Chapter 47: Formation

"Let's have a drink." Yang Shida's face was full of redness, and he raised his glass and said: "Everyone is rich and noble, I, Yang Mou, will become an official in the future, and I also need everyone to help me." ”

Everyone raised their glasses and hurriedly drank it, but Yang Shida suddenly put the cup down, and said with obvious anger in his eyes: "Before, the hundred households also used their official bodies to talk about things, which damaged our face!" After eating and drinking tonight, he slaughtered the two small flag officers and the flag army first, and when Lao Tzu gave guerrillas, he transferred the hundred households to Lao Tzu's account to listen to the order, and beheaded him for a random reason, but who dared to stand up for him? ”

"That's what Big Brother said." Guan Er laughed cruelly and said: "Up and down this big river, it is our gang that has the final say, which turn is a thief with an army?" ”

Master Mao is a child, although he is unwilling to be poor and poor to be a salt lord as a master, and he has lost the face of a scholar, and he has long been accustomed to the white eyes and scolding of the villagers, but he still feels quite uncomfortable in his heart against the gangs of green-skinned scoundrels in front of him who are full of anger and foul language. Everyone is eating fat duck, pork, roast chicken, Master Mao has a smile on his face, chopsticks only on the table to find some light vegetables to eat a few bites, I wish this banquet ended early, so I went back to the room to rest early...... Yang Shida had already asked someone to find a good-looking secret prostitute to wait in the guest room, and Master Mao had been waiting for a long time.

When he was anxious, Master Mao saw a lot of dark shadows appear near the main entrance of the river house, and they seemed to be holding weapons in their hands, he was quite vigilant, but after all, after drinking, his brain reaction was a little sluggish, and he was quite hesitant to say: "Second master, there are brothers coming over tonight?" ”

"Most of them are here, and most of them are corpses when they are not there." Yang Shida said with a smile: "Master Mao still has something to say to my brothers, those who are not in this hall are drinking in the side room, and they have seen a lot of suitable talents." ”

Yang Shida smiled again and said, "Could it be that someone heard the wind and came to work in advance?" ”

There are four tables in the main hall of the five-bay room, nearly fifty people sit on the ground to eat and drink, and there are fifty or sixty people on both sides of the side compartments.

However, if you are granted an official position and officially become an officer and soldier, you can add a tax card at the local level, and urge the big families to pay money and food to help military supplies. As long as a few hundred people are raised, they can claim to have a battalion of soldiers, and then they can collect money and food on a large scale in the local area.

When Yang Shida heard the news, he wanted to put up a flag to recruit soldiers, anyway, there are many green-skinned scoundrels in the place, and he is a well-known figure in this area, so he doesn't have to worry about no one coming to vote after the flag is erected.

It's just that the news hasn't been confirmed yet, Yang Shida looked at the door with his eyes open, but he was faintly puzzled.

"That's not right!" Guan Er stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, and he scolded: "It's those thieves from Yunti Pass!" ”

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Min Yuanqi was dressed in iron armor and stood in front of the middle of the team.

The three-bay door was large enough and brightly lit for the line to swing open and stream through the main entrance.

Originally, they should have been found when they stopped the boat, the air dead wind lamps on the shore were hung high, and there must have been a shift of guards, but in fact there was not, the river was empty, only the cold wind at night whistled, and the biggest damage to the whole thing so far was that someone fell down when getting off the boat, probably because he was too nervous.

Went ashore at the dock, sorted out the queue, set up a formation to determine the leader, and ordered the officers of each team to stand on the side of the team, and Min Yuanqi stood in front of the middle of the team.

In front of Min Yuanqi in the team were several sword and shield players, Li Junsun and Wang Wumai, plus Xie Xiang, they were either strong in martial arts or courageous, and they all wore chain mail, and the protection was much stronger than those wearing cotton armor or only wearing fat jackets.

Min Yuanqi was slightly two or three steps behind the knife player, holding the long knife in the middle.

Behind them are Gao Cuncheng and Yang Zhijin, Min Yuanzhong, the three small flag officers, more than ten people hold two zhang spears, and then more than ten people hold five-foot short guns, and then there are boring handles with long boring handles of about seven to eight feet, the first array of spears is responsible for long-range stabbing attacks, suppressing the enemy's position, and the short spearmen behind are the main force of attack, cooperating with the spearmen to assassinate the enemy. Knife players cover the entire array, and although they are at the front of the array, their primary task is not to attack, but to secure the integrity of the array.

This is the assembly of the three mandarin duck arrays, Min Yuanqi feels that he is not a genius, even if he is a human in two lives, he is only a novice in the ancient art of war array, so he is almost completely according to Qi Jiguang's deployment to line up, just because there is no big bamboo and the second spear is used instead, it may be slightly worse in terms of effect, but the difference should not be too far.

Everyone entered through the porter, everyone with straight faces, and after entering the door, everyone let out heavy breathing.

Only Shen Liang and Min Yuanqi are the most calm in the crowd, Shen Liang has been in battle for a long time, and has the experience of crawling out of the pile of dead people, Min Yuanqi is the person in charge, and he has fought with many green skins, knowing that the other party can only bully the good, and when he encounters a real good hand, he is actually vulnerable.

All the flag soldiers were armed with swords and cards, or spears, and everyone followed Min Yuanqi's steps step by step according to the same pace, and walked into this brightly lit building.

This place once made everyone feel frightened or humiliated, and the origin of frying salt in the seaside guard is not a day, and it is not once or twice that Yang Shida and his gang are insulted and intimidated here.

Every time people pass by, they want to speed up, but each time they are forced to anchor and pay money before they can sail away in ridicule and verbal abuse.

The knives and guns were particularly dazzling under the lamplight, and the aroma of wine and food drifted along the wind, but no one would feel the enticing aroma of this wine and food, and these aromas, as well as those people at the banquet, and the lights, gave people a sense of unreality and illusion.

For Min Yuanqi, he had fought with people, and after being reincarnated, he had slashed people with a knife, but it was different from tonight, he knew what he was going to do, and he had made up his mind, but at this moment, there was still a dream-like feeling, as if he was in a dream, and it was as if he was in a real game.

But Min Yuanqi knows that it is not a game...... He looked left and right, the heavy breathing of his companions, the rustling of footsteps, the slight rattling sound of the chain mail rubbing, and the sturdy and cold iron armor on his body, this iron armor was old, quite old, but it was extremely well maintained, there were obvious oil stains and smells, and the layers of armor leaves overlapped, thick and cold.

This iron armor weighs at least thirty pounds, and this is still not enough, the weight of the arm guards, heart guards and shin guards, if they are all matched, plus iron gloves and iron armor skirts, the weight may exceed seventy pounds.

Min Yuanqi felt that his shoulders were very heavy, and all the weight of this armor fell on his shoulders, if it weren't for his height and strength, I was afraid that just bearing this iron armor would consume most of his mental and physical strength.

The sword player in front of him is holding a shield in his left hand, each holding a light round shield, the shield is made of pine wood, covered with thick cowhide, lightweight, but can block arrows or slashes, or in case of heavy weapons or spear stabs, the effect of this wooden shield is quite poor. Ming army shield, mostly poplar or pine, the shape of the light shield, such as the hand, rubbing, dovetail card, about five feet long, two feet wide, this is already a larger shield, there is a slightly higher edge of the rattan card, with rattan weaving, the edge is slightly higher, the diameter is two feet, much smaller than the round shield, the main function is not to prevent stabbing and chopping, only for the use of anti-flow arrows, the role is relatively single. In the northern frontier army, there were also long square shields that were more than seven feet high, larger and heavier than round shields, which were used in conjunction with the chariot camp array, in case the nomadic cavalry Rava shot arrows or threw weapons, but they were generally not needed on the southern battlefield.

Most of the swords of each person are Qi knives or lancets, and some people use ring head knives or even Japanese knives, the Ming Dynasty not only got a large number of Japanese guns to imitate in the war against the Japanese, but also got a large number of Japanese knives, in addition to the imitation, the imperial court and the people also bought a large number of them, and it is not a strange thing that the soldiers of the guard have Japanese knives.

Han Sen used chopping, horses, and knives, he was not a team officer or a knife player, but he was on the side of the team, standing side by side with Gao Cuncheng, one of the two of them used a five-foot gun, and the other used a two-handed broadsword, this kind of knife weighs seven catties, and cannot be used as a one-handed weapon, the knife handle is four feet long, the blade is three feet long, and the total length is seven feet, which is two feet longer than the five-foot short gun, because the knife body is heavy, it can only be held and waved with both hands, the back of the knife is thick and the blade is sharp, heavy and sharp, since the Han and Tang dynasties to the Song Dynasty, it has always been a sharp weapon for foot warfare, Only brave and strong men can wield and kill the enemy on the battlefield, and even wear iron armor and hold this long knife to fight against cavalry, and the Song army's Maza knife is probably this knife.

Min Yuanqi looked at it for a while, and there was a sense of stability in his heart.

In the hands of the brave, the slashers, horses, and knives, the waist knives, the Qi knives, the ring head knives, the shields, the long spears like a forest, the short spears, the boring handles that pressed the array, the neat queues, the companions in armor walked in front, and those without armor walked in the rear.

If there is any flaw, it is that there are really not a few qualified archers in the formation. The people on the seaside lack the experience of hunting, in addition to farming and frying salt, the flag army has leisure time either to pick up work or go to the sea to fish, the lack of large animals on the seaside, so the bow and arrow skills handed down by the ancestors have no military role, nor the need for hunting, and they have long been completely lost.

Min Yuanqi hoped that there were ten to twenty archers in the team, who could form a stormy blow in the face of these rabble, and could quickly break the opponent's will to resist, but unfortunately it was difficult for the world to do so.

As the procession entered the gate and reached the large courtyard, the exclamations, furious voices, and shouts of scolding rang out again and again in the main hall.

"The thieves of the dog are matched with the army, dare to come and rob people?"

"Thirty or forty people dare to rush in, when we are vegetarians?"

"It just so happened that even these people were cut off and thrown into the river to feed Wang Ba!"

The hall resounded with angry shouts and scolding, seeing Min Yuanqi and others coming in with swords, shields and spears, the first reaction of these green-skinned scoundrels was not too nervous, they were used to the appearance of everyone trembling in front of them, plus Yang Shili and Yang Shida were about to be promoted as generals, which made the psychological state of Yang Shida and Guan Er and others also changed, even if the flag soldiers in front of them were wearing armor and holding spears and knives, the killing intent was obvious, Yang Shida and Guan Er and others were still subconsciously angry and disdainful.

The green skins shouted and stood up, after suffering a loss in the hands of Min Yuanqi last time, Yang Shida and Guan Er and others ordered their subordinates to not be allowed to leave their weapons here in Shuiguan, and now they have picked up long knives, spears, hook sickles, boring handles, waist knives, short knives, short axes, maces, these guys use weapons that are quite mixed, many of them are made by folk blacksmith shops, and some of them are standard weapons that the guards have sold their property and fallen to the people, of course they have no swords, no armor, When these people run rampant in the township, they can scare the whole village with a short knife.

When the people in the main hall copied weapons and poured out, the green skins in the wings on both sides were also alarmed, they saw dozens of people rushing in from the window, and then heard Yang Shida and Guan Er's shouting and scolding, so they also rushed out with weapons while scolding.

In the eyes of the Qingpi people in Shuiguan, there were only more than 40 banner troops who rushed in, and the number was less than half of them, and they were rampant most of the time, and no one dared to provoke them, which made them always very bold and dared to do things with people. Coupled with the large number of people, this makes these green skins not see the potential danger at all...... The banner army in the front is holding shields and armor, and the flag soldiers holding long spears and short guns are also in a strict array, and the entire array is thick and thick, and the killing intent is pervasive.