The eldest son of the red mansion

This is only the first step in their training, and it is not a transformation of their souls.The next step is to improve their combat effectiveness.

Chapter 143 Winter Training 2

After a month of basic training, the team finally started combat capability training. At this time, the archers, infantry, and cavalry were trained separately.

The crossbowman requires that ten arrows must be shot continuously within one minute, and these arrows must have certain accuracy and directionality.It is also necessary to practice the use of shields and knives, in case the enemy suddenly rushes in and has no time to retreat. At this time, archers are needed to use shields and knives for the final resistance.

The most important and most numerous infantry in Kaiping Town is the Phalanx Army, which is a small square formation composed of 250 six people. There are a total of twenty such small square formations. These small square formations form various large formations The phalanx can change flexibly and diversely on the battlefield.It is guaranteed that these spearmen can effectively strike the enemy in any direction.

In addition to lining up, spearmen also need to train to advance quickly with spears in their hands, chase the enemy, and march more than one mile without any confusion.In order to deal with the enemy's sudden counterattack, as well as unexpected attacks from the flanks and rear, the integrity of the formation is always maintained, so that the enemy has nothing to say.

Next is the cavalry. Kaiping Town used to have 400 well-trained cavalry. The cavalry trained this time are all new recruits. It is impossible for others to send cavalry like treasures, so they are selected from these people. Those who have riding experience [-] people were trained as cavalry.

Each old cavalry led four new cavalry and trained them on horseback, teaching them how to maintain formation, how to charge intensively, how to slash the enemy with a knife on the horse, and how to shoot arrows while running.

The training has been going on for three months, even during Chinese New Year.In order to show that she shares joys and sorrows with the soldiers, Jia Ke also stayed in the barracks during the Chinese New Year and did not go back.I ate a New Year's Eve dinner with all the soldiers in the barracks, eating meat and drinking in large bowls.

After three months of training, the 1-strong army has obviously been reborn.Under the policy of recruiting recruits from veterans, the combat effectiveness of the team has not dropped much.

From winter to spring, after three months of training, the troops were basically formed, but without any actual combat, Jia Ke still felt a little uneasy.

After careful consideration, Jia Ke decided to conduct a big contest between troops, and conduct confrontation training between phalanxes and phalanxes.

For training, it is necessary to simulate actual combat as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results, otherwise it is meaningless to engage in those showy things.

But in order to prevent casualties among the soldiers, during the training process, everyone used bamboo poles to wrap cloth strips and dipped them in lime.In the confrontation order, anyone who is poked in a vital part of the body to withdraw immediately is cheating, but the white spots on the body are very obvious, and the hundred households who are supervised by the side are not blind, so they are immediately caught out.

In fact, this method was not thought up by Jia Ke, it is the training method described by Shi Naian in "Water Margin".It should be a training method commonly used in the army during the Song Dynasty.However, no one is using it in this time and space.

Fan Kang admired Jia Ke's idea very much. By doing so, he could simulate actual combat as much as possible while ensuring safety. Naturally, the training effect would be twice the result with half the effort.

At the beginning, Jia Ke still demanded that the small phalanx fight against each other, and then gradually expanded the scale.

Later, it developed into a large-scale confrontation with Huang Baifeng and Feng Mo each leading 5000 men, crossbowmen, phalanx troops, and cavalry fully equipped.

Then there was also a drill of cavalry opposing formations.

Three thousand cavalry acted as Tatars and charged the phalanx army in formation.

It was not easy for Jia Ke to raise the [-] cavalry, and almost used all the horses captured in several battles in Kaiping Town.There are still some stallions that have not been castrated. These horses were rarely captured in these few wars, and almost all of them were private horses owned by Tatar nobles.

The Tatars have very strict control over horses. All the horses that can be sold to the dynasty are castrated horses. This is to prevent the court from buying back horses and breeding them themselves to enhance the strength of the cavalry.Even Tang Kuai, as the internal agent of the Tatars, found it difficult to buy uncastrated stallions.Jia Ke set up a horse farm for one or two hundred male horses to breed horses.

After several drills, different combat methods have been trained.During the combat, we fully discovered our own deficiencies, corrected these deficiencies, and continued to develop the advantages we discovered.

And Liu Yu came back from the capital before the New Year, and brought more than 120 good guys according to Jia Ke's instructions.

As soon as Liu Yu returned to the capital this time, he first met with Lin Zhixiao and told him that he was coming back this time by the order of his uncle to deliver a letter to him.

Lin Zhixiao didn't dare to neglect, and immediately went to see Jia Zheng and reported to Jia Zheng that Jia Ke had sent someone to deliver the letter.Jia Zheng heard that it was Jia Ke who sent someone back to deliver the letter.Without hesitation, he summoned Liu Yu immediately.

In Mengpozhai Jiazheng, I met Liu Yu, who was in a hurry.

When Liu Yu saw Jia Zheng, he immediately invited him to pay homage. Jia Zheng was Jia Ke's father and their old master.

Jia Zheng knew that Liu Yu was the captain of Jia Ke's personal guard and was loyal to Jia Ke, so he was still very friendly to him. Seeing him salute, he told him to get up quickly.

After saluting, Liu Yu took out Jia Ke's letter from her bosom, and presented it to Jia Zheng with both hands.

Jia Zheng took the letter and opened it to read it carefully. Jia Ke explained to him the situation at the border during this period in detail.He also told Jia Zheng that he had assigned his personal soldiers to take charge of the troops.Now he lacks men under his command, and needs some simple and honest boys from peasant backgrounds to serve as his personal guards so that he can continue to train.

When Jia Zheng saw this, his heart moved, thinking that Jia Ke wanted to treat the army as his own private soldiers.It was shocking that he had such ambition at such a young age.

But this matter still needs to be covered up for him. After Jia Zheng read the letter, he took out the scythe and set the letter on fire.

After Jia Zheng finished these things, he said to Liu Yu: "I already know the purpose of your return this time. You first select people from Xiacao Village and Wangjiatun. If there are not enough people, I will transfer you from other villages."

Liu Yu replied respectfully to Jia Zheng and said, "Bring these two people from Zhuangzi along, it's almost done."

Jia Zheng told Liu Yu again: "When selecting candidates, it is better to be short than to be indiscriminate. You don't need to have good martial arts skills, as long as you are clean. People are honest and honest."

Liu Yu wrote down what Jia Zheng said one by one.

For the next ten days, Liu Yu ran between the two villages.Among them, 120 strong and strong boys were selected.

Originally, many family members in Wangjiatun didn't want their children to go to the border, but later I heard that many of those who served as Jia Ke's personal soldiers before have become officials now, and can already sit on an equal footing with the county magistrate.So he immediately changed his attitude, put his own children in the army, and gave Liu Yu money and gifts. This has become commonplace.

But Liu Yu did not disappoint Jia Ke's expectations of him, and did not get any benefits from it. Instead, he selected the best of these young men and chose 120 of the two Zhuangzi.After selecting the candidates, without any delay, they hurriedly returned to Kaiping Town with 120 people.Arrived in Kaiping Town, just before Chinese New Year.

Jia Ke didn't give them any preferential treatment, and directly ordered Liu Yu to start training. Their training was harder than ordinary soldiers, and those soldiers had been soldiers for a while at least.

The people Liu Yu brought back this time were all farmers who had just put down their hoes.The training was extremely difficult. Jia Ke asked Liu Yu to take full responsibility for this matter. This was a test for him and an opportunity for him to perform.

Jia Ke's bodyguard team not only needs to train infantry subjects, but also trains archers, sword and card players, and cavalry subjects. It has to train almost everything that can be trained.

Therefore, the training time is extremely long, when ordinary soldiers have completed their training and are entering maintenance training.The guards still wake up at midnight and train desperately.This kind of training lasted for half a year before Jia Ke was satisfied.The bodyguard team can be regarded as the completion of formal training.

Chapter 144

It was already mid-May when the personal training was completed.At this time, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Jia Ke also changed the training to every other day to prevent the soldiers from heatstroke.It is also helpless for Jia Ke to change the training plan now. In this day and age, getting sick can be fatal, and Jia Ke doesn't want unnecessary casualties.Jia Ke's army has always trained once a day, unlike other troops in Xuanfu Town, who have trained once every ten or five days. The reason for this is that apart from the fact that ancient military training has always been like this, there is another important reason. The reason is that once training, money and food must be consumed, and other functions will save one point, so how can they be willing to spend so much money and food for the court.

And Tang Kuai kept traveling between the Tatars and Kaiping Town during this period, and got some important information. The most important thing was that the Tatars almost had internal strife.

The Great Khan of the Tatars, Arslen Khan, after returning last time, attributed the failure to the disunity of the various ministries and did not listen to his orders.So, using this as a reason, they began to rectify the tribes and began to weaken the power of the leaders of the tribes.Send envoys to the tribes to supervise and even seize the power of the tribal leaders.They even asked the tribal leaders to release Tatar slaves and make them ordinary tribal peoples.

This caused a great shock in the grassland, and the interests of the tribal leaders were greatly impacted. You must know that the Tatars are still in slavery, and this order simply killed a tribal leader.If it is said that sending envoys to fight with them for power, the tribal leaders on the grassland can still tolerate it, then it is completely impossible to compromise on the emancipation of the slaves, and the tribal leaders on the grassland complained a lot.

In view of the unstable situation, Arslen Khan had to recall the heavy troops he had deployed in the Western Regions to deter other tribes on the grassland.

And the tribal leaders on the grassland did not sit still. They connected with each other and killed the envoy sent by Arslen Khan to the tribe. Dozens of tribal leaders even formed an alliance to fight against Arslen Khan. There were more than 20 cavalry on both sides. Several confrontations.

In this situation where the grassland was facing division and even confrontation, the high priest on the grassland, the famous wise man Erde Mutu, personally convened a large-scale Naadam meeting between the tribes and Arslen Khan.

At this meeting, Arslen Khan was forced to give up his idea of ​​controlling other tribes in the grassland, and other tribes also gave up organizing alliances against Arslen Khan. Both sides took a step back and returned to the state before Arslen Khan issued the order. .

The meeting ostensibly restored calm to the steppe.But everyone knows that under this superficial calm, there are dark tides raging, and many ambitious people have already started their activities.

If Arslen Khan doesn't take measures, the grassland will definitely split, and someone will stand up to challenge his position as the lion king.

What bothered him even more was the Western Regions, which started to make trouble again after he withdrew his troops.In this case, he has a feeling of being pinched from front to back.

Arslen Khan had no choice but to shrink his troops in the Western Regions. This move allowed many small countries that had been destroyed to be restored.

To resist the Tartars, these small states formed a confederacy of thirteen states.Promise that as long as a country is attacked by the Tatars, other countries are obliged to send troops to help with all their strength. In addition to these thirteen relatively large countries, there are [-] or [-] small countries that are members of this alliance.

The reason why these countries were able to establish an alliance so quickly is because there is a big country hidden behind it. This country has been repeatedly invaded by the Tatars, so this time I fully supported the Thirteen-Nation Alliance and provided them with a lot of weapons and horses. , this country is a big food in black.

Dashi in Black wanted to turn the Thirteen Western Regions into a buffer between them and the Tatars.