The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 280 Soldiers
(The easter egg at the end of the chapter, the map of Longyou County.)
On the first day of October in the 24th year of Tai'an, the army was training hard in the Nancheng school grounds of Yuanyang City.

These are all newly recruited soldiers, the number is still four hundred.

Now there is a surplus of production capacity in the city, and there is a large inventory of bamboo armored bows and arrows, which allows Zhao Yanxun to boldly expand his army.

At this moment, Zhao Yanxun was standing on the inspection platform of the school field, watching the drill of more than 400 soldiers below.

The last batch of soldiers were all sent to the Qianhu Office led by Xu Hong, and this time the soldiers will be replenished by Duan Hong.

The two of them are stationed outside, and they must expand their men as much as possible, so that they can effectively control the occupied area.

In particular, every key node needs to be stationed with military vehicles, so as to ensure the smooth flow of news between cities and the smooth transfer of materials.

This is a very systematic project. How to arrange the fortification needs to be studied repeatedly by the Privy Council, and then combined with the opinions of the garrisoned thousand households to come up with a plan.

In general, the demand for pawns is increasing, so recruiting is imperative.

The current batch of recruits are all basic movements, and in essence, they don't have much technical content.

So Zhao Yanxun came here this time just to take a look. His real destination this time is the army drill outside the south gate.

Duan Hong and Xu Hong were stationed outside, and Wang Cheng and Fang Sheng's troops were included. Apart from guarding Yuanyang, the two men's training for the army has never been reduced.

For example, today, Fang Sheng's army is conducting regular "big army" combat drills.

To put it simply, it is a simple synthetic combat exercise.

The big shield and spear are in the front, the short swords guard the sides, and the archers are in the rear. They advance and retreat in harmony, which is the way pawns practice when they are cold weapons.

At the very beginning, because of the need to deal with the zombies outside the city, the soldiers trained by the palace tried their best to fight against the zombies in groups of ten.

Although this formation is easy to use, its function is too single, so the Privy Council optimized it later.

Nowadays, infantry is only divided into three types, spear and shield soldiers, sword and shield soldiers and archers.

These three pawns can kill both near and far, so it is less difficult to train 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 lead archers, spearmen and short sword soldiers respectively, and Baihu himself leads ten short sword soldiers.

Combining two, three or more hundreds of households can form a larger army formation, which can deal with more powerful enemies.

After a brief stay in the school grounds, Zhao Yanxun rode his horse to Yongning Gate and climbed directly onto the city wall.

Fang Sheng is training today, so Fang Sheng will take over the defense of the city.

After this guy was dismissed by Zhao Yanxun, he is extremely cautious in doing things now.

Whether it was laying bridges on the Bahe River or leading the army to transport supplies for the North Crossing, he did everything properly.

Zhao Yanxun came to the city wall, and Wang Cheng greeted him before the horse's hooves, which can be called a saddle before a horse.

"See Your Majesty!"

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.

When we came to the top of the city tower, we had a wide view here, and we could just see the situation outside.

I saw the army under Fang Sheng's command was lined up horizontally at this moment, with large shields and spears in front, bows and arrows in the back, and short swords and shields on both sides.

The army under Fang Sheng's jurisdiction has no expansion plan, so it is still composed of six hundred households.

The soldiers of five of the Baihusuo formed an formation, and the soldiers of the remaining one of the Baihusuo stood opposite as an imaginary enemy.

The Baihusuo who play the role of the enemy is different in each training, so that each Baihusuo can be fully trained.

Fang Sheng was at the rear of the army formation at the moment, and there were two soldiers on his left and right, carrying command flags of various colors on their bodies.

Although the front line was only 100 meters after the five hundred households were spread out, and orders could be delivered by shouting with a human voice, Fang Sheng still chose to use it to give orders.

"A hundred steps forward!"

Following Fang Sheng's order, the semaphore soldiers picked up the red and green command flags and waved them according to the established procedures.

Each hundred households is a square formation, and each square formation has a special messenger to observe the movements of the semaphore soldiers.

"My lord, go a hundred steps forward!"

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 the troops to act together, so that the entire army formation will not be out of touch.

"implement!"

"Go!" All the hundreds of households ordered almost at the same time.

The army is marching together, because they are all trained according to a standard, so everyone's stride is roughly the same.

Even if there are different strides, everyone has the consciousness of automatic alignment, and the entire army formation is very neat.

Every soldier can realize that they will fight against zombies in the future, and they must do their best to train to meet the standard.

Standing on the city wall, Zhao Yanxun saw all this clearly, which made him very satisfied.

Along the city wall, Zhao Yanxun walked to the center of the tower, where chairs and tea tables had already been set up.

As Zhao Yanxun moved, all the soldiers along the way bowed down and saluted. It can 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 then acted as a commentator, explaining the meaning of the semaphore to Zhao Yanxun with all his heart.

Fang Sheng still knows how to speak, but Zhao Yanxun asked: "Do we have flag soldiers here, can we issue orders instead of Fang Sheng?"

Hearing this, Wang Chengcheng sweated for Fang Sheng, and taking over the command was like another on-the-spot test.

"Report to the prince, yes!"

"Okay then, call the semaphore soldiers, this king gives the order!"

"As ordered!"

Immediately Fang Sheng waved his hand, and the hundred households serving behind him knew how to leave, and brought two semaphore soldiers with them after a while.

"Take over command first!"

So above the city tower, drums sounded immediately, 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, and order them to face north!"

Following Zhao Yanxun's order, the semaphore soldiers immediately waved the command flag.

About five seconds later, after confirming that everyone had received the order, the semaphore soldiers officially issued the order to execute.

Then Zhao Yanxun could see that the five hundred households, so the middle hundred households were the foundation, rotated counterclockwise on the spot.

The entire military formation moves neatly and is closely connected with each other. Judging from the results of the demonstration, they are already a strong army.

Next, Zhao Yanxun conducted a series of tests, such as salvo, running forward, alternate cover and so on.

In the end, Fang Sheng was summoned before Zhao Yanxun.

Looking at Fang Sheng and Wang Cheng, Zhao Yanxun said earnestly: "You have to practice hard, and you must not relax at all, so that you will be able to take on heavy responsibilities in the future!"

"My lord's teachings, I will keep them in mind!"

The so-called important task is actually to clean up the zombies.

Relying solely on the staff of the Guards Department, it is too inefficient to effectively reduce the density of zombies.

So he wants to train soldiers who can fight, the kind that can face zombies head-on.

(End of this chapter)