As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation, and Kira Yoshi's current blood capital was obviously to stimulate them to forge ahead, so these Samurai of Mikawa gathered enough strength one by one to fight the battle array, in order to make the competition more diverse, but also to test new troops, Kira Yoshitomi specially added a spear and a rattan shield that was only one and a half long, as well as a wooden scimitar, a wooden one-handed axe, and a wooden mace.

However, it was clear that the ashigaru did not like unfamiliar weapons, so Kira Yoshitoki divided the two hundred horses into four teams, holding scimitars with rattan shields, spears with rattan shields, one-handed axes with rattan shields, and wooden maces with rattan shields.

Perhaps it was because the Mayu samurai had forgotten their skills in foot combat for a long time on horseback, and because they were not proficient in new weapons when they first got started, the new samurai of the Mazu samurai could not organize a decent attack at all, and they were defeated and retreated after a while.

The next day, Mikawa continued to train, and he did not let the horses participate, but pulled them all to the shore of Lake Biwa north of Sakamoto, and let them each hold these weapons and train in teams of fifty people.

Among them, the sword and shield are the easiest to use, although they don't know the fighting skills of the knife and shield, but carrying the shield in front, it is not difficult to master the sudden attack and chop with a knife, but some guys always like to throw away the shield and slash with both hands like a scimitar like a katana, of course, the end of this kind of person is also tragic.

Then the more troublesome is the spear rattan shield, which requires the spear and shield combined with the attack skills to play a proper role in order to play an effect, fortunately for the marksmanship horse is still quite confident, a little test can also make do with it, the worst fit is the one-handed axe with rattan shield and wooden mace with rattan shield, these two teams are very unsuitable for fighting without a katana and no spear, one-handed axes and wooden maces are very short, and by slashing and hammering, which makes many people feel at a loss.

Kishira was outraged by their poor performance and scolded fiercely, "Bastard! What do you see you're all doing? Weapons won't work! Keep practicing for me! Zenjiro, show them how to use a mace and a Fujiki shield! ”

When Yamaoka was in Mikawa earlier, he had seen Yoshitoki Kira fiddling with all sorts of strange weapons, and of course he had played with maces and wisteria shields, so he went back to his old business and walked up to a wooden puppet target with a real mace and a wisteria shield, and smashed the doll's head with a single smash.

This power is staggering, especially since such a violent weapon as the mace completely subverts their understanding of war, shouldn't the infantry be longer guns, sharper knives slash at each other, how can there be such a terrible weapon.

This kind of nail hammer made of cast iron is very simple, the nail hammer used in Europe in the early days is simpler than this, that is, a large wooden rod is nailed with a large iron nail, and then gradually evolved into a cast iron nail or iron thorn, in the past hundred years, because of the improvement of the casting process, there have been many beautiful nail head hammers, such as small steel nail head hammers can be carried as travelers and merchants, its hammer head has become a very sharp sharp angle, and there are some long-handled nail head hammer sticks combined with the hammer staff, which is also a good development trend.

Cold weapons have gradually withdrawn from the mainstream in Europe, even the mighty Swiss mercenaries for more than a century can not resist the tide of science and technology, but this is not quite the same in Japan, but the country that has just introduced arquebuses has not yet talked about the knowledge and research of gunpowder, and the innovation of cold weapons will have a better future.

A mace weighs about seven or eight pounds, although the weight is a bit heavy for ordinary ashigaru, but the horse warrior does not feel this way, a few guys stood up and the messenger wielded the mace very violently hammered the wooden doll target, and after destroying the miserable wooden doll with the same ease, he did not give up and got a worn-out belly roll to put on it, and it was still very easy to smash the defense of the belly roll.

This shocked everyone, no one knows better than these guys how important this armor-piercing weapon is, and what a terrible impact it will have once a main force that can break armor and assault appears on the battlefield.

After a particularly weighted wooden mace, it is nothing more than to ensure that the weight is similar to the real mace, in fact, there is a protruding wooden lump in the front of a wooden stick, this kind of thing looks ugly and has no deterrent effect, so the warriors of Ma Hui hate this thing very much, but after seeing the real thing, it is different, if such a powerful thing is smashed out, it will be absolutely cool to death, and immediately someone rushed to be a mace soldier, and the guy who was unwilling just now immediately turned the wind direction and stood in a position to prevent others.

There is the influence of the mace in front, and then I tested a one-handed axe, this guy's lethality to the unarmored unit is terrible, but the lack of armor-piercing ability of the mace, how much play can it be is still a problem, Kira Yoshitoki immediately called a few ashigaru to hold a few three-long hardwood sticks to demonstrate the attack of the spear team, and the one-handed axe easily cut off a few wooden sticks under the cover of the wisteria shield, and then rushed to the unsuspecting ashigaru, such a sharp assault effect made everyone present gasp.

Katana can also chop bamboo guns, even more beautiful and artistic than one-handed axes, but the katana is not suitable for battle formations is also famous, except for samurai such as Nakajo Tokihide, who can ignore this law and take a katana to kill, ordinary samurai still honestly pick up a spear and charge.

But with this one-handed tomahawk is very different, the length of the one-handed tomahawk is even more than the mace, although the weight is very heavy, but it is indeed a one-handed weapon, with the rattan shield to block the attack and then split the long handle can completely break through the opponent's defense, its appearance just makes up for the lack of mace to effectively suppress the three guns.

The characteristics of the mace are destined to play only as a hand-to-hand combat can be effective, the elite ashigaru Sanma spear array can not exert his armor-piercing effect at all, they are more suitable for dealing with heavy armor Hajimoto samurai, horse samurai, with a strong attack power is definitely a nightmare for medium armor and heavy armor units, which is why Kira Yoshitoki asked for this weapon, against the horse samurai there is no better use than the mace.

In the next half a month of solid training, the warriors gradually figured out when the shield was resisting, when to advance with the shield, and then swinging the weapon to hammer and slash, once the two heavy weapons were familiar to them, the battle situation changed, the sword and shield team's winning streak was ended, and the spear and shield soldiers still maintained a dismal bottom result, so far they have not figured out the way to fight, and the spear and shield soldiers have been beaten every time and retreated.

In order to get the spear and shield soldiers out of the misunderstanding of thinking, Kira Yoshishi let them spread out to form a gun, the gun is an evolved version of the gun array, because Ashigaru uses most of the three guns called long handles, because the length of the gun is too long to be flexible, can only borrow the advantage of the gun length to press down and whip, and even smash the enemy's head with a gun The strange method of warfare, so the Warring States period had a strange situation where the three guns were longer than whom.

It doesn't matter if it's just a poor attack, but what's worse is that the gun array lacks effective flank defense, and the gun array crammed into a pile is not only the favorite target of bows and iron cannons, but also the favorite type of cavalry warriors to raid, only need to lightly go around the flank of the gun array to attack their weak flank, and then shatter the entire formation in one fell swoop.

After considering this problem, the guns dispersed the ashigaru into a dozen squads, they loosely stood at some distance and used the difference between the front and rear columns to form a layered attack, and once they encountered the surprise attack of the opponent's brigade of men and horses or samurai on horseback, they could also quickly shrink into a group and turn into a gun array to meet the enemy, generally speaking, this is a very practical military formation.

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