Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

The combined armies of Meereen and New Gith soon left the camp and formed a formation facing the south of the Ghiscari Way.

Judging from the reaction speed of the coalition forces and the deployment of this formation, it is obvious that the commanders of New Ghis are different from the showy people of Meereen or Yunkai. They who dare to call themselves the successors of the Gu Ghis Empire do still have something, but not much.

The entire coalition's formation was spread out 2 kilometers. From the aerial view, Ian could clearly observe that on the right wing of the coalition were the New Gith First and Second Iron Legions directly under the New Gith Council and a thousand mercenary cavalry. The cavalry was again deployed on the right side of the legion.

The First and Second Iron Legions are the standing armies of New Ghis, composed entirely of veterans of more than five years. They wear scale armor and are equipped with spears, throwing spears, short swords and shields.

At the same time, the Third Iron Army of New Gis was also located on the right wing of the coalition, and was hidden behind the First and Second Iron Army. Because the first two armies were standing on a hill about seven or eight meters high, they were placed The Third Iron Legion behind the hillock was unable to be observed from the position of Ian's army formation, even from the nest car.

The Third Iron Legion of New Gis, like the Fourth Iron Legion, is a corps of voluntary citizen soldiers. These people are from the property owners of New Gis. They equip themselves at their own expense, and the overall equipment quality is slightly lower than that of the First and Second Legions (but it is also A few grades higher than the rabble in Meereen next door), they have only served for three years and are generally younger.

Located in the center of the coalition is the Fourth Iron Legion of New Gith. Behind them are 5,000 Meereenian levy militia/slave soldiers. Because the center of the coalition is on the smoothest road of Gith, they cannot hide here.

However, because the frontal width of the Chinese army is the lowest, their depth reaches 20 rows, and their flanks are protected by the Allies, their morale is sufficiently guaranteed, and the possibility of being penetrated by heavy cavalry from the front is basically eliminated.

The left wing of the coalition army was a forest. They deployed 2,000 elite mercenary spearmen outside the forest, and 2,000 Meereen slave soldiers were deployed inside.

It is not difficult to imagine that the effect that the new Gith commander hopes to achieve is to make Ian mistakenly think that they have deployed the Third Iron Legion in the forest, so as to invest more troops on the right wing (corresponding to the left wing of the Meereenian coalition forces). I don’t know. How the generals of New Gith would react when they learned that Ian could observe their complete deployment from the air.

The entire formation of the coalition shows a diagonal line that rushes forward from left to right, that is, the elites of the right wing are at the front, the front team of the center army corresponds to the squadron of the right wing, and the left wing huddles at the back.

This is a very typical slant attack tactic, or right hook. It allows the elite to engage the enemy first by pushing one wing forward, and then the center and left wing. In this way, their relatively weak central army and left wing can buy more time for the right wing to defeat the enemy's left wing, complete the outflank from the side, flank the enemy's central army, and finally completely defeat the enemy.

So why does Ian say that this new Gith general has something but not much?

Because they probably learned this tactic from the military classics of the Gughis Empire period, and this ancient empire period can basically be judged as before the emergence of stirrups. This is a typical situation where both sides can only use it when they do not have elite cavalry. Tactics that clearly work.

If one's own side has superior cavalry, then this outflanking task can be completely handed over to the cavalry. Just like after entering the Middle Ages, the right hook was not eliminated, but this task was transferred to the cavalry. And if your own side does not have superior cavalry, when your own cavalry is defeated by the enemy, you will be the one who gets a right hook.

Ian stood on the tall nest car of his own center army, looking at the enemy formation in the distance.

Although he himself did not need this thing, the members of the senior generals around him did need such an observation tool.

Ian invited here all the senior generals who have specific corps commander duties as well as the best officer cadets he is training, because this drill that is closest to actual combat will be a pretty good lesson for them. .The same goes for the soldiers below.

Ian knew that this battle could not be fought. His birds had been tracking the Lord of Meereen, Hizdahr zo Loraq, and the Lord Commander of New Gith, Ereth zo Emd, so he knew it very well. They knew that they had begun to arrange the murder of those in charge of the Parr family in Meereen.

When they give themselves the heads of these people of the Parr family to make amends, they will forgive Meereen and accept the military power of Meereen.

But these officers and soldiers did not know this. On weekdays, these officers did a good job in receiving orders, but what about when they were in battle? Can they still complete these drilled content perfectly when the enemy is already within visual distance?

Ian the Unsullied is not worried, they don't know what fear is, and they are not even human at all.

But for those slaves, Ian was very worried.

These people usually eat the best food, and they are naturally superior when facing other slaves, so they do work extra hard during training, but when it comes to this moment of hard work, these people's performance can reach a few points of normal. , this is still an unknown number.

After all, their training time was too short. Ian took off his gloves and wiped the sweat from his palms.

"Let's begin." After taking a deep breath, Ian ordered the flag bearer beside him.

In addition to observation, this large seven-eight-meter-high watchtower also has a function, that is, setting up a commander's flag. For Ian at this time, this is just a morale booster. But this thing is not just used to boost morale on the battlefield.

In the military merit system of many dynasties in ancient times, capturing the flag and killing generals were equal merits. Many people were left with a stereotyped impression because of the TV series, and believed that this merit was huge because it damaged the enemy's morale.

In fact, the real effect of capturing the flag and killing generals is to destroy the enemy's command system.

This involves another command system besides the golden drum instrument - the flag.

In the ancient wars of the Great Celestial Dynasty, a mature army often had two sets of command systems at the same time. One was the golden drum instrument that Ian currently asked the soldiers to train, and the other was the flag.

The latter has a wider range of application scenarios than the former, although the latter has some extremely obvious shortcomings, such as:

1. Due to the terrain, when the general uses the flag to issue command information, the person receiving the order must be able to see it directly. However, if the troops are fighting in hills and forest areas, there is no guarantee that the flag can be seen.

2. Cannot be used in night battles.

3. There were not many colors that could be clearly identified in ancient times. For example, the famous Zhuge Eight Formations, with eight numbers of "Heaven and Earth, Wind and Cloud, Dragon, Tiger, Bird, Snake", had to be commanded with four flags and four banners. They couldn't make up eight at all. The flag comes in easily identifiable colors.

4. Command signals are more difficult to identify. Battlefield command is a kind of remote command. To be seen by distant soldiers, the Chinese army must use large flags. This thing is not like the small flags in modern semaphore that can produce a large number of semaphores. Action comes. Judging from the literature that can be found today, all semaphore instructions are few and simple. The musical instrument instructions are freely combined passwords, which can convey more detailed instructions.

But all the flaws are no bigger than one flaw of the former, that is, there are only a few musical instruments that are loud enough and penetrating enough on the battlefield, and they are used by both the enemy and ourselves. If you knock, I will knock, if you blow, I will blow. Who the hell can know which signal is from which side?

This is the biggest limitation faced by the conductor of musical instruments. As for the situation that people often imagine that the sound of musical instruments will be covered by the war cry, in fact, it does not conflict with the requirements of the conductor.

Because battlefield orders are rarely issued to troops already engaged in battle. The troops already engaged are in the middle of a fight, surrounded by the sound of war cries and clashing weapons. At this time, even if he hears the order, he is unlikely to escape easily. .

The real instructions are usually given to the reserve team, and a well-trained reserve team that has not been engaged in battle is far less noisy than the troops that have been engaged in battle, and their probability of successfully receiving the order will be much greater.

When Ian obviously did not have enough time to complete the two sets of training systems, he finally chose to give priority to training musical instrument conductors. The main reason was that the Dothraki did not have golden drums and would not interfere with Ian's signals. Moreover, when fighting pure cavalry like Dothraki, Ian's ideal battle terrain would be as complex as possible.

After enough time, he would make up for the training in semaphore command.

As bursts of music played, Ian's army quickly completed the formation according to Ian's intention.

The formation that Ian put up was nothing new, but the famous 'eight formations'.

When it comes to the Eight Formations, many people may have started to laugh, because under the influence of modern film and television works and some novels, this thing has suffered very serious criticism.

Especially the Wuhou Bagua Formation adapted by Zhuge Liang was first ridiculed by various unrealistic myths, and then because the content of these myths was too outrageous, it attracted ridicule.

But in Ian's view, this 'simple' formation, which was first proposed by Sun Bin and later improved by Zhuge Wuhou and later improved by Li Weigong, was used by our ancestors for thousands of years. At least in the cold weapon period, it was powerful. actual combat capabilities.

First of all, we must make it clear that the Bagua Array is not something that is talked about by gods and gods, and it has not been lost (the reason why it is lost is probably because some people find it difficult to accept that the mythical Bagua Array is such a 'simple' thing).

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once asked Li Jing what the eight formations of "the wind and clouds of heaven and earth, dragons, tigers, birds and snakes" meant?

Li Jing's answer was "The person who passed it on was wrong."

Li Jing believes that the so-called Eighth Formation is a combat deployment that changes at any time according to the situation on the ground. The wind and clouds of the sky and the earth are the flags, the dragons, tigers, birds and snakes are the banners. These are just the designations of the eight troops surrounding the Chinese Army. As for the other Yeah, it's all nonsense.

As for the reason why these units were designated and centered around the Chinese Army, Ian's judgment was to facilitate the command of the Chinese Army and to effectively expand the command radius of the Chinese Army by bringing the battlefield closer to the Chinese Army.

The deployment of the eight formations perfectly complies with the principle of fighting one and defending two in traditional Chinese military art. In actual combat, enough reserves can be left to accept the commander's instructions.

Not only the eight formations that people are familiar with, but also the Liuhua formation and the Twelve Chen formation that were later adapted by Li Jing, all achieve this effect by dividing the army into multiple secondary units and forming formations around the central army.

Of course, the formation deployed by Ian at this moment did not use "Heaven and Earth, Wind and Cloud, Dragon, Tiger, Bird, Snake" to number the various units. He used the more straightforward right front army, center front army, left front army, right center army, center army, and left center army. , right rear army, middle rear army and left rear army to refer to.

Although this battle will not actually start, in order to achieve the maximum actual combat drill effect, Ian still conducted a pre-war analysis very seriously and completed the deployment.

Ian's left front and left center corps were placed with the First and Second Legions of the Unsullied, in a normal dense formation, with no passage for cavalry to attack in the middle.

The position is directly on the right side of the enemy's center, leaving a large amount of space for the enemy to outflank.

This force is completely enough to fight head-on with the elite right wing of New Ghis.

Yunkai'i troops were placed in the front center and front right armies. Each phalanx consisted of 4,000 men, forming a normal dense formation. There were many passages left in each centurion, thus extending the width to almost the same level as the enemy's left wing. degree of alignment.

The Yunkai people have not received training from Ian, and they do not need to be commanded. They only need to keep advancing after the battle begins, and then engage the enemy's center and left flank.

Behind them, Ian deployed a thousand Dothraki guard cavalry in the front line of the central army. These men served as reserves and also acted as supervisors, with the right to shoot anyone who left the formation or retreated without permission. By.

The Second Slave Iron Legion was deployed in the rear of the central army, responsible for protecting Ian's flag and preventing the enemy's left wing (toward our right wing) from outflanking.

The First Slave Iron Legion, which has been trained the longest so far, is deployed on the left rear army. After the Unsullied engage the enemy's right wing, Ian plans to have this legion go out to the left and attack the side of the New Gith phalanx.

Then, Ian placed the remaining one thousand Guards cavalry and one thousand mercenary cavalry about two kilometers to the left of the entire formation. The mercenary cavalry was in front and the Guards cavalry was behind. Their positions were further away from the battlefield than the enemy's right wing. .

This cavalry does not need to accept the command of the Chinese army in this battle. Their mission is to attack the enemy cavalry directly after the war, annihilate or defeat them, and then rush back to the battlefield. The cavalry attack by the Guards Cavalry has already outflanked the Unsullied to the left. , instead of engaging the back of the New Gith Iron Legion, wait for the enemy's formation to loosen, and then the Guards Cavalry can begin to attack their back and sides.

If the enemy cavalry refuses to engage in battle, the mercenary cavalry of the Second Sons and Stormcrows will be responsible for targeting the enemy cavalry and driving them away from the battlefield, while the Guards cavalry will return to the battlefield and carry out the original plan.

As for the three formations of the rear center, rear right and center right among the eight formations, Ian chose to leave them blank, because the enemy's deployment has been fully understood by Ian, and the advantage of the cavalry is on his own side. Ian's military formations are in these three formations. direction, it is difficult to be threatened by the enemy. Even if the enemy has a small team to attack this position, the Chinese army's troops can completely eliminate them.

According to Ian's arrangement, the mercenary cavalry should have suffered the most losses in the entire battle, followed by the armies of the Unsullied and Yunkai. If the back-attacking cavalry could defeat New Ghis' right wing faster, the Unsullied's The losses should be reduced a lot, but we don’t know what the true combat power of the New Gith Iron Legion is.

If possible, I really want to fight this battle to test the actual combat capabilities of these legions! Ian roared in his mind.

But he knows that this battle cannot be won, because whether it is his own army or the New Gith Iron Legion opposite, they will be his main force against the Horse King. If they fight here, they can directly GG.

Therefore, the most Ian could do at this moment was to test the organizational skills of both sides and give them a training close to actual combat, so that they would not face the enemy for the first time when they saw the centaurs.

The good news is that both sides are doing well so far. Of course, this refers to Ian's slave iron legions and the legions of New Gith, not including the ragtag ones in Yunkai and Meereen.

But what does it mean? The word "rabble" naturally has its uses as "rabble".