People were all smiles on their faces, but to the sound of rumbling snare drums, the march of more than 3,000 people began to move. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The military flag was unfurled, and all the soldiers lined up in a column with their respective weapons in their hands, and began to march forward.

The rumbling sound of military boots sounded, stepping on the ground, and the sound of drums produced a wonderful resonance, most of the soldiers were wearing chain mail, and a few were wearing heavy iron armor, and the armor leaves made a rattling sound when people were walking.

Zhang Han stood on a high place, and could see that the weapons in the hands of the soldiers exuded a cold light, and the cold light that stretched into patches was matched with the luster of the iron armor, as well as the majestic drum beat and all kinds of neat sounds, the queue of the soldiers of the new army was also extremely neat, one after another, the phalanx and the brigade formed an incomparably magnificent column, and after the rows of spears passed, there were jumping soldiers in iron armor, these soldiers were not necessarily recruits, most of them were selected from the soldiers with combat experience, And then into the recruit team and the brigade of colleagues to practice and cooperate, a recruit brigade of 1,000 people is a large horizontal formation, each company is a small phalanx, ten phalanxes must be coordinated seamlessly, so as to form a real large military formation, and the responsibility of the generals is to unite the phalanxes together, if there are tens of thousands of people on the battlefield to fight, from the small array is a company phalanx of more than 100 people, then a brigade phalanx of 1,000 people, and then a regimental phalanx of more than 3,000 people, The position of the phalanx of more than a dozen regiments, the arrangement, the order of entering the battlefield, the sequence of attacks, the coordination with each other, the output of the artillery on both flanks and the coordination with the infantry, the coordination between the cavalry and the phalanx...... These things are incomparably profound, and it can be said that the training of the new army in front of us is only the first step, and there is still a long period of training in various subjects at the bottom, and the new army in front of us is at least three months away from going to the battlefield.

Zhang Han's face was serious, watching the officers and soldiers of the New Army pass through in formation, and in the sound of rumbling drums, the soldiers saluted him again when they passed by the school review stand...... Of course, Zhang Han learned these things from the military parades of later generations, and he felt very good.

After carrying out the parade and other items, Wang Changfu announced the end of the parade, the recruits were sweating, looking proud, many people were smiling, and the people were persuaded to leave the field, because there may be a gun array or a shot on the spot, which is dangerous.

Sure enough, a phalanx of musketeers was arranged to shoot targets, and the pikemen lined up one by one, which could be regarded as a line of cooperation.

The soldiers placed more than 100 targets 300 steps away from the opposite side of the phalanx, and then the drums sounded, and the flags on both sides of the phalanx leaned forward, and when they clicked a little, the whole phalanx made a loud sound of "drinking", and more than 1,000 people burst into cheers together, and the momentum was terrifying.

Outside the low wall of the school field, there are still many people lying on the wall to watch, and people can't help but cheer at this time.

Zhang Han also nodded lightly, it is good for the recruits to train like this.

The momentum was raised, a certain joint in the people's body seemed to be opened, many people trembled all over the body, the recruits trembled with excitement, and they wanted to rush forward with a shout, but they were pressed by the sound of the drums, and the drummer who beat the drum beat the waist drum under the guidance of the chief drummer of the phalanx, and the phalanx marched, and it must move according to the rhythm of the drum, slow or fast, of course. As for the marching pace, it is determined by the commander of the brigade phalanx, each company forms a small phalanx, in the middle of the array is the company commander, that is, the company commander, and the company phalanx is divided into three squadrons, the leftmost squadron is the company deputy commander, and the rightmost commander is the company sergeant major, they are all assistants to the company phalanx commander, responsible for maintaining the balance of the phalanx at all times, and the other is to maintain cooperation with the rest of the company phalanx.

Under the premise that there was no pressure, the phalanx of more than 1,000 people could clearly see that the phalanx had tilted several times after advancing more than 100 steps, and the captain of the phalanx had to order several times to stop moving forward and rearrange the formation before leaving.

In fact, it is necessary to constantly adjust on the battlefield, but if the training is not precise in peacetime, the adjustment on the battlefield will definitely be much more difficult than the current training.

When Wang Changfu and the others frowned, Zhang Han's expression was still very calm, the scene in front of him was expected, the training of recruits was still based on physical fitness, queues, and then equipment fighting and array cooperation, if these recruits want to move forward with a relatively complete large array, I am afraid it will take two months of effort.

When the phalanx advanced to about 100 paces, the military flag was unfurled, the drum beat suddenly stopped, and the entire phalanx stopped, because of the haste of stopping, the array was a little chaotic.

At this time, the phalanx commander ordered some soldiers who had not been stopped to be pulled out and whipped on the spot.

These recruits should be distracted or too excited, each of them was beaten three to five lashes, after the beating went down to apply medicine, they still looked like a person, and did not scream, but after being beaten by a thin rattan, a whip is the skin and flesh, five whips down, the back is as if it was cut by a knife, the skin is open, like a child's open mouth, the injury is not serious, but it is very painful, and it is very scary to look at.

After the whipping, the overly excited recruits calmed down, and then sharp copper whistles sounded on both sides of the phalanx.

"Boom la la ......"

Hundreds of people raised their guns together, leaning on their shoulders, and suddenly made a loud noise.

There was no sound inside and outside the school grounds, and there was still a strange feeling in the eyes of the firecrackers, whether it was recruits or ordinary people.

The sound of the brass whistle sounded again, and if you listen carefully, you will find that the sound of the brass whistle is not the same as that of the order to prepare and release, the former is slightly more melodious, and the latter is very sharp and crisp.

"First round, put!"

The commander and deputy commander of the companies, the sergeant major, at the same time gave orders.

Two companies of more than 320 people, divided into three columns, one team is more than 100 people, the first column heard the order, immediately released!

The firelight burst out, and after the dense gunfire, white smoke rose, and the team of the firecrackers was suddenly enveloped in it, followed by the second column, the third column was also released, and after the third column was released, the sound of cleaning the chamber with a pickle came from the entire array, and the first column of firecrackers had finished clearing, and began to bite open the medicine bag and reload.

After a short stay, the phalanx commander didn't look at the opposite target at all, the military flag was stretched forward again, and the drum beat sounded again, but this time it was obviously much faster than before, and the pace of the entire phalanx was accelerated, which also caused the phalanx column to be obviously skewed, but at this time, the phalanx leader did not rearrange the array, but continued to beat the drum and move forward, until fifty paces, the drum beat stopped abruptly again, and then the whole team did not sound, and the copper whistle sounded, The musketeers who had just been loaded before and on the way took turns again, this time the red flag was unfurled, and the jumping soldiers who had been in the middle of the line began to stride forward, they stood in front of the position of the two winged musketeers without affecting the place where the shooting was not affected, holding a shield in their left hand and a knife in their right hand, or a long soldier in both hands, and some holding double knives or double swords, these soldiers were wearing heavy armor of about fifty catties, chain mail inside, cotton armor outside, iron scale armor or piercing armor at the outermost, triple armor added, plus iron mesh boots and iron helmets and other things, The weight of the whole body is more than 70 pounds, and with the weapons in his hands, he looks like an iron man when he weighs it.

These jumping soldiers are also known as iron men by the people, and they have the opportunity to be selected only if they are the first class in physical fitness in the army, and the salary of the jumping soldiers is the same as that of cavalry and artillery, more than pikemen and musketeers, and of course far above the baggage soldiers, so as long as there is an opportunity, those who are not good at riding and do not want to take the artillery exam in school make up for the exam, generally have to choose the jumping soldiers.

When these iron men slowly move forward, they faintly protect the firecrackers behind them, they not only have to protect the gunners from reloading before the battle, resisting the enemy's soldiers, but also responsible for maintaining the spear phalanx from being easily penetrated, although the spear phalanx is the Great Wall of the array, but the defect of the phalanx is that it is easy to be interfered with by the enemy guerrillas with a skirmish line, and the role of the jumping soldiers is very obvious.

"Drink!"

The whole phalanx burst into shouts again, and then the musketeers retreated slightly after releasing them, reloaded again, and then the phalanx of spears and soldiers began to march forward at a rapid pace.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Within twenty paces of the enemy, the soldiers and the phalanx of pikes shouted together, and the pikemen stabbed their iron spears forward in a gesture to meet the enemy.

Li Shenming commented: "The marksmanship is still rusty, but it is murderous, which is a good point." ”

Sun Jingting also agreed, no matter what, the recruits' performance was quite qualified.

At this time, the drumming stopped, the phalanx reorganized the queue, and the surrounding onlookers began to applaud and cheer.

At this time, the soldiers ran over to carry back the target that had been planted before, and a company commander led the team, trotted to the front of the school review stand, and said after giving a military salute to Zhang Han: "My lord, in the first round of three-stage shooting, each target hit an average of only two to three shots, and in the second round, each target hit more than ten shots, and some targets were directly broken, please take a look." ”

The soldiers listed the targets at this time, and the people on the review desk began to watch, and sure enough, they saw that some wooden targets were only half of the shots left, which were already broken, and the targets with intact surfaces were also full of bullet marks, and the penetration of the smoothbore guns was insufficient.

Zhang Han asked Wang Changfu, "Which one is the phalanx leader?" ”

Wang Changfu said: "Wang Yiji is Yang Sisun's deputy. ”

"Oh, his phalanx is well commanded." Zhang Han said: "Send the commander over, and say that I will pass the order and commend it." ”

Wang Changfu answered, and then sent a herald to ride to the phalanx, and after a short time, a fierce cheer broke out in the phalanx hundreds of paces away.

After a while, the array of the phalanx was sorted out, and the phalanx commander ordered to march in a column, this time the whole phalanx was much easier, and the column came to the school review platform again in the cheerful drum beat, and after cheering, Zhang Han expressed his appreciation and said some words of encouragement.

As Zhang Han spoke, the soldiers listened with their faces up, their faces full of reverence.