On the school grounds, all veterans who had served and retired were all called back to the army, and more than 4,000 field troops were assembled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And that's not even counting the farmers who had undergone simple winter training and the workers in the workshops, who still had to produce and take on more tasks than before.

At the mobilization meeting before the war, Chen Jian just read the punishment that Su Yue had set for himself, which caused the soldiers to laugh.

"It seems that they are prepared not only to look upon you as lowly, but also as your children and grandchildren, for all eternity."

"Be reasonable, we'll talk about it. I will speak, and so will the members of the preaching team, and even you will speak. ”

"But let's not talk about it today, let us use the roar of cannons, the lead bullets of muskets, and the sharpness of spears to reason with them!"

The soldiers laughed, and one shouted, "It's long overdue to reason with them like this." ”

Jian Chen also smiled, waved his hand and said, "But then again, it's not okay to be reasonable early." If there is no iron, no guns, only copper, then how can you fight in war? There must be a group of people who specialize in not having to work and practice chariots every day to rush in front, and you just need to farm the land in peacetime and rush behind the chariot when you are fighting. ”

"Why can you be reasonable now? Because with muskets and cannons, want to fight? You need a group of people to come out and get guns. Even if he was on the other side from a small car and a sword, five people and five muskets, he would have to die. In the future, you can only be conscripted as soldiers to fight, and it is useless to rely on the nobles to train from an early age. With a gun, there is the right to speak. In the past, a noble one could beat ten people with a pitchfork hoe, but if he put on armor, he could beat fifty, so they could be noble when reasoning with their fists. ”

"In the past, you couldn't be reasonable, you wanted to eat when you were hungry, but people didn't allow it, and they said that you were lowly, and you thanked you for giving you leftovers to eat. You can't beat them anyway, and when you fight, those with noble blood are the main force. ”

"Now, you're the main force in the fight. As for me, as your king, I also have to ponder, I can use you enough, why do I have to get some noble blood to raise? ”

"In the past, when there was a fight, those nobles said that you must promise me something, otherwise I won't fight, then I have to agree, otherwise I can't beat it with a group of people with pitchforks. But if you promise them, you will have to take the flesh from you, for it does not fall from the sky. ”

"Now that the fight starts, even if there are still noble bloods, and there is any request to rip your flesh, I can only let them and your muskets and cannons carry it."

"So you have to fight well, not only for your own merits, but also for the sake of my determination not to compromise with them. In case you can't beat them, I have to invite them back, and I'm afraid of death, so I can only sell you, and go to my nobles in peace. ”

The soldiers laughed, but they clenched their spears or heavy muskets.

"Let's disperse, mutton soup and white bread in the evening, one pound of wine per person, a good meal. The company commanders of each company stayed, and the secretary officers and soldiers calculated how much you had left for food, and reported it in a centralized manner, and what you wanted to buy in the past two days, the supply and marketing department has made it up for you as much as possible. ”

After the leaders of each company shouted the slogan of disbandment, everyone dispersed in groups, and the propaganda team next to them had already set up a stage and started to perform some dramas, and the girls in the medical class in the distance were preparing cotton cloth and various herbs, busy but not chaotic.

Chen Jian took the list of each company and compared the number of people and equipment.

The field battle group of 4,400 people in total was composed of the new generation of the Xia Kingdom, and it was roughly equipped with spears and muskets.

The spear company had 150 men and the musket company had 80 men, making a total of 28 companies, making a total of 3,200 men, which was the main force that held the front together.

The musketeers wore no armor, and the soldiers in the first row of the spear company wore a simple layer of armor.

The three hundred Yulin guards were shock cavalry, with stirrups, spears and bronze swords, and a layer of armor on their bodies, not equipped with long-range projectile weapons such as bows, arrows, javelins, etc.

The 300-strong Black-clad Guards were shock heavy infantry, armed with swords and shields, and threw cast-iron ignition bombs when needed to blow up gaps before they charged, or if there was a gap in their own battle line, they needed to fill it.

The Thunder Guards were artillery units, the first to come into contact with muskets, but not to use them much. Eight light guns that fired three pounds of iron pellets, and seventeen smaller guns that fired one pound of iron pellets or crushed iron sand.

This is also the most luxurious army in the world at this time, not to mention weapons and equipment, most of the soldiers can write their own names, can recognize those phonetic words, and can calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within hundreds. The officers of the company are all graduates of military classes, or veterans of several battles, and they have systematically learned simple tactical techniques.

Seven years, or more than seven years, from the school as a child to the collective work of a slightly larger farm or workshop, plus five years of training, Chen Jian can say that this army has the best discipline and resilience in the whole world at this time.

Even if this army is gone, as long as Yucheng still has the advantage of ships, relying on those workshop workers, miners, and farmers from collective farms, a group of disciplined recruits can be organized in half a year, but it is not necessary.

Once this battle is won, the musket will replace the bow and crossbow and become the long-range projection weapon of this group in the future, and the price of building a qualified crossbow is not cheaper than a musket, not to mention that after having a regular method of frying wrought iron, the crossbow is a crooked road without gunpowder, and the bow is getting stronger and stronger from a single body to a recurve and then to a compound in front of gunpowder, and there is no need to go.

With the advent of flint and bayonets, it was almost impossible for the nomads to change the course of history - cotton was there, the jungles of the northeast could be cultivated for a long time, and six hundred years of technological superiority was enough to produce a population that could cultivate the best places into arable land.

Although there are many clans in the cities that oppose the Xia State, as long as the field troops mastered by Su Yue are destroyed, and the iron tools are used to open the way and divide the land and send the iron tools to liberate the slaves, everything will be destroyed, and there is no need to even pull one faction to fight another, lest the end of the fight will be big and compromise, and it is the best outcome to take away this group of old-fashioned priests and relatives and nobles in waves, at least within eight hundred miles around Yucheng, there is no need for nobles and only officials to govern it, and the Xia State has cultivated enough reserve bureaucrats over the years.

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In Sucheng, Suyue was also carrying out the final pre-war mobilization, and the sins about the Xia Kingdom mentioned in the oath were only for those noble priests.

In the face of Rulin's spears, bows and arrows, chariots, and iron armor exchanged for a lot of grain and copper, Su Yue's heart was also extremely excited, and after saying a bunch of words about honor, ancestors, and blood kinship, the only thing he could say was "Defeat Yucheng and destroy Xia County, one person will send an iron pot, one person, one ox, one iron ploughshare, and three slaves." ”

So there was a thunderous roar of joy.

After saying this, Su Tang, who was his son, was worried, he knew too well what the Xia army in Yucheng looked like.

Finally, after Su Yue said all this, Su Tang found his father and asked, "Father, do you think you can defeat Ji Xia?" ”

"Perhaps. But there was no way. I originally thought that Ji Xia would attack Dongyi, but after waiting for three years, he didn't go, there were more and more people in Xinhua City, and in another five years, it would be an army that could fight alone. What else can be done besides fighting? Do you also know, how many people in Xia Guo can read and count now? How many of them know more than our priests? How many officials are there in their desiration? ”

"Does he need so much in a Xia country? No, if I don't hit him, he'll come and beat me. If we wait a few more years for the soldiers on the side of Xinhua City to be trained, and he starts a war with Dongyi in Xinhua City, and forces us to send troops to the East with words such as the unity of relatives and clans, should we go or not? ”

"If I don't go, he can unite more cities to drive me down in one fell swoop, who dares to become the leader and high priest of the tribes except him?"

"Go, compared to entrapping those Dongyi slaves and civilians, how can we be his opponents? If there is one more person, Xia Guo will have more strength, even if you want to oppose him after ten years, what can you do? Let's fight Dongyi is to beat fewer people, and catch some slaves back. He fought Dongyi, but he was able to take the tools of the officials with him, and he killed all the relatives and nobles, leaving behind slaves and lowly commoners, and five years later, those people became the people who farmed and smelted for the Xia Kingdom. ”

"Sooner or later, you have to fight, and the sooner you fight, the better the chance of winning."

Su Tang sighed, and also understood the helplessness in this, and suddenly asked curiously: "Does my father really believe the sins that my father accused Ji Xia of?" ”

Su Yue shook his head and said with a smile: "How can you believe it? ”

"So Father really believes in Firmament?"

"Of course not. It's just that he lost to Qiongxi, the wealth and rights of our family can still be passed on, does he have any way to manage so many people from our Great River Tribes? It's not like we're trying to win over some of us, lest the people resist too strongly. ”

"But if we lose to Ji Xia, what can you and I do? Can there still be rights? Nothing is gone. He Ji Xia doesn't need us anymore, we are old, he wants people to be officials to govern everyone, and in less than ten years, there will be groups of people who can become officials. ”

"Books are good things, but they must be circulated in the families of our leaders and priests, and no one else is allowed to see them, which is a good thing. If everybody can see it, then we'll have to destroy it. ”

"I have come up with a good solution, and I may not be able to finish it, so I can only rely on you. Once the Xia Kingdom is destroyed, all the books will be burned, and all the people in the world who can read and write will be killed except for us, the leaders and priests. Then let the priests find a way to create a kind of character that cannot be written and memorized as easily as the Xia script, but so difficult that it will take a person five or six years to read. ”

In this way, only we can grasp these words, and the contents of those lowly people will not be able to understand them for a lifetime, and they will not have time to learn this kind of writing. If all knowledge is written in this script, can it not be stable? ”

Su Tang sighed: "This is not good for the Great River Tribes. ”

"The Great River Tribes? What is that? That's what only the chiefs and noble priests like you and me are qualified to say, and some of those lowly people don't even have surnames, and they are worthy of what great rivers and tribes they have? The Great River Divisions that Ji Xia said are not the same thing as what we are talking about, you have to figure it out. ”

"Well, you'll understand. Take a day off, and tomorrow you will go out with me and fight Ji Xia in a decisive battle. ”