Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 186: A Zhang Qingyou Resentment Captures the Village Owner
Luan Tingyu set off with more than 100 peasants and soldiers, and reported the situation a few days later. They were notified by Zongze that the task they assigned was to guard an important road between Dengzhou and Qingzhou, and eliminate those who dared to violate the commercial road. bandit.

Luan Tingyu said in the report that Zong Ze probably also heard that Sunjiazhuang had resisted Liangshan’s grain borrowing by relying on firearms, and that he regarded the peasants and soldiers in Sunjiazhuang as good guards, so he simply arranged a job of guarding the road.

Luan Tingyu's tone in the report letter was quite disappointing. He originally planned to test the practicality of the peasants and soldiers' field tactics through this real dispatch of troops. What's the point of asking him to patrol the mountain road with a group of farmers and soldiers?
He complained to Sun Xinyitong, and finally said angrily that if he guarded the trade route, he would guard the trade route. He didn't believe he couldn't find a chance to fight the bandits. The soldiers commented on the meaning of the opponent's lair in a logical manner.

After reading the letter, Lehe was the first to change his face. After the regular meeting, he took Jiang Jing with him and complained to Sun Xin, saying that Luan Tingyu wanted to go out with the enemy and how much money he had allocated for sending troops. How much money would be wasted in wild battles.

Sun Xin naturally supported Luan Tingyu's tactical practice, but it was not easy to refute Lehe's face. He was overwhelmed by the other party's nagging, so he simply let him and Jiang Jing plan to curse.

Through Tao Zongwang's introduction, Jiang Jing has already entered Sunjiazhuang. Sun Xin naturally welcomes this magic operator who is in charge of calculating Liangshan's money and food in the Water Margin. After it became available, the position of Chief Financial Officer of Sun Family Village was basically reserved for him.

After the peasants and soldiers set off for the expedition, the military training at Sunjiazhuang did not dare to stop at all.

The horse bandits from Yinmachuan were placed on Dengyun Mountain. After careful sorting by Lu Zhishen and Zhou Tong, they were quickly disrupted in batches and became the backbone of Sunjiazhuang cavalry.

Under Sun Xin's repeated explanations, now Zhou Tong also knew that the farmers and soldiers that his apprentice wanted to train were different from all the armies in the world at this time. They only consisted of musketeers, artillery and cavalry.

According to Sun Xin, they don't need to practice any heavy cavalry tactics at all. All cavalry are light cavalry, not even equipped with long-range weapons and armor, and only hold sabers or short spears.

But after careful study, Zhou Tong firmly opposed Sun Xin's design at the regular meeting.

"In the future, if the musketeers are the main force in the world as you said, you can also train the light cavalry, but now our opponent is not the musketeers you said."

"What kind of soldiers to train depends on what kind of battles you want to fight. What's the use of your light cavalry who don't wear armor at all? You can't fight other people's armored cavalry, and it's even more difficult to fight other people's spearmen. They can't rush, and they don't hold bows and arrows, and they can't even throw arrows from a distance to disrupt the enemy's formation, but they run fast, so why should they go to the battlefield to run around? Isn't this a waste of manpower?"

Sun Xin knew that his idea of ​​cavalry in the age of firearms was based on scriptures, so of course he would not make a statement, so he asked Lu Zhishen to preside over a simulated offensive and defensive exercise, which soon proved that Sun Xin's idea of ​​relying entirely on cavalry was really not working these days.

In the end, the training of Sunjiazhuang cavalry was led by Zhou Tong, with the goal of training a light armored cavalry.

All the cavalry carried double-headed pistols and were equipped with light armor for the upper body. The task in battle was to cooperate with the artillery attack to break up the enemy's formation and arrange them on the flanks of the musketeers to prevent the enemy from harassing them.

The requirement is to be able to catch up and escape, and to be able to intercept the enemy at any time. Even if you are alone on the battlefield in the form of a small team, you must be able to survive and be flexible.And when launching a group attack, you must be able to operate the horses very capablely, and even achieve the distance between two pairs of Sun Xin required by less than half an arm's length. A large group of horses and cavalry are like a wall together. The same charge forward.

This form of charging is rarely seen in this generation, and the discipline requirements for cavalry are very high. After more than half a month of training, it was the first time that Zhou Tong was in the model teaching team composed of old horse bandits from Yinmachuan. , to achieve such a tactic.

The shock brought by more than [-] horses charging forward close together like a wall made Zhou Tong feel his scalp tingling.He finally understood why Sun Xin had repeatedly emphasized that they should practice such tactics.

However, this tactic is also extremely cruel. People are crowded together, and horses are herd animals. As long as their companions run, they will only run forward desperately. Once the charge starts, except for the cavalry on the two sides, the soldiers in the middle Even if you want to quit halfway, you can't stop the horseshoe.Once the charge begins, the cavalry in the formation basically have only two choices: to charge the formation victoriously or to crash into the enemy's formation and drag them to death.

At this time, there are also heavy cavalry charging in rows like this, but the heavy cavalry are all armored, basically there is no enemy on the battlefield, and there is no need to be so close together. A loose heavy cavalry charge is enough to kill the opponent's The formation was disrupted, and the cavalry could turn around and flee when they encountered danger.

And the light cavalry suffered such a close charge that it used the advantage of numbers to make up for the loss of armor.

Such a team of cavalry rushes forward, even if you are strong enough to kill one of the knights immediately, the few knights next to him can easily kill you, the training cost is one yard per person In fact, it is really not as expensive as a set of heavy cavalry fixtures. If you can exchange dense light cavalry charges for the effect of heavy cavalry charges, it is still very cost-effective.

"It's just too bloody, it's really a life for a life."

Listening to the master's emotion, Sun Xin did not say that in fact, in his impression, the strong charge of cavalry in the musket era was far more than such an easy one-on-one row, but that the cavalry formed a deep formation in the form of small groups. The cavalry wall, the cavalry in the first row rushed up and exchanged with the opponent, and then the second row filled the gap and continued to move forward. The second row was dead and the third row just made up.

In the musket era, everyone has the same arms configuration, and it is impossible to break the trick without using human life to fill it.

However, in this era of cold weapons, such a large and deep cavalry wall is actually meaningless, because no one will use light cavalry to attack a large square formation. Just die.

The more complicated cavalry wall should be taken out after the popularization of firearms.

The cavalry training in Sunjiazhuang was in full swing. At the same time, the village was still busy planting winter wheat. Sun Xin was so busy that he didn't come back from the training ground until mid-afternoon. After entering the yard, he went directly to the well to take a shower After rushing for a long time, he suddenly found that his small courtyard was extremely quiet.

Seeing his daughter-in-law Hu Sanniang coming out silently with her clothes on, she asked Sun Xin, "Are you done?"

Sun Xin said: "Well, the meeting is over, come back and wash up."

He asked again: "Where are your son and Ya'er, why is there no sound in the courtyard?"

"I sent them to Daddy and Mother's yard."

"What happened to Mom and Dad?"

Hu Sanniang said indifferently: "Very well."

Sun Xin wondered: "Then why..."

Hu Sanniang glanced at him, "In the past half month, you have been buying horses, going out to war, and training soldiers. Tell me, how many times have you come back in the past few days?"

Sun Xin looked at his daughter-in-law's resentful eyes in astonishment, and then saw Hu Sanniang stepped forward and stuffed the clothes into his arms, holding his hand and saying solemnly: "Go, enter the house!"

Needless to say, swinging a hoe every day is not as effective as swinging a pair of knives every day. This girl is stronger than Sun Xin, and Sun Xin can't even break free when she pulls her hard.

(End of this chapter)