Anti Qing

Chapter 49
The strong wind blew, and the arrows swayed.

Li Zijing followed the army with more than a hundred elite cavalry from the former battalion. Not long ago, the military order came to arrive in Xi'an before noon today.

Therefore, all the battalions have quickened their pace, and Xi'an is getting closer.

Riding the horse galloping, Li Zijing holds the reins in his hand, wears a hat on his head, and straddles a wild goose sword on his waist.

Those who are interested can find that Li Zijing is fully equipped, with arrow clothing on the outside, cotton armor on the inside, and a set of chain mail clipped next to his body. It can be said that he is armed from head to toe, but he does not carry a bow and arrow.

Of course, this is not because there is no Kaiyuan bow in the army, nor is it unable to carry it, it is because Li Zijing found that he does not seem to know how to shoot arrows.

Li Zijing also tried it with a bow and arrow, but found that he had no experience in archery in his mind, and he didn't know how to operate it in his hand. It was no different from a fire stick.

Even if the strength is enough to draw the bow, the arrows shot are all light and light, and they fall to the ground after flying out a few steps.

Li Zijing had no choice but to give up the sharp weapon of bow and arrow, because he had already determined that the original body in history might not know how to shoot arrows.

If you don't know how to shoot arrows, it's meaningless to carry a bow. It's better not to carry it to save some effort.

Marching outside, I don’t know when there will be a sudden battle, so it is also necessary to maintain sufficient energy.

Anything that is not necessary can be put away.

In fact, according to the march of the Ming army, a regular army would not walk in armor when marching.

Generally speaking, when marching, they marched lightly, and the armor was carried by the supply battalion, and they were fully equipped before the battle.

But now the situation in the northwest has collapsed. Although Tongguan has won, the road to the north is still unclear, especially whether Azig's [-] troops are in the Guanzhong Plain.

In this case, it is safer to wear armor.

Li Zicheng also considered this problem, so the marching speed in the first three days was extremely slow, and he only traveled a total of more than 100 miles.

The status of archers in this era is extremely high, and it is also because it is not easy to train a qualified archer.

The bow and arrow in this era is not as simple as just pulling it out. Li Zijing came from a later generation and had never been exposed to it before, and the original body did not have this skill.

Now that the battle situation is urgent and the situation on the North Road is unknown, there is no time to practice bow and arrow steadily, not to mention that even if there is enough time, riding and archery is not a quick skill.

In the army, the riding and shooting skills of many old battalion elite cavalry have been acquired through many years of hard work, which is also different from step-by-step training.

Li Zijing has more important things to do now than learning bow and arrow and riding and archery.

Ever since Li Zicheng was promoted to a former battalion general in Tongguan, Li Zijing has been thinking about how to manage this army well.

This can't be sloppy, in such a troubled world, the soldiers and horses in his hands are the capital to settle down. After several bloody battles, Li Zijing especially valued this.

But then again, Li Zijing's descendants only worked as a class monitor in high school for three years, and had no management experience at all.

Now suddenly trying to manage the daily camp affairs, marching training, and combat command of these thousands of troops, it is really blind at both ends, and I don't know what to do.

Li Zijing knew that it was useless to just think with his head, because there was no such thing in his head.

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took the shade.

The best way is to read military books. China has a long history, and there are countless treasures left by sages and sages in ancient times. The most indispensable thing is all kinds of books.

Coincidentally, what Li Zijing knows best now is reading.

During the four days of going to Xi'an, Li Zijing was looking for military books almost whenever he had time.

It's a pity that the Dashun army moved to the north and south, and after Shanhaiguan was defeated, they even threw away their heavy artillery, so they didn't bring too many books.

Li Zijing could find very limited relevant content in the camp. From top to bottom in the Dashun Army, there were very few literate people, so the books they brought were extremely rare.

Many people even used the book to wipe their buttocks or light a fire. Li Zijing rescued a page of Wei Liaozi from the Huotou army.

The entire reprinted version of Wei Liaozi in the Ming Dynasty now only has the page of the Severe Criminal Order, with just over 100 characters.

The content of Wei Liaozi's severe punishment order is biased towards governing the army with heavy penalties. The so-called severe punishment makes people fear punishment. It can't be said that it is completely useless, but it can't be said to be useful either.

Li Zijing has tried the method of killing people in film and television dramas before, which is also taken from Pang Qingyun's method of casting a name certificate after watching the movie.

All in all, very tasteless.

To deal with these veteran soldiers who have been fighting for a long time, killing a person has little deterrent effect.

Although Li Zijing didn't understand the way to run an army, he was in the army after all, and his experience was increasing day by day. It was obvious that picking a striker was much more effective than killing people.

A team of one hundred elite cavalry from the former battalion who were selected as the forwards almost became the backbone of the former battalion, and they were good candidates for promotion to junior officers in the future.

The broken morale of the former battalion is being regained little by little, but this change is not caused by the previous killings.

Li Zijing tightly clutched the broken pages of Wei Liaozi's severe punishment order, feeling a little conflicted in his heart.

Based on my personal experience these days, it is much more useful to be leniently controlled than to continue to impose a heavy code.

But after all, Wei Liaozi is a military book handed down by the ancient sages, and the order of severe punishment was a common practice of various countries in the Warring States Period to reform their laws and seek strength.

For a long time, Li Zijing always read books for exams, and never thought that there would be mistakes in the knowledge in books.

These days of personal experience have gradually formed Li Zijing's own understanding of the military in his heart.

Li Zijing held the reins tightly, put Wei Liaozi's torn page in his arms, felt the breeze blowing on his face, the fresh air calmed down the chaotic mind a lot.

Books are dead, people are alive.

The greater significance of military books should be to learn from, rather than to just find a book and follow it.

In Li Zijing's mind, he now has the answer to when he should be punished severely and when he should be lenient.

If there is another chance, maybe he will do better at the beginning, but no one is perfect, Li Zijing is just a student in future generations, not born to do these things in the army.

It's better to make mistakes than to do nothing, so Li Zijing doesn't regret it.

After thinking through all this, Li Zijing's mind was cleared, and he suddenly felt that the sky was wide and wide, and his eyes were slightly condensed. It seemed that he needed to be more stable next time.

The mountains follow Hirano, and the river flows into the great wasteland.

Looking up from a distance, the river is in the south, the plain is in the front, the endless official road is full of rocks, and there are barren fields on both sides.

Along the way, I passed through several villages, but they were all deserted. The people here had already fled into Xi'an city to escape the war.

It seems that the news of Azig's going south not only frightened Li Zicheng, but also had a considerable impact on the city of Xi'an.

The footsteps of the marching army were noisy, but it was quiet on the fertile plain.

At the end where the sky connects to the earth, several ancient city walls are connected continuously. On the Yongding Gate, the majestic and magnificent Kuixing Tower is standing on the horizon.

Just seeing the tip of the iceberg lifted the exhausted morale of the Dashun Army.

As the army marched forward, the vast city of Xi'an surfaced little by little. Li Zijing stared into the distance, but seeing this ancient capital from a distance, he felt awe.

The banner of Dashun fluttered in the wind on the tower above Yongding Gate, and the place where the official road extended was crowded with people, a mighty general in blue arrow clothes was leading people to greet him.

That was Tian Jianxiu who was ordered to stay in Xi'an and preside over Guanzhong affairs.

　I just went to work two days later, I have accumulated a lot of work, I got off work late, and there will be another chapter later, everyone forgive me!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)