Seeing that his own people had won again, the surrounding onlookers suddenly became excited, and Luo Zhuo's state was also a lot calmer.

After all, this is a competition in front of Li Meng, and everyone's glory and wealth are all in Li Meng, the general of the Laizhou Mansion, and it is of great benefit to be able to give a good impression to Lord Li in this kind of competition. After losing the first game, not to mention that Luo Zhuo was worried in the competition, even the officers who organized the competition had gloomy faces.

The third round of the game began immediately, and the two sides walked within five paces with their weapons, and the Dunglass had a smile on his face at the beginning of the game.

At such a close distance, the length of the spear and the axe gun combined is longer than this, so it cannot be flat, but can only be erected with weapons.

People with a little bit of the door can see that at such a close distance, the spearman's fighting method can only be to drop the spear in his hand and draw out the short knife he carries to fight closely, while the axe and gun in Deng Yangren's hand can be chopped down at any time, and the victory or defeat is already clear.

Luo Zhuo only regretted why he agreed to come here to compete at this time, the current situation must have made him have a bad impression in Lord Li's heart. The only way at the moment is to throw away the spear in his hand and pull out the short knife at his waist to go to hand-to-hand combat, but the reason for this competition is spear vs. axe, and what is it to pull out the short knife.

"It's a tie this time!"

Before the third game started, Li Meng stood up with a smile and said this, after all, the soldiers and horses under his command were completely defeated by this foreigner in such a martial arts exercise, which was also a very demoralizing thing, of course, many people at Li Meng's level also knew what was going on.

After hearing Li Meng's order, Dunglas stuck the axe and gun in his hand on the ground, made a standing posture, put his left hand on his chest, and bowed to Li Meng's side.

"Chen Liu, Wang Hai, Luo Zhuo, and Deng Yangren stayed, and the others disbanded!"

Seeing that everyone was looking listless, Li Meng smiled and raised his voice to give this order, the soldiers who were originally sitting quickly gathered together, and returned to their posts under the leadership of the officers, Luo Zhuo lowered his head and put the spear on the wall, walked in front of Li Meng, thinking that he would be reprimanded this time, Deng Yangren looked like he was forced to be calm, although he was smiling on his face, if he didn't stretch up, he was afraid that he would laugh and blossom.

Wang Hai glared at Dunglas viciously, thinking to himself what kind of arrogance you kid has. However, Chen Liu saw some doorways and felt that although Luo Zhuo was defeated this time, he might have been blessed by misfortune.

"This competition, a few of you have seen it, but you can tell me what you think."

Li Meng asked these people with a smile, in fact, only Ma Gang can see some ways among the senior officers under his command, Wang Hai and Chen Liu, they can work hard, if they summarize and improve from actual combat, and combine theory with practice, it will be really difficult.

When he asked, Wang Hai on the side preemptively replied:

"This is also a private fight among the people, the sons and daughters of the Jiaozhou battalion on the battle formation are lined up to advance and retreat, spears are like forests, no matter from which direction, they are all stabbed into a sieve, how can there be today's situation."

There was a bit of injustice between the words, seeing that although Chen Liu and Luo Zhuo did not speak, the expressions on their faces were quite approve, but Deng Yangren lowered his head and stepped back, he also realized that he was indeed guilty of public anger, Li Meng shook his head, and he was also a little uncertain about the strength of the soldiers in the Jiaozhou battalion.

To say that it is a weak brigade, from the beginning of its establishment, to the present day, it has experienced a lot of battles large and small, and it has never failed, and it has been a big victory. If you want to say that it is a strong army, so many enemies against it are grass bandits in the countryside, and the most effective time is only the horse bandits with the Peng family, and I don't know what the Jiaozhou battalion will look like against the regular army, if you say that you led the cavalry to raid Liu Zeqing's troops in those days, is the other party's troops in Dongchang Mansion really elite? Li Meng also didn't judge clearly, if he wanted to say that it was the backbone of the so-called Shandong General Army, Li Meng would not believe it anyway, so Li Meng was trying to make his troops stronger.

was swept away by Li Meng's eyes, and the indignant Wang Haiden stopped talking, Li Meng's expression became serious, and he said:

"Why do you have this confidence, when our array is rooted on the battlefield, the enemy can't rush forward, so you can only stand there and be stabbed by us?"

Although Li Meng asked rhetorically, there was no expression of joy and convincing on the faces of several people, but they didn't argue, their expressions were collected by Li Meng, and they knew that Fang Cai was afraid that such a competition would not explain anything, although he saw many things in the competition, but others may not be able to see it, and he can only use the battle to prove all this.

"Deng Yangren, tell me what you foreigners were like when they were fighting."

After hearing Li Meng speak, Dunglas first bent down and bowed, then cleared his throat and began to say:

"Back to the master's words, when the villain was a mercenary in the West, he also fought in a phalanx, the soldiers with spears formed a phalanx, lined up in a neat queue to attack, and the musketeers relied on the spear phalanx, treating him as a mobile fortification and castle, attacking outward under their cover."

After saying this, several people present nodded secretly, Li Meng was secretly happy in his heart, although the so-called foreigner's method of fighting is not reliable just by listening to this lazy foreigner, but what this foreigner said is indeed secretly in line with the combat mode of the Jiaozhou battalion.

At the end of the fifteenth century, the art of war in the West gradually surpassed that of the East, although sad, this is an indisputable fact, what Li Meng did was to follow the advanced as much as possible, his war resources are currently pitiful, and what can be done can only be through more advanced technology and tactics.

The ideas of the rest of the people are quite interesting, these officers who have grown up in the grassroots military households, on the one hand, regard the spear phalanx tactics of the Jiaozhou battalion as the golden rule, but on the other hand, they feel bottomless because this tactic cannot find any similar kind in the army of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, there is a foreign devil who says that they are also practicing like this, this Deng Yang people should not have seen the training of the Jiaozhou battalion, presumably there will not be too much moisture in this statement, although it is the same as the foreign devil and the Jiaozhou battalion, after all, there is the same, and everyone has some foundation in their hearts.

Deng Yangren also knew that his victory just now should have offended people, so he was very cautious and continued to say there:

"But such phalanxes are often penetrated by armored cavalry, and in hand-to-hand combat, the spears and swords of the infantry can hardly inflict damage on the condescending and armored cavalry, and at this time, axemen are needed to hook these cavalrymen off their horses and then hack them to death with axes on the ground."

Hearing this, the expressions on the faces of several people present were not very believing, and they thought to themselves that what kind of armor could not be pierced by spears.

After saying this, Deng Yangren stepped aside again, but Li Meng remembered the set of armor sent by Xu Xiaochu, the head of the Nanjing Arsenal, and the one placed in the room as decoration, which was now placed in Li Meng's study.

The Western-style plate armor is not too thick because it is used as a decoration, but the protection of this style, if the spearman is not fully forced, after the stab, the tip of the spear will definitely slide away, and the armor that is really used in battle must be thicker than this decoration.

Several people were waiting for Li Meng's judgment there, and the results of today's contest had shaken these officers' thoughts on the supremacy of the spear and their invincibility.

"Just the spear, melee combat is indeed extremely risky, each team selects three hundred veterans to come out and learn the art of axes and guns, Luo Zhuo first and Deng Yangren are proficient in learning, Luo Zhuo is positive, Deng Yangren is deputy, teach the army, you compare the level of Qianzong!"

Li Meng gave an order, Wang Hai hurriedly recorded, each team selected 300 people, according to the Jiaozhou battalion soldiers and Yanding 1,000 people as a team, 7,000 people should be selected to select a total of 30% of the elite soldiers to learn this axe and gun, do this teaching, that is, with the experience of leading soldiers, they will also be leading soldiers in the future, at this time it is already a thousand general level, and it will not be low in the future.

Although Luo Zhuo was defeated, he was promoted from the position of general manager to the position of general manager, I thought that he would be punished, but who wanted to be promoted, this is really a blessing in disguise. Li Meng also has his own considerations, this Luo Zhuo is the elite of the Jiaozhou battalion, but he has suffered a loss in front of this axe and gun, so there will be no resistance, and he will learn and teach with sincerity.

At this time, Luo Zhuo's face was red with excitement, and he was pushed by Chen Liu on the side before kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to thank him, as for the foreigner Dunglas, he reacted quickly, and he was already kneeling there, thanking him in his mouth.

The Jiaozhou battalion has not encountered a real strong army, and at this time it is also a single force, and the way to improve combat power through combat is indeed effective, but the Jiaozhou battalion may not be able to withstand such losses, so Li Meng can only improve through study and training under all the circumstances that he thinks is correct.

Axe spear, Xuanhua axe, or the halberd of later generations, such a weapon, Li Meng only came into contact with it after seeing Dunglas, but this weapon made him feel that his eyes were opened, because everything was made from scratch, Li Meng had no reference, he could only ponder and study by himself, this infantry spear phalanx has always felt hidden in Li Meng's heart, and after seeing this axe and gun, he finally understood why he was worried.

The various departments of the Jiaozhou battalion stationed in various parts of Shandong received an order from the old Jiaozhou battalion in the first month, and an activity was vigorously launched, but the name was quite tacky - a big training and a big competition.

In this first month, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai went out of Huguang, and the battalion was forced to Anqing for hundreds of miles, and the Nanjing earthquake was "beacon fire to Huaiyang", and the flames of civil strife gradually burned to the richest area of the Ming Dynasty......

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Two instructions

1. The axe gun is weighted, otherwise the test with the spear will be cheap.

2. There are a lot of things for the New Year, yesterday I moved those books back to the house, and there were some other messes, so I had to hastily code out this chapter, during the New Year, I didn't promise anything, try to keep changing, February will definitely be normal.

I'm ashamed, I hope you understand, thank you