Chapter XIII Weapons and Armor
Yuan Yao's order was quickly passed on, and the 1,200 dolls also rebuilt a large camp for him outside the Jiang Pavilion alone.
Yuan Yao arrived in the camp, Chen Zhi hurriedly greeted him, and 1,200 baby soldiers also began to assemble, standing scattered, and they were also talking to each other, Yuan Yao didn't say anything, after all, they had just entered the camp, and they hadn't really started training yet, and they were still timid one by one.
"General Zhang Xun, you see that these children are okay" Yuan Yao was still followed by people, including Zhang Xun, the only general in Yuan Yao's hands.
Zhang Xun looked at those bean sprouts and pursed his lips, the long-term lack of food has led to the general malnutrition of these bean sprouts, and their bodies are even shorter, compared with the soldiers under him Zhang Xun, it is one in the sky and one in the ground.
But these people are still children after all, and Zhang Xun also knows how to give his father-in-law a little face, but he won't flatter, so he can only reply "It's okay, it's okay"
"Your Majesty, you are here, General Zhang Xun" Chen Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to kneel down and salute Yuan Yao, but was stopped by Yuan Yao frowning, because Chen Zhi was a captain, so he still took out a set of armor from the treasury and gave it to Chen Dao.
Although it doesn't fit, it is also dressed in a decent way, but when Chen Zhi wants to kneel down and salute Yuan Yao, Chen Zhi has to untie two or three openings and take off the helmet, and in this way, he can't kneel on both knees, he can only kneel on one knee.
After putting on the armor, such a kneeling salute is obviously not suitable for the needs of the battlefield.
"In the future, the military will abolish the etiquette of kneeling and worship," Yuan Yao said to Chen Zhi.
"Your Majesty, you must not, there is no joke in the army, there is a strict hierarchy in the three armies, how can there be no bowing ceremony, there is no rule, there is no square circle, the junior generals and colonels see that the superiors do not bow down, this is not a mess, what is the majesty of the army" Zhang Xun immediately stepped forward to stop it.
Looking at the angry look on Zhang Xun's face, he didn't expect Zhang Xun's reaction to be so big, Yuan Yao was also pondering, indeed, the strict hierarchy and the majesty of the army are all reflected in this kneeling. The ancients had gold under their knees, and the bow was still very important, and the bow in the army was also the reason for the awe of the generals and the army.
But to put it another way, if the army goes out on an expedition or the battle situation is urgent, there is also a bow, which is very inconvenient for the action, as for saluting or something, it is also inconvenient, wearing armor and you still want to raise your hands to the door of your head.
Yuan Yao thought for a while, and suddenly an idea came to mind, it is not okay to bow and salute, there is one that is not difficult, but also reflects the appearance of military etiquette, that is, the kind of military salute used by the SS or the German ** people during World War II.
"Hi Hitler"
"How about this" Yuan Yao leaned forward and raised his arm slightly to demonstrate to Zhang Xun and Chen Zhi, and the name also changed from Hi Hitler to Yes, Your Majesty, or, General and obedience and the like.
Zhang Xun still disagreed, although he also knew that this made it so convenient to march and fight, but the ancient law is like this, the old ancestor can't be wrong, Yuan Yao was annoyed that he didn't think about choosing from the veterans to re-establish the camp, otherwise it would be really difficult for some old antiques and veterans who had formed a mindset to change their thoughts and behaviors.
"General Zhang Xun, Yu Linwei, you are the main general, but this is the new army." Yuan Yao was angry at Zhang Xun for the first time.
"No, Your Majesty, in this army" Zhang Xun wanted to say something, but was pulled by Qin Huai behind him, "General, these are all dolls, why should you." Zhang Xun thought that he was a little too radical, these are just some baby soldiers, and they are not regular soldiers, whatever he Yuan Yao does.
Although Zhang Xun was silent, his face was still not very good.
"Chen Dao, I have selected twenty brave and combat-ready veterans from General Zhang Xun's Yulin Guard, and they will be responsible for helping you train these new troops in the future." Yuan Yao said to Chen Zhi, and Chen Zhi could only nod yes.
Zhang Xun and the others left, but news still came from the camp of these boy scouts from time to time.
That is, His Majesty asked these baby soldiers not to practice how to cut and kill people, but to practice what to take the right step, and what to move step by step, isn't this a ghost Zhang Xun also went to see it once, and he walked quite squarely, but killing people on the battlefield is not for you to walk the catwalk.
Even Chen Zhi looked at his majesty suspiciously, this soldier needs to learn to walk, who can't walk. It's been a long time.
"Uncle Zhi, what do you think is the most important thing about an army" Yuan Yao asked Chen Zhi on the side.
"Important" Chen Zhi thought for a while, in Chenjiazhuang, Chen Zhi not only learned martial arts, but also learned the art of war, and replied to Yuan Yao, "The most important thing in an army should be its elite", there are clouds in the military book, with the elite in the army, hit the weakness of the army, break it, divide it, and annihilate it.
"Elite can be said to be one of them, Shu Zhi, which one do you think belongs to the elite, a bear or a bee" Yuan Yao asked Chen Zhi again. Chen Zhi didn't even think about it, so he replied that he was blind.
A bear is about three meters tall when it stands tall, and a bee is the size of a fly that can swatt him to death.
"But bears are afraid of swarms of bees," Yuan Yao explained to Chen Zhi, there are really not many animals in the forest that can bring danger to adult bears, even if the tiger, the king of the forest, sees the bear, he has to retreat three points, but the bear has no way to take the bees. Because the bees only listen to the queen bee's orders, they lurk and follow without regard for casualties in order to drive away the blind bear. So one of the things in the forest that can cause harm to bears is bees.
"For the army of the princes of the world, they are bears, and we are the bees, if we want to make the bears afraid, then we must unite, and what unites us is to order an army, the most important thing is to obey orders, unite and cooperate" Yuan Yao said to Chen Zhi, and even instilled in Chen Zhi that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty.
"When I let them walk the right way, I am cultivating their teamwork and ability to obey orders," Yuan Yao said to Chen Zhi.
"Even if there is a cliff or a cliff in front of the army, you have to rush forward, this is the order"
"Okay, Shuzhi, you continue to train with them"
A week passed quickly, and the steps were also in good shape, Yuan Yao also specially took them to jump into the dung pit, and there was a dung pit in front of them, but if they obeyed the order, they had to walk over and jump down, without the slightest hesitation, and hesitated to punish the whole team. Slowly, these baby soldiers finally understood what an order was.
There is one thing that Yuan Yao is really embarrassed about. That is, there is no ordnance.
Weapons and armor are lacking in everything, nothing, and you can still walk the right way a week ago, so you have to train to cut people, how can you contact without weapons. There are only a dozen weapons in the treasury, and they are all rusty, and there are not a few pieces of armor.
Armor is generally based on step armor, leather armor, and iron armor, and the infantry armor is actually no armor or is wearing silk products inside, so the armor stomach has no resistance to melee weapons such as war knives and long swords, but it can have enough resistance to the arrows, and the bow and arrow cannot penetrate the silk when shot on it, so that it will not cause the bow and arrow to turn into the body to grind the muscles of the body and other things, and it is easy to treat the wound when pulled out.
But where to find the silk Yuan Yao, even his majesty has two silk clothes.
Leather armor, which is made of animal skin, is not enough to kill all the horses in the whole city.
Not to mention the iron armor, the Yulin guards under Zhang Xun are all wearing leather armor.
In addition to these few, there is only one vine armor left.
By the way, Yuan Yao's eyes flashed, he couldn't make leather armor without step armor, let alone iron armor, but he could have rattan armor.
Another famous battle is called Burning the Rattan Armor Soldiers, although the final outcome of the Vine Armor Soldiers was a little miserable, but you can't deny that if it weren't for the amazing defensive power of the Vine Armor, Zhuge Liang would not use such a method of roasting human flesh to deal with them.
"Make rattan armor" Yuan Yao called Yang Hong and others to ask Yang Hong and others to take his men and horses to collect rattan and make rattan armor, so that the baby soldiers would have armor.
"Your Majesty, there are no rattans in this radius of hundreds of miles." Yang Hong said to Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao realized that he took it for granted, rattan only grows in some mountains, this is not enough, it also needs a place with the same climate, for example, there is indeed a large-scale green ivy in the direction of Yunnan like the middle generation of Shu.
And this Huainan generation really doesn't grow this thing, the mountains are only a few tens of meters, and they are all small mounds, how can there be so many green vines, let alone rattan armor.
"Without rattan, what is there" Yuan Yao asked after a moment's pause.
"There is bamboo in Huainan," Yang Hong explained to Yuan Yao.
"Bamboo" Yuan Yao hadn't been out of the Jiangting Pavilion much since he came to this world, so he asked Yang Hong to take him to the bamboo forest to take a look.
"Moso bamboo" Yuan Yao finally saw the pieces of bamboo forest, all of which are moso bamboo, which is the most widely used bamboo species among bamboo plants, and is also one of the most used tree species in forest wood and bamboo.
In other words, this kind of bamboo, he is adaptable, so he naturally distributes more, Yuan Yao looked at this bamboo forest at least a thousand acres of land.
The small bamboo may only be half a meter tall, and the big thick Yuan Yao is about to compare to the thickness of a person's neck and waist, and the height is about twenty meters.
"Okay, good, good" Yuan Yao looked at these bamboo forests and immediately smiled.
"Okay" Yang Hong and the others over there were a little strange why this lord saw these bamboo forests and danced, isn't this a common bamboo.
No one understood Yuan Yao's thoughts, but Yuan Yao was extremely excited, he drooled, "The armor is there, this weapon is also available, and those scouts can also be equipped with minions."