In the long river of China's thousands of years of history, our ancestors fought with the heavens, with the earth, and with people, and after countless times of life and death fighting, they gradually cut each other in the battle into the ancient Chinese method of attacking and defending. It can be clearly said that even if you have the unique martial arts and the invincible fierce generals in the world, once you fall into the big array, you will not want to retreat from the whole body, the most famous of which is the ten major formations.
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One-word long snake array, two-dragon water array, heaven and earth three talent array, four-door bottom array, five tiger flock sheep array, six ding six jia array, seven star big dipper array, eight golden lock array, nine character continuous array, ten-sided ambush array.
A long snake array, the whole array is divided into three parts: the head, the tail of the array, and the gallbladder (central pentahexyl soil). When the formation changes, the true and false are used together, the long snake array is deduced according to the habits of the snake, and the long snake array has three changes: first, hit the snake head, tail to; second, hit the snake tail, the first to; third, hit the snake body, then the end and tail are to, so the three changes, the long snake array runs quickly, like a giant python attacking, fierce!
If the enemy attacks the head or tail of the one-word long snake array, and the other end turns around, it can form a two-dragon water array. The middle moves forward, forming the three talents of heaven and earth. The two ends retreated, forming a four-door bottom array, interspersed with each other, turning into a five-tiger flock. Then it is arranged according to the six dings and six jia, that is, the six dings and six jia arrays. Then half of it is pulled into a line (can be changed at will), and half is like a four-door bottom array, that is, the Big Dipper Seven Star Array. Circle around, arrange the array according to the Bagua array, leave eight exits, and become a square, that is, the eight golden lock array. According to the arrangement of the nine palaces, each grid soldier will be interspersed, gradually becoming one, intersecting with each other, that is, the nine-character chain array. In the end, it became a ten-sided ambush array, and the ten arrays were infinitely changing and difficult to resist.
Ancient Chinese formation methods are ever-changing, unpredictable, but no matter what kind of formations, are ever-changing, the ultimate purpose is to win victory in attack and defense, the Warring States period of the "Sun Bing Art of War" set the ancient art of war, summed up the experience of the ancestors, systematically and completely divided the "array" into ten formations, namely: "square array, circle array, sparse array, number array, cone array, goose array, hook array, Xuanxiang array, water array, fire array." In addition, there are the "cloud array" used for shooting, the "winning wei array" for encircling the enemy, the "flint array" for surprise attacks, the highly respected "eight arrays" improved by Zhuge Liang, and Li Jing's "plum blossom array", which have no less than twenty types of formations.
So in ancient wars, could the invincible fierce generals in the world or the martial arts supreme beings with unique martial arts really rush into the enemy line and kill the four sides like movies and novels, and finally break the enemy's big array? The answer is "you are dead", just imagine, in the enemy array of thousands of troops and horses, you single-handedly broke into the formation, even if you have the unique martial arts and have the mighty internal strength, but in the big array that even turns around, any stunt can not be made, and in an instant, it will be stabbed into a sieve or chopped into meat paste, and the unborn fierce generals Gao Yu, Yang Zaixing, and others in the Yue family's army are killed in the enemy formation, Guo Jing in "Divine Eagle Hero", Xiao Feng in "Tianlong Eight Parts" and others have escaped from the enemy formation. But that's just in the novel, in reality, few people dare to rush the front, at best, it is a single head in front of the line.
In ancient times, the platoon deployment method was strict in military discipline, there was a continuation of advance and retreat, there was a law in stopping, as soon as the drum sounded, the large army marched like a wall, the gong sounded together, the whole army stopped, and the various teams in the formation were arranged according to the order of the flag, and the formation method was a kind of combat formation configuration in the ancient cold weapon era, which had important practical combat significance. All the way to the whole army, it is necessary to "establish a military rank, set the ranks, and be in a vertical and horizontal manner.", China's ancient formation methods are different due to the different weapons and equipment of each dynasty, and today, with modern weapons, the ancient formation method has lost its meaning in war and has become a culture.