Sun Bing mentioned in the book of soldiers "Eight Arrays": "Only by arranging troops in a platoon can we be qualified to consider killing the enemy under the premise of ensuring our own safety." Therefore, the formation, even if it is an offensive formation, should be killed by one-third of the people, and two-thirds should be used for defense and substitution and strain. ”
In ancient times, there were more famous formations
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Bow and crossbow array,
Spear Array,
Pocket Array (aka Crane Wing Array),
Long Snake Array,
Arrow Array,
Cross arrays, and so on, these are also the formations of thousands of people, flexible and changeable, and highly mobile.
The formation of thousands of people belongs to the large array, and the difficulty coefficient is directly proportional to the lethality, such as the Ten Great Formations of China, which have left a great name in the historical interpretation. (Image is for illustrative purposes only).
A long snake array
A long snake array appears in the commentary "Sui and Tang Dynasty", hitting its tail is the first to the end, hitting its head is the tail to the end, and hitting it is the beginning and end. The flexibility of the long snake array lies in the use of weapon circles, sweeps, shocks, etc., and the snake gall hanging bucket is set up at a high place, with a five-color flag command.
Erlong Out of the Water Array (also known as the Golden Dragon Stirring Tail Array)
The soldiers are divided into two roads, like two flexible water dragons, coordinating and intertwining with each other, yin and yang complement each other, and the two wings are encircled and strangled when marching. The large array is divided into four gates, east, west, south and north, with a large hanging bucket in the middle, and a five-colored flag and a five-colored lamp in the middle. There were 10,000 or 20,000 people in the east and west, armed with knives and guns, and the north and south ironclad horses were connected in a row; there were also car bow arrays, traps, plum blossom pits, and so on, and there were two one-word long snake arrays that evolved.
Heaven and earth three talents
The Three Talents: Heaven, Earth, and Man. The Heaven and Earth Three Talents Array is an evolution of the Erlong Water Array, and the three teams of people and horses are arranged in the shape of "pin", which belongs to the defensive formation. The beauty of this formation is that no matter which side the attacking party attacks from, it will be attacked by both sides.
Four-door bottom line
The so-called "bottom of the pocket" is to seal the retreat road to prevent fish from slipping through the net. Any soldier or horse or formation will have a front and a tail, and there will be "crispy" troops in the formation. The four-door bottom line, the four southeast, southwest, and northwest fronts, belong to the trapped array, and the enemy soldiers and horses are trapped in the formation, the front gate in the enemy's position is responsible for defensive containment, the front gate at the end of the enemy's position is responsible for strangulation, and the other two gates prevent breakthroughs, escapes, or mutual contact.
Five Tigers Flock (or Five Tigers Sheep Array)
This formation is neither an offensive formation nor a defensive formation, but only a diversionary formation. If the enemy army loses its main general and the dragons are leaderless, this array is applied to cut and disperse the enemy, making it difficult to condense and form combat effectiveness. Or equipped with rivers, canyons and other ambush circles, the enemy army is driven in, and then killed.
Six Ding Liu Jia Formation
Liu Ding Liu Jia was originally from the Qi Men Shu Jia, the Six Dings: Ding Jiao, Ding Wei, Ding Wei, Ding You, Ding Hai, Ding Ugly; Liu Jia: Jia Zi, Jia Shu, Jia Shen, Jia Wu, Jia Chen, Jia Yin. Among the six armors, the armor is the most honorable, so the armor is hidden, which is the origin of the word "hidden armor". After Liuding Liujia, it is the name of the Taoist deity. This array is the trapped array and the phantom array, the six dings are yin, the six are yang, the yin and yang are both auspicious, and there are thousands of changes, similar to Zhuge Liang's "Eight Arrays", the arrays are the heavenly array, the ground carrying array, the wind array, the cloud hanging array, the dragon flying array, the tiger wing array, the bird flying array, and the snake array, which traps the enemy in the array, so that it does not distinguish between the west and the east.
Seven-star Big Dipper
Seven Stars: Wolf Star, Giant Gate Star, Lu Cun Star, Wenqu Star, Lian Zhen Star, Wuqu Star, Broken Army Star. The Seven-Star Big Dipper Array Sword Array was created by the Taoist Quanzhen Sect, and the Bingjia Formation was incomprehensible. The Seven Stars Big Dipper Array is seven in one, one in seven faces. Respond to each other and change a lot. Unless the Breaker kills one of the stars at once, he will face all the enemies of the entire Array.
Eight golden lock arrays
The eight golden lock arrays are divided into hugh, life, injury, du, jing, death, shock, and opening eight arrays and eight doors, which are interlocked and seamless. Soldiers and horses rush into the formation, not the same person and one general, but with everyone in the formation, the position is constantly rotating, it can hit you, but you have no way to start, if one person passes a move, the cycle repeats, and the brave people will eventually lose in the formation, this is the absolute place of this formation.
Nine sons of the chain
The so-called nine-son serial array is arranged according to the nine palaces, and each soldier will be interspersed, gradually becoming one, interspersing with each other, that is, the nine-character continuous array. In actual combat, support each other and attack jointly, and operate according to certain rules, making the enemy dizzy.
Ten-sided ambush array
The ten-sided ambush array is divided into ten layers, layer by layer, using a reasonable formation and weapons to trap people in the formation.
There is a cloud of proverbs:
A layer of soldiers, rattan players with two gunners;
Second-tier soldiers, archers lined up in thousands;
Three-tier soldier, three-strand steel fork to pick the sun and the moon;
Four layers of soldiers, four edges of silver light and light;
Five-tier soldiers, five steel whips to beat the admiral;
Six-tier soldiers, six flowers and sticks to strike the heavenly spirit;
Seven-tier soldiers, seven-star swords kill without blood;
Eight-tier soldier, eight-ring knife lined with red wisps;
Nine-tier soldiers, barricades, stumbling ropes;
Ten layers of soldiers, ten sides of the ambush leg rope!
In addition, what immortal array, Zhou Tianxing Dou Array, Du Tianshen Fire Array, Two Instrument Dust Array, Ten Absolute Arrays, Nine Curves Yellow River Array, etc. belong to the Immortal Array and are not described. The above ten kinds belong to the large arrays of thousands of people, and the soldiers are famous, so is there a more powerful formation? Yes, every deployment will lose billions of troops, that is, che zhen.