Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 35
Yuan Fei had no choice but to sing a promise and back out.Wang Wenzuo called Shen Faseng and others to the back camp, where Sangqiu had already been waiting with dozens of Sanhan auxiliary soldiers.Wang Wenzuo cleared his throat, and said to everyone: "Sun Ziyun: Fighting without teaching is called killing. It means that you don't teach soldiers how to fight. If you drive them to the battlefield before the battle, it is no different from killing. You were all farmers in the past. , but peasants also have their own style of play, today I will let Sancho practice it for you to see!" At this point, he waved his hand, beckoned Sancho to come over, and said with a smile: "Sancho, just do what you did yesterday. I will teach you to do it again, move slowly so that everyone can see clearly!"

"Yes, master!" Sancho responded, and came to the weapon stand, picked up a crossbow, put his foot on the iron ring first, bent down and hooked the crossbow string with the iron hook on the belt, and stood up. He pulled the crossbow to its full capacity, then pulled out a crossbow bolt and stuck it into the chute, aimed at a target about thirty steps away and pulled the trigger, only to hear a soft sound, and it hit the bull's-eye.

"Well, even a farmer can learn this after a day or two of practice!" Wang Wenzuo laughed.

"Sanlang, you are fooling people!" Gu Cihang laughed. He is also from the south of the Yangtze River, so he can bid with a good knife and shield, and his temper is like that of Shen Faseng: "You, a house slave, use an iron fork and a crossbow every time you hunt. You have shot dead deer and wild boar before your horse, and shooting a target of thirty paces is a piece of cake for him? Can’t count!”

"Okay, let's change it!" Wang Wenzuo casually called out another Sanhan man. Under Sancho's guidance, the man stringed, aimed, and fired the crossbow. Although he missed the target, he still hit the target.Then a few more people came up, some hit the target, and some missed, but the miss was not far away. Obviously, with a little practice, they could hit the target.Shen Faseng and the others were not surprised at all. They were all born in military households for generations. They knew that even though bows and crossbows were called the same, the difficulty of using them was vastly different. Years of hard training; but the crossbowman is much simpler, even a woman and half a child can hide behind the low wall of the city and kill the enemy after only half a day of practice.It's just that the cost of the crossbow is expensive, and the rate of fire is much slower than that of the archer, and it is far less flexible than the archer.

"Okay, change it!"

Sancho responded, put the crossbow back to its original position, called a few more people, took the military weapon from the weapon rack, and waved it according to the order. This time their movements were much more proficient and orderly, but the weapon was weird. It is very, it is composed of a wooden pole about one and a half meters long and a short iron-clad stick two feet long, connected by an iron chain in the middle. The slush splashed everywhere, and the force was so heavy that it would be too much for someone wearing iron armor to touch it.

"Hey, isn't this the farm's threshing hammer?" Shen Faseng asked in surprise.

Wang Wenzuo smiled, but did not answer, and asked Sancho to change.I saw that those people took up the same weird weapon to practice again, but it was a long-handled sickle. Those people were able to chop with hooks and chisel horizontally, and they were extremely proficient.

In this way, Wang Wenzuo asked those Sanhan people to practice four or five kinds of weapons. Except for the strong crossbow at the beginning, they were all peasant utensils, including iron-headed clubs, flails, long-handled sickles, two-handed axes, and so on.These Sanhan people are very familiar with it, they don't look like they are fighting in battle, but they seem to be working in their own fields, without the jerky appearance of recruits.

"Sanlang!" Liu An coughed, and said with some embarrassment: "If you want to use these people to beat Baekje people, I advise you to forget it! Don't look at the excitement here, it won't work if you go to battle. Otherwise, why would we bother to practice long spears? Wouldn’t it be enough for everyone to fight each other with hoes?”

"Fifth Brother, don't worry, I just practiced the military weapons, and I haven't practiced the formation yet. I'll talk about it after reading it!" Wang Wenzuo smiled and waved his hand. Sancho directed the crowd to push two carts over, first with iron The chains connected the carts together, and then a thick plank was erected on one side. The crossbowmen and flailers boarded the carts, while the rest hid behind the carts, in case someone rushed.The crossbowmen and flailers were condescending, while the rest either slashed with long scythes, or threw stones and javelins at the enemy. Whenever someone crossed the iron chain, everyone behind the cart rushed up and knocked him down.At this time, the onlookers also saw that the way was coming. Although these farmers did not know how to fight in formation, they still knew how to hide behind the cart and shoot with a crossbow.And if the enemy attacks the cart, neither the shield nor the helmet can stop the condescending flail blow; and if the enemy rushes in from the gap of the cart, the cavalry will lose speed and impact, and the infantry formation will be chained. It was cut into fragments with the cart and fell into a melee.This is tantamount to equalizing the disadvantage of farmers not knowing how to form an array, and spears are useless in melee, that is, the enemies who rush in can only use swords to deal with two-handed axes, flails, and long scythes, and the outcome is self-evident.

"Sanlang, you only see Sanhan's recruits in your formation, where are we placed?" Shen Faseng asked.

"When going to war, the large chariots line up in a hollow circle. Our infantry should be placed in the circle, and the cavalry should be placed in the circle, or somewhere behind the side of the circle, preferably in the woods!"

"That's right, it's best to back the river or occupy a high place to line up!"

"Yes, when the enemy is unable to attack for a long time, the cavalry will come out and attack from both inside and outside, and we will definitely win a complete victory!"

Those present were all old soldiers, and they immediately saw the beauty of Wang Wenzuo's formation. The chariot formation was used as an anvil to attract the enemy to attack, while the cavalry was used as a hammer to launch a fierce attack from behind or from the flanks. Enemies smash.

"Sanlang, there are indeed many advantages in your formation!" Liu An's face looked much better at this time: "But have you ever thought that this formation can only defend but not attack, if the enemy does not come to attack you, Can't we just sit and wait to be beaten?"

Before Wang Wenzuo could speak, Cui Hongdu on the side had already laughed and said, "Liu Wu, you are joking again. If hundreds of newly recruited mobs can hold on, they are just laughing. Aren't you embarrassing Saburo?"

"Everyone!" Wang Wenzuo turned around and pointed to a watchtower not far away: "Have you forgotten these 'scorpions'? With this, do you still need to be afraid that the enemy will not attack?"

School grounds, early in the morning.

The oldest among them was 26, and one was even close to [-], but most of them were very young, under [-].

Standing on the wooden platform, Wang Wenzuo watched them brandishing shields and sticks, panting, groaning and cursing. The sound of wooden sticks beating resounded throughout the school grounds, and from time to time there were screams from being beaten.Yuan Fei walked back and forth among the crowd with big strides, his nose was red from the cold, and he muttered something. Wang Wenzuo had never seen him with such a serious expression. "No!" He kept muttering, "Keep up, no, hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)