Hundreds of households came to the Qianhu Hall and stood on both sides waiting for Jia Ke's arrival. The whole hall was silent, and they were all shocked by the soldiers outside the hall.
Not long after, Jia Ke came to the hall and sat on the main seat. Hundreds of households came forward to pay homage. Jia Ke asked them to exempt themselves from the ceremony. The hundreds of households stood on both sides again, waiting for Jia Ke's instructions. There can be no mistakes in this process.
, this is the embodiment of military rank.
Jia Ke sat upright and said to the officials of each household: "You have seen people. Your goal in the future is to become like them."
Jia Ke paused for a moment to let them digest, and then said: "From now on, you are no longer a hundred households, but an ordinary soldier. After a while, each of you will take two people back, and then take your respective hundred households."
Divide into two groups and be trained by my personal soldiers. You must also participate in the training. If you pass the training, you will still be a hundred households. If you fail to pass the training, I will not withdraw you. But you cannot continue to serve as a hundred households, you can only follow.
When the team trains together, when will it be completed? When will it continue to be a hundred households?"
After Jia Ke finished speaking, he looked at them again and then asked: "Do you have anything else to ask? If not, start recruiting people now. You will start training immediately after you return. I will see your results in a month."
Results. This month is just to train you in basic obedience and discipline. After this month, I will teach you the real formation. If you don’t have anything to ask, then start now. You don’t need me to name you.
Go one by one."
As soon as Jia Ke finished saying this, a young man in his twenties walked out from below. Jia Ke remembered that his name was Feng Mo, but he had never spoken to him or seen him talking to anyone else. To this guy,
Jia Ke was very confused, how did he get into the position of Baihu?
I saw Feng Mo striding outside the hall and looking at these forty soldiers, all the same, standing there upright. They hadn't wavered in the slightest for such a long time. He didn't know how to choose at the moment, so he could only choose the nearest one.
Two people.
The three of them returned to the hall together. Feng Mo knelt down on one knee and said, "The humble position has been chosen." Then he said nothing else.
Jia Ke looked at him and thought this guy was quite interesting. Then he said to him: "Since you have made your choice, you can go back."
Feng Mo bowed and saluted without saying anything else, and left with the others.
Next was Huang Baifeng, who also took two people away. After this one, all the hundreds of households took people away.
Watching them leave one by one, I was looking forward to how many surprises they would bring to me in a month.
In the following days, Jia Ke visited the training ground every day and guided the training of each hundred households. Because of the previous training experience in Xiacaozhuang, the team training progressed very quickly. At the beginning, the formations of each hundred households were as follows
It’s a little crooked, but as time goes by, the team becomes more orderly, disciplined and obedient.
In the military camp dormitory, the internal affairs of the team are not as messy as before. Now the quilts are made of tofu, the washbasins are neatly lined up in the corners, and everyone's clothes are neatly piled aside.
And after a month, the Kaiping Guards soldiers were almost the same as the Guardsmen in walking, sitting and lying down.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, no one would believe that these soldiers were the same army as they were a month ago.
The most prominent among them is Feng Mo's Hundred Households. If we just look at the formation, queue, and daily household affairs, they are no different from the Guards Corps.
The second one is Huang Baifeng's Baihu team. Huang Baifeng has worked hard. They are training when others are training. When others have a break, Baihu is still training. With this spirit, Baihu, who was originally at the bottom of Kaipingwei,
, trained into an elite force that is now as good as Feng Mo Baihu in terms of energy and spirit.
As for the remaining 100 households, although they are not as good as the two of them, they have achieved the expected goal.
Next, Jia Ke did not announce the candidates for the two deputy Qianhu, but called all the Hundreds together.
Start giving them lessons, teach them the advantages and disadvantages of the Macedonian phalanx, and let them discuss with each other how to give full play to the advantages and avoid exposing the disadvantages. When encountering the steppe Tatars, how to attack, how to defend, and how to retreat.
After learning this for about ten days, he sent these hundreds of households back again. All the infantry teams went to practice the Macedonian phalanx. The cavalry team practiced how to cover the flanks and rear of the Macedonian phalanx.
Finally, Jia Ke divided the Kaiping Guard infantry into four small Macedonian phalanxes, each with 256 men. The infantrymen each held a 6-7 meter long spear and lined up in sixteen rows.
The infantry phalanx held their guns in unison against the enemy, with each row holding their guns at different angles.
Two hundred and fifty-six soldiers form sixteen vertical and horizontal rows, which are characterized by easy training. The newly added soldiers can quickly regain combat effectiveness after being combined with several missing infantry phalanxes. Several or even dozens of phalanxes form horizontal rows.
Large formations of hundreds or even thousands of people can also operate effectively. Furthermore, it is easy to turn and can quickly change formations when the enemy turns to attack from the flank. In this way, no matter which direction the enemy attacks from, it always seems
Same as the front facing the Macedonian phalanx.
The cavalry is arranged behind the side of the Macedonian phalanx, which not only protects the rear of the Macedonian phalanx. When the enemy retreats, you can rush out from both wings to pursue the enemy. You can also attack the front and front of the Macedonian phalanx while the enemy is retreating.
When flanking, attack from the side and rear, which not only protects the flanks of the Macedonian phalanx, but also ensures effective killing.
The remaining 376 people, 300 of them, became archers. They mainly used bows and arrows to kill the enemy before the enemy attacked. Their formation was mainly based on three-stage shooting, with 100 people in each row.
There are three rows in total, firing row by row to ensure the density of shooting and the duration. When the enemy reaches the front and is ready to enter hand-to-hand combat, withdraw from the two wings to the rear of the square Macedonian square, and then continue to shoot forward, forming the Macedonian phalanx.
Reduce the pressure while continuing to inflict damage on the enemy.
The remaining seventy-six people were divided into four teams, with nineteen people in each team, and were assigned to four Macedonian phalanxes respectively. They served as the backup for the four Macedonian phalanxes. Once someone was lost in the middle of the Macedonian square, the backup personnel would immediately replace them.
.To ensure the integrity of the Macedonian phalanx and the continuity of operations.
In this way, the sergeants of Kaiping Guard were basically divided into three areas when fighting in the enemy's field. In the front were 300 crossbowmen, in the middle were four Macedonian phalanxes, and behind the Macedonian phalanx were a reserve of 19 people.
, under the unified command of the Macedonian phalanx. On the back of the Macedonian phalanx are two cavalry units of 300 men each.
As long as the training is completed, the troops under Kaiping Wei Jia Ke can definitely compete with the prairie cavalry several times their own size.
The next step is formation training, which will last about a month. During this period, Jia Ke also fulfilled his promise and selected the best-performing Feng Mo and Feng Mo from the 20 households in Kaipingwei.
Huang Baifeng and Huang Baifeng, as deputy Qianhu of Kaipingwei, are temporarily commanding two Macedonian phalanxes. Of course, they are not called Macedonian phalanxes now. This formation was shamelessly named after Jia Ke and is now called Jia Ke phalanx.