The Mandarin Duck Formation was created in accordance with the characteristics of the southeastern coastal area, such as many hills and ravines, rivers and canals, narrow roads, and the characteristics of overseas Chinese operations. Named after the combination of mandarin ducks, it is a famous formation for mountain warfare.

Mandarin duck array, the formation is a team of 12 people, the first is the captain, the second two hold a long card, a rattan card, the long player holds a long shield to block the arrows and spears of the Japanese Kou, the rattan hand holds a light rattan shield and has a javelin, waist knife, the long player and the rattan player mainly cover the rear team forward, the rattan player can also melee with the enemy 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.

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 "two talent formations", and the left and right shield players are accompanied by the left and right wolf hand, spearman and short soldier respectively, to guard its attack; 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".

This array can achieve the effect of "positive" against "odd" by changing the formation, which is small for individuals and marches, and large for 10,000 people.

From the 38th year of Jiajing, the Qi family army was formed into an army, and in the 11th year of Wanli, Qi Jiguang took office, and the total number of enemy troops defeated by the Qi family army exceeded 150,000, which was a very terrifying record in the Wanli Zhongxing period of the long Chengping.

And in the mandarin duck array, there should have been a fire gun; However, in this era, there were no firearms, so short spears had to be used instead. In the heat of battle, you can shorten the spear and throw it, injuring the enemy.

"There is no invincible formation in the world, only an invincible army, no matter how powerful the formation, if the general is wasted and the soldier's military discipline is poor, it can still be cracked, everything is important to people." Zhao Pu said: "The Mandarin Duck Formation has extremely high requirements for the discipline of soldiers, there is no super high discipline, and there is no Mandarin Duck Formation. ”

Everyone in the world knows that the Qi family army is strong, and knows that the mandarin duck array is invincible, but few know the strict military discipline, and the soldiers who love the people like sons are the fundamental guarantee for the invincibility of the Qi family's army. Later generations can imitate the Mandarin Duck Formation, but it is difficult to build the Qi family's army, mostly because of poor military discipline.

"The Western Army is proficient in mountain warfare, comparable to the Wudang Flying Army in the Three Kingdoms era, and good steel should be used on the blade. The Western Army should ambush the Jin Army in the mountains, and not consume it on the plains! The battle of Song and Jin has just begun, don't fantasize about the victory or defeat of the first battle, this is since the Wuhu rebellion, the fierce impulse between Hu and Han, luck and fierce battles for decades, even hundreds of years, to drive out the Tartars and restore China; If you are unlucky, after a few decades, all the Han land will be lost, and the Han people will not be clothed, keep their heads without hair, and lose their hair without their heads, and they will be reduced to fourth-class citizens! ”

"The battle of Song Jin has just begun, and I don't want the general to leave the world without even seeing the prologue!"

"Time is limited, leaving us only a dozen days of training time, I hope that a short assault can achieve a certain effect!" Zhao Pudao.

Time is limited, short training, and I don't know how far the Mandarin Duck Formation can go. After all, the seed army is not as good as the Qi family army, and the seed master is not as good as Qi Jiguang, as for the battle, the mandarin duck array exerts a bit of combat power, everything is very doubtful.

But there is no way, Taiyuan has been trapped for eight months, day and night, it is about to break, and it has to come out, and in the end it can only be put on the shelves like a duck, and it has to be done if it doesn't work.

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Specialized people do specialized things, don't do things that you are not familiar with. is like Lao Jiang's third-rate military level, but he always likes to point fingers and point fingers, showing his wisdom and martial arts, but as a result, he made a mess and was defeated repeatedly.

Zhao Pu also knows that his military level is average, and it is okay to copy some military allusions, the battle columns of his predecessors, and analyze them indiscriminately. If he figured out the psychology of the soldiers, trained the soldiers, commanded the battle, and so on, he was completely a layman.

These are his shortcomings, and he doesn't interfere indiscriminately, just watches quietly from the sidelines, and doesn't speak.

However, not pointing fingers does not mean that you will not participate.

War will break out soon after, and there will be war in the next ten years, and he must understand war and understand the method of leading troops. He doesn't have to use soldiers like a god like Yue Fei, nor does he have to be a veteran like Han Shizhong, he just needs to have a deeper understanding of military affairs, and it is enough not to be deceived.

Training these elite soldiers, Zhao Pu gradually noticed something wrong.

In the first few days of training, these soldiers were still a little energetic, but after a long time of training, they gradually slacked off, got by, were not self-motivated, and had the appearance of being a monk for a day.

"General, the morale of the soldiers doesn't seem to be too high!" Zhao Pudao.

"Soldiers have always been like this!" "In the past, my brother used to use money as a reward, but the Jin army was in Bianliang, and the treasury of our dynasty was almost wiped out, and there was a shortage of gold and silver, and there was no money to reward the soldiers!" ”

"I understand, if you want to motivate the morale of the soldiers, you should mostly reward them with money!" Zhao Pu said a little coldly.

Even the most elite troops of the Song Dynasty, the Shaanxi Army is also a group of mercenaries, and the mercenaries are, to put it bluntly, they are sticky if they have milk, and they will get out of the way if they don't have milk. Fight for money, live for money.

If the reward is not met, or if the reward is not qualified, mutiny. Such an army is the most unfaithful and the most prone to collapse, and may win all battles, but as long as it is defeated, it will be doomed.

"Being a soldier eats food, gets promoted and makes a fortune, it's like raising a group of dogs, you throw a bone, it will follow you, someone else throws a bigger bone, it may betray you. Now that the Great Song Dynasty has perished, I wonder how many bones the imperial court can throw at them? Zhao Pu sighed.

"What are you talking about?" There was some anger among the breeders, who even compared the soldiers to dogs.

Zhao Pu didn't care, and said to himself: "There is no shortage of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, 800,000 forbidden troops, 400,000 box troops; As for the Jin army, there were less than 100,000 Jurchen soldiers and less than 100,000 other miscellaneous soldiers. An army of 1,200,000 against an army of 200,000 was defeated, like a sheep herding a duck. Don't say that our army's combat strength is weaker than that of the Jin army, it was also born by my parents, and it is the same head, a mouth, two legs, and two arms, why is there such a big gap? It's not that the imperial court is reluctant to spend money, it's that the soldiers lack faith, they don't know why they are fighting, they don't know why they are fighting! There is no faith in the heart, and fighting is also a blind fight, if you win, you will fight, if you can't win, you will run, you can't run, you will be cut in half with a knife! ”

There was also silence among the planters, and what His Highness said was extremely unkind and extremely annoying, but everything was so realistic. No matter how unwilling he was to accept it, it was all true.

"So what to do!" The seed master suppressed the anger in his heart and asked.

"Since these soldiers have no faith, then we will give them faith! From now on, you will be in charge of the military, and I will be in charge of ideological education! Let the soldiers know what they are fighting and why they are fighting! Zhao Pu said leisurely, "Some people become soldiers in order to make a living, some are soldiers because of bad disasters in their families, some are soldiers to earn money, and some are soldiers to get promoted and rich, and we have to make them understand that they are fighting for the sake of not being a fourth-class citizen!" ”

It is an irreversible trend that soldiers have changed from half-peasants and half-armies to professional soldiers, and that the former government military system has changed to a conscription system. The recruitment system of the Song Dynasty was very good, but unfortunately, it has been using money to build an army and lacks faith, so it is completely a bunch of scattered sand.

And the Great Song Dynasty is popular, good men are not soldiers, and good iron is not nailed. "Beggars" and "idlers" are encouraged to serve as soldiers, as they are employment in themselves, a means of mitigating disasters and land annexation.

As a result, the employment problem was alleviated, but the fighting quality of the soldiers declined.

In the Tang Dynasty, the elite, the best talents, went to serve as soldiers. The main force of the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers were mainly composed of the children of the family and the young nobles of the naturalized Hu people, most of whom had fields, good conduct, received Confucian education, and had a strong sense of national identity and honor; Most of the naturalized Hu young nobles had an almost religious worship of the powerful Tang Dynasty, and they tried to gain the Tang Dynasty's affirmation of them and become a member of the Tang people by fighting desperately.

However, in the Song Dynasty, it was not advocated that intellectual young people should be soldiers, but the main battle intellectual youth went to the Qinglou to pick up girls and sisters, and the vassal elegance allowed the intellectual youth to live a luxurious and wasteful life, lost their ambitions in comfort, and fell into the whirlpool of power in comfort.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty went to generals, with extremely high cultural level and fighting quality; The Song Dynasty, on the other hand, was a group of uneducated troops.

It is very important to build a "three-have" army!