The first performance of the hand crossbow was not satisfactory.

The reason is not in the crossbow itself, but in Zhang Xi's training.

The soldiers of this year did not have any concept of mutual cooperation between the arms, and they still followed the ideas of the previous military array, a group of people gathered together, ready to carry out crowd tactics at any time.

And Zhang Xi has no experience, so he thought that this situation was normal.

No problems were found in the daily training, but when Zhang Xi tried to divide the one hundred and fifty people under Kou Feng's tent into two camps and conduct confrontation drills, he found that there was a big problem with the distance of the team's formation.

It was fine at first.

The long-card soldier erects a long card to block the opponent's bow and arrow, the wolf soldier supports the wolf's sword to pull away from the opponent's distance, and at the same time blocks the opponent's view, and the pikeman and the waist knife soldier cooperate to kill the enemy with a long and a short one.

It wasn't until some clever chiefs saw that the situation was wrong and chose to fight in a roundabout way that the problem really appeared.

One is that the formation between the teams is too compact, which leads to very inflexibility when changing formations, and weapons often collide with each other and even fall off.

The other is the short knife soldier who is the team's strategy, and should fire a crossbow at the first time to change formations to prevent the place from approaching, and rush up to engage in hand-to-hand combat...... But as soon as he fired the crossbow, he found that the crossbow arrows were all shot at his own brother's body, not to mention, he rushed over and did not find the enemy, but first collided with his own team, and was easily disrupted by the enemy who completed the roundabout.

Zhang Xi looked at the soldiers who killed each other more than the enemy in the field with a headache, and sighed silently.

No way, it's its own pot.

The point is that he doesn't even know what kind of distance and distance he should maintain to be the most suitable for the Mandarin Duck Array to exert its power.

Fortunately, Zhang Xi is not the kind of person who works behind closed doors, he personally went down, gathered all the chiefs together, and asked their opinions.

These people are front-line commanders, and naturally they know very well their own team, where the command is not smooth, where is in the way, although they don't necessarily know the reason, but they can always tell it.

Zhang Xi found someone to record it, went back to analyze it, and then kept trying, trying to find a suitable array distance.

Then, in view of the lack of long-range firepower of each team shown in the exercise, Zhang Xi felt that he could not let each of the archers scatter the battle, and he had to gather these archers first, and then equip them back to each team after shooting bows and arrows...... It's just that in this way, it will test the coach's grasp of the timing of the archers' summoning and disbandment, and whether the archers can return to the team at the first time and quickly cooperate with their teammates to transform into waist knife players.

Once this is not possible, these lone archers, even if they are equipped with waist knives, will only fight alone on the battlefield, and there is no threat at all, and the team will lack the means of killing the enemy at short distances, and can only be filled by short soldiers after being close to the enemy, and once the flank or rear is attacked, it will be difficult to take care of the end.

I don't know if I don't train, and I find a lot of problems when I train.

Sure enough, if you don't understand the training method of the Qi family's army, it is impossible to train the Qi family's army just by looking at the skin.

Zhang Xi was trying, while comparing the theory of the "Soldier's Path", and at the same time, according to his own memory and practice, he kept trying to change various formations.

In the end, Zhang Xi found a suitable array distance and readjusted the military column, so that the archers could quickly enter the team and change their waist swordsmen, or if it was too late, there would be a way for the short sword soldiers to temporarily fill the position.

Keep trying, keep discussing with Kou Feng, and then record it, and finally after forming the rules, all that's left is training.

The most important training is how to quickly merge with the nearest team and re-establish the combat team after the attrition on the battlefield.

The Mandarin Duck Formation has a very big advantage, that is, each soldier only needs to do one thing well, and the formation can run freely.

The long card soldier is responsible for blocking the bow and arrow, the wolf soldier is responsible for sweeping the wolf sword left and right, interfering with the opponent's formation and opening the distance, the pikeman is responsible for the distant enemy, the waist knife soldier is responsible for the approaching enemy, and the short knife soldier is responsible for receiving and responding.

Once there is attrition on the battlefield and the team can no longer maintain its combat effectiveness, it can be merged with nearby teams and continue to perform their duties, without worrying that the responsibilities will be unclear due to the bloated formation, which will affect the combat effectiveness.

You don't have to worry about the battle after the merger, the main thing is how to judge the combat effectiveness of your team on the battlefield, and how to communicate with neighboring teams in the shortest possible time to quickly complete the team merger.

This requires training, otherwise with the quality of these soldiers, it is really possible that they will not be able to merge, and instead break up the formation of their teammates.

After a month of being busy, it was finally time to compete with Zhang Fei's training team.

The result...... Zhang Xi was very disappointed, he was defeated.

Although I struggled, I failed.

From the very beginning, the team commanded by Zhang Xi was inserted by the team commanded by Zhang Fei to find a gap in the formation conversion, and then it was quickly divided into two sections, so that Zhang Xi could not command both sides at the same time.

As an aside, that is, Zhang Fei saved face for Zhang Xi, and the team inserted in the gap did not choose to go straight to Zhang Xi, otherwise Zhang Xi would probably be captured alive on the spot, and then end this exercise.

Zhang Xi's team, which lacked effective command and was divided into two sections, although it persevered for a while under the efforts of Zhang Xi and Kou Feng, it was unable to resist Zhang Fei's team after all, and after being cleaned up one by one, it declared defeat.

Zhang Fei was also surprised.

This time he won, but it wasn't easy at all.

At the beginning, Zhang Fei did save face for Zhang Xi, and he did not raid Zhang Xi when he cut into the troops, but Zhang Fei was also wilted, the troops he commanded were not ordinary troops, they were one hundred and fifty veterans of a hundred battles that he drew from the three hundred parts.

But later, Zhang Fei didn't feel that these 150 veterans of a hundred battles gave him a long face.

Originally, Zhang Fei thought that an army would be easily divided and surrounded at the beginning, and it would lose its command, it should be the same as chopping melons and vegetables, and it could be easily won through the motions.

It may not be possible to wipe them all out, but it is still easy to disperse these soldiers.

But Zhang Fei found that things were not as simple as he thought.

After the division, Zhangxi's army did have a certain degree of vacillation and panic, and fell into a situation of fighting on its own.

But it was also very difficult for his own troops to break through the formation of these people.

A little farther away, there is a sparse bow and arrow attack.

It's not fatal, but it's annoying.

And a little closer, that long bamboo pole is waving in front of you, so that the formation can't be close to the formation at all, let alone have an advantage in the number of local manufacturers.

It's hard to disperse closely, but you have to face the threat of spears and knives, if you take a detour, the opponent will quickly change formation, and after the formation, no matter how many people there are, it doesn't seem to affect the operation of the formation at all, and you still have to face the spear waist knife, and you don't even know where to shoot the crossbow arrows.

Even if a team is finally broken up, the other party can still form a simple five- or six-person formation on the spot, or directly merge with nearby friendly forces, and re-form combat effectiveness.

In the end, Zhang Feijun was able to win, on the one hand, Zhang Fei's command ability was more than one and a half points stronger than Zhang Xi, and on the other hand, a group of veterans of a hundred battles relied on battlefield experience to fight hard and won hard.

In this way, Zhang Fei counted the army and found that more than half of the troops were reduced, and such an army could no longer be put into the second battlefield.

So Zhang Fei was also very dissatisfied, very dissatisfied.

You group of old ** who were killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, usually one can brag more than the other, now it's okay, fight a group of recruits who have just been recruited and have not been on the battlefield once, you are all so hard, you have actually lost half of your staff...... What do you want this waste to do?

But after all, he won, and now Zhang Fei also knows that he can't lose his temper casually, so he just glared at his own subordinates fiercely, snorted, and finally didn't turn around to find the whip.

turned to see Zhang Xi, and had to show off well in front of this marching Sima.

Usually this guy always has a set, and he claims to have learned the art of war...... How about it, I was still defeated by my old Zhang, right?!

"Yuan Chang, this time, you have suffered a loss from my old Zhang!" Zhang Fei said with a smile, but he didn't say anything too ugly, and instead helped Zhang Xi analyze the reasons for his failure.

It all had to start with that raid.

"I Lao Zhang knows, you are familiar with military books, but I also know that this is the first time you go into battle, and there will definitely be an opportunity." Zhang Fei smiled and said, "So, my old Zhang will send people to raid you at the beginning of the war and divide and surround your team, so that you can easily win." ”

Zhang Xi listened, sighed silently, and said, "General Xie San's subordinates are merciful, and Xi has been taught." ”

This is indeed Zhang Xi's problem, he panicked and hesitated in the face of Zhang Fei's surprise attack at the beginning, and it was this hesitation that gave Zhang Fei the opportunity to attack.

This is a skirmish of more than 100 people, the combat range is small, the duration is short, and if you hesitate a little, people will already be in front of you.

This is a matter of battlefield experience, and it is not unjust to lose.

However, Zhang Fei didn't come to laugh at Zhang Xi.

"But Yuan Chang, the formation in your army is not bad, it can be changed easily, and it can be combined with nearby teams at any time without affecting the combat power, which is quite good..... It's that bamboo pole, tell me, why do you use that thing?! ”

Zhang Fei cautiously probed.

Although Zhang Xi was still immersed in the frustration of defeat and was not very interested, he still replied seriously, "Oh, that, that is called Wolf Tree, it is indeed a bamboo pole, on the one hand, it can be used to interfere with the local offensive formation, and on the other hand, it can also make the soldiers brave." ”

"Huh? Courage?! Zhang Fei was puzzled.

He can see this by disrupting the offensive formation, what does this courage mean?!

"Yes, you see, there is a pile of branches and leaves in front of you, the enemy's knife can't cut it, the gun will be caught, and you only need to look at the enemy's body and barrel, even people who go to the battlefield for the first time will do it, what are you afraid of." Zhang Xi continued to explain.

Zhang Fei nodded silently and understood.

After a while, Zhang Fei suddenly asked again, "Why didn't the two people in your formation do anything on the battlefield?" Wouldn't it be a waste of military power to arrange it like this?! ”

"It's not that they don't do anything, they don't need to do it when they have nothing to do, and when something happens, they are the most important, especially in terms of formation changes and guarding the flanks......

Zhang Xi continued, and Zhang Fei also patiently recorded silently.

After Zhang Xi finished explaining, Zhang Fei pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said, "Oh, that's what I said, and ah......"

"Don't say anything more!" Zhang Xi can be regarded as having discovered that this guy is here to train the method.

"I've written down everything you want to ask, it's in Kou Feng's military tent, go and get it yourself!"

“..... It would have been nice to say no earlier, but the old Zhang and you spent half a day talking. ”

This black guy ...... If you don't lose too badly and lose face today, you have to have a good fight with him.