Chapter 9: Pang Tianshou's Temptation
At dawn, Pang Tianshou led a lot of people to send a lot of ordnance and equipment to the school field of the Imperial Horse Supervisor for inspection. Different from the excitement of the young people in the camp, Xiao Xuan looked at the thirty-two carts carrying ordnance and equipment with artillery, ammunition, armor as the core, and the usual banners, and his heart was somewhat bottomless. But I heard that because of the poor quality of the ordnance, the juniper during the Battle of Sarhu could not kill cattle, and the entire Manchurian archives recorded only two or three hundred deaths. The generals who lead the troops are like that, what is the level of the capital camp that is not a border area?
"You said that Duke Wei Chang wouldn't send something foolish because he felt that I hadn't been to the military camp before I succeeded to the throne and didn't know anything about military affairs, right?" Xiao Xuan asked Pang Tianshou tentatively in a low voice. At this time, Xiao Xuan of course also knew that some things were prepared with the assistance of Wei Changgong, such as money and grain and the initial 5,000 recruits, but some things such as military and ordnance were not Wei Zhongxian's sphere of influence. If Wei Zhongxian in history could easily take out 500 reliable ordnance in Beijing and influence the military power on the periphery of the palace, he might not be defeated in a few months in history. These words are also knocking Pang Tianshou on the side, don't fool yourself anymore.
As for whether Pang Tianshou will learn from the power of the ministers, through the contact during this period of time, Xiao Xuan himself feels that he may not be such an ignorant character. A careerist in a Chinese environment will not believe in God. What's more, now is an unusual time, the Guanwai and the East are rampant, and Cao Cao or the eunuchs at the end of the Tang Dynasty may not be able to win the hearts of the people under internal and external troubles.
"Holy rest assured! These ordnance slaves have personally inspected it, although they can't be said to be outstanding and carefully selected, they are definitely made and properly kept... Pang Tianshou replied like this, and at the same time, he was actually a little strange in his heart: King Xin was young and had never been in contact with military affairs before. Since the beginning of the draft, it seems that he does not look like a person who is a complete amateur in military affairs? Many of these practices, although uncommon, are indeed unique?
What Xiao Xuan didn't expect was that it was precisely because he didn't make stupid mistakes in many things, such as not engaging in high pressure on all teenagers at the same time, not easily using military sticks and whips and even some other military laws on paper, plus the list of ordnance and military baggage that he asked for looked like that, not a layman, that Pang Tianshou felt that he was not a thorough Zhao Kuo or a person who didn't know soldiers at all. "Qualified" artillery ammunition and even armor and ordnance enough to fully arm five hundred men were delivered.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty had a series of defeats due to the ten-year war with the Later Jin, and its armament was improved compared with the Battle of Salhu. The qualified ordnance arming hundreds of people is not a large proportion, but in the capital and even in the imperial horse prison, it is an asset and capital that cannot be ignored and the proportion is not low.
Of course, in order to test the new emperor's attainments in military affairs, whether the previous emperor's level of carpentry is not. Pang Tianshou did not bring a military flag, a military number, or even a troop arrangement, as well as the use of firearms, and there were some people who knew about the soldiers.
"The saint's guess is right, I am fighting in the Ming Dynasty, and the artillery and vehicle formation are the first. In fact, it is the Jiannu outside the gate to fight, although the cavalry and hand-to-hand combat are good, but it is still inseparable from artillery and shield vehicles... According to the structure of the best battalion head. The battalion is equipped with 128 vehicles, and the number of soldiers in the regular barracks in actual combat can be as small as 2,000 and more than 100 artillery pieces. The Fran cannon of Qi Shaobao's era has now proved to be often unable to threaten the opponent's shield car in the confrontation against the Eastern Prisoners, and the army mostly uses large and small general cannons, and the same is true when Wanli aided the dynasty... Therefore, the ordnance of these five hundred men is exactly one-quarter of the size of the regular battalion chariot soldiers... ”
To Pang Tianshou's surprise, the new emperor, who had never been in contact with military affairs, did not seem too layman in many common sense cognitions, as if he had received expert guidance: "Okay, I am clear." Don't bring the bulk of the gunpowder and ammunition over, and after a while I will select some of them for testing. It is best for the armor to be properly kept by Pang Gonggong first. Later, I asked the children to build a safe and well-kept place in a higher location, protected from rain and moisture, and relatively safe from the camp. Nowadays, although these children are new to military discipline, I am afraid that the vast majority of them have not yet developed a real habit of military discipline... ”
"Holy Wisdom... Pang Tianshou's appreciation at this time didn't seem to be a cliché after all.
Although Xiao Xuan's inner eunuch under Wang Chengen, who was following him at this time, was not familiar with military affairs, his brain was not bad, and he knew that this was the imperial horse supervisor who sent the ordnance and military baggage to test the new emperor in a different way, and he was somewhat unhappy in his heart, and he couldn't help complaining after Pang Tianshou left: "This Pang Tianshou is really ignorant of lifting, and he actually plays this set in front of His Majesty... ”
"Don't care about that Pang Tianshou, if he can seriously provide us with convenience and support, he can be regarded as a person who stands with us. Let's blow the trumpet and let the children gather as a team. Although the squadrons were assigned the necessary odd groups last night, no new groups have been divided. It is important to find a leader today who can really be obedient ... Xiao Xuan said at this time.
In fact, Xiao Xuan didn't know how to blow the rallying call, let alone really served as a soldier. It's just that from my own thinking, I feel that the specific wake-up call assembly call seems to be a kind of formalism. If there is a real emergency, some people may not be able to remember how to blow the trumpet according to the rhythm in a panic, and some people may not have the trumpet at hand but the drum at hand, or only the whistle or even the whistle. Therefore, before dawn, Xiao Xuan had already told the children in the camp: obvious and urgent sounds, whether it is whistles, trumpets, or drums, must immediately set off and prepare. The obvious sound of the trumpet is to be gathered at once.
Therefore, when the sound of the hurried trumpet was remembered near the tents of each team, the children who had learned a little about the concept of military discipline during yesterday's penalty run were more or less quick to act, and it probably took a few minutes to gather together. It's just just "centralized". In order to let these five hundred children stand in line, even if there are thirty obedient children selected yesterday as assistance, and Xiao Xuan is busy himself, it took half a pillar of incense to divide the camp and line up from high to low.
gave Xiao Xuan a feeling: Even compared to the middle school students of later generations, these people are still too bad in many aspects. I'm afraid that I will have to start as a physical education teacher ---in the elementary school, and I am not right, but I am the head of the physical education team of the elementary school academic affairs office who is in charge of 500 children. In order to make most of these people at least literate, they may have to be the head of the language group...