This day was the first day of the 70,000 combat troops, and it was of great significance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Before dawn, Zhang Yue got up, and led Ji Pingwen, Liu Guangye and other Chinese army guards to guard 2,000 horsemen to fight the guard of honor, and more than 20 people from the Chinese army staff group such as Xuan Chongwen, Wang Yanchao, Zong Jingcheng, Shi Yanchao, and Li Wanquan followed. First drive out of the camp for five miles, and erect the handsome flag at the Chinese army general platform that is scheduled to drill the battlefield.

In the large battalion, the soldiers of the seven divisions had already assembled in front of the battalion commander's tent in battalion units. According to the pre-arranged plan, the Chinese army has jurisdiction over the horse army camp, the infantry army camp, and the baggage camp.

This horse and step are easy to understand, and the baggage battalion is the command and dispatch of heavy weapons, such as trebuchets, manpower shoulder lifting, or vehicle-mounted five-arrow volcanic crossbows, horse-mounted heavy ten-arrow stacked crossbows and other mechanical weapons. This kind of mobility ability is relatively poor, and if there is no professional command personnel on the battlefield, it will disrupt the infantry formation.

Hao Tianying, the commander of the 1st Division and the Ma Army, Bian Ji, the commander of the 6th Division and the deputy commander of the Ma Army, Zong Yansi, the 4th Division, and Hao Jingwu, the 5th Division, were the main and deputy commanders, commanding 3,000 ironclad heavy cavalry and 22,000 medium and light cavalry to drive out of the camp and line up at the predetermined position.

Then there is the infantry formation, with Zong Jingcheng, Du Yanhui, Song Lingguang, and Zhao Weizhen as the main generals, dispatching units other than the baggage troops to follow out of the battalion.

Finally, Li Duofu and Gao Changhai, the chief and deputy commanders of the baggage camp, and Ding Baosheng and Gao Hongxuan, the four generals of the main and deputy capital supervisors, commanded more than 200 baggage carriages to slowly leave the camp, first went to the open space behind the Chinese army's generals, and with the assistance of 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, quickly moved the trebuchet parts off the carriage and assembled, and 50 torsion trebuchets were quickly erected.

The stacked crossbow is also called the car crossbow, which is definitely a luxury weapon that burns money, there are only thirty at present, which are fixed on the carriage, a car can be stacked with three to five bed crossbows, but the normal is three, if you install five, you can only launch at one time or take turns to fire, and a bed crossbow weighs more than 200 catties, it is too heavy to have high requirements for the battlefield road, and it is also very troublesome to wind it. The firing range is up to three hundred and ten paces, which is equivalent to one mile, but the range of ten arrows varies.

Compared with the poor mobility of the crossbow, it is much better to install the Fuyuan crossbow that is operated by five soldiers on a two-wheeled board car, or carried by four soldiers and accompanied by one person, this kind of range is 270 steps, a crossbow with five arrows, and the range of the same five arrows is different, but it is light, fast, and the battlefield damage rate is low, so the popularity rate is higher, and each division has equipment.

The Ma army has strong mobility ability, but when it is deployed on the battlefield, it is generally at least one mile away from the infantry formation, and it is usually covered in Liangji, unless the open terrain fights the Hu people, the Ma army is generally not the main force.

Therefore, the infantry formation and baggage are more important, but of these seven divisions, only one to four divisions can be split at will, and the other divisions have not been trained by the town soldiers for a long time.

Seven divisions drew out 50 battalions of the Ma Army and 25,000; 15,000 battalions of 30 heavy soldiers, and 10,000 auxiliaries stayed in the rear army; There were only 60 battalions and 30,000 soldiers left in the infantry formation, but they were from seven divisions.

According to the ten battalions and one brigade, it is exactly divided into five armies: front, rear, left, center, and right, and each army is equipped with a regiment of fronts, and the fronts are matched with the baggage troops. The seven divisions had 14 brigades, and before the division-level command units withdrew to the Chinese Army's General Staff, that is, the Jiangtai Command Center, they quickly designated a certain brigade as the center to assemble and move closer to each other in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese military to first line up formations, that is, the additional nine brigade-level units were merged with other brigades.

It took more than an hour to complete the regrouping of the entire infantry formation, and seeing that the soldiers on the battlefield were transferred from one battalion to another by the officers according to the battalion and regiment units, they finally moved in place according to the plan of the formation last night, and this efficiency was much slower than that of the forbidden army.

Zhang Yue's face became darker and darker, and he sighed greatly: "There are many levels of formation, and it is really not conducive to the deployment of the formation in wartime, there must be one gain and one loss!" ”

"Indeed...... This establishment is a bit stiff, and spending a little more time should allow the soldiers to adapt, plus there are several divisions that are adapted from the town soldiers, and the quality is not as good as the soldiers from the four towns of Hehuang. Xuan Chongwen said with a smile.

Now there is not much time, Zhang Yue said a little depressed: "Then let Yan Shenming and Shen Jingang pull out half of Po Feng first, run back and forth before the formation, and then return to the team!" ”

Xuan Chongwen received the order and immediately went to the two-zhang high command tower that was erected on the wooden frame in front of the stage, and there was only a small empty space five feet square at the top of the tower, and an alarm bell was hung in the canopy like a small wooden house, and a red and green pennant with a pole length of three feet and a yellow flag with a pole length of two feet were inserted on the wooden frame behind the guardrail in front of him.

Here the green flag represents the strength of troops, and each horizontal wave represents a battalion, and a diagonal wave back and forth represents a regiment. The red flag represents the direction, and the apricot yellow flag is embroidered with a troop pattern, so what kind of troops to come out of, you must first show the apricot yellow flag.

Xuan Chongwen pulled the rope, and a series of sharp tinkling sounds were transmitted for several miles, making the battlefield audible from far and near, and the commanders of all armies and brigades raised their binoculars at the same time to look over here. At present, the number of troops is less than 100,000, and there is no need for battlefield lookouts to wave flags to convey orders. However, the telescope is too cumbersome to manufacture, and is currently only equipped with brigade officers.

Xuan Chongwen took the red and green flags and hung them in front of him, signaling all armies to stand by. Then he planted two flags, picked up the apricot yellow flag embroidered with an elliptical shield hammer and axe cross pattern and waved it back and forth to the battlefield three times, and looked into the distance on the battlefield.

Then wave the green flag diagonally four times, and finally wave it horizontally again, which is four and a half regiments. Then the red flag was held high and waved in front of it, then swung left and right five times, erected, repeated five more times, showing the direction of the assembly procession, and then left and right, and the green flag was erected in front of him, and the military order was delivered.

The flag language has been popularized in the martial arts hall, as long as it is an officer above the commander of the hundred, it is understood, but this is the first time, although the officers of the heavy infantry on the periphery have seen it clearly, they are a little nervous and uncertain, and they have sent heralds to the Chinese army to confirm, and at the same time they are also mobilizing troops.

Of course, there was no mistake with the order, and the herald quickly ran back to report it. The heavy infantry in the front of the three armies, under the leadership of the officer, immediately marched out of the line through the gap in the pikemen's infantry formation, trotted all the way to the front of the front army formation fifty paces into a horizontal formation, and then trotted back to their positions according to the order and disbanded and returned to their own positions.

"Excellent! It works great! Continue to deploy troops and drill! Zhang Yue sat in front of the Jiangtai screen, his hand pressed the handle of the knife and scanned the battlefield, the black pressure was full of human walls, and a sense of accomplishment arose in his heart, and he shouted to Xuan Chongwen from afar.

The purpose of the drill was mainly to train the staff officers in the temporary combination and deployment of various units and the ability of the officers of various divisions to coordinate with each other, and the most important thing was to convey military orders and popularize the application of the flag language.

In the future, it will also be organized into baggage troops, auxiliary soldiers, small-scale marching movements, and confrontational drills in the way of simulated field battles. In the morning, they were drawn out of the camp in battle formation, and in the evening, they returned to their own units and returned to the camp. In this way, the combination and mixed organization between divisions and brigades will be familiar with each other.