Chapter 11: When I Was a Footballer
When Yang Li led people to the valley in the evening, he found that Yulia had gathered a group of people at the head of the village and pushed them hard.
The crowd was divided into two teams, twenty people in each team, lined up horizontally, and there was a shout, and the two teams were like two black lines, quickly approaching, colliding together, and so on.
On the other side of the village, there were piles of wooden planks, and all the women and children who could work were gathered to work the planks and put them together into circles.
Yang Jiao stepped forward to borrow someone, saying that he was going to do a small project, but Yulia said no, let me train them first.
But Yang Li couldn't see what she was going to train when she looked left and right, it was not like a hooligan fight, after the two groups of people collided, they were not punched and kicked, but lined up and pushed forward, saying that it was army training, but there was not even a spear in her hand, could it be that she pushed the opposite side down and then hehehe?
"Come, give you a task." Yulia said.
Yang Jiao pointed to his nose and looked at Huya.
"You and Huya, go to barbecue and cook vegetables."
Yulia's plan clashed with Yang Li's.
Mao Mei wants to engage in her war training, and Yang Li wants to break ground, the two argue, and finally Yulia has the upper hand, she sends Yang Li and several people to divide the wild boar that was killed before, some of which have been preserved by pickling or smoking, and there are many that can provide a lot of meat for the inhabitants of the tribe.
The so-called liberation of the productive forces, which is also one of them, those men who should have gone hunting and now have time to come here for training.
When Yang Li and the others cooked the meat indiscriminately and moved it out, the scene in front of him almost shocked his jaw.
The round shield had been prepared and distributed to the members of the array, and now it was a shield and a wooden stick in each hand.
"Readyβ" Yulia shouted, her tomahawk swinging twice overhead.
The warriors on both sides lowered their figures, bent slightly, shoulder to shoulder, and prepared to charge.
"Shield Wall!"
"Ho!" The round shields were erected layer by layer, and a shield shield appeared in front of the arrays of the two sides.
"Kill!" Yulia's battle axe pointed forward and stopped in mid-air.
It's no longer hand-to-hand pushing.
At the same time, the people in the second row were on top, using the shield wall as a cover, and the wooden sticks only stabbed behind the shield, and at the same time, they kept pushing the opponent backwards.
"Array, array!" Yulia walked briskly, reaching several positions to warn a certain warrior to close the gap.
Finally, after a few minutes of stalemate, a young man was exhausted and was knocked to the ground by the warrior in front of him, and the people behind him failed to catch up, and suddenly a gap appeared in the shield wall.
With a roar, the warrior who created the opportunity burst through the gap, wielding a wooden stick and easily striking the left and right fighters who had lost their shield cover, while others also grabbed the gap and expanded the plane.
The side that lost its formation quickly collapsed.
Wins and loses in points.
This kind of dense shield wall tactic was mostly seen in early Greece and Rome, but it was the Viking warriors from Scandinavia who really used this method of warfare to ravage Europe.
They beat the British and Franks at that time, occupied Denmark, established a state in the Two Sicilies, controlled half of Italy, and went around to Byzantium, becoming the forbidden army of the Eastern Roman Emperor.
They went around North America, discovered the New World by stealth, and went up the Volga River from the Baltic Sea on a dragon-headed ship, and invaded the peoples of Eastern Europe, but did not occupy it as they did in Normandy, because the Eastern Europeans were poorer than them.
It is this classical shield wall tactic that Yulia is now training - it can be said that it was a simple and effective method of warfare before the knights officially appeared on the stage of European history, and it did not require much training, and did not even rely on her own archers for long-range attack support.
After several repeated charges, almost everyone fell down and lay on the ground unable to move, in fact, this was far more than Yulia expected, because those famous iron armies in ancient times had a limited number of times to charge in a day.
"I can't train anymore," Yang Jiao stepped forward to stop, "Although their physical fitness is good, they can't keep up with their usual nutrition, and if they finish their physical strength today, they won't be able to fight tomorrow." β
Yulia gave up, threw the axe, and opened her arms: "Let's eat!" β
Yang Li's bucket of meat had already made this group of warriors salivate, but they didn't dare to act rashly because they were shocked by Yulia's obscenity, where would they be reserved at this time, shouting and screaming, and rushing towards the meat.
"Don't rob, don't rob, you have a share!" Huya is scrambling to maintain order.
Yang Li pulled Yulia aside with a serious face and asked, "Where did you learn this?" β
"Which one?"
"Shield wall, Viking warfare."
Yulia waved her fist: "What Viking tactics, this is my own understanding!" β
Do you think I'm going to believe it? Yang Jiao stiffened his face: "To be honest." β
Yulia hesitated for a moment: "Well, when I was a fan......"
When she was still a fan, she went to watch the match between the Mao country team and the rotten country team, everyone knows that this rotten country has always been famous for football hooligans, but that time it was deflated.
Maozi fans were outnumbered, breaking thousands of troops with 200 troops, beating the fans of the rotten country to the ground.
Astound.
Shouting invincible.
Well, after a while, Mao Guo's video was exposed, and they secretly trained group fights under the push of an evil force, that is, two gangs of people hedged in the snow until one side knocked the other side down, and then this war skill was brought to the stands by Mao Guo fans, and the battle could still be suspenseful.
Yulia thought about it later, but also felt that it was not very honorable, so she carefully concealed it.
But in modern troops, there is no training to fight each other, when she knew that there was a battle to be fought tomorrow, Yulia first thought of this, and then she had a flash of inspiration, plus a shield, and it became what she is now.
Tsk, this woman is immeasurable, Yang Li shook his head and sighed, in the future, when we have climbed the technology, such as Bobosha, Molotov, and Big Ivan, try to get as little as possible into her hands, so as not to inadvertently cause mass destruction.
After eating, Yang Li took a dozen or so people to hide in the cold night, no one knew what they had done, and Yulia didn't talk about it.
When she saw Yang Jiao leaving, her cheeks were like iron.
When you know everything you've learned in half your life, you're suddenly going to be used to kill people.
It will be efficient and irresistible, the power of humanity is insignificant in front of it, and the giant beast can only be caught in a hurry when it encounters it.
Yang Li thought about what would have happened if he and Yulia had come to this wild land, if the first tribe they encountered was not Hewan, but Baishi.
Will he lead the warriors of the White Rock tribe with spears in his arms to advance to the camp in the river bay, or will he also turn this seemingly calm terrain into a place of divine judgment as he does now?
But there was no if, and I clothed the animal of the former patriarch, and I promised his son the promised land.
Since the promise is here, I, Yang Jiao, will turn the sun and the moon upside down, and I will also take the river bay land to become strong and brilliant.
Several rocks were dug out and replaced by sticks attached to ropes.
Parts of the folded strata were hollowed out and replaced by brackets under animal skins.
When Yang Li and his party came back in the middle of the night, Yulia was standing at the door of the settlement and watching, and her expression had nothing to do with the gentle little daughter-in-law of the Han family.
"All done?"
"That's it!" Yang Li replied.
"Okay, I don't know my seventh uncle and grandfather."
It's like a pair of male and female thieves.
Early the next morning, Yang Li was still woken up by Yulia, but he had enough attainments in sleeping lazily, and he said yes when he answered, but the back of his head was on the pillow and he fell asleep seriously.
Finally the girl climbed onto the bed and pulled the whole hide off.
It happened that Yang Jiao was in a certain state in the early morning, and he was sat by Mao Mei's waist, and suddenly lost his sleepiness, and was replaced by a kettle like a boiling fire.
Yulia also noticed that something was wrong, but instead she raised her eyebrows at Yang Li as if provocatively, and left, which probably meant that, well, the size was acceptable.
Yesterday all the people who participated in the training gathered and marched towards the valley, most of them were not quite used to the round shields on their backs, but when they wanted to complain, they were severely reprimanded by Yulia, and when they arrived in the valley, Yang Li ordered to rest in place, and the troops sat down to rub their legs and waists.
The stone axe, which was not a common weapon in the settlement, was now almost a handy.
This kind of melee weapon is not suitable for hunting, because hunters always avoid hand-to-hand combat at too close range, so that even if they take down their prey, they will inevitably get injured, which is not cost-effective in this era of medicine and professional doctors.
But under the cover of the shield wall, the role of the axe is self-evident.
After a while, a young man with a spear flew from the other side of the valley, shouting that the enemy was coming.
Yang Jiao raised his spear and waved it, giving an order, and then more than a dozen huntress and half-grown teenagers except for the soldiers of the shield wall ran towards the cliff on one side, where there was a rope connected to the middle of the cliff.
The warriors who sat on the ground to recuperate also rose one after another, axes and shields, ready for a battle that would stake the survival of their tribes.
Humans during the Stone-Bronze Transition were less inclined to keep captives, more to slaughter, and it was not until bronze flourished and slavery was practiced in some countries that those captives were used as slaves.
Yang Li had a bold idea.
If the White Rock tribe is defeated, then enslave all their captives and let the Riverlands advance from the tribal system to slavery in advance!
Provided, of course, that is, to beat them.
The patriarch of the White Rock tribe is called Lionmane, he has conquered and annexed the three surrounding small tribes, he is sure that he can conquer more, when he killed the men of those small tribes and used their women to give birth to more people, the White Rock tribe snowballed, has exceeded three hundred, approaching the size of four hundred.
Of course, this was far from what he expected, he had seven sons, all as tall and mighty as a lion's mane, and he wanted to divide the conquered lands among them, but it was not enough at the moment.
The river bends are guarded by rivers, have good irrigation conditions, and are relatively close to the White Rock tribes, which is the reason to conquer them.
Killing the men of the Bend and taking all their women and children under his control is the only goal of the Lion's Mane.
Now, he is on his way to achieving that goal.
But the people in front of him actually put on a posture that he had never seen before, crowded people, shield by shield, joking, do they think they can swing their weapons freely in this way? Lionmane himself is a tough warrior, and he knows that there is not enough space for even the strongest combat skills.
It's just that he didn't know that when the human race began to put on this formation, the individual combat skills had been compressed to a minimum.
The so-called art of war is to smelt all living beings in the melting pot of the legion, and finally forge them into an invincible divine weapon.
Thousands of people, go hand in hand.
Lionmane didn't realize what kind of monster the legion in front of him was.
The rope pulled, and the cliff on the side of the gentle slope of the river collapsed.
"Boom!"
Yang Li led people to hollow out the softer geological layer last night, and now created a small landslide, using sand and gravel and stones to cut off half of the Baishi tribe's troops, and at the same time burying more than ten people on the march, Lion's Mane found that only his sons and the most elite warriors of the Baishi tribe were standing beside him, more than fifty people.
The lion's mane is undaunted.
Yulia too.
The loose elite of the White Rock tribe, and the warriors of the Bend Lands lined up in a shield wall, the battle line will touch.