Time flies, time flies, like a white horse passing by.

After nearly a month of training, the Mandarin Duck Formation of Chen Wen's department has already had a slight appearance, at least at a glance, the formation has already been somewhat decent, at least it looks like this.

According to Chen Wen's regulations, the officers and men in the battalion should first play a set of military physical boxing when they get up every morning, then have breakfast, and then start practicing their personal skills after breakfast.

In addition to the firearms team and the cavalry team to be trained according to Li Ruixin's method, the members of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team have to practice the six postures, the rattan players have to fight against the rattan players of other teams, and the remaining long players cooperate with a pikeman to train with the boring palladium player and another pikeman. In addition to this, the captain commanded, and the firefighters not only ran with a full load, but also trained Chen Wen and Lu Laolang to teach some battlefield rescue knowledge together.

After taking a nap, in the afternoon, the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team began to practice the formation, from the normal marching army column to the formation that needs to change when the battlefield adapts. It was also when he began to practice the formation that Chen Wen realized that he thought that he could command the Mandarin Duck Formation in the same way as the online game Wasteland Reclamation Copy, but this thing was much more difficult than he imagined.

In the evening, Chen Wen no longer taught the art of war, because he found that teaching these illiterate officers about it was really half the effort, and even if they remembered it tonight, they would have almost forgotten it when they woke up the next day. Therefore, he decided to suspend the teaching of the art of war until the officers were literate, and to spend the evening discussing and summarizing the effects of the training. As for literacy, let's wait until this battle is over, and then there will be plenty of time to do such things.

Time flies, it is already the afternoon of August 25, and tomorrow is the school competition set by Wang Yi. In the past ten days, even the garrison of the middle camp has begun to sharpen their guns, but Wang Yi, the arranger of the competition, is not on the mountain now.

As early as the seventh day of the eighth month, Wang Yi took the servants down the mountain, stipulating that all affairs on the mountain would be handed over to Wang Jiang, which was also their habit all along. Before leaving, Wang Yi expected that he would come back on August 24 or August 25, so the competition was scheduled for the afternoon of August 26.

Chen Wen knew very well what Wang Yi was going to do when he went down the mountain, because Wang Yi had already told him as early as July 24 when he formed an army. It's just that the outcome of this is still unknown, and Chen Wen is very skeptical that his big truths can convince the three leading generals, Yu Guowang, Liu Yiming and Chen Tianshu.

If they are unwilling to give up their previous plans, then it is estimated that Wang Yi's attitude towards this before his departure will not be forced. At that point, Chen Wen will have to rethink his plan. After all, according to the plan, Mao Mingshan's rear battalion was likely to be unable to participate in the battle against Tian Xiong because of the containment of Jin Li. In that case, there will only be a pitiful 1,500 soldiers left in Dalanshan, which is half of the standard battalion!

As for those friendly forces, Chen Wen really didn't plan to report any hope. It's better to ask for others than for yourself, but Wang Yi had already promised before leaving: If he can win the battle, the matter of the preparation can be ignored.

Chen Wen thought about it, if he had a thousand people in his hands, even if most of them were recruits who had been trained for no more than a month, he planned to try to concentrate the front, middle, and rear battalions of Dalan Mountain and Tian Xiong. Look at the head of his new battalion that was copied from the anti-Japanese era in the south, whether it is an egg or a stone.

As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival on 15 August, Chen Wen gave the soldiers in the battalion a full day and two half-days off with the idea of combining work and rest. He clearly remembered that the officers and soldiers in the battalion at that time unanimously expressed 120,000 points of support for this decision, and it was estimated that if it was a stock, it should be able to rise and fall.

It's just that after returning from vacation, in the face of the soldiers with a new mental outlook, Chen Wen developed a new and more torturous training program, which is called "column anti-pressure training".

"Throw! Give Lao Tzu a round round throw! The one over there, why didn't you eat, so hard! ”

Chen Wen's roar resounded throughout the West Schoolyard, and the servants who had begun to be a little powerless under his instructions were still throwing the clods of earth in their hands into a round round and throwing them at the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team that formed a vertical formation.

In the past few days, the soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team under Chen Wen's command have begun to develop initial conditioned reflexes under the guidance of the training facility, but the conditioned reflexes alone are not enough. Chen Wen doesn't remember where he heard that if he wants to beat someone in martial arts, he must first learn to be beaten, and his definition of beating is understood to be resisting pressure.

Later wars often involve the use of long-range weapons to cover strikes or precision strikes, and then use ground forces to defeat the opponent, such as the Gulf War and the subsequent early Iraq War.

In this era, armies would also test and suppress each other with projectile weapons such as bows and arrows, muskets, and artillery before going head-to-head, and if possible, it was best to destroy the opponent's formation, and once the formation was destroyed, the balance of victory and defeat would be tilted. In order to deal with this situation, Chen Wen's plan was to reduce casualties with a vertical formation, and then attack or defend by changing formations when the headquarters approached the enemy or the enemy army approached, which was also used by the Qi family's army.

At the same time, problems arise. During the training, Chen Wen could not bombard the perimeter of the queue with guns or artillery, not even bows and arrows, because that would likely cause unnecessary casualties. He believed that actual combat training was not meaningless, but his current prestige and resources were not enough to support him to carry out such a training program that might cause instability in the morale of the military, so he could only temporarily replace it with clods of earth.

However, during the first training, the entire queue was bombarded with clods and collapsed. Seeing this, Chen Wen had no choice but to change the original plan of the column's anti-pressure training once every few days to once a day. Until today, it has been carried out for nine days, and the effect is getting better step by step, at least today there is finally no more cases of the whole team collapsing, but there are still some soldiers who violate the training discipline because they are smashed or smashed intolerably.

In this regard, in addition to punishment, Chen Wen had to buy eggs from the grain depot on the basis of the original meat and vegetable every day, so as to increase nutritional intake and maintain the morale of the soldiers, and urge the soldiers to continue training. Fortunately, the effect of this is not bad, probably because of the love of being able to eat one more egg every day, plus the training performance began to gradually improve and under the attack of Chen Wenxin's new wave of brainwashing offensive, the soldiers' complaints began to gradually dissipate.

It's just that at the same time, Chen Wen's silver is also decreasing at an accelerated pace, and his countermeasure can only wait until the school competition is as beautiful as possible to win, and then go back to fight Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, the two local tyrants, who will make them civilian officials in the prison army.

"The armor post marched five steps forward in a column."

Chen Wen's voice fell, and Lou Jiye, who had already begun to serve as the acting head of the first post of the spare tire, commanded the post to advance according to Chen Wen's order.

"The long player holds down the position and moves slowly, the second killer team slows down, don't worry, the whole whistle moves forward five steps and continues to defend."

Hearing the order, Sentry A stood up en masse, and the long players in the front row covered the whole team with the long cards and rattan players to prevent them from being hit by the clod wheel, while the other team members continued to maintain a vigilant posture under the command of the captain. After the first five steps, they paused and continued to hold on to the clods of earth thrown by the servants.

Looking at this team of killers of the Mandarin Duck Formation, which had already begun to look a little, Chen Wen assigned the task of commanding the servant to Wu Dengke, while he himself went to inspect the cavalry team and the firearms team.

Chen Wen of the cavalry team just glanced at it, and he was still the same as before when he sat on the horse and let the horse walk slowly, and even the work of feeding the horse at night was shamelessly handed over to the horseman sent by the old battalion, so that now the white horse has begun to have some trouble with him, and this also makes Chen Wen begin to wonder if the word "horse" originally came out of the cavalry's mouth.

So, as the loser of this love cultivation game, Chen Wen just pretended to inspect it and then turned to check the firearms team he knew better, after all, shooting games are more worry-free than this.

The firearms team has a total of 60 members, one team for every 12 people, and the first two teams each have a captain, a deputy captain, and 10 members. These two teams are also the only two firearms teams in the whole firearms team that are fully equipped with birds, and the 20 firearms sent by Wang Jiang before, plus two more sent a few days ago, a total of 22 guns.

In the firearms team, the captain commands the whole team with a flag gun and carries a tinder box for ignition after the fire rope on the battle line paper is extinguished. According to military law, when the firearm captain carries a firearm on the battlefield is extinguished, he will be beheaded, so they will try to avoid excessive vibration of the tinder box in battle. In the event of the death of the captain, the vice-captain takes over the command, and under normal circumstances, they will shoot together with the firearms crew.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, flintlock pistols that did not require an arquebus had appeared, which was called a self-generated fire pistol at that time. It's just that this thing has not been popularized at that time, and in addition to the various artillery guns at that time, the most used firearms were the arquebus guns that began to prevail in the army in the Qi Jiguang era and the three-eyed guns that were highly respected by the northern border army.

The captain of the first squad of the firearms team is a native of Ningbo, according to him, his ancestor once served as the captain of firearms in the Qi family army during the Wanli anti-Japanese war. There are certain rules for the use of bird guns, every step must be in order, the first time he practiced in front of Chen Wen, the whole process was only two steps missing, and it did not affect the subsequent launch, the result of his shooting was even more amazing, one shot hit the bull's-eye.

What's even more odious is that this guy is quite a bit of a showman, the second shot did not hit the target, but directly hit a bird that fell on the wall in the distance, and the blood mist was splashed. The bird gun has really become a bird gun in his hands, and this is why Chen Wen directly appointed this thin man who is estimated to be a firefighter at the beginning of the screening as the captain of firearms, or the captain of the first team.

Under the guidance of the first two teams of the firearms team and the captain of the second team, who had used a bird gun in Fang Guoan's army, the progress was rapid, at least under the threat of Li Ruixin holding a leather whip in his hand, the soldiers of these two teams made very few mistakes in the operation steps before firing, but the shooting effect still needs to be improved.

The last three teams of the firearms team are all archers, and the formation is the same as the first two teams. These firearms players who do not use firearms are much better than those regular players in terms of accuracy and shooting speed, this place is located in the mountains, and almost all three teams from the captain to the team members have worked or have been engaged in the profession of hunters for generations, and they are obviously more capable of fighting than those bird-knives who use bows and arrows all year round.

It's just a pity that at this moment, their commander is obviously more interested in those bird guns, because Chen Wen knows very well that sooner or later, the fire guns in this world will eliminate bows and arrows and become the mainstream on the battlefield. It's just that before that, archers still have to exist in the army, not only future special combat members, but also the firearms team, he also plans to temporarily reserve a part of the establishment for archers or crossbowmen, as for whether this is the case in the future, it still needs to experience a war as a reference.

After inspecting the firearms team, Chen Wen returned to the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team again. At this time, the anti-pressure training of the column of the killer team had also been completely completed, and he carefully listened to the training results reported by officers at all levels, and recalled the previous training results of the cavalry team and the firearms team. In general, it is not bad, at least there is no direct collapse of the queue during the first bombardment of the column with clods of earth five days ago, but there are still a few phenomena.

After these days of training, the overall results of the first post are the best, and they are much stronger than other posts, Chen Wen knows that this is directly related to the Lou Jiye who is familiar with the art of war. So, he appointed Lou Jiye as the temporary acting commander of the first sentry, and clearly told him that if he could win the competition, the word "agent" could be removed.

In this regard, Lou Jiye immediately said that he would definitely control this team in the hands of Chen Wen, and he also more actively supervised the training of the whole sentinel, which is also what Chen Wen is happy to see.

In addition to the first whistle, to Chen Wen's surprise, the performance of the fifteenth killer team of Ding Whistle, which was collectively late on the first day of training, also surpassed the other teams. The fifteenth killer team did not participate in the training that day due to recuperation, but after that, they would take the initiative to practice every day after dinner, so the results were better. And their behavior has also led to some teams that feel that their training performance is not good, so as to achieve overall improvement. After a little inquiry, he knew that this was actually related to Yin Yue's sharing of punishment, and this also made him see the essence of the feudal army more clearly.

As the performance of the training gradually improved, fewer and fewer soldiers were punished as a result. At this time, the Zhenfu soldiers had already led the team to bring the few punished soldiers to the punishment area on the side of the school field, and Chen Wen gave the order that the training should end early and everyone should go to the bath.

He was very satisfied with the overall training results, and the soldiers who had only been training for a month were already able to show some combat qualities, which made him full of confidence in the upcoming competition. Chen Wen did not intend to eliminate these soldiers who took the initiative to serve him on the grounds of poor training, but now the result has strengthened his mind. So, he decided to go to the treasury to receive this month's salary in a while, and at the same time take out the settling-in allowance and distribute it as a reward.

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Meanwhile.

It has been more than ten days since he received Wang Yi's reply, and although Wang Yi agreed to an interview, Feng Jingdi saw from Wang Yi's words that the interview he needed was definitely not what he said in his last letter. Although it had been agreed to meet in Dalan Mountain tomorrow afternoon, this still made him very unhappy.

In Feng Jingdi's view, as long as the righteous people are in the court and the evil are gone, they can be cured. Under Chen Wen's rhetoric, it is nothing more than trying to prevent the imperial court from borrowing troops from Japan like Yu Huang, who repaired the seal "Three Dynasties Essentials", so this person must also be a eunuch. It is precisely because of this that he can't understand that it is too late to chase away such treacherous evils, how can they be used to join the army, isn't Wang Yi afraid that this person will lead the crowd to surrender in the future?

Fortunately, after many years of friendship, he knows very well that although Wang Yi's temperament is firm, it is not impossible to convince, what is needed is a convincing enough fact, and the person who may know this in his army has now returned from patrolling the mountains and appeared in front of his eyes.

Wang Sheng fell to the ground tremblingly, he didn't know why Feng Jingdi summoned him. Since the last time he came down from Dalan Mountain, he has fallen out of favor in front of Feng Jingdi, after all, he is a general under Feng Jingdi, he appeared in Dalan Mountain inexplicably, and inexplicably sent a letter, which will attract officials to taboo.

Feng Jingdi was very satisfied with Wang Sheng's attitude, so he decided to go straight to the point. "Guerrilla Wang, how much do you know about the Chen Wen you mentioned last time, and tell me the truth."

Chen Wen?!

Hearing this name, Wang Sheng's heart was immediately ignited with anger.

In his opinion, this Chen Wen not only ruined his good deeds last time, but also humiliated his dignity and prestige by force, and later snatched the treasure that already belonged to him. However, after being reprimanded and punished by Wang Yi, the favor and prestige that he had easily established in Feng Jingdi's army also suffered a serious blow, so that those who were low and small in front of him at the beginning could already ride on his head, which made him not hate Chen Wen.

Fortunately, at this moment, he bowed to the ground, and Feng Shilang, who was used to being high in front of military generals, could not see his expression at all. So, he immediately suppressed the anger and hatred in his heart, and redescribed the events of those days to Feng Jingdi in the most peaceful tone possible.

It's just that in his narrative, what Chen Wen said and did was clearly an image of cunning and ill-intentioned, subservient in front of people, and intrigues and tricks behind his back. After telling the matter thoroughly, Wang Sheng didn't forget to add a ruthless sentence, because he knew that this evaluation could stimulate Feng Jingdi's nerves the most.

"Boss Qiqi, the villain thinks that this surnamed Chen is clearly a despicable and shameless eunuch remnant!"

Hearing this, Feng Jingdi was stunned at first, he clearly remembered that he only mentioned this sentence "the remnants of the eunuch party" to Wang Yi, and Wang Yi disdained it.

So, he hurriedly asked, "Do you think the same?" ”

Am I "too" feeling so?

Wang Sheng immediately understood the intention of Feng Jingdi's questioning, which made him walk out of his resentful state in an instant, and became excited. Immediately, I saw him immediately say: "Lord Qiqi, you always know that villains have always been loyal and honest, so they were taken advantage of by such treacherous villains that time, and please let the boss know." ”

Feng Jingdi smiled, the person in front of him had followed him for many years, he couldn't talk about loyalty and honesty, it was true that he was timid and obedient, otherwise he wouldn't trust this person so much. Besides, he Feng Jingdi didn't think that the illiterate officer in front of him would be an opponent of a scholar in his mind, so he basically believed what Wang Sheng said.

"Guerrilla Wang, you have done a good job during this time, and the official is very satisfied, so you can do it."

"The boss praised it falsely, the villain just obeyed the boss's military orders, and he should not be carried by the boss. Besides, the boss is as kind to the villain as the sea, and the villain is difficult to repay even if he dies. Saying that, Wang Sheng hurriedly bowed again, and kowtowed a few times, and the look of his servile face was just like Chen Wen in his mouth.