Chen Xian ordered the phalanx to defend, and the mandarin duck array to attack.

The captain of this squad of the Bu Mandarin Duck Array is the foodie Li Shi, although this kid can eat, but he is also really capable, whether it is striking iron or practicing martial arts, he is the best among the apprentices, and even the reading and literacy are also at the upper middle level, he is stable and diligent and hardworking, and the captain does it without dispute.

This Li Shi was originally a tall and thin man, who would be fifteen years old, and his height was already in his early seventies, which was taller than most adults in this era, but his body was a little thin. Unexpectedly, after he let go of his belly and ate a full meal for three months here with Chen Xian, not only did his height soar, but his body was also thick and burly, and he practiced martial arts every day, and his strength increased significantly, and he could easily wear Chen Xian's armor weighing more than 30 catties.

At this time, Li Shi, who was wearing heavy armor, was at the forefront of the Mandarin Duck Array, one step forward than the two shield holders, only to see an unbladed eyebrow knife at his flat end, and with Chen Xian's whistle to start, he immediately trotted forward steadily.

Two shield bearers followed Li Shi on either side.

The long card is 1 foot 7 inches wide and 5 feet 4 inches high, which just completely blocks the front of the long player, revealing only the top of the head and eyes of the long player wearing a hat.

The rattan is extremely lightweight, so it can be made larger, more than a meter in diameter, and it can also be used as a large part of the front of the rattan player.

The finished font of these three people unfolded, firmly obscuring the two columns of teammates behind them.

Behind the shieldman, two burly and powerful apprentices held wolf whisks, and they poked their branchy heads out of front of the shield from both sides of the shieldman, and the front end was slightly raised, blocking the view of the front row shooters of the opposite phalanx.

In the first row of the opposite phalanx were six archers.

Chen Xian ordered a few cheap soft bows from the carpenter's shop that sold bows and arrows to the east of Zhuangzi and taught the apprentices how to shoot.

These soft bows are between forty and fifty pounds, and are suitable for teenagers to practice archery.

The six archers in the first row of the phalanx held this soft bow.

The two formations were fifty paces (about 80 meters) apart. Exactly the best range of forty or fifty pounds of soft bows.

As Chen Xian's whistle sounded, the Mandarin Duck Formation team, as the attacking side, immediately rushed towards the phalanx defending in place at the speed of a trot in unison.

At the same time, the six young archers did not hesitate to shoot feathered arrows stripped of the cluster of arrows and replaced them with small packets of lime.

The projectile accuracy is poor, although these six archers are the best bows and arrows in the apprentices, but after all, they are only beginners, six arrows, most of them did not even touch the edge of the mandarin duck array, only one arrow I don't know if it was because of good luck, shot down in the mandarin duck array, shot a spearman's hat.

The wide-brimmed hat woven by bamboo pieces is the standard equipment of the Yang family and the Bai family Zhuang Ding, the hat worn by the soldier is not the same as the hat worn by the ordinary farmer, the hat worn by the soldier is called the hat, the bamboo layer is thicker, and in the bamboo layer at the top of the head, a thin layer of iron sheet is riveted.

From Wu Liang and other Zhuang Ding's mouths, Chen Xian learned that the hat has a very good protective effect on long-distance throwing arrows, and is mainly used to defend against stray arrows.

After carefully observing this kind of hat, a doubt in Chen Xian's heart was solved at once.

According to historical records, the armor rate of the Qi family army is not 100 percent, it is impossible for the Japanese to not even have bows and arrows, a battle of thousands of people, the Qi family army is still in the offensive role, the Japanese archers casually throw a few times, and the Qi family army is by no means just a few people lost.

After experimenting with the protective power of the hat against arrows, Chen Xian understood the reason.

The hats used by Yangjiazhuang Ding are woven from more than one millimeter of bamboo in multiple layers, with a layer of oilcloth sandwiched in the middle, so that the hat can be used as an umbrella, and a layer of thick linen cloth is also decorated under the hat, and a layer of iron sheet is inlaid with rivets in the middle of the hat and the middle part of the head contact.

Chen Xian used a bow and arrow to test the shooting of this kind of hat, for the eighty pounds of hard bow direct shot, except for the part inlaid with iron sheet in the middle, the bamboo weaving and linen cloth in the brim of the hat will be easily shot through, but if you take a 45-degree shooting angle, the bamboo layer and thick linen can barely block the shot of the bow and arrow.

Another advantage of this hat is that its wide brim is far away from the soldier's body, and even if the brim is pierced, the arrow will have to penetrate the brim for a long time before it can reach the human body.

After the test, it is not difficult to conclude that in the face of long-distance projectiles, this bamboo-woven wide-eaves hat has quite good protection.

It is no wonder that the Song and Ming armies like to equip hats, this thing is indeed cheap and good.

After learning this, Chen Xian immediately equipped his apprentices with this low-looking military hat.

More than ten seconds later, the mandarin duck array trotted quickly and steadily over a distance of forty meters.

At a distance of forty meters, the six archers in the front row of the phalanx lowered their bows and arrows and began to shoot directly, while in the mandarin duck formation, the rattan players also drew their short guns from behind and threw them at the opposite phalanx.

Although there is only one javelin, the javelin is far more deterrent to people than the bow and arrow, even if the javelin thrown by the rattan player does not have a spear head, so that the archers can't help but stare at the javelin, ready to dodge at any time, in this way, it invisibly slows down the archer's rate of fire and reduces the accuracy.

After two rounds of direct fire, the mandarin duck formation had approached within twenty meters, and the archers had to retreat, and they turned and retreated from the gap between the sword players and pikemen behind them to the back row.

In these two rounds of direct fire, a small half deviated from the target, and more than half hit the captain in the armor in the front row of the Mandarin Duck Formation or the shields of the two shield players, only two arrows broke through the front row of defense lines, one of them passed through the loose formation gap of the Mandarin Duck Formation, and landed in the air, only one of them grazed the arm of a gunner, and the small cloth bag wrapped in lime powder on the arrow left a white spot on the arm of this sought-after.

According to the exercise regulations formulated by Chen Xian, such arrow wounds are classified as minor injuries and there is no need to withdraw from the battle.

The distance of more than ten meters quickly disappeared, and the two sides entered into close hand-to-hand combat.

With only ten meters left in the phalanx, the two sword players suddenly accelerated, rushed forward and collided with the two long players in the middle of the front row of the square.

Captain Li Shi took advantage of the moment when the opponent's knife player was entangled, broke in from the gap between the two, relied on the heavy armor on his body, ignored the stabbing of the opponent's spearman, brandished the eyebrow knife without a sharp edge, and slapped the two long players with the side of the blade, and the lime bag tied to the blade left two conspicuous white balls on the two shield players.

Lost the cover of the long player, the opposite phalanx is like an egg peeled from the shell, the two shield players of the mandarin duck array are buried in the shield with their heads forward, and the two wolf hands behind them follow the training, and the spear stabbed by the opposite long snatcher is picked into the air, and the long snatcher behind them continues to pierce the gun, and the three-month poke training has achieved initial results, although it is not accurate, but it is also poked at the enemy's body, and the white lime bag tied at the front end of the bamboo pole leaves one white dot after another on the opponent.

The column of the Mandarin Duck Formation stepped through the middle of the phalanx like a wild bull, leaving a group of soldiers in the formation, looking at the white lime spots on their bodies in a daze.

At this time, the soldiers on both sides of the phalanx gradually reacted, and some people tried to attack the mandarin duck formation from the side, and at this time, the two boring palladium hands at the end of the team came in handy; They took a few steps forward, moved to the sides of the long grabber, and fiercely brandished their boring palladium, slapping the heads of the guns that were approaching.

At this time, the Mandarin Duck Formation had already broken through the phalanx, and there was no enemy in front of it.