Since he and Wang Jian became brothers, the fifteen soldiers who were close to Wang Jian in the arena also naturally became Li Mu's private soldiers and worked in the stable temporarily.

However, there are only four horses in the stable, and there is nothing to do on weekdays.

Seeing that the middle of April has passed, and there are less than five months to go, the battle of Luzhou is about to break out. Li Mu, who is familiar with military books, although he knows that the defense of Luzhou ended in the victory of the Great Song Dynasty, but as the frontline of Luzhou gateway Liang County, the city was broken in an instant in history.

Your own territory is not allowed to be sloppy. If you are not careful, you will whine.

The master of the horse prison has no military power.

In front of them, Wang Jian and the others were still abducted from the competition by Li Mu under the pretext of lack of manpower. Poor thing, fifteen soldiers, four horses, that's all the possessions.

Although there are few soldiers in his hands, Li Mu, who has nothing to do, does not dare to be idle, cross-country training, military drills, and vows to train this bit of men and horses into elite soldiers. In this way, Wang Jian and others are tired.

On weekdays, he either runs around the city with double armor on his back, or swims across the Yao River in the northeast of Liang County, no matter morning or night, repeating boring training day and night. Fortunately, Li Mu has good food here, and he is absolutely full of vegetables and meat, otherwise he would have been tortured to death by Li Mu before he could fight.

The hellish training implemented by Li Mu, in the eyes of the county commander and the county lieutenant and others, was definitely full of food and nothing to do. He thought that there was Luzhou City in the south of Liang County, and even if the Mongols came, they could advance or retreat.

If the Mongols are weak, they can also support Luzhou with the defense of Liangxian County; If the Mongols were strong, they would abandon the city and go to Luzhou.

However, Li Mu clearly understood it in his own heart. When he first came to Liang County as an official. It is the punishment given to herself by the Queen Mother's forces. If you follow and run away without a fight. He Li Mu will definitely be severely punished, and if he doesn't die, he will be exiled.

In view of this, Li Mu not only practiced with his life, but also trained his soldiers extremely harshly.

Fortunately, things gather by like, and people are divided by groups.

The fifteen soldiers who were close to Wang Jian were also hard-boned, and no one refused to lag behind. Even if the same training is repeated every day, a group of people are having fun and secretly competing with each other.

But this is fine, healthy competition, Li Mu simply divided Wang Jian and the fifteen soldiers into two teams. A group of eight people, in their spare time, is a military competition once a month.

The side that wins the overall score does not need to work in the stables and can concentrate on training. In addition to the loss of face, the loser has to take over the winner's work. Work hard and strive to turn over next month.

This morning. Li Mu, as usual, leaned on the edge of the stable, cultivating a relationship with Chileima, and saw his brother Wang Jian coming back with a team of fifteen people, sweating profusely.

After four months of rigorous training, everyone was refreshed, and after a short rest, everyone prepared for the next part of the workout step by step.

Letting the old groom go up to clean the stable, Li Mu came to the middle of the stable, stood in a large open space in the middle, and said to everyone: "Everyone, after four months of basic training, everyone has greatly improved their physical strength, strength, and reaction. But to put it mildly, even so, the physical fitness of our Song soldiers is still inferior to that of the Mongols.

Maybe you will think that I, Li Mu, will grow the ambition of others and destroy my own prestige. But it is a fact that the Mongols, as a people on horseback, can ride horses and shoot arrows, and they are civilians in peacetime and soldiers in wartime.

In addition, the Mongols eat mainly beef and mutton on weekdays, and eat very little grains, so the Mongols are naturally taller and stronger than our Song people, and their individual combat ability is also stronger. And most importantly, the Mongols are proud of killing the enemy, everyone rushes on the battlefield, they are not afraid of life and death, and their overall military quality is much stronger than ours.

However, everyone, there is no need to be discouraged, our good men in the Song Dynasty will not be much worse. For the sake of the country and the people, we are not afraid of death. But fighting a war depends on the brain, and impulsive and brute force may win for a while, but it is never possible to win forever.

So, today we changed our training. I'm going to teach you a new formation, the Mandarin Duck Formation, which is one of the ten formations that I have been inspired by, and it's specially used for narrow terrain.

The Mongols were the best at field raids in the plains, with heavy cavalry splitting formations and infantry or mounted archery working together. Regardless of the unified battle of the Mobei grassland, or the three expeditions to Western Xia, the destruction of the Jin Kingdom in the south and the expedition to Europa in the west, this tactic was brought into full play.

Although the Mongols were good at field warfare, they had fought with our Great Song Dynasty for many years and did not take advantage of anything. That's because they don't have enough siege weapons, but we must not underestimate the Mongols' ability to learn. If the city is broken in the future and the Mongols attack the city, when we are close to each other, the formation I will talk about next will be of great use. ”

In the past four months, Li Mu and Wang Jian and other fifteen people have carried out the same training content, but they have doubled the weight, and the completion speed is always the fastest. Wang Jian and a group of soldiers, although they knew that Li Mu was a high-class internal strength, they still respected Li Mu, a commander who could share weal and woe with his subordinates.

Seeing that the sixteen people in front of him raised their heads and chests, their bodies were as tall as straight pines, Li Mu paused slightly, and then continued: "Our Liang County is open on all sides, the terrain is flat, and there is no danger to defend. However, our Liang County is adjacent to the Huai River, the Yao River in the northeast, and the tributaries of the river network, which are scattered, but can also limit the play of Mongolian iron horses.

However, this kiln river is far away from our Liang County, if it is really the Mongols attacking, the terrain of the kiln river is still not used. We will still defend the city, and if the Mongols carry siege weapons, they will attack the head of the city, or attack the city.

When we were in close contact with the Mongols, we fought alone, and we could only be broken by each one. Therefore, what we must use is the Mandarin Duck Array. 'Mandarin ducks' are a female and a male, swimming together, which means that the yin and yang of the art of war are complementary to each other.

Eleven is a standard team, but fifteen can also be a team. The captain was in front, and the two deputy chiefs each led a column and followed behind. The captain must be the strongest martial artist in the team, and the captain is the sharp spear of the entire team, and he must be able to quickly cut through the opponent's defense line in hand-to-hand combat. A long shield in the left hand, a hook and sickle in the right hand, and a short knife and dagger.

The second two are mainly defending, one long card and one rattan card, and carry javelin short knives to assist the captain in attacking. After that, there were two rows of four pikemen, who followed the shield-bearers on either side in front. The pikemen were followed by the skirmishers who wielded the Shortsword Rattan Cards, also two rows of four.

If the enemy attacks in a roundabout way, the short soldier will rush forward with a short knife to slash the enemy. Then it was followed by a row of two pikemen, and the tail was also equipped with two secondary captains and a captain.

Even if they are cut off by the waist in the melee, they can quickly be divided into two and transformed into two mandarin duck formations to cooperate with the enemy. ”

The Mandarin Duck Formation, which was formed by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty against the Japanese Invaders, was best at hand-to-hand combat in narrow terrain. In order to deal with the Mongols with strong individual soldiers, Li Mu let the Mandarin Duck Array come out more than 300 years in advance.

Seeing the anxious appearance of the old man Gao, Li Mu, who had a dry mouth, drank several large bowls of water before he asked suspiciously: "Lao Gao, is there anything urgent to call me out in such a hurry?" ”

"My lord, the boss of Taipingfang sent a message to say that there was a movement in the north and asked you to come over." (To be continued.) )