According to Xu Shiyang's requirements, Jie Zhen and Jie Bao selected 8 stronger male men from the fortress to form an elite team. Xu Shiyang hoped that this small force could develop into a powerful scout team in the future, performing tasks with high personal technical and tactical requirements such as tactical reconnaissance and strait warfare.

Therefore, he planned to equip the team with the most exquisite weapons at present - armor, round shields, bows and arrows, long swords, maces or flying axes seized from the Tatars.

From the outside, these ten soldiers are like replicas of the Tartars, which looks quite scary.

Of course, it’s just because of the appearance, but the actual combat effectiveness is still far behind. Only Xie Zhen, who is the chief and deputy captain, is worthy of equipment.

In addition to the personal soldiers and scouts, there is the real core of Shiwutun - a team of 200 men from the fortress.

Among them, 50 people were equipped with sharpened wooden guns as spearmen, and 50 were equipped with woodcutting axes and sickles as melee soldiers.

The remaining 100 people were actually used as baggage teams, so they could only equip the "weapons" prepared by each person, such as whistle sticks, hoes, rakes, or even just a shoulder pole...

A team like this is probably not as good as other bays, except for the large number of people. After all, blacksmiths in other bays do not need to regard making gun barrels as their main business, and they have time to install iron gun tips on the militia's wooden spear.

In order to make this team a little decent, Xu Shiyang mobilized the whole village to make shields together.

The raw materials for the shield come from several docks burned by the Tartars in the west, where many broken door panels were left, pulled back with a donkey and mule cart, cut them into small pieces, and put on a rope.

The shield is round and square. Although it lacks a unified shape, it is at least considered an armor.

Xu Shiyang ordered Jie Zhen and Jie Bao to test it. This simple shield can protect the Tartars' light arrows from a distance, but it will not work if it is close. At a distance of about 10 meters, 1 or 2 arrows can break the entire shield, not to mention heavy arrows such as armor-breaking cones.

The soft bow used to defend against bandits is quite good, and it can greatly comfort the poorly equipped militia.

The "War Soldier" team is commanded by Gongsun Sheng, and the captain of the baggage team is Carpenter Li.

Given the possibility of siege, Xu Shiyang organized all the two carpenters into the baggage team. If necessary, they could make simple shield cars on the spot.

Finally, Xu Shiyang also has a medical team composed of 8 chattering little girls. Xu Shiyang announced that this small army without combat effectiveness is also part of the personal army and no one is allowed to harass them.

Each of the eight medical soldiers carried a small shoulder bag with some simple medical supplies such as herbs, gauze, and a knife.

The knife is a self-defense weapon strongly requested by the captain of the medical team, Zhao Shan. Xu Shiyang was surprised that this girl who seemed too gentle would actually have such a request (if it was Zhao Lin, it would be easier to understand). In his opinion, when the girl in the medical team had to use this kind of thing to defend herself, it proved that the entire army of his side had collapsed and a knife could not protect anything.

But Zhao Shan told him that this knife only gave the female soldiers a chance to protect their chastity.

This explanation made Xu Shiyang angry. In his opinion, these words were simply the greatest distrust of himself - a guy who could not even protect women, how could he believe that he could change the world?

In the end, Mama Rong persuaded Xu Shiyang to be furious.

In her words, a woman who falls into the hands of the enemy will only be even more miserable. At that time, death will be a kind of relief.

If men find this embarrassing, then muster up the courage to fight hard and not give their women the chance to use this kind of thing.

"You absolutely don't need this thing!" Xu Shiyang gritted his teeth and said to Zhao Shan in a real way: "I swear you definitely don't need this thing!"

"Well, I believe you." Zhao Shan smiled gently.

...

"Sister, he is so strange. He gets angry about this kind of thing. Don't men want women to be loyal to them?"

"Well, his idea is a bit different."

"Haha, are you moved by my sister? What did Mama Rong say to you a few days ago? Did she say that she was a matchmaker for him?"

"Linlin, we are not the ladies of the Fortress Master's family, so why do we need to talk about any media?"

“….”

"I can only be a concubine."

"elder sister……."

"What?"

"I will protect you!"

...

When the Tartars went on war, they liked to choose the season when the horses were tall and fat in autumn, while the Han powerful war usually took place after the autumn harvest.

Times vary, but the reasons are the same - convenient logistics.

After the autumn harvest, the fort militia will have surplus grain to go out to fight and carry out some pre-war training, and there will be no need to worry about the war delaying the work in the fields.

If it is another season, the heavy farm work is enough to consume everyone's physical strength, who is still in the mood to fight?

This is also the difference between docks and bandits - as long as the target is right, docks will also rob, but their main economic pillar is still agricultural production.

On the contrary, although they also have some farmland on the mountain, they mainly rely on robbery to maintain their lives.

Bandits will not deliberately choose to fight after the autumn harvest. They do not care about whether they delay farm work like the fortress.

Fortunately, the Xu family had been maintaining superficial peace with Fu Laishan before. By the time the Xu family made up their minds to start fighting, the time window for the fort militia had arrived.

Those who retain a lot of food like Xu Shiyang can even maintain a high standard of daily training before the war.

In the last life, Xu Shiyang had read some books by Mr. Qi, and he highly praised formations such as the Yuanyang Formation that are suitable for small-scale combat, but the actual application is not yet mature. The Wubao Militia is essentially a group of farmers, and neither weapons nor techniques are enough to support any complex battle formation.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang simply simplified his tactics and tried to solve the problem in the simplest way.

According to his vision, if the bandits in Fulaishan went down the mountain to fight, then the tactic of Shiwutun was to use wooden guns to resist the attack of the opponent's old bandits, and to provide 1 to 2 rounds of fire strikes with wooden cannons, fire gate guns and archers to weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness, and then throw in the sickle and axe soldiers to cover them up.

If the opponent guards the city wall, it would be great. He could use a simple shield to cover a few warriors, use gunpowder to blew the opponent's village wall, and wait until the bandit's earth wall was blown into the sky by gunpowder. If he didn't believe that the mobs would still have the determination to resist!

Therefore, the combat troops in the 15th Tunnel only need to train two tactics: First, the spear soldiers are trained to resist the assault of the elderly bandits in a dense formation.

Second, the sickle and axe soldiers train small-scale group teams of five people. Oh no, it is the ability to fight small-scale hand-to-hand combat.
Chapter completed!