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Chapter 80 Actual Combat
Early in the morning, Su Daoshan was awakened by the sound of a horn.

When he opened his eyes and saw the simple roof with exposed tiles, he was stunned for a moment before he remembered that he was in a military dormitory.

"Get up. Hurry! Finish your breakfast and gather at the playground within a quarter of an hour." Team leader Zheng Tu pushed open the door and urged loudly.

There were twenty people in one dormitory, and everything was in chaos for a while.

Su Daoshan sat up slowly and sat for a while. After he came to his senses, he got out of bed and dressed calmly.

"Hurry up," Zheng Tu, who had a square face, glared at Su Daoshan as he passed by him, "Young Master, if you are late later, you will be punished."

A low laugh rang out in the room, and many people looked towards Su Daoshan.

"Thank you for your reminder, I understand." Su Daoshan bowed woodenly and continued to dress seriously. He seemed to be distracted by the conversation, lowered his head for a long time, and then clumsily buttoned the wrong row of buttons in full view of everyone.

Zheng Tu shook his head. Seeing this, Feng Ting hurried over and whispered to Su Daoshan, helping him to realign the buttons.

There are five teams in the Dingzi Camp, and each flag chief has five squads under his command, with 20 people in each squad. After reporting in yesterday, Su Daoshan was assigned to the second squad of the first team. The flag chief Lu Hao and the squad leader Zheng Tu are both officers of the Fiery Army.

Feng Ting and the six Su family guards were also grouped together. However, the other four guards were separated and assigned to other teams.

As a squad leader, Zheng Tu naturally couldn't help but get to know his soldiers. Especially the second young master of the Su family, he had heard a lot of rumors. After yesterday and today's contact, Zheng Tu felt that those rumors were most likely true.

This young man's brain is probably a little different from that of ordinary people.

Zheng Tu was too lazy to urge him anymore, so he turned around and walked out. The others were basically dressed by then, and they walked out together, laughing and exchanging glances.

Feng Ting and the others were waiting for Su Daoshan. The guards looked at each other quietly and shook their heads - the Second Young Master was still the Second Young Master after all.

The extraordinary spiritual roots and the personal teachings of Han Gu were all accidents. The boy who seemed dull in everything except studying was the norm.

"Let's go." Su Daoshan finally put on his clothes, went out with Feng Ting and others, and walked towards the cafeteria.

It was called a canteen, but in fact it was just a shed built near the city wall of the garrison, with a row of stoves built in a row, steaming buns and cooking rice porridge. Those who arrived first got their meals and squatted in the corner to eat.

Su Daoshan felt that, fundamentally speaking, this makeshift militia was very crude. Not only were the conditions crude, but other aspects were also sloppy.

The Fiery Army only sent the second-level tiger captain named Zhai Ling and twenty officers to build the skeleton of the T-shaped camp, and the rest were all solved by local forces.

The military camp was temporarily rebuilt from a garrison fort, and the uniforms were custom-made by Yishan City itself. Weapons, armor, horses, and bedding were all provided by themselves.

Even the food for the army was provided by Yishan City first.

As for the military organization, it is even worse than the army of the original world.

From his observations from yesterday to today, Su Daoshan could clearly sense the more casual mentality of the Fiery Army team led by Zhai Ling.

Obviously, people didn't have high expectations for this kind of temporary local militia, and the requirements were naturally not high. As long as they could perform some basic tasks, it would be fine. No one thought about training a disciplined and combat-capable elite force.

This made Su Daoshan very pleased.

What he feared most was a battalion commander with high aspirations but poor skills who would try to train a group of dogs into a group of lions and lead them to fight against a group of elephants.

That would be fatal.

After dinner, the first day of training began with the sound of a gong.

The officers first spent about a quarter of an hour simply determining the arrangement of the queue - there was no horizontal or vertical arrangement, nor any formation, just letting everyone know where they should stand when marching and gathering.

Su Daoshan felt that the requirements of this team were not even as good as those of elementary school students in the original world.

However, the next battle group combination was the highlight. Even the battalion commander Zhai Ling, who did not appear at the beginning, personally participated.

According to the tradition of the Fiery Army, a squad of twenty people is a complete battle formation, and the squad is divided into three combat groups.

Each combat team consists of six people.

During the battle, the six-man team formed a triangle formation, with one person rushing forward, two following behind, the other two guarding the left and right, and the last person in the center, ready to move around and reinforce at any time, while also attacking the enemy when they are least prepared.

For ordinary soldiers, this battle formation requires a fixed combination.

The soldier who charges forward must be a tall and strong man, holding a shield in one hand and an axe in the other, and must be able to carry and fight. The two soldiers behind him use spears as weapons, and they will keep stabbing during the battle, killing the enemy while using the spear's long-range characteristics to threaten the enemy and prevent the companions who charge forward from being attacked by a group.

The two soldiers on both sides are a combination of sword and shield. Their role is to protect the spearmen, and after their companions in front break through the gap, they will quickly follow up and expand the results of the battle.

The last person in the formation must keep an eye on all directions and listen carefully. If he finds his companions in danger or seizes an opportunity, he must follow up immediately. This battle formation was formed by humans in the years of war with the You Clan. It can make up for the shortcomings of insufficient personal strength. It is especially effective when fighting against crazy puppets.

If they were to fight alone, an ordinary soldier who had never practiced martial arts would not be a match for a mad puppet. However, six ordinary soldiers who had undergone rigorous training formed a combat team and could fight against more than ten mad puppets.

Moreover, the three combat teams formed a small team.

In this way, from small groups to squads, and from squads to battalions, the soldiers naturally formed a certain organization.

As long as this minimum combat unit of six people remains strong, even a group of rabble can maintain team combat on the battlefield and will not easily collapse.

However, the same combat team does not have such detailed requirements for warriors. This is because the martial arts, weapons and fighting methods practiced by warriors are different, and overly detailed requirements will affect the performance of warriors.

Therefore, when forming combat teams, the officers of the Fiery Army only required the warriors to master the key points of the combat teams and achieve the desired effect.

Naturally, Su Daoshan and Feng Ting were assigned to a combat group. Naturally, Feng Ting was assigned to the front position. He was in the middle of the formation, playing the role of free roaming. This was almost a clear protection for him.

When Su Daoshan turned his head, he found that other children from aristocratic families were basically the same.

It took a long time to divide the groups, and it took almost two hours. Just when Su Daoshan thought that today would be spent in this kind of combat team coordination training, he didn't expect that after lunch, they were pulled out of the city.

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In the afternoon, the sun was wrapped in wind and sand, leaving only a hazy halo.

The cold wind was already biting.

The ruins of a dilapidated castle stood quietly between heaven and earth. Whenever a strong wind blew through it, it would make a howling sound like ghosts and wolves. The ground was dusty, the weeds on the earthen walls were shaking constantly, and the rotten doors and windows were shaking in the wind, making a crackling sound.

There was a rapid sound of horse hooves.

On a slope a hundred meters away from the earthen fort, more than two hundred soldiers from the Ding Camp who came from Yishan City reined in their horses and looked down at the abandoned city.

"Where is this..." Su Daoshan asked with a frown.

Feng Ting explained, "This is Kelun Castle. It was conquered by the You Clan eighty years ago. All 32,000 people in the city died. After the war, only ruins remained. A few years ago, refugees settled here. It was lively for a while, but internal conflicts arose and they were cleared out, so it became deserted again."

As he spoke, Feng Ting glanced at Zhai Ling in front of him and said, "Commander Zhai should have specially learned about the situation around Yishan City and knew that there were many crazy puppets gathered here. There are no overly complicated mountains and forests around, so it is a good place for actual combat training."

Su Daoshan nodded.

In the afternoon, the first and second teams of the Ding Camp were pulled out of the city.

In the T-shaped camp, the first and second teams are composed of warriors, while the third, fourth and fifth teams are composed of strong ordinary people.

For the soldiers of the last three teams, it is absolutely necessary to conduct combat team coordination training in the garrison fort. They will not engage in actual combat until at least everyone knows what they should do and does not collapse due to cowardice or panic.

But for the warriors of Team One and Team Two, such training is meaningless.

In Zhai Ling's words - practicing on the training ground for ten days is not as effective as killing a few crazy puppets with real swords and guns.

Moreover, there is no danger in such actual combat.

Most of the warriors present had fought with Crazy Puppets before. Many of the guards or escorts who traveled far and wide didn't even know how many Crazy Puppets they had killed. Only actual combat could help them master this fighting method more quickly and form a tacit understanding.

Perhaps it was startled by the sound of horse hooves, or perhaps it smelled the scent of living people, but a rustling sound suddenly broke out in the abandoned earthen fort, which had been dead silent.

After a while, shadowy figures began to appear from all corners of the ruins, and their number increased.

The sand and wind blocked my eyes.

Most of these figures were spinning in place, roaring anxiously and angrily. A few of them found the right direction and were getting closer and closer.

And when these approaching crazy puppets revealed their hideous faces, thick and twisted limbs, and pale skin with bulging blood vessels from the wind and sand, their movements became more and more flexible.

This is the terrifying thing about the crazy puppet.

Even if they were old, weak and sick when they were alive, their fighting power would become extremely terrifying after being transformed by the ghost poison.

On weekdays, they hide in corners. They can go without food or water and stay still for a long time. But once they find prey, they come alive, becoming violent and swift.

Zhai Ling turned his head and glanced at everyone, then smiled and said, "Maybe you can tell me in advance that this is both a training and a selection. We are here this time, and the higher-ups have given us five places for soldiers. The winners will not only be promoted to soldiers, but will also hold positions in the camp."

His eyes swept over the young men from the noble families and the guards around them, paused for a moment on Su Daoshan, and asked, "Three groups per round, who will go first?"

(End of this chapter)