Chapter Seventy-Five: Grass (4)
"Medium!"
The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties were only about fifteen meters apart, and the spearmen of the Qing army, who had already crossed the first two rows of sword and shield soldiers, immediately squatted down. At the same time, the sword and shield soldiers behind them also threw the last round of javelins and throwing axes in their hands.
Just like when facing the coalition forces of Siming Mountain on the shore of Siming Lake, the javelins flew overhead, and the spearmen of the Qing army leaned down and charged, and those sword and shield soldiers who re-raised their swords and shields followed closely behind, and the collision between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties was about to break out.
At a short distance of fifteen meters, the javelins of the Qing army arrived in an instant, and the Qing army that followed had already rushed into a distance of ten meters. At this time, the Nantang camp was still as immobile as a mountain. Because the distance was already too close, the strength and hit rate of the javelins and flying axes were far better than before, and most of these throwing weapons smashed on the long cards and rattan cards of the Mandarin Duck Formation after passing an afterimage, and even more directly crossed these shields and flew towards the Mandarin Duck Formation in the second row.
Only the muffled sound of the long card and the rattan card being struck, because the long card players are selected when selecting some old and courageous people, so even if the kinetic power carried by these weapons at this moment is really not small, but they still hold the long card, maintain tactical movements, and shelter the teammates behind them.
In contrast, rattan players who are young, convenient, and flexible in recruiting are very difficult to face in the face of such a scene.
Due to the excellent training performance of the 15th Killer Team of Ding Whistle, not only was the captain appointed as the commander of Ding Whistle, but even the captain and some soldiers were promoted, so that many recruits were added during the expansion. At this moment, one of the wolf fighters of the 15th Killer Team of Ding Whistle was a recruit who only joined the army in September, that is, Chen Fugui, the charcoal burner who lied because of taboos when Chen Wen was recruiting troops in the town below the mountain.
Chen Fugui originally planned to be a cavalryman, riding a high-headed horse, so not majestic, and he also firmly believed that although his strength could not be compared with those fierce generals who wielded hundreds of catties of weapons at every turn in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he could easily wield a blade weighing dozens of catties, and he would definitely be able to charge on the battlefield like the ancestor of the general, and then seal his wife and son.
It's just that the rules in this camp are not that you can do whatever you want, and the "HR supervisor" Gu Zhushu, who is responsible for the distribution, directly classified him into the collection of wolf fighters after the interview, and then was added to the fifteenth killer team of Ding Sentinel, which has always been known as the most diligent and hard-working in the Nantang camp.
The rattan player in front of Chen Fugui is not tall and his strength is not very strong, and he is better at being flexible and fighting on weekdays, and is even nicknamed a wild monkey by his colleagues. It's just that at this moment, the Qing army's firepower suppression is really powerless for him, those javelins and flying axes are constantly smashing on his rattan cards, even if he has been gritting his teeth and insisting, he has almost pushed to the ground several times, if it weren't for Chen Fugui behind him who has been behind him, this formation will not be able to maintain.
The third round of throwing of the Qing army ended, even if the force was greater and the projection was more accurate, but it was a pity that it was still the same as before, and was blocked by the two players in the front row of each Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team, and it still did not cause the expected casualties, and there was no need to even mention the word death.
With the waist knife in his right hand, he swept down the weighty flying axes and javelins nailed to the rattan plaque, and the wild monkey was easily relieved, but at this moment, the pikemen in the first row of the Qing army had already rushed to the front.
Suddenly, the six captains of the three outposts in front of the Nantang battalion lined up in the front row gave an order, out of the usual practice, the long players and rattan players of each team immediately changed their tactical movements, only to see their left leg bowed forward, right leg slightly bent, and at the same time with their left hand to put the long card and rattan card in front of them, and pressed the knife on the right side of the shield, putting themselves in a posture of imminent formation.
Over time, these moves act as a reflex to instantly put players in a defensive stance for an onslaught. It's just that at this time, the Qing army has already rushed to the front, and even some spears are not even a meter away from Changpai. If nothing else, the army that is attacked by this surprise will inevitably enter a situation of passive beating, and the side that is raiding will also increase the hope of victory because it has gained the initiative in the local battlefield.
But at this moment, the captains of each team gave the order again, and saw that Chen Fugui, like the other wolf players in the front row, immediately put the wolf whisk flat, regardless of whether it was aligned or not, and stabbed towards the spearmen of the Qing army in a daze.
The length of the spear is indefinite, but the chariot and cavalry battles are longer, the foot battles are shorter, the horses and defenders are long, the chargers are shorter, and the javelins used for throwing are even shorter. In the Ming and Qing armies here, the spears were basically about seven or eight feet, or due to personal habits, or because of the design of the manufacture, there will always be some discrepancies.
It's just that even if it's different, the weapons held by these spearmen who charge with guns are only about two meters and a half, which is nothing compared to the five-meter-long wolf squirt.
The wolf whisk is five meters long and is made of large bamboo, without removing the branches, and then installing a spear head at the top. On the battlefield, I saw that the wolf wipers of the Nantang battalion had flattened the wolf whisks one after another and stabbed at the Qing spearmen who were charging towards them. The wolf warriors didn't care whether they were aimed at it or not, but just stabbed forward as ordered, in order to suppress the Qing spearmen who were charging at them.
At this moment, the pikemen who had already rushed to the front of the Qing army were restrained by such unreasonable pressure weapons, or they were stabbed by the head of the wolf's spear before they could attack the long player, or they were shocked by the large branches before they could rush into the distance, and even the ones themselves had suddenly stopped, but were staggered by the sword and shield soldiers who followed behind them. Then it hit the branch of the wolf and even the head of the spear.
For a time, the front row of the Qing army was lost and became a mess!
During this period, it was not without the spearmen of the Qing army rushing to the front, after all, the wolf soldiers were strong, and it was too late to sweep left and right as they did on weekdays. Unfortunately, they were immediately besieged by the long and vine players, and the-stirring wolf players were deliberately restricting their movements, so that they didn't do any damage at that moment.
However, after this moment, the pikemen in the mandarin duck formation had also entered the predetermined position, and the boring palladium hand on the side also stood up. Under the siege, these fish that slipped through the net will no longer have physiology to speak of.
From the engagement, to the wolf hand pressing the formation, to the pikemen and the boring palladium hand to keep up, the Nantang Battalion's Mandarin Duck Array killer team instantly completed the change of the junior talent formation. So, under such a defensive counterattack-based formation, each soldier stood in a trapezoidal position, once again taking out the old routine of cooperating with each other and fighting more and less, but this time the fate of the loser was no longer as simple as being knocked to the ground.
Chen Wen looked at the scene not far away, the soldiers of the Nantang Battalion were so proficient that they were able to reflex, all relying on the longitudinal formation anti-pressure training that had been revised after the competition.
According to the new version of the longitudinal formation anti-pressure training, when the people who throw the clods of soil every time they finish throwing or a few times with a fixed amount, other people standing next to them with sticks will run forward, and then the Mandarin Duck Array killer team needs to quickly change the formation to ensure that their side is not suppressed by the opponent.
After a period of training, Chen Wen and several officers under him also summed up the main point, that is, relying on the advantage of the wolf to disrupt the opponent's charging rhythm, so that the other team members can calmly move and change the formation. Of course, long and vine players must also react as quickly as possible just in case.
The reason why Chen Wen revised the column's anti-pressure training to such a way is completely because of some offensive and defensive common sense of the army in this era that they mentioned during the banquet with Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan, and this scene was included in it.
The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties in this era, due to the few differences in weapons and equipment, are almost the same in terms of combat methods, but there are some details that may be different, such as the third throwing gunner of the standard battalion squatting on the ground, waiting for the javelin to fly and then leaning over and sprinting, which is Huang Zhongdao They have never used.
Knowing the basic mode of infantry warfare, Chen Wen began to train the Nantang battalion on how to deal with it, and the results of all this are reflected today.
"Brother Huang, Brother Mao, the tactics used by these Tartars were all told to me by you in person, and my Nantang battalion also restrained the tactics of the Tartars with their coping training. Your heavenly spirits and watch it, I, Chen Wen, will definitely avenge you! ”
Chen Wen, who was already shrouded by the desire for revenge, had also let go of his previous worries at this moment, since the Qing army had decided to have a face-to-face battle, then let Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array teach them how to behave!
On the battlefield, the five-meter-long wolf is in the hands of Chen Fugui, whose strength is far beyond ordinary people, like a swimming dragon, attacking the Qing army in front of the team without pause, although there is only one spearhead, but the branches of this big bamboo are too luxuriant, even if there is no blade on it, but this close threat really gives the Qing army great psychological pressure.
Chen Fugui and other wolf wrestlers are the same, according to the six forms practiced on weekdays, according to the situation. Even a beginner brother on the battlefield like him, with a wolf in his hand, feels that his courage has doubled, and the results of his daily practice have been fully used, and he has even become more and more fluent.
"Hah!"
Hearing only a roar, Chen Fugui swept the wolf sword, and one of the opponent's sword and shield soldiers was swept to the ground, at this time, the rattan player and a pikeman next to him immediately rushed to the attack, the rattan player struggled to block the attack of the other opponent's helpers, and the pikeman effortlessly stabbed the Qing soldier who fell to the ground to death.
That's the rhythm!
Chen Fugui held the second half of the wolf with both hands, and was not ready to rely on the spear head to assassinate at all, the officers who led the team during the drill on Dalan Mountain had said, and even his general Chen Wen had said that the mandarin duck array was the first to cooperate, and a single weapon was of little use, but if it was well coordinated, it was one plus one equal to infinite effect.
Although he never understood why one plus one was not equal to two, but equal to the poor ghost surnamed Wu, whether in the training facility or when fighting in a team, the better the cooperation, the more likely he was to win.
At this moment, Chen Fugui tried his best to disrupt the opponent's behavior for his teammates and create opportunities for assassination, just like fighting in the way he did in his usual training. Even in the bloody battlefield, his movements were not affected in the slightest. Because he firmly believed that what Chen Wen, a general who never withheld military salaries and enslaved soldiers, must be correct.
People are moral, and only those who abide by the teachings of the saints on "benevolence" are called people, and those who can only burn and kill and plunder are not people, they are all animals. Just like the sage once said, Yidi, beasts, and Tartars are beasts, and these two Tartars who don't want ancestors and work for tigers are also beasts, and every time they kill such beasts, more good people can survive, so killing these beasts on the battlefield should not have even the slightest sense of guilt.
"Kill!"
Thinking of this, seeing that a Qing army made a mistake in position, and the opportunity was fleeting, Chen Fugui did not wait for his comrades to make a move, and stabbed it with all his might, and the Qing saber and shield soldier who was hit by him did not rely on the shield to shake the head of the wolf's spear away, but under his brute force, he stabbed him in the abdomen with one shot.
The Qing soldier watched all this in disbelief, and his hands couldn't care about those branches, so he threw down his sword and shield and held the wolf sword tightly. And at this moment, Chen Fugui learned to watch the movements of the pikemen on weekdays, twisted his hands, and the head of the wolf's spear turned around in the Qing soldier, and then pulled, only to see that the colorful intestines were also brought out.
After pulling it out, Chen Fugui immediately swept the wolf to another Qing army around him, trying to cooperate with the other team members to assassinate him......
Traditional martial arts often say: one inch is long and one inch is strong, and one inch is short and one inch is dangerous. Long and strong, sharp, short and treacherous, weird, and secretly murderous. However, on top of the battle formation, unless you can break through to the opponent with long soldiers and take advantage of the shortcomings of long soldiers to kill them, it is still better to have dense long soldiers.
The Nantang battalion used the version of the Mandarin Duck Formation when Qi Jiguang was fighting against the Japanese in the south, relying on the wolf squirt pressure array, the long card protection array, the rattan card wandering, the spear assassination and the boring palladium to cover the flanks, plus the temporary cameo flag gun, these weapons are by no means based on spears, swords and shields, axes, hammers and long knives, all soldiers have them, and they also advocate the Qing army, which is more expensive but shorter than the Qing army.
On the battlefield, the wolf is constantly attacking the Qing army with the change of moves, although there is only one spear head, but those branches are typical toads lying on their feet, killing people who can't kill people. Although they were ineffective against armor, they obstructed the view and even stabbed the eyes, so that the Qing army would never dare to ignore them.
What is the immediate threat, this is the immediate threat, and the threat is not small.
Even if the restriction of the wolf is temporarily freed, it is difficult for the Qing army's weapons to attack the opponent with a weapon that is no more than two meters and a half. But if it rushes to the front, the Ming army's long cards, rattan cards, spears, boring palladium and flag guns will also cooperate according to the situation, and at the same time defuse the Qing army's attack one by one, and kill it.
At this moment, the situation of the Qing army in the front row is very difficult, the assault to the front is a dead word, and keeping a distance is the same as being passively beaten, the pikemen are like this, and the sword and shield soldiers need space to wield their weapons, and the phenomenon of being beaten more and less by the Ming army is even more serious. On the contrary, the archers in the back row continued to shoot upward, which could also bring certain casualties to these Ming troops who were wearing only one piece of armor and the quality was not very good. It's just that the Qing army will release arrows, and although there are not many archers in the Ming army, it is not that they will not release arrows.
On the battlefield here, weapons are mixed and flesh and blood fly; Although there were far more parabolas crossed by bows and arrows and javelins from the Qing army than the Ming army, the effect of such upward shooting, which almost ignored aiming, was not very good. It's just that if you add that the morale of the Qing army is booming, the strength is also stronger, even if the casualties far exceed the opponent's, they still haven't collapsed.
But at this moment, behind the Ming army's formation, an arrow flew into the sky, and a sharp whistle tore through the shouts of killing on the battlefield.
There is a way, a cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops come to meet!
PS: This is today's second update, and the third chapter of the four chapters that I owe last month.