Chapter 45: Building a Team
Wei Wuxian's training was after the change of guard, but the location was not the school field, but on the hill on the side of the camp.
He didn't think that he would be better at training soldiers than the 'Iron General' Long Chen, large-scale combat is not a personal competition, and the soldiers don't need to know too many moves, the simpler the change, the better.
The training of spearmen is mainly to stab, spear by spear, alternating with each other, with appropriate formations, the power is amazing.
The reason is very simple, the single player is most afraid of using the old moves, the old power is exhausted, the new force is not born, once the opponent seizes the opportunity to attack, it is very dangerous.
So a single spearman is not a cause for concern, and it is not the same if you add one. Because the other person can fill the loophole at this moment, the two cooperate with each other, and if they are well-trained, they can resist even in the face of ordinary masters.
When facing the enemy, the two spear formations are the most jealous of greed, one person shoots, the other guards it, alternately, so that the opponent has no chance to take advantage of it.
The three-person spear formation is stronger than the two-person spear formation, and the two-person cooperation may also have a coordination error, and the words of the three form a triangle support, even if one of them makes a mistake, it can be made up in time.
When he intercepted and killed the Northern Barbarian monk in the north of Yanzhou City, Mu Bai used a five-person spear formation.
The five-person spear array has many more variations than the three-person spear array, and is also known as the 'plum blossom array'.
Mu Bai's forbidden army is the strongest army in the palace, and the formation is skillful, five people form a small 'plum blossom array', and twenty-five people form a large 'plum blossom array', and two groups of 'plum blossom arrays' are shared in that interception, plus the fifty crossbowmen outside, the Northern Barbarian monks are trapped inside and have no chance to escape.
Sword and shield soldiers can attack and defend, and their individual combat ability is stronger than that of spearmen, and they are inferior to spearmen when they are in formation. Their role is mainly to defend against the opponent's crossbow arrows, and to cover their own crossbowmen and spearmen. Shen Tao has always been a sword and shield soldier since he joined the army, and he is very familiar with the tactics of sword and shield soldiers, and Wei Wuxian wants to learn from him in this regard.
The crossbowman is a powerful weapon for long-range attack on the battlefield, and the standard bow and crossbow of Daxia is divided into two kinds: one is the hand O crossbow, which has the advantage of being operated with one hand, is fast winding, and is easy to carry; the disadvantage is that the firing range is short, and the effective killing distance is only about 30 zhang; the other is the strong crossbow, which has the advantage of being long-range, and the effective killing distance can reach 50 zhang; the disadvantage is that the volume of the crossbow is larger, twice as heavy as the hand O crossbow, the winding is slow, and the loss is large.
At present, the Jade Bottle Pass is equipped with hand O crossbows, with a total of three crossbowmen and thirty crossbowmen. Ji Yun's team was well-trained, otherwise it would not have been possible for the Northern Barbarian Cultivators to send one person to resist their shots last time.
Wei Wuxian now wants to train with the cooperation of three teams, and the school field is too small, so he chooses to train in the mountains. As the opponent of the three teams, the two sides were engaged in confrontational training in the jungle.
This kind of training can not only improve the coordination of the three teams, but also strengthen their physical fitness. Because Wei Wuxian personally went into battle as a target, he could also get training from it.
The mountain roads are rugged, the terrain is changeable, and the tactics are more abundant.
Wei Wuxian had seen the power of the spear formation, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he first practiced confrontation with Song Zhe's ten-man spearmen, and the other two teams watched the battle on the side.
The ten people led by Song Zhe, in groups of two, attacked each other alternately, the spears were piercing, endless, and there were bright spearheads everywhere in Wei Wuxian's eyes, if it weren't for his vigorous body and quick reaction, he didn't know how many holes would be poked out of his body.
This is the difference between one-to-one and one-to-many;
One-on-one only needs to pay attention to one person, no matter how powerful a person is, there are times when the moves are old and the moves are changed. It's different in the face of multiple people, the enemy is on the back of the abdomen, even if someone has a loophole, it is difficult for you to have a chance to kill, and the companions around you will make up for it in time, and you are not facing one person.
The rabble is not trained, and there will be gaps in the cooperation between each other, and crowding together will affect the performance, and no matter how large the number of such a team is, there is no fear.
Most of Song Zhe's spear team were veterans left behind by the border pass after a hundred battles, they were experienced, and they cooperated with each other very tacitly after the formation was launched, and they actually suppressed Wei Wuxian for a while.
Wei Wuxian finally understood why Liu Tielance and less than thirty soldiers were able to resist three Northern Barbarian monks for a quarter of an hour, and if he didn't do his best, he was afraid that he would not be able to do anything with ten well-trained soldiers.
He trained not to defeat them, but to build them and make them more powerful. He only used three points at first, and as both sides got used to it, it began to strengthen.
Song Zhe and the other ten spearmen were happy at first, everyone was arrogant, no one would want to be defeated, and if they could defeat the commander, that feeling was not too good.
But after a stick of incense, as Wei Wuxian began to exert his strength, the ten-person spear formation was a little uncontrollable, and almost broke Wei Wuxian's formation several times.
"Good, not bad. Wei Wuxian took the initiative to stop, the two sides fought for almost half an hour, Song Zhe and the ten people were sweating like pulp, their bodies were soft, the spears were extremely heavy in their hands, the formation and rhythm were chaotic, and there was no point in continuing to practice.
Wei Wuxian asked them to rest first, and looked at Shen Tao: "You guys come!"
Shen Tao's vision is naturally not comparable to Song Zhe, he has gained a lot from a sparring practice, and he also has the heart to try, slapped the shield with the knife and said: "Let's go, don't embarrass me!"
"Great!"
"Look at ours. ”
The sword and shield soldiers had the pride of the sword and shield soldiers, and under the leadership of the captain Shen Tao, they began to surround Wei Wuxian.
The combat methods of sword and shield soldiers are different from those of spearmen, their weapons are short, they are good at close combat, they can attack and defend, and their individual strength is stronger than that of spearmen.
The two sides fought in the forest, Wei Wuxian also used three points of force first, and slowly added it little by little, about to use seven points of force, Shen Tao's sword and shield soldiers were a little overwhelmed, and every attack of the yuan force infused on the sword weapon made the sword and shield soldiers feel like Mount Tai was overpowered, and their steps became heavier and heavier, their arms were sore, and they wanted to throw the shield aside so that they could relax and relax.
Shen Tao tried his best, but he only supported it for half an hour, and at this moment he really respected Wei Wuxian.
Finally, there is Ji Yun's crossbow team.
Wei Wuxian first drew a circle one zhang wide twenty zhang away, and then stood inside and let Ji Yun's ten people shoot together, and the ten people shot all the two hundred crossbow arrows in the quiver, and they didn't force him out of the circle.
Then Wei Wuxian narrowed the distance to fifteen zhang, ten zhang, eight zhang, and was not forced to withdraw from the circle until seven zhang.
This made everyone's eyes widen in horror, the distance of Qizhang was already very close to the crossbowman, if it were not for the restriction of the circle, Wei Wuxian would probably break through and kill the crossbowman's array.
Wei Wuxian was also very shocked in his heart, the power of the bow and crossbow was much greater than he expected, this was only ten people, if the number increased to twenty, if he didn't use the Yuanguang Shield, even if he tried his best, it would be difficult to get close.
The Yuanguang Shield needs to be supported by extremely strong Yuan Force, and while using the Yuanguang Shield while resisting the sword, he can't do it with his current cultivation, maybe he can try it when he advances to the sixth layer of the Qi Refining Period.
Edgeworth alone may be able to kill a few people, or even more, but if it is exposed, it is likely to be shot into a hedgehog by a barrage of arrows if it is not covered.
Both sides of the first day of training were full of gains, and through this sparring exercise, Wei Wuxian was even more determined to build his own team, because it was impossible to deal with the future crisis in a single battle. Whether it's in the mundane world or in the realm of cultivation.