You don't even know how to form a formation, how did you become a brigade commander?
How dare Li Song be so nepotistic?
"My servant was leading armored cavalry back then, and later he was responsible for guarding Erlang. How could there be an infantry formation? When my fourth brother asked me to be the brigade commander, he only said that there should be no war at the moment, and he would let me take the lead first, until there is.
After getting rid of the horses, let me train all this brigade into cavalry..."
Li Chengzhi glanced at him sideways.
Do you mean that you are undermining your talents?
"You've never eaten pork, but you've always seen pigs running away, right? It only takes two or three days for Li Song or Li Bai to return. You need to support them first... we can't let the soldiers idle anyway!"
"What if they can only cope with it for two or three days? It's not impossible..." Li Feng hesitated, "At worst, teach them to ride horses..."
"That's nonsense!" Li Chengzhi shouted angrily.
You don’t even know how to walk, but you want to fly?
He glared and cursed: "If you don't practice formation, can you listen to drums? Can you argue flags? You can't even do that. You should be able to memorize military discipline, right?"
Li Feng choked for a long time, and his face slowly turned red: "I'm not very literate..."
Li Chengzhi was so angry that he almost laughed out loud.
After bragging for a long time, I thought you were so awesome, but you turned out to be a scumbag?
He can guess pretty much without even asking.
It’s definitely not because Li Feng’s family is too poor to study.
Li's retainers can help.
Just like Li Zhang and Li Xian, unless there is a big accident, it is a sure thing to become Li Chengzhi's personal retinue.
Because Li Song started working as a personal soldier of Li Shixian, and Li Song's father was a personal soldier of Li Qi...
As long as you are a soldier, you can get a salary, and it is not low.
In addition, both Li Qi and Li Shixian were very generous to their servants and retainers. Not only did they not have to pay taxes and do corvee labor for farming, but they never received any rewards during the New Year Festival, so a family like Li Feng was really well off. p>
Then there is only one reason why he is illiterate: Li Feng is definitely the kind of person who would rather go to blacksmithing, or you can hit me, than let me study...
"What about down there? You shouldn't be able to pick out no one, right?"
"Just Li Shi, he only served as Erlang's personal soldier, not even as good as a servant..." Li Feng replied weakly.
Li Chengzhi frowned and suddenly realized.
No wonder Li Song dared to let Li Zhao and Li Ming, who had only been a high-ranking pawn for a few months and had never even seen blood, become the leader of the team?
It turns out that the Li family is in urgent need of junior officers...
"Those team lieutenants of the Song family actually led troops when they were in Maobian..."
Li Feng didn't finish his words before Li Chengzhi stared back.
No matter how ignorant he is, he still knows the importance of controlling military power.
In what name?
If you don’t want to disappoint people, then don’t give them hope at all...
"Forget it, I'll do it!" Li Chengzhi breathed out.
After all, he is a talented person who has been a sports committee member. He doesn’t know anything else. There is no problem in practicing the queue...
"Lang Jun... you?" Li Feng was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out.
Li Chengzhi snorted coldly: "I can even make steel, but I can't train a few soldiers?"
Li Feng scratched his head a little.
Is this a thing?
In the past few days, I saw you dragging your fourth brother to learn the art of war...
……
Queue training is just a joke.
Li Bai has already asked his soldiers to practice the more complicated wild goose formation, and the basic training is definitely solid enough.
The reason why Li Chengzhi went there in person was because he suddenly discovered that he didn't know much about this team, and he was even more confused about how to fight in this era.
It doesn’t matter that there are hidden dangers. After all, people like Li Song and Li Bai are definitely worthy of trust.
Li Chengzhi suddenly realized: If enemy soldiers suddenly invaded next time, and Li Song and Li Bai happened not to be around, and there was no natural danger like Kongtong Mountain to defend, would he wait to die?
As soon as this thought came out, he was startled into a cold sweat.
It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone else.
If you want to live a long life, you have to make yourself good enough...
……
When they arrived at the school grounds, Li Chengzhi first summoned all the officers above the age of seniority.
After another look, it turned out that most of them were soldiers from the Li clan.
I asked again carefully, but nothing happened as Li Chengzhi expected.
Li Song has practiced the basic formation very well.
For example, the sparse formation, counting formation, and round formation in "Sun Bin's Ten Formations".
Don't think that the basic formation is just a standing formation, standing there motionless.
On the contrary, the more basic things are, the more attention is paid to changes. If a soldier cannot even change formations, then when the enemy comes, there are only two options: death and collapse.
For example, if a spearman encounters an archer, or even a cavalry archer, what should he do without the protection of a vehicle shield?
We can only spread the formation as far as possible to reduce casualties.
The opposite is true for several formations. If infantry encounters heavy cavalry, they can only form a tight formation to defend themselves.
The circular formation pays more attention to changes and needs to make temporary responses according to the enemy's main attacking troops.
Roughly speaking, the shield defeats the bow, and the bow defeats the spear...
Therefore, changing formations is only the most basic quality and requirement for grassroots officers and grassroots military organizations in ancient times.
At least you have to give an order so that all the soldiers under your command know where to go, where to stand, whether to move forward or backward, and how fast to walk without stepping on others' heels or being stepped on... Therefore, Li Chengzhi never thought that by practicing a few steps in formation, he would be able to shock the ancients by attending a military parade.
Are you fooling your ancestors into thinking they are fools?
There is no need to look at the basic sparse formations and counting formations. It is almost the same as "spreading out, front, back, left, right, and right" and "gathering" during military training.
Li Chengzhi mainly looked at the circular formation.
He asked the team leaders and commanders to return to their respective units, and then gathered the brigade soldiers for a drill.
What is displayed is the most common three-army formation, with the front peak, the middle part, and the back curve at the front and rear. The center army and the left and right wings are on the left and right.
Whether the formation is offensive or defensive depends on what types of troops are lined up on the front, back, left and right.
Li Chengzhi took a look and found that there seemed to be only bows, shields, carts, guns, and seven or eight trebuchets.
We practiced for nearly an hour and changed formations seven or eight times. There were attack formations and defensive formations. The square formation of 500 people was basically pretty neat.
But the more Li Chengzhi looked at it, the more familiar it became.
Isn't this the snake oil formation in "Total War"?
But there are many more changes, and the various types of soldiers will be interchanged back and forth according to whether they are offensive or defensive.
Something seems missing?
Li Chengzhi took a closer look: Where are the cavalry?
He looked at Li Feng: "If there is a battle, what will the cavalry do?"
"Wander the enemy, or wait for the enemy to retreat and pursue..."
"What if the enemy also has cavalry?"
"It depends on the number. If it's small, you can naturally defend it with cars and defeat it with bows. If it's large, you can only fight to the death..."
Fight to the death?
It’s almost a rout!
This is indeed a deadlock, otherwise the cavalry would not be called the king of soldiers.
The only one who can defeat the cavalry is the cavalry, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Li Chengzhi pinched his chin, looked at the spearmen who accounted for more than 60% and said: "If the enemy is all spearmen, is there any other way besides using bows and guns to restrain them?"
"No!" Li Feng shook his head firmly.
How could it not be?
Li Chengzhi's eyes are getting brighter and brighter.