"The military formation of the Prime Minister should steadily advance or defend the position with the infantry phalanx as the core, and use bows and crossbows as long-range strike forces, and then use cavalry as reserves to arrange them on both wings and side backs to deal with the enemy's encirclement forces at any time?"

Yuchi Gong looked at it carefully several times before asking.

"Good vision." Li smiled and praised Yuchi Gong. After looking at the military formation map, he could judge tactical ideas. This fully demonstrated that Yuchi Gong was not only as simple as being able to fight.

The ability to achieve the position of the Great Governor of the Right Army and guard Hebei is not only because of his qualifications as the emperor's first bodyguard, but also his military vision is also very impressive.

But he still didn't fully see through Li's arrangement.

"The Prime Minister's military formation is very good, but there are not enough soldiers to deploy this formation at present. Does the Prime Minister plan to use the 20,000 white robes to build the four large infantry formations?"

The white-robed soldiers were not even new recruits, and they were a group of family husbands and lacked enough equipment. Therefore, Yuchi Gong felt that these people were useless at all.

But when he looked at the formation of Li, he felt that the four infantry formations were actually brave.

A formation has a formation courage and a core.

And this military formation, the four large infantry phalanxes are the formation courage, and the other military formations are surrounded by these four large square formations. If a group of white-robed farmers are used as the formation, although it seems to be safe in the middle, this also makes the military formation lack a backbone. Without the backbone, it will not be able to support this large army formation.

This is like building a ship, without even a keel. How can you build a big ship and resist wind and waves?

"Master, in my opinion, we should leave the 20,000 white robes behind and use them as the general reserve team. We should use 10,000 Youzhou soldiers and 5,000 Shenji camps to set up this formation to meet the enemy in front."

At this time, there were already few soldiers, and he had to put 20,000 soldiers behind. This was Yuchi Gong's helpless move. After all, who would know if those new soldiers would be so scared that they would piss their pants and flee as soon as they fought?

Judging from his previous experience of fighting with various anti-kings, the powerful men who were temporarily brought up were actually the most useless. Many times, they were not even defeated and were not defeated.

Therefore, the most taboo thing about using troops is to organize a large number of new recruits into the military formation, in order to avoid the new recruits fleeing during battle and retaliate against their own military formation. It is better to organize these new recruits into an army. The best way to use them is to use these people as cannon fodder, let them take the lead and consume the enemy.

Even if it is useless, even if the other party chops pigs, it will take some effort.

Of course, if you are more kind, then put these people behind and treat them as reserve teams. If there is a good time, you will send these people to cheer at that time. It is still useful to fight these new recruits.

In case the situation is unfavorable, the main force can also directly escape from the battlefield to retreat to avoid being dragged down by the recruits.

"No, my military formation is too few, and I can't set up this formation."

When Yuchi Gong heard Li's rejection, he became anxious.

"But the prime minister, those new recruits can't stand up."

Lee just smiled.

Yuchi Gong frowned, "Will the general want to put these new recruits outside the large square formation? No, the large square formation is the backbone, and the small square formation is also the skeleton, and it is the support. If these new recruits are placed outside, they will probably collapse at one touch."

"You misunderstood what I mean. I don't plan to separate the volunteer soldiers and the palace soldiers."

"Do you want to be mixed up? Never do it, Prime Minister, if you do that, you will definitely lose!" Yuchi Gong's black picture turned red, angry and anxious.

Li is known as the God of War, but why does he say such an amateur thing?

Facing 20,000 elite cavalry, 20,000 new recruits and 15,000 palace soldiers are still in conflict. Can this battle still be fought? This is not a battle to defend the city. It’s okay to fight your new talent to fight, but this is a field battle.

Li had no intention of throwing the white-robed soldier away at all.

If he really wants to throw it away, why should he bother to bring it all the way? Could it be that he is recruiting these people to make them act as civil servants?

No, Li didn't plan that way.

Although these are new recruits, most of these people are young and strong. Young people are strong and more courageous. What's more, they are not ordinary new recruits. Li did not let them go along the way. He basically marches all the way and trains every day.

If they don’t practice bow shooting or horse riding, they practice queuing and marching every day, they can now maintain a good formation.

This is already very good. In addition, they are already qualified spearmen who practice spears every day. Of course, they are also musketeers.

Li's military formation was taken out to match the white-robed soldiers and the mansion soldiers.

The most core of the entire military formation is the four large infantry phalanxes.

The four square arrays are arranged in one, two, and one.

Each large square formation is composed of three horizontal square formations formed by musketeers. Each square formation has exactly a team of fifty people on the front and twenty rows in depth. Therefore, a standard square formation is one thousand people. In addition, Li also arranged a team of fifty crossbowmen on four corners of this thousand-person square formation.

In this way, a square formation would be 1,200 people, and Li called him a brigade.

Then three such brigades formed a large horizontal formation, called Li the column.

There are 3,600 people in one large square formation, and the entire army has four such large square formations.

There are also more than twenty small infantry spear formations, each with 200 people, a total of more than 5,000 people.

Then there are several small square arrays of fifty to hundreds of people, which are considered mobile square arrays.

In addition to the two wings and the cavalry on the rear, the entire army formation was formed.

The more Yuchi Gong listened, the darker his face became.

He was amazed at Lee's courage.

He actually wanted to use these white-robed soldiers as formation courage. There were four large square formations, four columns and twelve brigades, each with two hundred archers, and a group of shield soldiers, which would be the palace soldiers.

But more other spearmen were white robes.

Those small two hundred people's spear formations were all white robes.

The other mobile 100-man square formation is composed of swords and cards among the soldiers of the palace.

The cavalry on both wings and the side and back are also old soldiers of the palace.

In the entire big array, Li Zhen really cooperated with the old and new combinations, and the infantry and cavalry were mixed, and there was no reserve team left.

Yuchi Gong did not believe in this formation, he mainly did not believe in the new recruits.

But Li believed that doing so would maximize the effect of a white-robed soldier.

His large array was also intended to restrain the cavalry. After all, infantry accounts for the vast majority of his troops.

In plains and fields, it is difficult to fight with footsteps against cavalry, and this formation can effectively fight against cavalry.

The greatest excellence of this array lies in its strength and maneuverability.

These large and large square formations combined with cavalry can not only prevent cavalry from rushing forward, but also keep the Tang army in positions without turmoil, but also be able to attack and counterattack at any time.

Each brigade of 1,200 people is a solid and mobile formation, about fifty feet wide and more than thirty feet deep.

Letting the white-robed soldiers gather together as much as possible is to ensure that they will not panic, especially a team of old mansion soldiers and archers arranged on the four corners can not only stabilize the heart of the square formation, play the role of the square formation shell, but also effectively deal with enemy cavalry.

After explaining for a long time, Yuchi Gong still felt that it was too risky.

"I'm not going to say much, so let the actual combat test this square formation and these soldiers. Don't look down on these volunteer soldiers too much. They are not the militiamen in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty. They are not the refugee anti-army who can't afford to eat, nor are they the strong men who have been forced to come. These people came to the initiative. They are all young and have a heart that longs to make achievements. Moreover, with this big formation and these old soldiers to boost their courage, all they need is to rely on each other without any worries."

It's dawn.

The whole army had a full meal.

Then amid the sound of war drums, the formation was set up.

Yesterday, after Li and Yuchi Gong finished their talks, they summoned the generals and colluded in the army to explain the military formation seriously, and allocated them well.

Flat wilderness.

The generals and captains of the Tang army began to stand according to the formation map.

Fortunately, the Tang army itself also uses the team as its basic unit, and the same is true for the white robe. At present, these mansion soldiers and white robes are just re-matched and combined with the team as its unit.

Not too troublesome.

The Goguryeo people had already set off their camp and began to come to the Tang army with Chaoyang on their backs.

The Tang army's military formation is taking shape bit by bit.

"Can we win?" Jung In-tai looked at Lee.

His five thousand Shenji camp was disrupted by Li, and the five thousand people were split and arranged on the four corners of the twelve brigades under four large formations.

The Shenji Camp not only has Li Bu's musket, but they also have bows in their hands. The equipment rate of bows is 100%, and they are even equipped with a lot of crossbows.

The Youzhou Prefecture soldiers under Yuchi Gong were also split.

Some of the palace soldiers were transferred to the twelve large square formations to act as large shield soldiers and stood in the first row. Other government infantrymen were divided into small square formations of hundreds of people with sword cards. They were the mobile forces in the middle of each large square formation, and they had to support these square formations at any time.

The cavalrymen of the palace have not changed and are still on the battlefield on both wings and side rear positions. They want to protect the infantry and will also undertake the task of counterattacking and charging.

"Of course we can win."

Twenty miles away is not far.

The Tang army stopped to set up the formation, and the news spread, and Yuan Gaisuwen just smiled.

In this wilderness with flat horses, the Tang people wanted to ride with steps? It was simply a delusion.

"Let them set up the formation, and we go over and flatten them."

"Is it true that the coach named Li on the opposite side is Li Ji or Li Jing? Or which Li Tang clan member?"

"When I go back to the Grand Marshal, it's not Li Ji or Li Jing, it seems to be Li."

"plum?"

Hearing this name, Yoon Gassuvin frowned.

Li's reputation is so famous that even if he is in Liaodong, he has long heard of this person's name.

"Isn't Li the prime minister? I heard that he became the Minister of the Shangshu Ling and was carrying out reforms. Why did he come here?"

"Li was appointed as the governor of Yanyun and could control the military and political affairs of Hebei."

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk, Li Li Wenyuan, it was him who commanded the troops." Yuan Gai Suwen hesitated for a moment. He was really the shadow of a famous tree. Li was an ever-winning general who had never been defeated. Especially last year, he fought against the Turks, destroyed 100,000 Turkic troops in one battle, killed Tuli Khan, forced Ye Hu to retreat hundreds of thousands of troops, and gave Hetao Daibei and other places to the Tang Dynasty.

Hesitating and worried, Yuan Gaisuwen approached the Tang army with his troops.

Along the way, Yuangaisuwen slowed down his marching and arrived in front of the Tang army.

It was almost noon and the sun rose to the hollow.

Less than two miles apart, Yuan Gaisuwen ordered the army to stop.

"Tang Army's formation? So strange."

Yuan Gai Suwen looked at the formation set up by the Tang army carefully, but the more he saw it, the less he understood it.

After watching for a while, Yuan Gaisuwen suddenly burst into laughter.
Chapter completed!