The next day, the Liang Army began to practice formations.
The one used was not "Langzhen" but moso bamboo... Of course, the 50,000 barbs were not ready so quickly and could not be installed.
But in fact there is not much difference, at least not visible from the outside.
That look is really hard to describe:
In front of every fifteen people were two three-meter-long moso bamboos with sharpened tops, each carrying branches and leaves, so the whole team seemed to be hiding in a dense forest.
The drill is also simple. First assign the sword and shield bearers, spearmen and archers and their positions, and then set up various formations as usual drills.
But there are still some troubles.
Because each team in this Yuanyang Formation has three teams, then every two teams has six teams.
However, the Qin army was organized in units of corps. Two corps and one tun were commanded by the commander, and ten corps and one tun were commanded by the tun commander.
So, how to command the third and third teams in the Yuanyang Formation?
How many teams does the commander command?
Inevitably there will be inconsistencies.
If the division of labor is not clear, there will be a problem of confusion in command, so it needs to be adapted.
Shen Bing's method was to reorganize the villages into units.
Originally, a village commander commanded fifty people, and two more teams were added to make it sixty people, which was divided into four teams.
Then the number of commanders will be expanded to command a team, but two of them will be split.
These are not big things. The most important thing for the Qin Army is the grassroots "corps" unit, because the household registration of its soldiers is one per corps and the continuous sitting system is implemented.
As long as you maintain the organizational structure of "Wu", the rest is to change your superior and get familiar with it for a while.
It would be troublesome if the "corps" were to be dismantled. The household registrations of the entire army would have to be changed. Of course Shen Bing would not do such a thankless task.
Wei Wei felt a little strange when he saw Shen Bing training like this:
"Lieutenant, I am confused...can this solve the armor problem?"
Shen Bing nodded:
"Exactly, do you have a better way?"
Wei Wei was speechless for a moment, but when he was about to say something, he saw Yang Duanhe and Meng Wu coming over with a bad look on his face.
It turned out that Yang Duanhe was patrolling around with Meng Wu. When he saw the Daliang Army training, he went into the camp and watched for a while. However, he did not want to see the Daliang Army holding bamboos and gesticulating around the school grounds. Meng Wu was so angry that he stamped his feet.
"Is this the Liangjun army?"
"Is this the army trained by Shen Bing, who claimed to have defeated the Chu navy?"
"How can such an army go into battle?"
"How can military training be such a child's play!"
Yang Duanhe was also puzzled because he had never seen taking moso bamboo to the battlefield, so he and Meng Wu found Shen Bing.
"Vice general!" Yang Duanhe asked Shen Bing from a few steps away: "What are you..."
Shen Bing hurriedly greeted him and said:
"General, general."
"My subordinates are training troops."
Yang Duanhe knew that there must be a reason for Shen Bing to train like this, so he was not in a hurry to deny it.
But Meng Wu couldn't hold himself back any longer:
"Absurd, has moso bamboo been used to train troops?"
"I wonder what the deputy general's intention is?"
Shen Bing replied:
"General Meng doesn't know that the entire Liang Army has no title, so it has no armor."
"In desperation, my subordinates have no choice but to..."
Meng Wu interrupted Shen Bing before he could finish speaking:
"So you use bamboo instead of armor?"
"Can it block arrows? Or can it block swords and guns?"
Shen Bing replied:
"Arrows may be unstoppable, but swords and guns..."
Meng Wu snorted and said:
"I'd like to see how it can withstand knives and guns."
Shen Bing asked back:
"How to try it?"
Meng Wu didn't say anything, he just waved his hand back, and a group of personal guards drew their swords and rushed forward to charge into the formation.
Of course, this is not a real battle, but a similar modern exercise.
Seeing this, Wei Wei quickly raised a flag and asked the soldiers to prepare.
When the soldiers saw the bodyguards showing off their bronze swords, they immediately realized what was going on. They immediately pushed the bamboo towards the bodyguards, yelled and got ready for battle.
Needless to say what the result was.
Although these moso bamboos are not equipped with barbs, the branches of moso bamboo are very tough, and these personal guards are holding short weapons. If they want to get close to the Daliang Army, they have to go through the dense branches and leaves of moso bamboo...
But they were only halfway through when the spears of the Liang Army already appeared in front of them.
So it didn't take long for the guards to be defeated one after another, and they even touched the edge of the Liang Army.
Meng Wu and Yang Duanhe were greatly surprised when they saw this.
In fact, it wasn't just them, Wei Wei also opened his mouth wide and didn't react for a long time.
Yang Duanhe asked:
"Vice general, this formation is..."
Shen Bing replied:
"Coming back to the general, this formation is a mandarin duck formation, and the bamboo is actually a wolf bamboo."
"It looks like moso bamboo, but it is actually a weapon with iron barbs hidden in its bamboo branches."
"It's the iron hook that my subordinate asked the general for a few days ago, but it hasn't been installed yet."
Yang Duan said "oh":
"I thought those iron hooks were ship-making tools, but I didn't expect them to be used to make wolf traps..."
Then Yang Duanhe was surprised again and looked at Meng Wudao:
"General Meng, if that wolf trap is equipped with a barb at this time, and your bodyguard rushes in like this, I'm afraid..."
Meng Wu's face looked very ugly for a moment.
What Yang Duanhe said was that if the barbs were installed, some of the guards would inevitably be injured by the barbs if they rushed in.
Shen Bing then explained:
"The General doesn't know something."
"The Liang Army was afraid of engaging in close combat with the enemy without armor."
"You can't fight the enemy at close range, so you can only fight with the enemy at a distance."
"In front of this formation, there are wolves and swords to block the enemy, and behind, there are spears and bows and arrows to injure the enemy. If the enemy is lucky enough to break through the wolves, there will be sword and shield men to deal with it."
"So you can use your own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses."
Yang Duanhe nodded and praised:
"It's a good formation to use one's own strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses."
Meng Wu was dissatisfied and asked with a dark face:
"What if the enemy attacks this formation with long troops?"
Shen Bing replied:
"Most of the Chu soldiers are one foot long, while the langzhen is one foot three feet long."
"Even if the enemy attacks this formation with long troops, they will surely step into the branches and leaves of the wolf tree."
"When the time comes, there will be moso bamboo branches and leaves that will obscure your vision and there will be barbs to avoid, and the moso bamboo branches will also prevent them from stabbing out the long soldiers..."
"On the contrary, our soldiers do not have such disadvantages."
"How can the enemy's long soldiers break this formation?"
Yang Duanhe couldn't help but nodded repeatedly when he heard this.
Meng Wu's face also became serious, and he asked again:
"What if the enemy attacks with chariots?"
Shen Bing cupped his hands towards Meng Wu and said:
"General, if the enemy attacks with chariots, we only need to place our spears in the wolf trap."
Those are the spear formations in the "bamboo forest", and the Chu army on the chariot can't see where the spears are.
Meng Wu was also convinced by this.
He bowed his hands to Shen Bing with a look of shame on his face and said:
"This formation, Lieutenant, is very good, but I am blind to the mountains."