At first, the beasts were afraid to move forward in the face of the burning fire, but after midnight, there were more and more beasts. They could not resist the temptation of the "food" in front of them and began to approach the fire circle in groups. However, the bonfire gradually weakened, and finally began to try to break through the gradually extinguished fire barrier, but the bombardment of muskets came towards them. However, the hungry beasts were already swarming fearlessly and attacking through the gap.

Faced with the attack of wild beasts, Chen Dun initially commanded more than a dozen guards to divide them into five groups, taking turns to shoot with muskets, blocking the beasts outside the circle. However, the bloody smell even aroused the beasts even more. They howled and attacked from multiple attacks, and Chen Dun had to divide his troops to intercept them. The frontal firepower was inevitably weakened. Facing the approaching group of beasts, Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin also joined the shooting ranks.

In the end, Zhao Bing had to do it himself, but everyone did not let him move forward, so he could only shoot at the most dangerous beast like a sniper to reduce the pressure in front. But when the fires were extinguished one by one, they had lost the barrier and had to retreat into the wooden house to continue to resist. Without waiting for them to breathe, the prey thrown outside was eaten by the beasts in a blink of an eye, but they looked at the "prey" in the wooden house.

Although it was a bit crowded when retreating into the wooden house, the shrinking of the defense circle could reduce their defense surface, and the situation was beneficial to them. Chen Dun and others closed the door, put on the wooden bar, and dug several shooting holes on the wall of the wooden house with a sharp axe to continue shooting outwards, but there were too many dead corners that could not stop the beasts. They collided around and tried to open a passage to enter the house.

"Bah..." Zhao Bing was very calm after entering the house. She sat on the tree stump and held the gun in her arms, thinking about something thoughtfully. She spit out the dust that fell into her mouth and fell into silence. Everyone also stopped shooting, surrounded him in the center, with the muzzle out, and was ready to shoot at the beast that broke through the wall panel at all times.

"Li Xuanshen, Jin horses were 3,200 people, and 128 chariots were equipped with 300 people. Three hundred people were You Yi, and they were four floors based on the eight formations of Kongming. The road was wide, and the carriage was used as a trumpet to resist horses and walk out. They were called Lujiaoche Camp. The road was narrow, and wooden houses were used to cover arrows and stones. The wooden houses were used to resist horses. They were low as a form, and they controlled the force and resisted the front, and they also fought and advanced. Therefore, they were called the flat box carriage array. They could gain and lose money, and even if they were convenient, they could still become camps for the frontier."

"Your Majesty, is it okay?" Zhao Mengjin suddenly said to himself when he heard the little emperor sitting there, and asked in surprise and worry.

"Oh, it's okay!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said, "I think the situation of our fierce battle with a group of beasts is like General Ma Long of Jin going to Liangzhou to defend against the enemy's cavalry and using chariots as a formation to fight against the enemy."

"Your Majesty, now we are in the air, and there is still time to think about this?" Zhao Mengjin said with a wry smile. He looked at the little emperor's face in the fire. Otherwise, he would have thought he was scared and confused.

"Don't worry, this wooden house is made of logs, with doors and windows, and it is difficult to break through with the strength of wild animals. You don't have to be so nervous, and don't shoot randomly, otherwise you will not be eaten by wild animals, but will be choked to death by gunpowder." Zhao Bing smiled.

"Your Majesty, why didn't you say it earlier? I was so nervous that I was sweating all over!" Chen Dun said dissatisfiedly.

"Are you blame me? As the chief general, you don't check the terrain, landform, unknown objects, and even look at me!" Zhao Bing said with his finger.

"Well..." Chen Dun felt a fever on his face when he heard this, and nodded as if he had admitted his mistake.

"Beasts are not stupider than people. You must be careful that they can dig their holes in, stand up their ears and listen to the movement!" Zhao Bing said angrily when he saw that he looked.

"Your Majesty is right, there is a sound of tampering here!" As soon as Zhao Bing finished speaking, he heard a guard shouting.

"Hurry, hurry up, prepare the sword and axe, and chop it for me if it shows up. They are still sour. Can you still burn this place with a fire!" Chen Dun ate it twice in a row, picked up the axe and said angrily.

"Haha, don't say that this kid didn't pay attention. If Your Majesty doesn't mention it, we will be negligent!" Chen Fenglin smiled.

"A general who is negligent may be defeated in a bad situation, and the losses are thousands of troops. You must not be careless at all, otherwise it will cause endless harm!" Zhao Bing frowned.

"I will follow the lessons of Your Majesty!" The two of them quickly saluted.

"I just saw the siege of beasts, and I suddenly realized something. It seems that I had thought it was simple before. I thought that as long as I use muskets and cannons, I could block the enemy in front of the formation. If I were not isolated from this wooden house today, I am afraid that even if we hold sharp weapons, it would be very good and bad!" Zhao Bing sighed lightly.

"Well, Your Majesty makes sense. If the chariot array has only an outer barrier, it is indeed a bit thin. If one place is broken and cannot be blocked in time, the entire formation will be broken. It should be like the inner city of the city to protect it and have mobile troops. Once the outer city is lost, it can be blocked and isolated in time so that the entire formation will not be lost." Zhao Mengjin nodded and said.

"That is, the chariot formation can not only resist the enemy's siege, but also surround the chariot to protect the army as a base for advancement." Chen Fenglin said.

"Yes, there are only two types of chariot formations left in ancient times: one is to use chariots as a circular formation to fight the enemy by relying on the city; the other is to form a moon formation on the back of the city, hide the cavalry inward, and attack the enemy in time. The rest are all based on two formations, but they are mainly bows and crossbows and swords and guns as supplements. Our entire army is full of firearms, so we need to carefully study and find out the tactics that are suitable for our army!" Zhao Bing said...

Amid the howling of wild beasts, everyone was sleepless all night, and Zhao Bing, Zhao Mengjin and Chen Fenglin discussed the use of the vehicle array all night, which made the concept of the vehicle array that was still vague in his mind gradually take shape. The beast group gradually dispersed after dawn, and after the danger last night, everyone said that they would not let the little emperor stay here, almost half-controlled, and hurriedly ended the day of hunting and returned to the ship.

Although everyone returned safely, it also made everyone soldiers. No matter how dare they let the little emperor take risks, they would accompany them on the trip. Zhao Bing could only fish on the lake, and hit a few wild ducks by the lake. At most, he would sit on the bow of the boat with a fishing rod for a long time, but often returned empty-handed. However, everyone did not dare to disturb him. Knowing that the little emperor was thinking about things again, he would play deeply.

Ten days passed so quickly. Zhao Bing estimated that the person who was testing the car should return to Pingjiang, so he drove around. When they came back, he couldn't wait to check it out. It was quite good that the car had no missing parts except for some dirty and rubbing. Later, he looked through the driving records. In the ten-day experiment, except for the axle breaking while passing through an extremely bumpy rocky road, it was unobstructed under the traction of four horses, and the extreme conditions could travel a hundred miles a day on the road.

Zhao Bing was quite satisfied after the inspection and asked to increase the diameter of the axle and thicken the pipe wall. The next day, he did humane destruction on this "meritor car" and mobilized a group of archers who were good at shooting to shoot the sample car from different distances. After failing to destroy it, he shot with a crossbow. Until he moved to an eighty step distance, the giant arrow shot through the three-layer board. However, after installing a wet two-inch thick straw mat, the giant crossbow and the rocket were helpless, and then he used a medium-sized crossbow to completely destroy it.

After everyone evaluated it, they all thought that the musket would be difficult for the musket to penetrate the chassis without the straw mattress, and the Baizi Gun would be difficult to cause damage after the chassis. With the current equipment of the Yuan army, it would be difficult to cause fatal damage to the vehicle array unless it was used to use a large stone thrower. The heavy crossbows and artillery equipped by the side could be fired first and destroyed. Therefore, the chassis passed everyone's review. In order to be on the safe side, Zhao Bing also added a spare shaft and two spare wheels, both of which were large and small, to each vehicle.

After the vehicle was finalized, Zhao Bing used it as a general model and modified it as needed, deriveing ​​functional vehicles such as command vehicles, baggage vehicles, medical vehicles and kitchen vehicles. The rest was to organize manufacturing, determine the organization, and then form a vehicle camp for drills, explore experience, and explore a path for large-scale equipment.

Zhao Bing's plan was to form an infantry fighting chariot and artillery chariot as the backbone. An infantry fighting chariot carried fourteen people, including twelve muskets and two drivers, equipped with fourteen muskets, four horses and one flag. The team leader was responsible for commanding the battle of the whole chariot, and was organized into three combat groups; a cannon car was equipped with eight people, including six gunners and two drivers. He was equipped with two rapid-fire cannons, nine combs, two muskets, four horses, and one flag. The gunner commanded the battle of the whole chariot and formed two gun groups. The driver not only had to take care of the horses, but also had to hold a gun as a warning during war.

The chariot camp uses the capital as the basic combat unit, and has twenty combat vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery vehicles in a ratio of two to one, that is, each has ten infantry fighting vehicles and five artillery vehicles. There is also one command vehicle, two baggage vehicle, one cooking vehicle, and one medical vehicle, all of which have twenty combat vehicles. Each has one chief and two deputy chiefs, and the two deputy chiefs are responsible for the battle. The two deputy chiefs are in charge of infantry and artillery, and are divided into one Yuhou, one Siqi, one Sigu and one Sigu, one Chief Clerk, two Medical Clan, two Veterinarians, six Fire Army, and eight Bag Ferry Ferry, a total of two hundred and six people.

According to Zhao Bing's calculations, all the chariots are connected together, and a line of defense can be formed of ninety steps long, and they can form a circular formation to fight independently. With full capacity, they can have ten days of self-sustainment. All four can form a square city with a radius of ten miles, which can contain tens of thousands of soldiers. Therefore, he planned to have at least four chariots in the chariot camp. In order to catch up with the expansion of the battle results on the basis of being able to defend, he thought he would still need to be incorporated into a cavalry.

In this way, a chariot battalion includes three types of troops, infantry, cannon and cavalry, and the troops can top a regiment. Therefore, the chariot battalion is the highest commander, with three deputy commanders, respectively in charge of infantry, cannon and cavalry, and one chief and deputy Yuhou, forming the leadership organ of the chariot battalion. The battalion department has one judge, three officers in the army, three officers in the judicial, Sigong, Sihu and other clerks, and three chief Bo.

The battalion headquarters directly under the jurisdiction of a capital of 20 baggage chariots and 80 soldiers, all equipped with muskets; the personal guards had a hundred soldiers; a scout team had thirty cavalry and twenty medical soldiers. In addition, a cavalry was organized with 300 soldiers, with 300 soldiers. There were more than a thousand soldiers in a cavalry camp, and nearly a thousand war horses were held. Zhao Bing thought that this matter was initiated by Chen Fenglin, so he selected soldiers based on the one army to form a chariot, and reported to the Ministry of War for approval, informing the military artifacts to build a chariot according to the tu, and put into training as soon as possible...

After a few days of busyness, the framework for marshalling of the car camp was already established, and the rest was the affairs of the people below. It was impossible to go hunting again, and Zhao Bing couldn't rest, so he went out in a silence to stroll around Pingjiang City. You should know that Pingjiang was the name of Suzhou in later generations. It was not only rich in fish and rice, but also in the canal. It has long been a world-famous rich place, and naturally there are many fun places.

"Well, this mutton is good!" Zhao Bing had been playing for a day that day, and then chose a restaurant on the street that seemed good. Zhao Mengjin and others were also accompanying him. He gave him a plate of roasted mutton, and he couldn't help but praise him after tasting it.

"Customer, this mutton is a serious Mongolian sheep, and the taste is the most delicious!" The shopkeeper of the hotel did not know the emperor, but knew Zhao Mengjin. Seeing that he was very respectful to the young man, he knew that he was a big man, so he hurriedly served him personally. He heard the young man say delicious food and laughed.

"Haha, you are really good at doing business. You can raise Mongolian sheep in the south to be aware of authentic Mongolian sheep, and you have deceived many people!" Zhao Bing put down his chopsticks and joked.

"Young Master, this shop is a serious century-old shop. How dare you pretend to be the Mongolian sheep raised in the south of the Yangtze River? They are all grown up from the grasslands in the desert and eating the grass on the grasslands." The shopkeeper waved his hand quickly.

"The shopkeeper is lying again. Now that the two countries are in war, the two sides of the Yangtze River are guarded by heavy troops, and warships on the river are constantly coming and going, and the boards are hard to cross the river. Where did you come from the south of the desert? It was not the one purchased last year!" Zhao Bing said as the shopkeeper said.

"Young master is so sad!" The shopkeeper said with a sad face after hearing this, "Although there are military ships patrolling the Yangtze River, the grain from Jiangnan cannot be transported to Jiangbei this year. There is a grain shortage in the northwest, so Tartars drove a large number of live sheep to trade south. Now a bucket of grain can be exchanged for a big sheep, so many people have taken the risk of crossing the river to trade and earn the difference!"

"Oh, then the shopkeeper's sheep is hard-won. You can only eat it in a big restaurant!" Zhao Bing nodded and smiled. He had once smuggled and sold privately, of course he knew that as long as there was profit, someone would take risks, and it was basically impossible to cut it off.

"Young Master is wrong. Jiangnan sells serious Mongolian sheep. The price is much lower than that of Jiangnan sheep. You can buy as much as you want!" The shopkeeper waved his hand and said with a smile.
Chapter completed!