Chapter 222: Training (3)
Although Luo Ming has the knowledge of modern military training, after all, only a small part of the queue is commensurate with the soldiers of this era, such as stepping forward, holding a gun and aiming backwards, etc., which are not needed for the time being.
With discipline instilled in a recruit's brain, there's not much he can do.
Those who walk in unison, run or something, as long as they practice more every day, the level of the recruits will naturally improve.
Therefore, Dungar held back for twenty days, and finally had the opportunity to play his strengths.
Of course, because he is in a wheelchair, and because Luo Ming doesn't want his first team of soldiers as a seed to be touched by others, the main body of the training is still Luo Ming, and Dungar is his adjutant and gives advice on the side.
Once the soldiers have developed discipline, the next thing to do is to make them memorize the various instructions.
On the battlefield, shouting and killing are endless, extremely noisy, even if Luo Mingyun shouts loudly, it is difficult to fully convey the order to the whole army.
As for the magic communication that can be compared to modern walkie-talkies and signal soldiers...... The cost is relatively high, and it is not easy to use it for a while.
Therefore, what Luo Ming now wants these recruits to keep in mind are the various orders given by horns, drums, and flags.
Unless it is a skirmish, on the battlefield, in general, no one will form the whole army into a team and pass by in a wave.
Most commanders will divide their men into phalanxes, including the front army, the left flank and the right flank, the light cavalry that roams the flanks of the battlefield, the heavy cavalry that is ready to storm the ground formation, the guards who remain with the commander, and some reserves.
The sound of different trumpets can convey simple orders such as attacking, retreating, and holding on, the sound of drums can coordinate the pace of the soldiers, or it can boost morale and make them brave when charging, and as for the flags, each phalanx has its own flag, which is guarded by a special person.
The direction of the flag is the direction in which everyone in this phalanx should go, and the commander only needs to explain his tactics to the flag bearer, then the flag bearer will lead the whole team to charge in the direction needed.
Even if the flag bearer falls, there are usually people who will take the flag and charge according to the prescribed sequence.
In addition, flutes and trombones also have some auxiliary effects, but there are not many of these soldiers now, so they don't need them for the time being, so they can be trained according to relatively simple standards first.
In addition to this, these recruits also learned the use of weapons.
Although the spear is the most time-saving and low-cost weapon to learn, and most recruits learn the spear, Luo Ming still managed to pick out the four most suitable recruits to reduce the practice of the spear, and add another course to them - to increase the practice of bows and arrows.
Although, in theory, the phalanx of rows of spears is cheap and powerful, and no one wants to collide with it head-on...... But why should the enemy collide with you head-on?
Even after Luo Ming's military training, in order to maintain the neatness of the formation, the speed of the pikemen lined up in an array is still difficult to compare with that of normal people.
A long-range bow and arrow throw can make the spear array helpless.
Or the archers can rush to a close distance and shoot an arrow, run a certain distance and then shoot arrows, and the cycle can completely disrupt the array of pikes - when the array becomes more and more chaotic, it can be overwhelmed by the enemy.
Or the enemy flanks and outflanks - even if it is fast, it will take a lot of time for the entire phalanx to turn, which is enough time for the spear array to be taken out several times.
Therefore, in actual combat, there must always be a fast-moving cavalry and a long-range attacking bow and crossbow to assist the spear formation, so as not to let it be caught by the enemy casually.
Lormin and Grant could be the best cavalrymen themselves, but the archers needed to be trained in a team.
It's good to start practicing the bow and arrow a day earlier, because it's different from the way ordinary soldiers use spears, and it's definitely not an overnight effort.
At this time, Luo Ming was looking forward to the gunpowder that he handed over to Grant to help test when he was not free for the past few days.
Muskets may require more complex machining processes, and even if they are easier to learn than bows and arrows, they are not something that soldiers can learn immediately.
But artillery is different - one or two people can use a cannon as long as they learn it, not necessarily in terms of lethality, but definitely better than a few muskets or a dozen bows in terms of deterrence.
If you really can't do it, just play some "brave game" - ask the potter to make a batch of clay pots and make simple bombs, so that these soldiers can turn into grenadiers, and rush towards the enemy in a swarm, seemingly brainless charge, but in fact, when they rush in front of them, they throw the bombs over and then immediately retreat themselves, blow up the opponent on their backs, and then continue the official attack.
However, this requires the soldiers to have the same courage as steel to shoot in line, after all, it is very uncomfortable to carry a bomb in their hands...... In case someone is not psychologically good, the possibility of the bomb exploding in the team before it is thrown is not zero.
In short, the best formula for gunpowder has not been tested now, and Luo Ming did not put so many ideas into practice immediately, but first trained this group of recruits in a down-to-earth manner.
"Hah!"
"Hey!"
The recruits were divided into two teams and fought each other with long poles with water-soaked cloth wrapped around the tops, as if the two armies were really meeting each other, fighting each other with spears.
Those who were wet in the vital areas immediately withdrew from the scene and went to the side to watch.
After some time, both sides were almost "dead", and the recruits reverted to a team, ended the chaos and rearranged themselves neatly.
And this time, Luo Ming's body glowed with a fighting spirit, and he held a wooden stick in his hand that was also dipped in water, and slammed into the array of recruits - this is the time to imitate the enemy powerhouse to break through at any cost.
Not only Luo Ming himself, Grant has also been here a few times in his spare time, and Lauder has played seven times, but Luo Ming is worried that he will not be able to hold back and easily injure the recruits, so he chooses to play more by himself.
More than 20 long poles stabbed together, some tried to block Luo Ming's dodge direction, some predicted Luo Ming's movements, and some stabbed directly at Luo Ming's current position, like a big net, to shroud Luo Ming in it.
He laughed loudly, and with a turn of the wooden stick in his hand, he pushed the three long rods away, and then rotated his body so that the Dou Qi shield did not bear too much pressure, and staggered the attacks of the other four long rods.
However, now there are two rows of spear formation, just now Luo Ming only reached the first row, and he can only knock down or avoid the first row, and the second row will continue to stab, Luo Ming only had time to knock down the three people with the wooden stick in his hand, and was forced back by the second wave of attacks for a moment, although he immediately launched a counterattack, but the spear formation has also regrouped, and the gap between the three people who lost just now was quickly filled by his companions.