Chapter 135: Column

The two of them did not bother to deal with the disease, and the first parade to be carried out in the camp today was about to begin. And there are a lot of people who are invited to watch the ceremony. Among the people sitting on the school reading platform, there were several powerful figures of the Dongping military, and the former general Xu Jingtian came in person. This kind of proofreading is to a greater extent a show of force, and naturally there must be a person to show off among the guests invited. Tao Ze, the envoy of Chunnan, sat silently in the corner, and on the other side, there were several old people of the Dai family in Yunzhou, these old guys were all in the army or managed government affairs in Yunzhou since they were children, and they did not retire until they couldn't fight, and their eyes were very vicious, although they were not core members of the Dai family, they all had outstanding military exploits or political achievements. Inviting the Dai family in Yunzhou to participate in the review was to show affection on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was also to respond to the Dai family's temptation to Dongping, about whether they could send troops into Yunzhou.

With these old men present, Ye Tao smiled and ordered Dai Ji to be brought over and stuffed in the middle of the Dai family. Sure enough, in front of several old people, Dai Ji didn't dare to make a sound at all, but was worried that they would ask why he was here. However, when the column began, Dai Ji's eyes could not be taken away. These are the elites of the Blood Qi Army, and the new barracks have not yet been issued with complete equipment.

The most attractive thing is the cavalry unit and heavy infantry unit of the Blood Qi Army. As he slowly walked past the school review desk in bright armor, Dai Ji compared the army he saw with the Tieyun Cavalry he was most familiar with, and he was faintly jealous in his heart. It's too extravagant, it's too extravagant. Tie Yunqi can also be regarded as a strong army built by Yunzhou, but the equipment is too shabby compared to the Blood Qi Army in front of him. Not only did the cavalry of the Blood Qiqi Army wear armor with satisfactory protection and weight, but even the mounts were equipped with elaborate armor plates on key parts. The cavalrymen held the snow-bright cavalry sword in front of them, and the dazzling reflection fully showed the sharpness of the blade. The saddles and saddlebags of the cavalry were designed to follow the curve of the horse's back. After it is installed, it objectively acts as the role of the horse's body leather armor. There are bows and quivers on the saddlebags, which fully shows that this is a cavalry unit that can draw a bow and shoot arrows like the Tieyun Cavalry. At this time, Zou Shuangwen, who was wrongfully assigned to explain to the Dai family, explained: "On the other side of the saddle bag is a leather bag for folding hand crossbows. In our Blood Qi Army's ground cavalry troops, everyone can draw a bow and shoot arrows, and it is naturally easy to use a hand crossbow. By the way. The cavalry bows of our Blood Qi Army are all compound bows. As for the arrows, the arrows are specially made. Please take a look at ......"

Zou Shuangwen took out a special bloodletting arrow from his pocket and respectfully handed it to an old man of the Dai family. The old man's name is Dai Ye, he was one of the commanders of Tieyun Cavalry, because he had no other skills except to fight, and he did not continue to serve in Yunzhou after retiring, and he was a little reluctant to be sent to Danyang this time, and it was precisely because he was there. Dai Jicai will never dare to be presumptuous. Dai Ye took the arrow, weighed it, looked carefully at the bloodletting space on the arrow, and said hesitantly: "This thing is dangerous, and it will be terrible if you hit one." But. This thing is probably not cheap, it costs a lot to start a war. ”

Zou Shuangwen smiled: "Actually, it's okay." This arrow can still be recycled when it is used up, and the steel texture of the arrow is very good, and it will not bend and break if you repeat it several times. ”

"What if it falls into the hands of the enemy? It's a hassle to shoot yourself. Dai Ye asked.

"It must be our Blood Qi Army who can clean up the battlefield alive." Zou Shuangwen said confidently: "Besides, cavalry armor and heavy infantry armor can't be pierced by ordinary arrows. Other troops, leaving them exposed to enemy bows and arrows are not a good chance. …… In addition, the cavalry sword in the hands of the cavalry today is a courtesy sword, and it is polished just to look good. Wait a minute, the old general can go to the camp with Dai Ji to see our cavalry armor and other weapons. Now the new cavalry sword is more handy, but not all of them have been reloaded. The replacement part is for the training of the soldiers in our new barracks. Moreover, the cavalry of my Blood Qi Army. In addition to the cavalry sword, most of the bayonet guns are also good. When the army is actually marching, there will be some other equipment on the saddlebag, tents, dry food, water bags, medicine belts, and emergency ropes. These things are unsightly, and they will not be taken out today. ”

Just as Zou Shuangwen was explaining, the heavy infantry team came over. Since he hadn't been in the Blood Qi Army for a long time, Qiu Haohui was a little excited. Today, I actually led the team to walk the column. His extravagant cloisonné armor is amazing. Dai Ji's eyes were fixed on the heavy infantrymen, with two and a half man-high spears in their hands. The claw-shaped device at the end of the spear was more intriguing than the glowing tip of the spear. He pulled Ladaiye, and the two of them looked at each other, both understanding that this was specially designed to allow the heavy infantry to cope with the onslaught of cavalry. They were all weighing in their hearts, such an infantry formation, even if it was their Tieyun Cavalry, whether it could be impulsed.

And Zou Shuangwen said with a smile: "The heavy infantry is working harder. You can only take spears when you go through the column, and those tower shields and two-handed long-handled knives will go through the columns again after taking them, and they will not have the strength to compete after a while. ”

"What?" Dai Ye and Dai Ji were shocked, wearing this kind of armor to walk around the big school field, and they actually had to wait to participate in the competition? What kind of monster physical strength is this?

"Half of all the training subjects of the heavy infantry are physical exercises. It's no surprise that they're particularly strong in this area. Moreover, they don't need to master much other weapons than two-handed long-handled knives. Spears like this, and tower shields and stuff like that, they just hold it and stand there. Zou Shuangwen explained. Although his very untechnical explanation would inevitably have some opinions if Qiu Haohui, who was very affectionate towards the heavy infantry, but for the Dai family, this was the most reasonable and convenient explanation at present.

At the end of the arrangement, after the baggage detachment, which had just been formed and had not even participated in any kind of combat training, passed in front of the review stand, Dai Ji's expression had completely changed. He looked at Zou Shuangwen with a look that was not convinced, but a little ...... There was some indignation. "The Blood Qi Army turned out to be like this, so you are still practicing those useless things in the camp?" Dai rushed out.

"Boot barracks! You're just in the boot camp! Zou Shuangwen said confidently: "My task is to let everyone pass the assessment of 25 basic indicators, and then divide them into different branches of the army according to the different characteristics of different people." If it weren't for the Governor's Lord to let the Blood Qi Army, the Forbidden Army and the City Guards compete at the same time, many classes and camps should not be arranged. Although this year's batch of recruits learned a little more because of this competition. But if the basic items are not qualified, the commanders with different branches of the army will come to me to settle accounts. I can't ask for you to be thrown into the cavalry camp now, but if you don't pass twenty out of twenty out of twenty exams, it will be my dereliction of duty. Even if there is a record of dereliction of duty, it is not easy to mix in the Blood Qi Army. ”

"You can't get everybody on their horses, they can get off their horses, they can draw their bows and shoot arrows, you can't even build bridges, you can use catapults and magic arms...... Where do you train like this? "Dai Ji is not relentless.

"However, almost everyone in the Blood Qi Army can do it. There is no need for the heavy infantry to shoot arrows with much accuracy. There is no need for the cavalry to use catapults to shoot with how accurate they are, and they can use them. Instead of encountering a chaotic situation on the battlefield and then studying how to play it temporarily, it is better for everyone to take advantage of the time and energy now to prepare first. The standards in the boot camp are not very high, and when you are divided into different classes, the days of suffering will begin. Don't think you're good at cavalry and archery, in the cavalry battalion, as long as you can be a battalion colonel or above. Even if it's not as good as someone like you, who has been shooting on the grasslands since childhood, it's not much worse. We here, as long as we don't enter a state of combat readiness, any position is stared at by a bunch of people. Do you think anyone in the boot camp is eligible to get it? How many people here who are better than you are obediently serving as sentry captains and sergeant majors. ”

Dai Ji said unconvinced: "Who believes you!" There are people who are stronger than me. It's not as much as you say. ”

Zou Shuangwen sneered and said, "Bet." You go to the one hundred assessments according to the standard of participation in the Blood Qi Army's discipline. If you can pass seventy items, I will guarantee you, and you can choose any class of troops. Pick any battalion to go. Cavalry, heavy infantry, longbowmen, equipment battalions, baggage battalions, you name it. As for whether you can rise up in the camp or not, that's not up to me. If you can't pass sixty items, then you will obediently obey me in the new barracks. ”

Dai Ji said without any hesitation: "Okay, that's what you said." He looked at the cavalry of the Blood Qi Army wearing beautiful and mighty armor with great eyes.

At this time, Zou Shuangwen patted Dai on the shoulder and said, "Don't say that I embarrass you, you know." Dai Overseer's army only passed seventy-three. The best in the Blood Qi Army, but passed eighty-six items. ”

Dai Ji wanted to say something arrogantly, but was forced back into his stomach by Zou Shuangwen's fierce eyes. Zou Shuangwen said coldly: "It's useless to talk big. Go back and ask the officers of your team for a drill and a test manual. ”

Zou Shuangwen was no longer very interested in teasing Dai Jidi's child's temper, and after he and Dai Ye apologized, he walked over to the officers who were beginning to gather around Tan Weiming and Ye Tao.

"Your Highness, will the Blood Qi Army really go to Yunzhou?" An officer asked. Compared to other armies, the Blood Qi Army, which has many children of families serving in the army, is faster than any other army in terms of news, even if it is a forbidden army. The Dai family in Yunzhou sent a group of women and children to Danyang to settle down. He also asked an elder of the Dai family to implicitly hint at the hope that Dongping would help Yunzhou to a greater extent when he met with the lord of the country. Even the news of providing military support reached the ears of some people in the Blood Qiqi Army almost the day after it happened. Especially Chi Lei. His father was Taiwei Chi Xianping, and his elder brother was the deputy commander of the forbidden army, and when the state lord consulted various opinions on whether or not to send troops to Yunzhou, the two of them participated in the imperial council as representatives of the military. And after the news reached the Blood Qi Army, the Blood Qi Army was looking forward to being able to send troops to Yunzhou. The Blood Qi Army is powerful, and the Blood Qi Army wants to test through actual battles, how strong the Blood Qi Army is, and how much the Blood Qi Army has grown compared to the previous series of battles in Xunshan Pass, when the White Stone City was amazingly defended and fought. If the Blood Qiqi Army attacked again, it would be ideal to bring more victories, results, and honor to everyone among them.

Tan Weiming did not evade the question. He already clearly knows what the tension in Yunzhou is, and judging from the current situation, it is no longer enough to make Yunzhou calm again. Yunzhou will inevitably not be able to continue, and the ownership of Yunzhou ultimately depends on the results of the military wrestling of the barbarian tribes in Dongping, Xiling, Beiliao and even the northern grasslands. Tan Weiming nodded. "Yes, but it's not final." After all, Yunzhou is not my Dongping territory, and many ministers of the DPRK and China have various concerns about going out to fight. Moreover, although the Blood Qi Army has expanded repeatedly, it is now only 30,000 people. Judging from the current situation in Yunzhou, the 30,000 Light Blood Qi Army is probably a little powerless. But except for the Blood Qi Army, which is not nominally part of the Dongping Army. If other troops are dispatched, they may risk an all-out war with Xiling and Northern Liao. ”

Han Hanlin said with great confidence: "Although there are only 30,000 people in our Blood Qi Army, where can other armies compare. He can make us a hundred thousand men. "Han Hanlin is a senior officer who joined the Blood Qi Army from the beginning of its establishment, and is now the commander of two battalions with a total of 6,000 longbowmen. His affection for the Blood Qi Army was so deep that he refused to go to the family activities to let him enter the forbidden army or go to the border town to serve as a guard. And his evaluation of the Blood Qi Army is actually the thoughts of many people in the Blood Qi Army.

Ye Tao smiled: "The tone is not small." I ask you, what is the specific military situation, do you know? Just by the few words that everyone knows now. What is the use of fighting a war? What about the map? The detailed topographic map of Yunzhou is now only one-third of the area of Yunzhou. What about supplies? Going out to fight is in the grasslands that everyone is not familiar with, what about your supply plan? At the very least, a list of supplies needed. There is always a list of weapons, right? …… Also, I'm surprised, Han Hanlin, you are not a combat-ready officer. Going out to fight seems to leave you behind, right? If you have this grinding effort, you still don't want to turn to a combat-ready officer? ”

Han Hanlin was a little embarrassed, although he commanded two battalions of longbowmen, but because it was impossible for longbowmen to act alone on the scale of two battalions during the battle, they had to be divided into different combat directions. Although Han Hanlin has a high level of authority in peacetime training and drills, he is not a general who can lead troops after entering a state of combat readiness, although the conversion between the two only requires a few procedures. But just in the middle of the formalities for the children of these families, the elders of the family must sign a document to agree to enter the battle sequence. It's not an easy job.

Han Hanlin was not angry, when the Blood Qi Army was exercising, everyone had always regarded "intelligence, maps, and supplies" as the most basic issues, and attached great importance to them, without these basic guarantees, there would be no foundation for any tactics. Right now. There's really a chance to fight. For these life-and-death issues, everyone will only take them more seriously. And now, although Ye Tao is not a member of the Blood Qi Army. Even apart from an ordnance technical advisor, there was no position in the two armies' inspection mansions, but everyone still regarded Ye Tao as an important member of the Blood Qi Army. Han Hanlin replied firmly: "Don't worry, my lord, the paperwork of the combat readiness officer will come down tomorrow, and I will be active when I hear the news, no problem." When it comes to military intelligence, everyone is actively mobilizing various forces to collect it. …… To talk about supplies, logistics...... We're starting to prepare. However, my lord, can you return General Suo to the Blood Qi Army? Lu Dujun has elite soldiers under his hands, but there is no Lu Dujun in your workshop to coordinate for us, you can at least assign someone to help us coordinate the production of armaments, right? ”

The issue of the place that Han Hanlin said is really very critical. In the past, the Blood Qi Army needed equipment and parts, and all kinds of strange small products, they could find Suo Zheng or Lu Dan, and they would naturally arrange the workshop to produce in the shortest possible time to meet the requirements. When Suo Zheng was in charge of all the logistics supply matters in the canal project, and when he showed his strength, the Blood Qi Army felt the serious problem of lacking an experienced, courageous and talented logistics supervisor. What's even worse is that Suo Zheng is certainly training a group of logistics officers for the Blood Qi Army, but Suo Zheng's training adheres to the consistent style of Ye's workshop: fishing people out of their own hands to work. Now there is really no logistics supervisor-type character in the Blood Qi Army who can properly arrange the preparations for the expedition.

Ye Tao pondered for a moment and said, "I can let Suo Zheng return to the Blood Qi Army, after all, the affairs here are more important than those in the canal." But ......" Ye Tao turned to Tan Weiming and said, "Your Highness, can you help transfer someone to temporarily take over Suo Zheng's part of the work now?" ”

Tan Weiming frowned and asked, "Who do you want?" ”

"Hayashi Chengze, the head of the household." Ye Tao said. Lin Cheng is a young official who is trained by the Ministry of Households, and he is also the first batch of students who Tan Weixin gave lectures on economics in his own house, although the logistics work in the canal is more like military affairs, and Lin Chengze's original work is not the same as Lin Chengze's original work who has been dealing with paperwork, but it seems that Lin Chengze has some management experience outside of paperwork, whether it is for Lin Chengze's future future, for the current progress of the canal governor's mansion, or just for the practical needs of the Blood Qi Army to let Suo Zheng come back to preside over the logistics work, It's a good choice.

It was precisely because of this that Tan Weiming pondered the probability of being recognized after making this suggestion, and nodded generously.