The content of the training is still the wall array and the mandarin duck array, especially the simple and easy-to-understand wall array, and Yang Chao has also added some changes.

After several months of competition with Lao Jin, Yang Chao has a deep understanding of the wall formation, the strength of the wall formation is that it is an unfolding formation, so there is no need to prepare when attacking, you can charge directly, and the mandarin duck formation needs to constantly change the formation according to the enemy's situation, it can be said that the wall formation is an attack formation, and the mandarin duck formation is a combination of offense and defense.

However, after the later practice, Yang Chao improved the wall array, that is, before the wall array, a row of long players was arranged to make a shield wall.

Behind the shield wall are three rows of spearmen, such a simple combination, which enriches the content of the wall formation, not only as an offensive formation, but also as a defensive role.

Later, when Guo Craftsman delivered all the bird guns, Yang Chao added a row of bird guns to the wall array.

Now there are two sets of routines for the wall formation: defense and attack.

When defending, the Birdmen and Archers shoot the enemy from a distance, and then charge with pikemen when the enemy gets closer.

Originally, Yang Chao also planned to cover when the archers charged, but when the wall array charged, it was generally close to the enemy after all, so the unskilled archers always shot their own backs, so Yang Chao gave up the plan to let the archers cover.

"Bird Gun Ready—"

Wang Pu shouted loudly.

The Birdman, who had already been loaded behind the shield wall, immediately raised his gun and placed the Bird's Gun on a shield that could protect the shoulders of the people.

"Put!"

Wang Pu shouted.

A hundred birds were fired at the same time, but the sound was uneven.

Although the price of the bird gun is much lower than that of the iron armor, the craftsmanship of the bird gun is honestly much finer than the iron armor.

Iron armor looks complicated, and a pair of iron armor has hundreds or thousands of armor pieces. Stacked in tandem by leather ropes, but the barrel of the bird's gun, bolt mechanism, etc. All of them belong to precision parts, which are extremely troublesome to process. Among them, it takes a month to drill the barrel, and it must be operated by skilled workers, otherwise it is easy to produce scrap.

So even if Yang Chao gave Guo Jiangtou a large deposit, it still took Guo Jiangtou more than half a year to deliver all the bird guns to Yang Chao.

As a result, Yang Chao's Bird Gun has a shorter training time, which is not only slow to reload, but also not neat when cast.

But the use of firearms to kill and wound enemy troops in large numbers. This line of thinking is in line with future development, so Yang Chao attaches great importance to the role of birds.

As early as when Marshal Qi Jiguang was in the northern marshalling battalion, half of the firearms were equipped, including a large number of artillery.

It's a pity that Yang Chao can't get artillery, Yang Chao is extremely interested in artillery, and even surpasses the bird gun, but the War Bureau refused to sell it to Yang Chao, saying that there must be a military department, otherwise it will not be sold for any amount of money, and the military department will not equip the water battalion with artillery. Artillery in the south belonged to the defense of the city, and the field troops were not equipped with equipment.

Yang Chao did not have a battalion of soldiers under him, and the geographical conditions in the south were not suitable for the car battalion. Therefore, Lao Jin did not train the car battalion according to the northern arrangement, but adopted the mandarin duck formation suitable for the south, and added a bird gunner to each team.

"Change formation! Triad! ”

Yang Chao shouted to Wang Pu.

The so-called three-fold array is somewhat similar to the Western three-stage strike technique.

However, in the West, the three-stage attack is to rotate the soldiers in three rows, and after the first row is finished, they turn to the last row to start loading, the second row starts to release guns, and after the second row is finished, they go back to the last to reload. The third row of guns, after the third row is finished. The first row was already loaded, and one rotation formed a constant firepower.

The three-stage strike is the most important form of musket used in the West. In the East, however, a similar triad was used, in which the soldiers were not rotated, but the muskets were rotated.

After the first platoon of gunners finished firing, the empty guns were transferred to the second row, the soldiers of the second row were sent back to the third row, the soldiers of the third row were loaded, and the loaded ones were returned to the first row through the second row.

Yang Chao also knew that he had at least seen it in the movie, and Yang Chao felt that the Chinese three-stage array was more efficient, after all, it removed the extra time for people to rotate back and forth.

Wang Pu immediately ordered the soldiers to form a three-fold formation.

The hundred bird-bearers were immediately divided into three rows, each of which became thirty-three.

Put a shot and charge, this is the attack formation of the wall formation when the two sides engage, and the rotation of the three-fold array is a change of formation when preparing for a protracted battle.

Yang Chao watched the three rows of people start practicing, the third row was constantly responsible for loading, the first row was shooting, and the second row was responsible for rotation.

It's still not smooth enough, because the time for editing is still too short.

After less than three days of drilling, Shi Kefa fired a cannon, promoted to commander, and recruited generals.

Shi Kefa was in the center, and a group of military generals sat on both sides.

The people sitting in the column are all first-class military attachés of the general adjutant general, and Yang Chao can only sit at the end of the rank.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this governor plans to go north to annihilate the enemy. Dongyu divided his troops to attack Shouguang, Dezhou, Wuding, and Laiyang, and killed Song Mei, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, Song Yingheng in the Ministry of Officials, Zhao Shiji, and Zhang Hong, the magistrate of the county. Liu Zeqing fought in Anqiu, and the captives had broken their edges, and it was the time to go north to gather and annihilate the captives. ”

Shi Kefa talked rhetorically.

The military general sat down, but his face was afraid.

The army of the Ming Dynasty encountered the Dongyu, and never won a victory, and it would be good if it was not annihilated in peace talks.

A military general sitting closest to Shi Kefa stood up and arched his hand: "Master Shi, the last general dares to ask where Dongyu is now?" ”

Shi Kefa shook his head and couldn't answer, the news he received was half a month ago, and no new news has been delivered so far.

Another military general also stood up: "Master Shi, the enemy situation is unknown, how dare you speak lightly to enter the army!" ”

Shi Kefa nodded, also showing a hesitant look.

Then the third general stood up: "Lord Shi, the last general dares to ask if the Dongyu can join forces to invade Nangi?" ”

The Eastern captives entered the fortress in November last year, and the troops rushed forward, looted near Gyeonggi in Beijing, and hit Shandong in less than a month, and then boldly continued to divide troops and plunder, and the Ming army only dared to stay in the city, and even the captive soldiers and rangers did not dare to resist, allowing the other party to wreak havoc in the countryside.

The eastern captives divided their troops in Linqing, Shandong, and rushed all the way to the light army without staying in Shandong, and directly entered Nanzhili, attacked Shuyang, Yizhou, and Fengxian, and killed Liu Guangxian in Zhixian County.

All the way along Dongchang, Yanzhou Mansion all the way to the south, looting and advancing, the same month into Mengyin, Surabaya, Zou County, December into Linzi County, Zhixian Wenchang Shi Closed Room**, broke through Yangxin, broke through Binzhou, and finally broke into Yanzhou, Zhu Shouyong, King of Lu, since the military preparation Wang Weixin, the prefect Deng Xifan, the deputy chief soldier Ding Wenming, Fan Shutai and others were killed. Break through Teng County, break through Yi County, break through Yancheng, and then enter Huai'an Mansion and enter Nanzhili. There is a posture of directly going south to threaten Jiangnan.

In just one month, the Dongyu army approached Jiangnan, scaring the civil and military forces in Jiangnan enough, Shi Kefa sat in Huai'an and was uneasy, wanting to go north to King Qin, but also afraid of Huai'an and losing.

Although the Dongyu have now returned to the army, no one can say whether they will turn back, and the speed of their advance even exceeds the speed of the Ming army's news transmission.

When Dongyu hit Nanzhili, Yang Chao had even just seen the report of Dongyu's entry into the palace. The Ming army was unable to grasp the news if they were intent on killing thieves, and they were afraid that the enemy army would be absent from the local area, and those who had no intention of killing thieves found a very reasonable excuse.

Because Shi Kefa didn't dare to guarantee that Dongyu would not go south again, Shi Kefa couldn't answer.

The fourth general stood up: "Master Shi, if you go south, you should protect the river and annihilate the enemy." ”

Shi Kefa thought for a while and said, "When you protect the river!" ”

The first military general said: "Lord Yu, since you should protect the river, you should focus on Huai'an and Yangzhou, and you must not enter Shandong lightly." ”

The second military general said: "Yes, my lord, if I wait to go north and the Qing troops from the east attack Huaiyang, what should I do?" ”

Shi Kefa hesitated.

The third general said: "The subordinates have the courage to admonish, Lord Wangshi takes the safety of Cao Yun as the priority, and the imperial court will send a large army to suppress the enemy in Shandong, and we must not leave our posts without permission, so as not to fall into the plan of the eastern captives to transfer the tiger from the mountain." ”

The fourth military general also said: "My lord, think twice, Caoyun is the foundation of Sheji, Nangi is an important place in the world, and the mausoleum of Taizu is located, so you must not lose it." If the Dongyu takes advantage of the weakness to go south and disturb the ancestral tomb, we will be unable to escape the blame for our death! ”

Several generals said heartbreakingly, and the more Shi Kefa listened, the more hesitant he became.

Yang Chao secretly muttered to himself, Shi Kefa is famous in history, and he is not afraid of death.

But when he heard these reasons at this time, he hesitated, he must not be for his own safety but too worried.

"I didn't expect the famous national hero to be an indecisive person!"

Yang Chao immediately judged in his heart that Shi Kefa did not have the courage to make decisions, saying that the good thing is to brainstorm and be good at listening to the opinions of his subordinates, and to say that the bad point is that he has no opinion and is easy to be swayed by his subordinates.

Yang Chao has been paying attention to the Di newspaper, and saw that in less than a month, almost all the provinces in Shandong have information about the appearance of Dongyu, and even Shuyang in Huai'an Mansion has been breached, and then the troops have rolled back to the north.

This time, the eastern captives entered the Kou, led by Nurha's red concubine Abatai, with a total strength of 100,000, but excluding the miscellaneous labor, in fact, the real soldiers died 50,000 or 60,000.

And Abatai divided his troops and plundered like this, obviously did not take the Ming army in his eyes, and gave the Ming army a good opportunity to divide his troops and annihilate it, but the Ming army really should be looked down upon, basically no one wants to fight, and the generals here in Huai'an Mansion are only a very small part, but they are very representative.

Yang Chao didn't say much, because he went to Shandong with more than 600 people, which was actually a dead end.

If the Ming Dynasty was civil-military and civilian, and the civil officials could take care of the overall situation, Yang Chao's army was allowed to enter the city, Yang Chao thought that when encountering the enemy cavalry, it should be more than enough to defend the city by himself, just like encountering Jiang bandits on the river, with the help of big ships, even if they were new soldiers, they had enough opportunities to correct their mistakes and finally defeat the Jiang bandits.

However, the civilian officials of the Ming army did not allow the generals to enter the city at all, and the defense of their own army was the same as that of thieves. (To be continued)