Chapter 23 Battle Array
Walking to the wooden fence in front of the gate of Houyingying, Liu Heng said to Yang Yuan: "The rearing camp is left to you. If you encounter anything that cannot be solved, you can come to Archer Camp to find me."
"Understood." Yang Yuan, who accompanied him out, nodded.
Liu Heng added: "There is also Chen Daqing. He is the first person to stand up and support us. Promote him to be a small leader. Let others see that those who are willing to follow us will get benefits."
"I understand this, it's called..." Yang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it's called spending money to buy donkey bones and horse bones."
"That's pretty much what I mean." Liu Heng smiled and said, "There's one more thing!"
Yang Yuan looked over.
Liu Heng continued: "The people in the back camp need to be retrained. They should be trained as I did when I trained the refugee recruits. Those who have excellent training results can be assigned positions as small bosses. If someone is cheating, there is no need to show mercy. They should be dealt with."
, I really can’t control it, I’ll allow you to kill it first and then report it later.”
"Don't worry, Yingtou. I don't believe they dare to be dishonest with the knife on their necks." Yang Yuan patted his chest and assured.
"I'll give you ten days. We must make these people in the back camp look like our refugee recruits who are 70% to 80% better." Liu Heng hesitated and said, "I always feel that we won't stay here for too long, so we need to seize the time to train.
Strengthen our strength."
After leaving the rear camp, Liu Heng rushed to the place where refugee recruits were trained.
At this time, three hundred refugees had been brought over by Chen Xunping and were resting under the shade of the trees.
As soon as Liu Heng came closer, Chen Xunping saw him and immediately came to greet him.
"Everyone is here, a total of three hundred people." Chen Xunping glanced at the refugees lazily hiding under the shade of the trees.
Liu Heng looked at it and said, "It's still the same rule as before. Let them gather first, and then bring the prepared cakes over in a basket."
Except for a team of refugee recruits who stayed with Yang Yuan in the rear camp, and two teams of refugee recruits to guard the food, the remaining seven teams of refugee recruits were all summoned here by Liu Heng.
After a long period of consideration, Liu Heng finally decided to let the refugee recruits train the Spanish phalanx he read in the book.
It's not that he hasn't considered Qi Jiguang's new book on Ji Xiao, but now that he is a bandit, many conditions cannot be met and there is not enough time. On the contrary, the Spanish phalanx is simple and easy for him to learn, and it is also cold that this phalanx can dominate Europe for a while.
A classic formation that combines hot weapons with each other.
Although he does not have hot weapons yet, he has an archer battalion in his hands and can use archers to replace the musketeers in the Spanish phalanx.
One team of refugee recruits was left to train the three hundred newly recruited refugees, and Liu Heng personally taught the remaining six teams of refugee recruits the Spanish square formation.
Liu Heng taught them the tactics of thrusting spears to the left in teams one by one. From time to time, he gathered all the spearmen to line up in rows and cooperated with the archers from the archer battalion to form a battle formation.
Fortunately, these refugee recruits had experience in formations and formations, so they were not opposed to forming a Spanish square formation, and they could easily do it. However, when they cooperated with the archers, they were easily disrupted by the archers.
But this is not a big problem. After getting familiar with their position over and over again, the number of archers disrupting the spearmen's formation began to decrease.
"Go forward, go forward, go forward...fix it!" Liu Heng shouted loudly.
Rows and rows of spearmen marched forward with spears in hand. When they heard the word "ding", all the spearmen stopped and stood still.
"The first row of archers... shoot!" Liu Heng shouted.
The archer squatting in the front row shot the arrow in his hand.
"Second row of archers...shoot!"
The archer standing behind the first row of archers began to shoot the arrows in his hands.
After both rows of archers finished shooting, Liu Heng shouted: "The archers retreat to the wings, and the spearmen advance."
As his order sounded, the archers retreated from both sides of the spear phalanx to the two wings of the spear phalanx, while the spearmen of the spear phalanx advanced step by step with their spears in hand.
As they walked down the road again and again, the archers and spearmen cooperated more and more tacitly, and the number of times they collided with each other became less frequent.
When the battle formation requires it, archers can gradually move from the two wings of the spear phalanx to the front of the spear phalanx at any time, and then calmly retreat to the two wings of the spear phalanx to accept the protection of the spear phalanx.
The real Spanish phalanx is a phalanx of spears with musketeers placed at the four corners, but Liu Heng's phalanx of archers with spears on both sides is more like the Morris phalanx.
If it weren't for the small number of archers and the lack of artillery, Liu Heng would have wanted to form a Gustavian phalanx.
Without suitable weapons and armor, Liu Heng could only train spearmen and archers similar to the Spanish phalanx. He knew that with his current conditions, only by forming a Spanish phalanx could the fastest improvement in refugee recruits be achieved.
He has the fighting ability to compete head-on with Shi Yunhu in the wild.
In the battle with Zheng Daqiu, he did not think that the refugee recruits he had trained were very powerful. The reason why he could win was entirely because it was too dark, protected by a car formation, and supported by archers behind him. This was a great victory.
"What kind of formation is this? Why have I never seen such a strange formation?" Chen Xunping, who was standing aside, asked curiously.
Liu Heng naturally couldn't tell him that this phalanx came from Europe, so he said: "I figured it out by myself. Now we have a delicate relationship with Shi Yunhu and the others. Let these refugee recruits learn this battle formation. In the future, we won't be too weak against Shi Yunhu."
Suffer a loss."
"Although I have never seen it, I feel that this battle formation is quite good." Chen Xunping said, "When the whole battle formation came towards me before, when I faced those densely packed spear points, I felt very nervous. I felt like I was facing a blockade.
It feels like there is nowhere to attack the swordsman, but I feel that your battle formation is too clumsy, and I am afraid you will suffer a loss when encountering the cavalry."
After hearing Chen Xunping's opinion, Liu Heng himself knew this, but he had no way to solve it.
This kind of spear phalanx needs to be equipped with heavy armor and iron spears to resist horses. Unfortunately, he couldn't get heavy armor. Fortunately, Shi Yunhu's side also lacked weapons and armor, so neither side took advantage of it.
Cheap.
In his opinion, compared to Shi Yunhu's rogue bandits who were in disarray, his imitating Spanish phalanx would not suffer much when they encountered it.
The 300 newly recruited refugees, Liu Heng, were not trained personally, but were given to a group of refugee recruits for training.
All the movements in the training were those from Liu Heng's military training when he was in school. He didn't delete them at all. He gave them to the refugee recruits and then let the refugee recruits train the newly recruited refugees.
The sky in May has a shadow of the dog days. After training after training, whether it is the refugee recruits or the newly recruited refugees, their bodies feel as if they have been caught in the rain, and their clothes stick to their bodies and stick to each other.
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Liu Heng arranged for people to boil several large buckets of cold water and sprinkle some salt in it to ensure that there would be no casualties due to lack of water and salt during the training process.
Not far from the training place, two large pots were set up to continuously boil water. Once it cooled, it would be brought to the training refugees to drink and rehydrate them.
Although Liu Heng did not go to the training in person, he shouted the commands for a long time, and his throat was almost smokey. He picked up a water bowl, scooped out a bowl of cold water from the wooden bucket and drank it in a big gulp.
After drinking three bowls in a row, his throat felt better.
Chapter completed!