Late Tang

The construction of the new city has officially entered the track, and everything is in order.Li Jing handed over the specific matters of building the city to several old craftsmen and bureaucrats such as Zhang Hong, Du Zhongwu, and Cui Zhiyuan.He himself transferred Lin Wu, Wang Zhong, and Wang Wu to start a new round of soldier training.

Although hoarding fields, running workshops, and building cities are important, for Li Jing, the most important thing at the moment is to train a reliable army.Only the army is the real foundation of standing.Although the newly expanded army now has a total of 2000 troops, in fact, Li Jing, Lin Wu and others are very clear that these 2000 troops can only wear brand-new military uniforms and stand in a slightly orderly queue.

If you want to go further, to the realm where you can fight when you are pulled out, and you can defend when you are locked up, there is still a long way to go.Li Jing didn't think about becoming a fat man with one bite. His current idea is to train the soldiers and servants first. As for the auxiliary troops and logistics troops, let them continue to build the city while training the formation. alright.Li Jing's requirements for the Zhanbing team and the Jiading team are to be able to form an army within three months, to be able to defend the Salmon Island after half a year, and to be able to pull out and fight after one year.

Time waits for no one, and the chaos in the world is getting closer and closer, Li Jing is really anxious.

The batch of ordnance bought from Song Wen at a huge price has not yet arrived, and Li Jing only has 420 sets of equipment in his hand.There are 140 warriors, just one person per set.There are [-] servants in the servant team, but only a few officers have equipment. As for the actual servants, they can only temporarily hold the hundreds of worn-out spears, horizontal knives, bows and arrows brought from Daxie Village. No.

According to the current expanded establishment, there are ten soldiers in a group, and there are also two captains and deputy chiefs.A team of fifty soldiers, plus ten chief and deputy captains, as well as the team leader, deputy team leader, Yuhou, coach, flag holder, deputy banner holder, and two flags, one orderly, and one trumpeter.Add up a team of 70 people.However, when calculating the numbers in normal times, the officers are not counted, and it is still a team of fifty.

The warrior team and the guard team are all selected from the strongest and most capable people. In addition, most of the officers are veterans from Zuo Yidu, and they have gone through half a month of training in Wangli Village. He also held his head high and his chest high, with extraordinary momentum and a mighty array.

There were originally five soldiers in the Samana garrison. After Li Jing went to the Shamen garrison, Feng Ming and other garrison soldiers broke their legs.Li Jing promoted Qiu Shengong's group of 50 people directly to the second team of Zhanbing Zuosandu, Qiu Shengong was promoted to team leader, Qian Laosan was promoted to team deputy, and Tian Laoqi was promoted to Yuhou.The officers of the second team of Zuo Sandu basically used Yuanqiu Shengong's group, and most of the newly recruited troops were rookies, and no veterans were transferred into them.This move shocked Qiu Shengong and his group greatly, and the little estrangement they had towards Li Jing and the others immediately disappeared, and they quickly merged together.

There are three soldiers in the town, Li Jing is the town general of Shamen Town and the first general, Lin Wu is the second general, Wang Zhong is the Duke of Yu and the third general, Lin Wei is the chief coach and Ding You The head of the two capitals, the great monk Xuancheng was appointed as the stick coach by Li Jingji.In addition, Li Jing is also the instructor of archery, Lin Wei is the instructor of spear, Lin Wu is the instructor of riding, Wang Zhong is the instructor of shield, and Qiu Shengong is the instructor of sword.

Li Jing, the general of the town, in addition to serving as the number one general of the soldiers and the instructor of archery, he also served as the general of the first capital of Jia Ding You.One person holds multiple positions, and there are two soldiers and horses in his own hands.Most of the reasons for holding multiple positions in this way are that now that all the armies are newly established, except for Li Jing, there are no officers who can really hold the table.Secondly, there are also some selfish intentions of Li Jing. These troops are newly established, and Li Jing hopes to be able to take up real positions and cultivate more relationships with the soldiers and officers under him.

This is not entirely to say that Li Jing doesn't trust others, but that the matter of commanding troops cannot be sloppy.Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and weapons are power.Li Jing didn't want to build up a military force after all the hard work, only to make wedding dresses for others in the end.Li Jing also has no idea of ​​personally taking charge of the army for a long time, as long as he cultivates a group of loyal officers who can be trusted, he can decentralize the military power at that time.For the time being, let's work harder.

After inspecting the soldiers and servants of the eleven regiments of Wudu and Eleven together, more than a dozen officers of the capitals expressed their opinions and comments together.

"The queue training has already gone through a stage, and I think it can be temporarily ended. The next stage of training, spears, bows, horizontal knives, shields, these actual combat skills have to start training, otherwise the real fight, just rely on the queue, It's useless." As the head coach, Lin Wei was the first to put forward his opinion.The soldiers in Shamen Town have retained the tradition of Zuo Yidu. They started training in the queue and did not practice those actual combat subjects before the team training was completed.This one has never been questioned.

Li Jing nodded. In terms of training the army, Lin Wei brothers were both from the Shence Army, and even Qiu Shengong, Zhang Chengzong, and Li Shugen were also from the old army.In this regard, Li Jing does not express his opinions too much, and in most cases he still listens to these experienced words.

"I have a question to ask first." Li Jing stood up, glanced around at the generals, and said slowly: "Before proceeding to the next step of training, I would like to ask a question about the formation of our soldiers. , with the team as the basic unit. Teams are generally divided into pure teams and flower teams. Now, although our team formation has been completed, we have not considered this issue. Let me talk about your views. We organize the teams according to Flower team equipment, or training with pure team equipment?"

Flower team, pure team, the two terms Li Jing put forward are familiar to all the generals present.The so-called pure team means that the entire team is equipped with one type of equipment.This situation was most common during the Warring States Period.In 484 BC (the 36th year of King Jing of Zhou and the 11th year of Duke Ai of Lu), the Qi army invaded Lu. Ran Qiushuai, a retainer of the Lu Jisun family, participated in the battle with 300 disciples. Army of [-] all with spears. Three hundred "pure" spearmen.

The flower team is also called flower dress.Compared with the pure team, the flower team is equipped with mixed equipment. In the first team, there are mixed soldiers with long-range shooting and fighting.

Pure team and flower team, that is, the difference between a pure weapon combat team and a mixed weapon combat team.Different assembly methods will lead to different training methods and even future fighting methods.At this time, it is the right time.

The most commonly used configuration of the pure team is the pure spear team. When the spearmen fight alone, they can't show too much power.But if the whole team is equipped with spears, even the cavalry has to temporarily avoid the front when forming a spear formation.

Compared with the pure team, the flower team has the ability of long-range shooting and close combat at the same time in one team, which makes the flower team have a more comprehensive combat power.

<<Li Weigong's Art of War>> was written in the early Tang Dynasty, and the heavy cavalry just declined. Its infantry organization can reflect the infantry organization of the heavy cavalry era from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty. Among them, bows, crossbows, and fronts are all pure troops; in the middle Tang Dynasty , <<Taibai Yinjing>> I have seen the flower team: "The fire chief does not teach in advance, and his weapons and battles are also within the score. Thirty armors get six points, twenty battle robes get four points, fifty guns get ten points, Ten facets of a card are worth two points, ten crossbows are worth two points, ten Mo knives are worth two points, forty sets of arrows are worth eight points, sabers are forty knives worth eight points, ten galleys are worth six points.”

The spear team, the archer team, the crossbowman team, and the front team are all pure teams.By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the team had begun to be mixed according to groups, and a team was equipped with several types of long and short weapons.

This question is very important, and it is completely related to the entire subsequent military training.Even Lin Wu pondered carefully and did not speak immediately.

Li Jing tapped the table lightly: "Everyone, see if this is the case. Now we have two thousand soldiers. According to the main second line, they are divided into four types of soldiers: soldiers, servants, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics. There are many soldiers and horses, but we can train them. The equipment is limited, and the equipment is even less likely to be fully armed. So my idea is that the flower team has a more flexible fighting style, and the requirements are also higher, both in terms of soldier quality and equipment requirements. Therefore, I plan to fight The soldiers and servants are equipped according to the flower team, a team of five groups of men and horses, a group of square shield spearmen as the surprise soldiers, a group of horizontal swords and round platoons as the jumping soldiers, and a group of Mo Dao soldiers as the battle front. A group of crossbowmen will form the crossbow team, and a group of cavalry will form the ranger team. In addition, all five teams will be equipped with bows and arrows, and the crossbow team will be equipped with crossbow equipment."

Spear Square Shield Raiders Team, Horizontal Knife Round Platoon Dancing Team, Modao Zhanfeng Team, Archers Crossbow Team, Qingqi Ranger Team.A team of five groups, each group of 12 people.The whole team was divided into five mixed arms, some far, some near, and cavalry.This preparation is completely set according to the layout in Li Weigong's Art of War.However, in Li Weigong's Art of War, the organization is organized in units of teams, and Li Jing's troops are limited, so they are mixed at the level of the gang, and mixed within the team.

"In such a mixed flower team, when fighting the enemy, the rangers first keep in touch with the enemy, delaying the enemy's action and defending against the enemy's sudden attack, so as to cover the main force to launch and complete the attack preparation; The team and others attacked the enemy soldiers with bows and crossbows. Then when the enemy approached, Fang Dun, the captain of the surprise soldier, took the lead to meet the enemy, and was responsible for stabilizing our army's formation and preventing the enemy from attacking. Then the front team drew the bow and killed the enemy with Mo Dao; The jumping team used the achievements of the Modao team to charge the enemy with a round platoon of horizontal knives, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy; the bow and crossbow team increased their assault force from the front or encircled the enemy from the back according to the situation, and pinched the enemy. The cavalry rangers protect the wings and are responsible for the first pursuit when the main force defeats the enemy."

Li Jing narrated the classic tactics of Li Weigong's art of war, the only difference is that the scale has been reduced a little.Finally, Li Jing pointed out that although this set of tactics is suitable for the improved flower team, it has high requirements for weapons.Raiders have to be equipped with spears, bows and arrows, and square shields.The jumping team must be equipped with longbows, horizontal knives, and round platoons.The Modao battle front team must be equipped with a longbow and Modao.The crossbow team must be equipped with crossbow machines, bows and arrows.Cavalry rangers need cavalry spears, horn bows, cavalry shields, and horizontal knives.

(To be continued)