After the Zhengzhou Academy moved to the camp of the Hei Diao Army at the east gate of Fengzhou City, it soon started classes. Although the conditions were much worse than those of Zhengzhou, with the experience of running schools in Zhengzhou, the re-opening of classes this time was more organized in terms of course setting, teaching arrangements, etc. than when they were in Zhengzhou.

In addition to training, the school life is also trained. In addition to their own courses, the generals also work with the chiefs and sergeants to conduct ten miles of cross-country every morning. Moreover, according to the rules of the academy, the academy students are not allowed to take personal guards when studying in the academy, and all internal affairs must be done by themselves. This makes the generals of the army who are used to giving orders very uncomfortable. They usually open their mouths and clothes to reach out. In addition to training in the academy every day, they also have to line up to get food, wash dishes and organize their internal affairs, and wash their own clothes. It is really depressing.

These rules were set by the Jiedushi when the academy was opened. Qian Xiangnan was maliciously wandering around the academy every few days, forcing everyone to abide by it. A few generals who secretly destroyed the rules were soon found by Qian Xiangnan.

The first person who hit the gun because of breaking the rules was Chen Renyi. Chen Renyi was brave in war and was righteous, and was very popular with his soldiers. One of his personal guards became the Black Eagle Army and happened to be trained in the junior class. Chen Renyi saved his life several times on the battlefield, and the two were in love with his brothers. When this personal guard saw that Chen Renyi was actually washing dishes and clothes by himself, he always felt very uncomfortable and secretly helped Chen Renyi do it several times. As a supervisor, Qian Xiangnan was ordered to organize a military intelligence system and developed several offline in the training class. Therefore, his nose was particularly sensitive and he soon discovered the matter.

Hou Dayong ordered Chen Renyi to accompany the guard to run a ten-mile cross-country road after training. After the run, Chen Renyi was washing a piece of clothes for the team. The team was watching Chen Renyi clumsyly washing clothes for himself. It was very awkward, and it felt a little funny, and a little nervous. Hou Dayong looked at Chen Renyi with a smile and stretched out his hand to the guard behind him. The guard handed over a big red certificate, which read: "A model for mutual assistance between officers and soldiers."

After reading the certificate, the generals of the academy who followed Hou Dayong were already laughing. Chen Renyi was already in a state of turmoil, but everyone laughed so hard that he lost his temper. Then, Hou Dayong paid out of his own pocket and asked everyone to go to the best restaurant in Fengzhou to cook a meal in the name of the hard work of the generals in the academy.

With the lessons from the Chen Renyi incident, all the generals and officials had to support themselves. Fortunately, they were all fighting on the battlefield, and they were in the wind and rain for a long time. It was common for them to endure hardships, and they soon adapted to the life of the academy.

The training class of the first academy in Fengzhou and the training class held in Zhengzhou are basically the same. The only difference is that the training class in Fengzhou has a central topic - "Lion Bear Battle"

In the September meeting, in order to test the actual effect of the Dragon and Tiger Formation, Chen Meng and Tiechuanyuan's lieutenant each trained the officers and soldiers of the first company and held the competition in December. Zhengzhou Academy originally planned to open two classes, one class was the general class and the other was the junior class. Because it involved the two team competitions, Qian Xiangnan selected two companies from the Black Eagle Army, each with 108 people, led by Chen Meng and Tiechuanyuan respectively. Chen Meng was the Lion Camp Captain and Tiechuanyuan was the Xiong Camp Captain. The December competition was nicknamed "Lion Bear Competition."

Hou Dayong divided the generals of each army who participated in the general school class into two groups, Hu Li, Wang Jiang and He Wulang as one group, giving advice for Chen Meng, Jiang Hui, Chen Renyi, Zhu Wei, Wang Jingye, and Liu Shixu as one group, supporting Tiechuanyuan and Qian Xiangnan as the supervisor of the competition.

Although Hu Li and other generals did not agree with the implementation of the "Dragon and Tiger Formation" in the army, now as Chen Meng's think tank, if Chen Meng loses, he will be blind. Therefore, after completing his training tasks, Hu Li and others often come to the training ground of the Lion Camp to guide the officers and soldiers of the Lion Camp with their own understanding. For the generals and schools, the Dragon and Tiger Formation is a new thing, and they have different opinions and often argue endlessly.

The lion camp led by Chen Meng is all cavalry, and the Dragon and Tiger Formation is mainly set up for infantry. Therefore, all the soldiers of the Lion Formation are temporarily used as infantry. The Dragon and Tiger Formation consists of twelve people as a combat team, each sergeant is equipped with a waist knife and a long bow, but according to the different positions of the sergeants, they are also equipped with other special weapons. During combat, the four strongest soldiers of the team waved special long spears, with guns ranging from three to four meters to cover the team and intercepted the enemy's first impact. At the same time, two shield players defended against the enemy's long-range weapon shooting. When the enemy was entangled with the spearmen, two crossbowmen cast cold arrows behind them. When the enemy attacked the shield player, six soldiers used their waist knives to kill the approaching enemy.

This is actually the basic combat method of the "Mandarin duck formation" created by Qi Jiguang. However, Hou Dayong changed the wolf wisp to a spear. At that time, the Ming Dynasty army had already begun to arrange weapons such as muskets, while the Black Eagle Army changed the muskets to crossbows.

The soldiers of Xiong Camp led by Tiechuanyuan still used the cavalry tactics commonly used by the Black Eagle Army, first using dense bows and crossbows to eliminate the enemy's biological forces, and then either encircle the left and right wings, or concentrate their strength to make a breakthrough in the middle. This kind of fighting style is best at the Black Eagle Army, and after actual combat tests, the soldiers of Xiong Camp can be said to be easy to use. Jiang Hui, Chen Renyi, Zhu Wei, Wang Jingye, Liu Shixu and other generals did not command the tactics of Xiong Camp too much. After many drills of the Xiong Camp, they were full of confidence in the December game.

After Hou Dayong proposed the Dragon and Tiger Formation, most of the generals who had been through the battlefield expressed their opposition. After Hou Dayong calmed down, he also felt that it would be difficult to obtain a pertinent judgment on the pros and cons of the Dragon and Tiger Formation without passing some practical combat or exercises. Any formation has certain restrictions. What combat environment is suitable for and what kind of opponents is suitable for? These data require actual combat exploration, and the closest thing to actual combat is naturally military exercises. For military exercises, Hou Dayong is considered an expert. Before the plane crash returned to ancient times, Hou Dayong had just participated in a large-scale multi-national military exercise.

Under Hou Dayong's guidance, Qian Xiangnan formulated a detailed exercise plan to test the combat effectiveness of the Dragon and Tiger Formation and announced the exercise rules, but the exercise steps were not announced to the public, including the generals and generals of the school class who were divided into three events.

The exercise is mainly aimed at testing the Dragon and Tiger Formation. The lion camp led by Chen Meng used the Dragon and Tiger Formation to fight with the Bear Camp cavalry in open plains, fought with the Fuhu Army led by Jiang Hui in mountainous conditions, and conducted street fighting with Hu Li's Black Dragon Army. Through this series of exercises, the actual combat effects of the Dragon and Tiger Formation should be revealed, and the key points of infantry combat can be summarized in one step.

After Hou Dayong's license, Chen Meng exempted some training courses from the general class and focused on training the Dragon and Tiger Formation of the Lion Camp. Chen Meng and Du Gang were both outstanding players of the younger generation of the Black Eagle Army. They were brave and quick and flexible in combat. When they first came into contact with this strange formation, they were always awkward to command. For more than two years, Chen Meng has become accustomed to attacking the enemy with dense rain of arrows. According to regulations, each combat team only had two crossbow arrows, and a team of people only had eighteen crossbow arrows. It was too satisfying to use it to attack the enemy.

At a meeting of the Lion Camp think tank, Chen Meng put forward his own opinions: "The Black Eagle Army is good at shooting the enemy with bows and arrows and crossbows. Judging from the previous battles, this tactic is extremely effective. Now using the Dragon and Tiger Formation is not conducive to leveraging the advantages of the Black Eagle Army."

He Wulang's serious injury was healed, and his face looked a little pale. During this period, he went to the lion camp to watch the training of the Dragon and Tiger Formation when he had time. He also discovered this problem and said: "The Jiedushi said that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. The Dragon and Tiger Formation is not static. It only provides the idea of ​​forming a combat team and strengthening tactical cooperation. As for how weapons are configured and how personnel use them, they can be continuously adjusted according to actual conditions."

Hu Li said: "The Black Eagle Army repeatedly defeated strong enemies. There are three reasons: First, the horses are too many, and they are extremely mobile; second, the crossbowmen and archers have suffered, and before the enemy attacked, they lost a large part of them first; third, the command is orderly and the advance and retreat are the same. The generals of the Guard Division have talked about these three reasons many times. We cannot weaken our existing advantages because of the Dragon and Tiger Formation. If this is the case, it will be more than worth the loss."

Chen Meng placed a few stones on the ground and said, "I don't think the Dragon and Tiger Formation needs to be too complicated. Four shield soldiers are arranged in front, and four gunmen and four crossbow archers are behind. The shield soldiers are used to block the enemy's iron arrows and protect the soldiers behind. The spears are used to block the enemy's attacks, and the crossbow archers are used to conduct long-range attacks on the enemy."

He Wulang said: "Any formation is alive, not static. Before the enemy approaches, the spearmen must also fire crossbow arrows. In short, you cannot throw away the Black Eagle Army's most powerful crossbow just by practicing the Dragon and Tiger Formation."

After repeated experiments, the generals greatly modified the Dragon and Tiger Formation, which was derived from the Mandarin Duck Formation. The modified Dragon and Tiger Formation pays more attention to the use of crossbows and bows than the Mandarin Duck Formation. Soldiers holding shields can block some arrows and reduce casualties in the combat team. When the spearman is not approaching, he is a crossbow archer.

Hou Dayong was very concerned about the experience gained by the Lion Camp in practicing the Dragon and Tiger Formation, but he was detached from the specific changes of the Dragon and Tiger Formation and let Chen Meng and the others change it.

The Lion Bear Battle not only attracted widespread attention in the generals, but the ordinary sergeants in the Lion and Bear Camp were young, and they were also dissatisfied with each other. The two sides competed and stepped up their training. Some impatient firefighters also led the sergeants to step up their training on the playground after the training every day. The two sides also used reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance methods to reconnaissance each other's training content.

At the end of the eleventh year, the lion and bear battle officially began.

The battle location between the two armies was located in the northeast of Fengzhou, and was chosen to be the main battlefield where the Zhou army confronted the Shu army. Hou Dayong did not reveal to both sides that this was just the first game. Therefore, the soldiers on both sides were ready to fight for their respective honors and were ready for the battle.

Hou Dayong was covered in clothes and led a large group of generals and schools, standing on a wooden platform, which was nearly three meters high. Standing on the wooden platform, the situation between the two sides was clear at a glance.

The two teams had only more than 200 people, and they looked a little lonely on the wide flat dam. Originally, Hou Dayong wanted to choose a clear sky to compete, but the weather was not beautiful, and the drizzle was drizzling, and the battlefield was covered with yellow mud. After the rain, the ground seemed extremely bad.

As soon as the hour came, Hou Dayong issued an order to start a war.

Although there were only two companies participating in the Lion Bear Battle, Hou Dayong configured a complete command system for the two companies in order to pursue the authenticity of the battlefield, including commanders, drums, gongs, horns, flags, etc. In a word, Hou Dayong's command system was fully configured in the two small companies.

Tiechuanyuan and Chen Meng are of the same age. He comes from the Cangzhou Army and can be regarded as an old man of the Black Eagle Army. Tiechuanyuan is tall and strong, has first-class marksmanship, and has two skills in combat. He gradually stood out from the Black Eagle Army, which is full of warriors. He was once the capable general of the captain Hu Ji. Not long before Hu Ji was left in the front office by Chai Rong, Tiechuanyuan was transferred to the Lion Camp by Hou Dayong and became Hou Dayong's personal guard. This time, Xiong Camp was reorganized, and Tiechuanyuan was appointed as Xiong Camp's captain.

Tiechuanyuan rode a yellow-brown war horse, holding a spear, and more than one hundred war horses behind him seemed to smell the smell of blood again, sniffing hard, waiting for the master to issue a sprint order. Tiechuanyuan looked at the Lion Camp and couldn't help laughing. Since the Lion Camp was used by Hou Dayong as a personal guard and a special force, the soldiers of the Lion Camp were proud all day long, with their eyes facing the sky and walking with the wind. Now they have changed to a dragon and tiger formation, and suddenly they have changed from a superior cavalry to an infantryman. Standing in the mud, they are like a phoenix falling into a water, indescribable embarrassment.

The officers and soldiers of the Lion Camp looked at the all-colored war horses of Xiong Camp and were in a state of fire. Chen Meng wanted to launch a charge immediately and attack the arrogant soldiers of Xiong Camp. However, they were infantrymen and their mobility was far inferior to those of Xiong Camp, so they could only use static and set up a formation, and wait for the soldiers of Xiong Camp to attack.

Tiechuanyuan carefully observed the new formation of the Lion Camp. The so-called Dragon and Tiger Formation did not have any strangeness. Various weapons were mixed and looked a bit messy, far less powerful than a weapon. Tiechuanyuan had been through a long battle formation, so he wanted to use the advantages of the cavalry's maneuverability and flexibility to disrupt the formation of the Dragon and Tiger Formation of the Lion Camp.

After a moment of confrontation, the Xiong Camp first rang the drum beat of the attack.

The Bear Camp was divided into three teams and rushed towards the Lion Camp in a flash. A fire of twelve cavalry rushed out of the team and quickly deviated to the back of the Lion Camp. Four combat groups on both sides surrounded the Lion Camp from both wings. The Lion Camp changed its formation very quickly, and the nine combat groups were originally facing the large army of the Bear Camp. With the attack of the Bear Camp, one combat group turned to protect the back, and the other eight combat groups also turned with the movements of the Bear Camp.

The soldiers of Xiong Camp rushed to the range of crossbow arrows and were attacked by the crossbow arrows of the Lion Camp. Although the arrows of the crossbow arrows were removed, they were quite powerful. When they shot on their bodies, they still made the soldiers of Xiong Camp bare their teeth and cracked their teeth in pain. The soldiers of Xiong Camp held a longbow and launched a charge like a strong wind, giving the Lion Camp a chance to fire a crossbow arrow. After entering the range of the longbow, they shot iron arrows into the lion camp formation. After shooting an arrow, the soldiers of Xiong Camp raised their rifles and rushed into the lion camp formation.

The soldiers of the Lion Camp blocked many iron arrows with their generous shields. Moreover, because the person who shot the arrows stood and fired the arrows, the stability and accuracy were higher than the arrows that were riding on horseback. In the shooting, the soldiers of the Bear Camp did not take advantage of it.

After the two sides fought each other, the cavalry of the Xiong Camp was stabbed by the lion commander's spearmen, and rushed into the Dragon and Tiger Formation without much loss. The Xiong Camp held a horse rifle and quickly divided the Lion Formation with the horse's stance. The Lion Camp's hard practiced the Dragon and Tiger Formation for two months did not show its due combat level. The combat team seemed a little overwhelmed when facing the cavalry who came and went. Soon, the soldiers of the Lion Camp did not care about the cooperation of the combat team, but only fought with the soldiers of the Xiong Camp based on instinct.

Jiang Hui, Chen Renyi, Zhu Wei, Wang Jingye, Liu Shixu and other generals were already happy when they watched Xiong Camp gain the upper hand, but when they saw the gloomy face of the governor, they couldn't show their smile on their faces. They all had serious expressions and pretended to be very calm, but they just expressed their happiness with their eyes. Hu Li, Wang Jiang, and He Wulang were not sure about the Dragon and Tiger Formation, but when they saw this ending, they felt that they were dull.

The advocate of the Dragon and Tiger Formation, the Jiedushi Hou Dayong, was a little embarrassed at this time. The Dragon and Tiger Formation was quickly broken and divided by the bear camp, losing its intended role, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

Soon, the situation on the field began to change again. After all, the soldiers of the Lion Camp were trained for a long time and after a brief chaos, they slowly gathered around Chen Meng. Dozens of soldiers of the Lion Camp, under Chen Meng's command, surrounded them with shields to resist the impact of the cavalry. The archers of the Lion Camp standing in the inner circle calmly shot the soldiers of the Bear Camp with the cover of the outer circle. Tiechuanyuan was of course the target of everyone's focus. If they hadn't gone to the arrow, Tiechuanyuan would have been shot into a hedgehog by the cold arrow.

This change was also unexpected by the generals. The bear camp surrounded the soldiers of the lion camp and had obvious advantages, but continued to suffer losses under the round formation of the lion camp. The bear camp was like a dog chewing on a turtle, and could not find the place to get the lower entrance.

The soldiers of the Lion Camp who were divided by the Bear Camp and had no chance to enter the round formation slowly gathered together regardless of the rules of the exercise. At this time, the power of the combat team was revealed. The short knife hand protected the spearmen with a round shield. The spearmen's spear was more than three meters long, slightly longer than the horse rifle. The spearmen were all strong soldiers. After stabbing the soldiers of the Bear Camp from the horse, the short knife hand stepped forward quickly and slashed with a knife. Although the waist knife was covered with thick cloth, it was unbearable to beat them as a stick. The soldiers on both sides of the exercise gradually entered the play, and some soldiers even forgot that this was the exercise, and began to use some tricks used on the battlefield, heading straight to the opponent's throat, lower body, neck and other vital parts.

When the Xiong Camp broke through the defense of the Lion Camp, all the generals believed that the Lion Camp was defeated. However, the Lion Camp did not have the expected defeat as if it was a mountain. Instead, they gathered together and formed a stalemate with the Xiong Camp. What surprised the generals even more was that the three or five groups of divided Lion Camp soldiers automatically formed a simple combat group, which made many Xiong Camp soldiers suffer enough.

Just when the soldiers on both sides were in a difficult situation to resolve, an order to withdraw the troops came from the command platform.

(End of Chapter 44)
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