Da Wei Chun

Chapter 69 Golden Drums and Banners
Seeing Li Chengzhi, Li Bo immediately ordered the entire army to stop the drill, quickly jumped off the high platform, and bowed to him: "Langjun please advise!"

advise?

Li Chengzhi pouted.

Do you regard your husband as Almighty God?
No matter how arrogant he is, he doesn't dare to rely on his experience of playing games and browsing forums.

will die...

"You're busy, don't worry about me, I'll take a look!" Li Chengzhi waved his hand.

Li Bo responded and invited him to the high platform to let the soldiers continue their training.

As the formation flag on the high platform was waved, the snare drum was beaten, and the formation below moved quickly.

There are about a thousand people, and they are marching hand in hand, as if they are rehearsing a strike formation.

The formation was okay, and it was basically not chaotic, indicating that Li Song had worked hard and made great efforts in the past half month.

It's just that the lineup is a bit shabby.

The clothes are in a mess, some are leather robes, some are hemp robes, and some are actually wearing silk clothes and furs that only rich families have.

However, the long ones are about to be dragged to the ankles. The color is either gray or yellow. At first glance, it is ripped off from the monks.

Weapons are also long and short, uneven, and most of them are holding wooden sticks in their hands.

It's not that the weapons are not enough. The Li Song family is also a family of clansmen, and they each occupy a dock. I dare not say that the sword and the bow, more than a thousand iron-headed spears can still be assembled.

The main reason was that there were too many new recruits, and Li Bo was afraid that he would accidentally get hurt during the drill, so except for the old soldiers, all the others used wooden spears.

As for the armor, it's actually a good solution.

The wooden armor can make up to a thousand pairs in an instant, and they are mostly earthy white. After a day or two, all of them will be distributed, and the lineup will naturally be neat.

Li Chengzhi looked at it carefully.

The 1000 people were divided into two battalions at this time, each with about 500 people, and each battalion had five teams.

This is also in line with the military establishment of the Great Wei Dynasty: one army of one thousand people, one brigade of five hundred and one team of one hundred people.

And then according to wartime needs, or their own conditions, specific division of arms.

Not to mention, the two battalions in the school grounds are quite complete: spearmen, archers, cavalry... and there are vehicles next to them. Although they are agricultural vehicles, they are roughly similar in function to chariots.

When the cavalry got off the horse and put on the chariot, they became chariot soldiers again.

Just some Fermat...

But apart from spearmen, there were not many cavalry and archers.

Each battalion of archers was about one hundred, all of them strong and long-armed, while the cavalry each had fifty, adding up to only one hundred.

This is also due to the fact that the Li family took over the Song family and Zhaoxuan Temple, and seized nearly [-] war horses, otherwise they would be able to collect [-] horses if they died.

Of the hundred cavalry, more than 80 are veterans who have fought with Li Qi and Li Shixian, and they are also real fine cavalry.

The other dozen or so, including Li Xian, could only be regarded as half-cavalry.

The standard to measure the difference between the two is simple: whether you can use both hands to draw a bow on a fast-moving horse, or whether you can hold a weapon in both hands.

Don't underestimate this point. Li Xian has been practicing riding on and off for two or three years. Now, when he is shooting a bow or holding a gun, he must hold the rein in one hand to control the horse.

With the interference of the reins or the horse, how far can the arrows be shot?
With Li Song or Li Bo, the horse knows whether to go fast, slow, steer, or turn around at the touch of a knee.

In fact, if you concentrate on training, it will be a bit exaggerated for two or three years. At most, you will be able to free your hands to fight on a horse after a year of riding.

For example, Li Zhang can control a horse after training for more than half a year.

The original body is not bad. It is said that after holding the horse's neck and whispering for more than a month, he dared to sleep on the horse... An angry Li Shixian locked him in the stable for one night!
The reason why Li Xian is so bad is still related to his character.

This bastard is not ordinary, and he has no patience at all. When training a horse or practicing riding, he spends more time beating a horse than riding a horse.

Although Li Song's beatings are often in exchange, Li Xian has always remembered whether to eat or beat, and forget it in a blink of an eye. Which horse can have a tacit understanding with him?

It would be nice not to carry him in a suicide charge towards the enemy camp during the war...

Looking at Li Song, sometimes his feet are so busy that they don't stick to the ground. He can take time out every three to five days to feed the horses, walk the horses, and wash the horses to catch lice.

In Li Song's words, the horse is the half-life of the cavalry...

Therefore, Li Chengzhi was not stupid enough to think that with horses he could build cavalry. He asked Hu Baozong to buy horses mainly for the purpose of building mounted infantry to fight harassing soldiers.

Regardless of the rest, the mobility is absolutely first-class: I can't beat you, and I can't run you?
Of course, the cavalry must still be equipped and trained. After all, before the birth of firearms, the cavalry was the well-deserved king of soldiers...

Li Chengzhi narrowed his eyes and looked for a while, and then he could see his eyebrows a little.

It's not like what was staged on TV at all.
Like "Da Qin Fu".

Let’s not talk about whether the main general and the messengers will be dumbfounded after a fight, let’s just say that there are tens of thousands of troops, and the formation is spread out in a radius of [-] meters. A hundred meters away?
Not to mention the battle between the two armies.

People are roaring and neighing everywhere, not to mention whether you can hear them clearly, but how can you tell the soldiers and soldiers to distinguish whether this is an order from your own coach or an order from an enemy general?

War in ancient times, of course, relied on golden drums and banners, and the rules and regulations were extremely strict. It must be simple, easy to understand, clear and effective.

Otherwise, the battalion will have to think about the meaning of this military order for a long time, and the fighter plane will have missed it...

It's not at all like the kind of drums in the TV series that strike as soon as they sound, and then continue to sound continuously, and the soldiers also rush up like a swarm.

In addition to the big drum beside Li Bo, the leaders of each brigade and each team also had commanders with small drums on their backs, all of whom were tall and strong men.

When the big drum on the stage beeps, it means that the whole army is dispatched. At this time, the small drummers in the team beat the small drum at a specific frequency, and the soldiers start to advance.

A small drum sounded, and the soldiers took a step forward. The drum sound was unhurried and slow, just like the later generations. The drum sound is like the slogan of "one, two, one".

If the drum is beating three times in a row, it means that you are moving forward quickly, but it is not rushing forward like a swarm.The army formation should not only advance rapidly, but not be out of touch with the Chinese army, and the formation should not be chaotic, but also have enough physical strength to kill the enemy.

At this time, the small drum in the brigade sounded, which meant running ten steps forward.

If the battalion and battalion are not far from each other, for fear of mutual interference, they will be replaced by Chinese army drums.

When the coach thinks that he can charge, he will beat continuously, which is the scene that often appears in TV dramas: the drummer beats the big drum with all his strength, as fast as he can beat, knock one out, replace the next one... ...The troops below are rushing forward as fast as they can!

At this time, the drummers in the brigade battalion and the team battalion were transformed into flag bearers or flag guards, and ran with the brigade generals.

Of course, the sound of drums alone is not enough, this is just a means of sending orders before the two sides engage in battle.

Most of the more complicated military orders, or when the shouting after a battle was too loud for the drums to do much, were passed on by flags.

For example, which team needs to temporarily change the attack formation or direction, and order the reserve team to participate in the battle, which direction to participate in, and so on.

This is why there are so many flags around Li Bo and in the two brigades under the stage.

(End of this chapter)