical strength, and martial arts. Now that the types of troops have been determined, they must be ordered and prohibited during wartime!

You want to be gunners, so why didn't all three arrows hit the target during the recruitment assessment?Anyone who knows how to shoot is not like this!Now that you have been assigned a spearman, you should do your best to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. Master Tongzhi will clearly reward and punish you. When the army expands in the future, veterans will naturally be promoted to more important positions and assigned better weapons.

The future is earned by everyone. In our army, there is absolutely no seniority or cronyism, and everything is based on ability!Speak on credit!

For example, Mr. Lu, he stabbed to death three bandit cavalrymen with his own hands today. After returning to the city, I will naturally pass the record book to Mr. Tongzhi in detail. If he wants to be transferred to command the firearms, Mr. Tongzhi will definitely Will agree!You didn't hurt a single enemy, and you didn't rescue your comrades, why should you be transferred away! "

Zuo Zixiong's words were just and righteous, and the confused recruits next to him slowly came to their senses and finally accepted the status quo.

As long as you play well, you still have the opportunity to change arms and upgrade equipment!

Believe it for the first time, and go back to see how Master Tongzhi fulfilled it.

As soon as Zuo Zixiong finished boosting morale, there were bursts of exclamations from the front army. It was indeed the rogue cavalry after a short rest in the morning, regrouped and began to outflank.

"Array!" Zuo Zixiong let out a stern roar, and quickly fine-tuned the troops to form a trapezoidal formation transformed from the Spanish square formation.

The normal Spanish phalanx, in a decisive battle on the Great Plains, requires that there be spears facing outwards on all sides, and the passage between the spears allows the musketeers to come forward.

At this moment, because one side is next to the river, it only needs a trapezoidal shape with three sides. The side next to the river is the longest bottom side. There is no need to deploy personnel, and the slightly narrower top side and two waists are used to meet the enemy.

Zuo Zixiong had just adjusted his position when Liu Xiong's cavalry surrounded him from three directions.

Liu Xiong himself brought three or four hundred cavalry to block the easternmost side, between Zuo Zixiong and Qizhou County, and cut off Zuo Zixiong's advancing direction.

Yidougu, who was wounded, took the remaining half of the cavalry, went around to the tail of Zuo Zixiong's troops, and drove the tail from west to east.

The remaining six or seven hundred cavalry infantry stretched loosely in the north of Zuo Zixiong's department, distracting Zuo Zixiong's attention and defensive forces, and preventing Zuo Zixiong from leaving too many blocking reserves.

After everything was done, the two sides were still thirteen or four miles away from Qizhou County, and they were deadlocked there.As long as he moved a little to the east for two or three miles, Zuo Zixiong could see the tower of the west gate of Qizhou City, but Liu Xiong obviously wouldn't let him easily withdraw into place.

"Stay in formation and keep going!"

Zuo Zixiong waited for a while, and Liu Xiong just surrounded him like this, and if he didn't attack for a while, he just exhausted him like this.Zuo Zixiong could only slowly move eastward in a trapezoidal formation.

In the state of maintaining a phalanx, the troops may not even be able to walk five miles in an hour, which is a great consumption of physical strength and concentration.

The enemy cavalry can take advantage of their mobility, either standing or sitting.If Zuo Zixiong dared to chase them out, they would retreat, and it was impossible to catch up with the horses.

And if Zuo Zixiong's troops were a little slack, Yidougu, who was experienced in military affairs, would seize the opportunity and send dozens of elite cavalry who were good at riding and archery to harass them with arrows from a distance of more than a hundred paces.

Although it is almost impossible for these arrows to hit people, they can also make the officers and soldiers nervous for a while.Dozens of people sweeping around the formation can make hundreds of people stand in line and consume a lot of energy.

The officers and soldiers fought back with blunderbusses. Also because they were too far away, lead bullets could not hit the loose rangers at all. In half an hour, they only received four or five shots and killed four or five elite cavalry shooters.

The time passed until three o'clock in the afternoon.It is clearly late autumn, but the scorching sun at noon still makes people irritable.

The infantrymen were fully armed and moved on guard. They only walked three miles in half an hour, but they were all sweating profusely.

It was only the last ten miles away from Qizhou, and the city tower could already be seen, but Zuo Zixiong's face was terribly gloomy.

"According to the previous information about the torture of the captives, Liu Xiyao's [-] to [-] troops will definitely arrive at Huangjiakou Town at Shenshi at the latest, and give him another hour to arrive here.

Our army only has two hours at most to complete the ten miles to enter the city, and we must not waste it in such a fast and dense formation.Liu Xiong refuses to rashly charge into my Phalanx, so he has to take some risks and let him see some hope..."

When the hedgehog and the porcupine huddled together, it was very unreasonable to complain that the wolf dog did not come to bite him.After all, the wolfhound is not mentally handicapped. If one side has no mobility and wants to break the opponent's teeth, the only way is to let the hedgehog relax a little bit.

"The front army speeds up, let the formation be looser, and keep a step away from each other! Only when you see the bandits charging can you meet the enemy! If you don't charge, ignore them!" Zuo Zixiong gritted his teeth and sold an extra loophole.

These operations are actually not very in line with the art of war, but there is no way to do it. If they are too in line with the art of war, the enemy with an advantage in power will not give you a chance to fight hard.

Even gamers know that when one party is confident in forming a team to fight a positional battle, the other party is not stupid and will not come to pick up the team at all.At this time, it is indispensable to ask individual teammates to sell and pretend to be an order, so that the enemy will come to pick up the group.

As if they had received an amnesty, the soldiers quickened their pace and started on their way.

Liu Xiong and Yidougu on the opposite side were also overjoyed when they saw that the officers and soldiers had finally started to "escape for their lives".They followed up first, and then Liu Xiong and Yidougu also informed each other of the situation by ordering the cavalry, and decided on a countermeasure.

"Let the main attack from Yidou Valley! Charge to the rear of the army! The enemy's formation becomes loose and the march speeds up. They must have no intention of fighting. They will chase and kill from the rear. As long as they break through a little, the whole army will collapse! The army has been exposed for an hour. I'm exhausted already!"

(End of this chapter)