Following Chongzhen's order, an infantry battalion of 500 people began a phalanx performance.
Each hundred households forms a square formation, with five people arranged horizontally, one platoon as a unit, and twenty rows in columns. There are a total of 100 people, and there are several instructors in charge of training leading the team.
Five infantry squares walked past one after another. These soldiers looked at a line directly, looked at a line from the side, and looked at it diagonally. They raised their legs and set their feet neatly, as if they were cutting with knives and axes. When their steps fell, they made a neat sound.
, formed a resonance, amplified the sound, and it seemed that the earth was trembling slightly.
Then five cavalry phalanxes walked slowly forward, and the horses all marched in unison.
Ordinarily, this time is not enough to train such a neat phalanx of horses. For the sake of effectiveness, Yang Fan temporarily lent the servants' horses to them for use.
There are only one war horse in the Beijing camp, and 20,000 of them are occupied by various yamen and lent to officials for riding. Only 8,000 horses are left in the horse pens of the Beijing camp. These 8,000 horses are also very thin.
Because the Ministry of Finance often defaulted on food and fodder, the horses did not have enough to eat. They were so hungry that they were skin and bones and could not be ridden at all.
The horse was so thin that the bony saddle on the back could not be placed securely. The feeling of riding on it was absolutely sore. Those who could ride were borrowed by the Fifth Army Governor's Office and civil servants, and the rest were
Cannot be used.
At this time, the five hundred horses passing under the platform were all majestic Arabian horses. I don’t know how much stronger they were than the horses in the Jingying camp. Each one’s smooth fur shone like satin.
Just looking at it makes people fall in love with it.
These corrupt officials were stunned when they saw such a good horse. Men in this era like good horses, just like men in later generations like good cars. It is a status symbol and a man's business card.
Many officials immediately started making a commotion and whispering. They were preparing to go to Nanyuan to borrow horses as soon as the matter here was over, and replace the war horses they now occupied privately.
They have become accustomed to taking advantage of the public. They don't think there is anything wrong with their own private use of war horses, causing the army to have no horses to ride on, and affecting the battle.
Several ministers in the cabinet and the ministers of the six ministries kept praising him. They had never seen such energetic soldiers since they entered the Ming court.
Are these soldiers still like the beggar soldiers in the Beijing camp? Why do they look like a different person? They are completely unrecognizable.
The first impression they give people is that they are clean. The military uniform is not in the style of the Ming Dynasty. It looks gaudy, but when so many people wear it, they have an indescribable beauty.
People in this era were thin, so they wore armed belts to show off their figure.
Later, Yang Fan and Zhang Shize ordered their troops to stand by, and they came to Chongzhen to pay homage to the emperor.
Chongzhen Longyan was delighted and quickly asked the two of them to stand in front of the emperor and continue to issue orders and direct the exercises.
Next, the cavalry performed a horse-riding bow shooting at a 30-meter grass target. The infantry performed a square formation with large shields and spear assassination. Three-stage shooting with three-eyed blunderbuss. Three-stage shooting with bird blunderbuss. The tiger crouching cannon was fired at close range.
Under the command of Zhang Shize, flags and drums, and Ming Jin, the army formations advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, with orders and prohibitions being carried out, and the teams and teams cooperated and coordinated. This was an eye-opener for His Majesty and the civil and military ministers, and they all praised him endlessly.
Seeing their cheerful looks, Yang Fan sighed in his heart.
These flower stands are of no use on the battlefield.
None of the civil and military officials on the platform today have actual war experience; they are all just talking about war on paper.
What Yang Fan did was just to mess with them, it just looked good, but he couldn't win the war with this.
Speaking of this period of training, the biggest gain is to awaken the military consciousness of these Beijing camp officers and soldiers who were crippled by nobles and civil servants, and to standardize their daily work and rest habits and minimum military qualities. But it is far from being able to fight
The army is still far from victorious.
At this time, there was already a flood of praises praising His Majesty on the platform. It seemed that as long as there were these Beijing troops, they would be invincible.
Only Yang Fan knew in his heart that when he met the slaves, these were just food. A capable soldier could be trained in just half a month. Now it was just a good start.
After the exercise, Chongzhen's face glowed red. When the praises of the ministers calmed down, he said to Yang Fan: "Yang Qing, I have read your memorial. I support your decision to purchase some winter clothes. After all, you are going to the bitter cold grassland.
To fight the war, I must keep the soldiers warm and well-fed. Today, all the ministers in the cabinet, the governors of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, the six ministers, the ministers of Taipusi Temple, and the chief eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor are all here. You need to purchase what you need
Let me introduce the supplies to you.”
Yang Fan cupped his hands and said: "I accept the decree. This expedition is a winter march. It will take a month of walking in the high mountains to reach Guihua City. This time, I will try my best to march from the densely populated areas of North Zhili and northern Shanxi to reduce the logistical burden.
.But field and camping equipment are still indispensable.”
Yang Fan called a few soldiers over. Yang Fan pointed at them and introduced: "This set of cotton clothes and pants uses a total of four kilograms of cotton and one foot of coarse cloth. Beizhili purchased 100 kilograms of cotton and thirty pieces of coarse cloth (about four feet).
Wenqian. Including labor and carriage fees, a set of cotton clothes costs five hundred and fifty wen."
Bi Ziyan, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, immediately asked: "I have no objection to the price of the cloth. Is the labor and transportation cost a bit expensive? In addition, the capital only uses one pound of cotton to make a set of cotton clothes. A set of these cotton clothes and trousers is enough."
Isn’t it too expensive to ask for four pounds of fine cotton?”
Yang Fan first bowed to Bi Shangshu. Lao Bi was a good and competent official. He was always very careful with money and money, and he saved the court a lot of money. If he didn't manage the money in the court, I don't know if it could have been maintained.
Going down.
"Master Bi, you don't know something. When you leave Zhangjiakou or Datong, the climate outside the mouth will drop sharply. The weather is much colder than Jinzhou. It is about the same as Tieling and Kaiyuan. Four kilograms of cotton is not enough, especially at night.
It can be said that pee turns into ice, and if a cold wave comes, it can freeze rocks to pieces."
"The reason why I ordered four pounds of cotton-padded clothes is mainly because I need to maintain flexibility in combat. Too thick cotton-padded clothes will affect combat. I need to wear a cotton coat outside." As Yang Fan said, he picked up an old-fashioned military coat and a military hat.
A scarf. Pass it to all the ministers and the governors of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion.
Several soldiers at the back handed these things to the eunuchs and forwarded them to the emperor and ministers for careful viewing.
Chongzhen picked up the cotton coat and looked at it. He pulled it with his hands and found that the fabric was strong and the dyeing and printing colors were correct and reliable. He picked up a knife and cut a corner of it and took out the cotton.
The cotton is all new and snow-white, and the cotton fibers are very long. So he nodded.
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