The weather was hot and the sun was blazing.

However, the training enthusiasm of the nine-headed bird horse team continues to rise, in order to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm, Liu Jun has to evaluate the outstanding and active people every day, and the top three can get two coins, one money, and five cents of silver. For those who perform the worst and most negatively in training, they will also be punished with a fine of silver and hard work.

Although the weather is hot, there are three full meals a day, plenty of oil and water, and a meal with meat. Good training performance and two extra eggs.

After nearly a month of training, the bodies of the villagers gradually adapted to this kind of intense training, and they did not feel too hard, and gradually became accustomed to it.

The weight-bearing long-distance run in the morning has now reached the second mile of the queue and the fifth mile of the individual, Liu Jun followed everyone, with a full set of cotton armor helmets, bows, knives, birds, and backpack tents, and the weight reached fifty catties.

When I came back from running, I was sweating all over my body, but I didn't feel out of breath, although I was a little tired, but I hadn't reached my limit yet.

After the weight was lifted, the villagers lined up in the newly built bathhouse to take a shower, and then also lined up in the canteen for breakfast. The top three performers in the morning run were rewarded with two eggs, and the rest of the breakfast was also white rice with fresh river fish and shrimp brought in by nearby fishermen for sale, as well as some fresh vegetables.

The worst performers have to clean the cafeteria after meals.

After breakfast, it's another queue training.

At this time, the basic queue had been trained well, Liu Jun began to train the formation, and the training formation was the most basic and core formation of the Qi family's army, the Mandarin Duck Battle Formation.

The Qi family's mandarin duck battle formation is actually very simple, and it is also very clear, at the beginning, it was the basic tactics of individual units of the infantry, and it was not a mysterious formation such as the Bagua Array and the Tianmen Array, but a real combat application formation.

The mandarin duck formation is a team of twelve people, and when arranged, the captain stands at the front, holding the shield, and the other soldier holding the Tengpai standing on the other side.

The captain holds the long card to block the enemy's arrows and spears, and the rattan player holds a light rattan card with a javelin and waist knife, and the long player and the rattan player mainly cover the rear team to advance, and the rattan player can also fight with the enemy in close combat in addition to covering.

Then the two of them are wolf whisks holding wolf whisks, wolf whisks are the use of the southern growth of bamboo, choose its old and solid ones, cut the end of the bamboo obliquely into a pointed shape, and leave sharp branches around it, each wolf whisk is about 3 meters long, the wolf whisk uses the sharp blade at the front end of the wolf whisk to assassinate the enemy to cover the advance of the shield hand and the attack of the spearman behind.

Then there were four spearmen with spears, two on the left and two on the right, and the shieldmen and wolf-bearers on the left and right in front of them.

Followed by two soldiers armed with "boring palladium" to serve as guards, supporters, and other work.

If the enemy attacks in a roundabout way, the short soldier will rush forward with a short knife to slash the enemy. The division of labor of various weapons is clear, and as long as each person is proficient in his own kind of operation, the key to effective killing of the enemy lies in overall cooperation and prohibition. Last place is the Bird Gunner.

The "Mandarin Duck Array" not only closely combines the spear and the shield, the long and the short, giving full play to the effectiveness of various weapons, but also changing the formation flexibly. According to the situation and operational needs, the column can be changed into a horizontal formation, and a formation can be changed into two small formations on the left and right, or three small formations on the left, center, and right.

When it becomes two small formations, it is called the "Two Talent Formation", and the left and right shield players are accompanied by the left and right wolf players, spearmen and short soldiers respectively to guard their attacks; When it becomes a three-small formation, it is called the "three-talent array", and at this time, the wolf hand, the pikeman and the short soldier are in the center. Shield-bearers are guarded on the left and right sides. This changed formation is also known as the "Mandarin Duck Formation".

The use of this formation was flexible and maneuverable, which just suppressed the play of the advantage of the Japanese invaders. Qi Jiguang led the "Qi Family Army", and after the drill of the "Mandarin Duck Formation" method, he won every battle in the battle against the Japanese Invaders.

Of course, Liu Jun's horse team is now a cavalry team, and the equipment is also different from the original Qi family's army, which is four archers, four bird gunners and two hookgunners, a captain and a fireman. This configuration is actually equivalent to one of the several establishments of the horse battalion when Qi Jiguang was training in Jizhen later.

Cold weapons and ** are all equipped, neither belonging to the all-bird bird cavalry, nor to the all-cold weapon killer cavalry, which is considered a light cavalry.

The light cavalry team of this configuration can also use the Mandarin Duck Battle Array.

When the battle came, the cavalry dismounted. The team leader held the flag gun in front, and then the four bird guns dismounted and lined up in two columns, and staggered to raise their guns to shoot.

In the third column, two hookgunners, also dismounted, fired rockets.

The four archers are lined up in the fourth and fifth columns, firing their bows and arrows.

If you have a Tiger Cannon, you can also place it behind the Hookgunner to shoot shotguns.

"The thief is a hundred paces, blows the swan trumpet, and the first layer of gunners fires once. After the first column of gunners let go of the guns, they blew the swan horn again, and the second column of gunners released again. The trumpet sounded again, and the hook gunner released the rocket. The trumpet was blown again, and the tiger squat cannon was fired. Then the trumpet was blown, and the archer lowered his long knife to the ground, and the team always released arrows. ”

Liu Jun trained the recruits completely according to the tactics of the Qi family's army, after all, these are all proven to be quite useful tactics.

"When the thief had reached thirty paces, there was a loud roar, and all the soldiers put away their arrows, their bows and arrows, and their melee weapons, and the captain of the team held the flag gun, and the bird gun held the two-handed long knife, the hook spear hand held the hook sickle, the archer hand held the long knife, and the musketer took the two-pointed iron pole."

The whole team listened to the drums and heard it, and the whole team slowly moved forward, listened to the drums, and ran towards the enemy. Blowing the trumpet swan, blowing and shouting, each burst with three beats, three blows, three shouts, three advances. When the third advance came, the whole team rushed together. ”

Although they are a horse team, Liu Jun knows in his heart that riding skills are difficult to practice, and in the short term, they are at most infantry on horseback. If you want to train to become a real cavalry, you can't do it in a short time. Therefore, when training tactics now, he did not arrange his own troops as cavalry, but directly treated them as mounted infantry with maneuverable speed.

But when the battle was about to take, it was still necessary to dismount and fight on foot, using the array tactics of the infantry squad of the Qi family's army. Shoot from a distance first, wait for the enemy to get close, and then switch to melee blade combat.

Liu Jun glanced at everyone and shouted: "Ready!" ”

With a "bang", the teams were already standing straight.

"Blow the trumpet!"

The trumpeter picked up the trumpet and blew the sound of a swan's trumpet.

Liu Jun shouted, "Array, meet the enemy!" ”

"Kill!"

The teams shouted together, and then ran quickly according to the formation, each team always ran to the front with a flag gun, and then a bird gunner, a hook gunner, and an archer knifeman.

"Blow the trumpet!"

Another swan horn sounded.

The two gunners of the first team of each team began to raise their guns and aim.

"Put!"

There were a few bangs, and the first column of gunners of each of the six warbands fired together, and the twelve bird guns roared together, and a burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the twelve lead characters sprayed at the target in front of them at the same time.

After the first row of guns was fired, the second horn sounded.

The second column of bird-gunners quickly raised their guns and fired together. At this time, the first row of gunners was nervously loading, and after the second column of gunners had fired, the hookgunners had already flattened their hook guns, took out the rockets in the arrow inserts, put them on the barrel of their guns, and then lit them with fire breakers, and a scream sounded, and twelve rockets roared to the front of the formation.

Liu Jun saw that these rockets were scurrying like fireworks, with no aim at all, but he could imagine that the enemy on the opposite side came in formation, and suddenly dozens of rockets rushed in, scurrying in the array, filled with gunpowder smoke, and sparks flew everywhere, but he was afraid that it would cause people a sense of panic more than ordinary bows and arrows.

The hookgunner's rockets were gone, and the archers behind him were already aiming with their bows. A trumpet sounded, and they quickly released their arrows.

Column after column of shooting, when the round of shooting was completed, it actually took only a short time, and by this time, the bird-gunners in front had already reloaded the gunpowder.

In a battle formation, from the time of a hundred paces to the time when the enemy rushed to thirty paces ago, as long as the training is good, it is completely possible to fire three rounds.

After three rounds of ranged attacks, the team switches to melee combat.

Even after training, each team can be equipped with a Tiger Squat Cannon to deal a greater blow to the enemy. At the same time, behind the teams, there are also several real cavalrymen. When the long-range fire was over, the cavalry rode their horses and charged forward, and then the teams followed with their melee blades.

If it was just to deal with a small group of thieves, Liu Jun believed that with only the first three rounds of volleys, it would be difficult for the thieves to support it, and they might collapse. When encountering some tenacious and hand-to-hand combat, they will also be difficult to stop the well-equipped Hydra.

However, it will take a long time to achieve close cooperation.

Liu Jun walked back and forth in the teams, and when he saw anyone in a hurry, he was about to hit a stick and shouted a few words.

Although the cooperation is not so tacit, but on the whole, in just a few months, he can practice to this level, and Liu Jun is quite satisfied in his heart. If they can practice for another three months, they are basically qualified. If you can see some blood again and go through a real battle formation test, you can completely call it an army.

These days, Li Chunjiang is preoccupied with tracking down the bandits. Every day you go out early and return late, and sometimes you don't see anyone for a few days, those thieves are really powerful, they are haunted, and they always run out to do a ticket when you are not paying attention, and then wait for you to track down, but find that there is no trace at all.

This made Li Chunjiang very depressed, feeling that he had been tricked, so he devoted more and more energy to the investigation, and even transferred another team of old family members from the Li family to investigate with him.

Li Chunjiang is not there, and the nine-headed bird and horse team is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Liu Jun alone, and unconsciously, in the hearts of the team members, Liu Jun has become the real boss of the nine-headed bird and horse team. Liu Jun's prestige in the camp is also increasing day by day, and he is not the same for a while.