In ancient times, most of the soldiers had no culture, nor had they learned any martial arts, and things that were too complicated were not suitable for the soldiers to learn, so Pang Gang asked the soldiers to practice only one action, that is, "stabbing spear!" "If this action is done well, it will be able to defend tightly, facilitate the attack, and mentally threaten the enemy.

The action of the "bayonet" is two steps, the first step is to hold the gun sideways, and the second step is to thrust hard. After that, let them practice these two movements repeatedly every day until they practice the movements standardly, practice quickly, and practice until they are conditioned.

As for the soldiers who practice the sword, they are also only practicing one move, which is divided into two steps, the first step is to raise the knife, and the second step is to slash diagonally. There are also standards for the movement of the knife, and there are strict regulations on the angle of the knife split.

In this way, the training continued until October, and after three months of training, the soldiers have improved rapidly in terms of physical strength, spirit and will.

At this time, the weather in the north has begun to slowly cool, and the grain planted in June has also reached the harvest assembly, but Pang Gang's training of soldiers has not stopped, because there is always an indescribable sense of crisis plaguing him. By October, because nearly 100 more homeless households had come to vote, Pang Gang recruited another 120 soldiers, so that Wanghai Fort now has 240 soldiers, and it can be regarded as having the power to protect itself against the attacks of ordinary bandits and robbers.

It was still on the school grounds, the north wind was blowing gently, and Pang Gang stood straight in the center of the school field. In front of him stood rows of soldiers in helmets and armor, their chain mail still glittering in the dim sunlight.

Looking at the soldiers lined up in a neat formation, Pang Gang shouted: "Ready! ”

"Wow!" With a bang, everyone stood straight!

Pang Gang shouted again: "Raise your gun!" ”

"Kill!"

Hundreds of spears stood out together, the scene was quite spectacular, and there was a hint of awe-inspiring murderous aura.

"Raise your sword!"

"Kill!"

There was a roar, and pieces of sword light were raised, so that the soldiers of the knife were relatively few and only sixty people, but their uniform movements gave people a very amazing visual effect, and the pieces of knife light slashed down obliquely, and there was also a rather chilling momentum in the breeze.

After training for a while, Pang Gang picked up a gun and walked in front of everyone, and then made a jab action and said loudly: "Take the gun and do a ready-to-prepare action, and when facing the enemy, you should look at each other angrily, which will make the enemy shudder, and on the contrary, it will boost the enemy's arrogance." Therefore, when "preparing the gun", you must make sure that your movements are correct and powerful, and that you are energetic and vigorous. When the gun is raised, the gun is slightly to the left, the tip of the gun is about the same height as the throat, and it is in line with the left eye, and the two eyes are fixed on the enemy. ”

The essentials of preparing the gun can be summed up as: "press the top and send it, two at the same time, and generally high." Pressing the top is to send the gun out with the pressure of the tiger's mouth and the top force of the four fingers; Two at the same time, that is, the turn, kick and gun should be at the same time, and the gun should be held in both hands at the same time; Generally high, that is, the tip of the gun is about the same height as the throat. When you hear the command "put the gun down", take the ball of your right foot as the axis, turn your body half to the left, and at the same time retract your left foot, and quickly hand over the gun with your left hand to your right hand, and stand upright with the gun."

Pang Gang didn't know about the ancient marksmanship, and there was no real gun expert in Wanghai Fort, so Pang Gang had to try to recall the stabbing essentials that his old man who was a soldier taught him in his spare time when he was bored, and taught them all to these soldiers one by one, but it seems that the effect is not bad!

"Raise the gun!"

"Kill."

"Raise your sword!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"You all remember to the official that there are thieves in front of you, and Manchu Tartars in front, so you don't need to make spears or fake shelves. All you need to do is stab, stab, stab, stab, stab If you stab faster than them, and if you stab harder than them, you will live! The battlefield is a ruthless place, those thieves and Tartars will not reason with you, there is only one way to survive, and that is to kill all the enemies in front of you! ”

Pang Gang walked back and forth in the queue with a black face, and if he saw that anyone's movements were not good, he would immediately beat them with a stick without mercy, even Da Zhuang and Wang Zhi, the old men who had followed him the longest. The phrase "mercy is not in charge of soldiers" is an iron law of leading soldiers that has been handed down since ancient times.

In terms of training, Pang Gang's six relatives are notorious for not approving it, if anyone can't stand it, they can also quit, but there is only one condition, that is, from now on, you are not a person from Wanghai Fort, and you and your family will not be able to enjoy all the treatment of Wanghai Fort.

This one is the most fatal, what are these military tigers entering Wanghai Fort, aren't they able to eat and clothe themselves? Now in Wanghai Fort, all this can be enjoyed, and the autumn harvest is about to come, if you can't stand the suffering and are driven back in the dust, not only will the fields that are about to be distributed fly, not to mention, the whole family will have to drink the northwest wind. Therefore, no matter how hard it is, none of these elected soldiers will quit.

In addition to the password, Pang Gang also invited an old man from the old army to listen to the orders such as drums, trumpets and flags, because in the future, they would also be likely to fight together with other Ming troops, and such training was essential.

But in the formation training of pikemen, Pang Gang encountered difficulties, at this time Pang Gang was poor and white, and there was no talent with experience in leading soldiers, and he didn't know anything in the Ming Dynasty army. There was no way, Pang Gang had to learn from the Macedonian phalanx he had seen before to train the formation.

The essence and merit of the tactics of the Macedonian phalanx was that all the soldiers worked together and marched together, and those who escaped from the battle were punished with the most severe punishment. This is consistent with China's long-standing emphasis on saying that "thousands of people march forward in a grand formation, and the brave must not be the first and the cowardly cannot be the last."

Of course, the Macedonian phalanx also has his weaknesses, that is, their flanks are very weak, which Pang Gang naturally knows, but he will find a way to overcome it later. He now chose the Macedonian phalanx to train his soldiers, which is to train the coordination and discipline of the soldiers, and it is especially important that you die on the road on the battlefield as long as the commander gives an order.

"Knock Knock Knock"

The drums of the gathered troops sounded, and the soldiers who heard the order hurriedly formed a long line, they held their spears tightly in their hands, every sixty people were in a row, and the two hundred and forty people were divided into four rows, each row of people was close to each other, and the last row of the queue was the sword and shield bearers who walked forward in unison listening to the drums.

After months of training and lessons with countless sticks, the soldiers had developed a conditioned reflex to the sound of drums and commands, because they knew that if one person made a mistake, the whole team would be punished, and as pikemen they could only exert their greatest power if they were united.

"Raise your gun!"

"Boom" a long spear was raised.

"Forward!"

"Knock Knock"

The drums sounded, and the soldiers marched forward to the rhythm of the drums, although there were only more than 200 people, but it felt like a mountain!

"As long as you pull this team out to see blood once, it's a good soldier!" Looking at the neat progress of the team, Pang Gang nodded with satisfaction and secretly thought, "Those thieves in Wangjiatun have put up with them for a long time, and it won't be long before they should be cleaned up." ”

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