After Li Duozuo returned to Tianfu Guanyi, he came to Ningzhou to help Di Feng train and recruit troops and guide material reserves.

On the school field, the soldiers of Ningzhou Mansion, who Di Feng has always been proud of, are simply a group of rabble in the hands of Li Duozuo, and after watching Li Duozuo's recruits drill Di Feng, he knew how ignorant he was before, fortunately, he encountered a miscellaneous card like Maitreya's rebellion, and if he met a hundred elite soldiers, his own people were not enough to stuff their teeth.

Di Feng only knew at this time that whether the soldiers and horses were strong or not did not know whether they looked at the appearance, but also looked at the inside, archers, jumpers, cavalry, halberders, swords and shields, and baggage soldiers...... Under the command of Li Duozuo, all kinds of troops cooperated with each other, and the phalanx, circle, sparse, several, sharp, goose-shaped, hook-shaped, Xuanxiang, water, fire, how to break the enemy's cavalry, heavy armor, and chariot soldiers were full of tricks.

The ancient war scenes I saw on TV in the past were not shallow, and now I find it so ridiculous; Di Feng had also made up Zhuge before's Eight Array Diagram, and felt that it was the rendering of creation, which was made up by Luo Guanzhong, and now he knew that Luo Guanzhong was also a military layman, and his description of the Three Kingdoms Battle Array was outrageous, and the "Eight Array Diagram" not only existed, but also a skill that the leading generals must master.

Because the ancient means of communication were not good, the sound could not travel far, the flag could not be seen, the fireworks and musical instruments were relatively monotonous, and the herald would be killed and injured if he ran slowly, the mechanized formation was the only way to achieve the general's intention. For soldiers, you only need to remember who is next to you, whether you should stand in a horizontal line or a diagonal line with others, as for the others, the brigade commander, the team leader, and the fire commander are in control, and the captain is in charge of the formation of the headquarters, and each brigade has a flag head. Responsible for communicating instructions.

Beat the drum, the enemy reached 150 paces, and the crossbowmen fired first. The enemy reached 60 paces, and the archers joined in the fire. When the enemy reaches 20 paces, the crossbowmen retreat to make way for the Jumpers to act as the vanguards, and they go forward to kill the enemy. Here the crossbowmen are following the "Strikers". The main fighting force is still the "Strike Team", and the jumping soldiers who make up the Strike Team are the most skilled fighters of the carefully selected martial arts masters. In front of and on both sides of the strikers were spearmen and shield bearers for cover.

In such a battle formation, if there is no neat queue, as well as the coordination of large and small formations and the passages set aside, not to mention that the fight is a swarm of rushing and killing, and the crowding of people will also crowd themselves up first. This is just the right way, if it is a strange sneak attack, there will be a back and forth of the Yue cavalry interspersed with outflanking and detours, and the left and right Chinese armies will also have to leave enough space for the Yue cavalry to march and intersperse.

The big picture is still the same. The details are even more complicated, from the drum to the golden sound, the flag, the beacon smoke, to the halberdiers and spearmen of the spear halberd angle have strict requirements, the flat end, the front stab, the angle of the upper pick is different, to be neat and uniform, all rely on the cooperation of ten people and one fire.

Why is the "Eight Formations" importantDi Feng finally understood that if it was used properly, the more than 200 people in charge of each captain would be able to rely on the formation formed by various arms. Under the encirclement of several times their own, they have a basis to disrupt the enemy's offensive, and then there is the mutual cohesion and cooperation of various formations. In the face of a strong enemy, your own army can become a hedgehog that makes people have nowhere to speak, which can be defended and attacked.

As for the coordination of heavy armor, heavy cavalry and heavy soldiers, it is even more mysterious, and Di Feng can't see the clue in a short time.

After watching Li Duozuo's training, Di Feng secretly said ashamed, this is the training of the regular army! In the past, I was just a farmer's dirt handle, and it was not worth drying at all.

Di Feng originally thought that with Li Duozuo, he would be able to sit back and relax. didn't think that Li Duozuo poured a basin of cold water on him on the head, and then asked Li Duozuo if he could be foolproof in Liaodong a year later if he trained and prepared materials like this.

Li Duozuo clasped his fists and saluted and said with a wry smile: "General, this is just a training for land formation, if it is a water formation." Its complexity is more than several times that of the land route, and the tactics of building ships, ships, fighting ships, boats, yachts, and sea falcons are varied, and the general is incompetent and does not understand the mysteries, and the general needs to recruit an expert in water warfare as soon as possible.

As for grain and grass materials, Sun Tzu once said: Where the method of war is used, thousands of cars are galloped, thousands of leather cars are carried, 100,000 armor is carried out, and grain is fed for thousands of miles. Then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of the car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then 100,000 teachers. This is just a general idea, and there are bows and arrows, firewood, food, armor, military uniforms, shoes and hats, bedding, medicines, people's husbands, and wood needed to make siege equipment...... Wait, if we want to prepare for these years, Ningzhou will have enough time! ”

After listening to Li Duozuo's words, Di Feng understood why he set up three grain envoys, it turned out that after a big war, people ate horses and fed them, and the consumption of grain and grass was hundreds of thousands, not counting the carrying of heavy soldiers, and the task of transporting grain envoys was not light.

With a plan in his heart, Di Feng asked Li Duozuo to continue practicing, and returned to the government by himself, he was going to prepare to transfer back Zhang Xiaoguang and his fleet, and now the fleet was needed to collect grain and materials from supply warehouses in various places, and it was difficult to complete such a large amount of grain and grass materials on time without a fleet; There is also Di Feng asked people to invite Lin Zhihuan, Lin Zhihuan has been working hard at sea all the year round, and he often encounters pirates, maybe he has talents who are proficient in naval warfare.

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At this time, Zhang Xiaoguang was sitting in the attic of a shipwreck, looking at the vast river, and secretly worried.

Going north along the waterway, his line was very smooth, the big and small gangs along the way, they could talk about it, they couldn't talk about it, they relied on their own boats, they were well-armoured, and all the gangs along the river had been included in the Cao Gang, but when they arrived in Yangzhou, they ran into trouble.

Yangzhou is more special, Zhang Xiaoguang does not dare to fight and kill in Yangzhou, but Yangzhou's local gangs control the waterway wharf, in the face of Zhang Xiaoguang's maximum preferential conditions, they are unmoved, after all, Yangzhou is the richest in the world, and these local gangs can't look down on the weight given by Zhang Xiaoguang.

What should I do? Bypassing Yangzhou or fighting to the death has become a difficult choice for Zhang Xiaoguang, it is not impossible to bypass Yangzhou, and it is also a solution to compromise the local gang to hand over flattery and silver, but Zhang Xiaoguang already has the name of the Cao Gang Dharma Protector in the rivers and lakes, and such a compromise will lose his face.

People live with a face and a tree lives with a skin, the face of people in the rivers and lakes is greater than life, Zhang Xiaoguang's status is not what it used to be, and eighty-seven wharves along the river are now Zhang Xiaoguang's disciples.

For the sake of this little master, Zhang Xiaoguang decided to make a last stand! (To be continued.) )