Chapter 146: Military Parade

A few days later, on a crisp autumn day, Chen Cheng inspected the army in the fields north of Lian County. The soldiers of Beidi County, who were nominally led by Lu Fang, but were still under the control of Yang Qiu, as well as the township soldiers near Lian County.

The parade was as simple as the soldiers marching in an array in front of a viewing platform piled up in a mound of earth. The first to appear were the local village soldiers, who had defended Wubao and the village during the invasion of the Huns, and contributed when Cheng Yi led the army to counterattack.

Lian County has always been a place to produce elite soldiers and strong generals, more than ten years ago, after the death of Tan Shi Huai, his son and the company led the troops to invade the north, and they were shot by local heroes with strong crossbows in Lian County. If it weren't for the discord between Yang Qiu and Lingzhou Lianxian and other places, the main force would have been withdrawn to Fuping after a battle, and the Huns might not have been able to break through the city of Lianxian.

Yan Zhong once said this to Chen Cheng. Therefore, when he saw the local township soldiers in Lian County taking the lead, he thought of Yang Qiu, who caused the tragedy in Lian County, and he looked to the side quietly, Yang Qiu was standing on the viewing platform neatly.

If it was before, Chen Cheng would definitely think that a guy like Yang Qiu should be arrested and hanged. However......... Not only did he not kill Yang Qiu, but instead entrusted him with a heavy task and handed over the military power of the two counties under his direct leadership. Chen Cheng turned his gaze back to the front, no longer thinking about those unhelpful things.

The village soldiers only need to recognize the simple drum trumpets and flags, and understand the order of "beat the drum and go forward, and the gold will be withdrawn". Their equipment is generally very bad, but after all, it is five hundred people who have been selected by thousands of people, and together they can still have five hundred armor.

These people can be said to have crawled out of the pile of dead people, and they were besieged by the Huns for dozens of days and did not give in, but continued to attack, with a lot of gains. Therefore, they all have a strong murderous aura, although the formation is not very strict, but the morale is very high. They carried ring-headed knives, crossbows, throwing spears and other weapons, and walked in front of the earthen platform with their heads held high.

Although the princes of Xiliang have tens of thousands of troops at every turn, there are not many elite troops among them, and most of them are peasants who have been pulled over to make up the numbers, and they are not as good as these village soldiers.

Under the earthen platform, several envoys looked at each other, and one of them asked in a low voice, "Chen Envoy Jun asked us to see what these people are doing?" ”

Another chuckled, "Who knows? Maybe they want to rely on these people to deter our families? ”

"Haha. I'll admit that these people are well equipped and their morale is okay, but such a small number of people? The man who spoke in front of him said disdainfully: "Give me a hundred cavalry, and you can destroy all these people!" ”

"Hahaha!"

Several messengers looked at each other and laughed together. Liangzhou has always been dominated by cavalry, and the infantry seems to them to be nothing more than odd jobs. This is also one of the reasons why the Xiliang army defeated the imperial officers and soldiers many times in field battles, but was defeated under Chencang City. In fact, Liangzhou has no tradition of heavy infantry, and the half-cultivated and half-pastoral Qiang and Huhua Han are all good light cavalry, but they are only good at field warfare.

In the stands, Cheng Yi stabbed Yang Qiu with his elbow and said in a low voice: "Did you hear that, those guys are laughing at us." ”

Yang Qiu snorted and said, "Just wait and see, whoever laughs at it is not certain." ”

Cheng Yi looked at Chen Cheng again, and saw that Chen Yuanjun didn't seem to hear the ridicule of the envoys at all. He secretly admired in his heart: Even if the martial arts can't be compared, in terms of mind and city, I am far inferior.

After the township soldiers, it was the county soldiers of the Northland who appeared. Lu Fang had been in the Northern Army for several years, although he had not been able to rise, but it was because his family background was not very good, and his family had no money. Even so, he was able to become a lieutenant in the Yue Cavalry Battalion, one of the five battalions of the Northern Army, in addition to his own high martial arts, the ability to lead troops is an important factor.

After he took office as the governor of the Northland, he could theoretically mobilize all the soldiers and horses in the Northland, but in fact, what Lu Fang could command was the thousands of cavalry he brought to Lian County. Not to mention the soldiers and horses under Yang Qiu's command, even those people in Lingzhou often find some reason to push away his orders. After a few tests, Lu Fang no longer paid attention to other troops outside Lian County.

However, before today, Yang Qiu took the initiative to transfer a thousand soldiers and horses from Fuping and put them under the unified command of Lu Fang. Therefore, this time the county soldiers appeared, with a total of 2,000 cavalry, divided into four phalanxes. Xiliang has always been dominated by cavalry, and the county soldiers are all cavalry, riding high-headed horses and trotting past in front of the earthen platform.

Horseshoe, Takahashi saddle and bilateral stirrups are not very high-tech things, and after Chen Cheng got them out of Linrong City, he quickly began to spread the technology to the surrounding places. Yang Qiu had participated in all the battles near Linrong throughout the whole process, and knew these equipment very well, and after returning to Fuping, he naturally began to imitate them.

Although Cheng Yi did not directly participate in the Battle of Linrong, he was in the Northland, how could he not know what happened in Linrong? Soon, these things also appeared in Wuwei County. The princes of Liangzhou confronted each other, I don't know what to do, how many soldiers and horses there are in Beidi County, and how is the combat effectiveness, who will not know? This time, the Jedi counterattack was successful, and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Those new equipment are not high-tech products, and anyone who knows the goods will know how useful they will be at a glance, and then find someone to try them a few more times to get it. Even if there is no sample, it may be a little different from the original, but how much worse can it be?

The 2,000 cavalry of Northland County all used these three pieces of equipment, and they looked very majestic. In addition, the cavalry spears they carried with them were more than three meters long, much longer than the spears commonly used by cavalry in this era. The cavalrymen put their spears up, lined up in neat formations, and trotted from afar.

In the past, in Linrong, in order to deal with the attack of the Huns at any time, the cavalry spears made by the craftsmen had no other advantages except for their length, and they could even be said to be useless. When fighting, it often happens that the riding spear breaks. And now the soldiers of the Northland County are carrying well-made products, which are completely different from those shoddy and defective products in Linrong City.

The tip of the spear reflecting the cold light continued to rise and fall as the war horse moved, and from a distance, it looked like a moving steel jungle moving towards this side. The people on the side of the earth platform looked from afar, as if they saw a substantial murderous aura coming to their faces.

"Shhh Song Jian's envoy gasped and said in shock: "The guns they use are so long? ”

The emissary was not a layman who had no concept of cavalry, and understood very well the absolute advantage of longer guns when fighting on horseback. He stared intently at the approaching cavalry, thinking that he would have to pass the news back immediately. Thinking of this, his heart moved, and he looked to the side, and the envoys of the other princes in between, all of them were disdainful on the surface, but their eyes revealed that they were not only nervous and uneasy.

The envoy coughed, and said with pretense of disdain: "It's useless to fix all these bells and whistles. ”

"Huh?"

"The cavalry is a clutch soldier, what's the use of being so neatly platooned? If you really fight, you still have to look at hard work! ”

Several messengers looked at each other and said unconcernedly: "Yes, that's the truth!" ”

"Yes, what's the use of taking such a long gun? It's not just long, it's hard enough! ”

"It's so long, it's so thin, it's broken after two pokes!"

"I think you still have to shoot arrows to ride a horse!"

On the soil platform, Chen Cheng turned his head and said to Yang Qiu with satisfaction: "The military training is good, Yang Shangshu has bothered." ”

The corners of Yang Qiu's mouth rose, but his face remained serious, "There are still too few elite soldiers like this, if there are 30,000 horsemen, what are Han Sui and Song Jianyou?" ”

Chen Cheng shook his head and chuckled: "It's not that you don't know how much grain there is in the treasury, let alone 30,000 horses, it would be good to have 5,000 people change their clothes before it snows this year." ”

Yang Qiu said disappreciably: "If you don't have money, then collect taxes, it's not that I said, the lord is too kind........."

As soon as he said this, Yang Qiu thought of the scene of the Huns killed by Chen Cheng in Linrong City, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, and he changed his words: "....... Now that we're strong, what's wrong with asking them for more money? Who else would dare not pay it? Hmph, no matter how hard your neck is, is it harder than a steel knife? ”

Cheng Yi coughed twice on the side and said, "Then do you want to ask me Wuwei County to collect more taxes?" ”

Yang Qiu was about to speak, but Chen Cheng suddenly spoke: "Okay, the county soldiers are over, let's see how the tooth soldiers and the forbidden army are." ”

In Chen Cheng and Yan Zhong's planning, the relationship between the forbidden army and the tooth soldiers was similar to the relationship between the southern army and the northern army in Luoyang City. The forbidden army is a garrison force, guarding the center; And the tooth soldiers are field troops, ready to fight at any time. Most of the people in the forbidden army had participated in the war with the Huns, and their morale, military appearance, equipment, and discipline were better than those of the county soldiers.

Yang Qiu installed many of his cronies and nephews into the forbidden army, and he was very attentive to this army, not only providing them with the best supplies, but also equipping them with the best horses, and giving priority to any new equipment and weapons. Therefore, when the five hundred cavalry of the forbidden army appeared, those envoys were even more uneasy.

Although the princes behind them did not come in person, they still sent envoys to find out whether Chen Cheng, the Liangzhou pastor, was an empty head or really powerful, so that they could formulate future countermeasures. Now seeing that the Liangzhou army has not weakened because of the war with the Huns, these envoys will of course look nervous and uneasy.

After the forbidden army, it was the tooth soldiers led by Zhao Yun. After the white horse and silver spear, Li Kan and Liang Xing each led 500 people from the stage. Seeing Li Kan and Liang Xing, the two former opponents, Yang Qiu "tsk", but didn't say anything.

In the past, Lingzhou's Haoqiang caused him a lot of trouble, so much so that Yang Qiu even had the idea of using the hands of the Huns to kill them. Even now, the heroes of Lingzhou still occupy a large amount of land and population, but for Yang Qiu, Lingzhou is no longer a threat to him.

Beidi, Shuofang, Wuyuan, these three counties combined, can have 100,000 elites, enough to crush the turtles in Lingzhou. It's just that Chen Cheng is too soft-hearted and has always disagreed with this, so the proposals he has made since he became the secretary of the Ministry of War will be shelved.

After working for most of the day, the parade finally ended, and Chen Cheng was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers, at least he seemed very satisfied on the surface. Yang Qiu and the local civil and military officials, as well as the onlookers Haoqiang and the common people were also very satisfied, Cheng Yi was a little satisfied, and the others, such as the envoys of the princes, praised the military might of the Liangzhou army while showing a worried look.