Seeing Li Chengzhi, Li Bai immediately ordered the entire army to stop the drill, jumped off the high platform quickly, and bowed to him: "Please give me advice!"
Any advice?
Li Chengzhi curled his lips.
Do you regard your husband as an almighty god?
No matter how arrogant he is, he doesn't dare to act blindly based on his experience in playing games and visiting forums.
People will die...
"You're busy with your business, don't worry about me, I'll just take a look!" Li Chengzhi waved his hand.
Li Bai responded and invited him to the high platform to let the soldiers continue training.
As the formation flags on the high platform were waved and the military drums beat, the formations below began to move quickly.
There are about a thousand people, and they are marching together, as if they are practicing an attack formation.
The formation is going well and is not chaotic at all, which shows that Li Song has worked hard and put in a lot of effort in the past half month.
It’s just that the lineup is a bit shabby.
The clothes were in a mess, some were leather robes, some were linen robes, and some even wore silk clothes and furs that only rich families could have.
However, it is almost as long as the ankles. The color is either gray or yellow, and it looks like it was ripped off the body of a monk.
The weapons are also long and short, and most of them are holding wooden sticks.
It's not that there are not enough weapons. The Li and Song families are both powerful families, and they each occupy a dock. I don't dare to mention swords and bows, but they can still make up more than a thousand iron-tipped spears.
The main reason was that there were too many new soldiers, and Li Bai was afraid of accidental injuries during the drill, so except for the old pawns, all the others were armed with wooden spears.
As for clothing and armor, it’s actually easy to solve.
A thousand pairs of wooden armors will be made immediately, and they will all be roughly earthy white. After they are all distributed in a day or two, the lineup will naturally be in order.
Li Chengzhi looked at it carefully.
The thousand people were now divided into two battalions, each with about 500 men, and each battalion had five teams.
This is also consistent with the military structure of the Wei Dynasty: one thousand men per army, five hundred men per brigade, and one hundred men per team.
Then we will divide the arms into specific branches according to wartime needs or own conditions.
Not to mention, the two battalions on the campus have quite a complete range of arms: spearmen, archers, cavalry... and there are vehicles next to them. Although they are agricultural vehicles, they have roughly the same functions as chariots.
When the cavalrymen dismounted and harnessed themselves to the chariot, they became charioteers again.
It’s just a bit Fermat...
However, apart from the spearmen, there are not many cavalry and archers.
There are about a hundred archers in each battalion, all of whom are strong and long-armed. There are fifty cavalry each, and the total is only one hundred.
This is also due to the fact that the Li family occupied the Song family and Zhaoxuan Temple and captured nearly seventy war horses. Otherwise, they would have been able to collect thirty horses even if they were exhausted.
More than 80 of these one hundred cavalrymen are veterans who have fought with Li Qi and Li Shixian, and they are also truly elite cavalrymen.
The remaining dozen or so, including Li Xian, can only be regarded as half-cavalry.
The criterion for measuring the difference between the two is simple: whether you can free your hands to draw a bow on a fast-moving horse, or whether you can hold a weapon with both hands.
Don't underestimate this. Li Xian has been practicing riding skills on and off for two or three years. Now when he is shooting a bow or holding a gun on a horse, he must hold the reins in one hand to control the horse.
Without the interference of the reins or the horse, how accurate can the arrow be?
If it were Li Song or Li Bai, with a slight touch of their knees, the horse would know whether to go faster, slower, turn, or turn around.
In fact, if you practice hard, two or three years is a bit exaggerated, but at most you can be able to free your hands for fighting on the horse after only one year of riding.
For example, Li Zhang can control a horse after practicing for more than half a year.
He was not bad either. It is said that after hugging the horse's neck and whispering for more than a month, he dared to ride the horse to sleep... Angry, Li Shixian locked him in the stable all night!
The reason why Li Xian is so bad is related to his character.
This bastard is not just generally irritable, he also has no patience at all. When training or practicing riding, he spends more time beating the horse than riding it.
Although he often gets a beating from Li Song, Li Xian always forgets about eating rather than beating, and forgets about it in the blink of an eye. Which horse can have a tacit understanding with him?
It would be nice not to carry him on his back in a suicidal charge towards the enemy camp during the war...
Looking at Li Song, sometimes he is so busy that his feet are no longer touching the ground. He can take time out every three to five days to feed the horses, walk them, rinse their hair and catch lice.
In Li Song's words, horses are half the life of cavalry...
Therefore, Li Chengzhi was not so idiotic as to think that he could build cavalry with horses. The main reason he asked Hu Baozong to buy horses was to build mounted infantry to fight harassing battles with insurgents.
Regardless of the rest, my mobility is absolutely top-notch: I can’t beat you, but I can’t outrun you?
Of course, cavalry must still be equipped and trained. After all, before the advent of firearms, cavalry was the well-deserved king of soldiers...
Li Chengzhi squinted for a while, and finally got some clues.
It’s not like what was shown on TV, where the general gave orders by shouting?
Like "Da Qin Fu".
Let’s not talk about whether the general and the messengers will be silenced after a battle. Let’s talk about the tens of thousands of troops. The formation is spread out over a hundred meters in radius. How many messengers do you have to arrange around you to roar together before you can reach the target?
A hundred meters away?
Not to mention when the two armies confront each other.
There are people shouting and neighing everywhere. Let’s not talk about whether you can hear it clearly. How do you let the soldiers tell whether this is an order from your own commander or an order from the enemy general?
In ancient times, wars relied on golden drums and flags, and the rules and regulations were extremely strict. They must be simple, easy to understand, clear and effective.
Otherwise, it would take the battalion general just a long time to think about what this military order means, and the fighter plane would have been missed...
It's not like the kind in the TV series where the drums sound and the soldiers attack as soon as they sound, and then they sound continuously, and the soldiers rush up like a swarm of swarms.
In addition to the big drum beside Li Bai, the commanders of each brigade and team were surrounded by soldiers carrying small drums, all of whom were tall and strong men.
The sound of the big drum on the stage means that the entire army is dispatched. At this time, the small drummer in the formation beats the small drum at a specific frequency, and the soldiers begin to advance.
The small drum sounded, and the soldiers took a step forward. The drum beat was unhurried and unhurried, just like later generations walking in unison. The drum beat was like the slogan "one, two, one".
Three consecutive blasts of a large drum represent a rapid advance, but not a rush forward like a swarm of swarms. The military formation must advance quickly without being out of touch with the central army, the formation must not be chaotic, and there must be enough physical strength left.
Used to kill enemies.
At this time, the sound of the small drum in the brigade formation means running ten steps forward.
If the battalions are not far away from each other and they are afraid of mutual interference, they will be replaced by the drums of the Chinese army.
When the coach thinks he can charge, he will continue to beat, which is a scene that often appears in TV dramas: the drummer uses all his strength to beat the big drum, beat as fast as he can, knock one out, and replace it with the next one...
…The troops below rush forward as fast as they can!
At this time, the drummers in the brigade camp and team camp turned into flag bearers or flag bearers and followed the brigade generals.
Of course, the sound of drums alone is not enough. It is just a method used by both sides to convey orders before the battle.
Most slightly more complex military orders, or when the shouting after a battle is too loud and the drum sound has little effect, are conveyed by flags.
For example, which team needs to temporarily change the attack formation or direction, and order the reserve team to participate in the battle, specifically which direction to participate in, etc.
This is why there are so many flags around Li Bai and in the two brigades below.