Chapter 51: The Contest (I)
"Good!"
The first person to shout out was not Chen Wen, but Mao Mingshan, the commander of the rear battalion sitting on the platform. As a person who is also good at riding combat, he knows very well that with Li Ruixin's horse speed, arm length and move speed, he can actually directly pick the opponent off the horse with one shot. It's just that he also saw that Li Ruixin obviously wanted his cavalry to learn more things, and made that seemingly risky tactic, but in fact, as long as he has enough experience and excellent riding skills, he can easily do it.
When Mao Mingshan was first appointed as the commander of the rear battalion, he tried to recruit Li Ruixin, but even if he offered the conditions for the garrison to manage the cavalry at that time, Li Ruixin still seemed disdainful. Although being looked down upon like this made Mao Mingshan's hot temper unbearable, but in the subsequent challenge, even with his martial prowess, he could barely support a dozen rounds, which made him have to admit the other party's choice.
Later, he heard that Liu Yiming had also recruited this person after he went up the mountain, and the conditions offered were even higher than what he had given, and the position of a guerrilla general was in charge of the cavalry of the left and right battalions. He would never have been able to come up with such a big deal, but even so, it was only in exchange for a sentence of consideration. Then, there is no then.
Liu Yiming is good at using a big knife, known as "Liu Dadao", he is quite brave and brave, and his means of leading troops are also above him. But even such a military general has no talent to subdue, and he will actually serve Chen Wen, who obviously has no martial arts foundation in his manners, walking footwork and standing posture, and even willingly wants to be a small Qianzong, which makes him quite interested in what kind of talent Chen Wen has.
It's just that Mao Mingshan didn't know that in Li Ruixin's eyes, the position or something could not be very interesting to him. Not to mention that he was taking care of his deceased friend's wife at the time, and he had no intention of joining the army, even if Liu Yiming and he Mao Mingshan could rank first in Siming Mountain and even eastern Zhejiang in the matter of martial arts, what if he had followed Huang Degong, he would unconsciously compare with his commander when he looked at other brave generals, and once compared with Huang Degong, these people immediately became worthless.
Relatively speaking, the timing of Chen Wen's attack coincided not long after the death of Li Ruixin's friend's mother, and he had no worries here and was ready to go out of the mountains to join the army. And his entry point is also different from others, Chen Wen chose the military ideas of later generations that he is better at to fool Li Ruixin, and Li Ruixin's idol Huang Degong Although he is brave and brave, he is not very brilliant in the art of war, so Chen Wen took advantage of the situation and left the impression of a wise general, so he completed the ascension of talents.
After watching the whole cavalry battle, Chen Wen's confidence in the cavalry, which was not high, also completely fell to the bottom, and this kind of thing that strongly relies on personal martial arts is really not so easy to practice. It seems that it is necessary to find ways to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the infantry, at least in the south of the Yangtze River, where the water network is crisscrossed.
As for the tactics of the cavalry, although Qi Jiguang also had a cavalry battalion, and he was also very majestic on the battlefield, Chen Wen still planned to toss out the wall charge in addition to this. Ever since he watched "Bright Sword", Chen Wen has been completely fascinated by modern cavalry, especially the scene of Li Yunlong's cavalry company commander launching a decisive charge against the Japanese army, which has always lingered in his mind, even if he came to this era, it has never decayed.
In his opinion, that is worthy of the term "man's romance". Of course, at this moment, Chen Wen also firmly believed that the Mandarin Duck Array infantry team he had trained would sooner or later be able to face the artillery fire and arrows of the Tartars, sing war songs and launch a charge, and they would definitely be worthy of this bloody nature inherited from their ancestors!
Wang Sheng swallowed his saliva, the martial arts that Li Ruixin showed just now really startled him. Although he had heard this person mentioned by others at the beginning, who would have thought that one of Huang Degong's personal soldiers would be able to be strong enough to reach this field, which made him feel even more desperate for the future of the Ming army.
It's just that at this moment, he is also quite glad in his heart, glad that the officer who was ordered to ambush Chen Wen did not act recklessly. This Chen Wen feels that his martial arts should not be high, or even not, and the last time they met, he only relied on his cunning and the advantage of height and weight to try to escape, but if he was bumped into by Li Ruixin's gang when he made a move, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
After going back, that officer should be trained and cultivated, and it will be a help in the future!
It's just that he has been thinking about it for so long, but what makes him feel strange is why such a fierce general brother would join this Chen Wen's command, which makes Wang Sheng puzzled.
At this time, Chen Wen didn't notice the questioning glances coming from behind, because the rider who had just earned him face had already come to him with his subordinates riding horses. I saw Li Ruixin and the other three cavalrymen turn over, and then knelt down to meet Chen Wen, and Chen Wen just smiled and said "Well done", and asked the four people to return to the queue of the camp.
After Li Ruixin and the others got up, Chen Wen glanced at the four pro-soldiers in the middle of the camp, one of whom may have really been stabbed in the ribs by Li Ruixin.
So, he turned to the guard and said: "Mr. Li Qian's action is a little out of proportion, your family's medical expenses can be borne by the general in full, and I hope the guard will forgive me." ”
The guard saw that Chen Wen's expression did not seem to be fake, and the anger in his chest also subsided slightly, only to see him say: "Chen Shoubei is polite, the sons and daughters are all martial artists, and the competition will be damaged, it's not a big deal." As for the cost of healing, it is better for the soldiers under to be responsible for the down, and your kindness is appreciated. ”
Yes, it is a reality that soldiers will have them, what kind of mouth do they have.
"That's fine."
When Li Ruixin returned to the camp, the comrades who had already begun to cheer when he won the victory with one enemy and three major were even more enthusiastic. This is the team spirit advocated by Chen Wen, so the soldiers did not control it, but the officers and soldiers restrained the soldiers and did not allow them to leave the queue.
Wang Yi was quite satisfied with the result of the cavalry battle. In his opinion, Chen Wen's battalion's victory in the first battle was not unexpected by him, after all, Li Ruixin's martial arts are obvious to all, and the cavalry battle is also a competition method with high requirements for personal martial arts. And in this way, as the gap between others and Li Ruixin becomes more obvious, he believes that Chen Wen will also notice this, and then continue to work hard to train troops, which is what he is happy to see as a civilian officer in the supervising army.
At the same time, the second and third games are very different from the first. The second is a test shooting, he once heard Liu Yiming say that a good shooter needs to rely on long-term practice to achieve results in addition to talent. Then, compared to the veterans in the middle camp who have been practicing for more than two years, Chen Wen's men are too tender, and they should lose the second game, so the key is still in the third game.
In the formation battle of the third game, Chen Wen's battalion must have come up with a mandarin duck formation, after all, he threatened to rebuild the Qi family's army. Although Wang Yi knew very well that this had become a joke in the old camp of Dalanshan, and some people even ridiculed Chen Wen that he should first change his surname to Qi and change to the door of Penglai Qi's family before he was qualified to say this, but he still had strong expectations for Chen Wen's achievements, after all, it was related to the future battle with the Tartars.
It's just that in Wang Yi's opinion, although Chen Wen threatened to win the battle in one month, neither he nor the others in the old battalion would believe that the middle battalion that had been in the army for two years and had fought many battles would lose to a new battalion that had only been trained for a month.
It's not that he is biased, it's just that in addition to the Mandarin Duck Formation with obvious Qi Family Army symbols in the middle camp, many of the more practical battle formations in the Ming Army are practiced all year round. Even if Wang Yi knows very well that the military generals of this era generally focus on training soldiers and their families, ordinary battalion soldiers have always been practicing for many years. Of course, the most important thing is the time gap, which is too obvious compared to two years in one month.
In this way, winning one game in three games, Wang Yi felt that this could not only exempt Chen Wen from the military order, but also continue to stimulate the upward spirit of this young general, and also sharpen his overly sharp temperament. Wouldn't it be nice to kill three birds with one stone?
Seeing that Wang Yi had no objections, the civil official who was the celebrant announced the results loudly. "In the first cavalry battle, four people from the middle battalion side fell off their horses, one person from the Chen garrison battalion fell off their horses, and the Chen garrison battalion won."
After confirming the result of the victory, the soldiers in Chen Wen's camp cheered again, especially Li Ruixin's face was full of light, although he only defeated a group of opponents who were not of a very high level, but he was still very happy to be able to earn face for his loyal generals.
Next, the celebrant's civil servant announced the rules for the next competition, and announced the start of the competition once the personnel were in place.
The second game is shooting, according to the regulations, both sides need to use a mixture of bird guns and archers to shoot at distant targets, and the two sides participate in the competition with 10 people from each side, and the side with the most hearts wins.
This arrangement is more in line with the reality of the Ming army in Dalanshan, and the Xinchang army of Bo Yu Guowang of Xinchang will smash the hands of the birds as long as they have money, so that the birds of their troops are very strong, but the hand-to-hand infantry is very weak. The commanders and leading generals of the Ming army in Dalanshan still chose hand-to-hand infantry as the main force, and the cavalry composed of personal soldiers and family members was the decisive force to determine the victory or defeat.
It was not that they had foreseen that hand-to-hand combat would always be the main theme of the battlefield before the advent of machine guns and rapid-fire guns, but that the experience of surviving the battles with the Qing army over the years had taught them that they were right to do so.
After the start of the game, the personnel of both sides also entered the designated positions, half and half on the middle camp, five bird gunners and five archers; In Chen Wen's battalion, there were four bird gunners and six archers. The reason for this arrangement is actually very simple, because of the rules of the competition, he himself did not have much hope for the second game, but just asked two people from each squad of the firearms team, and such a result occurred.
The results of the competition did not surprise most people, and seven of the ten men sent by the middle battalion hit the heart, and none of them missed the target; On Chen Wen's side, four people hit the red heart, and two passed by the target.
In this regard, Chen Wen is still relatively lucky, fortunately, the person who missed the target was not too outrageous, so that he hit the little official who was standing in the distance and was in charge of counting the target, otherwise he would have to wonder if the character in the joke that Wen Cheng did not learn medicine and poisoned himself to death was now in his camp.
Wang Yi nodded, this result was still expected by him, Chen Wen's battalion had a few sharp soldiers, but on the whole, it was still in line with the common sense of a new battalion. Then, the third game below is the key, I hope Chen Wen's battalion will not lose too badly, otherwise Wang Yi is afraid that it will hit Chen Wen's enthusiasm.
At the end of the competition, the soldiers on both sides rushed to reply to their generals, but the Chen Wensuo department, which was elated in the previous game, has now wilted, and the middle battalion has begun to redouble its elation.
Chen Wen smiled and comforted the members of the firearms team who were a little lost on his side, and secretly decided to find Wang Jiang to find more batches of gunpowder and projectiles after the competition to strengthen the training of the firearms team.
Seeing his own victory, the garrison of the middle battalion breathed a sigh of relief, his subordinates were not the strongest in the middle battalion, but the average level and combat merits could also rank second among the four garrisons. At the moment, it's a one-to-one draw with this recruit camp, although it's dishonorable to say it, but it's better than losing both games.
For the following formation competition, he is still full of confidence, and those who lead the troops know that it is much more difficult for recruits to practice the queue than to practice individual martial arts. Whether you can change the formation according to the order and not to mention, at least you must recognize the left and right clearly, otherwise the entire formation will be a mess after an order, and it will be finished without the other party's action.
In his opinion, Chen Wen's battalion has just been training for a month, and he may just be able to stand together. Although he heard that the formation was a mandarin duck formation, he didn't hear what was going on, after all, the demeanor of the big brother in the camp still had to be there, even if he was not as high as Chen Wen's position in the morning, he must not lose the face of the old man next to Wang Jingluo.
After confirming Wang Yi's attitude again, the civil official who was the celebrant stepped forward and read the results aloud. "In the second shootery, the middle camp garrison hit all ten shots, and seven people hit the red heart; Chen garrison battalion hit eight out of ten, and four people hit red hearts. The garrison of the middle battalion won. ”
Standing on the platform, Wang Sheng clearly saw the emotions of the two sides after the end of this competition, and he glanced at Chen Wen contemptuously, his eyes full of disdain.
It's already very good for a recruit battalion to win a jackpot by relying on a fierce general brother who doesn't know how to deceive, and the following one is almost unwatchable, who would believe that a recruit battalion is arrayed against an old battalion leader who has experienced war for two years, or the kind of battalion head in Dalanshan that is well fed, warmly dressed, and has the strength to be used for training.
In his opinion, Li Ruixin is probably Chen Wen's pro-soldier captain, and the cavalry team is the pro-soldier family Ding team. In addition to the captain of the pro-soldiers, the quality of other pro-soldiers and family members is still like this, and ordinary battalion soldiers can still train flowers?
Want to win? What a dream!