A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 29 Decomposition
Considering that these groups of military households have never learned martial arts, the complicated practice of moves will only confuse them, and the complicated things on the battlefield are useless.

So Wang Dou decided to choose the most appropriate moves from his spear skills, and teach them some simple and effective skills to kill the enemy. The simpler the moves on the battlefield, the more effective they are.As long as you practice repeatedly, you can also exert great power.

The final decision was one move, the stab!Moreover, this move is broken down into two steps, the first step is to hold the gun sideways, and the second step is to thrust hard.From then on, let them practice these two movements repeatedly every day until they practice standard movements, practice them quickly, and practice conditioned reflexes.

As for practicing the knife, it is the same move, divided into two steps, the first step is to lift the knife, and the second step is to chop obliquely.The movement of raising the knife also requires standards, and the angle of movement of the knife is also strictly regulated!

From then on, these young and strong teams practiced swords and guns outside the fort every day. Without exception, Wang Dou also came out to practice with Han and Chao four people every day.

At this time, it was the beginning of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and every night it was snowing, and the next day the remnant snow froze into solid ice, making the ground extremely slippery.

Right now, it is unbearably cold for everyone to warm up by the fire inside the house, and in the wild, even standing for a while makes the whole body stiff from the cold.However, Wang Dou made them practice continuously every day. Wang Dou once made it clear that they could quit if they couldn't take it anymore, but after that they even their family members would be expelled from Jingbian Fort.

In this season, being kicked out of the fort is really a dead end. Seeing that others are clenching their teeth and persevering, why can't I do it myself? It's better to practice to death than starve to death and freeze to death after being kicked out of the fort.So no matter how hard it was, every young man gritted his teeth and persevered.However, in order to prevent the military households from freezing, Wang Dou would prepare some ginger soup every day to keep them out of the cold.

Everyone went out of the fort early this morning to practice.

The sky was gray and the wind was like cutting. Everyone's faces were blue and purple from the cold, and many people's faces were cracked, and thick white air was exhaled from their mouths.In order to keep warm, everyone tried their best to keep warm. Everyone wore various clothes. Some people wore thick cotton jackets, while others were wrapped in thick leather jackets.Everyone wears different hats, including cotton hats and leather hats, in various styles.

Wang Dou was also wrapped in a thick fur coat and wore a fur hat on his head. Like everyone else, his fur coat and fur hat were old and very seasonal, and no one cared about its appearance.

After practicing the queue for a while, everyone began to practice swords and guns again.More than [-] people with guns stood in several rows, everyone holding guns.The knife wielder also holds his own waist knife.

The long spear that Wang Dou bought from Dongjiazhuang that day was not properly maintained, but it was still usable. After being re-polished and forged, it became sharp again.And several sword wielders Qing Zhuang used those waist knives seized from the Houjin Army.

Seeing everyone line up, Wang Dou shouted, "Get ready!"

With a sound of "Wow!", everyone stood up straight!
Wang Dou shouted loudly: "Raise the gun!"

"kill."

Dozens of long spears protruded together, and the scene was spectacular.

"Raise the knife!"

"kill!"

There was a burst of furious roar, and the lights of the sabers rose up. Although there were only 12 people wielding the sabers in front of them, they slashed down neatly and diagonally, and they were quite powerful in the cold wind.

……

"Raise the gun!"

"kill."

"Raise the knife!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

……

"Kill, kill with all your strength. There are thieves in front of you. You don't need a flower gun or an empty stand. You just need to stab, hard and fast. If you stab faster than them, you can survive. Those thieves are your military leaders."

Wang Dou yelled, he walked back and forth with the stick in his hand, and when he saw someone whose posture was not in place, he stepped forward and beat him with the stick, which made everyone even more energetic.

Looking at the uniform movements of everyone in the field, who faintly had the momentum to fight the enemy, Han Chao beside him sighed: "It's only been more than a month, and it looks like this. I think how long we practiced in Zunhua at that time, four months , five months, or half a year?"

Han Zhong also opened his mouth and looked at everyone in the field. He said with a smile on his face: "Thinking that we will lead these soldiers in the future, I am really willing to die!"

After Wang Dou's harsh training for these military households for more than a month, they can say that they are ready to go to battle at this time. If they can practice for another three months and see some blood in the last battle, at least among the guards of Daming, they It's a fighting army.

During these times, Wang Dou also made some adjustments to these teams, selected a few men from the fort, and added them to form three teams of warriors, each with 12 soldiers, with four swordsmen and eight gunmen in the team.The leader of each team is Han Chao, Han Zhong, and Yang Tong. Such a number can better display the power of the formation.

As for Qi Tianliang, after more than a month of training, he obviously couldn't keep up with everyone's progress, so Qi Tianliang was selected to manage the newly built supply team.In the future, the army will still need a supply team. Zhong Rong is only in charge of documents, so of course it is impossible to join the army. Qi Tianliang can finally read and write, and he is an old man in Dunnei, so let him manage the supply team.

However, their team, including Qi Tianliang, only had eight people, and they were all old and weak men from the castle.Fortunately, they usually don't need to practice much, so even if their bodies are a little weak, they can barely do it.

On the contrary, Yang Tong had a lot of strength and persisted, so he also served as the leader of a soldier team.

However, although the soldiers of these three teams look a bit like soldiers, their uniforms and banners are far from formal. Fortunately, each of them has a badge to show their identity, so they can be recognized as soldiers of Jingbian Fort.

Now there is only one drum in Wang Dou's army, which was originally stored in Jingbiandun's warehouse. Although it is old, it can be used at last.The golden drum of orders for the rest is not there yet, so we can only buy it in the future. Anyway, there are few people now, so let's just use the voice to roar.

As for the beating of the walking drum during the training queue, Wang Dou let the people of the baggage team beat it for the time being, and use manpower as much as possible.

……

On this day, Wang Dou selected half of the twelve swordsmen to practice shields. The shields were naturally taken from the round shields and leather shields captured by the Houjin Army that day.

Wang Dou took a shield himself. Although he has been learning spear since childhood, he has also practiced swords, sticks and shields. Although his spear skills are not as good as his own, it is more than enough to teach the rookies below.

Holding a shield in his left hand and a waist knife in his right, he signaled Han Chao on the opposite side to take a long spear. He loudly said to everyone: "The shield is the cover of an army, except that it cannot be separated from the blunderbuss, arrows, stones, spears and knives can be covered. Moreover, the players are short-handed soldiers in battle, and they are used to support the enemy's armies. In addition, they can advance and retreat freely, which can be regarded as a sharp weapon! If you learn a shield well, you should be able to strengthen your courage in the army."

After Wang Dou finished speaking, he shouted loudly: "You are all watching!"

He signaled the opposite Korea to attack.

Han Chao yelled, even though it was a rehearsal, he was still merciless, and the long spear in his hand stabbed straight at Wang Dou from the side like lightning.

Wang Dou said loudly: "Good time!"

He blocked Han Chao's spear with the shield in his hand, and immediately swung Han Chao's spear away. His body was not exposed. While blocking the spear, following this momentum, Wang Dou approached Han Chao's side, and suddenly his saber flashed, The waist knife was already slashing at Han Chao, and Han Chao hurriedly parried, but no matter how Han Chao parried, Wang Dou continued to slash one after another. The knife was so powerful that it seemed to split Han Chao in half.

All the onlookers were terrified, suddenly Han Chao jumped away, he stopped again and again, panting and said: "The adults are brave, but the little ones are ashamed, just admit defeat."

Wang Dou nodded, then turned his head and said to the military households who were watching with ashen faces: "You have all seen it, this is the advantage of the players! After practicing, apart from facing the fine firearms and cannon stones, there is nothing else to do with swords, guns, bows and arrows. Well, of course, and this..."

This time he motioned for Han Chao to hold the shield, and then he asked for Han Zhong's big stick. The five-inch short blade is shaped like a duckbill.This kind of weapon is mostly seen in the cavalry of the frontier army of the Ming Dynasty. It can be stabbed on horseback, and can be shot when dismounted. It is used by a large number of cavalry.

Could it be that the Han and North Korean brothers used to be cavalry?This thought flashed in Wang Dou's mind, and he held a big stick to signal Han Chao to start.

Han Chao held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. His shield tightly covered his body, and he moved his feet from time to time, only watching Wang Dou on the opposite side cautiously.Wang Dou's body turned with Han Chao's body. He was holding a big stick in both hands, just spying on his flaws. Suddenly Wang Dou yelled, and the big stick hit Han Chao's shield.

Han Chao held up a card to block, Wang Dou's strength was so strong that he could feel Han Chao's figure froze, and Wang Dou slammed a few more sticks, all of which hit the same position just now, it can be seen that Han Chao His figure was scattered, his body was exposed from the shield, Wang Dou suddenly turned into a thorn, and the short blade on the stick stopped at Han Chao's heart.

Wang Dou received the stick, and said to the stunned people below: "You see, shields are not afraid of swords, guns, bows and arrows, but are afraid of firearms and sticks. In the future, when you encounter these two kinds of bandits, you need to be careful. Greet the brothers who have firearms." !"

Everyone below hadn't recovered from the rehearsal just now, everyone was talking in amazement, Han Zhong also grinned, he didn't expect that the big stick in his hand would be so powerful in Wang Dou's hand.

Next, Wang Dou asked several swordsmen to practice shielding, which was also broken down into several actions. In fact, each shield player should have two random javelins. Let a few players practice shield knife skills first.

Time soon came to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. This day is the Laba Festival, and all places in Ming Dynasty eat Laba porridge.And on this day, Li Maosen, the head craftsman, came to Wang Dou excitedly.

(End of this chapter)