A bit of Flashback – Ai Ling's Ba'qua And Eight Trigram Formation Lesson
Facing the threat which hanging there, Lelouch has already expected the first target of the Britannia invasion of course is occupating Okinawa. The astronomical and geographical position of Okinawa is the best choice to be used as a temporary base of Britannia invasion. Seeing his own father confidence, Charles Zi Britannia, of course making Lelouch need to not make light of the invasion. He also had to consider the information that he got from Yuuko, The Knight of Eleven who leaked to him that the invasion will be led by Britannia strongest knight, Bismarck Waldstein, a man who proudly bear the title The Knight of One.
Bismarck Waldstein , The Knight of One is one of Britannia great veteran who rise to his rank after the succession throne conflict between Charles zi Britannia and his uncle, Phillip rui Britannia. During that conflict, Bismarck who at that time known as Knight of Five led the ROUNDS who pledge their loyalty to Charles against the Knight of One that time who draw his sword for Phillip rui Britannia. That Knight of One of That time is not a trivial opponent, as he is the strongest Knight of Britannia in literal meaning. But , after Bismarck defeated the Knight of One , Dougal Mc. Arthur using sheer power, he become the true Knight of One, the number one Knight.
Bismarck's battle record in leading his troops is really a threat for Lelouch. He almost has no way to counter him, except one thing. He still has one card that he has not shown. But he did not wished to use that card, because he still does not understand his strong and weak point. Because if he tried to rely on it, he will become lazy and depending. That card is Li Xingke. During the battle in Chinese Federation, he has experience competing against him in tactic, strategies against this Jade Chi'Lin. His impression is that the Jade Chi'Lin fond on using a quick and complicated tactic where he makes alteration in his battle formation which is almost uncountable. Something that is almost impossible. Even in Britannia knowledge of tactic and stratagem in battle formation , he never seen that quick and uncountable alteration in a battle formation which done effectively. Lelouch acknowledge that in the battle of Chinese Federation, he already lost the war and only won because of time. He successfully returned the legitimate position of Tian Zi through the help of Huang Fei Hu.
He is sure that Kaguya and UFN council opinion in assigning Li Xingke is not a bad idea, and there is a chance that he might won , considering the multiple drastic alteration in Li Xingke battle strategy . The possibility might change if Bismarck go to the Battlefield personally, But will he let the use of a wild card like Li Xingke ? In war anything is possible. The UFN council and United States Japan are being too arrogant and trifling with the situation , just because of Xingke. Britannia is not an easy opponent, if they are why would such country able to take over almost a third of the world and even subjugating part of EU territory?
Maybe the fault reside on ZERO who always won their victory, making their morale weak because of trifling matter. This is the exact same thing which make Ding Feng from Dong Wu could defeat Sima Shi from Cao Wei enormous army only with 3000 sword infantry (sword is the weakest armament for a regular army)
Once again, he changed the position of his chess piece to illustrate and simulated his previous battle against Xingke in Chinese Federation. Lelouch almost become irritated as he could not solve the secret of Li Xingke complicated, swift-transformable battle formation. His effort finally getting Ai Ling's attention, who felt lonely and bored after accompanying C.C. (who still unconscious)
Ai Ling take a peek at the desk and she saw how Lelouch quickly tried to change the formation in multiple time. After ten minutes of seeing the transformation, Ai Ling grabbed one chess piece and changed in to another position and said.
"Shouldn't be this way, Onii-sama?"
Lelouch surprised. And then before he can grasp the situation he saw how Ai Ling once again change the position of the chess piece and simulated the battle formation. In his own eyes he saw and reminded the battle in Chinese Federation where he , ZERO was beaten. He saw how Ai Ling look familiar and recognize the changing of that battle formation.
"…Then… it become Qian."
And it is true ! That little girl really re-play Li Xingke formation in exact way, and she even add another variation which Li Xingke did not use without breaking the basic formation, even more blending in harmony and perfect than Li Xingke's own battle formation which he used in Chinese Federation previously.
"Ai Ling…. You… did you understand what you just do…?"
Ai Ling who saw the surprised expression in Lelouch Lamperouge face, said cheerfully. "Of course." After saying that, he repeated the formation from the beginning phase. The first transformation is ordinary, nothing special. Then second transformation… the battle formation beginning to move, then from the third-fourth-fifth transformation until then…. All eyes who seen the transformation will not realized the change. A natural and blending in harmony transformation. And when no body has grasped the situation as if they are enchanted by the beauty of the movement, it is too late for them. As the opponent are already cornered and lose the battle . This is Li Xingke's battle formation that even Huang Fei Hu himself did not understand it.
"This is the ancient fundamental tactic from the history of Chinese Federation and also Manchuria." Ai Ling stopped her hand movement and sharply stared at Lelouch.
"The Fundamental of Eight Trigram Formation." Ai Ling's hand and finger once again re-play the movement of that formation. " A Formation which used the ancient concept from Ba'qua."
Lelouch become interested with the proficient of this little girl who remind him to Nunnally and has cheered his lonely heart. He asked her the concept of this battle strategy.
"Why … Onii-sama… Ai Ling is yours at use."
Lelouch showed unhappy expression when Ai Ling stated like that, and he stated that Ai Ling is Ai Ling. She is not a thing to be owned by somebody. This make Ai Ling blushed in to red and said " Then, I will gladly explained to you…. In exchange of my wish." Lelouch gives her a simple nod.
"Before the era of Xia dynasty, in the era of The Three August One and the Five August One, Fu Xi found the concept of universe and cosmos, long before the time of Kong Qiu and Tai Shang Lao Tze. This is the concept of universe , the Ba'qua. A concept of Eight element of the universe." Ai Ling stopped her sentence for a while and used the chess piece and moved it using her fingers to simulate and continued her explanation.
"Fu Xi showed the transformation and the concept in to Ba'qua, which were illustrated in to Eight Element: Sky, Earth, Thunder, Wind, Water, Fire, Mountain and Lake." Ai Ling illustrated one by one the transformation of the eight element concept using the chess piece.
"Now… about the usage of this balanced concept. This concept is already traced to the Era of Three Kingdom. History showed us that when Cao Ren fought war against Liu Bei who at that time seek protection from Liu Biao was astounded by the transformation of Cao Ren's battle formation. Luckily for him ,at that time the pupil of Prof. Water Mirror, Sima Hui Shuijing sided with Liu Bei. He quickly recognized the formation as the Eight Golden Chain Lock Formation which used the most basic concept of Eight Trigram. At that moment, The formation which Cao Ren used beside that it is the most basic is also still crude, making it possible to breach. After this moment, the Eight Trigram formation become less popular comparing with more easier battle formation like the Spear formation, Shield formation and Wave formation.
"But then, The Eight Trigram formation returned once again and used in full power by the Prime minister of Shu Han, Zhuge Liang Kongming. At his Northern Expedition, Zhuge Liang used this battle formation and perfected Cao Ren's conception. Making the Eight Trigram to become perfect. As you already know, a Battle formation is an important thing. This is according to Sun Bin, the author of Art of War (The descendant of Sun Wu who authored Sunzi Bingfa)." Lelouch felt reminded with the battle in the era of Three Kingdom and understand Ai Ling's point.
"And… using the Perfect and multi-transformable Eight Trigram, Zhuge Liang finally able to defeat his nemesis, the Great Sima Yi TaiFu. The greatness and awesomeness of this formation led Sima Yi TaiFu to acknowledge the superiority of this Prime Minister of Shu Han." Ai Ling tries to simulate the battle in Zhuge Liang's 4th Northern Expedition.
"Another event in history note that in another Shu-Han northern expedition which were executed and led by Jiang Wei (the apprentice and successor of Zhuge Liang) showed that he also mastered this battle formation. The Eight Trigram once agains showed it's true power by subduing and defeating Deng Ai, eternal rival and opponent of Jiang Wei." Now , Ai Ling simulated Jiang Wei's 5th northern Expedition.
"Now… I will explained the usage of the Eight Trigram conception. First it goes from Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, Kun (Sky, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain, Earth) ." Ai Ling simulated the basic transformation movement of that formation by showing the symbol of that formation as she showed their name.
Lelouch shook his head and said "Memorizing that formation will be complicated, do you have an easier way to explained it? I never fond on using philosophy and metaphor."
Ai Ling then stopped her hand movement and said "Someone named Leibniz from EU found a way that might ease the explanation. But honestly, I have difficulty in comprehending it. I am not good at Mathematics."
She stopped and continued. "Eight Trigram has the same idea with Numerical Binary, Where single line indicate numerical value of "1" and double line indicating numerical value of "0". And … The top line is the first digit, the middle line is the second line and while the bottom line is the third digit." Ai Ling proceeds to show the example.
"For example, this formation, The "Qian" or the Sky Formation illustrated as three single line which were arranged vertically. If we used Liebniz's theorem, it will be the binary system of "111" , and if we converted it into Decimal numerical system it will be the decimal value of 7." Then Ai Ling continued to explained it one by one until it finished in formation "Kun", The Earth Formation.
Lelouch smiled , satisfied. "This Liebniz method is simpler. I understand this formation completely. And I sum up that this is not the most perfect formation as it seemed."
"Exactly, Onii-sama. This formation is not perfect." Ai Ling agreeing Lelouch's opinion and approve it.
"Now, I understand the reason Li Xingke positioned Huang Fei Hu and Hong Gu as the tip of this formation. If Li Xingke used this formation in the battle of Okinawa, he will surely lost." And Lelouch Lamperouge has understand what he must do.
Author Note: please excuse the reference to Ravage of Time . really... how could Mokusei Zaijuu make such awesome dojin like Ore Imouto... i never though Kirino and Gokou Ruri could be that delicious... i want more loli rape dojin. also more incestous material!
