As a civil servant, Ye An did not have the power to lead troops, but as a deputy envoy to appease, he had the power to mobilize troops. This seemed contradictory, but it was not. It was just that the rulers of the Song Dynasty cleverly combined the power of command and the power of troop deployment.
Just divided.
The advantages are obvious, but the disadvantages are proceeding slowly. Ye An's promotion guesses that the two brothers of the old Zhao family have already seen the problem and just want to solve it through time. But they don't know that the impact is increasing day by day and is uncontrollable.
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Of course, the advantage of this is that the military respects the country more and cannot be manipulated by people with ulterior motives.
In fact, what the old Zhao family wanted to do was to divide the army into civil and military divisions. The cooperation between Ye An and Cao Yi was enough to mobilize the Qingzhou garrison.
Although Ye An and others were so angry at Zhou Guozuo that they wanted to kill him, but now he had to stabilize Qingzhou. It could even be said that Ye An could not live without Zhou Guozuo.
Chen Lin is a suitable supervisor. She has written down almost all the deployment plans of Ye An and Cao Yi in memorials and sent them to Tokyo City in one letter every five days. He is the eyes and ears of the Tian family, but he is not suitable to be a logistics officer.
Coordinating officer.
As for Zhou Guozuo... Ye An originally planned to let him try, but he never thought that he could prepare food, armor, weapons, arrows and even crossbows in the shortest time...
Even Cao Yi couldn't help but stick out his thumb behind his back and secretly praised Ye An's clever methods for getting Zhou Guozuo to cooperate so well.
But only Ye An himself knew how difficult it was to prepare these overnight during war. When the army set off early in the morning, Zhou Guozuo was able to mobilize the people in the city to see off the Anhua army of more than 2,000 people!
The hopes of the elders in their hometown were better than anything else. Yesterday, this group had to go to Huanzhou due to military orders. The Song Army, which was even hesitant, suddenly understood the significance of their rush to aid the neighboring state... for the sake of the fellow villagers behind them.
The sense of honor and pride is indispensable for soldiers, but it is almost equivalent to nothing for the Song army, mainly because they have not been taken seriously in the social environment of the Song Dynasty.
Fortunately, the Anhua Army in Gyeongju was recruited from good families among the common people. Their status was much higher than that of the ordinary "thief army" and they had a stronger sense of belonging.
Two thousand Anhua troops supported Pingyuan Village. This was an issue that Zhou Guozuo had never considered before. But now that he saw Ye An, Cao Yi and others leading their troops to set out, he suddenly felt that maybe he should have done this in the first place.
The people in the city shouted loudly: "Wonderful victory! Wonderful victory!"
The entire Anhua City was filled with an indescribable confidence, as if these two thousand Anhua troops could put down the entire Huanzhou Rebellion.
Ye An and Cao Yi are different. His destination is Tongyuan City in Huanzhou, while Cao Yi wants to go to the Zhenrong Army in the west, but the purpose is the same, to quell the Western Qiang rebellion in Huanzhou.
I don't know whether he should feel lucky or unfortunate. Fan Yong did not arrive, which gave Ye An a lot of discretion. He is now the highest military and political officer in the land around the state in name, and can temporarily take over Fan Yong's responsibilities.
Chen Lin was riding on horseback and watched the iron bull wearing foot armor swaying on the horse. She frowned and said to Ye An: "The foot armor is not a horse armor. Look, can this war horse still run?
?Why bother!”
Ye An's face turned red. He felt that if the medieval plate armor could be equipped with cavalry, then the Song Dynasty's infantry armor might also be able to do so, but it seemed like a failure at the moment.
Stopping on the roadside to let Tieniu take off his infantry armor, Ye An frowned and said: "The armor of our Song Dynasty cavalry is inferior to that of the Khitan people, why is it inferior to the party members? If there are no powerful iron cavalry on the battlefield, how can we win?
It’s not extremely difficult.”
Chen Lin sneered and said: "Who doesn't know what you are saying? The Liao people are better because they have many war horses. One horse can be equipped with two pack horses. The armor and knives used for ordinary marches can be carried on the pack horses. The war horses travel with empty saddles. When encountering the enemy, they will
If you switch to war horses, the losses will naturally be reduced..." After speaking, he looked to the north and said slowly again: "As for the Dangxiang people, their methods are the same as those of the Liao people, and their armor is extraordinary, it is made by cold forging.
It's so hard that even if you protect your chest, you can still save your life on the battlefield!"
Ye An was a little strange. The craft of cold forging should not be difficult for the Song Dynasty. Even the party members could master it. Why did the Song army not equip it? Looking at Chen Lin's longing expression, Ye An was really curious and asked:
"Is it difficult to cold-forge armor? I heard someone said..."
Chen Lin looked at Ye An inexplicably and said: "Haozi armor? I've never heard of it. As for cold forging, it's not difficult, but... it's too time-consuming and laborious. In the same time, more black hammer armor and walking armor can be made.
, why do you still need to make a war horse? Besides, do we have so many war horses in the Song Dynasty that we can use?"
Having said this again, Ye An nodded helplessly. Chen Lin was right. Cost is an issue that is both easy to ignore and difficult to ignore in war.
The defensive power of cold forged armor is very strong. In a sense, cold forging is to forge a thick piece of refined wrought iron into the required shape through repeated blows without heating. The labor cost is the
Highest.
Cold forging technology is quite cutting-edge even in later generations, and there is a professional academic term for "cold work hardening" in the metal field.
Ye An suddenly felt that he had found a business opportunity again. What kind of money is the best to earn? Of course it is the country's money. This will not change in any era. As long as this money is not earned by making the country difficult to make money, then it will not matter.
It's quite a good business.
And arms are what a country needs in large quantities. As long as it can be recognized by the Song Dynasty court and has the ability to produce equipment on a large scale, in a sense, not only can this money be earned with peace of mind, but it can also be related to the country.
Good and beneficial things.
Seeing the profiteer-like smile on Ye An's face, Chen Lin felt a little tight in her heart and whispered to Ye An: "Do you know how to make wart armor?"
Ye An looked at Chen Lin strangely: "You yourself said that wrought iron can be obtained by cold forging. Is it difficult?"
Chen Lin coughed and said: "No, a certain family means that you have a way to produce more of this armor? Could it be that you have such armor at home?"
"No! Absolutely not. It is a crime to hide armor privately, let alone this kind of wart armor. Even the black lacquered Shunshuishanwen armor on my body was a reward from the court. If there is wart armor, I will definitely bring it to save my life!
"
For some reason, the more firmly Ye An denied it, the more Chen Lin felt that there was something wrong. He always felt that the kid in front of him had a secret that he didn't know about, and once it was revealed, he would definitely shock the world.
Under Chen Lin's suspicious gaze, Ye An neatly tightened his belt. A huge animal head protected the entire abdomen. At the same time, the belt also passed through the animal's mouth to act as a fixation.
In fact, Han armor in the Song Dynasty has reached its peak. The mighty and violent infantry armor can even resist the impact of cavalry to a certain extent. Isn't this a perversion?
You must know that the gap between infantry and cavalry is as big as a chasm that is insurmountable. However, with the infantry armor, this gap can be reduced to the point where they can fight. This is already a miracle.