As the twenty regiment soldiers roared in unison, they raised their spears and rushed in a straight line towards a row of wooden figures erected twenty steps (about thirty meters) away, stabbing the wooden figures in the eyes and throat.
, heart, waist and feet five places.
"Plop, plop" twenty wooden figures were stabbed to the ground. The regiment soldiers raised their spears. Some people brought out the cloth balls placed at the hit site on their spear points, and some people's spear points were empty. Immediately
Someone came over to count the number of hits and misses, and then the regiment soldiers retreated back to the starting line. Following the starter's order, they roared and sprinted again.
On the other side, the same twenty regiment soldiers stood in a row, holding machetes high, facing a row of wooden piles, constantly raising the knife and slashing diagonally; they practiced raising the knife and slashing diagonally repeatedly, and they kept shouting
Saying: "Kill! Kill! Kill!" The movements were uniform and consistent, the sword was shining, and the cold air was overwhelming.
By the Yishui River, archers were training. Jiang Yiqu, carrying a stick, walked in front of a row of regiment soldiers raising their long bows. If he found anyone with the wrong posture, he would give him a stick and put it in his mouth.
He also cursed: "Why are you as stupid as a pig? After more than ten days of teaching, you still don't do it right."
The reconnaissance team, led by captains Zhou Qi and Wu Hansheng, practiced climbing trees, crawling, and other training. The entire training ground was in full swing.
Shang Yi walked around the field with his nunchucks, observing the training of the regiment soldiers, and was very satisfied. It has been more than ten days since the training of boxing and weapons, and the regiment soldiers are finally practicing now.
It has to look a little bit like that.
During these ten days, Tong Fang and Lu Shi led the blacksmiths and carpenters in the village to work day and night to forge weapons.
The blacksmith shop led by Tong Fang produced thirty machetes, forty single knives, and sixty double-edged short axes - this was a drawing drawn by Shang Yi after the style of the ancient Western double-edged battle axe, but
The size has been reduced, and it is made from the leftover scraps of making a broadsword and armor. Coupled with a one-foot-two-inch long handle, it can be used for close combat or as a long-range weapon. It can be thrown into a spinning shape and fly around three times.
At a distance of about ten meters, the lethality is very large.
The carpentry workshop led by Lu Shi produced 60 long bows, 20 short bows, more than 1,000 arrows for long bows, and more than 600 arrows for short bows. More than 300 spear shafts were also made.
Sixty wooden round shields and sixty wooden training figures, and more than three hundred training swords and guns.
At the beginning of the establishment of the militia, although Shang Yi obtained four to five hundred weapons from bandits, it was still not enough to prepare the entire militia. Although priority was given to the main force, it only ensured that everyone had weapons in their hands, but the style and type were limited.
They are also all kinds of strange and different.
But after nearly a month of hard work in the blacksmith shop and carpentry workshop, at least the weapons of the main force were fully assembled and looked much neater. However, the pig iron purchased by Shang Yi in the early stage was basically used up.
The five squads of the main regiment all use weapons in a unified manner. The first team led by Shang Yi is composed of ten longbowmen, ten sword players, and forty spearmen. Huang Zhen's second team is a full-length spearman team.
Zhao Yingjie's third team is the machete team, composed of thirty machete players and thirty sword players. Jiang Yiqu's fourth team is the archer team, composed of forty long archers and twenty short archers.
Bao Tonggang's fifth team consisted of ten short archers, twenty sword players, and thirty spearmen.
Each of the sixteen soldiers of the reconnaissance team was equipped with a spear, a sword, a shield, a throwing axe, six long bows, and ten short bows.
Originally Shang Yi planned to form a cavalry force, but the three villages combined had seventy or eighty horses, but most of these horses were used to pull carts, and not many could be used as war horses, so Shang Yi Yi could only give up this idea temporarily. But he still equipped each member of the reconnaissance team with a war horse.
The other three deputy chief teachers, six captains, Wang Xin and You Hongliang all made their own weapons according to their own preferences, but each was equipped with a single sword, a long bow and a horse.
The extra weapons she got were basically equipped with the regiment soldiers of Qingshui Village, because first of all, these weapons were brought by Shang Yi, and secondly, the weapons used by the main regiment were also sold by Shang Yi himself. The blacksmith shop of Qingshui Village They were made with Kidobo, and no funds from the militia were used, so the other two villages had nothing to say. However, Qingshui Village still gave the other two villages 20 short bows and 30 old single swords respectively. And Hakkatai The village and Shilitun Village also organized the craftsmen in their own villages to step up the production of weapons. Finally, all the regiments in the village were equipped with weapons. Although they were uneven, it was still much better than going to the battlefield with hoes and sickles. .
After the weapons are equipped, formal training for the regiment's soldiers to use these weapons begins.
The so-called eighteen kinds of weapons popular in China took shape in the Song Dynasty, but in the army, soldiers basically still use swords and guns. After all, on the battlefield, it is not about individual martial arts, but fighting as a whole. [Ji Xiaoxinshu] He once said: Axes, axes, hammers, axes, halberds, hooks, sickles, etc. can be used by those who are bold and skilled in the art, and can be used to charge the enemy's formation alone, but they cannot be taught to the soldiers, and they cannot be used as a powerful enemy. This is the truth.
Basically, all the soldiers in the regiment have never learned martial arts, so practicing complicated and changeable martial arts moves is not only time-consuming, but also has little effect. Because on the battlefield, the magic horses are complicated and the fancy moves are just floating clouds and have little effect at all. The simpler and more direct the move is, the more effective it is. As long as you practice it repeatedly and emphasize the role of the team, you can also exert great power.
To put it simply, a gun is for stabbing, and it has only two movements: holding the gun sideways, and thrusting with force. A knife is for slashing, and it has only two movements: raising the knife, and slashing at an angle. You can ignore the other things, as long as you practice these two repeatedly Practice the movements to a standard, practice them quickly, practice them until the whole team is unified, and even practice them until they are conditioned reflexes.
However, the training of archers is difficult. Although Wu Hansheng is a marksman, Shang Yi can be regarded as another marksman if he uses his crossbow. Tang Zhen, Jiang Yiqu and others are also pretty good in archery skills, but There are only a few qualified archers in the entire militia.
Shang Yi knew that it would take at least a year to raise a qualified archer. As for a sharpshooter, in addition to talent, it takes time to accumulate. As the saying goes, sharpshooters are fed with bullets, and sharpshooters are no exception. Fortunately, quite a few of the archers were hunters, and these people got started quickly. But for most of the other villagers, Shang Yi did not have extravagant expectations. He only asked them to be able to shoot arrows in the right direction. That's it. After all, on a real battlefield, there's not much need for aiming. Generally, it's just a random salvo of arrows and the shots are in the right direction. A few excellent archers are enough.
In addition, although the longbow has a long range, it requires a large pulling force. Most people's hands will feel weak after pulling the bow five or six times, and they need to rest for a while. Even Wu Hansheng can only draw the bow eleven or twelve times at most.
Therefore, archers not only need to train archery, but also strengthen their arm and waist strength. After nearly a month of hard training, although the archers' accuracy has not made much progress, their arm strength has improved significantly.
He can draw more than ten full bows in one breath, and most people can draw fifteen or six full bows, but Wu Hansheng can draw up to twenty-three full bows in one breath.
Since the regiment soldiers had undergone basic training some time ago, in order to quickly form a certain combat effectiveness of the militia, Shang Yi also reduced the time for basic training and set aside most of the time to train the regiment soldiers' martial arts and practice combat.
Generally speaking, training starts at 7:30 every morning. First, practice formation and physical fitness for an hour, then practice boxing and weapons for two hours, and finally leave one hour for free training time. Regiment soldiers can increase the training time according to their own conditions.
Practice, or practice other martial arts according to their own preferences. A group of young people such as Zhou Shaohuan took advantage of this gap to pester Shang Yi to teach them martial arts. And Shang Yi also used all the fighting techniques he learned in the army.
Teach them. Of course, nunchucks are also indispensable.
The blacksmith shop made more than 20 nunchucks for the youth group, but the supply was still in short supply. In the morning and evening, young people could be seen all over the village waving the nunchucks while humming: "Use the nunchucks quickly."
Stick, hum hum ha ha; quickly use the nunchaku, hum hum ha ha." the sound.
There is an hour and a half break at noon, lunch, and a nap. Starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, there will be two hours of combat training, including ambush, charge, formation, horse resistance, retreat, arrow formation, encounter, river crossing,
Searching, camping, night fighting, etc. On the one hand, Shang Yi created these training subjects based on his own experience, and on the other hand, he also referred to the past military experiences of Tang Zhen and others.
As for how effective it would be, in fact, even Shang Yi himself said he was not prepared. After all, he could refer to his past training in the army for basic training, but not for exercise and combat training. After all, these are two completely different eras.
, the combat mode and guiding ideology are completely different. However, the regiment soldiers all like the afternoon training, which is much more interesting than the morning training.
After three o'clock, the day's training was completely over, but Shang Yi did not intend to let go of these regiment soldiers yet. He organized the regiment soldiers to participate in some sports competitions, and the chosen event was naturally football, which is the closest to war mode among competitive sports.
Of course, in ancient China, this was called "Cuju". However, Shang Yi still completely pirated the entire set of modern football rules.
In later generations of China, there was a very famous slogan, "Men should play football." It was absolutely true. The regiment soldiers quickly fell in love with this sport. In just a few days, there was no need for Shang Yi to organize it.
After completing training every day, the regiment soldiers immediately spontaneously organized a Cuju competition. Those who did not play football also consciously stayed to cheer for their respective teams, although according to the standards of later generations, they all belonged to the Cuju competition.
"Stinky Feet" was at the first level, but they all enjoyed it and played until the sun went down before they all left the game and went home.