Chapter 8: The three armies compete with each other to show off their military equipment, and the six generals compete for merit

After the two teams of heavy rattan troops in the teaching field were arrayed, they were all ordinary 100 people, and the team played the banner to see, one team was the commander of Hua Xiang Tiger Xiang Chong, and the other team was the commander of the Flying Sage Li Yan. After the war drums sounded, the two teams of rattan soldiers slowly approached with heavy steps, both holding wooden knives and guns covered with lime in their hands, and as the war drums rushed up, the two teams of military horses also got closer and closer.

When they got closer, the two teams of sergeants formed a formation under the leadership of the officers of each department and began to rush over, roaring and shouting on both sides, and soon they were killed in one place. In front of the stage, Lu Junyi was ordered by Sanniang to talk about this martial arts with all the famous scholars and squires Fujia: "I Shandong Road soldiers and horses military system, divided into pawns, lang, guards, schools, generals, every ten pawns have a Lang official to control, ten Lang for a guard, ten guards to take a school, ten schools to worship a general, so as to control, such as the arm to make a finger." This is the two guards selected from the Tengpaibu military camp in Jeju Prefecture, 100 people each, wrapped in lime knives and guns, and fought in formation, and after the winner was determined, he could enter the next round of the competition. ”

Kong Duanyou and the others also don't know much about military affairs, only look at the two hundred people in the field fighting in formation, the yellow sand is rolling, although the knives and guns are all wooden weapons covered in lime, but the slashing on the body is also thumping, obviously the sergeants on both sides have not spared any strength, and they are stunned by a group of literati and gentlemen.

On this side, the foot team fights, on the other side of the racecourse, the two teams of hussars also began to test equestrianism and archery, that is, fifty cavalry horses swept by, there were hundreds of arrow targets erected in the array, the hussars had to avoid the obstacles on the road on the road, and on the other hand, they had to shoot arrows with bows, only to see which team passed, and the one who hit the arrow target more wins. On the other side, the crossbowmen are also testing their marksmanship, and the team that has more arrows than the target in the test is the winner.

Now there are a total of 170,000 generals in the military states of Shandong Road, and every ten soldiers have a Lang official in charge, ten Lang is a guard, ten guards take a school, and ten schools worship a general. Ordinary soldiers are divided into four levels: selected soldiers, training soldiers, elite soldiers, and sharp soldiers. The ten captains who command the ten husbands are Langguan, and they are also divided into four levels: Right Lang, Left Lang, Yoshiro, and Setsuro. The centurion is ordered to be the captain of the guard, and it is also divided into four levels: the military guard, the heroic guard, the iron guard, and the guard. The commander is the captain, and there are four levels: the school, the school, the superintendent, and the general school. The commander of the ten thousand is called the general in the army, and it is also divided into four levels: the general, the general, the hussar general, and the tiger general.

The Sanniang military system is taken from the military system of the Mongols, that is, the decimal system is used to prepare military horses, in the era of cold weapons, a basic ten-man commander Lang official with ten people, including himself, can maximize the advantages of manpower. Once a year, a martial arts competition is held to the school, and those with outstanding ability can be promoted to a first-class official position, and those who are not in the school will be demoted. Whether it is an ordinary soldier or an officer above the rank of officer, the salary and treatment of each rank and rank have been greatly increased, and it is a training in the ordinary army, and the non-commissioned officers are extremely attentive, and the combat strength of the army and horses on the Shandong Road has been maintained excellent.

Since joining the army, Sanniang has promulgated the ten iron laws in the army, abolished the humiliating and evil habit of tattooing on the face of the soldiers, and in addition to the military ranks, there are also permanent fifth-class military merit honors and Danshu iron coupons as incentives. Which fifth-class honors? It is the Double Dragon Medal, the Yellow Dragon Medal, the Red Dragon Medal, the Green Dragon Medal, the Black Dragon Medal and so on. Those who have won the medal can not only be exempted from taxes at home, but also have additional rewards every year, and can also embroider the medal pattern on the battle robe or depicted on the shield, showing their bravery.

This practice is to motivate the non-commissioned officers to fight bravely against the enemy, which is more effective for the soldiers to die than the Song court's practice of despising the warriors. In Shandong Road, there has long been no such thing as thieves matching the army, but many families are vying to send their husbands to join the army, and many girls are looking for their in-laws, and they prefer to find soldiers in the army to their in-laws.

The military horses selected by each department to participate in the big competition are the elite of the army, and the last winning military horses can be promoted to the first rank, and the officers can be awarded a black dragon medal. Only because of the current bandits on the Shandong Road, except for the last trip to the north of the commander of Lin Chong, and a battle with the Jin army, there is no major war. On the last trip to Lin Chong's northward headquarters, after winning the battle with the Jin people, more than ten officers won the Black Dragon Medal, and the soldiers of the department were all promoted.

Each department selects military horses and horses to compete separately according to the three arms of the army, that is, the horse and the bow and the bow, so as to test the most elite in a single army. Whether it is a heavy-armored infantry army, rattan soldiers, or heavy-armored dragoons, light cavalry hussars, or elite divine arm archers, yellow birch archers, all the soldiers of the road army have used their housekeeping skills to compete. This kind of competition is not a separate competition, but the infantry and archers are 100 people in each team, and the cavalry is 50 people.

In this large-scale contest, there was even a competition between the two arms of the firearms battalion and the navy battalion. The firearms battalion was also held together in Jeju Prefecture, while the water battalion competition was scheduled to be held a month later off the coast of Laiju Military Port.

After the crossbow soldier competition, I saw that several teams of firearms battalion sergeants were sent out of the military formation, revealing cannons, rockets and other firearms. Because the firearms had a long range, the target position was set on a barren hill outside the teaching field, on which a large number of trees had already been cut down, and a circle of ten zhang square was marked with lime, which was the bull's-eye.

I saw that the sergeants of the firearms battalion had settled the artillery and rockets, and within a quarter of an hour of the copper kettle timer, they had to fire 20 shells, and they were to test the rate of fire on the one hand, and the hit rate on the other.

Although the leader of the firearms battalion is Ling Zhen, all the military states under it also have soldiers and horses of the firearms battalion, so several teams of firearms battalions were also assigned to compete according to the military states. I only heard a trumpet sound, the red flag pressed down, and the war drums behind the battle were urged, and the first Qingzhou firearms battalion began to fire rockets and artillery in front of the formation.

The sound was like a landslide, and the famous teachers and squires were even more dumbfounded, and the timid ones were even more slumped on their seats. Kong Duanyou's face turned red and white for a while, when had he seen such a powerful weapon between heaven and earth? Previously, when the Liangshan military horses and the Song army were facing the enemy, they also used rockets and other firearms, and Kong Duanyou had also heard that the Song army on Shandong Road was elite, but he didn't want to see it today, it turned out to be such a scene of landslides and flames.

I saw that the artillery and rockets were all hitting the barren hill about two miles outside the school yard, and inside and outside the bull's-eye of the white lime, there was a mountain rock cracking and a sea of fire rising. Then the sergeant with the thunder in his hand stepped forward to throw the bomb, and after the bomb was thrown, he only heard more than a dozen loud noises, just because the thunder was only twenty or thirty feet away, and it was all thrown in the teaching field, and a series of loud noises were closer, as if tens of thousands of thunderbolts exploded at the same time. The ground in the church shook a little.

For a time, the school field was filled with gunsmoke, the thunder exploded into the smoke and dust, and the electric flames in the black smoke shot indiscriminately. After Kong Duanyou saw it, he muttered: "How can such a firearm be blocked by flesh and blood?" Speaking of this, Kong Duanyou couldn't help but glance at Sanniang on the first seat, only to see that she was dressed in red, looking at the competition of the firearms camp as usual, calm and relaxed, and graceful, Kong Duanyou couldn't help but think: "Could it be that the number of heavenly destiny qi is really going to be transferred to this woman?" ”

At this moment, Sanniang also glanced at Kong Duanyou, the two looked at each other, Kong Duanyou was slightly embarrassed, but Sanniang smiled generously, but this smile was charming, Kong Duanyou's heart fluttered, and after nodding his head hurriedly, he turned his head and didn't dare to look at Sanniang again.

Sanniang couldn't help but laugh secretly, and calculated in her heart, after this military parade, the people in the Confucian Mansion may reassess their prospects, although the Confucian saints do not attach much importance to women, and the Confucian Mansion cannot support a female stream to sit on the emperor's throne, but after Sanniang's demonstration of force this time, presumably the gentlemen of the Confucian Mansion will still carefully consider and weigh it, and those who know the times are handsome, and the consideration of the superiority and inferiority of men and women is not heavier than the debate of Huayi. Maybe you won't bend your knees to a woman like you.

After a morning of the competition, the elite horse infantry bow selected by Jeju, Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou and other military states on Shandong Road were all on the field to compete, and finally the Jeju Prefecture Luan Tingyu under the command of a guard heavy armor dragoon won the first place of the heavy cavalry class, the first name of the hussar army was naturally won by a guard hussar under the command of Xiao Li Guanghua Rong, the head of the heavy armored infantry army was won by Liu Tang's department, and the rattan army was not surprising that the most elite Li Kui under the command of the rattan soldiers won the first name, and the god arm bow was the crossbow soldier class of Qingzhou Mansion Xie Zhen won the first name, The Huanghua bow is an archer army, which is the Huangxin Department of Sanshan, Dengzhou Town, and won the first name.

In the firearms battalion competition, the firearms battalion of Tang Bin's department from the old department of Tian Hu from Laizhou Mansion won the first place. The Laizhou Firearms Battalion not only has a new type of artillery that is skillful in manipulation and extremely high hits, but the rockets have also been improved by Tang Bin's corporal in many ways, and the rocket flanks have been increased to ensure the stability of the rocket's flight, and it is reasonable that their firearms battalion will win. What is even more rare is that the sergeants of the firearms battalion of this unit were able to throw bombs 30 zhang away from the thunder, and they were able to accurately throw them into the hollow target circle 30 zhang away.

After the drill in the morning, Sanniang invited the generals, famous teachers, and squires to have wine and rice in the teaching field, and the sergeants and soldiers also had to eat in the teaching field. Sanniang taught the general order, Lu Junyi stepped forward and announced the general order loudly, tens of thousands of sergeants had already lined up and stood solemnly, and after the general order came, they shouted "Wan Sheng!" together. With an earth-shattering sound, they all erected their military flags and withdrew separately, and the soldiers and horses of each battalion rolled down and returned to their own camps. The tents were changed into eighteen large camps, and one in the middle was a royal camp; Tens of thousands of people collected it in an instant. The gates of the camp were closed, and every man prepared his meal. There was not a single soldier and horse man in the teaching field, only eighteen large camps, and such a resolute march camped in, which made Kong Duanyou and others dumbfounded, and they could not comment.