Chapter 152: Military Training Reform
In the following time, the Metropolitan Protectorate was busy compiling the young immigrants who had moved to Andong to settle down as soldiers. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
It was learned from the Anton Pioneer Group that it is expected that 60,000 people will be shipped from Jiaolonghai to Andong by May, and more than 14,000 people will be young and strong.
Li Yu thought for a long time, and the early and late compilations were the same, and he simply included the more than 10,000 young men who had not yet arrived in Andong in the military reserve plan.
Originally, the compilation of the new Ten Guards was inadequate, but Li Yu directly waved his hand and added the Fourteenth Guards. The original plan was also revised, and the new guards and armies were not all integrated with soldiers and peasants.
First, it was reorganized until the 30,000 young men in Anton were ten guards, and the remaining four guards were reorganized after the immigrants arrived in Andong one after another.
Some of the meritorious soldiers from the original Ten Divine Beast Guards, Yanyun, and Beihai Iron Cavalry were transferred to the Ten Guards formed first by immigrants as soldiers, and the shelves of the new Ten Guards were set up.
The new fourteen guards became twelve guards and two armies, and their names, Li Yu still named the ancient divine beasts and fierce beasts in Chinese myths and legends.
Take the legendary five phoenixes: red phoenix, chick, green luan, red bird, and cormorant; Seven Spirits: Bai Ze, Bi Fang, Pixiu, Qi Zhi, Ying Zhao, Jiaoduan, Fei Lian; Two rituals and two saints: the sun and candles shine, and the name of the shadow is taken.
Five phoenix guards, seven spirit guards, two rituals and two holy armies were built.
Li Yu will focus on building the two armies of Sun Candle and Taiyin and Youying, and form the strongest four armies with Yanyun and Beihai Iron Cavalry. The difference between the two is that Yanyun and Beihai Iron Cavalry are all cavalry; The Sun Candle Illumination and Taiyin Shadow Shadow Army that will be formed will be a multi-arm mixed army with infantry as the mainstay, supplemented by cavalry, which will adapt to a variety of battlefield environments and far surpass the powerful troops of other guards and armies.
The officers of the New Liao Eighth Army, which were compiled by the Chinese from the local heart of Liaodong to the Tang Dynasty, were formed by drawing from the Liao Eighth Army and calling them Zhenyi Army, Zhenyu Army, Zhendi Army, Zhenbarian Army, Extermination Army, Extermination Army, Extermination Army, and Annihilation Army.
After the formation is completed, the Liao Eighth Army will become the Liao Sixteenth Army!
When the Metropolitan Protectorate was in full swing to organize the new army, Li Yu's long-brewing military training reform plan was also launched.
The training methods of the army formed by Li Yu were still the same as those of the Tang Army, which was to boil up physical strength, practice combat skills, and drill formations. Let the army march on the drums, watch the flag and listen to the tune.
Boiling physical strength is only a training subject that focuses more on strength than endurance, such as stone locks and smashing wooden stakes.
Practice combat skills, that is, practice the use of weapons such as knives, bows, guns, lances, crossbows, etc.
The drill formation, which is also the arrangement of troops and the phalanx, looks similar to the modern practice formation, but the purpose and requirements are very different.
The modern army is training discipline, and the Tang army is really training formation, and there are many more changes than the modern queue, but the requirements are not high, such as the time of the whole team, the accurate position, and the requirements are relatively low.
There are three kinds of exercises, the first is combat skills, the second is physical strength, and the last is the array. The fastest training with combat skills (in fact, it just seems to be formed quickly on the school field, but in fact, it is a battle battle?) That's really hard to say. )
The Tang Army's training method was actually to drill in accordance with the Law of War.
Although Li Yu had studied the art of war with Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, he had also seen many modern military training methods in his previous life. However, the huge generational difference between the combat policies of the two eras and the weapons used made it difficult for Li Yu to determine which training method was better, so the army under his command has always used the Weigong Military Law to practice.
Compared with other Tang troops, Li Yu's army changed to ten days (ten days) as a training period, with four days of practice and one day off, and two days off every ten days. Each guard and army was divided into two groups to take turns to avoid being attacked by the enemy when the whole army was on vacation.
Due to the long training time, the army under Li Yu's command consumed two to three times more food and grass than other Tang troops, so that many civilian and military generals in the Metropolitan Protectorate were puzzled by Li Yu's maintenance of high-intensity military training, and from time to time wrote letters requesting that the army's training intensity be reduced and financial expenses should be saved.
Even with such a high-intensity training army, after a year of actual combat, the army still exposed many problems, which made Li Yuyi dissatisfied with the current army training methods.
It took several months to personally draft the training outline that integrates the military law of the guards and the modern army training methods.
(The sky is Li Yu's word, implying his ambition)
In addition to the physical strength, the training content of the Firmament Training Drill has increased the endurance training of soldiers. In the battlefield where the two armies are stalemate after a long-distance attack, soldiers need endurance in addition to the strength to slash and kill.
The drill formation is not just a drill formation, and the queue requirements are also raised.
From the sound of the assembly drum to the completion of the soldiers' formation, there are rigid time requirements and whether the formation is neat, and the emphasis on discipline of the modern army has also been added, and the army's obedience, loyalty, and sense of collective honor and mission have been strengthened.
The new training method is certainly not a one-touch approach, and there are no personnel who are familiar with this set of training strategies.
To this end, Li Yu first rebuilt the Qinglongwei School Yard stationed in Pyongyang and added some training facilities to train soldiers' physical fitness, endurance, reflexes, and speed.
Li Yesi, Li Yexu and other Qinglongwei generals were shocked when they saw the new school field, which used to be just a large and flat school field, but now there are many strange things added to the left area of the school field.
Li Yexu pointed to the six wooden planks that were nine feet high and 18 feet wide erected on the school field with apprehension and asked, "Your Highness, what is the use of these big planks?" ”
"Haha, that's the obstacle board used to train soldiers to climb over obstacles." Li Yu said with a smile.
"The soldiers are all tearing and killing in the field, attacking the city, and the last general feels that this training seems to be redundant." Li Yesi said with a frown.
"No, no, no!" Li Yu shook his head and said: "Jumping over the obstacle board is not a simple climb, soldiers can improve their bounce, explosiveness and climbing speed by practicing the obstacle board on a regular basis. ”
Li Yesi and the others were stunned when they heard it, and they didn't know why.
Li Yu didn't care, as long as they could train according to the Firmament Training Drill Code he had compiled.
"Your Highness, what is the purpose of that big slope?" Guan Daniu, who was the captain of the Qinglong Guard, pointed to an extra large slope in the school yard and was puzzled.
"Train soldiers to climb speeds."
"You still need to train for this?" Qinglongwei and a bunch of generals stared at the big slope with a 45-degree inclination in a daze, and their expressions were very helpless.
Your Highness, are you too idle, or do you think we are too idle? Isn't it a toss for us to come out with all these things?
In the hearts of the generals, they couldn't stop complaining. Practice for four days and take one day off, so that it is hard enough, in addition to our Anton Army, hundreds of thousands of troops in Datang, which other army has us practiced so diligently? Diligence is not enough, Your Highness, you have to increase the difficulty of training, how can this soldier feel more and more bitter!
"Your Highness, what are those dozens of pairs of side-by-side iron bars for?"
"Train soldiers in physical strength and endurance!"
"Your Highness, what about the dozens of horizontal bars?"
"Doing pull-ups or training soldiers for physical strength and endurance."
In order to give the Qinglongwei generals a more intuitive feeling of the use of these new trainers, Li Yu personally stepped forward to demonstrate them in the suspicious eyes of the generals.
"Your Highness, the cliff on the edge of the school field is hung with many ropes and large nets......"
"Exercise soldiers' climbing, physical fitness, endurance ......"
"It's good for siege!" Li Yu added with a smile.
Li Yesi, Li Yexu and other Qinglongwei generals thought that the scriptures were full of black lines, and a crow flew overhead.
After visiting the new trainer area, Li Yesi and the others also found that there was an oval field around the entire school field, I don't know what this is for?
"Your Highness......"
Li Yesi pointed to the newly built runway Li Yu knew what he was going to ask, and said with a smile: "This is called a runway, training soldiers to run, as well as endurance ......"
It's endurance again, it's that strength again! The general proofread His Highness's strange thoughts were numb, and looked at the runway blankly.
"Starting tomorrow, the Qinglongwei will serve as a model army for the new training methods of the whole army of Andong, and train the army in strict accordance with the issued firmament training drill code. After one month, it will be set as an example in front of the whole army, and other guards and military academies will observe and study in the future, and then promote it to the whole army. ”
After the end of the observation, Li Yu stood on the high platform and announced to the group of Qinglong Guard generals: "During the training, this king will come to check the training situation at any time. ”
The generals and colonels in the audience were as quiet as cicadas under Li Yu's cold gaze, and their hearts were beating. It seems that His Highness is serious, if he doesn't practice well after a month, His Highness probably won't give good fruit to eat.
Li Yu wrote the Firmament Training Drill Manual in great detail, and the generals also personally demonstrated what they didn't understand about the new training equipment.
After a month, Li Yu wanted to see an army with a neat and solemn appearance, a strict formation, quick action, orders and prohibitions, a new look, and even a neat run, comparable to the Qinglongwei of the modern army.