Chapter Seventy-Three: Training
When the boy was running, some farmers in the east of Zhuangzi also got up to cook on the fire, and the whole Zhuangzi gradually woke up in the early morning mist.
After breakfast, some of the farmers began to build brick houses, while others left the village and went down to work in the fields.
The boring run lasted for half an hour.
After the run, the young soldiers still lined up and walked into the Zhuangzi, they put the weapons in their hands where they had taken them, returned to the house to change their clothes, and then walked into a house north of the Zhuangzi one after another.
Lei Jiaotou told him that they had bought off a farmer in the Zhuangzi, and according to the farmer, the house was a canteen, and the craftsmen and young apprentices in the Zhuangzi ate three meals a day, saying that it was breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and now it should be breakfast, and all three meals were eaten in the canteen, all of which were supported by Chen Er......
Saying this, he smashed his mouth and said, "This Chen Er is really ...... Loser! ”
After breakfast, the teenagers scattered in the courtyard, some gathered in twos and threes, some picked up the guns and sticks on the shelves in the corner of the courtyard and practiced, and some young apprentices chased and fought in the courtyard.
About half an hour later, another whistle sounded, and the apprentices ran towards a few rooms on the south side of the courtyard, and soon there was no one in the courtyard.
Lei Jiaotou told Yang Miaozhen that these people had gone to "class", and they were reading and reading in those rooms.
From Lei Jiaotou's words, Yang Miaozhen heard the same doubts as himself, yes, what's the use of teaching a group of big-headed soldiers to read and write?
Lei Jiaotou suggested going back first, and he told Yang Miaozhen that this group of people would "go to class" for a long time, and only when it was almost noon would they come out to practice some strange formations.
Yang Miaozhen rejected Lei Jiaotou's suggestion, she took out the dry food, ate the cold water in the gourd, and ate it silently.
Ordinary people may not be able to see anything from the previous exercises, but Yang Miaozhen saw the words "orders and prohibitions, such as arms and fingers".
More than 200 people, large and small, from getting up, to lining up, to going out to exercise, walked smoothly, quickly and neatly, and the order stopped, there was no doubt, no objection, and more than 200 people were like one person......
Isn't this the elite teacher that the teacher said?
For more than an hour in the next hour, Zhuangzi had been in class, and the wind was let go twice, and after an hour and a half, I saw Chen Xian walking out of Zhuangzi alone, and after waiting for a while, he suddenly blew a whistle fiercely.
This time the whistle blew extremely violently and eagerly, one after another.
With the whistle, the "soldiers" who had not yet finished class rushed out of the classroom, and instead of running outside the Zhuangzi, they rushed back to their residences.
The craftsmen who rushed into the residence and rushed out had already changed into the clothes they wore when they got out in the morning, grabbed their respective weapons, and rushed towards the outside of Zhuangzi, at this time Yang Miaozhen noticed that the running movements of the teenagers who had changed their clothes seemed to be a little difficult, and she couldn't help but think, could it be that there was iron armor hidden under this clothes?
This thought was just a flash, and it was left behind by Yang Miaozhen, how can this little Zhuangzi be able to achieve that everyone wears armor, a piece of iron armor, even if it is the simplest and cheapest, it will cost twenty or thirty times, and more than 100 people will need two or three thousand times, how can such a small Zhuangzi wear it? What's more, the iron armor is not rice and white noodles, you can sell it if you have money, this is a militaristic heavy weapon prohibited by the imperial court, it is not so easy to get, they have been operating for so many years in Yidu Yang's family, and the accumulated iron armor adds up to only a few hundred pairs.
The craftsmen who rushed out of Zhuangzi did not gather around Chen Xian, they were scattered around, some raised their hands and shouted something, and some people quickly gathered around him and formed a lineup.
Some of them were waiting in the same place after arranging and gathering, and some of them ran to Chen Xian after arranging and gathering, and lined up in front of him, and in less than a hundred breaths (more than four minutes), a somewhat strange phalanx was neatly lined up in front of Chen Xian.
Seeing this scene, Yang Miaozhen only felt that her scalp was numb.
It is common for marches to fight, armies to gather and disperse, and formations to change.
Gathering and dispersing formations is a compulsory course for every army to practice.
Yangjia Zhuang Ding also has to practice gathering and dispersing formations, which is not surprising.
Surprisingly, the speed at which the army in front of him gathered and dispersed was too fast.
Four minutes was already fast enough, but Yang Miaozhen felt his scalp tingle just thinking that those soldiers had run back to change their clothes halfway through.
After the assembly was completed, Chen Xian looked at his watch and shook his head with some dissatisfaction.
After the assembly was completed, Chen Xian personally led the team to carry out training such as moving the whole phalanx forward, backward, left, right, and backward, and turning.
The training content that was not very difficult in the eyes of Chen Xian and the apprentices frightened the voyeurs on the hillside in the distance.
Looking at a team of more than 100 people in the distance, but like a person, walking around the playground like a cloud, walking around, even the head of the Lei Sect with half a bucket of water and several generals were very surprised, and Yang Miaozhen was even more creepy.
Before Yang Miaozhen brought reinforcements, Yang Yuanwai and Lei Jiaotou also arranged for people to investigate, but they never came in person, and they all asked Zhuang Ding to pretend to be a tenant to come and snoop.
Although Lei Jiaotou had heard the spies talk about the scene of Chen Xian's military training before, the spies had shallow knowledge and couldn't tell the point, and Lei Jiaotou and Yang Yuanwai were also half a bottle, and they couldn't ask the point.
Now that he saw it with his own eyes, Lei Jiaotou felt that he was careless.
Next, Chen Xian trained the musket squads in the middle phalanx and the four corners separately.
The middle phalanx, under the leadership of Li Shi, the leader of the phalanx, stepped aside and began some routine training.
In Li Shi's command, the soldiers first constantly changed the direction of the tip of the spear, that is, adjusted the defensive direction of the phalanx.
The phalanx stood still and practiced defense for a while, and then moved again, and the soldiers moved sideways one after another under Li Shi's command, and at the same time they were holding their front hands in front of their backs, and their spears were held horizontally in front of their necks, and they were moving sideways while making a small forward stabbing motion.
The way these soldiers held their guns was very different from the army of this era, which was actually the standard way for soldiers in the Western phalanx era to raise their guns, and it is said that this position is the most reasonable way to use a spear, which can not only narrow the attack surface sideways, but also save strength, allowing soldiers to hold on longer.
The four musketeer squads under the leadership of the musketeer captain Zhang Bai kept changing the formation, sometimes divided into four squads, each team of three sword and shield soldiers kneeling on one knee in front of them, holding shields to guard, nine musketeers divided into three rows, taking turns to complete the charging action, and then under Zhang Bai's order, simulated three rounds of shooting.
Sometimes, four musketeers were combined into one, with twelve swords and shields in front of them holding shields, and three rows of thirty-six musketeers behind them, divided into three rows, simulating three rounds of fire.