Chapter 81: Battle Formation Training
"Woooooo
In the early morning, a loud sound of orders came, and the first day of training began in the new army barracks.
Compared to yesterday's dawn raid, today was much more normal, at least after dawn when the horn of the assembly was sounded.
More than 400 new troops, armed with their spears and dressed in uniform uniforms, soon gathered on the school grounds.
On the school field, the flag hunting, the king will already stand on the school field with the guards, and after everyone arrives, the training will officially begin.
A school lieutenant, holding a flag and waving it, remembered the sound of a loud horn.
"First team, forward!"
"Woo......"
"The Chinese army defends, and the left army moves forward."
"Woo ......"
"The left army defends, the middle army and the right army attack!"
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The sound of horns and war drums reminds me that different rhythms represent different operational information. It is in this way that the generals of the Tang Dynasty unfold these armies like their own hands and feet.
The new army of 400 people, under the banner and orders, constantly changed the rhythm of the attack, and the various squads, forward, retreated, defended, and formed formations, formed an iron pincer shape for a while, turned into a huge arrow for a while, and then turned into a huge arrow after a while......
Various formations are constantly formed, and different orders are slowly leaving a concept in the hearts of each new army.
With more training, these new troops will memorize these commands composed of flags, horns, and drums, so that the cooperation between various squads, regiments, and brigades on the battlefield will become more and more tacit.
At the beginning, it took two quarters of an hour to change from an arrow-shaped attacking formation to a fish-shaped formation. However, after a day of training, these new troops were able to complete the change of formation in a quarter of an hour.
However, this is still far from enough, because these signals can also be intercepted by enemy forces. If the opponent has insight into their next action, and completes the response formation before themselves, this can be described as a huge blow to their own side.
Therefore, they need to complete the change of formation in an extreme amount of time. How short? The battle formation of 400 people must complete the transformation of the battle formation within a third of the moment, so that even if the local insight into the next formation of our army is informed, there is absolutely no room for maneuver.
The battle formation of the four hundred new army at this moment is already extremely simple.
If it is an army of tens of thousands, in order to accurately grasp the formation type, the various squads and commanders participating in the exhibition must go through the baptism of many large-scale battles, so as to form a strong combat effectiveness.
Now, in addition to the simple change of formation, the training received by the 400 new troops is mainly to train them to obey orders and be familiar with them. Prepare for large-scale regimental training in the future.
Battle formation training will become the most important part of the 400 new troops in the next two months.
On the first day of training, they did not conduct other aspects of training, and the formation of the 400 new troops was constantly changing all day, and at the end of the day, even if they were physically strong, they were tossed with backache and leg pain.
However, for Wang Dong and other first-class soldiers, they only need to conduct joint training with most of them for an hour every half a day before they can be disbanded. The reason is very simple, as the head of the fire, they have to prepare the food of the four hundred new troops in advance.
said that it was the fire head army, but when Wang Dong and dozens of other people came to the room, they found that all they needed to do was to chop wood, light the fire, choose vegetables, wash vegetables, cut vegetables and other tedious work.
With such a non-technical way of cooking, the cooked food is naturally not delicious, which makes Wang Dong start to miss stir-frying.
It's a pity that edible oil is also a very precious thing in Datang, and ordinary people are reluctant to use it for stir-frying. It is only during the New Year and the festival that some oil is fried in lard to cook dishes.
In a blink of an eye, the time of the day had passed, and Wang Dong, who had prepared dinner, was busy putting the food into the wooden barrel, and then pulling it to the school field for the new army to eat.
"Hey, that's boring." Wang Dong couldn't help but sigh, even if the work is not challenging, it is so complicated, it is not the work of the eldest husband at all.
Zhao Si on the side happened to pass by and said, "How good it is to be a firehead army, you don't have to train and endure hardships." ”
Wang Dong said: "Training sweats a lot, in order to shed less blood in wartime, if you train and carry it on weekdays, there will be many casualties in the war!" ”
His novel remarks impressed these C-class recruits. These people, let alone reading, can't even write their own names, let alone those big truths. Wang Dong's words, they all had some difficulty accepting them, which shows how terrifying the proportion of illiterate people in Datang is.
Seeing that these people were so impressed by his words, Wang Dong couldn't help but shake his head. War, not only generals know how to fight. Because during the battle, there may be a lot of unexpected encounters. For example, the commander has an accident and the troops are divided and cannot form a formation to meet the enemy.
In this way, without unified command, no matter how many soldiers become lambs to be slaughtered, throughout the ages, so many examples of winning more with less, doesn't this just show this?
The combat effectiveness of an army is not reflected in the number of its soldiers, but in the body of each soldier.
If every soldier has a very high sense of battlefield, then the three of them may spontaneously form a formation to meet the enemy, and the combat effectiveness of such a unit will naturally be ten or a hundred times more powerful than that of a scattered man.