Chapter 112: Exercise (Part II)】
Behind a half-human-tall and slightly broken low wall, Zhang Junbao, Grasshopper, and Kuromaru leaned against the wall.
All three of them are dressed in the same attire: rattan hats, full-body armor, wooden side cards, steel-waisted knives, and a double-barreled shotgun in their hands.
The whole body armor, wooden side card and steel waist knife are all standard equipment of the elite of the Song Army, and the only special thing is the rattan hat.
The rattan hat is a new piece of equipment for the Dragon Bird Army, and its style is similar to that of the Song Army's Fan Yang Li, but slightly smaller. Fan Yang Lia is made of cloth, and the outer edge is supported by a sliver, which is good for shading, and can almost be used as an umbrella, and can also play a shading role when the archer throws. Other than that, there are no protections. The rattan hat is different, it is taken from the old vine in the deep mountains of Litong, cut into long pieces, and woven after many times of steaming and drying of tung oil and other processes. It is light and hard, similar to rattan cards, which can block arrows.
The rattan hat was inspired by Zhao Lie's rattan hat and rattan tags from the Li soldiers. The Li people lack iron, and a small amount of iron is used to make weapons, and protective equipment can only be replaced by other materials. Rattan, an ancient and practical material, is naturally preferred. When they joined the new annexed army, they were reluctant to wear Fan Yang hats, but went into the mountains to cut down old vines, and used the secret method passed down by the Li people for generations to make rattan sticks and weave them into rattan hats. The Li people's rattan hats are relatively small, but their protection is quite good, and they can block arrows.
Zhao Lie drew the shape, marked the size, and asked Hong Siniang to weave a batch of rattan hats. Tests have shown that most of the arrows are bounced off, not even with knives, and only iron axes, spears, sticks, and javelins at close range can cause damage. Of course, it can't stop the bullets. It's just that in front of the above weapons, even the iron armor can't stop it, and it's already very good that Fujikasa can do this.
At present, Zhao Hunting is not enough iron, and it is not enough to even make guns, so he can only do this first, and then make iron helmets if conditions permit.
It is not easy to make rattan hats, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and after half a month, there are only dozens of them, and this exercise will be used first. The red and blue armor styles and rattan hats are the same, except that each person has a red and blue round cardboard on the front and back of the chest to show the difference.
Zhang Junbao, Grasshopper, and Kuromaru wore rattan hats, full body armor, side cards, steel knives, and twenty training bullets pinned to a four-inch-wide belt around their waists. The total weight of the whole body equipment is close to fifty pounds, and the lack of physical strength is really unbearable. With the three of them at the top of the physical strength of the junior team, they all had to gasp after a while.
The trio of Kailu have been working together for a long time, and they have a tacit understanding with each other, and together with the gunshots, the team of twenty people quickly divided into five groups, each with a group of four, but in front of them there were only three of them.
Kurumu was panting and whispered to Zhang Junbao, "Ah Zai, he'...... I didn't keep up, and I don't know...... Where did it go. ”
Zhang Junbao looked back for a while, spit out a few times, and said: "This kid is not good at hearing, I guess I can't understand that he ran to the wrong team, don't pay attention to him, the three of us will do the same...... Call! Kill those 'recruits' like that. ”
I don't know when the fight began, the soldiers of the Dragon Bird Army called the newly joined former new sergeants "recruits", a pun. The "Ah Zai" in Zhang Junbao's mouth is the only Li soldier in the youth team. That is, when he was on the Shuanglong ship, the young man who shot Luodian Lao Qi with a crossbow and didn't hit, and acted as a guide when he attacked Jiyang Military City at night.
Since witnessing the power of firearms that night, Ah Tsai has to join the junior team in life and death, and even swears by the ancestral spirit, and has to stab his arm with a knife to show his determination. The sincerity of his heart was even touched by Ding Xiaoqi, Zhang Junbao, Grasshopper, etc., and they kept pleading for him in front of Zhao Lie.
Zhao Lie considered that there were already some Li soldiers in the camp of the Dragon Bird Army, and a core force like the Youth Clan could also properly absorb a few reliable Li teenagers, so as to better unite the Li people, after all, there were still many Li people in Qiongzhou.
So Ah Tsai joined the junior team and became the 33rd junior soldier. It's just that Ah Zai's ability to listen and speak Song is not good, and it's not strange that he can't understand and run to the wrong team.
Zhang Junbao and Kuromaru respectively looked at the two ends of the low wall, and the grasshopper quietly poked out half of its head from the wall to observe. From time to time, he glanced up at the observers and referees who stood tall in the middle of the exercise venue. This bucket is as high as eight feet, and it can clearly observe the "battle damage" of the two sides from a high position, and beat the gong and drum in time to pass on the results.
Except for the sound of the wind and the chirping of birds in the sky, there was no unusual sound.
"Let's be clear." Zhang Junbao called the two of them over, and the three of them gathered into a group, "The goal is to completely destroy 30 blue team soldiers or capture the team flag, and one of our side will be 'killed' with a sound of a drum; the enemy will be 'killed' with a sound of a gong." If a team has more than 20 rings or the flag is taken, it will be judged lost. We've got to win. ”
"Yes." Kuromaru shook the shotgun in his hand with a proud face, "On Duzhou Mountain, we not only conquered the fort, but also did not lose a single person, and wiped out a new army of new annexes." This time it can't be bad. ”
The three of them glanced at each other, stretched out their fists together against each other, and said in unison: "Capture the flag!" ”
As soon as the words fell, suddenly there was a shout not far away, followed by a loud bang, occasionally mixed with the whistling of arrows, and then the sound of gongs and drums.
Engaged! The eyes of the three lit up.
Kuromaru jumped to his feet, grabbed the gap in the wall of an earthen house, and climbed onto the roof like a black monkey, and quietly probed to follow the sound of the gun. But I saw that there was an alley and four or five earthen houses, and there were faint white powders. From time to time, BLU crossbowmen can be seen leaning out and shooting arrows, but there are no RED gunsmiths.
With a bang, Kuromaru saw white smoke rising from the chests of the two leaning crossbowmen......
"Hit!" Kuromaru clenched his fists excitedly.
Zhang Junbao leaned against the wall and counted silently: "One, two, three...... The gongs sounded five times and the drums sounded three times. One of our teams is about to be wiped out. ”
"Who is so miserable?" Grasshopper was surprised, "It can't be our junior team, right?" ”
At this moment, across an alley, the "so miserable" person in the grasshopper's mouth tightened his thick eyebrows and stared at the opposite room.
Dragon Flying Wings.
Long Feiyi's battle plan is to divide into five groups and touch the streets and alleys from five different directions to find the BLU flag. When any team finds something, they immediately fire a fireworks signal, and the rest of the teams rush towards it.
Long Feiyi's group walked to the southwest, and when they touched an alley, they didn't know if it was luck or bad luck for the blue team, so they found where the opponent's flag was. Long Feiyi was about to launch a fireworks signal, but he didn't expect a group of blue team crossbowmen to suddenly appear around him, and a burst of wild fire overturned his two members who were on guard on the spot. It's good now, you don't even need to send a signal.
Long Feiyi and the last team member immediately crouched behind the corner, broken wall and other buildings to fight back. The enemy had at least a dozen people, scattered with arrows like locusts, and was completely suppressed with only two shotguns. Despite this, since the gun only needs to poke out half a head, the target is extremely small, and it is difficult to be shot. The enemy's arrows have to be half exposed, the target is too large, and the shotgun shooting is much more accurate than the bow and crossbow. After a pair of shots, except for the two team members who were attacked at the beginning and were sentenced to "death" and exited, Long Feiyi and the last team member were fine, but "killed" three crossbowmen, which was regarded as revenge for one arrow, and earned one more.
Long Feiyi also heard the sound of gunfire and arrows breaking through the air not far away, and also heard the sound of gongs and drums, apparently other team members came to support and confronted the opponent.
At this time, Lao Wan's voice suddenly came from the opposite side: "Dragon team general, I'm sorry!" You come all the way, and I go all the way. Let's see if you're strong with two shotguns, or if I'm strong with twenty bows! Fence it up! ”
Long Feiyi had already noticed that the figures around him were shaking sharply at this time, although he was shocked, he was not chaotic, and hurriedly said to the team members: "Enter the house, guard the doors and windows, and wait for help." Turning his head in the direction of Lao Wan, he said fiercely, "Lao Wan, ruthless enough!" Then try to see if you make dumplings or if I bloom in the center! ”