Chapter 209: Phalanx
“…… Whether it's an adult or an owner, it's one thing to have money, but you can't throw money into the water. Everyone applied, and some came directly from Heyusheng's iron field, which was better, knowing that the rules were the rules. Some of them come from other iron yards, or directly from home, and I am afraid that they don't quite understand what the rules are. Here, the military discipline is enforced, which is stricter than the rules of the iron field, and it is not allowed to find the little lady, but no one has the strength to find it after you train every day, and you are not allowed to gamble. Those who disrespect superiors and disobey training orders will be punished with military sticks, confined, punished with hard labor, and dismissed. We don't have a beheading here, after all, it's not a border army, but to be honest, the rules are stricter than anywhere, the monthly money of the qualified archers who stay is one or two eight, in Liaodong this is the monthly money of the cavalry, our Datong border army is one or two a month, that is, on the books, in fact, you can't take it at all, you eat well, the monthly money is high, you don't want to be controlled, you don't want to contribute, there is no such cheap thing in the world......"
Sun Yao kept talking, everyone followed behind with their bags, and Zhang Chunniu whispered to Li Shouxin: "Sun Heizi is completely different from before." ”
"Don't make a noise."
Li Shouxin waved his hand and did not answer Zhang Chunniu's words.
Zhang Chunniu whispered to someone else again, and the person also talked to him in a low voice.
Not far away, another flag team was walking into the camp, and more than 300 miners were divided into ten new flag teams, and each flag captain personally came to lead people into the camp.
Soon walked to the gate of the camp, the gate was very wide, and there were many men in gray robes shouting trumpets for training on the school field, some people were running laps, some people were playing with some strange equipment, although these miners did not recognize it, but they knew that it was something used to exercise arm strength or waist strength, and they knew what the principle was at a glance.
There were also dozens of gray-robed soldiers lying on the ground, their arms supporting their bodies up and down, and they knew that it was very difficult at a glance, everyone was screaming loudly, and the sweat on their faces kept dripping on the ground.
There were also squads with weapons in their hands, and they were practicing fighting with weapons.
Some people hold a very beautiful bird gun in their hands, the gun tube is very smooth, exuding a metallic luster, the gun tube is also very smooth, and the gun tube fits very well, the shape of the bird gun is very beautiful, people feel very want to hold it in their hands, there is a feeling of grasping power.
The whole school field is very large, almost invisible at a glance, at least hundreds of people are training on the school field, and the training places are far apart, and there are more than enough places.
When entering the barracks, Sun Yao explained to the archers guarding the door, word by word, very carefully.
Li Shou muttered confidently, knowing that Sun Yao's "strict rules" was not false, and he became more and more careful in his heart.
Li Shouxin is a native of Lingqiu County, his family is very poor, he has just turned 23 years old, his father has passed away, not yet 50, his mother is not yet 50, but his back is already hunched, and his hands also have serious rheumatism, which is a problem that washes clothes for rich people for a long time. Li Shouxin entered the mine at the age of fifteen, first did chores, and then dug iron ore when he had enough strength, and then did some things on the iron furnace, Zhang Han's arrival brought a lot of benefits to the miners, and everyone's situation changed significantly, and the most black-hearted Han family fell. This time to recruit archers, ordinary people are reluctant to leave home, especially those who have families, and only those who have something to do with Yusheng Iron Field immediately made up their minds.
When Li Shouxin left home, there were neighbors who gossiped, saying that it was one or two eight dollars a month, and it would be good to get it once in three months. But Li Shouxin believes in Zhang Han, the big proprietor, and he feels that proprietor Zhang is not the kind of person who will break his promise.
At this time, he felt more in his heart, he himself was a person who was willing to abide by the rules, and his personality was very square, he felt that in such a strict place in front of him, the person who first set the rules must also have the same character as himself, and Li Shouxin was more confident in the future.
Zhang Chunniu is different, his name is very earthy, in fact, he also grew up in the county, some are idle, unwilling to go to the mine to endure hardships, fortunately, his temperament is quite good, he is very willing to be a soldier, especially the soldier with high monthly money, but the slippery temperament is difficult to change for a while, after entering the camp gate, his eyes are slippery, looking around, and he keeps whispering to people.
At this time, the captains of each flag asked everyone to sit cross-legged in the same place, and after a while, they sat down in place, they practiced some queues on the road, knew the rules, and sat as horizontally and vertically as possible, but it was impossible to sit well.
At this time, there was a copper whistle, Sun Yao stood in front of the queue, his hands were naturally behind his back, his legs were slightly apart, and the whole person stood as straight as a pine, and he said to everyone: "Everyone is lucky, the inspector is sure to pay today." ”
Zhang Chunniu pursed his lips and whispered: "This is luck, it should be deliberately asked for us to watch." ”
"You're smart." Li Shouxin said helplessly: "You can rest and watch with peace of mind." ”
There was a brass whistle on the school grounds, and all the officers shouted to their subordinates to stand in line, holding weapons and bird guns to put the weapons in their hands together, and leaving an archer on the side of each weapon pile as a guard.
Li Shouxin couldn't help but speak at this time: "These soldiers have been trained for less than two months, right? How do you stand in line quickly and well? ”
The miners were actually stronger than the peasants in terms of organization and discipline, and Zhang Han deliberately slowed down the time for the miners to join the archer group because of the different abilities of the two groups.
In this way, in the eyes of this group of miners, the situation in front of them is shocking enough.
All the archers wore exactly the same gray robes, only some signs clearly showed whether they were officers or ordinary archers, in front of each team stood an officer or flag captain, in front of each small phalanx were the deputy hundred and one hundred general, and the two division generals had not yet come out, because according to the superficial common sense learned on the road, the division had not yet played the general flag.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Han, Wang Changfu, and Liang Xing came out of the signing room in the southeast of the camp together, and a team of special service members followed them.
The general flag and the inspection flag were both flown out, and everyone's eyes looked over there.
Nearly a thousand people's eyes looked at Zhang Han in unison.
Zhang Han in front of him looked calm, he still looked like the legend, the appearance of a handsome little brother under twenty years old, not much of a handsome man, not very outstanding at a rough glance, but if you stare carefully, you can still see that Zhang Han is different.
He is very tall, he ate pure beef and mutton for nearly a year last year, and drank a lot of milk every day, such a diet is called Zhang Han's own control, not necessarily done, but the objective effect is really amazing, his muscles have become stronger, his body strength is more sufficient, and his height is far beyond ordinary people, Zhang Han has not measured, but it must exceed more than one meter eight, in this era, it is a veritable big man.
His gestures are very calm, full of confidence, his pace is stable and calm, he does not deliberately take that kind of official steps, nor does he rush like a general, nor does he feel like a businessman who is cowering, giving people the feeling that he is a superior person, a beautiful man with great demeanor and authority.
As Zhang Han got closer and closer, the team of miners also became serious, and Zhang Chunniu stopped talking nonsense, swallowed his saliva, and quietly watched Zhang Han and the two generals come over.
There is a school reading stand in the middle of the school field, the platform is not large, and there are no honor guards and many flags around, let alone silver chairs covered with tiger skins.
At that time, the military gate or the big man summoned the generals, when the three armies were reviewed, the school review stand would be very long, and many generals were lined up all the way according to the shift, the military gate flag was in the middle, and the generals were all kinds of flags on both sides, and then there were various honor guards, which were furnished to the fullest, and strive to be majestic and intimidating.
Zhang Han didn't need these things, his school reading table was just a very ordinary wooden platform with a few chairs in the middle, just sprinkled and cleaned.
Wang Changfu and Liang Xing did not take the stage, they issued a military order, the officer on duty was a flag captain, he ordered to wave the red flag, and then the flag teams of each department and bureau responded to the flag, and the flags were displayed on the school field, and the original team slowly gathered together under the guidance of the flag, and then formed a large phalanx.
The miners felt that the phalanx in front of them was rather strange, the front of the phalanx in the middle was about sixty people, the depth was six columns, and there were four small phalanxes around, each phalanx had dozens of people, and the phalanx at the four corners also had nearly two hundred people.
After arriving at the bottom of the review stand, the red flag waved, and the entire phalanx completely merged into one, becoming a large horizontal phalanx of 600 people that was very long in both horizontal and vertical directions.
Everyone stood in an upright posture, their heads raised slightly, looking at Zhang Han, their hands naturally hanging on the left and right sides of their waists, their feet together, and their legs erect.
"Take a break."
Zhang Han looked at his subordinates with satisfied eyes.
The archer is more ruthless than the dart master, and the dart master mainly practices martial arts, internal affairs, obedience to the spirit, and physical fitness in Xinpingbao, all of which are ranked under the skill training.
Especially the Mandarin Duck Array, the Little Sancai Array, the Liangyi Array, and the method of small array battle that Wang Changfu knew was almost sold to the dart masters of Xinpingbao.
In fact, it is also very useful, and in several skirmishes, Wang Changfu's method of formation and battle played a key role.
The current archers also practice in groups, and the Mandarin Duck Formation and the Big Three Talent Formation are also required to practice.
The two commanders always selected dozens of people with a foundation in horsemanship, and began the training of cavalry with infantry formations.
Sometimes, Wang Changfu also added the cart to practice the car formation, and the cart technology of Xinpingbao was a must, and there was no reason not to use it.
But at Zhang Han's insistence, the final joint training array was still the array that had just been put out.
In later generations, this formation had a well-known name, and people who have read a few history books or are familiar with the history of European wars and expansions from the 15th to the 18th centuries, or even those who have played several famous war games, will be familiar with this phalanx.
The Spanish phalanx, a powerful phalanx of cold weapons and a combination of heat, soldiers, and weapons that were rampant from the 15th century to the 18th century.
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