formation is a very particular battle formation in ancient China. A successful formation can give full play to the combat effectiveness of the army, and achieve the best effectiveness through a reasonable formation of troops to defeat the enemy.
In the mythological world, Zhu Xian Jian Zhen Wan Xian Zhen Jiu Qu Huang He Zhen, which can be seen in the Tang Dynasty novels about Xue Rengui, the details are: a long snake formation, two dragons out of the water formation , Tiandi three-talent formation, four-door fighting bottom formation, five tigers flocking sheep formation, six Ding Liujia formation, seven-star Beidou formation, eight-door golden lock formation, nine-character series formation, ten-sided ambush formation, etc. Zhuge Liang’s improved "Eight Formation Map".
Mentioned the Eight Formation Map in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it was told that Lu Xun designed to burn the company . Liu Bei’s Qibaili Camp was burned, and Liu Bei’s rate of defeated soldiers will return to the White House. Imperial city. Lu Xun pursued to Yufupu, where Zhuge Liang set up a stone formation in advance to stop Lu Xun's army and almost died in the formation. Zhuge Liang's Bagua Formation defeats Sima Yi.
Although it is a novel plot, the Bagua Formation has a long history in history and existed before the Three Kingdoms period. The Bagua Formation was derived by Zhuge Liang. Made. It was first recorded in the text of "Three Kingdoms•Shushu Volume Five•Zhuge Liang Biography", "Demonstrate the art of war, make eight formations, and it is so salty that it wants clouds." Then in "Jin Shu • Biography 27•Malong Biography", There are records in many historical books such as "Book of Jin • Biography 68 • Span2span Huanwen Biography". When visiting Zhuge Liang’s home, General Liu Hong in the Western Jin Dynasty asked Li Xingli to write an article in praise of Zhuge Liang’s achievements. The eight formations were also mentioned. Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, also wrote a poem "Eight formations" to praise Kong Ming: "Gong covers The three divisions of the country are named as the eight formations."
The eight formations are named after the sky, the earth, the wind, the cloud, the dragon, the tiger, the bird, and the snake.With the addition of the Chinese military, there are nine major formations. The Chinese Army consists of sixteen small formations, and the surrounding eight formations are each composed of six small formations, a total of 64 small formations. In the eight formations, the sky, the earth, the wind, and the cloud are the "four elements", and the dragon (blue dragon), tiger (white tiger), bird (suzaku), and snake (snake) are the "four odds". In addition, there are still twenty-four formations placed in the rear for maneuvering purposes. The total array of Yin and Yang has 32 arrays, Yang has 24 arrays, and Yin has 24 arrays. There are 24 guerrilla formations. After 60 formations, all marching, formation, joint battles, doubts, filling vacancies, and logistics are all guerrillas.
Zhuge Liang's eight-array diagram has appeared for more than 1,800 years, and there is only one person who understands the "eight-array diagram". This person is the famous official "Huan Wen" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Huan Wen was the manhorse of Jin Ming emperor . He became famous because he went up the river and perished into the Han regime. He sent troops to the Northern Expedition three times and made great achievements in the war. When Huan Wen was conquering Bashu, he suddenly saw a violent wind in front of him, and his murderous aura was soaring. Huan Wen took the generals to watch and found that the murderous aura came from a pile of well-built stones. Huan Wen asked the generals: Do you know this battle? The generals shook their heads. Huan Wen said triumphantly: This is the hidden Changshan snake in the Eight Formations. Changshan snake, as the name suggests, is a kind of snake that lives in Changshan. It is called Shuran. It is characterized by hitting the head and ending to the end, hitting the tail to the beginning and ending, and hitting the end to the end. Although Huan Wen saw through Zhuge Liang's eight formations, he did not choose to detour.
Chinese armies of all dynasties practice formations. In fact, ancient Chinese formations are not so complicated. They can be simply divided into offensive and defensive. The eight formations are so powerful that they did not prevent Cao Wei from destroying the Shu Han. Nor has it escaped from being destroyed. The formation is also through a reasonable arrangement of troops to exert the best effectiveness and defeat the enemy. Sun Tzu's Art of War also said that there are five things to win in war: Tao, heaven, earth, general and law, so-called Tao helps more. , Desperate and few help _ formation must be based on the situation and local conditions to win.
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