This side simulates a cavalry from a frontal enemy while the foot soldier is advancing forward and tries to attack the foot soldier.

With Mingxiong's command, Mu Chun led the infantry brigade into the field, and unlike the previous infantry formations, Mu Chun equipped his infantry with a large number of improvised shields. Because there was not enough iron material, the only iron material was basically made into the head of a bamboo gun, and even so, the head of a bamboo gun was only enough to equip a team of three hundreds. In order to increase protection, Mu Chun hired many carpenters to cut wood temporarily, or find thick planks, and spliced hundreds of shields.

When the imaginary cavalry appeared, Mu Chun ordered again and again, "Stop!" Raise your shield! A circle of foot soldiers on the periphery immediately squatted down, propped up their shields on the ground, countered each other, and lowered their bodies to hide behind the shields, while the soldiers on the back floor took a step forward, clinging to the squatting soldiers, and then raised the wooden shield to protect the upper bodies of the two. The spear-wielding men quickly formed a third and fourth tier, with each man lined up behind his shields and his spears sticking out of the gaps between the shields to threaten possible cavalry attacks.

For a while, facing the front of the cavalry, a layer of relatively strong defensive surface like a hedgehog appeared. Yu Zhilong couldn't help but nod when he saw it, and Zhao Shi introduced on the side: "General, this is the method taught by Captain Mingxiong, the infantry of the brigade relies on shields and spears, as long as the soldiers have a firm fighting spirit and the formation is thick enough, they should be able to temporarily resist the charge of the opponent's cavalry." ”

Wu Side saw that the other party quickly changed formations, not only stayed for a while, Mu Chun, this kid is a Taoist. Because it was a simulation, it was impossible to really ride a horse to try the opponent's protective ability, so when he was about to rush, he gave a loud order, and led his subordinates to quickly run to the side, hoping to move to the opponent's flank or rear at high speed.

He gave the order, and the standard-bearer behind him hurriedly waved his flag and shouted loudly, signaling the soldiers behind him to follow. For a while, the horse's hooves flew over, and the smoke and dust rose loudly, and a cloud of dust and smoke quickly rushed to Mu Chun's side.

"If it's a Yuan Cavalry, it should be the power of cavalry shooting at this time!" Ji Xiancheng, Chang Zhi and others, who had taught Yuan Cavalry and Archery, said.

"It's a pity that our army's cavalry team is far from reaching the cavalry archery ability of the Yuan cavalry, and there are too few soldiers who are good at riding and archery to form a rain of arrows to cover!" Yu Zhilong sighed.

At the beginning on the mountain road, the damage of Wuyan Bone's Yuan Cavalry Archery was really amazing, although it was a Yuan Cavalry 100 people, a few rounds of arrow rain caused huge casualties on their side. If it weren't for the fact that he had a car formation to rely on to cover it, and the terrain was not conducive to the formation of the Yuan Cavalry, I was afraid that my life would have been handed over there.

Wu Side's cavalry quickly went around to the rear of the infantry formation, Mu Chun couldn't see it well, his shield spear formation was only aimed at the front, and now the back door was open, completely exposed to the opponent.

Mu Chun hurriedly turned around, and under the leadership of the general flags and signs, the soldiers of each detachment quickly adjusted their positions before and after, and completed the transformation of the defensive surface before Wu Side's cavalry was still forty steps away from him. In the end, it had to be urgently arranged into a circle formation, and Mu Chun was in the middle, and it could be seen that Mu Chun had put a lot of effort into the formation conversion.

Wu Side led his subordinates to circle around Mu Chun's circle several times, and tried to charge towards the circle several times, and even ordered dozens of soldiers carrying arrows to shoot more than a dozen rounds of arrows at the center of a large circle drawn in advance next to him while running. Dozens of straw figures have been placed in the big circle, and only then did he receive Mingxiong's military order to end the drill.

After Mu Chun and Wu Side gathered their subordinates to rest for a while, the two hurried to Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi's side, and asked about the results of this matchup simulation after giving a salute.

Zhao Shidao: "Captain Mu's formation conversion is okay, and when the cavalry goes around the flank several times, it can be changed in place in advance, and the command and response of those general flags and brand heads are also well organized." ”

"However, the reaction of the infantry in the back columns is slow, and the archery damage of the cavalry is significantly increased to the soldiers behind, if only the soldiers in the back can also quickly organize into a layer of shield defense!" Yu Zhilong continued.

"It is difficult for infantry to take the initiative to attack cavalry under the existing conditions, so we must find a way to make full use of the terrain and organize a good defense and counterattack! After organizing a frontal defense, you should move as far as possible to reduce the space for cavalry to move, or completely retreat into the dense forest and then use the terrain to organize a defensive counterattack, instead of staying where you are and being completely beaten! Yu Zhilong pointed out to Mu Chun unceremoniously, "However, the performance of the previous infantry battle formations is much better, at least the main combat strength has been basically maintained, and it has not completely collapsed." ”

After Yu Zhilong finished speaking, Huang Er, Chang Zhi, and Luo Chengdu bowed their heads in shame, Ma Rulong because he commanded the spearmen to respond quickly and retreated in time, Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi and Mingxiong judged that his losses were small and retained most of his combat strength.

Seeing Wu Side beaming, Zhao Shi said angrily: "Captain Wu, is your cavalry shooting flat or projectile?" Your cavalry is forty paces away from the opponent's foot soldiers, and under the protection of the opponent's upper and lower shields, most of the cavalry is still mainly flat shooting, isn't this a lot of shooting on the shield? ”

"In addition, since you want to go around to the opponent's side, but you are just running in one direction with the whole army, it is easy to leave more time for the opponent to adjust, why not divide the team into two teams, run around from both sides at the same time, and disrupt the opponent's defense as much as possible, as long as you find a vacancy, you should rush up quickly and break the opponent's defensive formation as soon as possible."

Yu Zhilong saw that Zhao Shi finished speaking, and immediately ordered: "The cavalry team will rest for another stick of incense, and then divide the team into two parts to simulate the cavalry duel between the two sides!" ”

"No!" Wu Side put away his smug thoughts and hurried down to prepare.

Yu Zhilong's scouts have reported that in the Yuan army assembled on Yidu Road, the banners of the Yuan army's cavalry Qianhu and Baihu have been discovered, and this battle will definitely encounter the Yuan cavalry! Thinking of the last battle experience with Yuan Cai, Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi and others had a lot of thoughts on how to deal with Yuan Cai.

After watching the step-by-step match, the foot-riding match-up, and the horse-mounted match, Yu Zhilong summoned Mingxiong and asked, "Captain Ming, how do you see today's drill?" ”

Mingxiong saluted and said: "I don't dare to hide it from the general, I can train in various departments in a few days to become what it is now, it is indeed a very rapid progress, but there is still a big gap between the technical warfare of each department and the Yuan army." If each other is a hundred people up and down, the odds of our army should be five or five. More than 1,000 people are playing against each other, and the outcome is unpredictable! ”

When Mingxiong said this, Wu Side, Huang Er, Chang Zhi and others were not pleased, and their faces changed color. Huang Er is an anxious son, he had lost a very disgraceful battle with Wu Side just now, and he said anxiously when he heard this: "This is just a drill between the two armies, and the sons and daughters of our department are all bloody men, if you let go of your hands and feet, regardless of life and death, general, I dare to make a military order, let him come is the Han army, or the righteous army, our department will never retreat!" ”

Ji Xiancheng, Luo Cheng, Chang Zhi and other lieutenants also followed, and they were so excited that they stepped forward to say.

"Oh, what if it's the cavalry of the Yuan army? How should you? Yu Zhilong saw that the generals did not admit defeat and had the heart to fight, and he was happy in his heart, but he still asked Huang Er.

"Well, this, well, well, this, general, you also know that my department is newly built, and there are only broadswords and spears in our hands, except for some rudimentary wooden shields, there are not even bows and arrows, and there is no way to fight against the Yuan Cavalry! Those pockmarked faces are all pikemen, and they are equipped with shields, aren't they also defeated! ”

"Hey, what about you, what are you doing with me!" Ma Rulong was unhappy. Although he was defeated, he was not as miserable as Huang Er and Qian Zheng.

"Oh, it seems that you are confident to fight against the Yuan army's foot soldiers, and there is no way to deal with the Yuan cavalry? Captain Mu Chun taught you the formation of the defensive cavalry, why didn't you see the performance of your department? So how about you guys? Yu Zhilong asked Ji Xiancheng again.

Chang Zhi and the others looked at each other, unable to answer for a while. The result of the infantry and cavalry training just now was obvious, and his infantry was slow to form a formation, and he could not resist the repeated charges of the cavalry. Huang Er, Chang Zhi and others were the most miserable, and some soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran away in the face of the war horses that rushed over at high speed!

Only Mu Chun and Ji Xiancheng's foot soldiers performed well, the formation did not collapse, all too many losses, and under the strong encouragement and restraint of commanders at all levels, the soldiers basically maintained their composure.

Although everyone knew that the cavalry team simulated the enemy's charge, but watching the rows of cavalry holding high swords and spears coming quickly, the regrettable momentum of the galloping horses and the trembling feeling of the ground coming from under the feet were still very shocking to these new pawns!

The war horse rushed to the front, Wu Side gave an order, and the cavalry in the front row immediately divided to both sides, the movement was slow, and the mud raised by the horse's four hooves could splash on the faces of the foot soldiers, Yu Zhilong asked to get as close as possible to the queue of the foot soldiers, and then to the sides, as much as possible to give the foot soldiers an immersive feeling, so in the training, the horsemen with poor equestrian skills did not even have time to make a complete steering action, and individual war horses directly hit the front few foot soldiers!

Considering the authenticity of the drill and the urgency of time, Yu Zhilong did not hesitate and continued to insist on the drill, but asked people to quickly carry the injured foot soldiers down for treatment.

"I know that you have been training hard these days, except for eating and sleeping, you have been staying on the training ground for the rest of the time, but there is no way, the big war is coming, and time is running out. A few days ago, all the departments practiced on their own, and today I deliberately let the various departments drill against each other, that is, to let you and the soldiers have a direct experience of battlefield operations, this drill is actually very rough, after all, we have limited time, give orders, and rest the army! Some soldiers sang loudly, first repeating Yu Zhilong's military orders, and then got on the horse to pass the orders to the various departments.

Yu Zhilong ordered the generals to gather for discussion, and everyone sat on the ground in the shade of the tree.

"Since entering the city, our department has been practicing for more than ten days, the Tatar court does not give us time to continue the exercise, the Yuan army of Tanma to return to Yidu City has been assembled, it seems that it will come in a few days, and King Shuntian has determined that he will fight with it in the north of this city. Now the camps in the north of the city have been built, and most of our army relies on the city as the core and the camps as the wings to confront the enemy head-on. You are all gathered here now, everyone discusses with each other the gains and losses of this confrontation between the two sides, go back and work harder, Captain Ming, these days you have worked hard to guide, plus the efforts of the generals to have today's situation, and bother to teach more! ”

Mingxiong hurriedly stood up to receive his order.