Chapter 912: Overt Drill (Part II)
"Let's tell you the truth, the unit used to carry out special missions, except for a time in Muddy Water Town, has not appeared in front of outsiders at any other time. Can you understand what I'm doing?" Ding Kui couldn't hide it, but simply admitted it.
"Special mission?well, you are not a member of the military now, and you don't have as many scruples as I do, so there should indeed be such a unit. "Zhang Jie is not a pedantic person, he understands extraordinary things and uses extraordinary means.
"If you don't count high-end combat power, my special operations battalion is no worse than the first brigade of the year. Ding Kui pointed to the First Brigade that was passing by the command platform.
"You can concentrate the elite to form the right troops, and I have to consider many factors when arranging my subordinates, so I can't compare them like this.
If you don't let the most elite troops participate in actual combat exercises, and you want to bet with me on winning or losing, it seems that you still have a hand behind your back?"
On the way from the ferry, Ding Kui and Zhang Jie made a bet, and there were three actual combat battles, one cavalry brigade and two infantry brigades.
"You have seen all the teams participating in the exercise, and I have spread all my strength in front of your eyes, how can I hide it? I rely on hard power," Ding Kui gestured with a fist, "disdainful of engaging in conspiracy and trickery." ”
After all the troops were finished, Zhang Jie said: "Let's go, let's compete in hard strength." ”
"What? Master Zhang, just look here. Ding Kui pretended to be surprised.
"Did I look at you abusing the good manner? Don't pretend to be garlic! The city lord is going down in person, how can Ben Jiang not accompany him?" Zhang Jie took Ding Kui's hand and walked off the high platform.
"Let's eat something on stage first. ”
"Go to the army to eat with your brothers, haven't I taught you before?" Zhang Jie did not appreciate it.
When both the Red Army and the Yellow Army returned to the assembly point, a large number of city defenders poured out of the West Gate, as well as carts drawn by oxen and filled with puppet-like gadgets.
It was already noon, and the exercise troops and spectators had begun to have lunch, and only the city defense troops who came out of the back were busy outside the west gate. It turned out that they had erected dummies and barriers in the open space, and a flag with the word "victory" was planted in the center.
The city defense army is preparing for the first real combat exercise, cavalry confrontation!
Knight is the most effective in attack and killing, direct confrontation, even if you don't use real weapons, there will be a lot of damage, so today's cavalry confrontation is not a head-on hedge.
Two obstacle zones were erected in the open space, and the cavalry brigades of both sides had to clear the obstacle areas as quickly as possible and take the lead in capturing the central victory flag in order to win the first competition.
The first comparison is the cavalry charging ability, the faster the speed, the neater the team, the shorter the time to clear the obstacles; if the two sides are close in time, it will be compared to the combat power of the elite cavalry, each side can only send a small team to capture the flag, and the other side can take the stolen flag before the opponent returns to the main formation.
Both the Red Army and the Yellow Army sent their strongest troops, the Red Army was led by Ding Kui, and the whole city was looted to gather 800 knights, not seeking quantity but quality, they did not gather 200 non-knight cavalry; the Yellow Army was led by Zhang Jie, and the captains who came today replaced the recruits of the First Brigade, and even the staff officer Liangchong joined the team.
Obviously, both sides took the first game very seriously and tried their best to win.
"Hahaha, the commanders of their divisions are all on it. Yo yo yo, isn't that a good staff officer?" Guo Qing, the mayor of Deadwood Town, was also in the cavalry ranks of the Red Army.
Ding Cai said to Mayor Guo with a hippie smile: "Aren't you here to bully people too." "Naturally, he is a cavalry candidate, and he has a fighting spirit close to that of a fearless knight.
"Go, go, how do you speak? This is called pointing to the juniors, when Lao Tzu was a cavalryman, most of them were not born yet. "Guo Qing likes to pose in front of Ding Cai.
"Cheer me up, especially you old guys, take care of the little dolls of the Knights' Guild, and make a little more effort in a while. One of you mayors, one of the bureau chiefs, if you lose the competition, do you still need to see people when you go back?" Zhong Wei patrolled the formation on the periphery.
He took a few old guards to form a capture the flag team with Ding Kui.
Shao Dianfei closed his mouth tightly and looked excitedly at the veterans in the team, those were all idols of his youth.
"Relax. Ding Kui patted Shao Dianfei on the shoulder, "To learn how they control the speed of the horse, and how to help the people next to them control the speed of the horse, a good cavalry commander must have the ability." ”
"Yes, my lord!" replied Shao Dianfei loudly.
"Hehe, relax, you can give full play to the sixty percent strength of your usual training. Ding Kui thought that a few years ago, he was also a stunned young man.
Woo!
The trombone sounded three times, and the two sides entered the starting point.
Ding Kui, like everyone else, was covered in armor, a wooden gun, and a wooden sword, the tip of which was wrapped in coarse cloth stained with white ash, and personally led a team to line up on the arrows of the cavalry formation.
Magic flares shoot up into the sky.
"Rush!" Ding Kui's command was concise and powerful, and he sat down and ran into the thunder horse.
"Wow, the lord of the castle is so fast!" "It is worthy of being the second-ranked famous horse, and today is a feast for the eyes." "So handsome, I'm going to marry the city lord!" "Be quiet, Her Royal Highness the princess is on the high platform." ”......
"Well, why didn't Lord Pony lead the cavalry to run, and rushed forward alone?"
He likes to be in the limelight and make the Lord of Wucheng laugh. Shaodian Luan replied lightly.
"No, that's not General Fei's style. Mingjie asked at Fei Ze this time.
"Oh, Lord Ding's approach is not something that ordinary people can understand, unfortunately, I happen to be an ordinary person. Fei Ze shrugged.
There are not many people in the entire territory who know that Ding Kui has been promoted to the Juggernaut Knight, and they will not say it.
A three-meter-wide spear flew out.
A three-meter-wide sword bolt followed.
"Is this the strength of the peak fearless knight?" Lu Ji was on the second floor of the high platform, and was stunned when he saw Ding Kui's performance.
Zhang Jie on the other side also slashed out the spear and sword one after another, and the size was the same, but there was a gap in the interval, and he was at least more than ten breaths apart.
"Wow!" erupted in exclamation from the viewing area.
It turned out that Zhang Jie led the entire cavalry formation to split out a spear more than ten meters long, and swept towards the obstacle area devastatingly.
"Hey!" Ding Kui pushed his left knee, and the leopard ran to the thunder horse and quickly galloped to the right.
Behind him, Zhong Wei understood and turned to the right with eight old guards.
"Wow!" exclaimed again.
Shao Dianfei also led the cavalry formation to slash out a spear nearly ten meters long, although the length was shorter, but the destructive power was equally sharp, sweeping away the dummies and obstacles about 100 meters long.
But it's not over, Ding Kui has already rushed into the obstacle area with his super high horse speed, only to see his gun and sword flying, and the dummies and obstacles in front of him all fly upside down, and the speed of clearing the obstacle is not much worse than the gun.
Since Zhong Wei and the others did not need to maintain coordinated speed, they also rushed into the obstacle area faster than the cavalry of the Yellow Army, and began to clear all the obstacles by themselves.
The cavalry of the two armies had their own strengths, and the speed and efficiency of obstacle clearance were almost the same. You must know that the Red Army has a loss of 200 men, which is equivalent to a loss of 25 percent of its combat strength, which is equivalent to four people against five people.
Zhang Jie used a charge technique and found that he was about to penetrate the obstacle area, so he hung up his wooden sword, felt a whistle and stuffed it into his mouth, and blew it vigorously, while Ding Kui's wooden sword was raised upwards and shot a sword into the air.
The two teams of cavalry burst apart from the neat conical array, scattering in all directions like bursting fireworks; from a collective charge to a single pursuit, the higher ones could display their individual abilities to the fullest.
Ding Kui relied on Ma Kuai to clear an obstacle area, and began to turn back to help Zhong Wei and others clear the obstacles. Each cavalry squad is divided into their own areas of responsibility, and the team that finishes first must help the unfinished, as all dummies and obstacles are cleared to capture the flag in the middle.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, Zhang Jie's whistle is getting faster and faster, and it is currently the dominant stage of the Yellow Army.
The pursuit of individual soldiers depends on the number of people, and no matter how strong the personal strength is, at most one person will chase two, and the gap in the personal strength of the two sides is not so big that there is a gap of two hundred people.
On the other end, Ding Kui's spear danced like fan blades, and his arms were like motors, and one person took care of the area of two people. In his plan, most of the responsibility of closing the gap between the two sides falls on himself, and he can play beyond the norm to basically win.
However, in fact, he miscalculated the ability of the young knights, and he did not expect that all the senior knights of the 201st Division were transferred to the first brigade, and the speed of the Yellow Army's cavalry was higher than he expected.
"Quick! keep up!" Zhang Jie was pleased to see that his side had cleared the obstacle area first, and immediately beckoned the five captains plus the four strongest knights to form a small cavalry formation with him.
The cavalry squad of the Yellow Army rushed to the "victory" banner first!
Ding Kui immediately stood at the edge of the obstacle area in advance, and looked at the last uncleaned obstacle area anxiously, "Zhong Wei, you have cleared the obstacle in the past!"
Zhong Wei did not hesitate, and immediately took Guo Qing, Ding Cai and others to clear the wrecker.
When the last dummy was knocked away, Ding Kui did not wait for the cavalry squad to arrive, and single-handedly rushed towards the "victory" banner.
"Aha! Ding Kui is crazy, is he going crazy! One person wants to single-handedly challenge our team?" Chen Chishi and Han Kai lined up behind Zhang Jie.
"Don't underestimate him! Isn't there less impossible things that happen to him? Keep up with the rhythm of the adults. Han Kai did not despise Ding Kui.
"Okay, do you want to fight the horse and grab it quickly?" Zhang Jie asked back.
"No!" the Yellow Army cavalry squad was in high spirits.
"Let him retreat. Zhang Jie raised the tip of his spear, and his subordinates behind him led forward with their spears.
After rushing to the "victory" flag, Zhang Jie pressed down the tip of the gun, and a cavalry array of guns shot at Ding Kui.
Ding Kui wanted to rush straight and hit the gun, unless he could easily defuse the gun, otherwise the speed would definitely drop significantly.
"Hehe, goodbye, Ding Concubine!" Zhang Jie reached out to pull out the "victory" flag.