Chapter VII Queues

After three consecutive days, all the military households under the banner went to the field with their families to farm, Chen Mu ran around the ridges of the field, lifted stone locks to exercise, and at noon, he took a few military households to exercise some queues, and asked Shao Tingda to teach the military households how to use knives. When the evening sun had the intention of falling, he set up a wooden sign fifty paces away, and played more than ten times in an hour with a bird's gun.

However, as soon as the freshness of the gun passed, the slow reloading and rate of fire made people feel bored, and it was all up to the heart to breathe, hoping that the firearm would save their lives before they could fight patiently for a while. However, most of the charge matters were handed over to Wei Balang beside him, and Chen Mu only aimed at and pulled the trigger.

Fortunately, some of the sub-medicines of the hundred households remained, and there were not too many people to use them on weekdays because the fire guns were easy to explode, so Bai Yuanjie gave him hundreds of sub-medicines with a word, which was enough for him to use for a while. Chen Mu, who was skilled in using the firearm, found that this musket was not at all what he thought, if he saw a single robber in the countryside, he could still win with a firearm in his hand; But in ancient times, not thousands of people fought in wars, and at that time, this kind of firearm with a slow rate of fire might not be of much use, it was just that the lethality was stronger than that of a bow and crossbow.

The bird gun is a very good weapon, although it is not as good as Chen Mu imagined, the unparalleled lethality of thirty or fifty steps is undeniable. As for the shortcomings in the rate of fire, Chen Mu has already made up his mind, whether he buys it in the future or wants it in the guard, he will have three bird guns on his body, and he will always have two people to skillfully load ammunition and pressure medicine.

Practicing archery can save his life, in this dangerous era, he will not be helpless, and doing his best to ensure his safety is Chen Mu's top priority.

Besides, this matter is the only thing that can make him interested at the moment, his duty is not so much a military attache as a field official, even if he is ordered by Bai Yuanjie to train and drill, he can't do any insightful moves. It was only in this era that he personally had a little bit to do with 'military training', and he realized how nonsense it was for the protagonists of modern novels to travel to ancient times hundreds of years later...... Use the queue of military training to train troops and train a vote of elite soldiers?

I'm sorry, when Shao Tingda asked Chen Mu what he was practicing, Chen Mu patted his head and said the practice queue, and then a group of old and weak people stood in the queue extremely quickly under the leadership of Shao Tingda, who was as strong as a cow, although it was uneven, at least it also made Chen Xiaoqi clear about one thing, "You, will you stand in the queue?" ”

"Brother Mu laughed, our military households can't do anything else, and they won't farm and queue again?" Shao Tingda grinned widely, and before his smile was finished, he was interrupted by Chen Mu raising his hand and pointing: "Now practice, I am your flag officer, be serious!" ”

At this time, Chen Mu also knew that he was making a joke, belonging to this era, Chen Mu's memories from time to time told him that the queue was not a new thing that belonged to the twentieth century, the queue was commonly known as the battle array, which could be traced back to the battle array when the nobles of the pre-Qin Dynasty used the chariot array to fight, and then the strategy method in the war for thousands of years has been adapted to local conditions, but the essence of war has never changed.

"The queue is not to stand here, but to kill the enemy and protect himself, to kill the enemy, to make the enemy fall in the path of attack; To protect oneself is to be able to attack and defend each other in battle, and to save the good and the bad. The difference between him and the ancients is not only that he knows new things that do not exist in this world, but also that his understanding of the old world is far beyond that of the contemporary Mingren, what he lacks is only an understanding of the contemporary, "We stand in two formations, you all remember, one is the queue, from low to high, Wei Balang is the first, Shao Tingda last, stand up!" ”

"Yes, yes, just line up like this, everyone looks at the back of their heads in front of them, what they look like crookedly, stand like me, stand up straight!"

said that the six people of Xiaoqi all stood according to Chen Mu's ideas, this is just the beginning, they are still a little new, like Chen Mu can stand like this, but they can still stand in a good way.

"Remember this order, this posture, this is called a military posture, you will all remember it in the future, but whenever the soldiers and horses are assembled, you will stand like this." Chen Mu said with a smile: "This kind of battle is not helpful to fight the war, but it is good-looking and spiritual, unlike a farmer." If you encounter an enemy, you have to change the battle formation. When Shao Ting reaches the front, you will be powerful with your sword, and you will stand in front of the formation to block the incoming enemy for the robe. ”

Saying that, Chen Mu let Shao Tingda be in front, and on both sides let Chen Guan, who was missing three fingers, and the fifty-eight-year-old old man Zheng, who had lost all his teeth, stand with a long pole to form a small triangular array, Chen Mu was naturally in the center, and behind him was Wei Balang, who was loading gunpowder for him, this kid was the youngest with a lively brain, if he really couldn't escape, he could let him run first, Chen Mu still liked Xiao Balang very much. On either side of Chen Mu was Shi Qi, a storyteller, and another habitual thief named Fu Yuan who was standing with a bow and arrow.

A total of six bannermen, plus the small banner of Chen Mu, formed a rudimentary attack formation.

Not to mention, Chen Mu didn't think that training was a good errand before, but when he really wanted to try it, he found that it was actually quite interesting to command a few people to line up according to his own ideas. Of course...... A person like him who has no family education and no knowledge of the art of war, even if he has some ideas in his head, the strength of the battle formation formed is worrying, even if the queue when he was a soldier is completely transferred to the Ming army, it may not be effective.

The art of war is not a rigid copy, but is adapted to local conditions.

Fortunately, Chen Mu didn't have the opportunity to command a large-scale war, he was just commanding his subordinates, and the purpose of guarding against them was only to go to the bandits he might encounter on the way to Guangzhou, which was fine.

Let his strong men memorize this formation, and then Chen Mu passed the addiction of commanding the army for half an hour, so he sent them to go to the farm, leaving Wei Balang to fill himself with medicine, and practice his shooting accuracy one by one. It's not that Chen Mu is hot for three minutes, he also knows that it is not so simple to drill the queue battle formation, but the soldiers have to train and the fields have to be cultivated, Chen Xiaoqi has only six bannermen but has to cultivate the land of twelve bannermen, how easy is it? If he can make up the number of flag soldiers and get four more flag men who drag their families, then it would be better to say that let the rest of their families go to farming, and he can take the main members to the side to practice.

What now? He was standing in line with the six bannermen and practicing bowery and knife skills, but there were still big girls and little daughters-in-law on the side who looked at them and disturbed their minds, and the laughter came one by one, where could the bannermen calm down and practice?

There is no way to do it, so they can only spare an hour a day to practice a little, at least so that they can hold the battle formation in a critical situation. As for trying to get them into battle? Then it depends on Chen Mu to be able to practice properly when he comes back from Guangzhou Mansion to guard the city.

Going to Guangzhou Mansion, whenever he thought that he was going to follow Bai Yuanjie to Guangzhou Mansion, although Chen Mu was not as excited as Shao Tingda, he was not much worse, he also wanted to see the premier metropolis south of Wuling in the Ming Dynasty!