If Heaven hadn't given birth to me, I would be arrogant.

"Who are you calling a spy?" How could Fox not retort when Zong Ze accused him of being a spy?

"Shut up!"

Before Fox could continue speaking, the Blue Chess Battle on the throne, Zong Xiaozhang, Zong Kuang, Old and Young Flot and a group of other ministers all spoke up to stop them!

Seeing everyone's unanimous opinion, and then looking at Zongze sitting on the ground with a wronged expression, Fox finally realized that everyone had been waiting for so many days just to hear Zongze debate. In the end, Zongze had at least spoken up, but Fox's words silenced him!

Knowing he had angered everyone, Fox turned pale and retreated sullenly without saying another word!

"Xiao Zongze! Come on, continue!" Lan Qizhan angrily stopped Fox, then his face instantly lit up with a smile. However, to Zongze, that smile looked more like that of a wicked uncle trying to lure little girls into looking at goldfish: "Don't worry, with your uncle here, no one will dare to object to you. Just say it!"

When the princes and the others heard that Lan Qizhan no longer referred to himself as "I" but directly called himself "uncle," they all felt a chill run down their spines.

However, Zong Ze completely ignored this and continued to sit on the ground, glancing sideways at Fox. He uttered two words: "Interrupting others is ill-mannered. Apologize!"

Being publicly lectured by a little brat as if he had no manners and forced to apologize, Fox's face went from white to red, then back to white. But finally, after glancing at the Emperor and the others, he reluctantly moved to Zong Ze's side, bowed, and whispered, "I'm sorry!"

Looking at Fox before him, Zong Ze stood up: "Lord Fox, may I ask, are you a true nobleman?"

"Of course!" Hearing that Zong Ze seemed to have given up on the previous question, Fox breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied, "My Fox family has been nobles for generations. Even before the Ruen Empire was established, our family was already a noble family!"

"Then!" Zong Ze crossed his arms, spread his legs, and shook his right leg on the ground, looking smug. "May I ask, esteemed noble sir, is this how your family's aristocratic apology etiquette is?"

"You..." Fox was so angry that his body trembled!

"What do you mean, 'you'? Apologize!" Zong Ze showed no mercy whatsoever!

Helpless, Fox had no choice but to step back with his right leg, put his left leg in a lunge position, bend his right arm and cross it in front of his chest, and bow, saying, "Dear Mr. Zongze, I sincerely apologize for rudely interrupting your speech just now, and ask for your understanding!"

"That's right, admitting your mistakes and correcting them makes you a good kid!" Zongze waved his hand casually, "Go on, I forgive you!"

Zong Ze waved him away as if he were scolding his own child. Fox's expression was uncertain. After a long while, he took a deep breath and bowed to Zong Ze again: "Thank you for your understanding!" After saying that, Fox retreated into the crowd!

"Alright!" Seeing Fox step down, Lan Qizhan said with a smile, "Little Zongze, can you continue now?"

“No problem!” Zongze said. “Let’s continue with our previous topic, uh…”

"You little brat, what's wrong now?" Seeing Zong Ze hesitate for a long time but not say anything, Zong Xiaozhang couldn't hold back any longer and rushed to Zong Ze's side!

Seeing his grandfather's angry face, Zongze looked embarrassed and stammered after a long while, "I...I...I forgot where we were!"

"Infantry scattering formation!" Before Zong Xiaozhang could speak, Lan Qizhan quickly interjected!

"Oh!" Zong Ze nodded and continued, "Yes, I just mentioned the infantry scattering star formation. Actually, to be serious, this infantry scattering star formation isn't really a formation at all. Of course, you probably wouldn't understand if I explained formations to you, so I'll just explain it simply!"

"As I just said, to shoot a man, shoot his horse first. Once the knight's horse is destroyed, the knight becomes a lamb to the slaughter. However, heavy cavalry usually have their horses fully armored. Even if we wanted to shoot the horse, our bows and arrows would be completely ineffective!"

“That’s right!” Zong Xiaozhang nodded in agreement. “I also considered using archers to shoot down warhorses during my simulations, but it was completely ineffective. Those arrows had no effect on armored warhorses!”

Zongze glanced at his grandfather. To be honest, he hadn't expected that his grandfather had also deduced something about warhorses, but he guessed that his grandfather hadn't grasped the key points!

“There is no absolute protection in the world!” Zong Ze shook his head and said, “No protection can be completely effective. Take armored warhorses for example. Although the warhorse is covered in armor, there is one place that cannot be armored!”

“I know! There’s no armor around the horses’ hooves, but how could an archer shoot so accurately?” Zong Kuang asked.

"Who told you to use archers to shoot at the horses' hooves?" Zong Ze rolled his eyes at his father. The so-called infantry star formation mainly used infantry!

After saying that, Zong Ze took out a handful of thorn seeds from his pocket, laid them on the ground, and began to deduce: "These white ones are the enemy's heavy cavalry, the yellow ones are our archers, and the black ones are our infantry!"

“First, all our infantrymen must be fully armored, holding large axes or longswords, and arranged in a loose formation, with the distance between each pair of soldiers large enough for the enemy horses to pass.” Zong Ze first laid out the black seeds loosely, and then placed the yellow seeds in front of the black seeds.

"At the start of the battle, archers will first shoot down the cavalry at the front of the formation, with the aim of slowing down their charge. Once the cavalry gets close, all the archers will retreat along the path to the rear of the formation." Zong Ze then used his hand to push the yellow seed through the gap between the black seeds and behind them.

"Then, at this time, the local cavalry charged in through the passage between the soldiers, and were met with continuous slashing of the horses' hooves by the infantry on both sides, while the archers fired freely from behind the lines, killing the cavalry."

Zong Ze crushed the white seeds one by one with his fingers, looked up and said, "And then, that was it! All the cavalry, whether heavily armored or lightly armored, became ants to be crushed at will!"

However, our heavily armored infantry are inevitably exposed to the enemy's hooves, so losses are inevitable, and these losses will be substantial, generally resulting in a 1:1 death rate compared to the enemy!

"Impressive!" After listening to Zongze's explanation, everyone remained silent for a long time. Finally, old Flort exclaimed, "Young Zongze, how did you come up with this method? You know, let alone a 1:1 mortality rate, even if it were 1:2 or even more, many countries would be willing to use your method to end the nightmare of heavy cavalry!"