Andrei took Bai Qi's advice.

Thousands of refugees almost dispersed, leaving only 300 young and strong, willing to stay with them to fight against the horse thieves, most of whom were ruined by the horse thieves' raids, and had a deep hatred and blood.

Andrei immediately announced the establishment of a militia training camp and recruited these people into the militia, and from then on these people were removed from manual labor and only trained and the training camp was full of fish and meat.

Three days later, in the early morning, Bai Qi led nearly 500 Vogostein family guards, and slowly drove out of Wanghai Town under the incomprehensible gaze of the militia.

In the Western military system, ten people are a squad with one squad leader, five squadrons are a squadron with a squadron leader, and four squadrons are a squadron with a large captain.

The Vogostein family originally had two brigades of guards and one brigade of cavalry, but after the war raged, the guards were expanded to six brigades and the cavalry to two brigades.

After the baptism of war, only three and a half of the six infantry brigades remained, and only one of the two cavalry brigades remained.

During his month in Liujiawan, Andrei broke up and reorganized the army, forming three integrated infantry brigades, an integrated knight brigade, and the remaining numbers, Andrei drew out the elite and formed his own personal guard, which was personally commanded by him.

The reason why Bai Qi had to lead two infantry brigades out of the city was because they intended to defeat the incoming horse thieves in the field.

The reason why it was Bai Qi who led the team, not the captain of the guard, Leonard Knight, was the result of Bai Qi taking the initiative to ask for help.

After more than a month of Nightingale's efforts, Andrey's side has a very deep understanding of horse thieves.

Before Beihai Prefecture fell into war, the ghost horses were just a group of humvee thieves with no more than 300 people, who usually hid in the Beiheng Mountain, and sometimes roared out and plundered the township.

Invasion of the Ukhs. The king of Beihai transferred the troops of the two eastern counties to supplement the two western counties, resulting in the emptiness of the troops of the Beiheng County.

The horse thieves, who had made a big harvest, suddenly became ambitious and began to recruit troops.

Beihai Prefecture is located on the border. After the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, in order to prevent the people from rebelling, they forcibly demolished the northern Wubao, and the people could only practice martial arts in order to protect themselves. In addition, Beihai Prefecture already produces horses, and almost all young and strong men are good at riding, and many people also have two-handed riding and archery skills.

The world is in chaos. The survival of the common people is becoming more and more difficult, and some self-possessed brave people either join the army to eat the imperial food, or simply defect to the horse thieves, trying to have a good time.

More than a dozen horse thieves in the North Hengshan Mountains grew rapidly under such circumstances.

In order to survive, the powerful horse thieves intensified their raiding of the township, and even raided the county seat, and in just half a year, the situation in the entire Beiheng County was completely eroded, and only one county town was still in the hands of the government.

Overwhelmed by the Wuhe tribe, the King of the North Sea could only watch the situation in the two eastern counties become increasingly crisis. But he couldn't pull his hand.

Ghost Horse is one of the first few daring horse thieves to plunder the county, after the erosion of Beiheng County. The ghost horse swelled rapidly, and now there are 3,000 thieves.

Horses in the North Sea, horse thieves raid, in addition to goods and grain, horses are their primary target, therefore. Of the 3,000 thieves of the ghost horses, basically everyone has horses, but most of them are horses, and less than half of them can be war horses.

According to Nightingale's intelligence, this time it was the ghost horse who led the team. First-class masters, according to Nightingale's speculation, the first-class masters of the Eastern Continent are about equivalent to fourth-level warriors.

Three thousand horse thieves, most of them are warriors below the first level, there are only five or six hundred good players above the first level, most of them are surrounded by the big masters, although there are thousands of people under the command of the second master, but there are less than fifty good players above the first level, although the number is large, it is not in Andre's eyes at all, so that Bai Qi can rest assured.

Bai Qi led two brigades of infantry soldiers and quickly set up a phalanx in the farmland outside the north gate.

This phalanx is called the classic infantry phalanx, and it is the most frequent phalanx on small and medium-scale battlefields in the Western continent.

The outermost part of this phalanx is the most powerful heavy infantry in the phalanx with tower shields, followed by two rows of pikemen more than three meters long, and once engaged, the heavy infantry will insert tower shields into the earth to form a shield wall. The pikemen will crouch on the ground and insert the tail of the spear more than three meters into the bottom, and the tip of the spear sticks out of the shield wall through the gap in the shield wall, forming two robbing forests.

Behind the pikemen are the sword and crossbowmen, who carry light shields and protect the heavy crossbowmen, who concentrate on shooting under the protection of the sword and shield men, and in the middle of the line are skilled longbowmen, sometimes even low-ranking mages and priests.

In a standard infantry brigade, the number of heavy infantry, pikemen, sword and shield men, and heavy crossbowmen is often fixed, just to be able to form this classic standard infantry phalanx with both offense and defense.

In addition to the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry in general, and even the rangers, were helpless with such a standard infantry phalanx.

Heavy infantry armor is a heavy armor with a thick plate armor with a chain mail at the joints, both defense and flexibility, and it requires at least a soldier of the third level or higher to wear it to move freely.

A tower shield is a large shield that needs to be held with both hands, and in addition to the tower shield, heavy infantry will carry heavy weapons such as two-handed swords or two-handed axes. When needed, they can also throw away the shield wall and become the main force of the attack.

Heavy infantry is generally the leader of the infantry team or a senior veteran, and they are all soldiers of the third rank or above.

The pikemen who served as the second line of defense were generally veterans of the infantry brigade, and they were at least second-class fighters.

Sword, shield, and crossbowmen were served by new or weaker soldiers, and their task was to concentrate on shooting the enemy with their crossbows under the protection of the veterans.

In the classic phalanx composed of more than 200 infantry brigades, there are about fifty heavy crossbows, which can shoot about 300 arrows in a minute, the power of heavy crossbows is very terrifying, only the heavy armor of heavy infantry and heavy cavalry can resist, ordinary infantry armor will be pierced by the armor-piercing arrows shot by heavy crossbows, and each heavy crossbowman will be equipped with one or two enchanted armor-piercing arrows, even the heavy armor of heavy cavalry cannot be stopped.

If the classic phalanx of an infantry brigade is not breached within a minute, the casualties it inflicts will be unacceptable.

The two infantry brigades skillfully formed a standard infantry phalanx, standing in place and waiting quietly.

Bai Qi also picked up the tower shield and stood on the north side of the phalanx, which would be the direction of the enemy's attack, if not surprisingly.

Ten minutes later, smoke and dust were lifted in front of him, and nearly a thousand horse thieves roared across the sky. (To be continued......)