(Easter egg at the end of the chapter, map of Longyou County.)
On the first day of October in the twenty-fourth year of Tai'an, the army was training hard in the south city campus of Yuanyang City.
These are all newly recruited soldiers, and their number is still four hundred.
Nowadays, there is a surplus of productivity in the city, and there is a large inventory of bamboo-armored archery chariots, which allows Zhao Yanxun to boldly expand his army.
At this moment, Zhao Yanxun was standing on the reviewing stand at the school ground, watching the more than 400 soldiers practicing below.
The last batch of soldiers were all sent to the Qianhu Station led by Xu Hong. This time he will supply Duan Hong with the soldiers.
The two of them are stationed outside and must expand their subordinates as much as possible in order to effectively control the occupied area.
In particular, military vehicles need to be stationed at each key node, so as to ensure the smooth flow of information between cities and the smooth transportation of materials.
This is a very systematic project. How to arrange the fortifications requires repeated research by the Privy Council, and then a plan will be given based on the opinions of thousands of households stationed there.
In general, the demand for soldiers is increasing, so recruiting troops is imperative.
The current batch of new recruits are all based on basic movements and do not have much technical content in essence.
So Zhao Yanxun came here this time just to take a look. His real destination this time was the army drill outside the south gate.
Duan Hong and Xu Hong were stationed outside, while Wang Cheng and Fang Sheng's troops were inside. In addition to guarding Yuanyang, these two men also never reduced their training of the army.
For example, today, Fang Sheng's army is conducting regular "big army" combat drills.
To put it simply, it is a simple combined warfare exercise.
The large shield and spear are in front, the short swords guard the two sides, and the archers are in the rear. They advance and retreat together in a tacit understanding. This is the way infantry trains when using cold weapons.
At the beginning, because they had to deal with the zombies outside the city, the soldiers trained by the palace with all their strength formed a group of ten to fight against the zombies.
Although this formation is easy to use, its function is too single, so the Privy Council later optimized it.
Nowadays, infantry is only divided into three types, spear and shield soldiers, sword and shield soldiers and archers.
These three soldiers can kill both near and far, so training is relatively easy and more cost-effective.
Fang Sheng's current training method, the most basic combat unit is a hundred households.
The three general banners of Baihusuo led archers, spearmen and short sword soldiers respectively. Baihu himself led ten short sword soldiers.
When two, three or more hundred households are combined, a larger military formation can be formed to deal with more powerful enemies.
After a brief stay at the school grounds, Zhao Yanxun rode to Yongning Gate and climbed directly onto the city wall.
Fang Sheng is conducting training today, and Fang Sheng will take over the defense of the city.
After being dismissed by Zhao Yanxun, this guy is now extremely cautious in doing things.
Whether he was building a bridge over the Bahe River or leading the army to transport supplies for the northern crossing, he did everything properly.
Zhao Yanxun came to the city wall, and Wang Cheng greeted him in front of the horse's hooves. It can also be said that he was in front of the saddle and behind the horse.
"See you, my lord!"
After jumping off the horse, Zhao Yanxun looked up at the plaque on the tower and said, "Let's go up and have a look!"
After saying that, Zhao Yanxun went straight to the tower, and Wang Cheng quickly got up and followed him.
When we came to the tower, we had a wide view and could just see what was going on outside.
I saw that the troops under Fang Sheng were arranged horizontally at the moment, with large shields and spears in front, bows and arrows at the back, and soldiers with short swords and shields on both sides.
The army under Fang Sheng's jurisdiction currently has no expansion plan, so it still has an establishment of six hundred households.
Among them, the soldiers of five hundred households formed a formation, and the soldiers of the remaining one hundred households stood on the opposite side as imaginary enemies.
The hundreds of households that play the role of the enemy are different for each training session, so that each hundred households can be fully trained.
Fang Sheng was at the rear of the military formation. There were two soldiers on his left and right, carrying command flags of various colors.
Although after the five hundred-household posts were spread out, the battle line was only one hundred meters long, and orders could be conveyed by shouting with a human voice, but Fang Sheng still chose to use orders.
"One hundred steps forward!"
Following Fang Sheng's order, the flag soldiers picked up the red and green flags and waved them according to the established procedures.
Each 100-household station is a square formation, and each square formation has a special messenger to observe the movements of the flag soldiers.
"Sir, move forward a hundred steps!"
After receiving the order, it was not executed immediately because there was a special flag order for execution.
The purpose of this design is to allow all armies to move together so that the entire military formation will not be disjointed.
"implement!"
"March!" Each household ordered almost simultaneously.
The army marched together, and because they were all trained to the same standard, everyone's strides were roughly the same.
Even though there are some with different strides, everyone has the awareness of automatically aligning themselves, and the entire military formation is very neat.
Every soldier can realize that they will have to fight zombies in the future, and they must do their best to train to meet the standards.
Standing on the city wall, Zhao Yanxun could see everything clearly, which made him very satisfied.
Along the city wall, Zhao Yanxun walked to the center of the city tower, where chairs and coffee tables had been set up.
As Zhao Yanxun moved, all the soldiers along the way bowed and saluted. It could be said that Zhao Yanxun had to kneel wherever he went.
Sitting on the chair, Zhao Yanxun nodded repeatedly as he watched Fang Sheng issue orders below.
Wang Cheng immediately got up as the commentator and explained the meaning of the flag language to Zhao Yanxun with all his heart.
Fang Sheng was still down below, but Zhao Yanxun asked: "Do we have flag soldiers here, can we give orders on Fang Sheng's behalf?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Chengcheng sweated for Fang Sheng. Taking over the command was tantamount to another on-the-spot test.
"You can report back to the prince!"
"Well, call the flag soldiers and I will give the order!"
"As you command!"
Then Fang Sheng waved his hand, and the Baihu who were waiting behind him left knowingly, and soon they brought two flag soldiers.
"Take command first!"
Then the sound of drums suddenly sounded on the tower, and the rhythm of the drums represented orders.
Sure enough, the army that was marching below all stopped in place at this moment.
"Let them adjust their direction on the spot. Now they are facing east. Send an order for them to face north!"
Following Zhao Yanxun's order, the flag soldiers immediately waved their flags.
About five seconds later, after confirming that everyone had received the order, the flagman officially issued the execution order.
Then Zhao Yanxun could see that the foundation of the five hundred households and the middle hundred households was spinning counterclockwise in place.
The entire military formation moves neatly and is closely connected with each other. Judging from the results of the demonstration alone, they are already a strong force.
Next, Zhao Yanxun conducted a series of tests, such as volley shooting, running forward, alternate covering, etc.
Finally, Fang Sheng was called in front of Zhao Yanxun.
Looking at Fang Sheng and Wang Cheng, Zhao Yanxun said earnestly: "You must practice hard and never relax at all, so that you can be able to shoulder important responsibilities in the future!"
"Your Majesty's teachings, please keep them in mind!"
The so-called important task is actually to clean up the zombies.
Relying solely on the manpower of the Guards Department is too inefficient to effectively reduce the zombie density.
So he wants to train soldiers who can fight, the kind that can stand up to zombies.
