118. Count the troops

This time, Zhu Wei sent troops to Mu Lan and Wang Yuyan to follow the battle, and only Tai Shici and Ma Zhong stayed in the camp to continue to train the remaining new soldiers and auxiliaries. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this way, Zhu Wei can be regarded as taking his own team and pouring out.

Although the Shanyue thief soldiers handsome by that Zulang may also be a rabble, but these Shanyue thief soldiers are definitely Danyang strongmen, as the so-called indiscriminate punching to kill the master, if Zulang's Shanyue thief soldiers are strong, it cannot be underestimated.

What's more, Zhu Wei's side was originally all demoted and new, and his combat effectiveness had not yet been condensed and improved, while the family alliance in Lingyang was full of internal contradictions, and it was good not to hold back.

In such a situation, I really want to sigh when I think about it, but the reality is that there is no room for retreat, so after the decision is made, the preparations for the pre-war dispatch of troops begin.

It also takes time to arrange things such as selecting soldiers, preparing armor, and preparing all kinds of baggage materials.

Although Lingyang County is responsible for money and food, Zhu Wei naturally has to make his own preparations, and it is more reassuring to rely on others or on his own.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and the entire Lingyang County became nervous again.

The news that tens of thousands of Shanyue thieves and soldiers from Shanyue Sect Shuai Zulang in Jing County were attacking Lingyang has spread all over Lingyang, and many people close to the direction of Jing County have fled in the direction of Lingyang County.

Outside Lingyang County, the clan soldiers and coalition forces of all families in Lingyang have gathered, and Zhu Wei also took 8,000 soldiers to the coalition camp outside Lingyang County.

Then the 5,000 auxiliary soldiers of Lingyang County and the grain, grass and copper coins that Lingyang County had gathered were almost prepared and transported to the camp of the coalition army.

During this period, Zhu Wei took Wang Yuyan and Mu Lan to inspect the coalition forces sent by the big and small families in Lingyang County, and these private soldiers and coalition troops seemed to be well equipped, but they were basically sword soldiers, spearmen and some archers.

Therefore, Zhu Wei broke up and reorganized these allied armies of various ethnic groups, and all the sword soldiers were together, the spearmen were together, and the archers were together, so that the allied forces of all ethnic groups that were originally held together could be regarded as unified command.

Of course, before doing this, Zhu Wei also reiterated the killing order, and anyone who disobeyed was beheaded.

When rectifying these private armies of various ethnic groups in Lingyang, Zhu Wei also specially brought Pang Yan and hundreds of guards, and prepared to kill a few heads to kill chickens and monkeys, and by the way, sacrifice the military flag.

However, this time, those large and small families in Lingyang County seemed to have guessed that Zhu Wei would do this, so the private soldiers and clan soldiers they sent this time basically did not have relatives in the clan, and some family guests were responsible for leading the clan soldiers.

And these doormen naturally won't react much to Zhu Wei's rectification, and they are not willing to use their necks to resist.

After reorganizing these allied armies of various ethnic groups, Zhu Wei divided the 8,000 soldiers selected by his side into 4,000 archers and 4,000 sword and shield men, but they were two very simple troops, and there were no spearmen and other troops.

Mainly in the south of the horse war, so used to fight against the cavalry charge of the spear with few opportunities, and the spear is actually very difficult to use, spear is a full three or four meters long, like a bamboo pole like weapons, mainly with the help of the front end of the spear blade and the blade, to make a stab, hammer attack action.

When dealing with enemy cavalry troops, these long spears can be erected into a spear formation, so that the cavalry cannot get close to the side, so that the fast-running war horses will automatically collide with them to find death, so as to resist the impact of the cavalry troops.

Generally, crossbow arrays or arrow arrays are placed behind these gun arrays to carry out long-range counterattacks against cavalry troops, which is the conventional combat method of infantry facing cavalry.

However, spearmen may be necessary in the army of the Central Plains, and in the south of the mountainous and river-ridden landscape, there are not so many cavalry to face, so it is not so necessary to deploy in the army.

Because in one-on-one infantry combat, a long weapon like a spear is definitely in the way, and once it is close to the sword and shield hand, it can only resist with bare hands.

Therefore, in the southern battlefield, the long-handled spear is used less, and it may be used to defend the city, but it is basically not used to attack the city, but bandits such as Shanyue can cut down bamboo to make spears, and it seems that they will be used more.

But if it is not used to deal with cavalry, this kind of long spear is really not practical, especially after the later cavalry shooting became the regular combat method of cavalry, these spears used to block the cavalry from approaching were gradually eliminated by the battlefield.

Therefore, during the Song Dynasty, the infantry often used the red tassel gun to replace the long soldiers, the red tassel gun was about one-third shorter than the spear, and it could also form a gun formation to resist the horse when necessary, and in peacetime because the gun body was shortened, it could also make the spearmen have a certain combat effectiveness when facing other arms in foot combat.

The red tassel gun is also simple to manufacture, a gun body, a red tassel, and a gun head can be used, so the conventional weapon of the Song soldiers is the red tassel gun.

It is a pity that the spearmen were still unable to fight against the Liao cavalry and the Jin cavalry during the Song Dynasty, especially in the face of the Mongol cavalry, they did not have any defensive advantage, and they were easily defeated by the Mangu tactics of the Mongol cavalry in the field.

These are not much nonsense, but now Zhu Wei does not attach much importance to the spear class, so there are only two types of troops under his command: sword and shield men and archers.

And there are some spearmen in the private army of Lingyang County, which is also equipped when guarding the family house and dock fort, and the total number is about 1,000 people.

Now Zhu Wei is temporarily preparing to use these spearmen to stabilize the front of the 6,000 private army coalition at the front, lest they be suddenly crushed under the impact of the Zulang Mountain Yue thief soldiers.

However, in terms of the means of enhancing the stability of the formation on his side, Zhu Wei specially created some tiger-like spear cars and knife cars, which was equivalent to making some mobile door walls.

Zhu Wei found more than 1,000 people among his auxiliaries to push this kind of battle equipment that can be called a "tiger cart", and when necessary, he could make a wall of knives and spears out of thin air in front of the army formation to block the enemy's attack route against Zhu Wei's army formation.

It can be said that in these days, Lingyang County has also made various preparations before sending troops.

So on this day, Zhu Wei led people to the gate tower of Lingyang County, ready to officially sacrifice the flag and send troops.

There were also more than 1,000 personal soldiers led by Mu Lan to guard Zhu Wei, and Wang Yuyan helped Zhu Wei prepare the items needed to sacrifice the flag, and also prepared several flags.

In front of the city gate of Lingyang County, 8,000 Zhu guards, 6,000 private soldiers, more than 5,000 auxiliaries, and more than 1,000 auxiliaries pushing tiger carts all stood in neat formations.

There were many people from Lingyang County standing and watching, all of them waiting for Zhu Wei's sacrificial flags, distributing general flags, and completing the final ceremony before leaving the army......