At this time, there were seventy-six young people in Dapan Fort, and Liu Yan invited Wang Weizhen to officially promote Wang Bo and Zhang Yi to small flag officials. Although the two of them did not have any military achievements, with the interests of Liu Yan and Wang Weizhen, Wang Weizhen still gave this face, and the appointments of Wang Bo and Zhang Yi were quickly issued.

After solving the identity problem of Wang Bo and Zhang Yi, Liu Yan concentrated on training the more than 70 people under him. Considering that none of the four teams had learned much martial arts, the complicated practice of moves would only confuse them, and when it came to the battle formation, those complicated things were useless.

Therefore, Liu Yan decided to choose the most appropriate moves from his spear skills, and only taught his subordinates some simple and effective killing skills, the simpler and more effective moves on the battlefield, those bells and whistles can only kill people. As long as you practice repeatedly, simple moves can be extremely powerful.

In the end, Liu Yan thought about it again and again, and decided that his pikemen would only learn one trick, and that was the thrust!

And this move is also broken down into two steps, the first step, hold the gun sideways, and the second step, stab hard.

Liu Yan decided to let his pikemen practice these two movements repeatedly every day in the future, until they practiced the movements to the standard, practiced quickly, and practiced until they were conditioned.

As for knife practice, it is also the same move, which is divided into two steps, the first step is to raise the knife, and the second step is to split obliquely. The action of lifting the knife also requires a standard, and the angle of the knife chopping is also strictly regulated!

Since then, every night, these four teams of young men have practiced knives and guns outside the fort every day, without exception, every day Liu Yan also came out to practice with Chen Xun, Wang Bo, Wang Yue, and Zhang Yi, rain or shine.

At this time, it was the beginning of June in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and the sun in the sky was like fire, as if there were ten suns, constantly scorching the earth. Even at night, it is extremely hot, and it makes people sweat profusely when they move a little, and it is very sticky and uncomfortable.

At present, after the Zhongdun army came back from the military camp, they were all tired and hot, drinking water in their respective houses to cool off, and even some frail elderly men showed symptoms of heat stroke after returning from work, Liu Yan had to send someone to buy a lot of heat medicine.

In addition, Liu Yan also asked Chen Xun to buy some herbal tea and come back, and give it to everyone to drink every night. These herbal teas are very expensive, if it weren't for Liu Yan's income of 1,000 taels this month, and the silver in his hand had accumulated more than 2,000 taels, he would really be reluctant to buy these herbal teas back.

However, since Liu Yan provided these "luxury" summer products to the Zhongdun army, he naturally couldn't stop training every night. Liu Yan once made it clear that he could quit if he couldn't stand it, but after that, even their families would be expelled from Dapanbao.

At this time, everyone has divided the cultivated land, seeing that the days are about to get better and better, no one wants to be driven out because they can't endure hardships, seeing that others are gritting their teeth and persevering, why can't they do it, practicing death is better than driving out of the fort. Therefore, no matter how bitter it was, every dun army gritted their teeth and persevered.

After everyone came back that night, they rested for a while, and then they still went out of the fort to practice.

It was getting dark, but the heat was still there.

Everyone's face is a bean-sized bead of sweat, in order to cool down, everyone can be said to be trying their best, everyone is wearing a variety of clothes, some people are wearing a shabby short beat, and some people are directly naked.

Liu Yan was also directly shirtless, revealing a bulging muscle, which made people feel afraid at first sight.

After practicing for a while, everyone began to practice knives and guns again. And all the men who made the spears stood in several rows, and every man held the spear, and the one who made the sword also held his own sword.

The spear that Liu Yan bought from Wangjiazhuang that day was just improperly maintained, but it could still be used, and after Tan Xiaoda and others re-polished and re-calcined, it was sharp again.

Seeing that everyone was lined up, Liu Yan shouted: "Ready!" ”

"Wow!" With a bang, everyone stood straight!

Liu Yan shouted: "Raise the gun!" ”

"Kill."

Dozens of spears pierced together, and the scene was spectacular.

"Raise your sword!"

"Kill!"

A roar sounded, sixteen swordsmen slashed hard, a piece of sword light raised, although there were only sixteen people in front of the sword, but they slashed down in unison, but in the firelight there was quite a awe-inspiring power.

"Kill, kill me hard, you are a thief in front of you, you don't need to play with a spear, you don't need to make a false shelf, you just need to stab, stab hard, stab quickly. If you stab faster than them, you will be able to live, and those thieves are the first of your military merits. ”

Liu Yan yelled, he walked back and forth with a stick, and when he saw who was not in place in his posture, he stepped forward to beat the stick, which made everyone even more energetic.

Looking at the uniform movements of everyone in the field, there was a faint momentum of going into battle to kill the enemy, Liu Yan was happy in his heart, and a sense of pride arose, this is the people he trained single-handedly, this is the capital of his own start!

After more than a month of rigorous training for these soldiers, they can be said to be ready to go into battle at this time, if they can practice for another three months, and see a little blood in the last battle, at least among the guards of the Ming Dynasty, they can be regarded as a combatable army.

However, their team, even Qi Tianliang, only eight people, are all old and weak men in the fort, no way, the manpower in the fort is these. Fortunately, they don't usually need to practice much, so even if their body is a little worse, they can barely do it.

At this time, although these four teams of dun troops looked like soldiers, their clothing banners were not formal, everyone was dressed in a variety of ways, and the original mandarin duck battle jackets were not matched, and most of them were wearing their own clothes, which was messy.

Wang Yue, Chen Xun, Wang Bo, and Zhang Yi each took a spear, and a tattered flag hung on it was considered a team flag, but fortunately, everyone had a waist card indicating their identity, and they could be recognized as the dun army of Dapanbao.

Now there is only one drum in Liu Yanjun's army, which was originally placed in the warehouse of Dapanbao, although it is dilapidated, it can finally be used. The rest of the golden drum is not there yet, so we can only wait for the future to buy it, anyway, there are few people now, so let's shout with a voice first. When there is enough time after the autumn harvest, Liu Yan will let people go to procure, and then he will increase the training time and training intensity.

On this day, Liu Yan selected half of the sixteen knife hands to practice the shield, the shield, these shields were bought by Liu Yan for Chen Xun to go to Wangjiazhuang and bought them with money from Wang Weizhen, and the maintenance was not bad, but the eight shields were of different shapes, which made Liu Yan a little depressed, so he had a plan to unify the equipment system in his heart.

However, it is too late to unify the system now, so Liu Yan still focuses on training first. I saw that I took a shield, although he has been practicing spearmanship since he was a child, but he has also practiced swords, sticks and shields, although he is not as good as his own spearmanship, but it is more than enough to teach those rookies of the Dun army below.

Liu Yan held a shield in his left hand and a waist knife in his right hand, signaling Chen Xun on the opposite side to take a spear, and he said loudly to everyone: "The shield is the domain of an army, in addition to not being separated from the gun, the arrows and stones and knives can be covered, and the player is a short soldier in the battle, and the support of the enemy's armies, plus the freedom to advance and retreat, can be a sharp weapon!" Learn the shield well, and you can be bold in the army. ”

After Liu Yan finished speaking, he shouted loudly: "You are all optimistic!" ”

After speaking, Liu Yan motioned to Chen Xun on the opposite side to attack.

Chen Xun let out a low roar, although it was a drill, he was still merciless, and the spear in his hand stabbed straight at Liu Yan from the side like lightning.

Liu Yan shouted loudly: "It's a good time! ”

I saw that the shield in Liu Yan's hand was blocked one by one, and immediately blocked Chen Xun's spear and swung away, Liu Yan's body was not exposed, while opening the spear, and then this momentum, Liu Yan bullied Chen Xun's side, and suddenly his knife flashed, and the waist knife was already slashed at Chen Xun, Chen Xun hurriedly parried, but no matter how Chen Xun parried, Liu Yan was one knife after another, and the knife was powerful, as if he wanted to split Chen Xun in half.

Everyone in the audience was frightened, and suddenly Chen Xun jumped away, he stopped again and again, and said breathlessly: "Captain A is brave, his subordinates are ashamed, and they admit defeat." ”

Liu Yan nodded, turned his head and said to the dunjun who looked like earth: "You have all seen it, this is the benefit of the players!" After practicing, in addition to the excellent firearms and guns, the rest of the swords, guns, bows and arrows are indispensable, of course, there is this ......"

This time, Liu Yan motioned for Chen Xun to hold the shield, and then he took a big stick, about eight feet long and about two inches thick, shaped like a duck's beak. This kind of weapon is mostly seen in the cavalry of the Ming border army, the upper horse can be stabbed, the lower horse can be attacked, and the cavalry is used in a large number of people. At this time, there was no one available in the fort, so they always ate ashes in the arsenal.

At this time, Chen Xun held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, his shield tightly covered his body, and he moved his steps from time to time, just cautiously looking at Liu Yan opposite. Liu Yan's body rotated with Chen Xun's body, he was holding a big stick in both hands, just spying on his flaws, and suddenly Liu Yan shouted, and the big stick smashed straight into Chen Xun's shield.

Chen Xun raised the card to block, Liu Yan was so fierce this time, he could feel that Chen Xun's figure was stagnant, Liu Yan smashed a few sticks again, and the sticks were all smashed in the position just now, it can be seen that Chen Xun's figure was scattered, and his body was exposed from the shield, and Liu Yan changed it to a thorn, and the pointed tip on the stick had stopped at Chen Xun's heart.

Liu Yan put away the stick and said to the stunned people below: "You have seen it, the shield is not afraid of swords, guns, bows and arrows, but it is afraid of firearms and sticks, and when you encounter these two kinds of thieves in the future, you need to be careful, and greet the brothers who have firearms and bows and arrows in their hands!" ”

The dunjun below had not yet recovered from the drill just now, and everyone was talking in amazement, obviously having been suppressed by Liu Yan's bravery. And that Wang Yue was dumbfounded, even if there was the matter of Huangshandun in front of him, Wang Yue couldn't imagine that Liu Yan would have such bravery, and he was also afraid for a while.

Next, Liu Yan asked a few knife players to practice the shield, which is also broken down into several actions, in fact, each shield player should also have two javelins with the brand, but Liu Yan has no javelins in his hand now, so he can only talk about it in the future, and let a few players practice the shield knife skills first.