The Mandarin Duck Formation is a formation created by Qi Jiguang to fight against the Japanese Kou. The first row of the Mandarin Duck Phalanx is the shield soldiers, the second row is the wolf soldiers, the third row is the spearmen, and the last row is the big knife soldiers. shield

The Mandarin Duck Formation is a formation created by Qi Jiguang to fight against the Japanese Kou. The first row of the Mandarin Duck Phalanx is the shield soldiers, the second row is the wolf soldiers, the third row is the spearmen, and the last row is the big knife soldiers.

Shield soldiers are divided into two types, rattan soldiers and wooden soldiers.

Rattan cards are round, more than two feet in diameter, woven with rattan, and the rattan soldiers are composed of young and agile soldiers in the army, and each person is given a rattan card.

Wooden plaques are long, two feet long and one foot wide, made of wood, wooden plaques and composed of tall and strong soldiers, each of whom is given a wooden plaque.

Rattan and wooden soldiers stand in the first row, holding rattan and wooden cards in their hands, and the shield soldiers play a defensive role, defending against the bows and arrows, long-bladed knives and mirrors of the Wokou.

The second row is the Wolf's Soldier, a newly invented offensive weapon by Qi Jiguang, whose main body is a thick bamboo more than 3 meters long, with branches and branches at the front, and a sharp steel knife one foot long inserted at the front.

The spearmen of the third row and the large knifemen of the fourth row did not need to be explained, they all understood.

After several arduous trainings, Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array finally took shape, so he waited for Wu Kou to come up and test how powerful it was?

Finally, the day came when Wokou was looking for death.

In 561, the Wokou gathered a large number of men and horses and began a large-scale invasion of Taizhou in Fujian.

In the face of the invading Wokou, the Qi family army led by Qi Jiguang formed a Mandarin duck formation and rushed to the enemy camp amid the sound of the war drums of "bang bang rumble".

Thousands of arrows were fired in front of the Wokou Array, but under the cover of the shields of the Mandarin Duck Array's city walls, the bows and arrows did not play the killing role they deserved.

Under the cover of shields, the soldiers in the Mandarin Duck Formation shouted and continued to advance towards the Wokou. It was the first time that the Wokou had seen such a position, and they did not know it, brandishing their swords and guns and rushing towards the Qi family army, and the shield wall directly blocked the knives and stabs from the Wukou.

At the same time, the wolf soldier stretched out his long wolf-whip and stabbed at the Wokou, and in an instant, the Wokou was stabbed countless times, and all of a sudden, the position was in chaos.

In the melee, although the long-bladed knife of the Wukou was sharp, it cut the soft branches of the wolf's whip, and it could not reach the wolf's soldiers, the wolf soldiers charged in front, the spearmen followed closely, and the big knife soldiers followed behind, and the Qi family's army was like a broken bamboo, killing and injuring countless Wukou.

After this battle, Wu Kou had a headache and fear when he saw Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array.

The magic of the Mandarin Duck Formation is that there is not only a combination of attack and defense, but also the length and shortness of the attack, the shield hand covers the advance of the army in front, and the wolf, spearman and large knife hand responsible for the attack cooperate with each other to complement the weakness with the long and save the long.

@Liu Jun said room

Compared with the previous formation, Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Array has undergone some changes, and these changes reflect the evolution of the ancient combat formation on the mainland from the traditional phalanx to the multi-service group combat formation.

The Mandarin Duck Formation successfully used the shield with defensive function as the vanguard of the attack, leaving a valuable tactical theoretical legacy for future generations. #战争风云 #