Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 118 Counting Arms
This time when Zhu Wei sent troops, Mu Lan and Wang Yuyan also had to follow them into the battle. Only Tai Shici and Ma Zhong stayed in the camp and continued to train the remaining recruits and auxiliary soldiers.

In this way, Zhu Wei can be regarded as bringing his own team, and came out in full force.

Although the Shanyue bandit soldiers commanded by Zu Lang may also be mobs, but these Shanyue bandit soldiers are definitely Danyang soldiers. As the saying goes, they beat the master to death with random punches. If Zu Lang's Shanyue bandit soldiers are powerful, they should not be underestimated of.

What's more, Zhu Wei's side was originally composed of descendants and new soldiers, and their combat effectiveness had not yet been consolidated and improved, while the coalition forces of the families in Lingyang were full of internal conflicts, so it would be good not to hold back.

In such a situation, thinking about it really makes me want to sigh, but the reality is that there is no room for shrinking. After this is settled, the preparations for sending troops before the battle begin.

It also takes time to arrange things like selecting soldiers, preparing soldiers, and preparing various supplies.

Although Lingyang County is responsible for money and food, Zhu Wei naturally has to make his own preparations, and it is more at ease to rely on others or by himself.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and the entire Lingyang County became tense again.

The news that Zu Lang, commander of Shanyue Zong in Jing County, had attacked Lingyang with tens of thousands of bandits from Shanyue, had spread throughout the four miles and eight townships of Lingyang, and many people who were close to Jing County fled towards Lingyang County.

The coalition forces of all clans in Lingyang outside Lingyang County have already gathered, and Zhu Wei also took [-] soldiers to station in the coalition camp outside Lingyang County.

Then the [-] auxiliary soldiers from Lingyang County, Qing Zhuang, and the enough grain, grass and copper coins gathered by Lingyang County were almost prepared and transported to the camp of the coalition army.

During this period, Zhu Wei led Wang Yuyan and Mu Lan to inspect the coalition forces sent by the big and small families in Lingyang County. These private coalition forces seem to be well equipped, but they are basically swordsmen, spearmen and some archers.

Therefore, Zhu Wei broke up and reorganized these allied forces of various ethnic groups. All the swordsmen, spearmen, and archers were together. In this way, the allied forces of various ethnic groups that were originally grouped together could be regarded as unified command.

Of course, before doing this, Zhu Wei also reiterated the beheading order, and all those who disagreed will be executed.

When rectifying the private army of various ethnic groups in Lingyang, Zhu Wei specially brought Pang Yan and hundreds of guards. He was prepared to kill a few heads to scare the monkeys and sacrifice the military flag.

However, the big and small families in Lingyang County seem to have guessed that Zhu Wei would do this, so the private soldiers and clan soldiers they sent this time basically have no relatives in the clan, and some family members are responsible for commanding the clan soldiers .

Naturally, these retainers will not react much to Zhu Wei's rectification, and they are not willing to use their own necks to resist.

After reorganizing these coalition forces of various ethnic groups, Zhu Wei also divided the [-] soldiers selected by himself into [-] archers and [-] sabers and shields. arms.

It is mainly due to the lack of horses in the south, so there are very few opportunities to use the spear against the cavalry charge, and the spear is actually very difficult to use. The spear is a weapon that is three to four meters long and looks like a bamboo pole. It is to use the spear blade and dagger blade at the front end to make stabbing and hammering attack movements.

When dealing with enemy cavalry units, these long spears can be erected into a spear array, preventing the cavalry from approaching, allowing the fast-running horses to automatically bump into them to seek death, thereby resisting the impact of the cavalry units.

Generally, crossbow arrays or arrow arrays are arranged behind these gun arrays, so that cavalry units can be counterattacked from a long distance. This method is a conventional combat method for infantry to face cavalry.

However, spearmen may be a necessary unit in the army of the Central Plains. In the south with many mountains and rivers, there are not so many cavalry to face, so it is not so necessary to be deployed in the army.

Because in one-on-one infantry battles, long weapons like spears are definitely in the way. Once they are approached by swords and shields, they can only resist with bare hands.

Therefore, in the southern battlefield, long-handled spears are rarely used. They may be used for defending the city, but they are basically useless for attacking the city. On the contrary, bandits such as Shanyue can cut down bamboo to make spears, and they seem to use them more. .

But if it is not used to deal with cavalry, this kind of long spear is really not practical, especially after cavalry shooting has become a regular combat method of cavalry in the later period, these spears used to prevent cavalry from approaching gradually Eliminated from the battlefield.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, infantry often used red-tasseled spears instead of long soldiers. Red-tasseled spears were about one-third shorter than spears. Let the spearmen also have a certain combat effectiveness when facing other arms in infantry combat.

And the red-tasseled spear is also simple to manufacture, one gun body, one red tassel, and one gun head are enough, so Song Bing's conventional weapon is the red-tasseled gun.

It's a pity that the spearmen were still unable to fight against the Liao cavalry and Jin cavalry in the Song Dynasty, especially when facing the Mongolian cavalry, they did not have any defensive advantages.

Not much to talk about, just say that now Zhu Wei doesn't pay much attention to spear arms, so the only two types of arms under him are sword and shield hand and archer.

However, there are some spearmen among the private soldiers and coalition forces in Lingyang County, which are also equipped for guarding homes and Wubao, and the total number is about a thousand.

For the time being, Zhu Wei is going to use these spearmen to stabilize the line of the [-] private coalition forces at the front, lest they be smashed under the attack of the Zulang Mountain Yue bandits.

However, in order to enhance the stability of his formation, Zhu Wei specially built some tiger cart-like spear carts and knife carts, which is equivalent to creating some moving gate walls.

Zhu Wei recruited more than a thousand people among his auxiliary troops to push this kind of battle equipment, which can be called a "tiger cart". When necessary, he could create a wall of knives and spears out of thin air in front of the military formation to block the formation. Keep the enemy's attack route on Zhu Weijun's formation.

It can be said that during these days, Lingyang County has also made various preparations before dispatching troops.

So on this day, Zhu Wei led people to the gate tower of Lingyang County, preparing to formally sacrifice the flag and send troops.

There were more than a thousand personal guards led by Mu Lan guarding Zhu Wei, and Wang Yuyan helped Zhu Wei prepare the items needed to sacrifice the flag, and also prepared several general flags.

In front of the city gate of Lingyang County, 5000 Zhu guards, 1000 private coalition troops, more than [-] auxiliary soldiers, and more than [-] auxiliary soldiers pushing tiger carts stood in neat rows.

There are many people from Lingyang County standing around watching, all of them are waiting for Zhu Wei to sacrifice the flag to order soldiers, distribute general flags, and complete the last ceremony before leaving the army...

(End of this chapter)