There are few people who don't like the idea of getting promoted and making a fortune. Guan Yu is just arrogant and not a fool, so he naturally won't refuse.
Although he kept saying that he should start as a pawn, he was very happy when Liu Xiang appointed him as a military commander.
A thousand-mile horse meets Bole.
A good minister must meet a wise master.
The Lord recognized his talent.
Happy!
Don't think that the Army Sima is very small. This time period is not like the Three Kingdoms era, when generals were everywhere. Now, the Army Sima is a high-ranking officer.
Cui Yi took Guan Yu and left happily.
Two strong men of eight or nine feet were walking back and forth hand in hand, which made Liu Xiang's eyes irritate.
So he turned his head and didn't look.
With more than 20,000 troops, more than 5,000 prisoners, and a large herd of cattle, horses and livestock, the original camp is no longer enough and is being expanded.
There are still people slaughtering and skinning horses. Horses killed in battle or seriously injured cannot be wasted. The whole army will eat meat tonight, and the skins will be tanned and sent to the workshop to be used as raw materials.
Damaged and inferior weapons will also be sent away. Not to mention iron weapons, wooden poles can be reused. The wooden poles of spears and spurges are all four meters long and good wood. Broken ones can be reprocessed and made into short ones.
Halberds, crossbows, flying shuttles, crossbows, feather arrows. Like refined horse poles, wooden poles cannot be wasted. They are all made using the bamboo and wooden pole method, which is very labor-intensive and time-consuming.
The bamboo and wooden trestles are made of mulberry wood as a core in the middle, and then the evenly sized strips made of bamboo and wood are glued together with fish glue, tightly wrapped with silk thread, wrapped in Gebu, and then painted on the outside. Basically, three brushes are required.
To five coats of raw paint.
The wooden pole made by this method is tough and light. Of course, it is not magical. It cannot be harder than metal. It is just harder than ordinary wooden poles under the same weight, in order to save a few kilograms.
Not many weapons used in the army are particularly heavy. A ring-headed sword weighs two to three kilograms, a horn bow weighs about two kilograms, a crossbow weighs three to five kilograms, a four-meter-long spear weighs ten kilograms, and a refined horse spear weighs four feet.
A long one weighs only 12 to 16 pounds.
In those romance novels, military generals go to the battlefield with dozens or hundreds of kilograms of weapons, which is all nonsense.
A weapon of that weight can definitely be carried by a general, but you have to know that being able to carry it and being able to swing it for combat are two different concepts. One is holding a spear weighing ten kilograms, and the other is holding a broadsword weighing one hundred kilograms.
, two horses facing each other, the sword wielding a hundred kilograms has not been swung, and the one wielding the spear will stab you to death. Who will fight you for 300 rounds? We don’t have the time.
Military standard weapons must be fast and durable.
A battle usually lasts for an hour or two, and the situation is so anxious that it can last for a whole day. Even if there are rotations, how many times can you swing such a heavy weapon? You are gifted with amazing physical strength. Even if you are not tired, your horse will be exhausted.
Already.
Those heavy weapons made of all metal do exist, but they are not used for fighting. Some are used to build strength. They are equivalent to modern barbells. Who would use a barbell to fight in a group? Right.
Others are used for guard of honor. When your family has a high-ranking military general, you can set up a few iron halberds at the door. For more senior generals, who can open a palace and build teeth, the guard of honor will have Fang Tian painted halberd, Xuanhua
Big axes, pumpkins, sledgehammers, etc., are all for people to see. The more powerful you are, and the more powerful you are, the more you can fake the festival axe, the court will equip you with the corresponding ritual utensils, and you can put the bronze axe, and the axe, in the guard of honor.
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In the novel, these have become the iconic weapons of military commanders. They are all artistic processing and cannot be trusted.
A real battlefield weapon must be light, sharp, and tough. This is a weapon that kills enemies and is also a test of production technology.
In the Han Dynasty, thirty refinements, fifty refinements, and one hundred refinements were the good guys favored by military commanders.
Only superb technology, excellent raw materials, and a lot of labor can create a weapon on the battlefield.
Therefore, the army is a beast that eats gold. It saves money when it can be saved. Until now, Liu Xiang is not willing to cook three dishes for meals. It is enough to have vegetables and meat to satisfy his hunger and satisfy his long-term needs.
He set an example, and all members of the Anping Army advocated simplicity.
A meal from those aristocratic families could be used by Liu Xiang to feed a team of soldiers. A fight between those stupid princes and powerful men would consume enough wealth for Liu Xiang to mobilize an army to fight for a year. Which one was more important, he knew clearly in his heart.
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The Han Dynasty did not have food and money, but it was useless in the right place. This lesson was repeated again and again in the changes of dynasties.
Always alert yourself.
Liu Xiang does not want to be a saint, he has no retreat, he must do everything he can and compete for the world with Youzhou. There are many difficulties and obstacles ahead, so he must make himself strong as soon as possible.
The stronger, the better.
He is reviewing, reflecting, and alert.
It is a good habit for me to examine myself three times a day.
In his reflection, each team completed its mission and the army returned to camp.
After a good meal and a night's rest, the next day we set out to march eastward and march to Liucheng.
Around Liucheng and along the Chongqing River, there are hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan people living and thriving here. They are the Wuhuanqiu Liju tribe in western Liaoning.
The Anping Army and the Heishan Army were outflanked by more than 80,000 people from east to west. The main force of the Wuhuan people was lost, their leader died in the battle, and the ordinary herdsmen were scattered everywhere, unable to resist at all.
The army raided for four days and captured 120,000 herdsmen.
Liu Xiang felt that the number was a bit large and he had to split it up. Of course he would not massacre the city like Cao Cao. They were all laborers. It would be better to send them to build roads than to kill them all.
After selecting all the relatives and family records of Qiu Liju and various small kings, more than 5,000 people were demoted as slaves and sent to hard labor camps. They were dispersed and transferred to build roads, build cities, control floods, and mine. There were plenty of jobs waiting for them.
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20,000 people were allocated to the Wuyan tribe as a supplement. Wuyan behaved very loyally this year and followed orders many times to fight in the fortress and was rewarded.
After more than a year of development, the Wuhuan and Wuyan tribes of Youbeiping have expanded from a small tribe of 800 tribes to a tribe of 2,000 tribes and more than 50,000 people. If an additional 20,000 people are added, it can be regarded as a large tribe.
Already.
Fifteen thousand people were sent to Juyong Xiaguan to raise horses. There was a horse breeding gate there, which was a military horse farm. Juyong Pass had been captured, so they could safely expand it with civilians.
Twenty thousand people were sent to the Beixin City Racecourse. There are several racecourses directly under the Chinese Army and are the main breeding grounds for Hexi horses. There are fifty Hexi stallions, thousands of Hexi mares and selected Youzhou mares.
He keeps thousands of Hexi war horses and more than 3,000 high-quality war horses as backup.
Preparing for large-scale attrition in case of defeat.
The land around Beixin City is all land and is not for civilian use. There is a large military camp there, which is the main road for enemy troops to enter Youzhou on a large scale. It is also the bridgehead for the Anping Army to send troops to Jizhou, so heavy troops must be stationed.
The remaining 60,000 people in Liucheng were mixed with the 30,000 people from Su Puyan tribe in Liaodong, and came under the jurisdiction of Yan Rou, as one of the sources of troops to protect Wuhuan Xiaowei.
The number of Hu Qi guarding Wuhuan's captains was expanded to 8,000, and they were selected from among the prisoners, and the rest were dismissed on the spot to graze and farm.
Everything in Liaodong was settled and the weather was cold. Liu Xiang was about to lead his army back. Wang Xing of Yanrou stayed in Liaodong to guard the area. Wu Yan returned to his tribe happily with additional prisoners, rationed weapons, and rewards.
Zhou Cang has plundered more than 1.3 million stones of grain and grass and has been hoarding it separately. He also took 60,000 Montenegrin troops and more than 40,000 prisoners to transport them to various places, and then spent the winter in Beixin City. After the spring, he will
Entering the Taihang Valley, the main areas of activity are Zhongshan and Changshan.
Yunfan Camp is recruiting and expanding its personnel. The freezing period in Youzhou has arrived. They have already gone ashore and will continue to deliver supplies to Liaodong after the beginning of spring.
A water village will also be established in Dashi County, Liaodong County, which is in the harbor north of modern Lushun Dalian. Going south along the Miaodao Islands, you can directly reach Qingzhou. This is a very excellent route.
The navigation technology of the Han Dynasty could not support ocean routes, and navigation had to be done in offshore areas. Liu Xiang planned to establish a squadron there, but Youzhou was not the south, and the sailors had to train themselves, so there was no rush.
It would be too cruel to drive a landlubber who can't sail into the sea. He can't do it, so he has to use time to train it slowly.
On October 28, when the sky was high and the sun was warm, the Anping Army's center and left armies broke out of camp and returned to Yuguan.