"Rebirth" has now been serialized, and it is said that Jiang Ming took his wife Xu Ruomei and several family members to Huainan County, a coastal county, to serve as the local magistrate and officially took office.

Jiang Ming originally wanted his wife Xu Ruomei to stay at home and not to take risks with him, after all, once the Japanese invaders came ashore, it was not a joke, they would die at any time.

But Xu Ruomei insisted on going together, she said that if something happened to her husband, what was the point of her living alone in the world? In this case, it is better for the two to live and die together, maybe they can be husband and wife again in the next life.

She even hid a short blade on her body at all times, deciding that if something happened to her husband, she would use it to kill herself and go with him.

Faced with his wife's insistence, Jiang Ming had no choice but to take her to office with him.

After arriving in Huainan County, he saw that the local people had been suffering from the Japanese for many years, which had led to the decline of people's livelihood, the destruction of all industries, and the homeless beggars everywhere.

Not only that, but he also found that the officers and soldiers in charge of guarding the local area were arrogant and lazy, lax in discipline, and did not practice warfare, and their combat effectiveness was too far from that of the Japanese who were skilled in using Japanese swords and heavy arrows.

In particular, these officers and men were still greedy for life and afraid of death, and when they heard the news that the Japanese had come ashore, their first reaction was not to meet the battle, but to find a way to escape.

Such useless soldiers are simply unable to resist the Japanese invaders, and it is no wonder that the harm of the Japanese in the coastal areas is getting worse every year.

Jiang Ming knew that he couldn't count on these officers and soldiers who had already been abolished, and he had to find another way.

After careful visits, Jiang Ming saw that many of the beggars in the local area and the surrounding counties were young homeless, so he organized all the homeless people who had combat effectiveness to form a militia of nearly 3,000 people.

Then he personally trained these recruited militiamen, which was the prototype of the early "Jiang Family Army".

Because the coastal area is mountainous and swampy, the roads are rugged, and it is not easy for large troops to deploy, and the Japanese are good at setting up ambushes and are accustomed to hand-to-hand combat.

In view of this characteristic, Jiang Ming flipped through many military books, and combined with his own ideas, he created a brand-new battle formation.

Anyone who has watched the deeds or serials of Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, must know that Qi Jiguang invented a special battle formation to deal with the Japanese invaders, called the "Mandarin Duck Array".

This formation resembles mandarin ducks traveling together when fighting against the Japanese invaders, hence the name.

When Chi Fei watched Qi Jiguang's serial, he was also deeply impressed by this mandarin duck formation, so he directly applied this formation here, and wrote the pictures in his impression plus his own understanding and imagination one by one.

The mandarin duck formation is a team of twelve people, the first is the captain, and the second two hold a long card and a rattan card.

The long card player holds a long shield to block the heavy arrows and spears of the Japanese robbers. The rattan brand holds a light rattan shield and carries a javelin and waist knife.

Long players and rattan players mainly cover the rear team, and rattan players can also fight in close combat with enemies in addition to cover.

The two of them are wolves, holding wolves. The Wolf Shooter uses the blade at the tip of the Wolf Whip to stab the enemy to cover the shield player's advance and the spearman's attack behind.

The wolf whisk is the use of the southern growth of the bamboo, select its old and solid, the end of the bamboo obliquely cut into a pointed shape, and leave the sharp branches around it, each wolf whisk is about 3 meters long.

Then there were four spearmen with spears, two on the left and two on the right, and the shieldmen and wolf-bearers on the left and right in front of them.

This was followed by a short soldier with a short knife. If the pikemen do not stab the enemy, the skirmishers rush forward with short knives to slash the enemy.

The last one was the fireman and shortsword man in charge of the meal.

The "Mandarin Duck Array" not only closely combines the spear and the shield, the long and the short, giving full play to the effectiveness of various weapons, but also changing the formation flexibly. According to the situation and operational needs, the column can be changed into a horizontal formation, and a formation can be changed into two small formations on the left and right, or three small formations on the left, center, and right.

When it becomes two small formations, it is called "two talent formations", and the left and right shield players are accompanied by the left and right wolf hand, spearman and short soldier respectively, to guard its attack; When it becomes a three-small formation, it is called the "three-talent array", and at this time, the wolf hand, the pikeman and the short soldier are in the center. Shield-bearers are guarded on the left and right sides. This changed formation is also known as the "Mandarin Duck Formation".

The use of this formation was flexible and maneuverable, which just suppressed the play of the advantage of the Japanese invaders.

Although there may be some places in Chi Fei's own imagination, the formation of the entire Mandarin Duck Formation is correct.

In addition, this is originally adapted from real people and real events, so many readers who don't understand military affairs have a sense of unclear reality.

And after reading these descriptions, some knowledgeable people feel that the distribution of responsibilities of each person in this formation is reasonable, and they cooperate with each other to complement each other, as if it is really like that.

Of course, the entire process of military training was not smooth sailing, and many problems and difficulties were encountered.

In the face of these problems and difficulties, not only Jiang Ming worked hard to overcome them one by one, but his wife Xu Ruomei also played a lot of roles.

In order to help her husband, Xu Ruomei organized many homeless women in the local area to become a logistics brigade, sewing clothes and cooking for the militia soldiers, as well as making wound medicine, bandages and other trivial chores for the soldiers.

The husband and wife are responsible for military training, and the other is responsible for logistics, and they cooperate seamlessly.

Because Jiang Ming was different from other officials who were greedy for life and afraid of death, he not only actively trained troops, but also resettled many displaced people in the local area, so he won the respect and love of more and more ordinary people.

Many ordinary people began to help Jiang Ming train on their own initiative, and many victims whose family members were killed by the Japanese even rushed to join the Jiang family's army, hoping to avenge their families.

Jiang Ming screened these victims, and assigned those who were too young or old and infirm to the logistics team, leaving only those who were capable of fighting.

The entire county is in a hot anti-Japanese atmosphere.

Compared with the hopeless and lifeless situation when Jiang Ming first took office, it was as if everyone was waiting for death, but now it is completely different.

Chi Fei wrote all kinds of small stories and small details during the training in great detail and sensational, so that readers were both engaged and moved.

Half a year later, the Japanese finally attacked again, and this time there were as many as 2,000 Japanese invaders, all of whom were outlaws.

In the face of the menacing Japanese brigade, Jiang Ming could only lead the militia soldiers who had only been training for less than half a year to meet the battle.

This was the first and most important battle since the formation of the Jiang family's army.

If defeated, the Japanese will invade on a large scale, burn and loot everywhere, and turn the entire county into a hell on earth.

If the battle is won, then the Jiang family army can truly become a powerful combat team against the Japanese invaders, thus completely changing the fate of the entire Huainan County.

Win or lose, win or lose, Jiang Ming has no way to retreat.

As a result, Jiang Ming led the Jiang family army to fight the first tough battle against the Japanese invaders.

For the sake of his wife behind him and the lives of the people of the county, Jiang Ming had to win this battle no matter what, and he was even mentally prepared to die with the Japanese invaders.

The flag is fluttering, the war drums are sounding, and the strong man has no idea of returning, only willing to kill the enemy and protect the people.

The wind is up, let's fight!

When all readers saw this, they felt their blood boiling, and their emotions were difficult to calm down for a long time, and they were all eager to see what was going on.

The sales of these issues of the newspaper were higher than the first issue, and the local sales in Beijing alone sold an astonishing 35,000 copies per issue.

At the same time, the number of commercial advertisements published in the literary newspaper also recovered to about eighty percent of its heyday, coupled with the extremely high sales and commercial advertising revenue of the Jiangnan edition of the literary newspaper, Chi Fei once again returned to the state of making money every day.

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