European Emperor Cultivation System

Chapter 161 Phalanx Training
"cheers."

Benjamin raised his glass to celebrate the victory, and everyone in the room drank the grape mead exuding a strong alcoholic aroma.

Li Peijun passed the exclusive brewing secret recipe to Hafleur's brewing workshop. Although the latter did not have systematic culinary skills, but with their innate keen sense of taste and rich experience, they not only successfully brewed exactly the same amount of products , but also according to the taste of different people to prepare different ratios.

In order to persuade these newly incorporated nobles to send troops to help with peace of mind, Li Peijun used both soft and hard tactics. On the one hand, he continued to train soldiers on the east bank of the Tuke River, and on the other hand, he also sent food and wine to reward the knights who were about to go out.

Those nobles who were accustomed to eating raw, cold and spoiled food were quickly captured by the delicious food. The knights who were hesitant at first packed their bags and prepared to fight generously after tasting a bite of twice-cooked pork.With the help of the database provided by Culinary Arts, Li Peijun brought the essence of oriental dishes into full play.

Unwilling to fail, Turuk returned to Caen and raised taxes and conscription again. The trading activities in the city have basically disappeared, because no matter how they sell, it is a loss-making business. The fiscal tax has been advanced for eight months in advance, and the economy has almost disappeared. On the verge of collapse.

The situation on Konsk's side has not improved much. The battle in Caen is still chaotic. Benjamin did not rescue him again after withdrawing his troops. He can only bite the bullet and fight to the end with Turuk. Whenever the advantage is revealed, the rear area There will be riots that have to be dealt with, which is really a headache.

Li Peijun is calmly conducting phalanx training. Regardless of the situation in Caen, Li Peijun has always maintained a wait-and-see attitude. Seeing which side takes the lead, he suppresses it; seeing which side is about to abandon the city and surrender , and will send coolie nobles to act as free thugs.

Just keep fighting the war without any sign of peace talks.

"Three~two~one, stab."

The picked weeds and firewood were made into simple scarecrows for the infantry. Li Peijun commanded the soldiers to complete the whole process from starting to stabbing.

"Very well, do it again, three-two-one, stab."

Under the preliminary phased training, the shooting movements of the infantry have been greatly improved. Originally, these brave men just stabbed forward indiscriminately, without overall coordination at all. remain on the same level.

Spearmen will be arranged on both sides of the entire phalanx. On the one hand, they will coordinate with the crossbowmen to suppress and harvest the enemy, and on the other hand, they will protect the front and flanks from being broken by the enemy's heavy cavalry.

The crossbowmen are the treasures of the army in the entire phalanx, and they are arranged in the center under layers of protection. In order to save the metal arrows consumed during training, Li Peijun specially ordered the crossbowmen to use wooden strips and bamboo slips instead. After the next round of shooting, it must be effectively recycled.

Under limited conditions, Li Peijun reduced the width of the array of crossbowmen, and replaced the line-up shooting formation planned for the practice with a four-row matrix. The number of enemies was not so large, and there was no need to spread out a half-kilometer-wide array. , Narrowing the array is more conducive to defensive counterattacks in positional warfare.

The two rows of crossbowmen in the front are used to advance and suppress, and the two rows of archers in the back are used to harvest and kill. This kind of firecracker three-row rotation tactic invented in the Ming Dynasty is now used by Li Peijun in actual combat tests.

At the beginning, the crossbowmen and archers could not change their formations in an orderly manner. Because of the width of the crossbow itself, the crossbowmen would often pass by the advancing archers when they retreated, which also caused many frictions and conflicts. Li Peijun had no choice but to suppress it with prestige, and then increased the distance again, and the problem was finally resolved.

The purple shirt crossbow is easy to operate. Basically, the lower Liba people who do not know a single word can test the hand crossbow smoothly after a day of training, but the huge recoil is still a big problem. Reluctantly, Li Peijun had no choice but to ask the crossbowmen in the back row to support the front row.

"emission"

With bursts of crackling sounds, the bushes were shot four times in a row, and the poor target tree was riddled with holes.

"Quickly, recover the arrow."

Li Peijun was very satisfied with the shooting results, and suddenly felt that his crossbowmen were invincible all over the world.

The progress of the cavalry is still slow, except for a few high-savvy ones who can hum a little song and put on the horse poles, the rest are still unable to tame Ao Lie's horses. Fortunately, the cavalry can be replaced by recruited nobles. Anyway, there are people with cavalry.

As for the idea of ​​the entire square formation, Li Peijun planned to place the most powerful bow and crossbow in the middle, with spears, halberds and shield soldiers on both sides for protection, and the tomahawks would take on the task of frontal advancement, and cooperate with the knights to outflank the two wings.

"The left-wing legion moves to the left, the right-wing legion moves to the right, and the center phalanx remains motionless."

Li Peijun shouted instructions, but saw that the reaction of each legion was slow, and many people made wrong moves. It seems that it is still difficult to coordinate several legions. In actual combat, if you are facing a powerful enemy, your ability to withstand pressure will also be reduced. Affect the performance of strength.

"Use skills and act together."

"I wonder if the effect of the skills will also be improved after the attributes are improved."

I saw a few beams of bright light converging from the back of my head to my fingertips, my heart and spleen felt like I was in the golden hall of Vienna, holding a baton in my fantasy, fluently driving the rhythm of the audience.

"The left-wing legion moves to the left, the right-wing legion moves to the right, and the center phalanx remains motionless."

It was still the same password, but there was an extraordinary appeal between the words. The soldiers who were in a trance seemed to be enlightened for a moment, and they walked in the right direction in a uniform manner.

"This skill is really powerful. Maybe you can try to play Armstrong's roundabout in the future, oh no, it should be a QR code square." Li Peijun said with emotion, and issued different passwords in order according to the difficulty , the soldiers can complete it accurately.

After the training, Li Peijun saw Aoke again in the cooking office of the camp.

Li Peijun guessed: "Is there any movement in Caen? Is there a tendency for one company to dominate?"

"Intel came from the chamber of commerce, and the strength of various forces has been severely damaged. Now sending troops can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop." Ao Ke clasped his hands behind his back and replied with a straight chest.

"Oh? Can you tell me the specific situation?" Li Peijun asked a few more questions just to be on the safe side.

"Turuk intends to increase the tax. The labor tax in Caen has been paid in advance for 10 months. The supply of soldiers in Consk is exhausted, and [-]% of the new recruits are farmers, who have lost their combat effectiveness. The situation of the remaining small forces is even worse, and many of them can't even afford to feed their war horses."

Li Peijun clapped his hands and praised: "Your intelligence work is excellent. Now is indeed the best time to annex Caen. After I have recruited the noble cavalry, I will immediately send troops across the Touk River to completely wipe out the remnants of the Cagui clan."

"I wish your lord a triumphant return as soon as possible." Oko put his shoulders and bowed.

(End of this chapter)