"Go down and change your clothes tomorrow!" Li Chengzhi said.
"Mr. Lang is talking about wooden armor?"
"It's not just wooden armor!" Li Chengzhi replied, "All the spearmen will be replaced by five-foot long spears!"
Who said the spearmen can't defeat it?
In addition to long-range attacks, I can also outlast you.
Li Chengzhi sighed.
This is a problem that should have been realized long ago.
Is it all my fault that I only thought about refining armor and making gunpowder and didn’t know to come to the school grounds earlier to take a look?
Even if I am still a rookie, at least I have played many war games. Isn’t it because of this that the Macedonian spear array in "Total War" is invincible?
Five feet long spear?
Li Feng was frightened: "What if it's a close combat?"
The reason why the spear is only one foot long is that it can attack from a distance and defend at close range. If it is too long, it cannot be used at close range. Once the enemy gets close, it will be left to be killed.
"Of course I use a knife!" Li Chengzhi sighed leisurely.
Where did the knife come from...
Just as Li Feng opened his mouth, he responded fiercely: Lang Jun actually wants the spearmen to carry swords?
How much iron does this cost?
He never imagined that Li Chengzhi not only wanted the spearmen to carry swords, but also wanted to equip them with bows, crossbows, arrows, and even shields.
It's nothing more than fighting for equipment and logistics, which is exactly what he is best at.
The worst thing is to make more money and buy more iron materials.
If it really comes to the day when Li Song hopes for world hegemony and opens a few more iron mines, all problems will be solved.
This kind of all-powerful cold weapon is not a sudden idea of his.
When Li Chengzhi thought about giving swords to the spearmen, he remembered that in the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang army was rampant all over the world and was invincible, relying only on equipment.
The popularity rate of crossbows alone is 100%. Some light cavalry and medium cavalry are even equipped with a crossbow in addition to bows.
Infantrymen have at least three pieces of equipment: swords, guns, and bows, and more than half of the infantrymen also have shields...
Imagine if a single unit of arms encounters such an enemy, how should it respond?
You don’t even know how to change the formation.
You set up spearmen, and they shoot arrows. You set up archers, and they raise shields. You set up shield soldiers, and they switch to spears and charge...
Maybe you don’t even have time to change your formation, and the enemy will rush in front of you.
However, it does not mean that the equipment can be fully equipped all of a sudden. Just like building a cavalry, you have to take your time.
But you can try the effect first.
The ones used on the left and right are not real ones, so it doesn’t take much trouble.
Just do what he said, Li Chengzhi asked Li Feng to watch the soldiers practice formation, while he mounted his horse and ran towards the monk's village where the wooden armor was made.
That night, Song Lishen took thousands of men and made 500-foot-5 wooden spears and 500 wooden knives overnight.
Both are easy.
There are pine trees all over the mountains and fields, not to mention wooden spears that are five feet long, and they can be cut out for you as long as you can carry them.
Wooden knives are easier, just cutting a handle on a wooden board.
Li Chengzhi originally wanted 500 wooden shields, which were roughly similar in style to pot lids. He also requested that the shields have rope buckles and nooses that could be hung around the neck or tied to the arms.
But this thing has a higher technical content and cannot be made by a specialized carpenter. Li Chengzhi thought about it and asked the carpenter to cut the pine wood into boards one inch thick, three inches wide and one foot five long.
At that time, if Li Song pulls in more iron material, he will punch out more steel plates, nail the wooden boards behind the steel plates, and a shield will be formed.
The purpose of nailing wooden boards is that the steel plate is too thin to prevent deformation...
……
Early on the next morning, all the soldiers of the first brigade changed their uniforms.
Li's Ding soldiers were basically indifferent, because they knew that with Li Chengzhi and Li Song here, how could they go to the battlefield without wearing armor?
The villagers and monks of the Song family were extremely excited.
At least it shows that if there is really going to be a war, they will not be allowed to use their flesh and blood to carry swords and guns.
Li Chengzhi didn't waste any time. He first picked out two teams. One team had spears measuring five feet long and wore wooden knives. The other team still had wooden spears measuring one foot long. Then the two teams faced off.
This is considered a practical exercise. To avoid accidents such as poking the face or blinding the eyes, all gun heads are wrapped in cloth.
The team holding spears, Li Chengzhi imitated the Macedonian phalanx.
There are ten rows in length and width, with people almost touching each other in front and behind.
The first three rows of spears are placed flat, the middle two rows are raised diagonally, and the last five rows stand firmly...
But as soon as he raised the spear, Li Feng's eyes suddenly popped up while he was standing on the high platform.
He has never seen such a formation, but that doesn't mean he can't see how powerful it is.
Even if the spearmen in the front row are not equipped with swords, they don't have to be afraid of enemies at close range.
Because the soldiers behind will refill their guns.
This is the real forest of spears...
"Fight!"
Following Li Chengzhi's voice, the flag commanders from both sides waved their flags fiercely.
Li Feng bulged his eyes and looked at the two groups of spearmen in the audience without blinking.
He has already anticipated the outcome...
Sure enough, as soon as the battle started, the team holding short spears was defeated steadily. Even if there were brave people who pushed back the first level of spear heads, they would be knocked down by the second and third level spear heads.<
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Of course, there are exceptions.
Li Chengzhi wanted to see if this square formation was really as sharp as the legend said, so he placed Li Xian in the short spear formation, and he was also a leading soldier.
In order to show fairness, Li Chengzhi arranged for him a few old soldiers of the Li family on the opposite side.
Li Xian rushed and collided, and the wooden armor on his body was smashed to pieces before he rushed to the first row of spearmen. As a result, before he could even pick up the gun, the old soldier who had abandoned his spear slashed him in the neck with a wooden knife.
But this bastard is no ordinary shameless person. He refuses to admit defeat and even hugs and fights with those three old pawns...
Li Chengzhi couldn't help but curled his lips.
If this were really on the battlefield, Li Xian would have lost ten of his lives.
Li Feng's scalp felt numb when he saw it.
He knew that the Spear Formation would win, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly?
Except for those who followed Li Xian and those on his left and right, the rest rushed to the side of the spearman. The spearhead in their hands did not even reach three feet in front of the opponent, and they were so pushed that they could not stand up.
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If you replace it with a real gun, even if it can't pierce your armor, it still can't pierce your thighs and face?
No need for any knife at all...
Li Feng looked like he was drunk. He blushed and gasped and asked: "Lang Jun, what kind of formation is this?"
"Of course it's the spear formation!"
Li Chengzhi replied and waved his hand to stop the fighting between the two teams.
There’s no need to try anymore, holding a one-foot spear is a complete defeat.
The ancients did not brag. This kind of phalanx is indeed powerful, but it has shortcomings. It can only be made up for by adding more cavalry, archers and other troops.
Li Chengzhi thought for a while and then said to Li Feng: "Follow me!"
After saying that, he got off the high platform.
From time to time, he would set up a hollow array.
There are thirty people on each side on the outermost side, and twenty people on each side on the innermost side. There are ten floors in total, which is exactly five hundred people.
"Squat!"
Following Li Chengzhi's order, the five hundred spearmen all knelt down.
The first row holds the shield with both hands, the second row puts their spears on the edge of the shield, the third row puts their spears on the shoulders of the second row of soldiers, and so on...
If you look at it from a high place, the entire array looks like a blooming flower with layers upon layers.
Li Chengzhi pointed: "You have led cavalry, just think about it, do you dare to charge into such a formation?"