When the reward order for the imperial court came, Li Xiao's whole army was practicing battle formation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fact that the spearmen and shield soldiers can work closely and effectively together is the essence of the battle formation set by Li Xiao.

In such an integrated battle array, it does not rely too much on individual martial arts, but on the close cooperation and cooperation of the whole team.

Let's just say that these 90-person battle array, if trained well, even in the face of the most elite Tartar White Tooth Warriors, will be completely fearless. After all, even if a single enemy soldier can fight again, no matter how high his martial arts are, in the face of dozens of spears that stabbed fiercely at the same time, and there are dense spiked shields in front of him, these enemy troops who cannot effectively fight back after being beaten can not effectively fight back, except for the final defeat and escape, what else can they do?

This is where the advantage of the gun and shield battle array lies.

When the battle formation is drilled to the extreme, thousands of people are like one, and ten thousand people are like one, and they use collective strength to kill the enemy in an efficient and orderly manner.

This is also the ultimate goal pursued by Li Xiao against the battle array.

On the morning of this day, outside the pier of no return, Li Xiao held a coordination practice of the gun and shield battle array.

Soon, this attracted the attention of the whole pier personnel, and the exciting gun and shield battle array cooperation drill began.

If you can look down from the whole world, you can see this kind of military training scene.

On the edge of the exercise ground, there was a makeshift command platform, on which a huge red background flying tiger roaring sun flag fluttered in the wind, which was very imposing. This red military flag embroidered with colorful tigers pounced on a round of red sun is the Li Xiaojun flag designed by Li Xiao himself.

At this time, Li Xiao personally served as the golden drummer, while Wu Liang waved the flag to conduct.

The shield soldiers led by Mo Changrong and the two teams of spearmen led by Duan Shidi entered the training site in three columns, and then, according to the training requirements of the past, the shield soldiers in front and the spearmen behind the spearmen quickly formed three straight lines.

In order to better manage the spear and shield soldiers, Li Xiao promoted the spearman captain Duan Shiqi to a notch and promoted him to the sentry commander, and the spearmen under his command were divided into the spearmen team A and the spearmen team B.

Then, recommended by Mo Changrong and Duan Shidi, Li Xiao selected the following people as the leaders of the spear and shield soldiers.

Shield captain Mo Changrong and vice captain Bao Zhao.

The spearman sentry chief Duan Shidi, also the captain of Team A, and the deputy captain of Team A Luo Zheng.

Jiang Zun, captain of the Spearman B team, and Huang Bao, vice captain.

This Luo Zheng impressed Li Xiao deeply.

On that day, this person was not selected as a soldier because of his thin body, but as a reserve soldier. Later, because the soldier Gu Yuan pretended to be sick, he was expelled from the pier by the whole family, which allowed Luo Zheng to fill Gu Yuan's position.

Unexpectedly, Luo Zhengji cherished this rare opportunity, worked extremely hard in training, and his assassination results were very good, which impressed Duan Shidi, the spearman sentry, and then personally proposed to let him be the deputy captain of the spearman A team.

Li Xiao asked Mo Changrong, the captain of the shield soldiers, to stand on the far right side of the shield team, while Bao Zhao, the deputy leader of the shield soldiers, was in the center of the shield team.

Similarly, the spearman sentry commander Duan Shidi stood on the far right side of the spearman team A, while the spearman deputy Luo Zheng stood in the middle of the spearman team A. The spearmen in the back, Team B, also stood in the same way.

At the command platform, the rumbling drums sounded, praising Wu Liang, holding high the huge red background flying tiger roaring sun flag, pointing forward, Mo Changrong, the captain of the shield soldiers on the far right of the team, saw it and immediately shouted: "The shield soldiers advance!" ”

As soon as he finished shouting, Bao Zhao, the deputy captain of the shield soldiers standing in the center of the shield team, also shouted loudly: "The shield soldiers advance!" The purpose of the deputy team shouting like this is to ensure that the fourteen shield soldiers on the left side can also hear the instructions clearly. After the deputy team shouted, thirty shield soldiers with solemn expressions and wearing mandarin duck battle jackets lined up in a straight line, and immediately held the big shield in their hands, and the left and right shields were connected to each other side by side, so that the big shield was densely lined up into a straight but almost impermeable wall, and then marched steadily and uniformly with the sound of war drums.

After the shield soldiers marched forward, Duan Shidi, the spearman sentry on the far right of the spear team, immediately shouted: "Spearmen advance!" ”

Then, Luo Zheng, the deputy team in the middle of the spearmen's team, also shouted: "Spearmen advance!" ”

As soon as his words fell, the thirty spearmen dressed in cotton armor with serious faces also lined up in a straight line, holding their spears diagonally upwards on the right side, keeping a distance of two steps from the shield soldiers, and moving forward in a neat and orderly manner following the steps of the shield soldiers in front.

After the spearmen team A took a step forward, the two captains of the spearmen team B wearing mandarin duck jackets also shouted slogans one after another, commanded the team, lined up in a straight line, kept a step away from team A, and marched forward neatly.

The war drums on the command platform became more intense, the flying tiger flags were waved crosswise, and the shield captain Mo Changrong shouted: "Standing shield!" Bao Zhao, the deputy of the shield soldiers, also shouted: "Standing shield!" As soon as his words fell, he heard a loud "bang", but it was the sound of thirty thick iron shields falling to the ground at the same time.

Mo Changrong's voice burst out again: "Squat down!" Resist! After Bao Zhao, the deputy of the shield guard, also said this, the thirty shield soldiers squatted down at the same time, placed the shields in an inclined shape, and then firmly pressed their shoulders against the upper end of the inclined big shield, so as to do a complete battle formation protection.

When the shield soldiers were squatting, Duan Shi, the spearman captain behind him, shouted: "Spearmen prepare!" Luo Zheng, the deputy spearman of the spearmen, also shouted this, and thirty spearmen lined up in a straight row stepped forward, keeping a distance of one step away from the shield soldiers, and at the same time, the spears in their hands were held horizontally, and the three-edged steel spear heads that flashed with a terrifying cold glow crossed the top of the big shield in front of them, forming a straight and solemn death thorn.

The spearmen in the back team B are behind the team A, standing one step away, according to Li Xiao's request, if a gunman in team A is injured or killed, team B personnel can fill in at any time.

After the shield soldiers in front formed a silent and solid steel defense line, the spearmen array behind were basically covered by shields to the chest position, and the spearmen captain Duan Shidi shouted: "Spearmen attack!" Thirty spearmen of Team A immediately turned slightly sideways, bent their waists, held the body of the spear in their hands, and then took a quick step forward, raised their spears on the upper part of the shield, and began to quickly and violently carry out the familiar attack on the head, neck, and chest stabbing of the enemy soldiers.

Finally, the sound of gold on the command platform was loud, and the flying tiger flag pointed vertically back. The spearman sentry commander Duan Shi shouted: "The spearmen retreat!" ”。

Jiang Zun, the captain of the spearmen of Team B, shouted together, and then the spearmen of the two teams put away their guns and turned around, and returned to the state of holding their spears diagonally upwards on the right side, and then trotted back.

Seeing the two teams of spearmen behind him collect their guns and turn around, Mo Changrong, the captain of the shield soldiers, shouted: "The shield soldiers retreat!" Bao Zhao, the deputy of the shield soldiers, also repeated the shouting, and the shield soldiers got up together, then turned around with the shield, and trotted back.

Finally, the shield and spearmen formed the same three columns as they had entered and exited the open space of the exercise.

A complete gun and shield coordination drill was completed.

The team of soldiers who left the field ushered in the warm cheers of the other spectators in the whole pier.

Li Xiao, who put down the drumming, only had a slight smile on his face.

Although the gun and shield battle array coordination drill this time is generally okay, there are still many deficiencies in details, which are far from the idealized state in Li Xiao's heart.

This proficiency problem can only be compensated for in daily intensive training. Li Xiao believes that although the proficiency of the soldiers still needs to be improved, and there are still many omissions in the cooperation of the battle array, as long as he can practice persistently for a period of time, the gun and shield battle array carefully set by Li Xiao will definitely become more and more cooperative, and will also have more and more power and killing efficiency.

There is one thing Li Xiao firmly believes that if this small army under his command trains so hard every day, over time, it will definitely become an elite division far beyond other Ming armies.