Chapter 23 Heroes of Yan and Zhao (please read, please vote)

Author: Yang's Liangjiazi

Chapter 23 Heroes of Yan and Zhao (please read, please vote)

After talking about the money, Lu Fan continued: "The other item is quite large. It was obtained in various ways. There are more than 3,000 pieces of cloth and silk in the camp. There are even more than ten pieces of brocade."

Sun Ce frowned slightly, but was not happy about the large amount of cloth.

The reason for the emergence of so many cloths is very sad. It was caused by the collapse of the monetary system. Coins were not good enough, so all parties used cloth as the unit of trade.

The meaning of brocade is "brocade is gold. It takes a lot of effort to make, and its price is as high as gold."

At least until the Tang Dynasty, cloth and silk were the long-term currency that circulated among the people. Cao Wei even gave up the struggle and did not even mint currency, completely using cloth as the currency.

Sun Ce was still a bit idealistic and could not accept the transactions of the people under his rule. He carried the cloth unrestrainedly and negotiated the price on the spot.

So he said: "Distribute all the cloth and make uniform uniforms and robes for the soldiers. If there are not enough people to make clothes, let Shao Zhuo recruit women from Liyang."

Lu Fan hesitated for a moment and said: "Previously, Hui Shijun forcibly recruited women to marry officials. There were quite a lot of complaints among the people. Those who had new wives in the family hid all day long and did not dare to show their faces. If women are recruited again, there is a risk of civil unrest."

Sun Ce looked at Lu Fan with a solemn expression and said, "Don't worry, Zi Heng underestimated the people's endurance."

Not to mention ordinary people, even noble families are extremely powerless when facing the army.

The Cao family loved married women. Cao Pi and Cao Rui both forcibly recruited women and remarried others. They also regarded it as a national policy and promoted it every year. In a family under the ninth-level Zhongzheng system, wives were scattered, and fathers and daughters cried on the road.

They dare not resist, let alone ordinary people.

As long as they can still survive, the people still have a choice, and they will not take the path of rebellion and uprising.

Afterwards, Sun Ce said with a relaxed smile: "Besides, collecting corvees is something that the government has always done. We do not bully the people and rape women. Those who allow them to voluntarily sew conscription robes for the army will be exempted from returning home next year.

Gift. I think some people will apply enthusiastically."

Household tax is also a head tax.

The Han Dynasty has always emphasized taxes and paid little attention to taxes. The land tax was 1 for 15 years, or even 1 for 30 years. It seemed that the burden on the people was very light. However, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, taxes were notoriously heavy. People starved to death everywhere, and infanticide was so common that some people

Folk proverb "If you don't wash your mouth with the Wei River, you will get rich." The root cause is that Ding Fu is too heavy.

Nowadays, as long as you sew levy robes for the army, your whole family, from an elderly man in his sixties to an infant, can be exempted from all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

This is easier than any kind of labor.

Lu Fan thought for a while and said: "This is undoubtedly a good government. But the key lies in how to win the trust of the people and how to supervise the harshness and abuse of small officials and their wealth."

Sun Ce stood with his hands behind his back and said calmly: "We can just pay attention to these issues. I have so many heroes under my command. Is it possible that there is no virtuous minister who can share my worries?"

These specific administrative methods can be solved by a capable minister serving as the county magistrate. After all, Liyang is only one county with only a few thousand households. A wise county magistrate who is well-versed in matters can make the politics clear and the territory peaceful.

However.

Sun Ce felt that Shao Zhuo should be able to take on this responsibility. His courage was indeed a little weak, but his ability to be so tactful that it discouraged Sun Ce, and even developed a bustling industry and commerce in the midst of war and chaos, was undeniable.

Lu Fan said: "Then I will ask the soldiers to move all the cloth and silk to the county government office. The Lord of Shao County is making a plan to count the number of young men and women in the county, so that we can recruit corvee workers and sew the robes together."

"Another item, the army now has one thousand two hundred pairs of leather armor, a total of three hundred and twenty-seven pairs of iron armor, and twenty-seven pairs of black armor. They need to be distributed as soon as possible to form combat power. Who does Bo Fu want to distribute it to?

"

Iron armor is two-crotch armor, which means two pieces of armor. It is draped on the front and back of the body to protect the chest and back. It is a relatively common type of armor in the military today.

In this era, armor is one of the core components of an army's combat effectiveness.

Regarding how to distribute these armors, Sun Ce thought for a while and said: "Gather all the black armors and distribute them to the knights to form a black armor cavalry that can decide the battlefield with one blow."

"The iron armor is divided into three parts, one hundred pairs for Cheng Gong, one hundred pairs for Jiang Qin, and one hundred pairs for Xu Kun."

It is impossible to separate the armor evenly, as that would disperse the combat power.

So getting the iron armor is not necessarily something worth celebrating. Because this determines that they will become the mainstay of the army. When defending, they will fight wherever the battle is most anxious. And when attacking, they will be even more fierce.

As a warrior who dares to die, he should be the sharp edge for the whole army, attack the enemy's formation fiercely, and open up the situation for the war.

Of course, this also represents Sun Ce's trust. These three people are undoubtedly Sun Ce's most valued generals at the moment. Cheng Pu has Huang Gai and Han Dang, who are brave and adept at fighting and are indomitable. Jiang Qin has even more generals.

Zhou Tai was Sun Ce's most valued infantry general. When Sun Ce attacked Jiangdong, he pointed to him. He was as powerful as anyone, and he persuaded and led his soldiers to defeat the front and trap the enemy, thereby opening up the situation.

As for Xu Kun, he was a warrior under Sun Ce, and his bravery and proficiency in fighting were second only to Sun Ce.

No matter who among the three of them defeats his opponent, his side will be swept away.

In the end, the leather armor was evenly distributed among Cheng Pu, Sun He, Jiang Qin, Zheng Bao, and Xu Kun. Each unit had two hundred pairs of leather armor, which was enough to form a front row of veteran phalanxes.

Lu Fan continued to introduce: "There are many swords and halberds in the army, tens of thousands of them. In addition, there are more than 500 oars, shields, shields and the like."

Sun Ce was more concerned about this and said: "In addition to replenishing the swords and halberds for the elite of the old army, the remaining halberds, spears, oars, shields, and shields should not be issued yet. After the whole army learns to arrange the mandarin duck formation tonight, press

Distributed by the team."

Lu Fan heard Chen Wu talk about Sun Ce's mandarin duck formation, and he also remembered the sentence: "If a general doesn't know the mandarin duck formation, even reading military books will be in vain."

But he really couldn't remember which military book recorded this formation, so he asked: "General, this mandarin duck formation does not seem to be the common horizontal or sparse formation in the army?"

Sun Ce nodded and said firmly: "The Yuanyang Formation is indeed not an ancient method of the sages. However, the art of war has been developed for thousands of years. Later generations should reform the past and make new ones, and gather the great achievements of the art of war. The Mandarin Duck Formation should be one of the variations of sparse formations, especially suitable for the terrain of Jiangdong. I am right

He has confidence."

Lu Fan raised his head. At this moment, under the sun, Sun Ce looked heroic and confident. As the commander-in-chief of an army, his calmness and confidence gave everyone strong confidence.

Lu Fan couldn't help but smile, maybe this was Sun Lang's unique talent.

No words are needed to convince people to believe in its proposition.

Mentioning the terrain of the south, Lu Fan said: "The Yuanyang Formation is suitable for the mountainous terrain in the east of the Yangtze River. How should the knights arrange it? There are currently 73 qualified war horses in the army, and more than 100 pack horses."

Sun Ce laughed and asked: "Zi Heng suddenly became rich, but I don't know how to spend it? There are only dozens of war horses. In the future, we will have thousands of war horses, and tens of thousands of war horses!"

Sun Ce was sure that after defeating Liu Yao, he would be able to recruit more than 20,000 men and thousands of horses just by recruiting surrender troops.

Therefore, Sun Ce was very calm about the arrangement of only dozens of war horses and said: "All qualified knights will be equipped with two war horses for rotation in battles. All knights will be equipped with two pack horses to carry supplies."

Sun Ce once led tens of thousands of troops to conquer Yuan Shu. He can be said to be the most familiar general with various cavalry tactics south of the Huaihe River.

The brave cavalry in the army, whether they are brave knights or qualified war horses, are not as weak as later generations imagined.

A strong warrior can wear heavy armor, advance and retreat repeatedly, endure for a long time, and fight fiercely for a day and night, thereby opening a gap and deciding the outcome.

Although the endurance of war horses is not as good as that of humans, they can still carry heavily armored knights into battle again and again. In particular, cavalry have the advantage of mobility and can actively decide whether to fight or not. They can change horses to fight again and take turns to rest.

"If you can't fight for more than a hundred rounds, what is a cavalry army?" This famous saying can be said to be the most accurate summary of cavalry combat. Cavalry combat is really like a turn-based system. Unless the opponent is a medieval serf, the knight cannot fight in one wave.

flow.

As for why the knights are not provided with pack horses, it is because the sudden cavalry is of no use at all. They march with their horses and follow the army, and their tents, luggage, millstones, tungsten tools, flints, water bags, etc. are placed in the baggage.

Just take it in the car.

As for the heavy armor, of course it is worn on the body!

There is a strict order in the army that all officers and soldiers must wear armor and helmets and carry weapons when setting off. They can only take off their armor after entering the camp.

Unless you are marching on the inside line, you may not encounter the enemy for several months, and with the permission of military orders, you cannot leave your armor or weapons. Anyone who violates the rules will be killed immediately to maintain military discipline.

Even armor enthusiasts in later generations can run around wearing armor, not to mention today's elite warriors who are well-trained, strong and burly.

On the other hand, the rangers need to disperse for reconnaissance, break away from the marching group, and need pack horses to carry their tents and other supplies, so pack horses are even more needed.

Thinking of these cavalry, Sun Ce said: "By the way, what's the situation with the more than 40 Youzhou cavalry?"

Lu Fan said: "These Youzhou cavalry are indeed elite. Among the more than forty people, five of them are over seven feet seven inches tall. They have been selected by Chen Wu. The others are also skilled in bow and horse."

kind."

Sun Ce nodded and said: "The land of Yanzhao has many generous and tragic people since ancient times. Their physical strength is indeed much better than that of the south. There are many war horses in the army. Although these sudden cavalry were not selected as black armor cavalry,

But they are also qualified cavalry, and they are all converted into rangers for reconnaissance of the terrain."

Even though Sun Ce was good at archery, he actually didn't believe that bows and arrows could determine the outcome of the battlefield, especially the victory of mounted archery.

In the era of cold weapons, the outcome of the battlefield is always determined by the fierce and bloody battles of gold and iron, hand-to-hand combat.

Unless the opponent is a thieves without armor like Zheng Bao's men, both sides are wearing armor, and the damage caused by bows and arrows may not even be 20% of the effective damage.

As for cavalry and archery, that can be completely classified as a category of metaphysics. Since ancient times, the Central Plains heavy cavalry has crushed the grassland archers head-on countless times and chased the Hulu northward.

At present, the big Han is a true supporter of heavy cavalry. The big Han relied on heavy cavalry to defeat the Huns into complete submission.

Not only Sun Ce, but also any other general looked down on the cavalry archers who could only shoot at a distance. Even though it had been hundreds of years since King Wuling of Zhao and Hufu had reformed cavalry and archery, the light cavalry was only an auxiliary unit on the battlefield.

But a cavalryman who can mount his horse to look for opportunities, dismount his horse and shoot on foot, and get into a formation suddenly is a completely different type of soldier!

A truly strong army is always a warrior who dares to fight with a sword.

Even if two rangers collide, the one that dares to use their spears and mount their horses to capture them will have a higher winning rate.

Therefore, although these Youzhou Assault Cavalry did not pass the selection of the Black Armor Cavalry, they are still first-class Rangers.

Sun Ce asked: "Who is the leader of these cavalry? Let him come to see me later and I will talk to him about cavalry training."

Lu Fan replied: "His name is Xianyu Lie. It is said that he was born in the Xianyu clan, a prominent family in Yuyang."

Xian Yushi.
To be continued...