Chapter 47 Training

Yang Wu took Fan Yu, Cheng Xun and others to the military camp outside the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This military camp was left by Wang Maozhang in the past, and it was here that Yang Wu received the 500 pro-troops he started. And now here he saw again the three thousand soldiers who had been given to him this time.

According to the military system, 3,000 people are three capitals, and each has a capital; Each has two battalions under its command, each with a battalion command. These positions of capital heads and battalion commanders are generally arranged by the chief general, so Yang Wu appointed Zhu Siqing, Fan Sicong and Chen Fan as the capital heads; As for the battalion commander, part of it was that his father had already arranged it for him, and as for the rest, he promoted the outstanding performance from the former captain of the pro-army to the battalion commander.

Among Yang Wu's henchmen, Chen Yanqian is a civilian official, not to mention, Fan Yu led an army of 100 people to launch a sneak attack on Yan Jian in Renjiazhuang last time, not only killing Yan Jian, but also reversing the tide of the battle in one fell swoop. In this battle, he was miraculously not injured at all. His merits would have been enough for him to be promoted to battalion command, but he refused the promotion and asked to stay by Yang Wu's side as a guard. Yang Wu considered that he really needed a trustworthy person to serve as a guard, so he didn't force it.

Among Chen Fan, Fan Sicong and Zhu Siqing, Zhu Siqing was seriously injured, and the other two were also slightly injured. These three people were originally battalion commanders, but now they are enough to be promoted with their merits. So Yang Wu appointed them as the heads of the three capitals. Of course, Zhu Siqing is still recuperating from his injuries in Shengzhou, and his side is temporarily commanded by Yang Wu himself.

The above people are all loyal to five points, that is, the highest value, are his most loyal henchmen, and they are his subordinates who can be used with confidence. Of course, a loyalty like Diao Yanneng now has five points, but he is still young and not enough to take on a big responsibility for the time being. As for Cheng Xun who has just been taken in, his loyalty at this time is only two points, and it is not the time to reuse it when he just came.

After appointing the heads of the three capitals, Yang Wu promoted officers in his previous pro-army. That pro-army was trained by him, he could call out the names of many soldiers, and after the baptism of the Battle of Renjiazhuang, those soldiers who survived could serve as his henchmen to help him control this new army.

After putting together the new army, he began to enforce strict military discipline as he had done last time.

The military discipline of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties has always been very poor, and it is common for officers to withhold military salaries, condone soldiers to loot, confront their superiors, and disobey military orders. Like the pro-army before Yang Wu, it was carefully selected by his father for him, and he vigorously rectified his discipline after that, so it was stricter.

At this time, the 3,000 people he took over were far inferior to those soldiers last time. After questioning, these people learned that they were Feng Hongduo's subordinates before. When Feng Hongduo surrendered, in addition to the naval army, there were many infantry he brought to Dongtang, and now they were all handed over to Yang Wu.

Looking at these soldiers in front of him who had just gone through a defeated battle, Yang Wu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Such a group of defeated soldiers, one by one, are depressed, where is there any morale at all? When they went to the battlefield, they were afraid that before the enemy could come, they would run away. However, these defeated soldiers are not without benefits, at least there is much less resistance to rectifying discipline. ”

A group of defeated soldiers are just a group of soldiers, and they have just surrendered, where do they dare to resist the orders from above, and it is not what Yang Wu says, so that they dare not go west if they go east? In addition, Yang Wu began to improve their treatment, and promised them that he would take them back to their hometown in Huizhou in the future, so these soldiers obediently obeyed the command.

After only ten days, he felt that the military discipline of this army had been greatly improved, and the morale of the soldiers had also been restored.

"I just don't know if I will be able to defeat the pro-army like the previous pro-army on the battlefield in the future?"

In the last battle of Renjiazhuang, less than 500 people led by Zhu Siqing withstood the attack of Yan Jian's 3,000 people, and the soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, but they could not be defeated, and finally defeated the strong enemy in one fell swoop by relying on Fan Yu's sneak attack. In the ancient army, the general army would hesitate to move forward when the casualties reached one achievement, and they would basically collapse when they reached two percent, but at that time, the casualties of the pro-army under Yang Wu exceeded fifty percent.

He didn't expect the current army to reach that level, he only hoped that they would hold out until they suffered thirty percent casualties without collapsing. As long as it can reach that level, it will be enough to become a strong army in this era.

In addition to rectifying the discipline of the army, Yang Wu also thought about building his own cavalry team.

The importance of cavalry in ancient warfare is self-evident, a well-organized and well-trained infantry unit may win on the battlefield, but it is difficult to maximize its victory, because the power of infantry lies in a good formation, but in the pursuit process of the infantry is difficult to maintain the formation, it is easy to lose order. If the opponent has a strong cavalry force, they can turn defeat into victory by counterattacking.

Therefore, an infantry unit without cavalry can easily fall into the dilemma of winning a hundred times and not being able to destroy the opponent, but losing once will wipe out the whole army.

Huainan is located in the south, the rivers are crisscrossed, and the naval army is extremely important, but this does not mean that the cavalry is not important. For example, in the last battle of Renjiazhuang, Yang Wu did not have many cavalry, only a small number of guards had horses, and although he defeated the enemy army, most of the enemy troops fled in the end.

However, Yang Xingmi's army has always lacked war horses, so there are not many cavalry. When Li Chengsi and Zhu Jin went south to join Yang Xingmi, they brought a powerful Shatuo cavalry, although there were only 3,000 people, but Yang Xingmi was still excited and relied on as a "trump card". This cavalry force of 3,000 people did not live up to Yang Xingmi's expectations, and in the battle of Qingkou not long after, it really helped Yang Xingmi defeat Zhu Quanzhong.

In general, the number of cavalry in Huainan was still very small, far from being comparable to the strong vassals in the north, and they were often passive when fighting with Zhu Quanzhong.

As for Yang Wu, his subordinates were all infantry, except for the twenty-four guards around him, everyone had horses, and the other horses were only more than fifty in total, so Yang Wu had to select fifty people in the army who could ride horses to form a horse team.

As for the team leader of the horse team, Yang Wu finally chose a person named Tian Neng among the guards around him to serve as the captain of the horse team. This Tian Neng has good kung fu and a heroic personality, and this kind of person is generally easy to be recognized by soldiers. Of course, the most important point is that he also has four points of loyalty, and he is also the part of the people who are closest to him.

Sure enough, he did not live up to Yang Wu's expectations, after establishing this cavalry team, he used his superb riding skills to impress those subordinates who were not very good at riding, and then he led the cavalry to practice day and night; At Yang Wu's request, he did not train the soldiers in cavalry archery, but focused on training cavalry formations and collective charge tactics.

The reason why this is so is because Yang Wu remembered that the modern cavalry in Europe in later generations did not rely on muskets to defeat traditional cavalry, but on a tactic called "line charge", that is, to let the cavalry act in unison under the constraints of strict discipline, keeping the horse next to the horse, shoulder to shoulder, like a fast-moving "iron wall", relying on collective strength to defeat the enemy.

In this dense queue, discipline reigns supreme, individual riding skills are no longer important, and a single rider does not need to pull the reins, but is carried forward by teammates on either side of him. These are more suitable for Yang Wu's group of novices who are not high in riding skills but have strong discipline.

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