At first, the beasts did not dare to come forward in the face of the raging fire, but after midnight there were more and more wild beasts, and they could not resist the temptation of the 'food' in front of them, and began to approach the fire ring in groups of three or five. The bonfire, however, was gradually weakened, and at last a desperate attempt was made to break through the extinguishing fire barrier, but the bombardment of muskets was ongoing, but the hungry red-eyed beasts had fearlessly swarmed up and struck through the cracks.

In the face of the beast's attack, at first Chen Dun commanded more than a dozen guards to divide into five groups and take turns to shoot with muskets to stop the beast outside the circle. But the bloody qi aroused the beastly nature even more, and they howled and attacked from more than one, and Chen Dun had to divide his troops to intercept it. The frontal firepower was inevitably weakened, and in the face of the approaching beasts, Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin also joined the ranks of shooting.

In the end, Zhao Yu also had to take matters into his own hands, but everyone didn't let him move forward, so he could only shoot at the most dangerous beast like a sniper to reduce the pressure in front. But when the fires were extinguished one by one, they had lost their barrier and had to retreat to the hut to continue the resistance. Before they could catch their breath, the prey that was thrown outside was eaten by the beasts in a blink of an eye, and there were no bones left, but they aimed at these 'prey' in the wooden house.

Although retreating into the wooden house was a bit crowded, the narrowing of the defensive circle allowed them to reduce their defensive surface, and the situation was in their favor. Chen Dun and the others closed the door, put on the wooden pole, and carved a few shooting holes in the wall of the wooden house with a sharp axe to continue to shoot outward, but there were too many dead corners to stop the beasts, and they rushed around, trying to open a passage into the house.

"Phew......" Zhao Yu was very calm after entering the house, sitting on the stump of the tree holding the gun and thinking about something, spit out the dust that fell into his mouth and fell into silence. The crowd also stopped firing and gathered him in the center, muzzle facing outward, ready to shoot at the beast that broke through the wall.

"Jin Ma Long guards, Li Xuanshi 3,200 people, with 128 cars, 300 people for the tour, according to the Kongming eight formations and four layers, the road is wide, the car is made of wood to reject the horse outward, set up camp and walk, the name of the antler car camp; The road is narrow, more wooden houses, to cover the arrows, the wooden houses reject the horses, take the low as the type, the front of the governance force refuses, and the troops are bound, and the battle and advances, so it is said that the flat box car formation is also. Can profit and loss, that is, convenience, can still become out of the plug of the camp ear. ”

"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Zhao Mengjin was taken aback and asked worriedly when he heard the little emperor sitting there suddenly talking to himself.

"Oh, it's okay!" Zhao Hao waved his hand and said, "I think that the situation of our fierce battle with the beasts is like the Jin general Ma Long who went out to Liangzhou to defend against the enemy's cavalry and used the chariot as a formation to resist the enemy. ”

"Your Majesty, now that our lives are on the line, do we still have time to think about this?" Zhao Mengjin said with a wry smile when he heard this, and he turned on the fire to see that there was no trace of fear on the little emperor's face, otherwise he must have thought that he was frightened and confused.

"Don't worry, this wooden house is made of logs, there are doors and no windows, it is difficult to break through with the strength of the beast, you don't have to be so nervous, and don't shoot indiscriminately, otherwise you will not be eaten by the beast, but you will be choked to death by the smoke of gunpowder." Zhao Hao smiled.

"Your Majesty, why didn't you say it earlier, I was sweating when I was nervous!" Chen Dun listened to the dissatisfaction.

"Is this also resentful? As the main general, you don't check the terrain and landforms when you camp, you don't know what can be used, and you have a face to pick up your fingers! Zhao Yu pointed with his finger.

"Well......" Chen Dun felt a fever on his face when he heard this, and nodded to admit his mistake.

"Beasts are not stupid, you have to be careful that they dig holes in and stand up and listen to some movement!" Zhao Yu said angrily when he saw his appearance.

"Your Majesty is right, there is a sound of scratching the ground here!" As soon as Zhao Hao's words fell, he heard a guard shouting.

"Quick, quick, prepare the knife and axe, and chop it up for Lao Tzu when it shows up, they are still fine, see if you can still burn this place!" Chen Dun ate twice in a row, picked up an axe and hated the authenticity.

"Hehe, don't say that this kid didn't pay attention, if Your Majesty doesn't mention it, even we will be negligent!" Chen Fenglin said with a smile.

"For the general's momentary negligence, it may be a complete defeat, and the loss is thousands of troops and horses, and there must not be the slightest carelessness, otherwise the damage will be endless!" Zhao Yu frowned.

"Subordinates follow His Majesty's teachings!" The two of them hurriedly saluted when they heard this.

"I just watched the beasts besiege, and I suddenly realized that what I had thought before was simple. I thought that as long as I relied on muskets and artillery, I could stop the enemy in front of the battle, but if there was no isolation from this wooden house today, I am afraid that even if we hold sharp weapons, it will be more than lucky! Zhao Hao sighed lightly.

"Well, Your Majesty is right, if the car array only has an outer barrier, it is indeed a bit thin. If one place is breached and cannot be blocked in time, the whole battle will be broken, and it should be like the inner city of the city to protect each other, and there will be mobile troops. Once the outer city is lost, it can be blocked and isolated in time, so that the whole battle will not be lost. Zhao Mengjin nodded and said.

"Exactly, the car formation can not only resist the enemy's siege, but also surround the car as a city to shelter the army, as a base for advancement." Chen Fenglin said.

"Yes, there are no more than two kinds of car formations left over from the ancients: one is to use the car as a circle formation to resist the enemy in the city; The two of them are in a moon formation with their backs to the city, and they hide their cavalry and attack the enemy at the right time. The rest are all based on two formations, but they are all based on bows and crossbows, supplemented by knives and guns, and our whole army is full of firearms, and we still need to carefully study and find out the tactics that are suitable for our army! Zhao Yu said......

In the howl of the beast, everyone was sleepless all night, and Zhao Hao, Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin discussed the use of the car array all night, so that the concept of the car formation, which was still vague in his heart, gradually took shape. After dawn, the herd gradually dispersed, and after the danger of last night, everyone said that they would not let the little emperor stay here, but almost took him away in a half-coercive manner, and hurriedly returned to the ship after a day of hunting.

Although everyone returned safely, it also made everyone soldiers, and they no longer dared to let the little emperor 'take risks', and the trip was accompanied by a large team. And Zhao Hao can only fish on the lake, hunt a few wild ducks by the lake, and at most sit on the bow of the boat with a fishing rod for half a day, but often return empty-handed. But everyone didn't dare to disturb, knowing that the little emperor was thinking about things again, and what he was playing was deep.

Ten days passed so quickly, and Zhao Hao estimated that the person who was trying to test the car should also return to Pingjiang, so he turned around. When they returned, he immediately went to inspect it, and it was not bad, except for some dirt and scratches, there were no parts missing. Later, he looked through the driving records, and during the ten days of experiments, except for the axle that broke while passing through a very bumpy rocky road, it was unimpeded under the traction of the horse, and the extreme conditions were able to travel 100 miles a day on the main road.

Zhao Yu was quite satisfied after the inspection, and asked for the diameter of the axle to be increased and the pipe wall to be thickened. The next day, the 'meritorious car' was humanely destroyed, and a group of archers who were good at shooting were mobilized to shoot at the prototype car from different distances. After failing to destroy it, it was fired from a bed crossbow until it was moved to a distance of eighty paces, when a huge arrow pierced through the three compartments. However, with the addition of a wet two-inch straw mat, the giant crossbow and the rocket could not do anything about it, and it was only after the use of medium ballistas that it was completely destroyed.

After everyone's evaluation, they all thought that it would be difficult for the musket to penetrate the compartment without installing a straw mat for the chariot, and it would be difficult for the Baizi Gun to cause damage after installing the compartment. With the current equipment of the Yuan army, it is difficult to cause fatal damage to the vehicle formation unless a large catapult is used, but the heavy ballistas and artillery equipped by the own side can be fired first to destroy it. As a result, the chariot passed everyone's review, and Zhao Hao, for the sake of insurance, in addition to improving the axle, added a spare axle and two spare wheels to each car.

After the vehicle was finalized, Zhao Yu used it as a general-purpose model and modified it as needed, deriving functional vehicles such as command vehicles, baggage vehicles, medical vehicles and cooking vehicles. And all that remains is to organize manufacturing, determine the establishment, and then form a vehicle battalion to conduct drills, explore experience, and explore a path for large-scale equipment.

Zhao Hao's plan was to use infantry fighting vehicles and artillery trucks as the backbone grouping. An infantry fighting vehicle carried 14 men, including 12 musketeers and 2 drivers, 14 muskets, 4 horses, and a flag. The gang commander is responsible for directing the battle of the whole vehicle, which is organized into three combat groups; An artillery carriage carried eight people, including six gunners and two drivers. It is equipped with two rapid-fire guns, nine subtubes, two muskets, four horses, and a flag. The commander of the gun commanded the whole vehicle to fight, organized into two artillery groups, and the driver not only had to take care of the horses in wartime, but also carried a gun to serve as a guard.

The vehicle battalion is the basic combat unit, with 20 combat vehicles, and the infantry fighting vehicles and artillery vehicles are equipped according to the ratio of 2 to 1, that is, each has 10 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 artillery vehicles. In addition, there was one command vehicle, two baggage vehicles, one cooking vehicle, and one medical vehicle, all of which had a total of 20 combat vehicles. Each has a head of the capital, two deputy heads, the head of the capital is responsible for commanding the battle, the two deputy heads are in charge of infantry and artillery respectively, there is a marquis, a flag, a drum and a number, a chief bookkeeper, two doctors, two veterinarians, six firefighters, and eight baggage gangs, a total of two hundred and six people.

According to Zhao Hao's calculations, all the chariots can be linked together to form a ninety-step long defensive line, and they can form a circle to fight independently, and they can have ten days of self-sustaining power when they are fully loaded. And the four of them can form a square city with a radius of ten miles, in which tens of thousands of soldiers can be hidden. Therefore, he planned that the car battalion should have at least four tanks. In order to catch up with the expansion of the battle on the basis of holding on, he thought that he still needed to be incorporated into a cavalry army.

In this way, a chariot battalion includes three arms: infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and the number of soldiers is as high as a regiment. Therefore, the car battalion is the supreme commander of the commander, and there are three deputy commanders, who are in charge of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, and there is also one chief and one deputy Yu Hou to form the leading organ of the car battalion. The battalion headquarters is composed of one judge, three soldiers, three judicial, celebrators, and three officials, as well as three masters.

The battalion headquarters is directly under the jurisdiction of the baggage capital, with 20 baggage vehicles and 80 soldiers, all equipped with muskets; One guard, 100 soldiers; A squad of scouts consisted of thirty cavalrymen and twenty healers. In addition, there is a cavalry capital with a number of 300 soldiers. There are more than 1,000 people in a car battalion and nearly 1,000 horses. Zhao Yu thought that Chen Fenglin initiated this matter, so he selected soldiers to form a car battalion based on the first army, and reported to the Ministry of War for approval, and told the ordnance workshop to build a chariot according to the map, and put it into training as soon as possible......

After a few busy days, the framework for marshalling the car camp has been completed, and the rest is the business of the people below. And it is impossible to go hunting again, and Zhao Yu can't be idle, so he goes out in microclothes to visit Pingjiang City. You must know that Pingjiang is the name of Suzhou in later generations, not only the wealth of fish and rice, but also the convenience of the canal, which has long been a famous and rich place, and there are many places for natural fun.

"Well, this lamb is good!" On this day, Zhao Yu played for a day, and chose a restaurant that looked good on the street, and Zhao Mengjin and others were also accompanied. Serving a plate of roasted mutton, he couldn't help but praise after tasting it.

"Guest, this mutton is a serious Mongolian sheep, and the taste is the most delicious!" The shopkeeper of the hotel didn't know the emperor, but he knew Zhao Mengjin, and he was also very respectful to this young man, knowing that he was a big man, and he was busy serving him personally. Hearing the young man even weigh the delicacy, he laughed with a smile.

"Hehe, you shopkeeper is really good at trading, Mongolian sheep are raised in the south, and you dare to say that authentic Mongolian sheep have deceived many people!" Zhao Yu put down the chopsticks and joked.

"Childe, this store is a serious century-old shop, how dare you pretend to be the Mongolian sheep raised in the south of the Yangtze River, which are all from the sheep of the Monan grassland, growing up eating the grass on the grassland." The shopkeeper hurriedly waved his hand.

"The shopkeeper is deceiving people again, now the two countries are fighting, both sides of the Yangtze River are guarded by heavy troops, the warships on the river are constantly coming and going, and the pieces are sad to cross the river, where did you come from the sheep of Monan, it won't be purchased last year!" Zhao Yu nodded at the shopkeeper's words.

"Childe is really a little one!" The shopkeeper said with a sad face when he heard this, "Although there are military ships patrolling the Yangtze River, but this year's grain in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be transported to the north of the Yangtze River, and there is a grain shortage in the northwest, so there are Tartars who drive a large number of live sheep to the south to trade. ”

"Oh, then the shopkeeper's sheep is also hard-won, and it can only be eaten in the big restaurant!" Zhao Yu nodded and said with a smile. He used to smuggle and sell smuggling, and of course he knew that as long as there was profit, there would be people who would take risks, and it was basically impossible to cut it off.

"Childe is wrong, at the moment Jiangnan sells serious Mongolian sheep, the price is much lower than the sheep in Jiangnan, you can buy as much as you want!" The shopkeeper waved his hand and smiled

"There are so many sheep coming across the river, so the river defense is useless!" Zhao Yu was silent for a long time without saying a word, and then muttered for a while......