A general framework has been established, and Dai Yan is also extremely concerned about the training of the army! Later generations of military masters once said: sweat more in peacetime, and shed less blood in wartime! Whether it is out of love for the lives of soldiers or for the preservation of national strength, Dai Yan attaches no more importance to the training of soldiers!

With the experience of two eras, plus his experience of many major wars, he also has his own views on the training of the army. In his opinion, the most important training for the army is to lay a good foundation!

After the framework for military reform was established, he dismantled some of the troops he had previously conscripted. As for the remaining troops, they will be retrained and reorganized.

When such a group of troops restarted training, Dai Yan did not let the soldiers train how to kill the enemy, but let them lay the basic skills first. In the military, the most important basic skill is order.

In the Song Kingdom, although there are differences between the nobles and the commoners in terms of the channels of ascension, at least everyone shows that their status in the law has been completely equal. However, within the specific army, in fact, the gap between nobles and commoners is still very large, and there are many problems within it!

The armies led by the nobles, when they dominated their subordinates, mostly relied on the difference in status, and even the authority formed by corporal punishment with whips. In Dai Yan's view, this way of training and even commanding troops is undoubtedly extremely backward!

Within the army, Dai Yan strictly forbade the punishment of soldiers by insult and corporal punishment! In the training of soldiers, the most important basic skills are lining up and running.

In Dai Yan's view, the army fighting in formation is not only the direction of field warfare in the Warring States Period, but also the best way to maintain order in the army. Even in the era he traveled over, the army's field battles no longer need to fight in formation, and there is no need to line up to be shot, but the formation is still the most basic part of army training!

Running, on the other hand, is a skill for training soldiers and even honing soldiers, and it is also an important magic weapon to improve the combat effectiveness and survivability of the army!

And if the soldiers are good runners, their endurance will naturally be strong, and then in terms of marching speed, there is a great possibility to surpass the armies of other countries. In the process of a big war, the speed of the march actually represents the combat effectiveness of the army! And more importantly, once the war is lost, the army that runs fast can also save itself to the greatest extent!

Of course, running is also a good opportunity to hone soldiers in the specific training process of the army, isn't it? Those disobedient soldiers, when the commander can't directly punish them, let him run around the school yard for twenty laps is a good way to deal with them!

And how do you qualify for lining and running? In fact, the Wei Wushu of this era had already given specific standards: soldiers wearing three layers of heavy armor and helmets, carrying fifty crossbows on their backs, holding Changge, carrying swords, and carrying three days' rations, they could march a hundred miles in half a day!

Judging from Dai Yan, Wei Wushu's standard, as a soldier's outbreak standard, is already sufficient. He has personally tested this, Wei Wushu's full set of equipment is about fifty catties, and the weight is fifty catties and half a day, and he is almost reaching the limit of the human body! If this speed is continued to increase, then it will be completely impossible to guarantee the combat effectiveness of the army, which is unnecessary.

In addition to the outbreak of the army, there is also the endurance of the army. And this standard, Dai Yan is still based on the weight of Wei Wushu, to ensure that the Song army can march 500 miles within three days!

If the soldiers can meet this standard, then Dai Yan will be able to ensure that once there is a police in any city in the Song Kingdom, the army will be able to arrive within three days!

When the basic training of the soldiers of the Song Kingdom was completed, the next training was the specific actual combat skills. Previously, when Dai Yan trained the army in Taoqiu, he used the division of labor to train the army.

For example, specific sword and shield soldiers only need to train their melee skills. The spearman, on the other hand, only needs to train the spear formation of the platoon, and even his opponent's battle. As for the crossbowmen, they basically only need to train in archery.

However, after experiencing the tempering of the Song Civil War, Dai Yan found that although such a professional division of labor army was very strong, its weaknesses were not small at all!

The formation of melee soldiers by sword and shield soldiers, followed by spearmen, and then pressed by crossbowmen, is of course a large array with both offense and defense, and the formation of such a large formation requires an extremely professional division of labor, which is naturally understandable! However, the three parts that make up such a large array, in the case of fighting alone, their attack methods appear to be thin, and the weakness is very obvious!

The previous wars were all in the Song Kingdom, plus Taoqiu had the protection of the sailors, which could perfectly guarantee logistics, and I haven't seen the problems behind this combination. And once such an army is suddenly attacked on the soil of the enemy country, then the professional crossbowmen will definitely have no power to fight back in the face of the attack of the opponent's sword and shield soldiers and pikemen!

Therefore, in order to build the army of the Song State into an army that can not only defend the homeland, but also go on expeditions abroad, the diversification of combat skills must be completed!

In Dai Yan's opinion, the sword and shield hand, as a striker, and even a dead soldier in battle, can not use a bow and crossbow, but must be able to use a spear against the enemy.

And spearmen, who are in the second echelon, in a complex war, need to be able to act as a short-term crossbowman when the enemy is coming, and they also need to be able to quickly fill in when the casualties of the sword and shield soldiers are too large, so they need to master three combat methods!

As crossbowmen behind the scenes, Dai Yan could not expect them to use the skills of sword, shield and spearmen, but when marching on the road and even when the entire array collapsed on the battlefield, these crossbowmen also needed to be able to have a certain amount of melee ability. In this way, Dai Yan equipped them with special defensive swords and trained them in special swordsmanship.

As for the specific training methods, Dai Yan also made adjustments with the evolution of the weapons and equipment of the Song Kingdom. As a country with close ties with Dongyi, the Song Kingdom had a strong tradition of bows and arrows in the Song Kingdom. However, now that the crossbows of the Song Kingdom have begun to be completely standardized, it is completely unnecessary to specialize in training archery based on bows and arrows!

Dai Yan simply selected a small number of talented archers in the Song Kingdom and asked them to use the more powerful compound bows made by Mo craftsmen for long-distance sniper training. And the other archery troops of the Song Kingdom only need to be specially trained on how to perform standardized crossbow shooting!

After all, in the army, a large-scale salvo is quite deterrent. Moreover, it will take much less time to train a crossbowman than it will take to train an archer. The most important thing is that after the crossbow can be standardized, the power of the crossbow arrow can also be roughly standardized. When firing a salvo, as long as the strength of the shot is determined in the command, the attack range of the crossbow bolt can be roughly controlled!

Before making this decision, Dai Yan had the archers and crossbowmen fire massive salvos separately. Facts have proved that in the state of "ten thousand arrows fired at once", the crossbowmen, a standardized force, have achieved far greater results than the archers in a certain range of killing targets!

Even if the distance that the archer can attack is far greater than that of the crossbowman, and the archer's shooting speed, in the combat state, the speed of attack is faster than that of the crossbowman, Dai Yan did not hesitate to eliminate the archer! Because in his opinion, only the army that can be produced in batches and standardized can match the industrialization of the Song State, and then quickly form combat effectiveness!

The Song Kingdom owned an industrialized city like Taoqiu, and was able to mass-produce standard crossbows and bed crossbows, so the Song Kingdom was born with strong long-range combat power! From this point of view, this can be regarded as the Song State has carried forward the advantages of Dongyi!

The handling and training of the standard crossbow was too brief when it was previously trained in Taoqiu. According to Dai Yan, such a weapon that can be called a big killer weapon can not only be quickly mass-produced, but also completely able to move quickly, and its specific functions can also be played differently depending on the battlefield!

For example, in water warfare, it can be used not only as an attack weapon, but also as a weapon to capture small boats! As for the use of land armies, which have been excavated so far, there are those that fire stepping arrows to attack cities during sieges, and use them to carry out ultra-long-range strikes in field battles.

In fact, judging from Dai Yan, this kind of sharp weapon can even complete the work of sniping on the battlefield! Before the outbreak of the Song Civil War, didn't the soldiers in the Xiangyi Industrial Zone rely on the bed crossbow to shoot off one of Zhao's arms?

Although this approach is a bit obscene, Dai Yan doesn't care at all. After all, Sun Tzu said well, "soldiers, treacherous ways", in a specific war, there is no need to take into account the means, and the winner of the war has the qualification to evaluate others!

For the troops on land, Dai Yan has always had a kind of elite army plot that he can't get rid of. This line of thinking is not only influenced by this era, when Wei Wushu killed the Quartet as an elite soldier, but also inspired by the "special forces" of later generations. It is very necessary to maintain an extremely strong force in combat effectiveness outside of the ordinary army of the country, as the blade of the entire national army!

For such a special force as the "blade" of the Song Kingdom, Dai Yan's requirement for it is to react quickly and strike quickly at the enemy in a very short time. Dai Yan's initial idea was to train an enhanced version of Wei Wushu. He picks out elite soldiers and desperately trains them in all kinds of fighting skills, and these elite soldiers can also do better on short and long rapid marches!

However, no matter how these troops trained, they could not meet Dai Yan's requirements!

It wasn't until Le Yi, a young general he had already neglected, understood Dai Yan's intentions and persuaded Dai Yan to shift his attention to the cavalry, that Dai Yan remembered such an army that he had almost forgotten!

Subsequently, he realized that compared to the infantry, the cavalry was the army that perfectly satisfied the "special forces" of the Song State in his mind!