According to Xu Shiyang's request, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao selected 8 stronger men from the people of Wubao to form an elite team, Xu Shiyang hoped that this small unit could develop into a powerful scout team in the future, and perform tasks with high personal skills and tactics such as tactical reconnaissance and skirmishers.

Therefore, he intended to equip the team with the best weapons available to him—armor, shields, bows and arrows, long knives, and throwing weapons such as maces or axes, captured from the Tartars.

From the outside, these ten soldiers look like replicas of Tartars, and they look quite scary.

Of course, it is only the appearance, the actual combat effectiveness is still far from good, and only the strength of Xie Zhen and Xie Bao, who are the main and deputy captains, is worthy of equipment.

Beyond the pro-soldiers and scouts is the real core of the fifteenth-tun - a team of 200 burgers.

50 of them were armed with sharpened wooden spears and 50 were armed with felling axes and scythes, which were considered melee soldiers.

The remaining 100 men were actually used as baggage squads, so they could only be equipped with the "weapons" they had prepared, such as whistle sticks, hoes, rakes, or even simply a flat .......

Such a team, in addition to the large number of people, I am afraid that it is not as good as other dock forts, after all, other dock blacksmiths do not need to make gun barrels as their main business, and have time to load the militia's wooden spears with iron spear heads.

In order to make the team a little more presentable, Xu Shiyang mobilized the whole village to make shields together.

The raw material of the shield came from several dock forts burned by Tartars to the west, where many broken door panels were left, which were pulled back by donkeys and mule carts, cut into small pieces, and threaded with a rope.

The shield is round and square, and although it lacks a uniform shape, it can be regarded as a kind of armor.

Xu Shiyang ordered Xie Zhen to test it, this simple shield can defend against the light arrows of the Tartars at a distance, but it can't be done when it is close, at a distance of about 10 meters, 1 or 2 arrows can shatter the entire shield, not to mention heavy arrows such as armor-piercing cones.

The soft bow used to defend against bandits was quite good, and it could give great psychological comfort to the poorly equipped militia.

The "soldiers" team was commanded by Gongsun Sheng, and the captain of the baggage team was Li Carpenter.

Given the possibility of a siege, Xu Shiyang incorporated the two carpenters into a baggage team, and if necessary, they could make improvised shield carts on the spot.

Finally, Xu Shiyang also has a medical team of 8 little girls who are chattering - Xu Shiyang announced that this small army with no combat effectiveness also belongs to the ranks of the pro-soldier team, and no one is allowed to harass them.

Each of the eight medics carried a small satchel with some herbs, gauze and other improvised medical supplies, as well as a knife.

The knife is a self-defense weapon strongly requested by Zhao Shan, the captain of the medical team, Xu Shiyang was surprised that this girl who seemed to be too gentle would have such a request (if it was Zhao Lin, it would be easier to understand), in his opinion, when the little girl of the medical team had to use this kind of thing to defend herself, it would prove that his entire army had collapsed, and a knife could not protect anything.

But Zhao Shan told him that this knife was just a chance for the female soldiers to protect their chastity.

This explanation made Xu Shiyang angry, in his opinion, this is simply the biggest distrust of himself - a guy who can't even protect a woman, how can he believe that he can change the way of the world?

In the end, it was Mama Rong who persuaded the angry Xu Shiyang.

In her words, a woman falling into the hands of the enemy will only be more miserable, and when the time comes, death will be some kind of relief.

If the men find it humiliating, then pluck up the courage to fight well, and don't give their women a chance to use such things.

"You don't need it!" Xu Shiyang gritted his teeth and said to Zhao Shan: "I swear you will never need this kind of thing!" ”

"Well, I believe you." Zhao Shan smiled softly.

……

"Sister, it's so strange that he is angry about this kind of thing, don't men want women to be loyal to him?"

"Well, he's thinking a little different."

"Hehe, is my sister moved? What did Mama Rong say to you a few days ago? Did you say that the matchmaker was coming? ”

"Linlin, we're not the castle lord's young lady anymore, how can we talk about any matchmaker?"

“……。”

"I'll have to be a concubine."

"Sister......."

"What?"

"I'll protect you!"

……

Tartars like to choose the season of high horses and fat horses in autumn, and the Han people fight in the autumn after the harvest.

The time is different, but the reason is the same - convenient logistics.

After the autumn harvest, the militia of Wubao had surplus grain to go out to fight, and only then did they have surplus grain to conduct some pre-war training, and they did not have to worry about the war delaying the work in the fields.

If it were another season, and the heavy farm work would be enough to exhaust everyone's physical strength, who would be in the mood to go to war?

This is also the difference between the Dock Forts and the bandits - if the target is right, the Dock Forts will also loot, but their main economic pillar is still agricultural production.

Bandits, on the contrary, although they also have some farmland in the mountains, they mainly rely on looting to make a living.

The bandits don't deliberately choose to fight after the autumn harvest, and they don't care about delaying the farm work like the people of the dock fort.

Fortunately, the Xu family had been maintaining a superficial peace with Fulai Mountain before, and by the time the Xu family made up its mind to fight, the time window for the Wubao militia had arrived.

A person like Xu Shiyang, who has a lot of food reserves, can even maintain a high standard of one training a day before the war.

In his last life, Xu Shiyang had read some books by Qi Dashuai, and he admired the mandarin duck formation, which was suitable for small-scale battles, but the practical application was still immature - the Wubao militia was essentially a group of peasants, and neither weapons nor techniques and tactics were enough to support any complex battle formation.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang simply simplified his tactics and tried to solve the problem with the simplest way.

According to his assumption, if the Fulai Mountain bandits went down the mountain to fight, then the tactic of Wuxiantun was to use wooden guns to resist the surprise attack of the opponent's old bandits, and provide 1 to 2 rounds of fire strikes with wooden cannons, muskets and archers to weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness, and then put in sickles and axes to cover the killing.

If the other party is stubbornly defending the city wall, it is simply better, he can use a simple shield car to cover a few warriors, blast the opponent's wall with gunpowder, and wait until the bandits' earthen wall is blown up by gunpowder, I don't believe that those rabble still have the determination to resist!

Therefore, the 15th Tun warrior team only needs to train two tactics: first, the pikemen are trained to resist the assault of the old bandits in a dense formation.

Second, the Scythe Axe Soldier trains a small-scale group of 5 people, ah no, the ability to fight in a small-scale white-knuckle fight.

The standard rabble, fortunately, is no problem with using it against bandits who are also rabble.