Chapter 49 Actual combat training in the field, and spears in the wild hills break the enemy

Wuzhong County is on the frontier, which can be described as a hundred industries in ruin, and thousands of villages are in decline.

More than a dozen villages near the Great Wall have become lonely ghost towns, and even during the day, there are not a single or two figures in sight.

Countless fields have been swallowed up by wild grass, and wild beasts have begun to infest the land at some point.

One day, several ordinary people passed by the foot of the Great Wall and were targeted by several wild dogs.

As a result, four people were injured.

The living people carried the wounded to the county office.

The four of them were groaning in pain, their clothes had been bitten by wild dogs, and there were wounds on their thighs, bodies, and arms.

Although Lang Zhong had already bandaged them, the pain still made them miserable.

Seeing Liu Bei, Chen Mi and the others coming out, they struggled to get up.

Chen Mi motioned for them not to move, and then asked the people who had come with him, "What's going on?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, a few of us and others were originally the people of Wangjiayu at the foot of the Great Wall. Because of the constant harassment of the Xianbei cavalry, we escaped. We heard that the adults had killed the Xianbei cavalry, and we thought that they would not come again anytime soon, so we decided to go back to the village and get something. Unexpectedly, the village was full of wild beasts. The people spoke bitterly.

"Were they attacked by wild beasts?" Liu Bei asked puzzled.

"It's a wild dog! As we rushed over, several wild dogs were attacking them. The people said.

It seems that it's time to get some kids to exercise!

Hearing that wild dogs hurt people, Liu Bei had a plan in his heart.

"Let's go back first, we will send someone to deal with it as soon as possible!" Liu Bei looked at Chen Mi, and then said to the people.

Chen Mi also said on the side: "Don't worry, everyone. There are county soldiers in the county office, and this is Liu Junhou, who commands the county soldiers. ”

"Please, Lord Marquis! Please, Lord Junhou! The people were busy bowing to Liu Bei and pleading.

Chen Mi sent officials to bring fifty yuan to the injured people and send them back.

Liu Bei said to Chen Mi: "My lord, the training of the reserve team has been going on for some time. In my opinion, let them go and destroy these wild beasts that are attacking the people! These soldiers will not be trained to be real soldiers if they don't see blood! ”

"Can those kids do it?" Chen Mi asked a little uneasy.

Liu Bei said with a smile: "That team of foot archers are all the sons of Orion, and some have been hunting alone for several years. What I hope for more now are the spearmen. They are all the children of tenant farmers, and they follow their parents to farm on weekdays, where have they ever had the experience of competing with others? So, this time should be a good workout for them. ”

Hearing Liu Bei say this, Chen Mi rushed to be very curious: "You are young and seem to have unique insights into military training. ”

"It's not that I have an opinion, it's actually my teacher who told me that." Liu Bei said modestly. This reminded him of the teacher who was missing, Liu Du.

"Now that you've decided. Well, I've got your back! In terms of military operations, Chen Mi still supports Liu Bei's decision.

The next day, Liu Bei convened his subordinates to discuss the matter and tell the story.

Zheng Xing and Xijie asked for war one after another.

Liu Bei looked at the two of them and said, "You don't have to participate in this mission. ”

"Why?" The two asked, puzzled.

Liu Bei smiled slightly and said to them: "You veterans have already experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and the murderous aura on your body is not angry and arrogant. And the soldiers of those reserves, some of them may not have even killed a chicken. This hunting of beasts is precisely a combat training. Very important for them, and you veterans don't mean much! ”

Hearing Liu Bei say this, they knew that they had lost the task.

There are only five archers, and they are the five teenagers who have excellent archery skills in the training process and have a relatively comprehensive grasp of archer tactics. Liu Bei's requirement for them was that each person should act as a team leader once within five days and be responsible for the clearance of an area.

There were twenty-two men in the Spearmen, who were recruits.

Liu Bei divided them into three shizhong, and the chief of the river led the team to hunt wild beasts. The task is to kill at least one beast per recruit.

For four days in a row, the five archers hunted and killed the beasts in the area in a very regular battle formation.

On the fifth day, Zhang Ji, the chief on duty, saw that the four of them had the same tactics, and invisibly wasted a lot of opportunities to attack, and also wasted attack arrows.

He divided the fifty men into echelons, and when the beasts galloped out, the echelons shot in turn, and the first echelon had already been shot, and the latter did not need to make up the shots; If the previous echelon does not complete the shooting, the next echelon will shoot again until the prey is shot.

Back in the city, the five chiefs reported their achievements. According to their record, Liu Bei promoted Zhang Ji to be the team leader.

The efficiency of the archers still far exceeded that of the infantry.

When they returned to the county government to report to Liu Bei, the spearmen searched for prey.

Liu Bei sent three short spearmen and ten teams to three areas to conduct actual hunting.

How do you kill prey with a short spear?

The experienced commanders quickly told the soldiers the essentials of the team's siege.

Under the leadership of the elders, these young men, who have not yet reached adulthood, have all completed the tasks arranged by the military marquis.

The three chiefs led their soldiers to meet at the foot of the Great Wall and commented on each other's soldiers' combat performance. They all looked excited.

"Drive! Rush! "Drive!"

Suddenly, there was a noise from afar.

"What's the situation?" A sergeant asked alertly, and immediately arranged for the soldiers to do a good job of concealment, "You guys hurry up and hide." ”

With that, he climbed the big tree on the side.

Not far away, I saw seven or eight Xianbei cavalrymen, that is, Xianbei nomads, driving their horses through the gap in the Great Wall.

Not bad! It's the Xianbei cavalry.

It turned out that after this area became a no-man's land, the Xianbei cavalry often wandered around the neighborhood in groups of three or five, and hunted wild beasts after becoming interested.

The lone wolves in the steppes and the wild dogs in the hills have entered this area, and the prey is abundant.

There were few of them, because they heard that there were already Han troops stationed in Wuzhong County, so they did not dare to go deep into the territory of Han people.

He came down from the tree and said to everyone, "It's a Xianbei nomad!" Aren't we training for so long just to kill Xianbei people? Now that we've met them, why don't we practice with them? Do you dare? ”

Those recruits are all young people, full of blood, as the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

They said in unison, "Dare! What would not dare! ”

Another chief waved them to silence them, and asked cautiously, "How many people are there?" ”

"Only seven or eight!"

Hearing that there were only seven or eight people on the other side, he thought about the thirty people on his side, and the advantage of the number of people, so he said, "Okay, let's ambush them." You two are attacking from both wings, and I'm here to stop them! ”

The three of them agreed, and each went down to make arrangements.

In a short time, the Xianbei cavalry had already arrived at their hiding place.

Shi Chang looked at the casual and lazy Xianbei soldiers, and when they were less than three or five feet away from them, he suddenly jumped out and shouted, "Rush! ”

Suddenly, thirty spearmen were drawn from the grass below.

They worked in groups of three and attacked the same Xianbei cavalryman.

One person in front stabbed the horse's head with a short spear, and one person in the back stabbed the horse's hips. The horse wailed and fell in a pool of blood.

The soldier in the middle stabbed his spear directly at the knight on his horse.

In an instant, five of the Xianbei soldiers who could not react died under the short spear.

The remaining three in the middle were shocked, turned their horses, and fled back.

Seeing them fleeing, the three chiefs followed closely with their soldiers.

One of the soldiers, unable to keep up, stopped, and threw his spear at the three cavalrymen.

Shi Changjia saw that he couldn't catch up, so he thought about it and shouted: "Throw a spear!" ”

Will the three Xianbei cavalrymen be able to escape?