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Ma Zhou was very surprised by Qin Feng's arrival, but he was a little happy in his heart. Qin Feng was able to come, indicating that he was concerned about this matter, which was what he should do as the governor of Gyeongju, and he enthusiastically introduced the situation of this canal: "According to my original intention, this canal is the first step. My plan is to extend it year by year and open countless small canals to irrigate the whole of Gyeongju in a network pattern. However, according to the current situation, the matter must be considered in the long run. The current situation of my Datang is not enough to carry out a huge project, and the canal can be put aside. ”

I walked along the canal in the direction of Gyeongju, but I couldn't go to the top of the excavated canal.

More than 100 soldiers on the left and right of the canal stood in the wind, and in front of them were more than 2,000 young and strong, all of them were burly and strong, they were dancing with hoes, digging hard, and they were actually working with high spirits, and they were working especially hard like the people.

These people are not ordinary people, they are all prisoners who were captured and imprisoned during the suppression of bandits, because they are not considered to be the most heinous crimes, so they have a chance to live, Qin Feng saw that everyone was Han, and the population of the Tang Dynasty was lacking, so he planned to stay and observe. Of course, it is not Qin Feng's style to let them eat and drink for nothing, and seeing that there are more places to be built in Gyeongju, he handed them over to Ma Zhou, the governor of Gyeongju, and asked him to bring this group of people to labor reform.

Seeing Qin Feng and them coming, Qiang Jianfan, who was in charge of the care, strode over.

Qin Feng looked at the scene in front of him with some surprise, and said with a smile: "This is a good job, I can't see that you still have such a hand?" ”

Qiang Jianfan said with a smile: "This group of people is a cheap bone, and someone began to give me a hard fight, Lao Tzu cut off his head on the spot, and a group of people are as obedient as sheep." ”

Qin Feng didn't care when he heard it, there are no human rights in this era, and as a prisoner, you must have the consciousness of being a prisoner. If you want to turn the sky upside down, that is to find death by the light in the toilet.

But because of the death of a person, it is really an accident to be so obedient?

Qin Feng thought in his heart.

"If you kill someone, you'll be obedient, it's really soft."

Qiang Jianfan explained his confusion and said, "It's not." This gang of bastards didn't dare to make trouble on the surface, but they were lazy to me behind the scenes, and they didn't work hard, and I didn't listen to how I beat and scolded. Seeing this, Lord Ma directly set a rule, dividing the time period and dividing the task, and if you don't complete the task within the specified time, you will not have food to eat, and you are not allowed to rest until it is completed. For a bite of food, for an early rest, the soft bones are very enthusiastic. ”

"Clever!" Qin Feng glanced at Ma Zhou unexpectedly, and he had to accept it in his heart, this person who played politics was really black. On the surface, he looks like a compassionate saint, and he does things that lack morality, and his face does not change. At the beginning, he planned to throw this group of people into the city to clean up or something, but Ma Zhou, in the appearance of a saint, transferred them to the forefront of digging canals, and used them to open the way, using the method of sectional construction, and handed over the most difficult road sections to the Turks. The people of Shuofang excavated simple and easy-to-dig lots, and finally connected them together. When it comes to the black heart, Qin Feng asked himself if he couldn't compare to Ma Zhou.

In order not to be compared by Ma Zhou, Qin Fengshuang came up with an idea: "Let these people serve seven years in prison, those who perform well can be released from prison early, and those who perform badly will continue to go to prison." Of course, early release from prison must not be less than four years. After being released from prison, he is supervised, and if he does not behave well, he continues to be arrested and returned to his cell. In the future, new offenders can do the same, provided that they are not repeat offenders, of course. If he is a repeat offender and his sin does not lead to death, he will not be able to do the work of his life. ”

It's a pity that these people kill, lock it up, and waste food. It's better to give them a hope, let them return to the society after a few years of public welfare undertakings, and contribute their own strength to Datang.

This time it was Ma Zhou's turn to admire, these people had hope, they had to work hard in order to get out of prison as soon as possible and live a normal life.

"General, General Liu, please go back to the city."

"It must be the result of the skill competition, please ask the general to present the award." Ma Zhou was quick to think of this possibility.

Qin Feng laughed: "It's also time to start the second round of hunting." "Saying that, let Ma Zhou continue to grasp the progress of the canal, and he can't be too hasty and ignore the people's bodies, and he can't be too slow. It is now a period of semi-agricultural slackness, and the people have nothing to do, so there are so many manpower, and in the autumn, the manpower is definitely not as abundant as it is now.

The so-called skill competition is the same as the martial arts competition of the imperial court, the army is a place that pays attention to the whole, but the individual's combat ability is still very necessary. In particular, the combination of individual combat effectiveness and team can play an unexpected effect.

This is the case with the Tiger Ben Army under his command, the tactics of the Tiger Ben Army are extremely simple, it is a killing word, the commander will kill wherever he goes, Qin Feng or the main generals use their own strength as arrows to guide the soldiers to attack, they use their own strong martial arts to break the formation, forcibly tear open a gap, and the Tiger Ben Army expands the broken crack with terrifying and ferocious lethality, complements each other, and maximizes the strength.

Ordinary soldiers may not be able to do this, but choosing the best among them to grant the position of captain, with him at the head, and leading the charge will obviously be more effective than letting a mediocre person lead the team to charge and kill.

Qin Feng can distinguish the strength and weakness of a person's martial arts, but it is obviously impossible for him to identify and test them one by one, and the outcome of the game is the most fair and just. And everyone's strengths and weaknesses are different, especially after mastering the Mo Dao Formation, Qin Feng is more aware of this problem. There is no invincible army in this world, only an invincible army.

If you want the army to be invincible, a single branch of the army will definitely not work. Cavalry is known as the king tank on land, but even cavalry has a relative weakness, they are highly mobile, but weak defense, seize this weakness, and magnify the weakness. You can ride on foot and achieve victory. In history, Li Ling led 5,000 infantry deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu and met with the 160,000 cavalry of the main force of the Xiongnu, which was equivalent to 16 times his own, but they persevered for ten days, fought for thousands of miles, and killed tens of thousands of enemies! But in the end, Li Ling was captured, and before he was captured, he said: "Give each of my soldiers three arrows, and we can hold out to the border of the Han Dynasty." "It's a pity they don't have an arrow! It is said that they shot a total of 500,000 arrows! It can be seen from this that the lethality of the "strong crossbow" to the "control string" lacking heavy armor can be described as "terrifying". It was not that the Xiongnu were not strong at that time, nor was it because the Han army fought with chicken blood, but that Li Ling magnified the weakness of the Xiongnu cavalry and fought, so as to achieve brilliant results.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, "Shao Ling Lu Yi took 800 soldiers as the first to ascend, and thousands of strong crossbows were clamped to inherit it, and Shao Zi formed a formation with tens of thousands of infantry. Yijiu is in Liangzhou, Xiao Xi Qiang fights, and the soldiers are sharp. "In the battle of Jieqiao, these 800 "Xiandeng" under the leadership of Yuan Shao's general Lu Yi actually defeated Gongsun Zhan's "more than 10,000" cavalry, including the elite "White Horse Yicong"! Seeing that his soldiers were few, Zan let his horse go and wanted to trap him. The volunteers are all ambushed and do not move, not to dozens of steps, but at the same time, the dust is shouted, straight forward conflict, strong crossbow thunder, the middle will fall", the history books write very clearly, these 800 people "Xiao Xi Qiang Fight", that is, familiar with the "horse fight", when the Gongsun Chan cavalry rushed to them, they hid in the "under the wolf", "not to dozens of steps" when they rushed out, with a thousand "strong crossbows" shot down the Gongsun Chan across the north of the "control string". Since then, Gongsun Chan has been in a state of collapse, and finally defeated himself and died of immolation.

It is precisely because there are many cases in military history of breaking cavalry with foot, so even if Qin Feng now has nearly 100,000 war horses in his hands, he has no intention of developing all 50,000 soldiers into cavalry. The foot soldier has the advantages of the foot soldier, and the cavalry has the disadvantages of the cavalry. Giving full play to the strengths of the infantry cavalry is the royal way to victory, rather than blindly seeking the cavalry.

The Turks restrained the Mo knife formation. The reason for this is that they are a single soldier. The weakness advantage is really in front of you, which can be completely restrained. If the Turks had a heavy foot soldier to resist the Mo Sword Array's killer crossbows, then the power of the Mo Sword Array would drop by a notch. If the Turks have a strong crossbow that can pierce the Mo sword soldiers. It is also difficult for the Mo Dao Array to operate freely.

This is restraint between the arms. It is also the key to the repeated trials of the Mo Sword Formation, the Turks do not have heavy foot soldiers and powerful crossbow arrows.

As a nomadic people, the Turks have their own advantages in cavalry warfare, while the Tang Dynasty, as an agricultural people, has an inevitable disadvantage in cavalry and archery.

Qin Feng rationally felt that there was no need to blindly teach the Turks in cavalry and archery, and still decided to give full play to the advantages of their Central Plains people, and use technology and cooperation between arms to face the big war in the near future.

Therefore, the competition is also divided into several events, such as horse fighting, walking skills, riding archery, archery, brawnness and other events. Arrange the future path according to the soldiers' hobbies and preferences and their own strengths.

Originally, there was also a riding skill, but Qin Feng swept it away with a big stroke. Future combat riding is basic. Even the Foot Clans must be able to ride horses to increase the speed of their army's movements. If you can't ride a basic horse, you can brush it down directly, and it is not considered for use.

For the winners, Qin Feng was not stingy with rewards, and those who won the first place in the project were awarded the position of team leader, and also presented war horses, weapons, and armor. He, the general of the Tang Dynasty and the governor of Gyeongju, will personally present awards and celebrate the winning soldiers. The remaining top 10 will receive generous rewards, and the top 100 will have exquisite gifts.

Under the temptation of fame and fortune, there is an endless stream of people who enthusiastically sign up for the competition.

It took more than half a month of elimination to select the top 50 in each event.

Those who broke through the encirclement from 30,000 soldiers all have a certain level of ability.

Each contestant who brushes down will be awarded the position of captain and become the leader of the grassroots soldiers in the army.

Those who excel in horse striking are assigned to the cavalry battalion, and those who excel in foot combat are assigned to the infantry battalion, and are assigned to the nimble jumpers or spearmen who are good at thrusting, according to their respective strengths. The outstanding performance of mounted archery was arranged into the cavalry archery battalion, and the outstanding self-esteem was Mo Daowei. (To be continued.) )