War was never a child's play. It was very rare for two armies to meet, and then the general would take the lead to attack the enemy.
Especially when there were more than 10,000 soldiers fighting!
To put it bluntly, there were only four words in war: know yourself and know your enemy!
It was such a simple word, but it was really difficult. Most people couldn't even be confidants, let alone know their enemies.
Zhu Bomu had read a lot of military books, but after Li Dao's performance today, he finally knew who was capable. Heaven and earth who can get? Which law will be enforced? Which army is stronger? Who are the soldiers?" The meaning of this sentence.
For example, Li Dao's 40,000 troops and Zheng Gang's 100,000 troops were in a stalemate on the plains outside the Rising Dragon Mansion.
"Long live, at such a time, you usually have to go up to the platform and check the enemy's strength.”Li Dao was a good teacher.
On this trip to Jiaozhi, Li Dao had told Zhu Bomu everything he needed to pay attention to, such as how to read the map, how to predict the enemy commander's starting point, and how to arrange the camp during the rest of the army.
It could be said that although Zhu Bomu did not know how to fight, it was not difficult for him to be a qualified general guarding the city.
This was the reason why the Generals of Generals would always produce powerful generals, but commoners were rare.
Under Li Dao's lead, Zhu Bomu and him ascended the marshal stage together.
On the plains, the Zheng army was also densely packed with camps three miles away. There was a marshal's platform erected high in the camp. They were probably observing the Ming army's momentum like them.
"What should I do at this time?" Zhu Bomu humbly asked Li Dao for advice. Even though he had his own plan in his heart, he still wanted to ask Li Dao's thoughts first.
Hearing Zhu Bomu's question, Li Dao also explained,""Long live, the two armies are about to fight. As the commander of your own army, if you want to defeat the enemy, you have to understand five points. Heaven and earth who can get? Which law will be enforced? Which army is stronger? Who are the soldiers?"
"When the two armies face each other, the general will ascend the platform and begin to observe the enemy's formation. What he sees is the enemy's division into several parts, the strength of each part, and the structure of the troops."
Li Dao did not continue, but stopped, as if to give Zhu Bomu time to digest. Then, he continued,"
"A thousand men army is fine, but with more than ten thousand soldiers in formation, the front of the battlefield is very wide, just like our camp now. Even if you and I stand on the high platform, we won't be able to see the full picture.”
"At this time, we can only look at how many flags the other party has erected on the platform and what color they are. Then, we can calculate the number of these people and finally discuss it with the aides."
Zhu Bomu's system had three auxiliary units, one was the shogunate, one was the martial arts lecture hall, and the last was the four barbarians hall.
Most of the aides produced by the shogunate were in charge of the city's people's livelihood, and the aides produced by the Military Academy could be generals or aides in the central army's main tent.
This time, when the army went south, Zhu Bomu had brought all 100 soldiers from the Martial Lecture Hall. The ten with the best results were kept by Li Dao.
At first, Zhu Bomu thought that these aides were just giving out ideas and writing official documents. However, after the war, he realized that this was not the case. These aides were very useful during the war.
For example, at this moment, after the group of advisors discovered the enemy, they had begun to work nervously with the generals of the central army.
He would set up, record, or draw out the enemy's formation he had observed. He would deduce the enemy's flag, the number of people in the camp, and the formation of the army.
The battle of wits and courage began at this moment.
There were a few 'armies' under the direct command of the commander, and there were at least a few flags on the platform.
Sun Tzu had also said in the Ji Pian: "War is a deceitful way, so it is possible to show that it is impossible, to use it to show that it is not used, to be near to show that it is far away, and to be far away to show that it is near.”
These words were not just about the overall situation of the battlefield. It was the same when two armies were facing each other.
There was an idiom called 'lay down the flags'. Before the battle started, Zhu Bomu could put down the flag and erect it on whichever army needed to move. Perhaps the one that was erected before the battle was fake, and the real one would be raised when the battle started, or I would be the real one directly.
As expected, Zhu Bomu, who was standing on the commander's platform, began to move to the side, while the aides beside him began to imitate the enemy's camp on the sand table.
"General, Zheng Gang should have mobilized all of Lord Zheng's forces. We used our clairvoyance to observe their camps. There are many people moving around in each camp, so the flags should be real.”
An aide cupped his hands at Li Dao and told him the truth of their deduction. Li Dao stroked his short beard and thought for a moment before saying,"Light up all our flags and send a thousand-man army to test the enemy!”
"Understood!" The aide listened to Li Dao's words and immediately went down to do things. At this time, Zhu Bomu also went up to observe the sand table.
As if afraid that Zhu Bomu didn't understand, Li Dao immediately said,""Zheng Gang's army is in a goose formation.”
Goose formation, this was a kind of formation that Zhu Bomu had learned before. The formation was mainly a horizontal spread, with the left and right wings arranged in a forward or backward echelon battle formation. The front was a "V" shape.
It was like an ape extending its arms forward. It was a formation used to outflank, but the defense at the back was relatively weak.
The back was arranged in an inverted V shape to protect the safety of the two wings and the rear, preventing the enemy from taking a detour.
If the two wings were cavalry with greater mobility, they could obtain the protection and support of the infantry in the center when they were still, and they could also display the power of the attacking cavalry and increase the surprise.
The front of the hook formation was a square formation. The two wings were bent back into a hook shape to protect the safety of the flanks and prevent the enemy from attacking the rear where the golden drum was commanded.
It was obvious that Zheng Gang already knew that Li Dao and Zhu Bomu had a large number of elite cavalry, so he was very concerned about the protection of the left and right wings of the army.
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