A half moon passed.

The time has come to the beginning of May in the eleventh year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and at this time in previous years, the winter wheat in Nanyang will be harvested in a few days.

But this year, as far as the eye can see, the wheat in the fields is sparse and pulled, and some of them are even bare.

Last summer, almost the whole north did not have a drop of rain, and the winter was not only longer but also colder than usual, and most of the wheat seedlings froze to death in winter.

Planting spring wheat, God does not open his eyes, it does not rain for half a year, and now there is this kind of strange weather that occurs once in a century, even winter wheat is affected, the yield is reduced in a large area, and even the grain is not harvested, it is simply a way to live.

As the heart of the Central Plains, Henan has been the province with the largest population and the largest number of fields in all dynasties, and it is also the preferred target for drought, locust, and flood.

Since Chongzhen seven years, Henan almost every year of drought, every summer the Yellow River must burst the embankment, coupled with the locust plague, the military disaster repeatedly raged, all kinds of righteous troops repeatedly crossed, and the imperial court continued to send Liao Xiang, so that the Central Plains has long been full of devastated forests.

And last year's long and cold winter was undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Millions of people looked at the bare fields, wept in despair, and what they were waiting for was not relief food, but taxes that would not be reduced but increased, and all of them let out an angry roar in their hearts.

At the same time, the governors of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty and the two chief military officers were still stuck in Liujiaao.

After the spies secretly lurked in the county seat and inquired about the reality, Xiong Wencan's eyes when he looked at Zuo Liangyu also changed.

Zuo Liangyu proposed to divide the troops, where did he just want to kill Qin Ming?

Obviously wanted to kill him, the governor, together.

So the idea of dividing troops was decisively abandoned.

Instead, Chen Hongfan, the chief soldier of Xichuan and Neixiang, led his troops into Yunxian County, went south to attack Zhushan, and ordered Zhuxi, Baihe, and Yunxi counties to strictly guard and prevent the thieves from fleeing westward.

Obviously, Xiong Wencan had calmed down from his original impatience and treated Qin Yu as the Eight Great Kings, King Chuang and Cao Cao.

And at the same time.

In the wilderness outside Zhushan County, there were rumbling drums and horns.

I saw three huge phalanxes and five small phalanxes, sometimes scattered, sometimes closed, and they were practicing, and each phalanx had a battalion flag.

"Stop!"

On the high platform, Qin Yu raised his fist, and the drumming stopped abruptly.

Looking at the army of more than 10,000 people who had become a pot of porridge below, King Qin's face was as black as charcoal.

After a period of basic training, a half-hour battle formation coordination drill was added in the afternoon.

It is not an ordinary difficulty for 10,000 people, no more than 1,000 people, to command effectively and not to be reduced to a scattered rabble.

Qin Yu was not a military strategist before.

The little bit of military common sense in my stomach was also learned from TV dramas.

In addition, from the books seized during this period, I picked a few military books and made up for them.

I feel that I should be regarded as a famous general, after all, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng are promoted to them, didn't they just read a few military books and fought a few battles?

No, at the beginning, I was full of confidence, and I formulated various detailed orders, accompanied by flags, horns, drums, suona, etc., to pass them on, but the reality was slapped in the face again and again.

Because I want this gang of big bosses to understand every kind of drum, trumpet, and order flag representatives' orders, I am afraid it will not work without three or five years.

Therefore, it has been simplified again and again, from a few hundred at the beginning, to dozens of today, and now it seems that it will have to continue to be reduced.

If Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng knew that Qin Yu had come up with hundreds of battlefield orders and more than a dozen means of heralding, it was estimated that he would have to give a thumbs up and say: You cow!

"That's all for today, disbanded and rested!"

Qin Yu waved his hand, feeling that the pressure was very high, and it was a little unbearable for ten thousand people to come, and it was really inconvenient in the era when there were no walkie-talkies and tweeters.

Tens of thousands of people immediately dispersed, and the heroes who watched the excitement on the side also went back to the camp to eat with a smile on their shoulders and backs.

Back in the county study, after some careful consideration, Qin Yu decided to command the means, and for the time being, he would engage in three methods.

The beating of gongs and drums and trumpets were used to command the whole army, while the command of battalions and more complex orders was conveyed by heralds, and below the battalion level, they could only be played by commanders and officers at all levels.

Orders are divided into three categories, peacetime, march, and battlefield.

Gongs and war drums are used on the battlefield, and horns are generally used in peacetime and on the march.

The sound of the gong was slow, and the whole army kept the formation and slowly retreated.

The gong sounded rapidly, and the whole army ran wildly, throwing away all the bulky things.

The drums marched, the drums beat slowly, the whole army maintained the formation and advanced slowly, the drums were rushed, and the whole army rushed to kill.

The sound of the trumpet is more complicated, such as stopping and advancing, advancing, moving forward at full speed, assembling, urgently assembling, arraying to meet the enemy, disbanding and resting, eating, sleeping, getting up, and all the horn sounds are used to convey it.

After all, the horn is long, varied, and listened to hundreds or thousands of times, even the most stupid person can tell the difference.

After doing this, Qin Yu called the trumpeters and the gong and drummer in, and first made a drum with them.

The trial began the next day.

This time, the whole army must learn to listen to these orders, and all soldiers who carry swords to fight must learn to distinguish between them, and non-combatants only need to learn their daily routines and orders on the march.

After a few days of running-in, listening to the sound of the trumpet every day, eating, sleeping, resting, coming to two emergency gatherings from time to time, gathering, and another battalion of practice marches, everyone got together to simulate the battlefield rush, and almost could be distinguished.

After all, there are only ten kinds of horn sounds, some of which are difficult to distinguish, and the sound of drums and gongs can be distinguished by a pig.

In fact, an army can do what Qin Yu formulated, and it can already be regarded as a well-founded advance and retreat, which is very rare.

Looking at the whole world, whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, after more than 10,000 people, it is rare to be able to do this.

When it comes to battlefield command, soldiers' combat effectiveness, and generals' ability, Huaxia is really inferior to one generation and one dynasty is not as good as the next.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all of them didn't know how to fight field battles, and they all had to rush, rushing together.

If you want to run away, you can run desperately, since Qi Shaobao died, there are almost no generals who can command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Even Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng and others are all halfway monks, studying military books and practicing at the same time.

Qin Yu believed that if they were given an army of 100,000 and lined up in the wilderness to meet them, they would not be able to play either.

Because ordinary soldiers and generals at all levels do not know what to do, it is absolutely impossible to effectively command an army of 100,000 people by relying on a single commander.

Qin Yu didn't know that the simplified command system he had combined with ancient and modern times was already very remarkable in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was still thinking about how to continue to improve it.

In the end, it was decided that complex orders still needed to be conveyed with command flags, after all, it seemed that they were still in use during World War II, and their existence was reasonable.

Therefore, he planned to train a group of young flag soldiers in the future, using three Arabic numerals to form various orders.

At that time, each battalion commander will send two to his side, one person will be responsible for receiving, and one person will be responsible for playing the flag, and at the same time, each of the thirty big men will carry a digital flag.

If you teach those low-level military attachés some common sense questions, an army of tens of thousands of people will be able to change various formations like an arm.

And the reason why Governor Xiong played a twelve-point spirit to deal with King Qin was because he beat gongs and drums and played trumpets outside the city every day.

More than half of the 10,000 people were still wearing uniform clothes, and all of them were either carrying swords and shields, or holding muskets and spears, how scary and terrifying they were.

After all, compared with the soldiers and horses of Zuo Dashuai and General Qin, it looks like the more than 10,000 people who practice every day outside Zhushan City, they are more like officers and soldiers, and they are like thieves nesting in ravines and ravines.