Chapter XXIX

After the food and equipment matters were on the right track, Yao Jie had not much to do.

Now the weather is hot, the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, the people are at home with nothing to do, in this case, there is nowhere to vent energy, and it is naturally easy to contradict.

On this day, Yao Jie thought about it again and again and decided to train the people of Youbeiping as a militia.

At present, there are more than 100,000 people in Youbeiping, but the army has 30,000, according to the reason is extremely unbalanced, but fortunately, the logistics supply of the army is responsible for Liu Yu, although the logistics of the army is in the hands of others so that Yao Jie is very uneasy, but there is no good way at present, the land of Youbeiping is not suitable for farming at all, but to the east of Liaodong and Liaoxi is the famous black soil, which can be used in the future, as for the Wuhuan people entrenched there, Yao Jie said that as long as his army is trained according to his standards, You can definitely hang and beat the Wuhuan people.

Now the heavy cavalry has not yet appeared, the nomads are playing cavalry archery, generally not impacting the infantry array of the Han army, but playing kite-flying, the best way for the opponent's cavalry is still cavalry, but obviously Yao Jie's cavalry can't do this, even if there are three treasures on horseback, it is impossible to win the Wuhuan people with a few thousand cavalry, not to mention anything else, there are nearly 100,000 cavalry under the command of Guangqiu Liju, and the other tribes add up to 100,000, so the opponent's cavalry still has to rely on infantry, originally Yao Jie wanted to do some more black technology, But he found that the necessary Mo knife for the traverser could not be built for the time being, he had Li Jing's memory, and naturally knew what the Mo knife looked like, but the specific forging method still needs to be studied, and it is estimated that it is a bit dangerous with the current process.

He almost didn't know anything else about the cavalry, Gao Zhong was just a fierce general who charged into battle, and he also knew what was good and bad about the equipment of the Song army, and he didn't know how it was at all, Li Jing was the commander, so he naturally knew Mo Dao, but he was not a craftsman, so he naturally couldn't build it.

Other Yao Jie also thought about the English longbow and the later composite bow, the longbow can be tried, the production process of the longbow is not complicated, as for the material, of course, the purple shirt is the best, it just so happens that there is a purple shirt distribution in China, later generations have found purple shirts in Yunnan, Northwest, Jilin, Liaodong and other places, and there may be one within the range of Youbeiping, after all, Youbeiping is not far from Liaodong, but you have to send someone to find it, the performance is slightly less acceptable, with the ultra-long range of the longbow, if someone dares to play kite flying with him, Yao Jie can completely suppress the other party.

As for the compound bow, let's not talk about whether it can be made or not, the production process alone is enough to give people a headache.

Yao Jie plans to let all the people in Youbeiping be soldiers, so that he can be sure to fight out, otherwise he will have to leave the army to guard when he attacks the outside world.

"The order goes down, starting tomorrow all people between the ages of 16 and 40 in Youbeiping, who are physically disabled, will go to the military camps in each county to participate in military training, and the Taishou Mansion will be responsible for logistics. Yao Jie's document was released, and there were not many people who objected, Yao Jie cut off so many people's heads at the beginning, but he also initially won the hearts of the people, and now the people happen to have nothing to do, and they will naturally not be too exclusive to participate in military training, but there will always be a few lazy people who have opinions, but no one listens to their opinions.

Militia training is not as hard as the regular army, but training four days a week, and the intensity of training is relatively reduced, after all, it is only a militia, which is equivalent to a reserve, and these people have a training foundation, and the run-in time for expanding the army in the future will be greatly reduced.

"Da Zhuang, are you going to train again today?" Wang Heizi saw Da Zhuang Dao, who was tired of being a dead dog, and couldn't help gloating, Wang Heizi's feet were a little lame, so he didn't go to the training.

"Hmph, although I'm tired, I eat well in the barracks, and I can also reduce taxes, I'm happy." Da Zhuang naturally knew that Wang Heizi wanted to laugh at him, and he was very disdainful of Wang Heizi in his heart, this Wang Heizi was a famous lazy man, he usually didn't think about work, and he relied on his family to support him, in fact, his leg was just a little lame, but it was not as serious as he imagined, after so many days of military training, Da Zhuang obviously felt that his body was much stronger than before, which also made him very happy.

The two didn't talk speculatively for more than half a sentence, and soon Da Zhuang returned home.

"Da Zhuang, come back and pull? Let's go take a shower and sleep, I'm tired. The big strong father Zhang Huozi said. Today is exactly the rest time, the military training time is four days of training and then three days of rest, today is the fourth day, and tomorrow will start to rest, so Da Zhuang will go home.

"Dad, it's okay, I'm not tired." Da Zhuang said to Zhang Huozi.

"You're not tired yet, look at your sweat, go take a shower, and go to bed early." Da Zhuang's family is their father and son, Da Zhuang's mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to him, and Zhang Huozi did not continue the string, so he pulled Da Zhuang big, and the father and son depended on each other.

Although this military training consumed more money and food, but let Yao Jie establish a preliminary reserve, if the situation is critical in the future, Yao Jie can double his army in the shortest possible time, and at the same time the various rules in the barracks are also brought home by these people, many people even if they go home and insist on exercising every day, which has led to the improvement of the physical fitness of the people of the entire right Beiping, although these militiamen have a large age span, but with them to defend their hometown absolute combat effectiveness is off the charts, after all, this is their home, Even those with families did not dare to spare their lives on the battlefield, and as for external attacks, it was, of course, a matter for the regular army.