"I ask the military division to point out Xiong's previous mistakes and errors." Hua Xiong saw that Li Ru was not eager to die, so he bowed down and ask for advice. He, like most military generals in Xiliang, came from the background of being bandits, and had no chance to contact stuff related to military. Of course, they mostly learn by working on on the battlefield and with Li Ru's guidance.
Jia Xu was a little envious. He and Li Ru were both military strategists, and he believed that he would not lose to Li Ru, but his treatment was vastly different.
Even if Dong Zhuo was defeated, Li Ru was still respected by Xiliang soldiers. (This can be seen from history when Li Jue and Guo Si took over Chang'an and ask to give Li Ru an official position. But they were rejected by Emperor Xian because Li Ru had made a young emperor kill himself. To force Emperor Xian to use this kind of reason show the intensity of these two guy asking for the official position. And these two guys almost abolished Emperor Xian.)
Hua Xiong still treats Li Ru as a military strategist. He is respectful and not overly polite. How rare is this for a brute man.
"Let's not talk about how your soldiers were trained, and I can see that they are really supporting you, but there is a problem with your method of commanding the troops." Li Ru first praised Hua Xiong's soldiers, then turned back the point to Hua Xiong.
"That kind of trick is too burdensome for you. Although I am not very clear about the physical condition of the internal qi air separation level expert, this kind of trick that mobilizes four thousand troops qi to one full blow is overloading your body! Your value is not fully reflected in that kind of attack!" Li Ru said word by word, just like when he explained to Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, and the other bandits in how to become better generals.
"A wave of attacks for abolishing the combat ability of generals is not worth it. You should allocate the power to the blades. Perhaps the power of the attack is not as good as the straight line attack, but the coverage is larger. And according to Gao Shun, the attack is equivalent to all the soldiers in the front row being replaced by generals who refined qi into liquid." Li Ru continued to explain. He had also see those silent and tough soldiers from the Trap Camp army.
"A row of generals in the early stage of refining Qi into liquid..." Hua Xiong felt that his mouth could not be closed.
"Yes, Gao Shim himself is not very good at speaking, but he is notoriously upright. Unfortunately, he is Lu Bu's subordinate." Li Ru sighed, "Moreover, for attack method like yours, even if it is against the original Fan Chou Xiliang Tieqi, it will also be strangled to death!"
"Sparse but not chaotic. Chaos and formation..." Hua Xiong remembered what Li Ru said when he taught him how to use cavalry. The formation of Xiliang Tieqi is very simple, sparse and scattered. But there are three or five people attacking as a group. Even if such a group is directly hit by his previous attacks, only hundreds of people will be lost. It is too scattered, and only the soldiers in the straight line will be hurt.
"Your kind of attack is a deterrent attack, just like the bed crossbow we used when dealing with Beigong Boyu. It's just for scaring people and can't decide the outcome. It's really not good to use this kind of attack that consume too much combat power, Hua Xiong. Let alone when it hurts the commander." Li Ru nodded when he saw that Hua Xiong remember what he had taught, and continued to explain to him how to use the soldiers.
"Because some generals are too strong, like you and Lu Bu, you guys can ignore the cloud protection formed by ordinary soldiers. That is to say, the qi condense from heaven and earth and the soldiers is not enough to resist your internal qi. So don't arrange densely just like the Xiliang Tieqi back then, the cloud qi is not enough to protect you." Li Ru use a few examples to explain to Hua Xiong.
"In other words, Xiliang Tieqi consume more qi?" Hua Xiong looked at Li Ru in shock and asked. He had never known this.
"It was like that at the beginning, but not anymore. Our cavalry got used to that formation later on, and since it didn't affect the combat effectiveness, I didn't make any adjustments." Li Ru shook his head and said, "The army itself will remember their past commonly used tactics. This kind of tactics does not require training, because veterans will bring the new recruits and teach them what they know."
"That frightened me. I always thought that Xiliang Tieqi is the best in the world. How could it be so weak?" Hua Xiong was relieved a lot.
"Elite belongs to elite, but there is still a certain gap with the top-tier units." Li Ru shook his head and did not approve of Hua Xiong's statement.
As for Jia Xu, he turned his head and looked out the window in silence. The other warlords elite soldiers are calculated on the basis of hundreds, and at most one thousand. Your Xiliang Tieqi directly has 10,000. Is this comparable? Quantity will produce quality at any time. For example, where did the Flying Bear Army come from?
"The soldiers you have now is very large and the soldiers have reached the elite level. You can give up filling your weaknesses. You need to have your own tactics!" Li Ru said firmly, "The Flying Bear Army's tactics is just one word, ruthless. The tactic of the Trap Camp is stable. And the Baimayi Cong tactic is fast! After excluding your own weaknesses, you have to choose the direction of development!"
"Military division, I still have three thousand Xiliang Tieqi in Taishan. They are my previous Xiliang Tieqi. There is also a lieutenant who has his own army of one thousand soldiers, but the lord has already stated that these people are my troops." Hua Xiong said a little awkwardly.
When Jia Xu heard this, he turned his head to look at Li Ru, and the two looked at each other with thoughtfulness.
"Eight thousand mixed troops, it seems that Liu Bei treats you very well. The tactics required for this kind of mixed units are very complicated, but the advantage is that they can cope with any units. There is no situation where they should be restrained. For example, when the Trap Camp meets Baimayi Cong on a certain terrain, the Trap Camp can wipe out the Baimayi Cong. Baimayi Cong is very fast but the weakness is too obvious." Li Ru said with contempt. He really looks down on Baimayi Cong. The attack and speed is very high, but should the weakness be so obvious?
"I ask the military division to teach me the tactic of dominance." Hua Xiong said sincerely.
"You can't learn this method. I will teach you a military formation that requires a variety of arms to use. I will teach it to you step by step. As long as you can use it, unless encounter people that are too strong, it is difficult to decipher it." Li Ru shook his head and said that Hua Xiong's intelligence was too low to learn, so he planned to teach him a military formation that can use all arms and let him practice the three or five commonly used formation changes.
Jia Xu was stunned when he heard Li Ru's words. He knew that Li Ru had a formation, but Hua Xiong's soldiers would find that one formation very difficult to learn. One of the ultimate formations of Xuanxiang formations, the eight-door golden lock. Li Ru's enhanced version is the eight-door locks the sky, a formation that cannot be played without enough intelligence.