And the ninth soldier and the tenth soldier in the back raised a heavy stick with a diameter of 6.4 centimeters in his hand-

Dong Yiying shouted again: "Blow again, shout again, and advance again!" ”

Immediately, the whistle sounded again.

"Kill!"

In the shouting of killing, everyone took another step forward.

Their expressions became more cold and serious, and their bodies tightened and straightened.

Because they understand that if they are on the battlefield, now is the moment before they engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, and now on the training ground, the next step is an important basis for the instructor to evaluate whether they are qualified in training.

Dong Yiying's voice sounded again: "Three beats, three blows, three shouts and three advances!" ”

The sound of the bamboo whistle sounded again, this time exceptionally sharp.

"Kill!"

Everyone on the killer team erupted into a wild roar, and suddenly there was movement.

Qian Yichuan and Wang Dingzhu, the two players who were playing next to each other, were about a foot and a half apart, keeping them on the same parallel line, and then they slammed the huge cards in their hands to the ground. The plaque in their hands was about five feet high and one foot five inches wide, and the main body was made of aspen wood, which was relatively light and not weak, and at least moderately hard compared to ordinary wood.

The shape of this card is roughly an isosceles trapezoid, showing a slightly narrower shape at the top and a wider shape at the bottom, but the difference is not much, that is, four or five points.

On the surface of the inner wood, it is covered with a layer of raw cowhide, which is directly covered with hot and bloody cowhide after the cow has just been killed. When the cowhide gradually cooled and became dry and stiff and contracted, it was tightly wrapped on the surface of the shield, and there was no loosening at all. At that time, even if you try your best to tear it, you can't tear it off at all.

In some exaggerated descriptions, it is often said that a whole cowhide is covered, and of course it is not a whole cowhide - in fact, in this age and even more ancient times, whether in the East or the West, there is no such thing as a whole cowhide covered on a shield. Nothing else, because it's too heavy. (PS: The weight of a whole piece of cowhide is as follows.)

Ultra-lightweight steer leather, twenty-eight to forty-two pounds.

Lightweight castration leather, forty-two to fifty-two pounds.

The weight is castration cowhide, more than fifty-two pounds.

There is a branded castration cowhide on the buttocks, more than fifty-two pounds.

Lightweight unbranded cow leather, twenty-eight to forty-eight pounds.

The weight is not branded cow leather, more than forty-eight pounds.

Branded cow skin, more than twenty-eight pounds. ）

In fact, a whole cowhide is enough to cover ten cards.

Since the main thing to increase is the defense of the outside of the shield, you only need to cover the outer side, and the inside is not used.

There are two theories about the Ming Dynasty's one ruler, one is thirty-two centimeters, and this is the most accurate, according to the preserved Jiajing tooth ruler. Another version is 31.1 centimeters, which is not much the same. Either way, if the length of the card is between 155.5 centimeters and 160 centimeters, it counts as 158 centimeters. And because its shape is an isosceles trapezoidal shape with a narrow top and a wide bottom, the width of the middle is one and a half feet, that is, forty-eight centimeters. The area of the entire shield is about 0.75 square meters.

And a cowhide with a width of two meters, a length of two meters and a thickness of one and a half centimeters, and a standard unit of fifty feet, that is, more than fifty square feet, weighs about one hundred and six catties. Folded down, the skin on this shield weighs about fifteen catties.

Fifteen pounds of skin, plus the wooden card itself, which weighs about thirteen pounds, is less than thirty pounds, and this weight is still within the bearable range.

(I said before that the weight of the card is thirteen catties, which is a miswriting, and the weight of the skin is not considered.) To be honest, if I didn't look up the information, I would have ignored this like many people. ）

With the addition of such a layer of skin with a thickness of half an inch, the defense of the shield was suddenly raised to a higher level, you must know that many shields in history are actually leather shields, and the wood is the inside, and there are a lot of shields with skin outside, and the defense of this leather shield is not familiar with its name and sounds so weak.

Of course, wearing this layer of cowhide not only increases the weight, but also costs a lot, so there are only a few shields with skin, and most of them don't. Some of them have various patterns painted with lacquer on the outer wood, for example, the most common is a hideous forehead with the character king and a two-horned ghost head on the head. What's more, a lot of them even directly exposed the layer of wood, and there is nothing on the surface.

However, the cards in the hands of Qian Yichuan and Wang Dingzhu are all skin and wooden shields.

This card is tall and wide, with a height of about 1.6 meters, which is enough to cover a man in the prime of life. The height of adult men in this era was shorter than that of later generations, about 1.6 meters - even so, it was taller than that of European contemporaries, while in Fuso at this time, 1.6 meters was definitely tall - more than 1.7 meters, which was already considered a burly body.

Qian Yichuan and Wang Dingzhu put the cards on the ground, and the cards were enough to protect the parts below the head. There was a fixed rope behind the card as a handle, and they grasped the handle and put their left shoulder behind the shield, while their right hand pulled out their waist knives with a sonorous sound.

It is three feet and two inches long, the handle is three inches long, and it weighs one pound and ten taels, that is, two pounds in later generations.

This is their regular equipment in addition to the cards.

The light of the knife flashed in the early morning.

The first soldier Qian Yichuan is on the left, and the second soldier Wang Dingzhu is on the right.

And after the two of them set up their position, the third soldier behind Qian Yichuan, Zheng Shuisheng, the wolf player, took a step to the right front, standing in the middle of the two players, basically level with them, a few inches back, and the wolf in his hand poked out from the gap between the two cards and pointed to the left front. His right hand held the lower part of the wolf's middle and the left hand held the upper end of the tail. And the fourth soldier who was tied with him, Ma Jing, who was also a wolf hand, also took a step forward to the right, close to the second soldier Wang Dingzhu, about a third of the body behind, and the two shoulders were next to each other. He held the middle of the wolf with his right hand and the tail end with his left hand and pointed to the right front. And between the first soldier Qian Yichuan and the third soldier Zhao Shuisheng, it was the seventh soldier, the pikeman Yang Er. He stood in the middle of the two of them, behind Qian Yichuan's right and behind Zhao Shuisheng's left, one position behind the two. He held the middle of the spear in his right hand down, and in his left hand held the tail end of the spear up, pointing the spear forward to the right. The pointing of the spear in his hand happened to cross with the wolf whisk in Zhao Shuisheng's hand, forming an X-shape.

To the left of the first soldier Qian Yichuan is the eighth soldier, Niu Dazeng, who is also a pikeman. He and Qian Yichuan were about a foot apart, half a body behind, holding the middle of the spear in his left hand and leaning down, holding the tail end of the spear in his right hand and pointing to the left front.

On the left hand side of the eighth soldier Niu Dazeng, there is the fifth soldier, Qin Kui, the boring palladium hand, who is half a position behind Niu Dazeng, and the boring palladium points to the left front.

On Qin Kui's left hand side, there was the ninth soldier, Gao An, the big stickman. He was half a position behind Qin Kui and raised the giant stick in his hand high.

At this point, the left side is the end.

On the right, on the right hand side of the fourth soldier, the wolf player Ma Jing, alongside him, is Zheng Fakui, the head of the temporary team. At this time, the long flagpole with blade in his hand was no longer held high, but stabbed forward, and the triangular red flag under the spearhead was still dazzling. He faced straight ahead, the long bladed flagpole in his hand crossed with the wolf in front of Ma Jing pointing to the right.

On Zheng Fakui's right hand, one position behind him was the sixth soldier, the palladium boring hand Jiang Laosan. Jiang Laosan glanced at Zheng Fakui obliquely, his face was expressionless, but the corners of his mouth pulled down. Zheng Fakui noticed his expression, but as if he hadn't seen it, his face was still full of solemnity.

"Pretend, you can fucking pretend!"

Jiang Laosan secretly cursed in his heart.

He is also facing the right front, and on the right hand side of Jiang Laosan, half a position behind is the big stick player Zhao Goudan. His face was full of fanaticism at this moment, he grabbed the giant stick tightly, and his muscles were tense, Jiang Laosan thought about estimating that if he flashed in front of him now, he would instinctively smash it down.

In this way, the hand-to-hand battle formation is completed.

From left to right are the big stickman, the palladium boring hand, the pikeman, the pikeman, the wolf hand, the wolf hand, the wolf hand, the team head, the palladium boring hand, and the big stick hand.

These eleven men formed a half-moon formation with the middle part protruding outward, and the two wings slightly behind the opponent's side convex, and the convex position was the two players and the pikeman and a wolf player sandwiched between the players.

It can be clearly seen that the more in the middle part, the more long weapons are used, spears, and wolf whirlpools are concentrated in the middle, and in the two wings, there are shorter weapons such as boring palladium and big sticks. An inch long and an inch strong, the enemy is mainly killed from the front, and they are facing a long weapon with extremely lethal power such as the wolf lance, so that it is impossible to approach at all, and the long weapon in the middle part is the main force of killing, and the enemy here is the most. And when the enemy finds that it is difficult to break through in the middle, he will seek to break through from both flanks, but the two flanks must face much fewer enemies than the middle position. Palladium boring, sticks, not so long weapons, are enough to deal with these enemies. Both pikemen are concentrated in the left position in the middle, because left-handers are a minority after all, according to the habitual hand, when the enemy attacks, it is more often from their right flank, and facing their right flank, it is the left flank of the killer team, so it is naturally necessary to strengthen this side.

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