The most fundamental reason why Li Xiao wanted to set up this infantry team was that he lacked funds.

According to Li Xiao's original idea, the best choice is to set up a cavalry team with about four or five hundred people, so as to cross Liaodong, fight against the Tartars in field battles, and fight horses, which is a great pleasure.

But the ideal is full, and the reality is very skinny. Li Xiao, who is short of money, knows, of course, that the cost of a cavalry is about equal to several elite infantry. Even if the cost of horses and armor is not counted, it is now nearly 400 taels of silver to maintain the cavalry team of these 53 people every month! If you want to expand the team ten times, this daily expense plus the astonishing amount of horses and armor will be a pure dream for Li Xiao, who has only more than 4,000 taels of silver left in all savings.

Another reason is that in a sense, cavalry is still field troops and has high requirements for terrain. If they want to carry out siege, city defense, mountain war, river network war and other operations in the future, they can only rely on infantry to achieve the final victory.

Li Xiao’s idea was to recruit 90 infantrymen for the experimental nature first, including one shield soldiers, 30 people and two gunmen, 60 people.

In Li Xiao's plan, the weapons of the shield soldiers and spearmen were equipped with: each shield soldiers had a large shield on one side and a waist knife. Each of the spearmen only fired a spear of 4 to 5 meters.

The specific combat mode is that the shield soldiers hold a large shield in front as an important defensive force to open the way and cover. The spear soldiers hold a long gun in the back and launch an attack from behind the shield, which is the main attack and attack force.

However, although Li Xiao had such an idea, he still had no conclusion on the required gun and shield structure. Therefore, after Tian Wei and others followed his orders, picked up and led the group of refugees back, Li Xiao immediately asked Wu Liang, Wang Yishou, Chen Houzi, Tian Wei, Mo Changrong, and Duan Shishi to go to the official hall together to discuss the detailed plan for the infantry's formation.

Li Xiao found that everyone at the meeting was full of energy. Perhaps, everyone in his heart was delighted that he had finally become a confidant of Li Baihu.

After everyone sat down, Li Xiao directly got to the point of discussion. He briefly explained the infantry plan he was about to form to everyone, and then said sincerely: "Li is certainly not very good at the simple view of his own. The old saying goes: A person's wisdom is not as good as everyone's wisdom. What are your opinions? I hope you can tell him all."

Everyone had smiles on their faces, and Tian Wei hurriedly said first: "You are polite, Lord Baihu. You look down on me so much. Anything I know will definitely tell you everything I say. Don't worry."

Li Xiao laughed loudly, and then first explained his plan for the shield soldiers to everyone. The key point was the shields used by the shield soldiers.
Chapter completed!