Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 746

However, generally speaking, these soldiers are still very simple and honest. Most of them think that the current treatment and monthly salary are very good, and they have implemented military orders and military discipline well.The current training intensity is still within their tolerance range.Especially the collective honors of the major legions, brigades, battalions, companies, and platoons were mobilized by Ye Chen successfully, and after the teaching team created an atmosphere of mutual competition, the enthusiasm of the soldiers for training remained very good.

In fact, the training intensity of the current teaching team has far surpassed that of Ye Chen's army in the later generations, and it is similar to the training of special forces in later generations in terms of intensity alone.Take the marching load as an example, infantry must wear iron armor during training, and iron armor alone weighs more than 30 kilograms, and the daily march is limited to less than [-] miles. The ordinary infantry training of later generations will not be able to achieve such intensity.

When Ye Chen first read the training plan given by the teaching team, he was still a little hesitant and worried, but the facts proved that these poor people in ancient times did not disappoint Ye Chen.Of course, this is also the reason why the main components of the army are the poorest people.

You know, in this world, especially just after the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, and the Northwest has always been war-torn, the majority of the people are displaced, hunger and cold are almost commonplace, and life is hard enough, tired, and hungry enough , the body may be a little tired during the training, at least it will not go hungry. Besides, the military salary of the Xiangfu army is not low. In addition, Xiangfu defeated the Song army twice, and then defeated the [-] cavalry of the Liao State. The status of Fu Guo soldiers has improved a lot.This also led to an upsurge of joining the army in various parts of Xiangfu country in the past month or so, including the Dangxiang Ba clan who gradually recognized Xiangfu country, as well as the Qiang, Tu and other foreign ethnic groups in Xiangfu country.

Xiazhou, the Royal Study Room of the Xiangfu Kingdom Imperial Palace.

After Yang Jiye reported on the results of the recent military reforms, Ye Chen nodded, expressing his affirmation of the work done by the Military Central Department on military reforms, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Yang Aiqing, I listen It is said that your Yang family's marksmanship in killing enemies on the battlefield is very good, I think your Yang family must have a special training method, or your own knack?"

Yang Jiye was stunned for a moment, not daring to hide it, and said: "Your Majesty, there are indeed some family secrets about marksmanship in the minister's family."

"I always think that killing the enemy with long spears on the battlefield is the best, so I want you to teach this method to the soldiers of the army. It is best to write it down in detail, and then conduct research to form an army formation." Ye Chen remembered in later generations Where did I hear that infantry on the battlefield used long spears and formed a battle formation, which was the best way to kill the enemy.Therefore, I wanted to create such a battle formation, and then spread the spears to the infantry of the entire army.

Yang Jiye hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "I can't do this, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Ye Chen asked in surprise: "Why?" Yang Jiye was the highest officer in the Xiangfu National Army, and he thought it was a natural and reasonable request.

Yang Jiye said: "Your Majesty, the reason why my Yang family has been able to serve as generals in the army for generations is because of this six-foot spear."

"Your Majesty's kindness to your ministers is as high as the sea, and death is hard to repay. Your loyalty to your majesty is also a lesson to be learned from the sun and the moon. Even if my Yang family died on the battlefield for your majesty, I have no complaints. As a general, I have no complaints about soldiers. Naturally, the spear techniques will also be given some pointers. But the secrets of the spear techniques passed down in the family are the foundation of my Yang family’s life and death, and must not be leaked to outsiders, please learn from me.” After finishing speaking, Yang Jiye knelt down on the ground and remained silent. .

Ye Chen doesn't take this feudal thought very seriously. It's very inefficient to explore behind closed doors, and it's easy to lose it. No matter from the perspective of development or preservation, breaking the feudal barriers and sharing knowledge is efficient and scientific.But people like Yang Jiye all have such ideas. Obviously, it is not easy to break the inherent thinking of people in this era.Of course, Ye Chen can also forcefully order Yang Jiye to contribute their Yang family's marksmanship know-how.But Ye Chen didn't want to create a gap with Yang Jiye because of this matter.

Yang Jiye knelt respectfully, his body motionless.

"In that case, I won't force you. Get up!" Ye Chen sighed and said with some regret.

Yang Jiye said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for understanding your difficulties."

After speaking, Yang Jiye stood up, Ye Chen asked him to sit down, Yang Jiye hesitated and said, "Your Majesty thinks swords are useless? Do you want to replace all infantry with spearmen?"

Ye Chen nodded and said, "That's right, I do have this idea."

Yang Jiye said: "There is a saying that three arrows are not as good as one knife, and three knives are not as good as one gun. It is okay to deal with bandit bows and arrows. But to deal with armored cavalry like Song and Liao, unless it is the face and throat, a dozen arrows It’s not surprising that you can’t be shot. But if a person is cut three times, even if the armor is thick and he is not seriously injured, half of his life will be lost if he bleeds. As for the long spear...just one thrust, even if he is wearing armor, he can kill him directly.”

"but…"

Just when Ye Chen felt that what Yang Jiye said was very reasonable, Yang Jiye added: "It will not work if you encounter a shield player."

Yang Jiye simply stood up and began to demonstrate in person. His left chest protector represented a shield, and he moved down to his abdomen in slow motion, saying: "If there is a spear stabbing, I will use the shield to shake the spear point."

Then he took another big step in slow motion, swung his right arm back from under his ribs to his chest in a big circle, and said: "Then you can use the knife in your right hand to kill your opponent."

"Likes can form a battle formation." Ye Chen retorted.

"Your Majesty, the enemy can also form a shield formation." Yang Jiye shook his head and said: "From my point of view, the advantages of weapons have their own merits. In addition to the merits of the battle, the key is to look at one's martial arts. A good spear skill is a spear win. A good knife skill is a knife win..."

Ye Chen pinched his chin and thought for a long time: "Yang Aiqing, do it again for me to see... Slowly do it again, and then slowly do it again Well, I know"

Ye Chen thought about it seriously for a while, and finally gave an order: "I've made up my mind, I don't want knives and shield infantry, I'll replace them with guns, spears over six feet tall."

Seeing that Yang Jiye was puzzled and wanted to dissuade him, Ye Chen didn't intend to explain his thoughts now, after all, it still requires hard training. He waved his hand to interrupt what Yang Jiye was going to say, and said, "As Yang Aiqing said, the gun A good technique means that the gun wins. After all, the snatch is powerful and the first strike. Therefore, I decided to research a set of gun formations, the so-called pre-emptive strikes. Well! I will let Hei Yue in the teaching team first try out according to my intentions. A set of gun formations, we will talk about it after verification."

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On May [-]th, Heianjing, the capital of Japan, was captured by Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu, and the entire city was completely burned down.

The prosperity accumulated over 200 years was reduced to ashes in the flames.

Familiar with the history of invaders such as colonialism and imperialism in later generations, Ye Chen understands a truth. He allowed Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu to massacre the city, not for murder, let alone cruelty, but for destruction.Destroy the center of the Wa Kingdom, and countries lacking leaders will soon surrender, which will save a lot of time and energy, and the army will also suffer less losses.

In Ye Chen's view, as long as the leadership and nobles of the Wa Kingdom are killed, as well as their few literate people, the Wa Kingdom will cease to exist as an independent country or regime.

If Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu can successfully annex the Wa Kingdom according to the plan and instructions given to them by Ye Chen, maybe in a few years, when Xiangfu Kingdom will fight Song or Khitan, a Xiangfu Kingdom Far East army will land from the sea Fighting for the Xiangfu Kingdom, there will also be many Japanese soldiers in this army.

Only Zhao Pu guessed some of Ye Chen's plans for the future.Therefore, Zhao Pu asked the Song Wei Mansion to send a large number of spies these days, and even went deep into the sea and went to Koryo to inquire about the situation of the Wa country.

However, Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianlai's aggression in the Wa country was too fast, and the Japanese army's performance was a little too incompetent.

Even the several earthquakes that occurred in the Wa Kingdom caused more disturbance to this Xiangfu Kingdom's expeditionary army than the Japanese army.

After more than ten years of peace, the Southern Tang Dynasty was beaten like a dog by the Song army.The peace and seclusion of the Wa country lasted for more than 200 years.During this period, although there were civil wars in the country of Wa, the low-level civil strife had very limited effects on improving combat effectiveness and actual combat experience.

The most important thing is that apart from the actual combat experience, regardless of equipment and tactics, it is completely behind the Xiangfu Kingdom's expeditionary army.Combining all these factors, it is understandable that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is much worse than that of the 'invaders'.

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Xiangfu College has accepted more than 500 students in just over ten days, and has begun teaching in different classes.It's just that Mr. is still too little.If it weren't for North Korea, China, Han Xizai, Ma Wentao, Jia Xian and others who were appointed as "visiting professors" of Xiangfu College, it would have been difficult to proceed smoothly.

Being able to recruit more than 500 students in such a short period of time can be said to be directly related to Ye Chen or all the credit goes to Ye Chen.

As Ye Chen, he appeared at the opening ceremony of Xiangfu College, and wrote the name of the college in four characters "Xiangfu College". This is the main reason why Xiangfu College was able to enroll more than 500 students in the first phase , This has far exceeded the expectations of Ye Chen and Xu Xuan.

More than 100 of these students were directly transferred from the Imperial Academy, and most of the others were the sons of officials and rich families in Xiangfu Kingdom, who could not enter the Imperial Academy due to various reasons. Seeing that His Majesty the Emperor attached so much importance to this Xiangfu Academy, they flocked Run to Green Water Lake.However, there are also a small number of people who don't like poetry, etiquette, and only like miscellaneous studies. Entering Xiangfu Academy is just right for them.Of course, these are not what Ye Chen and Xu Xuan can know so far.

(End of this chapter)