Chapter 37: Night Raid on the Soldiers
Zhang Mo has always been like this, one skill reaches the extreme and then cultivates another skill, archery, heavy arrows and random shooting to LVMAX, but sniping is not practiced at all.
"Lord, is it time to show off your archery skills?" In the face of Li Ming's provocation, Zhang Mo just rolled his eyes.
"On top, give me all on top! Sword and shield soldiers, defend your allies! Yang Xing wanted to dismount, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was wrong, so he took a few steps back and asked the guards to protect him, so he urged the foot soldiers to step forward.
The sword and shield soldiers raised their shields to protect the friendly troops who were clearing the repulsion pistols and ground nails in front, but the leather shields they held in their hands were the opponents of the two-stone bows? At first, they could block one or two arrows, but the strong archers who found this point shot at one point one after another, and the two arrows directly shot through the shield, and then the third arrow shot the soldier.
It's not fast, but it's a good speed against this group of guys with shields in their hands.
Initially three hundred, then five hundred, and eventually with a thousand foot casualties, Yang Xing's order had become pale and weak. The horse guns and ground nails have not been cleaned up much, but the comrades are constantly suffering casualties.
Fortunately, the archers were also in position one after another, and began to shoot back, and under their suppression, the foot soldiers quickly cleared two passages, and killed them directly in the direction of the fence.
"Thrust!" Zhang Ying shouted, and the pikemen suddenly ran out from behind the tent and stabbed at the enemy troops outside the fence. The pikemen had a good sense of distance, and they killed directly in the gap in the fence.
"But again, I've discovered your spur tracks!" The commander of the army shouted, grabbed a spear, suddenly forced, pulled the soldier over, and then stabbed it over. The surrounding soldiers also followed suit, grabbing the spears that had stabbed out and had not had time to retract them.
"Vibrating the gun!" Seeing this, Zhang Ying didn't panic at all, but just shouted.
The soldier received the order, and a stream of internal qi wrapped around the arm and the spear, and the spear shook violently, and immediately bounced off the opponent's arm. The pikemen then strode forward, and the spears slammed forward, stabbing the soldiers directly to death, and then retracted their guns.
"This ...... How could this be......" The general looked at the hollow hole in his chest, looked at the soldier in front of him in disbelief, and then fell to the ground unwillingly.
"What happened?" The lieutenant in the back saw that more than 100 people were killed, and suddenly exclaimed.
"Sir! These soldiers have practiced Qi! They seem to have used a martial art just now! The military marquis at the front immediately replied.
"What kind of joke are you talking about? How could the method of practicing Qi be taught so casually? The lieutenant couldn't believe his ears, but what was happening in front of him was telling him that what the marquis said was not wrong.
The method of practicing Qi is impossible for ordinary people to come into contact with. Even if you enlist in the army, it is impossible to get in touch with it if you don't have enough combat merits, and only when you are promoted to the rank of military marquis, you will get a copy of "Fighting and Fighting" according to your military merits, and it may even be a remnant.
In the final analysis, the more people who practice Qi, the more difficult the security management of the imperial court will be. If one day, a group of so-called rangers casually carry out the so-called hoeing of the strong and helping the weak, robbing the rich and helping the poor or something through Lian Qi, then it will inevitably be officials at all levels, even those gentry families!
Therefore, restricting the practice of Qi among the people is almost the consensus of the Han Dynasty. Now looking at this group of soldiers under Li Ming's command, all of them can practice Qi, this captain thinks that Li Ming is crazy! Doesn't he know the consequences of doing so?!
Of course Li Ming knew, so what ordinary soldiers were allowed to cultivate was only the first five layers of the battle duel, and only the personal guards could cultivate the "Mixed Yuan Jue", such as Xu Chu and Dian Jie, and even the full version of the "Mixed Yuan Jue".
"Vibrating Spear" is an in-class martial art, which can be regarded as the ultimate simplified version of the nether marksmanship, but this martial art can avoid the spear from being caught by the enemy to the greatest extent and make the pikemen fall into passivity, so along the way, Li Ming let the soldiers learn this martial art. The soldier himself has already begun to practice the "Formation Breaking Marksmanship", and the vibrating spear is very easy to cultivate, so he learned it on the way north.
The only thing that restricts them is that the time for practicing Qi is still a bit short, so the amount of internal strength is not large, and such a martial art can only be used a few times before it is boring.
"At the end of the day!" Li MingOf course, you heard the lieutenant's complaint, after all, it was not far from him, "Why don't you teach the method of practicing Qi?" Maybe it's a public security problem, but as long as the high-end method of practicing Qi is in the hands of the imperial court, this problem is actually not a problem! The reason why the princes did not teach the method of practicing Qi to ordinary soldiers was, to put it bluntly, just to reduce the consumption of resources and reduce the rise of talents.
But in my opinion, the most fundamental reason is that for them, ordinary soldiers are just a bunch of consumables, right? Just sorry! The soldiers under Lao Tzu's command are all very expensive! ”
Everyone will say that how much resources a group of elite soldiers need to invest can make people collapse as long as they calculate. Whether it is armor or exercises, even the medicine needed, or even the nutrition needed for cultivation, it is too expensive for the princes! Especially in the Central Plains, where consumption is not ordinarily high!
"This is kind of announcing that you are a local tyrant, right?" Zhang Mo is still complaining, having said that, the manpower and financial resources under Li Ming's command can only train 20,000 such soldiers. If it weren't for the medicine and seafood workshops to maintain daily consumption, I am afraid that only 20,000 people would be able to drag down the finances of Huiji County.
Even so? Ten ordinary soldiers can kill an elite soldier if they are surrounded by ten ordinary soldiers, or even by twenty people. In fact, the battle array can't all be counted like that, sometimes a battle array of 100,000 people can kill 20,000 elite soldiers. However, the cost of cultivating one elite soldier can train fifty soldiers! So whether to train elite soldiers or recruit more soldiers, most of the princes are more inclined to the latter!
"Huiji County's financial resources are not so abundant!" Li Ming shrugged his shoulders, "It's just that now that Huiji County is being developed, the population has limited the number of soldiers I can recruit!" That's all! ”
As for the group of Peng clan soldiers whose loyalty was unknown, and even most of them didn't know how to speak Chinese, he didn't pay attention to it. Just like their kind of existence, unless it is ruled by the Yue people, it is just a group of cannon fodder, and no matter how much cannon fodder there is, there is no point!
"After all, isn't it you who have to do a big development?" Zhang Mo complained.
"Can you stop talking? Shoot with peace of mind! Li Ming bent his bow and shot one of the generals, while bowing his head to avoid several arrows.
"No more arrows!" Zhang Mo shrugged his shoulders, and the more than a dozen quiver pouches around him were empty.
"Can't you aim and shoot again?" Li Ming immediately complained.
"The skill of random shooting, the hit rate itself is a problem!" Zhang Mo replied, "Besides, it's not that I don't want to aim, the other party directly uses sword and shield soldiers to cover, and there is no way to effectively kill and injure the opponent's soldiers!" ”
"What are you doing here with a pestle after shooting? Go down and help command! When Li Ming heard this, he kicked him down directly.