: Horses and soldiers

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

: Horses and soldiers

Zhang Yue remembered that he once read in the "Martial Arts General Essentials": "Open a large formation to face the enemy. Thousands of people line up in a majestic formation. The brave will not be allowed to go first, and the timid will not be left behind. The spears are poking at you.

When the spears are poked out, there is only one person among all the troops, so he is invincible in the world."

The most important thing for an army in the cold weapon era was strict formation and strict discipline.

The Qin and Han Empires and later the Sui and Tang Empires relied on strict military discipline and training to suppress the surrounding barbarians with a small number of troops.

Zhang Yue wanted to train his rabble well, so he naturally had to work hard in this regard.

At that moment, Zhang Yue divided these people into three teams. He led 6 people, and Cai Ting and Zhang Hao each led 5 people. After everyone divided into teams and stood up, Zhang Yue stepped forward.

Zhang Yue said: "The second and third sons are all athletes of our Han army now. I have recruited you today to train you in battle formation skills. Now is a good time for a man to seek fame."

But opportunities will only come to those who are prepared. If we want to make great achievements and become generals, we must first practice the ability to eat well...

Only the second and third sons can live well when facing the Huns in the future, and only then can they be crowned and rewarded.

The second and third sons should also understand that someone was born in a certain family, and someone was originally born in a lowly manner. I can get to this point, so why can't you... Fame can only be obtained from horses, and only those who can kill the enemy and perform meritorious deeds are considered good men!"

Zhang Yue looked serious, and everyone below subconsciously stood up straighter.

After the training, Zhang Yue first asked them to learn to stand in a queue, turn left and right, walk and run in unison, etc. At first, everyone was surprised, but then they became a mess.

The queue was terrible to look at. Not only was the queue crooked, but each one couldn't tell the right side from the left side. At the end of the day, he was even more tired than he had been working all day.

Fortunately, the soldiers had all seen the real training of the Han army, which was more rigorous and harder than the training of myself and others, so they didn't have any complaints.

For several days, everyone still couldn't tell the difference between left and right. The louder Zhang Yue shouted, the more confused everyone became.

At this time, Zhang Yue suddenly thought of the training method of the Sichuan Army in later generations, and asked everyone to take off the red scarf around their necks, tie it on their arms, and mark the left and right, so that the situation gradually improved.

Because Zhang Hao and Cai Ting were two highly qualified officers, they had to undergo additional training after the training of ordinary soldiers.

Cai Ting had been trained since he was a child, so it wasn't a big problem, but Zhang Hao was more troublesome. Like ordinary soldiers, he had to start from scratch. Fortunately, others were smarter and quickly entered the state after the initial adaptation.

As the two became more and more familiar with the training methods, Zhang Yue gradually gave them the responsibility of training the infantry.

After training like this for half a month, these former horse thieves finally looked like real Han soldiers. When Zhang Yue beat the war drums for them to march, the team already looked somewhat orderly.

It seems that the training of the infantry is on the right track.

The cavalry did not fall behind even here, and began to look good under Li Si's training.

The physical fitness of the soldiers was good, and the food supply could keep up. In order to further improve their combat effectiveness, Zhang Yue made new training and assessment standards with reference to the standards of Wei soldiers and Qin soldiers.

After more than ten days of training, Zhang Yue began to practice adding weapons to the infantry.

Taking into account the differences in personalities and training methods between Cai Ting and Zhang Hao, Zhang Yue reorganized the three teams into two teams. Cai Ting's team was composed entirely of crossbowmen, while Zhang Hao was mainly responsible for close combat.

In addition to the necessary sword skills, the rest require different training according to different types of arms.

After the personnel of the two teams were distributed, Zhang Yue distributed the weapons obtained from Han Feng to the soldiers one by one.

Everyone was happy to finally get the new weapon.

The Han army in this era was different from that of later generations. It still retained the imprint of the chariot era. The most typical ones were long-handled weapons, mainly halberds.

Zhang Yue knew the history of the development of cold weapons, and knew that weapons such as Ge Ji were easier to use against chariots, but less useful against cavalry. In the future, guns should be the main focus of development.

Therefore, when Zhang Yue was training long soldiers, he directly chose spears. However, all he got for the time being were spears. But this is not a big problem. In fact, spears are just shortened spears, so training with spears is almost the same.

Combat with cold weapons is different from that with hot weapons. It is mainly based on square formations. Thousands of spears are poking and stabbing, and there is no room to dodge. Therefore, for the soldiers, the more complicated and fancy they are, the more likely they are to die.

The faster you go. The Ranger is looking for death when he goes to the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhang Yue finally decided to let his soldiers practice only one move, "stab", and let them practice "stab" repeatedly every day until their movements became standard, fast, and conditioned reflexes.

As for practicing swordsmanship, there is also only one move, which is to raise the sword to slash diagonally. The movement of raising the sword also needs to be standard, and the angle of the sword slashing action is also strictly regulated!

As time passed, the weather became colder and colder. After training for a period of time, the soldiers finally had a certain combat effectiveness. In Li Si's words, although they were still far behind the Northern Army, they were still comparable to the Northern Army.

The military situation of the counties and states in Neijun is almost the same.

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In the blink of an eye, the first snow of the year arrived.

Because of the heavy snow, the soldiers' training was temporarily suspended.

"Why did winter come so early this year? I'm afraid there will be a white disaster on the grassland!"

That day, Zhang Hao looked at the north and couldn't help but talk to himself.

Zhang Hao's words reminded Zhang Yue that when winter comes earlier, food on the grasslands will definitely be scarcer. Judging from past experience, in this case, the possibility of harassment by the Huns or other grassland peoples will also be greatly increased.

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In order to take a comprehensive approach, Zhang Yue ordered increased patrols and vigilance in the northern region.

However, the rest of the people didn't pay too much attention to it because this place was already remote and there were no farmers farming nearby.

After the last defeat of the Huns, they naturally knew that the Han army would definitely set up defenses here. Unless the Huns wanted to provoke another war with the Han army, they would not launch a large-scale attack at this time.

When the Huns invaded the border areas in winter, they wanted food for the winter. There was nothing the Huns wanted here.

What Zhang Yue is really worried about is the horse thieves on the grassland.

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In the desert not far from Longjiao Fort, a group of horse thieves were marching with difficulty.

"Ada, how many more days will it take to reach the valley you mentioned? We don't have much water!"

A strong man with a scar on his forehead asked the short and strong man beside him.

"Don't worry, boss, we'll be here in two days..."
Chapter completed!