Seeing that the orcs did not attack, but made such a meaningless run, the commander of the Death Scythe Infantry was taken aback at first, but soon his expression changed.
Because he knew that they had already lost half of this duel.
Xiao Yu's way of playing cards that didn't follow the rules at all happened to completely restrain the advantage of the Death Scythe infantry, leaving them with a powerful combat power, but they had nowhere to display it.
The armor of the Death Scythe infantry is so thick that it would be difficult for an ordinary adult to walk after wearing it. Even if these warriors had undergone special training, it was impossible for them to move freely in such heavy armor, let alone running to catch up with those orcs.
The heavy infantry originally had to resist the opponent's attack with a rigorous formation, and then advance step by step, in order to be able to show their strength.
This is an excellent unit suitable for the two armies to fight. A heavy infantry phalanx like this can easily defeat the opponent's ten times the number of troops.
However, they forgot that this is not a battlefield.
In their usual thinking, since it was a duel, since it was a battle, the two sides must carry out a frontal attack, or even a sudden attack from both sides, to achieve the purpose of disintegrating the other party.
Therefore, they sent light cavalry and light infantry at the same time to protect the sides, and they could defeat the opponent by fully utilizing the advantages of the heavy infantry's resistance to fighting and sharp attack.
However, no one would have thought that when the gladiatorial fight started, Xiao Yu would not fight them at all, but just wandered away, away from the formation of heavy infantry. In this case, the slow-moving Death Scythe infantry would be completely useless.
In fact, this is like the fact that during World War II, France built the famous Maginot Line of Defense, which was so strong that even the most powerful troops could not break through. No matter how many people come from Germany, they have to fill it.
However, Guderian's blitzkrieg theory, coupled with Manstein's sickle blitz plan, will not fight you at all. We will go around you and fight you in other places, and you will be dumbfounded.
Xiao Yu is also a puppet army fan after all, so how could he not know about such a famous case, today is just learning and applying it in today's gladiatorial fight.
At the beginning, France was always stuck in the trench warfare during the First World War because of its too rigid thinking. It did not expect that there would be such a way of fighting and interspersed tactics, so the defeat was a mess. It was destroyed by the German army within a month.
Different ways of thinking affect the outcome of a battle.
People in this era, after all, are in the era of cold weapons, and the research on tactics is solidified in those aspects, which is hundreds of years behind the military theory of Xiao Yu's era, which experienced the world war with hot weapons.
Therefore, their thinking will naturally not change so easily.
Perhaps from what we see today, it is stupid for France to build the Maginot Line, but it is only because we live a hundred years later and have a hundred years more knowledge. In that era, even a slight ideological change was extremely difficult.
It's the same in this era, perhaps, after Xiao Yu used this method, they will immediately awaken, but it is definitely not so easy to create such a style of play.
Guderian's research on blitzkrieg took many years to take shape, and it can be explained clearly in one or two sentences. You must have the right type of arms, the right terrain, and the right time to achieve it. Today, Xiao Yu was keenly aware that this Colosseum and the arms of both sides are very suitable for this kind of blitzkrieg.
In fact, if this was a real battlefield, Xiao Yu's method would not work at all. Because on the frontal battlefield, it is impossible for this Death Scythe infantry to fight with Xiao Yu's five hundred orcs.
Behind the death scythe infantry, there must be a huge light infantry and cavalry unit. The role of the death scythe infantry is just to act as a forward, resisting the opponent's forward attack, holding down the position, and then counterattacking, breaking the opponent's position, thus playing a role in completely opening up the situation. The other cavalry and infantry behind, after seeing After the opponent's formation collapses, they will immediately follow up. It is impossible for you to escape so freely. Once the formation collapses and the cavalry behind charge, you will be completely finished.
Therefore, when the two armies confront each other, it is impossible for the two armies to face each other like Xiao Yu now, who immediately flees away as soon as they meet each other. As soon as you push forward, your troops will be overwhelmed in no time.
It can be said that Xiao Yu's theory is only applicable to this occasion, and it is applicable to the current situation where there are only heavy infantry and other arms are extremely scarce.
Although the opponent still has a hundred light cavalry and light infantry, can only two hundred light cavalry and light infantry beat five hundred orcs? Light infantry can't form a formation, and it goes without saying what the consequences will be if they fight alone with the orcs. The five hundred orcs can definitely kill all these light cavalry and light infantry slowly while staying away from the Death Scythe infantry phalanx.
"Genius, military genius." Although there were many laymen watching the scene, nobles made loud noises, condemning and mocking Xiao Yu's escape behavior. But many aristocrats who really understand military affairs have already known the outcome of this gladiatorial battle after seeing this scene on the field.
The excellent command ability shown by Xiao Yu seems funny and child's play, but in fact it can only be shown by a military commander with great strategy and great wisdom.
At this time, they suddenly thought of Xiao Yu's father, Xiao Zhantian. The invincible Lion Marshal of the Empire.
"A tiger father has no dogs." At this moment, everyone thought so.
The commander of the Death Scythe infantry was stunned for a long time, and finally ordered the Death Scythe infantry to stop and not launch any attacks for the time being.
Because he no longer has any attack plan. After a while of shock, he also thought of using a hundred light infantry and a hundred light cavalry to entangle the orcs, and then let the death scythe infantry drive the orcs into a corner and slowly grind them to death.
However, the area of this Colosseum is really too big, as long as the orcs want to run, there must be a place to run. And if light cavalry and light infantry are sent to attack rashly, they are likely to be slowly wiped out by the opponent in the fighting. Light cavalry and light infantry are definitely not opponents of orcs.
Seeing them stop, Xiao Yu made the orcs stop too.
"One two one, stand... stand. Stand up and fight, look at you, what kind of rubbish formation you are in, and where are you going, this is really embarrassing for me." Xiao Yu thought of his middle school days The face of the physical education teacher was used here, and he reprimanded these orcs as if they were students.
Seeing that the orcs had all stood up, Xiao Yu nodded in satisfaction and said, "That's about the same."
Then, he turned his head to look at the death scythe infantry formation that had come to a complete stop, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile: "Dear warriors of the death scythe infantry, at this exciting time of the prosperous festival, I suddenly surged A poetic, I can't help but want to write a poem for you, how about it? This poem is like this, autumn... oh no, it is summer, summer, the petals are falling, next year, who can remember What about the petals that fell this year? Death scythe infantry friends, next year, who will remember your dead lives? Therefore, it is the right way to cherish life. Hurry up and surrender obediently, surrender to my great imperial lion king Xiao Rain, so that your life will not wither and wither like petals."
Xiao Yu directly copied Goebbels' poem to hit the morale of the Death Scythe infantry.
Now, some of the slightly smarter Death Scythe infantry soldiers also felt that the situation was not good. They knew that it was absolutely impossible for them to catch up with the opponent wearing this armor.
If the opponent keeps not attacking and keeps wandering, then if they keep chasing, they will be exhausted in the end and be defeated by the opponent in one fell swoop.
"Hmph, arrogance, do you think you can defeat us like this? Indeed, we can't catch up with you now, but do you think you can break through our Death Scythe infantry formation? Come and attack if you have the ability." The commander is not an idiot either, knowing that his side will definitely not be able to catch up with the opponent, so he simply doesn't chase, and waits for the opponent to attack here.
Although this seems to be a bit of a rogue style of play, it doesn't matter now.
Seeing that the commander of the Death Scythe infantry didn't even launch an attack, the people outside still had a little illusion, hoping that Xiao Yu couldn't help but take the initiative to launch an attack. However, the chance of this is very small. Since Xiao Yu chose this style of play from the beginning, might he attack rashly
If no one attacks and the stalemate continues like this, then it seems good that this gladiatorial fight has been kept in a draw. Many people are now thinking of making this gladiator fight a draw, although in the Colosseum, there has never been such a thing as a draw, only one party loses or dies. However, in this special situation, the Grand Duke Sim can't afford to lose, and maybe there will be a special result of a draw.
Xiao Yu cut out, and said: "Do you think I dare not attack? I am just giving you a chance to redeem yourself. Since you don't know good from bad, don't blame me."
As he said that, Xiao Yu asked the tall orc to lead the other orcs to stay here, and ran around the field when he saw the opponent attacking. Then he picked out a hundred elite orcs and prepared to attack.
That tall orc, that is, the orc I saw during the last gladiatorial fight, was named Mikaesar, and he was the strongest warrior in this orc tribe, and he had the temperament of a leader. After the tribe's patriarch was killed, he was the temporary leader of this group of orcs.
Mi Caesar also wanted to participate in the attack, but Xiao Yu solemnly told him that as a leader, the first priority must be to be able to lead the tribe to survive better.
After being stunned for a while, Mikaesar nodded in agreement.
These orcs were all orcs with big poles in their hands. Beast One and the others didn't let them come up, but were there to help coordinate other orcs to circle around.
In addition, Grom, Tyrande and Xiaolong participated in the attack.
Seeing that the hundred people had been selected, Xiao Yu nodded with narrowed eyes, and said, "Drink the potion of agility, and don't need to drink the potion of strength."
These orcs immediately drank a bottle of agility potion.
Xiao Yu nodded in satisfaction, then pulled out his Tang knife, made a very pretentious gesture of commanding the charge, and then said loudly: "Orc warriors, follow me."
(end of this chapter)