In fact, this view is wrong, because there was an emperor in ancient China who used the Roman legion's Fiona Fang array, and the result was a crushing defeat.
In the first month of 383 AD, Fu Jian, the former emperor of Qin Dynasty, sent general Lv Guang and led hundreds of soldiers to recover the Western Regions. In the Battle of Qiuci, Lv Guang defeated millions of enemies in the First World War. Among these defeated soldiers, several European mercenaries used Fiona Fang's large array.
The history books don't record what tactics Lv Guang used to defeat these European mercenaries, but Lv Guang captured many blue-eyed prisoners and prepared to give them to Emperor Fu Jian as trophies.
Unexpectedly, Fu Jian was defeated in the Battle of Feishui, and Fu Jian was hanged in Xinping Buddhist Temple (now Nanjing Guangsi, Shuikou Town, Bin County, Shaanxi Province) by Yao Chang, a rebel.
Lv Guang, who returned to Liangzhou (Wuwei City, Gansu Province), was very angry when he learned that Fu Jian had passed away. He intends to March into Chang 'an to avenge Fu Jian.
However, after Fu Jian's death, the road from Liangzhou to Chang 'an was occupied by the Western Qin State established by the Turkic Begging Department, which prevented Lv Guang's army from reaching the west of Huangshui.
Lv Guang's revenge for Fu Jian is hopeless, and the heavy responsibility of revenge for Fu Jian falls on Foden.
On one occasion, Fu Jian's grandson, Fu Deng, sent someone to ask Lv Guang for strategies to defeat Yao Chang. In order to please Foden's emissary, Lv Guang held a grand ceremony to offer prisoners.
When those European prisoners posed as Fiona Fang's large array and passed in front of the emissary in a uniform way, the unstoppable momentum stunned the emissary, thinking that they had got the true biography of Lv Guang.
After the emissary returned to Hezhou (Linxia, Gansu), Fuxi began to urge his troops to practice Fiona Fang array day and night.
Fu Deng knows that morale is also very important besides tactics when the two armies fight. And his dead grandfather, Fu Jian, had a high prestige in the army. Fu Deng, under the banner of revenge for Fu Jian, ordered the whole army to mourn. The white flag is written with oath slogans such as "revenge" and "swear to death". That's not enough. Foton also carved the words "death" and "Hugh" on the armor of the soldiers who went out to war.
In 386 AD, Foden set up an altar in Longdong (Pingliang, Gansu) to worship heaven, succeeded the former Qin emperor, and sent troops to crusade against Yao Chang.
After Yao Chang killed Fu Jian, his title remained unchanged, and he became emperor openly.
Historically, three Qin States coexisted at the same time. In order to distinguish accurately, historians of later generations racked their brains and finally decided to call the Qin State of Fuden as the pre-Qin State, the Qin State of Yao Chang as the post-Qin State, and the Qin State established by the Turkic Ministry as the western Qin State because it was located in the west.
Although Yao Chang, the emperor at the end of the Qin Dynasty, was unknown, among the 494 emperors recorded in the official history of China, Yao Chang was definitely in the top five.
On the day of his accession to the throne, he held a grand banquet. I don't know if he is drunk or used to taking advantage of the topic. He said to the ministers, You are all servants of others in this hall, just like I used to be. Now that I am the emperor, aren't you ashamed?
Minister Zhao Qian stood up and replied back and forth: Your Majesty is the son of heaven. God will not be ashamed of having a son like you. What are we ashamed of as courtiers?
Zhao Qian's words are quite hurtful, which is tantamount to pointing at his nose.
But Yao Chang didn't laugh, but casually said, if you say I am a villain, then I am a villain. That's it. What can you do with me?
After Fu Deng sent troops to attack Qin, the news reached Yao Chang. He said unhurriedly: the land in western Gansu is barren, and last year was a year of drought, and the grain output was less than half of that in previous years.
Fu Deng this boy doesn't understand the art of war, no food, before long, Fu Deng's soldiers will collapse without a fight.
Although Yao Chang is treacherous, he is far less ruthless than Fu Deng.
Foden said to the soldiers who went out to war, we don't have to prepare food. We will go to war in the morning and prepare food at night. Seeing the confusion of the soldiers, Fuden went on to explain: the enemy's body is cooked food. Only by winning the battle can we fill our stomachs. If you lose the battle, you will be hungry and cold. Yao Chang paid a heavy price for underestimating the enemy.
In Shanggao (Tianshui, Gansu), Fudeng's former Chi met Yao Chang's former Chi.
The soldiers of the former Qin Dynasty put on a large array of Fiona Fang to deal with the surprise attack of the light cavalry of the latter Qin Dynasty.
Soldiers in the late Qin Dynasty have never seen such a strange formation. The soldiers of the former Qin Dynasty put on many large arrays of Fiona Fang. The outermost soldier erected a big shield more than one person high. Soldiers on the second floor use long arms, while soldiers on the next floor use strong bows and hard crossbows. They shot arrows into the air and then fell like raindrops in the stormtroopers of the late Qin Dynasty. Suddenly, people went belly up and cried.
In fact, the Fiona Fang formation of the Roman Legion has a very obvious defect, that is, as long as one side is breached by the opponent, the whole formation will fall into chaos.
Fu Deng keenly discovered this loophole and arranged cavalry in the middle of Fiona Fang's large array. Once the formation is broken, the cavalry will rush up and drive out the enemy who rushed into the formation with their epees or machetes.
The former Chi army advanced step by step. Later, the Chi army was defeated and more than 20,000 people died, which became the rations of the former Chi army.
Yao Chang was shot in the shoulder in the battle and almost didn't die in front of the two armies.
It never rains but it pours. Yao Chang's nightmare has just begun. His soldiers were frightened when they saw that their former comrades-in-arms were treated as snacks, fearing that they would one day become food for former Qin soldiers.
Can't afford to hide, the army of the late Qin Dynasty fled on a large scale.
Yao Chang is flustered. In order to vent his anger, he dug up Fu Jian's body, whipped it with a whip, and then wrapped the broken body with thorns and threw it into the valley.
Yao Chang's flogging was foolish, while Fu Jian was lenient to his servants and enjoyed high prestige among ordinary foot soldiers. Yao Chang insulted Fu Jian's body, aroused the anger of the former Qin soldiers, made persistent efforts, and beat the troops of the later Qin Dynasty out of the water.
Fu Deng counterplot, also can't send someone to carve a statue of Fu Jian, let a person carried around Yao Chang camp while crying, while telling the evil deeds of Yao Chang.
Yao Chang's men were originally Fu Jian's men, and they had deep feelings for the old leader. Fuden used embattled tactics to demoralize Yao Chang.
Yao Chang, an old fox, has the face. He also sent someone to carve a statue of Fu Jian and attend the memorial service in person. In front of the statue of Fu Jian, Yao Chang faked it and fainted several times.
If one day like this, everyone thought that Yao Chang was affected, but for several months, Yao Chang was like this every day, so that his soldiers forgot the people Yao Chang worshipped respectfully every day. Yao Chang not only killed them, but also dug up the bodies and threw them away with a whip.
Pay always pays off, Yao Chang's painstaking efforts are not in vain, this is to stabilize the morale of the army. However, a few days later, the war broke out again, and the post-Qin army with low morale was defeated again.
Yao Chang didn't look for the reason of failure tactically. Instead, he thought that Fu Jian's idol didn't shelter him, and even ordered the idol's head to be cut off.
The consequences can be imagined. After Qin Daying, several accidents happened overnight. Finally, Yao Chang had to personally inspect the barracks every night.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yao Chang's failure is only a matter of time.
Yao Chang also knew that he was at the end of the road, but he refused to do nothing. Yao Chang put all your eggs in one basket and sent his son Yao Chong to lead 30,000 chosen men to sneak attack Dajie Village.
Dajie Village was the most important supply base in former Qin Jun. Soldiers in the former Qin Dynasty can use corpses as food rations, but tens of thousands of horses in the former Qin Jun consume a lot of feed every day.
Foden also knew the importance of Dajie Village and sent a person he trusted most to guard Dajie Village. This man is Foton's wife, Queen Mao.
Empress Mao was formerly known as Mao Qiuqing, and her father Mao Xing was a famous former Qin dynasty. Under the influence of his father, Mao Qiuqing practiced martial arts since childhood, especially riding and shooting.
Although Queen Mao has superior fighting capacity, she has a good face and is known as "the first beauty in the world".
At the age of 14, Mao Qiuqing married Foton at the age of 4/kloc-0 and became a crown princess; In 386 AD, Fodden succeeded to the throne and became the former emperor of Qin Dynasty, making Mao Qiuqing, aged 17, the queen.
Although Yao Chang is a wily old fox, his sneak attack was expected by Queen Mao. As soon as Yao Chong arrived in Anqiu, he was ambushed by Queen Mao, and Yao Chong's 30,000 chosen men were wiped out, leaving Yao Chong alone.
Yao Chang didn't blame Yao Chong. On the contrary, he thought it was a godsend. He called his only 30,000 cavalry, equipped with medals and war horses, set out overnight, killed a carbine and raided Dajie Village again.
After the victory of Empress Mao, Foton felt that Yao Chang was weakened and could no longer pose a threat to Dajie Village, so he transferred more than 10,000 elite soldiers who originally belonged to Empress Mao to other places. There are only five or six hundred female soldiers left in Dajie Village.
Yao Chang's sneak attack was successful, and hundreds of female soldiers were all killed by themselves. Queen Mao shot countless enemy troops, rode alone to break through, and Yao Chang pursued them. Empress Mao was finally captured because of the exhaustion of her war horse.
Yao Chang saw that Empress Mao was comely and dignified, and full of heroic spirit, so she had a crooked mind. He said to Empress Mao: I am over sixty years old and have never seen a woman like your wife in Leng Yan. If you have a wife for the rest of your life, you will want nothing more in this life.
Empress Mao snapped angrily: Yao Chang thief, you regicide and usurp the throne, and you will defile the empress today. Heaven has eyes, and you will certainly not be spared.
Yao Chang was scolded, became angry from embarrassment, and ordered the beheading of Queen Mao. Empress Mao was poised and fearless before her execution. She was only 22 when she was killed.
Empress Mao is the only empress in China history who died generously in a military camp. Her lofty spirit of "Better to die than die" has caused people to boo when reading history.
The killing of Queen Mao seems to have taken away all the luck of Foton, and she has also become timid about her defeated Yao Chang.
After Yao Chang killed Queen Mao, the backyard caught fire before he could continue to expand his success. Wei Jiefei, the general guarding northern Xinjiang, rose up, and Yao Chang had to return to Li Pingrebellion.
If Fu Deng tries to attack at this time, Yao Chang will surely fail. I didn't expect Fu Deng to stay where he was until Yao Chang came back from the counter-insurgency several months later. Fulden woke up like a dream and recited his confession of missing the opportunity.
Yao Chang saw through the hollow nature of Forden's heart and played a trick of "returning the corpse to the soul" with Forden.
In 392 AD, 63-year-old Yao Chang fell ill in the army and was dying. Foton thought it was a good opportunity to defeat his opponent and rushed to send troops to crusade.
Unexpectedly, Yao Chang appeared in front of the two armies unscathed, and Foden was scared and fled. The Fiona Fang large array on which Fodden relied was also shattered by Yao Chang's rocket, and it could no longer pose a little threat to the army of the late Qin Dynasty.
Another year passed, and the 64-year-old fox Yao Chang finally came to the end of his life. Fuden finally saw the dawn of victory. He gathered troops to attack Chang 'an. As a result, Maweipo was ambushed by Yao Xing, the new emperor of the late Qin Dynasty. Yao Xing easily breached the Fiona Fang large array in former Qin Jun, and then the soldiers repeatedly ravaged it, and the former Qin Jun was completely annihilated.
Fu Deng lost his heart and even his own son Fu Chong abandoned him. Forden, who was alienated from others, had no choice but to take refuge in the Western Qin Dynasty. But Yao Xing ambushed him halfway, and executed him immediately after he captured Fulden alive.
The Fiona Fang array that Foden admired was also a flash in the pan, and no one in later generations tried this flashy Fiona Fang array.