Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

At any rate, Baosi did laugh, and because of this, he is also famous in the history books, right?

……

It can be said that as the prefect of Changsha, Sun Jian did have the ability to hold military parades in the territory.

The children of Changsha have been fighting for a long time and have a large number of soldiers. The ratio of militiamen has almost reached an astonishing ten to one situation.

In other words, on average, one male in every two households will join the army, which is even more exaggerated than that of Lujiang County where Zhang Yan is located.

If a military parade is held, the sense of participation of the people will be like that of parents whose children participate in a school sports meeting. The sense of participation can be said to be extremely strong.

Before that, Sun Jian's main problem was that he didn't have enough food, so even if he wanted to conduct regular military parades, he didn't have enough conditions.

Now that he has received food support from the princes of the northern Central Plains, Sun Jian's own ideas have also become active.

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"Where is it, Demao, what are you talking about!"

Seeing that Zhang Yan directly called him Brother Wentai instead of Marquis Wucheng, Sun Jian's face was also happy.

Unconsciously, his address to Zhang Yan also became closer.

"Demao, isn't this your military parade today? I happen to have this plan recently, so I want to come here early to learn more about this aspect with you and learn from it."

"Why, don't you want to hide your secrets from me, an 'ally'?"

……

They said a haha ​​to each other, and the two had seen each other, so they carried each other and walked up the tower together.

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Strolling to the top of the tower, Zhang Yan cast his eyes down, and everywhere a large number of soldiers were busy in the open space below the tower.

It's just past the hour of the hour, and it's not yet time for the official military parade, but quite a few soldiers have already formed a phalanx, as if they are doing the final familiarization work.

In the direction of the military camp in the distance, countless soldiers rushed towards the gate of the city.

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"Zijing, Zijing, come here!"

"How is the preparation for the military parade? I see that there are still soldiers coming here from the camp. How many people will participate in the military parade this time?"

Waving his hand, he summoned the busy figure below the tower, and Zhang Yan asked him with a smile.

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"My lord, it's almost there."

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Although Lu Su's head was covered with fine sweat due to the hot weather, he still bowed to Zhang Yan, his face full of honor and confidence.

"My lord, although the preparations this time are a bit hasty, the three major military divisions under Lujiang have completed the most basic formation and marching training, and they are all devoted to the first day of the military parade. There is no problem."

"My lord, please rest assured."

"It's just that, because we don't have too much food, many people are now spontaneously tightening their belts to live, so it's not good for the army to waste too much."

"There is too much pressure on the supply of food for all members of the three military and horse divisions. I ordered the commanders to select one-tenth of the soldiers as participants in the military exercise, and all of them are among the elite. There are more than 6000 elites in total.”

"Oh, yes, there are also exercises..."

"Not to mention basic subjects such as short-distance sprinting, slashing, and assassination. The cavalry camp and the archer camp will have special drills this time, including but not limited to group charges, phalanx interspersed, and intensive shooting, etc. .”

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Reported to Zhang Yan full of joy, Lu Su looked at Sun Jian in front of him with some hesitation at the end of his speech, as if he didn't know whether he should continue talking.

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"Well, it sounds pretty good, and the confrontational exercises are also arranged?"

"There is also the artillery battalion... If I remember correctly, the entire battalion has 5000 people, and there should be about [-] artillery pieces?"

"This can be regarded as our Lujiang's special unit. Zijing, you have nothing to hide. I am very much looking forward to the emergence and use of this new type of unit."

Gently patted Lu Su's shoulder, Zhang Yan gave him a reassuring look, and then continued:

"Zijing, you don't need to think too much. This military parade and exercise are designed to show our own strength. If we have to hide it even at this time, then it is meaningless for us to hold this thing .”

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"Yes, my lord."

Seeing that Zhang Yan said this, and directly mentioned the artillery battalion that Lu Su regarded as a secret weapon in front of outsiders like Sun Jian, he no longer hesitated.

After bowing to Zhang Yan, Lu Su responded to Zhang Yan with a very tempting word.

"Don't worry, my lord, you specifically asked me to conduct confrontational exercises before, how could I neglect it?"

"I told the commanders below that everything was prepared in accordance with wartime standards for this exercise, and a confrontation between the three was even arranged. Just three days later, that is the last day of the exercise."

"This can be said to be the main axis of this exercise!"

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"As for the artillery battalion...My lord, I just happened to be researching the usage of this new type of arms in recent days, and I have a lot of ideas."

"Please wait and see!"

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Wait and see these four words, we can see Lu Su's strong self-confidence.

For him, this was the first matter that Zhang Yan entrusted him with full authority after he took over the Lujiang military arrangement.

Reality is not fiction, let alone a game.It is almost unimaginable to go to war at will without internal stability and the market has not recovered, as in the brainless key political article.

As for declaring war on people on the grounds of "being idle is idle" at every turn... It can only be said that the reason why the game is just a game is precisely because of this.

In the real world, there simply wouldn't be so many opportunities for a faction to wage war continuously.Even in the most chaotic last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, during the period from 190 to 200 AD, the intensity of war was still a topic that could only be discussed from the perspective of the whole of China.

For a single faction, most of the aristocratic families are recuperating. Where are there so many wars for you to fight?

"Well, if that's the case, don't let me down."

Nodding towards Lu Su, Zhang Yan didn't say anything more, but put him back, and waited for the military parade to start on the tower with peace of mind.

On the contrary, Sun Jian became more and more curious about the strength of the troops in Zhang Yan's hands after listening to the two of them from the sidelines.

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"cavalry?"

"How can Lujiang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, support cavalry?"

"Where did Zhang Yan get so many war horses, and where did he get someone who knows how to raise horses?"

Looking curiously at Zhang Yan who was beside the old god, Sun Jian wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to start.

As a prefect who was born as a leading general, it is almost impossible for you to say that he is not curious about cavalry.

It's just that he also knows that the cavalry is like a gold swallowing beast.

Taking the common horse archer in the Han Dynasty, that is, Guan Erye’s original position, a fully armed horse archer needs at least three sets of weapons: long, short, bow and arrow, light full-body leather armor, and a war horse for high-speed maneuvering , none of these pieces of equipment is cheap.

After all, cavalry is not a noble type of arms that ordinary people can afford.

As for the artillery...

To be honest, Sun Jian didn't quite understand.

He had never seen gunpowder and hot weapons before, so he thought Zhang Yan and Lu Su were not talking about artillery but artillery.

As for how the artillery formed the camp alone, this made him a little confused.

Yes, in fact, in the classical period of China, even as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty and the pre-Qin period, "artillery" already existed.

In the original chess, cannon appeared as a kind of chess piece, or arms, which is the most obvious example.

At that time, the gun did not refer to the later artillery, but a long-range weapon that could really "strike cattle across mountains", that is, devices such as catapults.

And these devices... In Sun Jian's impression, they were built with local materials a few days before the siege.

How can such a siege weapon, which is built only when it is needed and dismantled immediately when it is used up, exist alone as a standing army, or even form an independent battalion?

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"Could it be that De Mao recruited a group of dedicated catapult carpenters, and then managed them in the form of an army?"

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There was a silent murmur in his heart. You must know that Sun Jian's guess was not unreasonable.

As early as the Warring States period, many people had made artisans who plundered other city-states into military slaves, and used them to build various fortifications and the like.

Since Sun Jian didn't know the relevant technology, he could only silently speculate on this aspect.

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In this way, time flowed slowly in the silence of the two.As the sun rose, the prefects of the alliance of eight provinces also woke up one after another, and came to the city gate one after another.

After they greeted each other with Zhang Yan, the time finally came to Si Shi.

The time agreed in advance has arrived, and the military parade... has begun.

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"The people of Lujiang, the people of the Han Dynasty!"

"Today is the beginning of autumn in the sixth year of Zhongping, and it is also my second year since I came to Lujiang from Luoyang and officially served as the prefect of Lujiang."

"Over the past two years, we have worked together to overcome difficult times..."

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At the very beginning of the military parade, Zhang Yan, the prefect of Lujiang and the owner of Wancheng, made some impassioned nonsense.

It's just that unlike those literati who like to put on airs, Zhang Yan's background has caused him to be more approachable than ordinary prefects and governors when facing the people, especially when facing the people on such a big occasion. .

As far as the opening speech is concerned, according to the character of other prefects, it is often a matter of offering sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors, and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.

Even if it is the military exercise of the Son of Heaven, divination and sacrifices must be held in advance to make a lot of ostentation in front of the people.

And Zhang Yan is more straightforward.