The military situation is urgent, everyone has no mood to bargain, Wu Dashan finished the order, they all dispersed, I took my nine followers to accompany Zhang Juzheng to the mountain bag, to protect Wu Dashan's personal soldiers, the captain also brought a dozen people to follow behind, plus Liu Jinhu, he is a royal 'attendant' guard, a group of people came to the top of the mountain bag

This mountain bag is not small, but it is not high, it is only thirty zhang high, but the slope is relatively gentle, Ge Qianhu took the front team of people and horses away, and after the rear team of soldiers and horses also pulled all kinds of logistics vehicles, horses and everything to the mountain bag

Zhang Juzheng said to Wu Dashan: "General Wu, you tell the soldiers not to cut down the trees to a low level, leaving me a foot of slag, and to cut down all the trees around us, and to cut down the trees below the direction that the ancients might attack, and cut down the trees for him to use the cut branches to make a defensive line that can block the enemy's cavalry."

Wu Dashan didn't understand why Zhang Juzheng let him leave half a foot of slag when cutting down the tree, but since Zhang Juzheng said so, he also had his reason, and he just had to do it, but I already understood what Zhang Juzheng meant, and the slag left behind was the best secret weapon to block the 'Meng' ancient cavalry, and if their horses accidentally fell, they would be killed by the slag immediately

The soldiers all went down to cut down the tree according to Zhang Juzheng's arrangement, leaving only the people who protected him and me, Zhang Juzheng looked at it and said: "Don't be idle, go down to cut the tree for me, I want to grow as long as possible, but don't move the canopy, and you have to take it until you take it, two people go down," these family 'guards' went down to cut down the tree, and my eunuch Lao Liu also followed them to cut down the tree under the mountain bag

After they left, there were only two people left on the mountain bag, Zhang Juzheng and I, and I asked puzzledly: "Teacher, what did you ask them to cut down the tree trunk, aren't there soldiers cutting trees down there for defense?"

"Yun Jie, you don't understand, this is following Qi Jiguang, do you know Qi Jiguang's "Mandarin Duck Array"?"

I really don't know about Qi Jiguang's "Mandarin Duck Array", Zhang Juzheng looked at me and didn't speak, knowing that I didn't know, that is, he said: "The Mandarin Duck Array was created by Qi Jiguang, mainly to deal with the Mandarin Duck Formation, with 12 people as a team, the first two are the captains, the second two are holding a long card, a holding a rattan card, a long card holding a long shield, blocking the arrows of the Japanese Kou, a spear, a rattan card holding a light rattan shield with a javelin, Waist knife long player and rattan player mainly cover the rear team forward, rattan player in addition to cover can also melee with the enemy, and then two people for the wolf whisk, the wolf whisk is the use of the southern growth of the 'hair' bamboo, the old and solid one will be obliquely cut into a sharp bamboo end, and leave sharp branches around each wolf whisk about 3 meters long, the wolf whisk hand uses the sharp blade at the front end of the wolf whisk to assassinate the enemy to cover the advance of the shield hand and the attack of the pikeman behind"

"The teacher and the students understood that the teacher asked them to look at the tree, in fact, they wanted to learn from Qi Dashuai, and used small trees instead of 'Mao' bamboo to make weapons to resist the 'Meng' ancient cavalry."

"Yes, for the teacher to continue to tell you, this is also where Qi Jiguang went to me, I am curious about what he told me to be the teacher, and then the previous one will explain to you, followed by four spearmen with spears, two people on the left and right, respectively, to take care of the shield hand and wolf hand on the left and right sides of the front, and then follow up with two soldiers holding "boring palladium" to serve as guard, support and other work, such as the enemy attacking in a roundabout way, the short soldier is holding a short knife to rush forward to kill the enemy, various weapons have a clear division of labor, each person only needs to be 'proficient' with their own kind of ' The key to effectively killing the enemy lies in the overall coordination, the order is forbidden, and the last one is the "Mandarin Duck Formation", which not only closely combines the spear and the shield, the long and the short, and gives full play to the effectiveness of various weapons, but also the formation changes flexibly, and the column can be changed into a horizontal team according to the situation and operational needs.

"This method is good, or the teacher is clever, if this method can restrain the cavalry of the 'Meng' ancients, then we will find a good formation for the infantry to deal with the cavalry in the future."

"Yun Jie, don't have too much hope, as a teacher, a civilian official doesn't understand military affairs, this is Qi Jiguang, I just said it, I just had the attitude of trying it out, let them do it, if it really works, then let Qi Jiguang send someone to promote it, and also have one more feasible strategy for our border army to deal with the cavalry of the 'Mongolian' ancients in the future."

"Teacher, I think this formation can restrain the cavalry of the 'Meng' ancients, you see, as long as the 'Mongolian' ancient cavalry can't fight in close combat, they will lose their advantage, if they really dismount and fight with us on foot, they are not our opponents, although this branch can't resist their fast knives, but they can't bear more, they can't stop it, and besides, we still have archers behind." This formation of shooting and hitting students is completely fine, but if this formation is equipped with troops, students feel that there are still fewer firearms, and if you add soldiers with firearms, it will be more powerful."

"Yes, you can think of this, it shows that you are still very smart, now Qi Jiguang is in Su Zhen is also training this formation, when I go back, tell him your suggestion, you can try this new formation with firearms."

The two of us are here to discuss the new formation, and the soldiers below are also cutting trees to establish defensive positions, fortunately, the trees here are not big trees, you can use sabers to chop, plus everyone knows that the cavalry of the 'Mongolian' ancients has already fought, if you want to survive, you only need to build a defensive position, so the progress is very fast, and our 'guards' here also cut down a few zhang high trees according to Zhang Juzheng's orders

Zhang Juzheng instructed them to correct the crown of the tree, and cut down those 'messy' small branches, leaving only a few thick ones, if they are not corrected, I am afraid they will not be able to take it, although the effect of such a correction is not as good as just now, but it is much lighter and more flexible

Because Qi Jiguang had introduced this formation to Zhang Juzheng in detail before, configuration, so Zhang Juzheng temporarily explained to them how to use this thing, how to cooperate with each other, my nine family members, that are all martial arts masters, they form a team of ten 'guards' alone, and Zhang Juzheng's family members are all strong men, but for martial arts, it is. Twenty of them are a pair of Wu Dashan's personal soldiers, and there are more than a dozen of them, and they are a separate pair of teams, for the four teams of mandarin duck formations temporarily formed, Zhang Juzheng gave them the configuration of weapons in detail, and the position of the individual gave them a few simple drills, except for the team Zhang Juzheng's family is not born in the army, and the three teams have basically mastered the basic routine of attack and defense of this mandarin duck formation

Zhang Juzheng looked at these temporary '' people, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Yun Jie, you see, this formation is simple and easy to learn, as long as it is a teaching from the army, this is a time constraint, if there is enough time to train these soldiers, this thousand people are more than enough to deal with the thousand people, do you know how many casualties Qi Jiguang suffered when he dealt with the anti-Japanese people?"

"This student doesn't know that Qi Dashuai has met a few times, but he hasn't gone to 'hand' it in depth, so I don't know his record, master, just tell me about it."

"Well, now it's too late, I'll briefly tell you about the battle of Baishuiyang: Comparison between our enemies: 1,500 vs. more than 2,000 and more than 2,000 Japanese [including hundreds of coercion] Beheaded 344 pieces, captured 5 people alive, rescued more than 1,000 people, sacrificed Chen Si and other 3 people, the battle of Xianyou defeated more than 10,000 Japanese invaders, killed more than 1,000 Japanese invaders, beheaded 498 people, captured 1 alive, rescued more than 3,000 people, sacrificed 24 people such as Tong Ziming, the most tragic battle was the battle of Lindun, burned and drowned about 3,000 Japanese invaders, beheaded 960 prisoners, 26 prisoners, and rescued 2,120 people. The maximum number of casualties in this battle reached 69, Qi Jiguang did not lose a single defeat in more than 80 battles in Fujian and Guangdong, and almost all the enemy was annihilated every time, and he only suffered a few or dozens of casualties, and the most sacrificed was only 69 people. In the battles of Niutian and Wangcangping, he eliminated thousands of Japanese and did not kill a single one of them."

I only knew that Qi Jiguang was a hero who killed the Japanese invaders, but I didn't know that their record was so good-looking, this Qi Jiguang is a character with real skills, and it would be better to make more 'friends' if there is a chance in the future

"Teacher, this Qi Jiguang is really talented, it seems that the imperial court still has a vision to transfer him to Suzhen, as long as he trains this mandarin duck formation well, it is not a myth to defeat the cavalry of the 'Meng' ancients."

Just when our master and apprentice were talking about Qi Jiguang and the Mandarin Duck formation, a simple defense line built with branches and shrubs had been built around the hill, although it was not very strong, but for the 'Meng' ancient cavalry who were accustomed to high-speed charge, it was fatal, and the seemingly inconspicuous branches were three zhang wide, and the 'Meng' ancient cavalry could not advance when they were near, they had to dismount, as long as they got off the horse, their advantage would be 'gone', if it was really an infantry confrontation, these Beijing soldiers were definitely not inferior to them

Seeing the completion of the defense, Wu Dashan is arranging the defense of the soldiers, this line of defense is not built under the mountain bag, but in the middle of the mountain bag, which is exquisite, under the mountain bag, it is easy to be broken through by the cavalry, in the middle of the mountain, it is different, if they attack, it is to attack the horse, in the uphill place is not impact, so if they want to attack, they have to dismount and fight on foot, and the 'Mongolian' ancients are best at riding 'shooting', in the case of the back attack, the blow is also reduced to the minimum, on the contrary, our archers can play the greatest effect, than in the flat 'shooting' attack increasedThe increase in the range of the 'shot' also means that the damage is much greater