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Chapter 83 Restraint
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that?" Ke Lei said in surprise as he patted his thigh.

Lantau Island has the original houses of Lantau Village villagers. No matter how simple they are, they can always provide shelter from wind and rain.

Moreover, the transfer to Lantau Island is only temporary, so there will definitely be no problem in squeezing in.

"As long as you can defeat the navy in Guangzhou, Lantau Island will be absolutely safe." Chen Xun encouraged.

"No problem. Last time we had too few ships, which made them arrogant. This time the Guangzhou navy dared to explode, and we will definitely teach him how to behave." Ke Lei assured him, patting his chest.

"That's no problem. Before the enemy comes, we will first transfer all personnel and materials not involved in the battle to Lantau Island, and then transfer them back after the war." Chen Xun agreed.

Without any worries, everyone happily agreed.

"The next step is to discuss the main battle plan of the North Route Army. How will we fight against these four thousand forbidden troops?" Chen Xun raised an issue again.

The Forbidden Army is basically all long-range attacks. You must use units that can resist long-range attacks to win.

"In addition to these four thousand forbidden troops, they also have the same number of auxiliary troops, which is difficult to fight." Lu Hui said.

"When it comes to restraining archers, heavy cavalry, heavy infantry, and large shield swordsmen can all restrain archers, but it requires field combat." Sun Zheng analyzed: "We are defending the city, so we can only shoot at them. "

"Shooting? They also have auxiliary soldiers. These auxiliary soldiers can climb the wall." Someone retorted.

"Actually, our Miao Dao in Chenjiazhuang is very powerful. Overseas, this kind of weapon is basically invincible in close combat." Lai Qingyun suggested: "If we can organize a Miao Dao team and rush into the Forbidden Army formation, we can basically decide the outcome. ”

The Miao Dao in Chenjiazhuang was the idea brought by Chen Xun, and then it was manufactured after upgrading the materials (making better steel).

In this era of knives, if you want the blade to be long, it must be broad and thick, otherwise it will break easily.

The Miao knife made in Chenjiazhuang has a basically straight blade with only some curvature at the tip. The width is only a little more than three fingers. The thickness of the back of the knife is only half the thickness of the fingertips. It weighs about four pounds, which is very light among long knives.

The length is about five Song chi, about 160cm to 170cm. The length of the knife will vary depending on the individual's height.

Because the shape of the knife resembles the leaves of a grass seedling, it is called the Miao knife, which has nothing to do with the Miao people.

Chen Xun didn't know in which era the Miao Dao appeared in later generations. He drew on the Tang Dao and the Mo Dao in history, plus some concepts from later film and television dramas, to create this kind of knife.

Holding the handle of the knife in both hands, it is very powerful when swung. It can basically kill unarmored targets with one blow.

For targets with armor, or the enemy is blocking with weapons, the quality of the enemy's weapons and armor also depends on the quality. If the quality is poor, our soldiers will be stronger and still kill them with one blow.

The Miao Dao was not as good as the Tang Dynasty's Mo Dao in fighting cavalry.

Modao was born in the Tang Dynasty and disappeared in the Tang Dynasty.The knife is seven feet long, approximately 230cm.

At that time, the shapes of the Mo knives equipped by the Tang Dynasty armies in different regions were very different. There were straight handles with straight blades, straight handles with three points and two blades, straight handles with curved blades, and curved handles (softwood rattan handles) with short blades.

Although Mo Dao appeared briefly, it left its name in the world.The first battle recorded in the annals of the world is the Battle of Talas.

Wang Xianzhi made the most gains and was the one who finally escaped from the enemy's siege with his four thousand soldiers.

A row of Mo Dao soldiers swung their Mo Dao, and the enemy army seemed to have encountered a human flesh crusher.

The Mo Dao is powerful, but the requirements for its user are very high. It must be a very tall and strong man. Otherwise, it can't even swing the knife a few times, let alone fight normally.

The population base of Chenjiazhuang is too small, and there are very few people to choose as soldiers. It is impossible to select the best from the best, so we can only settle for the second best and make Miao Dao.Fortunately, Chenjiazhuang's current enemies do not have strong cavalry.

The Japanese pirates of later generations were short, and they roamed freely in the coastal areas with the help of samurai swords.

Now, Chenjiazhuang's personal guards and Haiwei are also invincible in Southeast Asia with the help of Miao Dao.

"Team Miao Dao! This is very feasible." Chen Xun was inspired by Lai Qingyun's suggestion.

"Gather the good armor together, organize four to five heavy infantrymen, all armed with Miao knives, and each equipped with a large shield, charge into the formation with the shield, and after the battle, abandon the shield and hold the knife, and slash with swords!" Chen In the end, Xun couldn't help but praise: "It's doable!"

"In fact, each person can also be equipped with a few short guns. Throwing the guns and shooting during the charge can not only break the sword and shield formation in front of the archers, but also disrupt the enemy's formation." Lu Hui added.

In their previous battle on the Meiling Mountain Road, due to the lack of long-range attack methods, many wounded were in vain.

He hadn't discussed it with Chen Xun in detail since he came back, so he just brought it up now.

"Before, we fought with Tong Guan's elite Forbidden Army in Meiling and fought against bandits, but they suffered the disadvantage of not having long-range attacks. Fortunately, the elite Forbidden Army recruited by Tong Guan at that time were all private soldiers and were not equipped with crossbows. Otherwise, we I really can’t say whether I can win or not.”

Starting from the Han Dynasty, the imperial court prohibited civilians from holding crossbows.

Because the operation of the crossbow is too simple, if you just hold it for two days and play with it, the accuracy will not go too far. If it is equipped on a large scale by the rebels, it will easily pose a big threat to the officers and soldiers.

Simply put, crossbows are too lethal.

According to the killing principle, the energy conversion rate of bows is higher than that of crossbows. Bows should be more powerful than crossbows, and bows should be banned instead of crossbows.But the bow mainly relies on the back muscles to output, while the crossbow uses the entire upper body plus waist and abdominal strength to output.

A one-stone bow has basically reached the limit of human strength, but with a crossbow, two stones can be easily pulled. If mechanical assistance is added, there are crossbows with a pulling force of over a thousand kilograms.

For example, step crossbow (string with feet), winch crossbow (leverage principle), quite insane.

One force can defeat ten enemies. In front of a powerful crossbow, a thinner armor will be easily shot through.

This also shows how difficult this ban is.

"Each person prepares two or three short guns. It's simple. This can be implemented." Chen Xun could already predict that these Miao Dao soldiers would suffer heavy casualties when the time came.

Seeing that no one had better suggestions, Chen Xun directly named them:
"Lai Qingyun, I will promote you to the command of the Miao Dao Battalion, and you will select people to form the Miao Dao Battalion."

"Yes!" Lai Qingyun stood up and accepted the order.

"Ke Lei, I will promote you to the command of the Haiwei battalion and temporarily command all the Haiwei operations." Chen Xun continued to order.

"Yes!" Ke Lei stood up and accepted the order.

There are 500 people in a battalion, and there are currently 900 Haiwei in Chenjiazhuang. The overstaffing is huge.

But Chen Xun was rewarded according to his merits, so he could only be led by Ke Lei temporarily.

Counting these two new commanders, there are four commander-level officers in the Chenjiazhuang Guard (Sun Zheng, commander of the cavalry battalion, and Lu Hui, commander of the infantry battalion).

(End of this chapter)