It has been two days since the new personnel appointments were announced.

Today, it is the twentieth month of the 50th year of Zhengde, and it is a memorable day for Wu Yijun.

Next to the camp of the Wuyi Army in the north of Leling County, a vacant land of tens of acres in size has been cleared out, and the officers and soldiers of 13 hundred households are lined up in 13 neat small squares, standing straight and solemn, and their faces are as cold and hard as iron. Today's weather is not good, the sky is the iron gray common in the winter of the Northland, black clouds overwhelm the city, the cold wind is howling, hitting people's faces, blowing painfully. The weeds that have long been dried up around lie on the ground, and between heaven and earth, there is only slaughter and desolation!

But in the hearts of these soldiers, there is excitement, excitement, and a trace of anticipation.

They were assigned to the thirteen hundred households to which the 1,000th household of Xiong Tingbi's infantry army belonged, and the leadership framework of these thirteen hundred households had been completed, and twenty powerful and elite soldiers were selected from each hundred households to form two new halberd hundred households, and the vacant ones were supplemented from other places. A number of small flags, general flags, and hundreds of households at all levels have been transferred, and the people who have made up for them are all veterans of the Wu Yi Army who have been promoted from the grassroots level, and they are all familiar with them, and they are easy to get started. It can be said that this adaptation has almost no impact on them.

And they were the first batch of soldiers to practice the new formation, and the news of the new tactics also came out -- which made the hearts of each of them burn hot. After several battles, they have grown into veterans, and what veterans need, one is a group, the other is recognition and affirmation. And Lian Zining's approach is undoubtedly the greatest satisfaction for their sense of honor. Therefore, everyone is full of energy, and this model must be done well.

The recruits are watching!

That's right, next to the camp of the Wu Yi Army, a new recruit camp with an even larger area and endless houses like a small town has been built. Six thousand recruits have been sent here, and the veterans and officers of the Wu Yi Army as instructors have also moved in. These recruits will undergo a month-long recruit training in this large camp, and after Lian Zining and Qiwei discussed, the compact course that combines the training of the later PLA and the United States Marine Corps and the contemporaneous Western infantry is a devil, and it will definitely leave these poor recruits with unforgettable memories.

Now, of course, they did not know the miserable fate of the month to come, and on the first day of their arrival, they had finished dividing the barracks, arranged their teams and belongings, remembered their commanders and companions, and were given a day off. At this time, these recruits, who did not have the slightest military temperament on their faces, were wearing the gray cotton robes that had just been issued, holding their hands, standing behind the fence of the recruit camp, and stupidly looking at this side.

With a cheerful smile on his face and a lively expression.

The officers did not restrain them, but looked at them with pity, thinking to themselves that they should enjoy these fellows one more day! Lian Zining had already sent down the training content, and the content made them, the veterans who had been trained hard in the Jingnan camp, shudder.

And they were not the only onlookers, Lian Zining and a group of officers and soldiers were stationed on a hill a hundred paces away, looking over here.

A hundred times on paper is not as good as putting on a posture and practicing a big game.

The sound of war horses came like thunder, and Xiong Tingbi, the thousandth household of the Wuyi Army's infantry army, came with dozens of personal soldiers and came to the front of all sights. Behind him, dozens of carts, carefully wrapped in tarpaulins.

Xiong Tingbi got on the temporary one-zhang high point platform, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of logistics baggage soldiers under Wang Dachun lifted the oilcloth on the carriage, and there was a loud gasp at the scene.

Above the carriage were spears of great length, full of gold and iron, with sharp and cold glittering heads, and halberds that looked slightly shorter but even heavier.

Xiong Tingbi said lightly: "All the soldiers, in units of 100 households, stepped forward in turn to receive weapons. ”

The loud voice of his subordinates passed down the order, and it was worthy of being a strong army after the war, and one by one hundreds of households stepped forward to receive weapons in an orderly manner.

Soon, except for the fire gun and the iron cannon house, the remaining nine hundred houses received weapons, and the soldiers were obviously very excited about it, and they all looked a little fond of holding it in their hands. For a soldier, the weapon is their second life.

At this point, the soldier's weapons are complete.

All soldiers wore a waist knife - in case of close combat.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty's combat effectiveness was so poor before the military reform in the 30th year of Zhengde was inseparable from the corruption of civilian officials, and sometimes the swords issued to the border soldiers were actually made of wood! The bow and crossbow could not be opened at all, and the feathered arrows only had a wooden pole, no arrow clusters, and no tail feathers. This is similar to the incident in which the soldiers of the Sichuan Army went out of the Sichuan War of Resistance with enthusiasm during the Anti-Japanese War and traveled thousands of miles to reach Nanjing, and the bullets they received from the Kuomintang officials turned out to be made of wood and painted with green paint. In such a scenario, the one who goes in terms of combat effectiveness is the ghost.

Since the 35th year of Zhengde, the emperor of the General Weapons Bureau has killed the corrupt officials who have gone up and down, and the waist knife made by the Ordnance Bureau of the Ming Dynasty has made a qualitative leap, with deep moire, sufficient materials, and quite sharp, the Ming Dynasty has not fallen behind in the face of the surrounding evil neighbors in the military over the years, and the superior surname of the weapon is also not unrelated.

Xiong Tingbi ordered: "All soldiers, line up!" The musketeers were in the front, the pikemen were in the middle, and the halberders were the last. Each row is one hundred households. ”

The soldiers followed the orders under the command of the officer, they were all accustomed to it, and they were also very fluent at this time, but it was just a cup of tea time, and they had already lined up in a queue, forming a huge phalanx!

The front is still the musketers, and there is still no progress in the manufacture of muskets on Gonzalez's side, although Lian Zining has repeatedly urged, but he also knows that it is really impossible to rush to engage in scientific research and creation. Now all the three hundred households of Wu Yijun's infantry army and five thunder god pilots have been assigned to Xiong Tingbi, they are already old pawns, and they know very well what they should do, at this time they all start to load bullets and load gunpowder, although it is a drill, but it is meticulous.

Behind them, there was an iron artillery with a force of 100 households, and they were at this time figuring out the five tiger squat cannons in their hands—this was why Lian Zining wanted to add this 100 households of artillery to the infantry. The firing range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is too close, and its power is limited when used alone, but when combined with the infantry phalanx, it is extremely lethal.

It stands to reason that a tiger squat cannon is actually served by three people, no more than five people at most, Lian Zining plans to equip an iron cannon with at least twenty tiger squat cannons, but this wish does not know what year and month it will take to come true, Gonzalez and the others have only made five guns at full power.

Behind them were seven rows of spears, and behind them were two rows of halberders.

With such an army equip, the Ming Dynasty is definitely unique.

Xiong Tingbi said: "All of them, spear!" ”

A forest of spears suddenly sprang up on the flat ground - this is a real forest of spears, you know, many trees are not even eight meters high...... The recruits let out a loud, neat exclamation. It is conceivable how much psychological deterrence this forest of spears will bring to the enemy on the battlefield.

Then Xiong Tingbi gave an order, and his own soldiers stood on the point platform, these people were also holding spears in their hands, Xiong Tingbi passed the order, what to do on the stage, how to do the spearmen below.

There was a loud voice from the audience, and the four fields shouted violently: "Whoa! ”

Xiong Tingbi raised his voice and said: "The first action is how to make the correct defensive action when facing the cavalry. ”

After that, his own soldiers began to demonstrate, bending forward in a half-squatting posture with their right foot against the bottom of the spear shaft, holding the shaft of the spear with the tiger's mouth in their left hand upwards, and holding the shaft with the tiger's mouth in their right hand downward, the shaft of the shaft was tilted forward at a 45-degree angle with the tip of the spear aimed at the direction of the enemy, and their right hand was only a few inches away from the waist knife, and if necessary, they pulled out the waist knife with their right hand to defend their own safety.

This is the most standard posture, what Lian Zining instilled in Wu Yijun before was more from his later TV and his own three-point conjectures, which looked like it, but compared with this, it was the grass platform team.

Xiong Tingbi let everyone see his rigorous and demanding side, just this one action, it was more than a hundred times back and forth to make him satisfied. He will even go down to the bottom, one by one to observe whether their movements are up to standard, and his style of acting is obviously branded with a deep Lian Zining, the first time he makes a mistake, he is pleasant, the second time he makes a mistake, he is pleasant, and the third time he makes a mistake, he immediately pulls out a good fight. Under the combination of grace and power, these veterans were tossed and obeyed. By the time this action was completed, a full hour had passed.

The second action is to shake the barrel of the gun.

The soldiers put the end of the spear tightly on the ground, 90 degrees straight into the blue sky, leaned forward slightly, and then bent down slightly, holding the end of the spear three feet with their left hand, and raised their right hand high, holding the end six feet up, and began to shake the barrel of the spear vigorously. Due to the length of the spear itself, the lower end of the spear did not move at all under the vigorous swing, while the upper part and the tip of the spear began to shake.

The spear didn't shake much, but it was enough for a dense formation, because the tips of the spears had collided from time to time, making a crisp sound. From a distance, the whole forest seemed to be alive, as if it was being blown by the wind and kept shaking.

And the significance of this in actual combat is that the shaking of the dense gun barrel is enough to weave a huge interception net over the entire phalanx, intercepting most of the feathered arrows thrown over. This has been proven countless times in actual combat. Although it has little effect on direct crossbows, crossbows are expensive to build in both East and West, and 90% of the long-range weapons in the army are bows and arrows that use projectiles to kill.

The spears were so long that they covered even the musketeers and iron artillerymen in front and the halberders in the back.

This time, it was another half an hour...... Rao is that these soldiers are all veterans who have suffered in the Jingnan camp, and they are tired enough at this time, and the spectators have long been scattered - those recruits yawn straight at it, except for a very few people with good intentions, the others have already dispersed. But Lian Zining and a kind of officer are all watching with relish, the so-called insiders look at the doorway, and the laymen look at the excitement, that's the case.

"Dazhu, go to the recruit camp and tell those instructors to write down the names of the recruits who are still reading now, and focus on training."

"Yes, sir!" Shi Dazhu took the order and left.

Opportunities always slip out of your hands inadvertently.

In the morning, he only practiced the two most basic movements, and the process seemed to be very slow, but Lian Zining was very sure in his heart, knowing that it was right to hand over the thousandth household of the infantry army to Xiong Tingbi. He himself has experience, and when it comes to training soldiers, what he is most afraid of is not to take it slowly, but to be too careful, to be able to calm down, and to calm down, so that he can train a good soldier.

After a break at noon, in the afternoon, it was the basic battle formation situation and the actual combat drill was conducted.

First, the musketeers attacked, and after three consecutive rounds of feigned firing, they retreated from the queue left by the spearmen to the rear of the formation, and then the iron artillery opened fire, and after one round of shooting, they also dragged the tiger squat cannon back. At this time, the imaginary cavalry has also arrived in front of him, that is, the spearmen are like Lin to resist, and then at this time, it is time for the halberders to appear, and the halberders of two hundred households, one left and one right, rushed out of the rear formation, like two of the sharpest horns, from the left and right wings!

And at this time, the spearmen were also frantically advancing forward to cover and kill.

This is just a tactic when facing cavalry, but it is just one of many tactics in the phalanx.

After the reform, the new phalanx tactics have only one thing in common, and that is - attack!

At this time, there was no large-scale use of musket weapons in the Swiss phalanx, and European countries generally followed this path, but the best combination of firearms and spear phalanx was the Spanish phalanx at this time, and the proportion of musketeers reached 20 to 25 percent.

However, the quality and combat effectiveness of the pikemen of the Spanish phalanx were far from those of the Swiss phalanx.

Lian Zining's tactics are basically to combine the advantages of the two into one.

The infantry had to have the fighting strength of the Swiss phalanx and the fighting spirit of fighting to the death, while the musketeers were to be as skilled and calm as the heavy musketeers of Spain across Europe and America.

The biggest change in the improved phalanx and the previous one is the increase in the attack ability of the infantry, in the previous Wu Yi Army, the main attacker and firepower output was the firecracker, while the pikeman basically played the role of defending and covering the firecracker, unless it was in a chaotic battle with the enemy, it could hardly cause any damage. In the content of Wu Yijun's previous training, it was also taught how to defend, and there was no content related to taking the initiative to attack forward.

And now, among Professor Xiong Tingbi's various phalanx tactics, the largest proportion is attack.

In the various tactics of the exercise, if the opponent is cavalry, the entire phalanx will advance, attack, and kill the enemy, instead of stupidly waiting for the enemy to attack, even if it is facing cavalry, it will launch a charge after resisting.

In one afternoon, all kinds of tactics made the soldiers want to die, and they also dazzled Lian Zining and others.

Those who are not convinced are silent at this time - to be able to carry out these complicated tactics clearly, this is not something that ordinary people can do.

(To be continued)