Chen Xian organized the newly recruited junior apprentices separately to form a juvenile class, and selected outstanding ones from the old apprentices to serve as instructors and teachers for these juveniles.

After these children from poor backgrounds came, they ate a few full meals with oil and water, and they fell in love with this place at once, and became very obedient, and they were afraid that they would never be able to eat such a good meal in the future.

When the instructor repeatedly told them that all this was given to them by Chen Yuanwai, Chen Yuanwai suddenly became equal to a living bodhisattva in their hearts.

Compared with the old apprentices trained by Chen Xian himself, these teenagers trained by the apprentices worshiped him even more fanatically.

Because of the apprentices he personally trained, there is a closeness to him in addition to worship, and this closeness counteracts part of the fanaticism, just as you may worship your father or teacher, but you will never worship your father and teacher as a fan does to his idol.

Once, Chen Xian planned to give a lesson to the group of teenagers to examine the brainwashing results of the instructors and teachers, and when he walked into the classroom, he found that the children were all looking at him with extremely excited eyes.

Looking at this familiar look, Chen Xian suddenly felt a creepy feeling of three fat possessions.

Chen Xian didn't promote himself too much when he personally brainwashed the apprentice, he didn't have such a thick skin after all.

However, when the apprentice who already admired him very much went to educate the next generation, the promotion of him made Chen Xian feel ashamed of himself.

Chen Xian was a little at a loss for this obvious GRCB atmosphere, but in the end he only gave a slight warning to the instructors and teachers, and then took a tacit attitude, because the facts told him that this situation was very beneficial to management.

The education of young apprentices is Chen Xian's hands, but the education and training of formal apprentices over the age of 14 is Chen Xian's own hands.

When the number of apprentices reached more than 130 people, Chen Xian adjusted the training method, in addition to the Mandarin Duck Array training, he also added the Phalanx training.

Because of the number limit, Chen Xian used eighty-eight people as a basic phalanx, and the surplus more than forty people were mixed with sword and shield hands and crossbowmen.

For the fighting method of the phalanx, Chen Xian mainly referred to the tactics of the Swiss phalanx, and borrowed some of the tactics of the later Spanish phalanx.

The basic phalanx of eighty-eight people, the horizontal row is a mandarin duck formation squad, eleven people, a total of eight rows, the first five rows in the phalanx are pikemen, holding spears of more than five meters, and the last three rows are axe spearmen, the so-called axe gun is actually to add a spear tip to the front end of the long-handled axe, and then make the back of the axe into an armor-piercing sharp cone.

This three-meter-long long-handled weapon is very useful against heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor, whether it is an assassination, slashing, or pecking, it can break armor.

The swords, shields and crossbowmen of more than 40 people were divided into four teams and distributed on the four corners of the basic phalanx, the two squads in front of the phalanx were close to the phalanx, and the two squads behind the phalanx were slightly away from the phalanx and spread slightly to the sides, so that the crossbowmen in front and behind could exert firepower at the same time.

When the phalanx changes direction, the crossbowmen squad will also change its distribution.

According to Chen Xian's assumption, when the phalanx attacked, the axe and spearmen in the back three rows of the phalanx would leave the phalanx and mix with the sword and shield bearers and crossbowmen to form an attack team.

When attacking, the crossbowmen are in front, firing a round to disrupt the opponent's formation, and then the swordmen and shieldmen and axemen take the opportunity to attack.

The pikemen could not break away from the phalanx under any circumstances, and when attacking, the pikemen were pressed up as a whole to suppress the local reflexes and create a picture opportunity for the mixed squad on the flanks.

When defending, the axemen are arranged at the rear of the phalanx, and the mixed squad of sword, shield and crossbowmen will first perform a long-range strike on the approaching enemy, and when the enemy approaches, the crossbowmen can hide in the gap in the spear phalanx, and the swordmen and shieldmen can retreat under the spearmen's spears to assist in the defense......

If the enemy attacks from the front, is blocked by the phalanx of spears and reduces their speed, the axemen behind the phalanx will break away from the phalanx and flank the enemy from the left and right in a pincer pattern.

Of course, the disadvantages of a separate phalanx are very obvious, and when facing a cavalry with extremely high mobility, it is easy to catch the shortcomings.

To exert the power of the phalanx, multiple phalanxes must cooperate with each other, and it is best to have cavalry to protect the flanks.

With the number of people under Chen Xian's current command, he can't do this, and his current phalanx training can actually only be regarded as a technical reserve.

In the future, if the size of his men increases, this phalanx tactic can come in handy.

To tell the truth, since reading the outline of the Internet writer, Chen Xian has aroused a lot of ambition, on the plain outside the mountain, the future will be the world of the Mongols, Chen Xian dare not think, but with his current momentum, it is not an extravagant hope to run a world in the depths of this Lu Mountain and be a mountain king.

If you can manage a piece of heaven and earth in the depths of this Lushan Mountain and form a force, it is not far from the East China Sea, and in the future, find a way to enter the sea from the east, go to sea to find a piece of paradise in the sea that the Mongols cannot conquer, and claim the king and hegemony, which is definitely much stronger than going to the Southern Song Dynasty to send people under the fence.

In this era when the cavalry is dominant, if you want to use the mandarin duck array to fight the world, you are definitely looking for death, when Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jimen to train soldiers, he did not dare to copy the mandarin duck array, but switched to the car battalion.

It can be seen that in the plain areas of the north, the mandarin duck array is not adaptable.

The mandarin duck array is afraid of cavalry, especially the shock cavalry of heavy armor, and the wolf can hold the spear, but in front of the charging iron horse, it is a joke.

In this era, even the Yang family, a local tyrant in the countryside, has to raise a cavalry general of more than 30 people, according to Wu Liang, the Yang family has at least more than ten vests!

It can be seen from this that the cavalry flourished in this era.

It is no wonder that this is the case, the Jin Kingdom originally swept the world by relying on heavy armor and iron riding, and the name of Tiefutu, even after eight hundred years, is almost a household name.

If Chen Xian only wants to protect himself in the depths of the mountains, the Mandarin Duck Array is enough, and if he wants to walk out of the mountains one day, then the Mandarin Duck Array is far from enough.

The infantry wanted to fight the cavalry, either by chariot formations or by well-disciplined, well-protected infantry phalanxes.

Personally training and building a heavy infantry phalanx similar to the Swiss phalanx is a dream come true for an ancient war enthusiast like Chen Xian. Many things that used to be only available in the data, torn apart with people on the Internet, and speculated in his mind, can now be experimented by Chen Xian in reality.

Commanding this infantry phalanx, crisscrossing the square, and perfecting various military regulations and tactics through various exercises and drills is simply the best pastime for Chen Xian on a busy day.

That's right, it's a pastime, and while training recruits and new phalanxes, Chen Xian is also doing several more important things at the same time.