Zhao Bing thought hard about defeating the enemy's plan and even wanted to give up. If he thought it was really impossible, he would cry and hold a grand ceremony to save face. Although he would spend more money, it would be much smaller than the cost of sending troops and was safe. Today, he was inspired by the stupid guy's unintentional words, so he opened his mind and thought about the strategy of breaking the enemy, which would make him complete such a large combat plan alone.

However, the evil he committed himself can only be paid back by himself. However, those military strategists and strategists dare not use it. If they know that their ancestral tombs would be dug up, they can still talk to everyone so calmly, and they must ask the Queen Mother to destroy him. And now, there are two ready-made spare tires in Qiongzhou. The Queen Mother is also summoned to the palace from time to time to chat, and it is said that she likes it very much!

Fortunately, Zhao Bing likes to keep a hand in his work. As long as he can make an outline, the people in the Imperial Front Office can make plans for him. You should know that he started training them as early as Yashan, and these people also participated in the formulation of the combat plan for the Qiongzhou Defense War, the drafting of the military reform plan and the formulation of previous exercise plans, especially Lin Zhiwu showed a genius side in strategic and tactical planning. What made Zhao Bing relieved was that these people were tight-mouthed and would never say a word more when they were beaten to death. Of course, they also knew that they were the ones who were beaten to death.

Zhao Bing has also developed his experience in practicing martial arts over the years. He grew up listening to storytelling in his previous life. He often heard that ancient generals won many people alone, and they would go out of the camps alone, killing a few of them from tens of thousands of people. He envied him and a group of friends who fought with broken sticks every day. He heard that someone was particularly good at fighting, and that a few big men could not enter, so he wanted to be his disciple.

In this era of cold weapons, Zhao Bing realized that those are basically nonsense. Ni Liang can fight with his body and his legs and feet, otherwise he would have to be chopped up. In the real battlefield, in cold weapons fighting, there are indeed few cases of real one-on-one single-handed battles. So, in cold weapons fighting, how should we deal with multiple enemies?

In fact, if there are few people and many people, the key is to move. You must not be surrounded by people, because once you are surrounded, you will be done. Therefore, you must not be entangled with any opponent when you are small and fight with many. If you think you will beat him to death if you work harder, it means you are already in danger and others have begun to surround you. In short, don’t care about the outcome of the battle, you will leave with one blow.

If the opponent has one strong and the others are weak, first kill the weak. As the opponent fights, he finds that he is the only one left. He will feel guilty and will shrink his hands and feet when fighting, and it is easy to take away one wave. If the opponent has a relatively average strength and is more feinted to attack the weak, let the weak take the defensive, and then grab the weak and beat him to death. Because the weak and weak can't take away one wave, he will be entangled, and then the strong seize the opportunity to attack.

Zhao Bing knew that due to the different genes of the people in the north and south, the individual quality of his army was different from that of the Yuan army, but his discipline and execution were not inferior to that of the Yuan army, especially his collective combat awareness, and his weapons were advanced than that of the Yuan army, so the combat effectiveness of the two armies was generally comparable. The gap with the Yuan army was that the lack of cavalry led to poor mobility, making it difficult to catch the enemy and eliminate the enemy, and all of this needed to be solved strategically and tactically.

Everyone knows that water systems have an important impact on military operations. The degree of influence varies according to their distribution, flow direction, hydrological characteristics and nearby terrain conditions, and is closely related to seasonal changes. The impact of water systems on military operations has three main aspects:

First, the impact on combat operations. Like mountains and mountains, it is also one of the strategic barriers, and is undoubtedly beneficial to defenders; but for attackers, it is a natural obstacle, which will prevent or delay the advancement speed. Large rivers and medium rivers parallel to the combat direction will also cause the offensive and defensive combat formation and defense system to be divided, which is not conducive to organizational coordination and mutual support.

During the rainy season, especially during flooding, it brings difficulties to the troops crossing the river; during the dry season, its barrier effect is reduced; in winter, it will cause fundamental changes in its role, from obstacles to roadways. In plain water network areas with many lakes and swamps, the troops are often divided into narrow terrain, creating a passive situation, but it provides convenience for the development of water guerrilla warfare.

Second, it has an impact on transportation. The numerous water systems are undoubtedly an obstacle to land transportation. Only bridges can pass through, causing certain difficulties for the troops' mobility and the large-scale and rapid transportation of combat materials; but at the same time, the rivers themselves provide convenient conditions for water transportation. Third, it provides water source conditions for the survival and combat of the troops. Large corps forces need a large amount of water supply to ensure combat, and rivers and lakes become the most important and most convenient water sources.

The Mongolian army was able to sweep across Europe and Asia with only a few hundred thousand troops and conquered an unparalleled empire. It was by no means relying on the large number of people and power, but often used a large detour strategy to create a broad war space, taking the circumcision as the straight, avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, causing the battlefield offensive and defense structure to suddenly change, thus disrupting the enemy's deployment and creating favorable fighter opportunities for itself.

Tactically, the most commonly used combat method of the Mongolian army is to line up the troops into many roughly parallel columns under the cover of light cavalry and advance forward with a very wide front. When the first column encounters the main force of the enemy, the column either stops or retreats slightly according to the situation. The remaining columns continue to advance and occupy the enemy's side and behind the enemy. This often forces the enemy to retreat to protect its traffic line. The Mongolian army takes the opportunity to approach the enemy and makes it become chaotic when retreating, and finally completely encircle the enemy and completely annihilate it.

The battlefield that Zhao Bing chose was in the southeast region, where water networks were densely packed and there was no winter freezing period to be used, which limited the maneuver power of the Mongolian Yuan cavalry and had already gained a strategic advantage. The problem was that after changing his clothes, the Song army trained the European linear tactics he copied from. This tactic had been rampant on the European battlefield for a long time, but the horizontal team also had a fatal flaw.

That is, the mobility of the horizontal team is very low, and even the victors will find it difficult to organize effective pursuits. This is because they are afraid of the formation being scattered, and soldiers will slip away. Therefore, in the era of online formations, there are basically defeat wars, and there are few annihilation wars. Of course, this has a lot to do with the limited war diplomatic wars that were popular among European powers at that time. However, this is not the point. The point is that you must also have corresponding tactics to achieve tactical victory under favorable strategic conditions.

The terrain of this combat is complex. To the north of Hangzhou Bay, most of them belong to plain coasts. The plain coast is easy to land, and there is no dangerous terrain available on land. Mountain coasts are also called rock shores. The coast is composed of rocky hills on the coast, the coast is composed of rocks, the cliffs are steep, the situation is steep, the coastline is winding, the capes and bays are intersecting, and there are many natural good harbors. The water depth in front of the shore is often distributed. To the south of Hangzhou Bay, except for the local harbors and the estuary triangle area that belongs to plain coasts, most of them belong to mountain coasts. There are many natural good harbors on the mountain coast, which can be used as a naval base. At the same time, it is inconvenient to land. The coastal terrain is very dangerous, but it is conducive to coastal defense operations.

Zhao Bing knew that the standard Mongolian army combat formation consisted of five horizontal formations, each horizontal formation being a single line. Each horizontal formation was a wide distance between each other. The first two horizontal formations were heavy cavalry, and the other three were light cavalry. In front of these five horizontal formations, there were also some light cavalry units responsible for reconnaissance and cover. When the troops of both sides of the enemy were getting closer, the three light cavalry located behind advanced through the gap between the first two heavy cavalry, and after careful aiming, they projected javelins and poisonous arrows with devastating power to the enemy.

Then, while still maintaining the formation in an orderly manner, the first two heavy cavalry retreated first, and then the light cavalry retreated in turn. Even if the enemy's frontline is stable, it will be shaken under such prepared and dense arrow attacks. Sometimes, this kind of harassment can cause the enemy to collapse without any further assault charges. If the column commander believes that the preparatory attack has completely disintegrated the enemy, he will order the light cavalry to retreat. But if necessary, he will order the heavy cavalry to launch a charge.

During combat, the cavalry companies are very close, but if the troops located in the center have already exchanged fire with the enemy, the two wings will spread to the flanks and circumvent the sides and backs of the enemy. When conducting this encirclement movement, they often use smoke screens and dust to confuse the enemy, or use the cover of hills and valleys. After completing the encirclement of the enemy, the troops will launch attacks from all directions, causing chaos in the enemy formation and finally completely defeat the enemy. This encirclement movement is a common combat method used by the Mongolian army, and they are particularly good at using strategies to implement this method.

The terrain around Hangzhou is complex and divided into areas by lateral rivers and lakes. This can limit the mobility of the Yuan cavalry, and he can rely on the advantages of the navy to quickly assemble troops and surround the enemy in a preset position. However, Zhao Bing knew that linear tactics had a prominent role in defense, but lacked offensive capabilities. As a result, he could not eat it if he surrounded him, or he would pay a price he could not bear, and even had the danger of being surrounded by the enemy, forcing them to withdraw.

Zhao Bing understood that the implementation of the strategy was composed of many battles and battles. The failure of a single battle may not affect the strategy, but it will be done if it fails many times. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly realized and had an idea. Linear tactics were popular in the European continent, but the French improved the linear tactics. The reason was that they were too enthusiastic and could not stand this restraint, so they developed the "column" assault tactics.

The so-called column means changing the line-shaped teams that were previously arranged horizontally to the depth arrangement. Because the front is small, there are fewer casualties in front of inaccurate musket horizontal teams and artillery. The column has very strong mobility, which can enable a large number of soldiers to quickly approach the enemy with dense formations, and it is more convenient and quick to mobilize troops in the column. In contrast, the horizontal team is extremely slow because it needs to take into account the consistency of the entire line and cannot break, because the break will become the main target of the opponent's assault. Once the continuous line is broken through a certain point, it will often cause the collapse of the entire line.

Therefore, the closer the horizontal team is to the enemy, the slower the speed, and the more it is to keep the line continuous and complete. However, the target of slowly moving is the best target. However, as the opponent's shooting hit rate continues to increase and the fire speed and fire density increases, the slow moving horizontal team is no longer suitable for all battlefield environments and can only be used for defense. On the contrary, since each team is independent, the columns have almost no need to take into account adjacent columns. They can approach the enemy's front at the fastest speed, reducing the time when the troops are exposed to fire, thereby reducing the casualties of the troops.

And compared with horizontal teams, the terrain of the vertical line has strong adaptability, especially on mountainous terrain. The column can also be easily transformed into different types of formations, especially the column can directly launch an attack without changing the formation. It takes almost no time to change the formation from marching to attack, which is very conducive to sudden outbreaks of encounters.

The attack vertical formation can be arranged in multiple layers. The vanguard vertical formation will scatter into scattered lines to start the battle, and together with the artillery, the enemy arranged in horizontal lines will be given major damage. If the enemy's front line is loose, the subsequent column will choose the weak enemy's front line to directly launch an attack in the column formation. If the scattered soldiers in the front cannot take advantage of the fire with the enemy, the subsequent column will unfold into a horizontal formation to continue to launch a shocking attack on the enemy's horizontal formations that have been tortured by artillery fire and scattered soldiers.

However, the column's offense also has flaws. Compared with the basic training of horizontal teams, it takes half a year to train an elite veteran to train an elite veteran, the column's training degree of soldiers is also low. Because the column's front is small and the firepower is limited, the column must rely on artillery to cover the column to catch the enemy. When approaching the enemy to the threat distance, the front end of the column will naturally disperse and become a scattered cluster due to insufficient training, which can instead shake the enemy's front line through scattered soldiers and artillery.

During the French Revolution, the armies produced by ordinary people often only took several weeks of columns to launch assault tactical training, that is, they were put into actual combat. Of course, this was related to the social environment of France at that time. In the early days of the French Revolution, due to the large number of old officers defecting, a large number of volunteer soldiers and armed people were added to the army. Although the morale was high, they did not undergo sufficient training and were disorganized. They could form traditional three-row horizontal battles in place, and they could not form effective horizontal battles during attack.
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