Chapter 85: The Phalanx
Xu Wenshan did not seem to be affected by the competition in the slightest, and still let the soldiers train their spears.
The soldiers were looking forward to weapon training, but they were disappointed by the final training program - their next training was to walk the phalanx with spears.
Except for the spear in his hand, isn't this the same as before?!
However, the training in the past half month has made these soldiers develop the habit of obeying orders, and they have suppressed their complaints about the new training course and continue to train to the letter.
A lot of new movements have been added to the new training, and Xu Wenshan will personally demonstrate the decomposition of each action to the three squad leaders, and then the three squad leaders will demonstrate the general to their respective classes. If everyone's movements are slightly wrong, the squad leader will re-teach them and strive to make everyone's movements uniform.
However, the soldiers, from top to bottom, did not know the meaning of these movements.
After training in this way for several days, these soldiers memorized all these decomposition movements and practiced day and night.
Finally, on the second ten days after they joined the barracks, Xu Wenshan pulled them out and told them that they would conduct military exercises the next day.
This made many soldiers so excited that they didn't sleep well at night.
Early the next morning, three squads of soldiers entered the mountains together, and on a high slope in the distance, a bright red flag was raised.
"Before the exercise is officially carried out, I would like to say a few things."
"First of all, your weapon is still a spear, but the head of the spear has been removed and wrapped in cotton cloth, but you still have to treat it as a spear, and when the spear pierces a person, it is equivalent to the death of the other party. It's the same with your opponents, if their weapons are touched on their bodies, they are equivalent to dead, and those who are 'dead' should put down their weapons and leave. ”
"Secondly, and most importantly, your goal is to take down the red flag on that hill, and there are some enemies in front of you. They are also trained for a while, don't underestimate them. ”
Xu Wenshan beckoned, and the "enemy" of the soldiers entered the field. Some people who have witnessed Guojiawei's Xujia grain and oil shop have already recognized that those "enemies" are the "dead soldiers" sent by the Guo family at that time. In addition to the dead soldiers, there were also scoundrels and servants, all of whom held "broadswords and spears" in their hands, but they were all made of wood.
After Xu Wenshan led the two parties to meet, he said: "You are the red side, and they are the blue side." Give all of you three quarters of an hour to prepare, and after three quarters of an hour, start the battle on time. I personally command the Red Side. ”
The soldiers, excited and nervous, checked the armor over and over again. Three quarters of an hour later, the exercises officially began.
In terms of numbers, the blue side has twice as many soldiers as the red side.
From the topography, the goal of the RED soldiers is to get close to the high slope and take off the flag on the high slope, and their current position is another high slope, and they have to go down the mountain and then up the mountain before reaching the target location.
Naturally, the Blue side will not let them achieve their goal easily, and they have laid several lines of defense around the flag.
First of all, in the valley between the slopes on both sides, they placed a group of sword and shield soldiers, which was the first line of defense.
Halfway up the slope behind the sword and shield men, they placed a mixed force of spearmen and swordsmen, and it was clear that when the red side and the sword and shield men were fighting, their pikemen would rush down and tear apart the phalanx of spearmen, and then the swordsmen would follow and slaughter the spearmen.
On the highest high slopes, there was also a group of archers. These archers are made up of the academy of the Deer Crane Archer Club, and their arrows are all arrowless, but they are also quite intimidating, and the archer's burst can become quite difficult to deal with when the spearmen are entangled with the front troops.
After analyzing the situation, Wu Yi and Lei Laohu glanced at each other, and they were quite worried in their hearts.
Can the troops they trained themselves really break through this triple line of defense against twice their own team?
It is more likely that before these three lines of defense can be breached, the side will suffer heavy losses and be crushed.
"All ready!"
Xu Wenshan said loudly. Hearing this command, all the spearmen subconsciously stood upright with their spears in their hands.
Obedience has become a non-thinking, reflexive response.
When you hear an order, whether you can win or not, what will happen if you lose, these distracting thoughts are automatically suppressed, and the familiarity of obeying the order comes up.
"Form a line formation, march forward in unison!"
The line formation, that is, the formation of three columns, this is a formation that has been practiced for a long time, and the soldiers are familiar with the road.
"Forward!"
The spearmen marched forward in unison, descending at a constant pace, and in front of them, the sword and shield men were also in formation.
Soon, they were getting closer and closer to the enemy, so close that they could see the sweat on each other's faces.
On the blue side, the archer troops are already wound and ready to release their arrows at any time.
"Ready!"
The archers drew their bows in unison and aimed them at the spearmen.
Xu Wenshan saw the archer's actions and shouted:
"Stand! Dithering! ”
The spearmen immediately stopped, raised their guns, and shook them in the air.
"Shoot the arrows!"
A line of arrows flew towards the spearmen like locusts, and at the same time, the sword and shield soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, shouted and began to charge.
At this moment, the spearmen had bows and arrows at the head and swords and shields below, and they suddenly fell into the most dangerous situation.
"Ding, ding, ding!"
There was a series of crashing sounds, the sound of the shaft of the bow hitting the spear.
Some of the arrows fired by the archers landed far away from the line, and the other hit the barrels of their guns stretched out in unison. The shaking of the barrel of the gun interfered with the trajectory of the bow and arrow, causing the arrow to lose its strength and fall to the ground, and only a few arrows fell on the person, which did not cause much effect.
This method was seen by Xu Wenshan from some military films, so he copied it by hand.
"Turn the finger!"
Xu Wenshan gave an order, and the spearmen immediately squatted down in the front row, raised their spears in the middle row, and reversed their spears in the back row.
The three rows of spears stretched out in unison were like a wall, blocking in front of the sword and shield soldiers.
One of the sword and shield soldiers shouted, "Charge!" ”
They brandished their wooden knives and continued on. "Snatch and snatch" ...... A series of crashing sounds sounded, and the sword and shield hands were suddenly stabbed to pieces, and they all lay on the ground.