Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 96 Weapon Selection
In August, a report from the residence in Tokyo said that the emperor had appointed Fan Zhongyan to be a political adviser, and Fu Bi was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. This is the rhythm of reforms.At this time, Li Buqi needed to find something to do for himself, so that he would have an excuse not to return to Tokyo.

Because everyone inside and outside the capital knew that the test site produced valuable glass, and some people had already begun to spy around the test site. Li Buqi asked Li Zhang to apply to the emperor for the distribution of weapons to the new army and patrol around the test site.The emperor, of course, wanted to keep the glass secret, and immediately agreed to Li Buqi's request.

Li Buqi spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of weapons the new army would use.The weapons of the Song Dynasty are various. There are as many as eight types of standard knives, more types of guns, and axes, forks, sticks, bones, etc. If you want to integrate so many types of weapons into one battle Obviously unrealistic in the ranks.

So Li Buqi called Li Zhang, Wang Zhaoming, Ge Shengwen, and the instructors of the Forbidden Army from Tokyo to a meeting. In order to add someone with actual combat experience, he also called Lian Guangzhi.

What everyone agrees on is that bows and crossbows must be equipped. This is the standard equipment of the Song army, and it is the reliance of the horse-short Song army against the northern nomadic cavalry. Therefore, there is no need to discuss this. There is some dispute over the proportion.The coaches of the Forbidden Army hoped to equip [-]% of the soldiers with crossbows according to the proportion of the Forbidden Army, but Lian Guangzhi thought that this ratio was too high, and there were too few people on their side who could fight hand-to-hand once the enemy approached.This is a lesson learned in blood.Because the crossbowmen in the Song Dynasty army did not practice swords and guns, they had no ability to fight hand-to-hand.

But Li Buqi's plan is that crossbowmen must also have a certain ability to fight in hand-to-hand combat, and soldiers who mainly fight in hand-to-hand combat can also be equipped with crossbows for a round of shooting.So this ratio is set at 50%.But archers are not easy to train, so we have to tentatively designate [-] people, and the rest are all crossbowmen.

There are many debates on the choice of melee weapons, because there are too many choices.In the end, Li Buqi chose to support Lian Guangzhi, because Lian Guangzhi had more experience in fighting Xixia people.In the future, the Song Army also fought more nomads from the north.

In this era, the Xixia iron kite and the elite palace tent army of the Liao Kingdom are all wearing heavy armor, which is impenetrable with knives and impenetrable with spears. Therefore, if you want to kill a warrior wearing heavy armor, you must use heavy weapons.This is why the armies of Song, Liao, and Jin favored weapons such as iron maces, iron whips, guduo, and maces that rely on leverage to strike.

Li Buqi recalled that Jin Wushu once said that the two weapons that caused him the most headaches in the Song army were the divine arm bow and the big axe.Therefore, Li Buqi decided that the main weapon of the new army would be the axe, supplemented by Guduo.Bowmen and crossbowmen are all equipped with battle axes with handles two feet and five feet long, while knife and axemen use long axes.

In addition, guns are also indispensable. After asking the instructors of the forbidden army, Li Buqi decided to use two types of guns, long and short. The length of the long gun is about [-] meters, and the length of the short gun is about [-] meters. Armor-piercing cone.

A coach suggested that if it is possible to go to the south to fight, it is best to practice the javelin.The climate in the south is humid, and bows and crossbows are not only less powerful but also easily damaged by moisture. Therefore, javelins are indispensable long-range weapons.

Good reminder!Li Buqi remembered that there would be a famous Nong Zhigao rebellion in the future, so maybe the south will have to go there.So the javelin was also included in the equipment and training plan.

Considering that this new army may not be on the battlefield at first, they may participate in the action of catching bandits. Bandits have no armor, so it would be a bit of a joke to hold up a big axe. Therefore, Li Buqi decided that short knives should be used as self-defense weapons. proficient.

In this way, the weapons of the new army were determined in this way. One commanded 500 people, including [-] spearmen, [-] knife and axemen, [-] shieldmen, and the rest were crossbowmen.

Li Buqi stipulated that all spearmen must be proficient in the use of long and short spears, daggers, and javelins; shield players must be proficient in the use of short spears, battle axes, daggers, javelins, and shields; You need to know some weapons.Archers and axemen are relatively professional. Archers only need to be proficient in using bows and short knives, and axemen only need to be proficient in long and short axes and short knives.

In terms of physical fitness, both archers and swordsmen have special requirements.Archers have very high requirements on arm strength, and swordsmen need to be able to swing a big axe while wearing heavy armor, which requires the highest physical fitness.In addition, the spearmen, shieldmen, and crossbowmen have their own requirements, and all the original ones need to be broken up and reorganized.

This alone took three days.After the instructors of the Imperial Army selected members of various arms, the new army was reorganized.The first is the spearman, and the head is Chao Baozhu; the second is the knife and shield hand, and the head is Yan Shenghu; the third to fifth are all bowmen, and the head is Wangcun, Zhou Xing and Zhou Daliang.In addition, there is a substitute Du, Dutou Qianxin.

After all the divisions are completed, the weapons are distributed, and the equipment is taught to each other.And when the soldiers have weapons, they are assigned patrol tasks, and one is responsible for patrolling every day.Li Buqi also began to train them how to match passwords, how to cross patrol, how to set up light and dark whistles and swimming whistles.

In September, even the classmates and horse breeders contacted by Guangzhi came to Chunze Prison with seventeen stallions.These people who raise horses are very interesting. Two of them are marginal Fan people, and there are three veterans. It seems that they have been killed in battle.Lian Guangzhi introduced to Li Buqi that one of the crippled veterans named Xu San had escaped from death several times.He didn't even have a child, but adopted a boy who didn't know who he was.

This Xu San not only has the ability to train horses, but also has the special skill of tracking. It is precisely because of these two things that he can see through the ambush several times and escape with his life.But Xu San has a lot of skills, but also has a bad temper. He likes to ignore people who don't like him, even if he meets the capital prison, so his father doesn't love him, and his mother doesn't love him.When Lian Guangzhi was in the army, he felt sorry for the groom and gave him a few drinks, so he became friends with him.

Hehe, do you like drinking?This is easy to handle.Li Buqi asked someone to bring twenty-degree rum that had been stored in oak barrels for a year, and Xu San immediately said that as long as he drank every day, he would not leave even if he was killed.

Lian Guangzhi's two classmates have the same style as him at first glance, especially the one named Sun Yong and Sun Xujiu, with big hands, feet, thick neck, stiff beard, loud voice roaring loudly, and a heavy mouthful behind his back. His iron sword—not the kind of sword that scribes pretend to be, but an iron sword that can really fight—if he is not wearing a scholar's robe, he will definitely think that this is either a soldier or a butcher.But the barracks needed such people, and Li Buqi didn't know what to do with a cold and miserable person all day long.

Shaanxi people are real.Instead of criticizing Li Buqi's teaching textbooks, these two scholars praised Li Buqi's teaching textbooks. Now Li Buqi doesn't have to teach soldiers to read and write, but can teach some more professional courses.

Li Buqi had just settled these people, the emperor called urgently again, Li Buqi had no choice but to get on the bay red horse and run back to Bianliang.

(End of this chapter)