Regarding Wang Yinglin's confusion, Zhao Yu once felt the same way, and even felt a little helpless. At the beginning of the founding of the army, there were no more than 1,000 people in the whole army, and a whistle was blown and all were heard, and the whole army could be commanded with the banner. With the expansion of the ranks, they were equipped with military horns, war drums, and lanterns, which were also sufficient, but the number of people became larger and larger, and the command system had to be upgraded.

As the saying goes, when there are more than 10,000 people, there is no boundary. On the battlefield today, there is no modern technology such as communication instruments, telephones, and radios, and it is relatively difficult to command a large corps. After all, there are too many distractions on the battlefield, and the infantry phalanx is wide and thick. If we only rely on the shouting of grass-roots officers to issue combat orders, most of the soldiers will not be able to hear them, except for a small number of people in front.

Fortunately, although the soldier was disturbed by a lot of human voices, he could see with his eyes, and there were instruments with a greater volume than human voices. As a result, Zhao Hao could only gradually adapt to the current situation, and slowly restored the old command system with flags, musical instruments, and pond cavalry as the main means, so that the communication system of a division-level command organization could form a military band.

Zhao Yu naturally put a lot of effort into it, constantly improving various numbers and flags, so that they can express more meanings. Military regulations require soldiers to 'know the order', and this order is not our modern understanding of 'marching with drums and singing gold to collect troops; As the commander and the banner indicates, the whole army moves together' is so simple. He also figured out that many of the statements in the film and television dramas were simply 'nonsense', even nonsense, and deceived himself in his previous life for twenty years.

As far as the golden drum with the highest field rate is concerned, the storyteller often says 'boring and long' when the army is withdrawn, and the army retreats together. If the two armies could not hold each other, the main general would strike the bronze cymbal, that is, the sound of gold, the first sound of gold was to ask the soldiers of all departments to stop attacking and stand, and the second sound of gold was to ask the soldiers of all departments to slowly retreat to their own formation, and the continuous sound of gold was to ask the soldiers of all departments to quickly retreat and run a few steps away from the battle, and then turn around and stand up to the enemy, and slowly retreat, but not to run blindly to the meeting.

The marching with drums is also not like in the movie, during the attack, the soldiers rushed over like vicious dogs pounced on the main general's order, and it was estimated that they would have no physical strength when they were engaged. In ancient times, it was very important to conserve physical strength in combat, so the army would use the sound of drums to control the speed of soldiers. There are two kinds of drums in the army, one is the beating drum and the other is the foot drum.

The foot drum does not have a high sense of existence in the impression of modern people, but it is indeed the most important drum for commanding the infantry to attack the enemy, because it controls the speed of the soldiers to meet the enemy, and when the foot drum is beaten, the infantry will advance ten steps, which is a very important means for them to maintain physical strength, and the effect is similar to the use of bagpipes and snare drums in the modern Western army to control the rhythm of the march; The drum is the well-known drum of the Chinese army, it is all that appears in the movie, the drum is the whole army charges, but in fact, the drum means continuous drumming, which is the final charge order of the army after approaching the enemy, and the infantry will run forward when they hear it, which is used in the final stage.

As for 'as soon as the cannon sounds, the ambush soldiers come out in all directions' is also nonsense, who launched an ambush and reminded you with the horn cannon? The actual situation was that the ambush soldiers were killed on all sides, and only then did a cannon sound sound, and the one who fired the cannon was also the ambushed side. During the march, if you hear a trumpet, it is a warning that there is an emergency, let the whole army stand and stop, and then watch the situation of the troop flag and make a deployment.

Of course, a series of complex tactical movements cannot be commanded by the golden drum alone, and other instruments are needed to refine more instructions. Among them, the horn is the most used, because its sound is huge, and the timbre changes according to the size of the structure, and the different instructions can be distinguished in more detail. For example, when the commander-in-chief of the army held a meeting, the officers of various departments heard the trumpet of the Chinese army, so that they could rush to the big tent of the Chinese army as soon as possible to start the military meeting, and then receive their own military tasks. And the so-called drumming gathering is of course also fake.

It is precisely because of the variety of military musical instruments and their different functions, and not everyone can remember and understand them, so ordinary soldiers and grassroots commanders are more likely to 'look at the flag during the day and the lights at night', and their eyes only need to look at the tall flags of the headquarters, and at night they look at the double lights. The style and color of the flags of each department and each team are also different according to the rank, so according to the establishment from small to large, soldiers only need to look at the flag of their own team, and officers look at the flag of the superior to command, for example, the soldier looks at the flag of the captain, the captain looks at the flag of the commander, and the commander looks at the flag of the Chinese army.

When commanding, the soldiers saw the flag raised and constantly lit, which was to urge the soldiers to pack up their things as soon as possible, pull out the camp to fight or march, and no one could listen to verbal instructions in this process, mainly to prevent false military orders or disturb the morale of the army, so they could only look at the flag of the Chinese army and listen to the sound of the golden drum, and nothing else mattered. Of course, if it is a large corps of more than tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 people fighting, the five-sided five-color flag has also become a second-class level, and the main general can only rely on the Tang cavalry to maintain contact and command with the generals of various departments, and only give orders in the general direction.

Therefore, in ancient times, those who could do what they ordered and prohibited were troops that could only be called warlike after formal training. This is not only because the soldiers are strong in combat, but also because it takes a lot of time to train just to memorize and familiarize themselves with these diverse and varied flag instruments......

"Ah......" Wang Yinglin's face turned pale, the corners of his mouth kept twitching, and he said in surprise. At this time, he understood why the little emperor said that the previous battle was just foreplay and watching, at this time, the Mengyuan cavalry on the opposite side pressed on the whole line, and tens of thousands of war horses gradually turned from trotting to running, like swarms of locusts flying low, stirring up smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun, even if he was relatively far away from the battlefield, he still felt that the earth trembled under the trampling of ten thousand horses, and he couldn't help but grasp the railing of the watchtower.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was overwhelming, Wang Yinglin looked at his own camp again, only to see that all the general flags had been raised, and the yellow general flag representing the Chinese army waved in the air for a week, and nodded back. Immediately, a high-pitched horn sounded, and the infantry troops who were waiting in formation immediately assembled and formed a dense formation. Two short horns sounded again, and the infantry turned backwards at the sound of the command, took thirty steps back, and then turned to face the enemy. And the artillery behind the arrangement was exposed to the front of the formation.

"Governor Wang, I haven't seen the scene of ten thousand horses rushing into battle!" Zhao Yu had already stood up at this time to look at the enemy, put down the binoculars and twisted his face and smiled.

"Minister...... The minister has never seen such a scene, so he can't help but be nervous, and please don't laugh at Your Majesty! Wang Yinglin reluctantly squeezed out a smile and replied.

"Hehe, the first time I saw this kind of scene of ten thousand horsemen charging into battle, it was not much better than you, but I felt that my legs were weak, and my back bones were cold, and I was worried that I would not be able to withstand the impact of the enemy horsemen." Zhao Yu also smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I'm afraid that the minister is not as good as Your Majesty, if you don't hold on to the railing, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand!" Wang Yinglin said with a wry smile.

"I'm not afraid after seeing it once, and I don't know how many of the recruits in front of me have been scared to pee their pants, but aren't they still standing in front? At the moment, the whole Mongolian army is moving together, which seems to be amazing, but in fact, it is just a desperate gamble, as long as we can withstand their impact, then the victory is decided! Zhao Hao looked at the battlefield and said in a deep voice.

In most people's minds, the main force of the Mongols was light cavalry, so they could come and go without a trace and defeat their opponents with excellent mobility. In fact, the early Mongols themselves did not have this classification of light and heavy, and their equipment was the same whether they were outflanked or assaulted. However, with the expansion of the scope of conquest, under the blow of the advanced weapons of the army fighting with it, it also began to pay attention to the protection of cavalry.

With the change of cavalry tactics, heavy cavalry began to appear in the Mongolian cavalry establishment, and heavy cavalry first appeared in the important elite troops of the guard, and the direct subordinate of the Mongol Great Khan, the Xue Guard, was fixed with heavy cavalry with men and horses in armor. As a nomadic people in the steppe, the Mongols started by riding and shooting, but as an army that swept across Europe and Asia, in the face of the heavy cavalry in Europe, it was an inevitable trend for the Mongolian army to develop heavy cavalry with strong and stubborn strength, and the heavy cavalry still reached forty percent of the establishment in the later period.

However, from Zhao Hao's point of view, the equipment of the Mongolian heavy cavalry is only relative to a large number of Mongolian light cavalry, and the weight of all the equipment of the entire heavy cavalry is still much lighter than that of the European heavy cavalry, after all, the Mongolian cavalry mainly pays attention to rapid and mobile combat. Generally speaking, the distinction between light and heavy cavalry is according to the way it is used, and the typical Mongol cavalry is a cavalry engaged in assault operations. He was clad in armor, usually with a skin lining and scales on the outside, or chain armor taken from the enemy, and a helmet on his head. Horses also tend to wear a small amount of leather armor. The main weapon was a spear, and each soldier carried a scimitar or a mace, which was hung around his waist or placed in the saddle.

Zhao knew that another common tactic of mounted archery was to place mounted archers on the flanks of the heavy cavalry to match their attacks. Naturally, this method of warfare does not expect cavalry archery to play any shocking role, but in essence, it is hoped that it can distract the enemy's attention and create a flaw to facilitate the heavy cavalry to break through the formation.

These archers, including the Mongols, were often led by light cavalry, so the light cavalry on either flank of the heavy cavalry was also responsible for outflanking the enemy when the heavy cavalry attacked. However, this method of warfare is not so much to play the role of mounted archery, but rather to use mounted archery as a foil, so as to increase the destructive effect of heavy cavalry on the enemy. Therefore, as long as the heavy cavalry is blocked, then it is equivalent to breaking the enemy's attack......