ShiXingXing formation

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The chinese army finds out one of Confucius's writings which talks about optimal battalion formations. In this Confucius mentions about the ShiXingXing formation where the soldiers belonging to a battalion are arranged in the following way, which helps to scare the enemy off directly without any casualities. Each of these battalions has a tree structure where soldiers are present at the nodes. The

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