Chapter 52: The Contest (Part II)
At the end of the second competition, the civil official of the celebrant saw that the servants had instructed the servants to move all the things used in the last archery competition to a place that would not affect the next competition, so after Wang Yi nodded his head, he announced the rules of the third game.
The third competition is a formation confrontation, and the rules are that the two sides line up to attack each other on the school field, and which side collapses first or withdraws from the competition range of the martial arts field in the big school field, which side loses.
In order to prevent unnecessary casualties, wooden knives and guns were also used during training, but the head of the gun was wrapped in a thick cloth dipped in white ash as in the cavalry battle. Correspondingly, in addition to their armor, the soldiers also wore a black shoulder to make the white ash more visible, and the imprinted reporter with white ash on his chest was considered killed. At the same time, in order to prevent unnecessary casualties, the use of projectile weapons is forbidden in this field.
On one side of the school field, the officers and soldiers of the middle battalion had already begun to put on their armor, they knew very well the importance of this competition, they were the leaders of an old battalion that had been in the army for two years, and it would be a shame to lose to a new battalion leader.
Is it possible to lose, though?
On the other side, the soldiers in Chen Wen's battalion are also wearing armor, although it is a new battalion, but no one wants to lose, and the training during this period of time has made them have a strong centripetal force on this army. Even if Chen Wen had already given them the settling-in fee, they were still longing for victory, because only victory could be worthy of the hard work they had put in these days and what the Lord had done for them.
After the preparations on both sides were completed, the garrison of the middle battalion signaled his subordinates to enter, Wang Yi stipulated that each side of the competition sent 100 troops, so the 100 subordinates of the garrison of the middle battalion entered the martial arts arena under the leadership of a powerful Qianzong, and formed a decent phalanx in front of everyone.
At this time, I saw Chen Wen standing on the point platform, shouting at his own queue. "A sentry, out of the ranks!"
I saw that the four teams lined up on one side of the A post stepped into the martial arts arena at almost the same speed, and then quickly formed four columns under the command of Lou Jiye, the acting head of the A sentry post. The first and second killer teams are in the middle, the third and fourth killer teams are positioned later on both sides, and the four killer teams form a fan-shaped formation.
Chen Wen signaled to the civil servant of the celebrant that he could start, and as soon as he spoke, the guard immediately glared at Chen Wen angrily.
"Chen Shoubei! What do you mean? ”
At this moment, almost everyone discovered the problem here, the middle battalion sent 100 troops to form a phalanx, and Chen Wen dispatched a sentry to form a fan-shaped formation that could advance and retreat. At first glance, it may not sound abnormal, but the problem is that Chen Wen's establishment is based on the establishment of the Qi family's army when they fought against the Japanese in the south, and in addition to the four teams in his post, there is only the captain of the first killer team acting as the head of the post, so there are only forty-eight people in this one! Even counting the flag-bearers and golden drummers after the battle, they have just reached half of the opponents.
"It's not interesting."
It's really not interesting.
Chen Wen still ignored the guard's angry gaze, because he felt that this one sentry was enough.
In the original plan, Chen Wen planned to play with two whistles, A and B, and he was not worried about the victory or defeat, but just hoped to minimize the damage as much as possible, so that it would be considered a relatively beautiful completion of the competition.
But with what happened yesterday, he had already decided to go alone after smashing the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang back then, he felt that he no longer had the time and energy to waste time with corrupt officials like Chu Suxian.
This year is the fourth year of Yongli, and next year will be the fifth year of Yongli that will determine the fate of the Zhejiang battlefield, and the year after will be the sixth year of Yongli! That year, Li Dingguo became a famous king twice, the world was shaken, Zheng Chenggong besieged Zhangzhou, and even Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in the Manchu Dynasty, died because of this.
In Chen Wen's eyes, it was time to wait at this moment, Li Dingguo couldn't reach him, but Zheng Chenggong's failure that year was because the Zhejiang Qing army reinforced the Fujian battlefield twice before and after!
Even if Chen Wen can assist the Ming army of Dalanshan to thwart the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army this year, the Qing army will continue to encircle and suppress with a larger army next year, because it will not be possible to attack Zhoushan without Dalanshan, and the Ming army of Dalanshan has always shrunk in this mountainous area, and it is difficult to develop its strength.
As for the reinforcements of the Zhoushan Ming Army, Chen Wen did not plan at all, not to mention that the relationship between Wang Yi and Zhang Mingzhen was not harmonious, even if the relationship between the two sides was good, what could it be? The center of gravity of the imperial court of the Lu Jian State was on the Zhoushan Islands, and they would only attack and defend there, and it was impossible to use Dalanshan as the strategic center of gravity.
But if he can occupy Jinhua Mansion, then from Jinhua to Tiantai Mountain to Siming Mountain and finally to Zhoushan will become a chain, and from then on, the Qing army in Zhejiang will be locked here, and will not continue to appear as reinforcements on the Fujian battlefield as in history.
Historically, in the process of besieging Zhangzhou, Zheng Chenggong beat the Qing army of Fujian and the standard camp of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. If Zheng succeeded in capturing Zhangzhou, it would be difficult for the Fujian Qing army to restrain him. At that time, the military pressure of the Qing army on the battlefield in Fujian will be supplemented by the Ming army in Zhejiang, and the Qing army in places such as Guangdong and Jiangxi will need to deal with a greater threat from Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, and it will be difficult to reinforce these two provinces, and the Qing army's forces south of the Yangtze River will become overstretched.
Under normal circumstances, at this time, the Qing army would definitely mobilize troops from the north to the south, and Nikan, Ilde, and Dasu are examples. However, when they transferred more troops from the north, Chen Wen believed that he should have already made a big deal, and the Qing army that encircled and suppressed at that time would not only have to face the old Zhejiang Ming army in Zhoushan and Siming Mountain, but also face his own nascent monster.
Then, the key to all this is to convince Wang Yi that his ability is enough to accomplish this, and even more suitable than Liu Yiming's left and right elites to complete the plan that Wang Yi made earlier. In Chen Wen's opinion, only then would Wang Yi fully support his military adventure.
Although the plan was still only on paper, he couldn't wait. From the moment he came to this era, he constantly spurred himself, and if he didn't make changes, his appearance would be meaningless. Therefore, we must change, and we must not be like in history, because if we don't change, we will lose, and if we change, we will have the possibility of winning!
"That's it."
Seeing that Chen Wen had made up his mind, Wang Yi was displeased with Chen Wen's arrogance, while Wang Sheng thought that Chen Wen was afraid of losing too badly, so he let a small number of troops play, even if he lost, he could comfort himself that it was because of the number of people that would be so.
This guy is still so cunning, but there will be no one to take care of you on the battlefield.
Wang Sheng's heart was already full of thoughts of watching Chen Wen's jokes at this moment, and the other officials of the old camp of Dalanshan who thought that Chen Wen was shameless and arrogant were also sneering and waiting for the moment when Chen Wen was embarrassed, even Mao Mingshan, who was cheering for Li Ruixin just now, was quite unhappy about this, only Huang Zhongdao frowned and showed a thoughtful look.
Seeing that Wang Yi didn't say anything to stop him, the civil official of the celebrant signaled for the competition to begin.
After the leader of the middle camp, Mr. Qian, received the signal from his boss that he would not be merciless, and changed the phalanx into a goose-shaped formation. Because he had already seen that Chen Wen's troops were at a disadvantage in strength, then he could use the method of outflanking the two wings to make the opponent take care of himself and complete the flank detour, so as to destroy the opponent's formation and achieve total annihilation.
Lou Jiye, who was in charge of the command, was unmoved, and still signaled the teams to maintain a defensive posture in a vertical formation. It wasn't until the opponent crossed the half-court with firm steps that he ordered the post to change formations, and the first formation he changed was the junior formation.
The junior is centered with long and wisters, with the wolf player on the back and outside of the player's side, the pikeman behind the wolf side and the palladium boring hand in the back row to protect his teammates. Qi Jiguang opposed the Ming army at that time when the front row of each soldier in the Ming army array, especially the knife players spaced a distance to facilitate the practice of wielding weapons, his mandarin duck array was arranged in a trapezoidal shape, and always maintained that each attack and defense direction had a variety of weapons to cooperate with each other, in order to achieve the effect of fighting more and less, and the same was true for the big three talent formations.
From the original longitudinal formation where the teams were separated from each other at one end, it changed into a big three-talent formation, and the first whistle showed off the feathers composed of four killer teams like a peacock opening the screen. Although they still maintain some distance, if the opponent wants to separate the two adjacent teams, it means that they will be hit by both left and right sides.
Obviously, the middle camp didn't know that in addition to courtship, Peacock Kaiping also had a threatening function in the face of enemies. They continued on with a determined step, unfazed, until their long weapons were about to touch the terminals of their long weapons. However, such a stagnation was only for a moment, and the spearmen in the front row of the middle battalion immediately launched an attack after hearing the order.
In the junior talent team, Niu Ping'an, the long-legged player of the first killer team of the first whistle, is at the forefront of the whole whistle, and his task is to protect the players in the back row, who made him MT.
At this moment, Niu Ping is safe and does not have the demeanor of the shameless minotaur warrior Wai Mu Xi in "My Name is MT", he holds a long card in his left hand like an iron wall to resist the opponent's attack, and the wooden knife in his right hand is ready to cooperate with other team members to slash and kill sudden opponents, which is not difficult for his size.
In this formation, where he only needs to do his job, he doesn't need to dodge, he doesn't even need to parry, as long as he blocks the opponent's attack, he can try to cooperate with other teammates to complete the kill. This makes him, a man who is accustomed to honoring his parents at home, following the leaders of his fellow villagers after joining the anti-Qing rebel army, and obeying the orders of his superiors when he enters the camp as a soldier to eat food, and this formation that does not need to play extraordinarily, as long as he obeys his duty and obeys orders, is also very in line with his character.
The wolf whisk behind Niu Ping'an has always been using a five-meter-long wolf whisk to suppress the opponent in accordance with the principle of "scuttling to save cards". Even if Chen Wen's subordinates had already taken down the spear head in front of the wolf whizzle because it was a competition, the dense branches still gave the opponent great interference, which made Niu Ping'an bear far fewer attacks than the front row sword and shield soldiers of other formations under normal circumstances, and also allowed him to carry out defensive operations with more peace of mind, especially compared to the opponent, it was more obvious.
On the front of Niu Ping'an, the soldiers of the middle battalion continued to attack under the command of the officer, but under the interference and protection of the wolf and the long card and the rattan card, they were never able to achieve the expected results, and it could even be said that there were no results, but the problem was not so simple.
Although they don't understand the physical definition of the strength of the arm, the more powerful the arm is, the five-meter-long wolf wreath follows the movements of those tall and powerful wolf wrestlers, not only interferes with their attack, defense, positioning, and movement, but will be swept to the ground if they are not careful. If it is possible to attack or defend with all the strength of being disturbed, once the position and movement are blocked, the pikemen on the opposite side will never let go of any mistakes on their part, and as for being swept to the ground, it can be said that there is no reason to be spared.
As the spearmen and knife players in the front row not only made no progress, but were also constantly stabbed in the chest by the players of the Mandarin Duck Formation, the wolf players and the pikemen, the number of people sentenced to death increased.
The situation faced by the middle battalion was very difficult, the pikemen did not have the opposing weapons to suppress the array, and the sword and shield soldiers needed to wield their weapons at a greater distance, so that even if the overall number was twice that of the opponent, they were always beaten by the opponent on the local battlefield. Although it was only a competition, the officers and soldiers of the middle battalion could not bear this situation of being beaten more and more, and some people kept breaking out of the queue and trying to break through the opponent's formation by themselves, but the more this happened, the faster they were injured.
Seeing this, the leader of the team could only slow down the frontal attack, hoping to use the protruding wings of the previously arranged goose-shaped formation to the side to break this hedgehog-like formation.
"Kill!"
Every time he stabbed a shot, An Youfu would shout a killing word, as if he was venting the strength of the fifty military sticks yesterday.
Unlike many of his comrades in this battalion who have learned martial arts, An Youfu did not learn any martial arts before joining the army, if it weren't for the fact that he had helped the neighbor's butcher kill pigs and seen blood, I am afraid he would not be qualified to enter the first outpost. However, after this month's training, with his amazing understanding, he became more and more refined in spear assassination, so that in just one month, his strength and accuracy of shooting could be compared with some colleagues who had practiced marksmanship in the early years.
It's just that if it's really a solo fight, he still can't do it, after all, it's a gun for a lifetime, and that's not wrong at all. It's just that his assassination skills have now begun to become more and more spicy like his unforgiving mouth, which still allows him to successfully sit in the position of the fourth killer captain of the armor outpost.
Of course, this is also due to the boring palladium player of the same team, who is always kind and does not care about his strange words, whether in the training facility or when practicing against his team, will strive to protect his flanks, so that he can safely assassinate every enemy who comes close, just like at this moment.
Originally, after being beaten with fifty military sticks yesterday, he could barely get out of bed, even if he was smeared with wound medicine, the pain in his buttocks was always there. Since he was a child, this is the first time he has been punished for this mouth, when he was at home, when he entered the barracks, he just couldn't change it.
If today is not the period of the competition, An Youfu should lie on the bed to recuperate, in fact, according to the regulations, he should also be in bed at this time waiting for his comrades to come back and tell him the details of the competition. But his temper would not allow this, even if it were not for the position of the main spearman of the sentry, he could not tolerate his comrades fighting outside while he lay down in the barracks to recuperate, because those who fought outside were his brothers with whom he had eaten, slept, trained and punished together these days.
His ass was still painful, and one of his feet was still broken, which made An Youfu's movements completely unresponsive. But he has a group of teammates who take good care of him, even if these people don't like his mouth full of strange words on weekdays, but they always try their best to cooperate with him.
Especially the boring palladium hand, this man who always looks like a good old man on weekdays has always been struggling to protect him, and even several times the opponent's weapons almost hit him, the man did not hesitate at all, from the beginning of the war to the present, he has defused the opponent's offensive again and again.
This kind of protection allows An Youfu to concentrate on protecting the wolf warriors in the team from being rushed, and he himself can continue to shoot and assassinate opponents, without worrying about being taken advantage of by the enemy due to the aging of the gun. Of course, there is also the credit of the wolf player, the player and the captain with the flag gun, all of whom are tasked with protecting others, and even the Musketers are now tasked with not only doing chores and cutting heads, but also protecting the wounded from secondary damage.
An Youfu remembers very well that his general once said that the advantage of Qi Shaobao's mandarin duck array is that with the combination of long and short weapons, each of the twelve people in the team only needs to do their own thing, and there is no need to be distracted. In this formation, twelve people are like one person, and no matter how brave the opponent is, it is impossible to defeat twelve with one, so as long as you do your own thing with peace of mind, you will definitely be able to win.
"Kill!"
An Youfu's spear hit an opponent's chest again, knocking him to the ground. With the strength of his gun, if it weren't for the fact that the head of the gun had been replaced with a thick cloth head, and the other party was wearing armor, I was afraid that he would have been stabbed a long time ago. It's just that even so, most of the opponents who were hit by him covered the part they were attacked, gritted their teeth and showed painful looks, and some even screamed in pain and fell to the ground, waiting for treatment after the competition.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer opponents within the assassination distance, and at this moment, as the spearman on the far right side of the formation, the middle battalion soldiers in front of An Youfu either fell to the ground, or left the range of the martial arts arena after being judged dead. At this moment, the two wings of the goose-shaped formation formed by the middle camp had completely collapsed, and the rest of them either stood in place dumbfounded and stupid, or hurriedly ran back to the surviving queue in front of the middle camp to seek comfort.
After Lou Jiye, who was acting as the commander, gave an order, the third and fourth killer teams at the back of the flank also stepped forward a few steps to stay parallel to the other two teams.
If nothing else, it's time to fight back!