Chapter 741 Selecting Strikers and Training

The 30,000 elite divisions that accompanied Xia Xun to the Western Regions were selected from the Beijing camp, and this huge lottery activity was called "Selecting the Front" by the officers and men in the army.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the officers and men of the Beijing battalion were indeed the elite of the country, not only were their equipment far superior to the border army, but their combat effectiveness was also better than that of the border army. On the battlefield, it is not the case that the army will be able to win the battle if it has an absolute superiority in numbers, and an elite army can completely win more with less and influence the situation of the war.

30,000 sharp soldiers, the master of the hall will be Sai Hazhi, this is a shoe official, when Zhu Di sent Xia Shizhi to attack Daning, he and Xia Xun joined forces to go first, and the two are old acquaintances. When the army was about to start, Xia Xun rushed to the barracks, Saihazhi was informed, and immediately led the generals to meet them, the two had fought side by side, and today they were overjoyed to see each other, and they ran side by side.

The army is about to set out for camp, and the elites of the three armies have been assembled.

As soon as the two entered the camp, they were greeted by a team of neatly draped light cavalry, a light cowhide armor, covered with mandarin duck battle robes, and a bright fiery red helmet on the mighty helmet, murderous, and the army was mighty and strong!

This army, but the army that has really fought, is far away, no, four years of Jingjing, these people have participated in the war, even if the veterans and recruits who have fought more than a hundred battles are the same Le Ma Yi, the same solemn and silent, but what comes out of them is naturally a different momentum, that is the real murderous aura, at this time it is after the first snow, it is early in the morning, the weather is cold, but among them, you feel only their murderous aura.

"Guogong, these soldiers are all elite soldiers on the battlefield of a hundred battles, there is no need to worry about cavalry archery, laws and regulations, military discipline, etc., eating, walking, walking, fighting, hiding, ambushing, all kinds of skills are proficient, these people can be used when they are transferred, as long as they adapt a little, they can cooperate with each other seamlessly."

The words are Jing Feng, the deputy general on the other side of Xia Xun, Sehazhi is brave and good at fighting, but Dou Da Yu'er doesn't know a basket, so the deputy general who is matched with him is a Confucian general, and he is not complementary to him, when he introduced the 30,000 elite situation of the lottery to Xia Shi, Saihazhi knew that he was clumsy, so he entrusted it to him.

"Well, what about the roughness?"

Xia Shi was satisfied with the selected elite soldiers, and asked Jing Feng again.

"In addition to the horses that the soldiers ride, there are 10,000 horses, uh...... This is already half of the war horses in the Beijing camp! ”

Xia Shi nodded, and Jing Feng said again: "The camp tents, cotton clothes, bedding, armor, weapons, arrows, gunpowder, and medicines are all ready, and they are transported by the soldiers and servants, as for the grain and grass soldiers, they only carry three days' rations, and the prefectures and counties along the way are responsible for supplying the needs, if there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses, the sweet and cool places are enough to bear, and there is no need to transport them from Beijing, so we don't need to transport many things on the road, so we don't have to delay too much time on the way." ”

Xia Shi smiled, shook his head and said, "The number of soldiers and servants in this reserve is more than our 30,000 elite soldiers, right?" ”

Jing Feng pursed his lips without a trace, and said in his heart: "Isn't this nonsense? In expeditions and wars, the number of soldiers and servants has always been several times that of soldiers, does this master know about soldiers? Thinking in his heart, he didn't dare to come out, but said respectfully: "It's because we don't need to transport grain and grass, so we don't need a lot of reserves and servants, and the number of soldiers is probably only about 10,000 more than the soldiers!" ”

Xia Xun sighed: "I know ...... inferior"

He suddenly pulled the reins and said in a deep voice: "I don't want any servants, only 10,000 soldiers are left, and I want them to carry some things that are really difficult for soldiers to carry, and all other items will be carried and carried by the soldier Ran himself!" Jing Feng said in surprise: "Guogong, this is the elite selected from the Beijing camp, they are going to go into battle, let them do these jobs......"

Xia Xun smiled and said, "Do you think I'm making a big deal of it?" ”

Jing Feng hurriedly said: "The last general will not dare, the last general will be"

Xia Xun interrupted him and said: "The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, do you think that when you get there, once a war starts, the logistics can be as convenient and timely as now?" Our 30,000 elite soldiers, all of whom are equipped with war horses, why do you think so? If you want to defend the city, why choose the elite among the elites in Beijing. Once there is a war, they want to roam outside and play a surprise effect.

At that time, field battles came to them, and it was just commonplace. It's not like guarding the city, someone sends food when you're hungry, someone sends water when you're thirsty, you take turns to rest in the city at night, and if you're injured, Langzhong will take you down to wrap up your wounds and take medicine, and they're going to the Western Regions! If you really fight, the desert Gobi, it is difficult to see a wisp of human smoke for thousands of miles, so you must learn to carry all kinds of materials needed for combat and storage, you must find out how to carry more materials, you must figure out how to tie up the rapid march so that you will not be lost, and you must adapt to long-distance running, camping, eating, medicine, and wrapping up injuries under the load situation!

From here to Gansu, they will pass through all kinds of terrain, the road is very long, and it is indeed very hard for them to carry these things and do these things by themselves, but only in this way can they train abundant rest and strong endurance, and save their lives as much as possible in the upcoming battle! You just tell it to go on, this kind of behavior, I call it training! , Choosing the front, has ended the "training, just begun, can be from Nanjing to Jiayuguan to the Ping, I admit that he is the real sharp! ”

"Grandpa Guo's!"

Saihazhi raised his flying beard, a pair of mung bean eyes shimmered, and said with unusual approval: "Grandpa Guo's right!" We Mongolians are fighting, we have never seen a soldier with a group of people waiting, this kind of old soldier, no matter how much he can fight, he will not be able to fight, and when he arrives in the desert steppe, he will be dragged down by people. Especially our 30,000 elite soldiers, who came to use them as sharp knives, dragged a large group of people behind them, can this sharp knife still stab? Lao Jing, just do it according to the grandfather of the country, who dares to disagree, Lao Tzu will smoke his mother! ”

Jing Feng was helpless, so he only smiled bitterly and agreed.

Further on, there are heavy armored cavalry, their horses are more elegant, full of 4,000 people, sitting on the high-headed horses of Yajian, the armor is distinct, the saddle sheath is neat, a black lacquered cowhide riding shield is hung in front of the saddle side, painted with a beast pattern, the right hand red tassel long lacquer spear pointed to the sky, the barrel of the gun has the thickness of chicken eggs, the tip of the spear is one and a half feet, the blood groove is like a cold, reflecting the cold sun.

Further back are the firearms soldiers, the firearms on their shoulders, the bowls on the shelves, and the murderous weapons in the hands of the light and heavy cavalry, but those who know that this firearm is powerful will not think so.

Xia Xun gnawed and said: "Firearms, one day, will completely replace swords, guns, swords and halberds and become the mainstream weapons for battlefield victory, but it is not yet successful, it still has many defects, such as the rate of fire, such as the influence of the weather." Therefore, we have to make the most of its strengths and let it cooperate with other weapons in order to exert its maximum power.

Timur's soldiers were all brave and warlike cavalry, and their horses were as fast as the wind, and most of the Western Regions were flat horses, which were conducive to rapid attack. If we use firearms against the enemy, even if we use a three-stage strike method, the enemy cavalry can be killed in front of us in a few breaths, and firearms are not enough to be feared, but if it is in the attack and defense of the city or when the two armies build trenches to face each other, firearms are more useful than bows and crossbows. Even if you have excellent arm strength, how many arrows can you fire? Firearms, on the other hand, can be used as long as you have a little strength.

At the same time, firearms are far stronger than arrows, especially artillery such as bowls, which have more than 100 projectiles and a wide range of casualties, so I deliberately chose this firearms soldier to come out, not to ask them to fight against Timur's cavalry, but to call them masters, teach Gan Liang and other castle soldiers, and learn to use firearms craftsmen to make many newly developed firearms.

Therefore, these 3,000 firearms soldiers do not need to participate in the training, they will leave the brigade, escort the firearms and gunpowder transport battalion, and rush to Hexi to teach the troops of General Pingqiang's descendants to learn the use of firearms. Therefore, they do not have to carry a load, and there are heavy cavalry, and there is no need to carry a load! ”

Although Xia Shi came from later generations, he was not superstitious about firearms. In this era, he has clearly realized that in the current era, the mainstream of the battlefield is still cold weapons. In fact, until the eighteenth century, firearms could not completely replace the role of fast horses and hard bows, and in the terrain suitable for cavalry, firearms were even at a disadvantage.

For example, in the eighteenth century, the linear musket tactics of the Prussian king Frederick the Great were invincible all over Europe, which can be called the pinnacle of musket tactics in the eighteenth century, and later generations could not even imitate its essence, but such a team could not take advantage of the Russian Cossack spear cavalry at that time, and Xia Shi's era had just entered the fifteenth century, and firearms were far worse than then.

Xia Xun's words are exactly what Sai Hazhi wants, Lao Sai has fought all his life, and he is used to spears and hard bows, and galloping horses, and he doesn't pay attention to these so-called firearms soldiers who go into battle with iron cylinders, Xia Shi wants to move these thousands of people out for use alone, which is exactly what he wants, and of course he will not object.

The group continued to walk forward, reviewing the various arms as they went, and when they came to the end, Saihazhi said: "Guogong, we are about to leave, do you want to give another instruction to the three armies?" ”

Xia Xun smiled and said: "From here to Lanzhou, there is still something to go, what kind of teacher do you swear, even if you give them enough strength and courage, when they go to Lanzhou, they will have premature ejaculation!" ”

Sai Hazhi touched the back of his head and smiled awkwardly: "Uh," the last general actually doesn't like this kind of trick very much, but before the Han officials sent out the army, they all liked to do this, and I thought that you also liked it, this and this...... If you slapped the horse's feet on the horse's feet, the end will not be ashamed! ”

This Sehazhi's temperament is really cute and cute, Xia Xun and Jing Feng couldn't help laughing when they heard it, and they couldn't help laughing.

The three armies hurriedly read it, Saihazhi immediately ordered to pull out, the army left the barracks, and Xia Shi rushed back to Jinling City to pick up Princess Ancheng. He went to the Western Regions, with a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, this Princess Ancheng was clearly a carrot given to Song Chen by Emperor Le. He was going back to the city to pick up the princess's Luan, and after crossing the Yangtze River, he would join Sehazhi's team.

After returning to the city, he first went back to his house so that he could pick up the two Guizi girls. Xia Xun had just stepped into the door of the mansion with his front feet, and something happened in the backyard......

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