In the camp of Zheng Sen's group, Prince Qin and his disciples were helping each other put on armor.
Although the weight of cotton armor is less than ten kilograms, compared with chain armor, which weighs more than twenty or thirty kilograms, the weight of iron armor has been reduced a lot, even lighter than cloth armor, but if one person wants to complete the task
Wearing armor is still quite difficult, especially the arm armor. It is impossible for one person to complete it.
"Brother Jiwei, help me put on my arm armor."
Xu Yingwei came to Wu Yingji for help with a pair of armbands.
"Okay." Wu Yingji immediately picked up the arm armor and helped Xu Yingwei put it on.
The cotton armor of the Ming Dynasty is different from the cotton armor of Jiannu. Not only are they different in style, but they also wear arm armor.
At this time, Wu Yingji had completely lost his original view of being a disciple, and had no grudges against Xu Yingwei, a descendant of a poor family from the Xu family in Dongdong.
With the assistance of Wu Yingji, Xu Yingwei quickly completed donning the armor.
Wu Yingji picked up the alms bowl again, put it on for Xu Yingwei, and tightened the leather belt.
If you look closely, what appears in front of you is a majestic warrior of the Ming Dynasty!
Although Xu Yingwei is an authentic Zhejiang native, he has a burly figure of nearly six feet, equipped with a mighty cotton armor and a beggar with a red tassel, and he really looks like the door god in the New Year pictures.
Xu Yingwei grabbed the spear again and asked Wu Yingji with a smile: "Brother Ciwei, are you impressive enough?"
"Awesome!" Wu Yingji gave Xu Yingwei a thumbs up sincerely, "Brother Youzhen, you really don't look like a southerner."
Xu Yingwei chuckled and said: "Brother Ciwei, if you encounter Jiannu on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition in the future, just feel free to fire your gun, because I am standing behind you. As long as I am here, no enemy can even think of getting close to you!"
"Okay." Wu Yingji said with a smile, "I will leave my life to you."
While talking, Wu Yingji grabbed the Rumi gun placed at his feet.
"Easy to say, who of us will follow who?" Xu Yingwei hooked Wu Yingji's neck.
While they were talking, other scholars in the same group also finished dressing up and gathered around.
Zheng Sen's group has a total of 102 people, 33 are musketeers, 63 are spearmen, and there are 5 trumpeters, and finally Zheng Sen is added as the sergeant leader.
This staffing configuration is obviously different from that of the border army.
The musketeers of the Ming Dynasty's frontier army accounted for 30%, the spearmen accounted for 50%, and the sword players accounted for 20%.
During the battle, the swordsmen are at the forefront, and when there is attrition, the spearmen will replace them, always maintaining the integrity of the shield wall. If a chariot battalion is equipped, the chariot battalion is responsible for ensuring the safety of the musketeers.
But Prince Qin has neither a car camp nor a sword player.
Maoxiang then asked Zheng Sen: "Brother Damu, why don't we have a sword player?"
Zheng Sen said: "The Holy One said that after arriving in Xuzhou, there will be a car camp to coordinate with our scholar camp."
"Cheying?" Wu Yingji's eyes lit up and he asked, "Does Cheying have any Hongyi cannon?"
"Does it still need to be said? There must be some." Zheng Sen said firmly, "And there are a lot of them."
After a pause, Zheng Sen straightened his face and shouted sternly: "Trumpeter, blow the assembly call, everyone assemble!"
The two trumpeters immediately blew their trumpets, and the swan sound of ooh and ooh resounded throughout the camp. The soldiers who had been laughing and chatting just now hurried forward to line up.
In less than a moment, the scholars lined up to finish.
There are six rows in front and back, the first three rows are musketeers, each row has 11 people, and the distance is about three feet. The last three rows are spearmen, and the distance is about one foot and five inches. They are sideways and close to each other. There are 63 guns in total in the three rows.
The spears, which are one foot and four feet long [4.48 meters], point straight into the sky, like a dense forest of spears.
It gives people a strong sense of oppression.
Zheng Sen, a scholar, always lives in the front left.
Behind Zheng Sen are two trumpeters, and behind the two trumpeters are three drummers. The six people are arranged in three rows in a tower shape. This is also to keep the trumpeters and drummers as close as possible to Zheng Sen.
Because there is too much interference on the battlefield.
If you are far away, you can't see the captain's orders clearly.
"Drummer, advance the drum!" Zheng Sen shouted again.
The three drummers immediately beat the war drums hanging on their chests.
Accompanied by the sound of "dong dong dong" drums, the phalanx began to move forward.
Wang Shizi, Qin Wang, has been practicing for nearly two months and has become extremely proficient in walking in queue.
Amidst the drumbeats of the drums, the phalanx of soldiers walked out of their respective camps one by one, and finally gathered in the open space outside the camp to form a large phalanx of 6,000 people.
The visual impact is extremely strong.
The entire large square array consists of a total of sixty-four small square arrays.
The sixty-four small square arrays are divided into four front and rear rows, each row has sixteen small square arrays.
Zheng Sen's scholar phalanx walked in the middle of the first row and became the pacesetter phalanx. Zheng Sen immediately took two trumpeters and three drummers to walk a few steps quickly and walked in front of the entire phalanx.
Xu Yingwei, who was walking in the queue, looked away from Zheng Sen. As he walked forward, he looked behind him. Behind him on the left and right, he saw soldiers wearing cotton armor, tasseled helmets on their heads, and holding spears. Except for the spears in the entire field of vision,
Still spears, thousands of spears piercing the sky, it really became a forest of spears.
Looking at this seemingly endless forest of spears, Xu Yingwei suddenly felt an endless surge of heroism in his heart. Where in the world can such a powerful soldier not go? What kind of enemy cannot be defeated? How magnificent!
After walking dozens of steps, Zheng Sen suddenly shouted: "Drummer, beat the war drum!"
The drummer immediately stopped, and the rhythm of the drum suddenly became exciting.
The other sixty-three phalanx sergeant chiefs also followed suit, and the sixty-three groups of drummers followed suit and sped up the rhythm.
The sixty-four phalanxes of soldiers who were originally marching forward immediately changed their formations. The sixteen phalanxes in the front row were standing still, while the forty-eight phalanxes behind them spread out towards the two wings.
Soon, sixty-four small square formations were arranged in a long snake formation along the undulating mountains, nearly 500 paces in length.
From this, it is enough to see how serious and hard the Qin Wang Shizi's training has been for more than a month. The messy and undulating mountains did not have much impact on their formation.
At least from the queue training, Prince Qin has already defeated Bian Zhen.
Even if a border army was brought from Xia Town, it would not be possible to do better than Prince Qin.
When the phalanx of sixty-four soldiers formed a complete long snake formation, Zheng Sen once again ordered: "Drummers, play the blunderbuss and drums!"
Immediately, all the sergeants also issued orders, and nearly two hundred drummers changed the rhythm again, and the drumming became more intensive, like a sudden rain that can ignite a person's blood.
Amidst the intensive beating of drums, the first row of musketeers took a step forward.
Then according to Zheng Sen's order, he lit the match rope, raised the blunderbuss, took aim, and then fired the blunderbuss.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Accompanied by the loud sound of gunfire, the front line was quickly obscured by thick smoke.
There were faint screams, and two Qinwang scholars immediately covered their faces and fell to the ground wailing, but the other scholars on the left and right sides were not moved at all, and after firing the blunderbuss, they collected their blunderbuss and retreated to the original place.
These two unlucky soldiers were probably shot by Rumi.
But the training is not over, and no one will come to treat the injured soldiers.
"Second row, light the fire, raise the gun, aim and fire!" Zheng Sen continued to give the order.
Following Zheng Sen's order, the second team of 700 musketeers once again pulled the triggers at the same time. Then there was another loud "bang bang bang bang" sound, and the smoke in front of the formation became thicker.
After all three rows of muskets were discharged, Zheng Sen pulled out his sword and raised the sky: "Trumpeter, blow the charge horn!"
The charge horn of "Du Da Du Da Du Da" resounded through the sky, and the three rows of spearmen who had been standing still immediately began to howl, and then passed the musketeers and launched a tidal charge forward.
However, the spearmen's charge could no longer maintain a complete formation.
Scholars who were tall, had long legs and strong feet quickly rushed to the front, such as Xu Yingwei.
The spearman rushed forward about a hundred steps, and Zheng Sen shouted again: "Trumpeter, blow the rally call!"
The swan sound of oh oh oh rang immediately, and upon hearing the assembly call, the spearmen who were rushing forward stopped their feet one after another, and then withdrew without hesitation and lined up again.
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On the hilltop not far away, Chongzhen was watching the training of Prince Qin through a three-section telescope.
After more than a month of high-intensity training, more than 6,000 soldiers have completely complied with the orders and prohibitions. There is no problem at all, but the training after receiving the ordnance is the first time.
Judging from the current situation, the Shizi camp has basically become an army.
The reason why the Shizi Camp was able to quickly form an army in less than two months was inseparable from the hard training of Shizi Qin and the efforts of Chongzhen.
Because Chongzhen made a lot of simplifications to the Ming army's complex order, flag, trumpet and drum system.
After Chongzhen simplified it, the team (company) as the basic combat unit only had trumpets and drums. The trumpet sounds were divided into assembly horns and charge horns, and the drum beats were divided into marching drums, war drums and blunderbuss drums.
All other trumpets and drums were canceled by Chongzhen.
On a noisy battlefield, the more complex a trumpet is, the more likely it is to make mistakes.
In the new performance book, musical instruments include trumpets, drums, gongs, bolos, etc., but trumpets include long tones, swan sounds, team formations, singles, etc. In addition to gongs, bolos also
With step drums, there are more signals of all kinds, and it is easy to mishear them on a chaotic and noisy battlefield, leading to confusion.
Chaos on the battlefield is often fatal.
Therefore, Chongzhen simplified the trumpet and drum to the greatest extent.
Judging from the current results, this innovation is still very effective.
"Let's go down." Chongzhen put away the telescope, led Zhu Cijiong, Wang Chengen and Wu Baotan on horseback down the mountain, and walked slowly to the front of Qinwang Shizi's phalanx.
Seeing Chongzhen riding his horse, the scholars all gave him chest-flattening salutes.
The flat-chested salute is a kind of military salute. Because the scholars held weapons in their hands and could not bow, Chongzhen brought the flat-chested salute into the scholar camp. Military salute is very important.
At this time, Fu Shan's military medical team had already rescued the injured soldier.
A total of seven scholars were injured during the shooting, and one was seriously injured, mainly because he lost one eye. This Qinwang scholar had no choice but to be sent back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nanjing for resettlement.
The firearms of the Ming Dynasty are so helpless.
This is still a Lumi gun, and the quality of the bird gun is even more worrying.
Therefore, there are a lot of unnecessary casualties in every battle.
