In the northern camp of Jingzhou City, the soldiers laughed and laughed, and the new armor that Huining transported over put on, and walked loudly, which was very emotional. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The ethereal fine scale armor created by the info cold forging technology is tightly interspersed and inlaid on calf leather, and the defensive effect is much better than the original fine scale armor.

It's not like the original standard iron armor built by Tokyo as a supervisor, which is divided into more than a dozen pieces, and it is a very cumbersome thing to put on and remove the armor. The current Huining new armor is only divided into a helmet, a waist-top-style skirt armor that reaches half of the thighs, a large wrist guard with shoulder pads and arm shields, and a leg armor plus legging-type military boot shin armor.

The helmet is no longer an ear-flipping type with the scalp inside, but a round steel circular spire, which adopts a modern helmet-style cowhide retainer, which is comfortable to wear on the head, and can also remove the inner retainer to make a single soldier marching pot and marching bowl.

Plus a polished red calfskin shoulder belt with a kettle cover, a dry food bag, a batting marching bag, a bow cover, a crossbow machine cover, a quiver, a knife buckle, a spear and a shield buckle, and a six-hole armor cone for armor penetration. This is called a multi-tool set, and it can be attached to the equipment to tie the lanyard for easy use.

This series of pendant tools is very delicate and reasonable, not only does it save a lot of steps when putting on armor and removing armor, but also no longer needs to help each other with colleagues, and individual soldiers can complete it independently. And when marching in a hurry, there is no longer a need to carry it on your shoulder, all the equipment is tied to your body, and you only need to wave your hands and spread your forks to run.

The light soldier equipment and armor only weighed more than 80 pounds, and he was not a strong veteran with good physical fitness, so he couldn't run at all. Generally, they also carry grain and grass, weapons, tools, siege engines and other baggage, which need to be carried by mules, horses or wagons, or carried by a small number of village soldiers.

However, the equipment of heavy infantry and light and heavy cavalry must be supplemented by village soldiers, otherwise they will have no strength to fight when they rush to the battlefield. First of all, the real heavy infantry, the armor is a helmet with a detachable visor, plus a cold-forged mountain full-body armor. That is, a vest-style one-piece dress armor that is five inches longer than the knee, plus shoulder pads and wrist guards, leggings and military boots inlaid with armor, this kind of heavy armor is much thicker, plus tableware, knives, guns, bows and crossbows, shields, miscellaneous and full sets of equipment, weighing more than 120 catties.

There are three kinds of heavy infantry, one is to use a heavy horse chopping knife with a blade of three feet, a steel handle four feet long, and a total length of seven feet, which is made of imitation of the Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty, but it will not be as easy to break as the Mo knife. The other is an axeman, who uses a long-handled axe with a total length of five feet. The last type is the hammer hand, each of whom uses two large hammers weighing twelve pounds.

And the light cavalry is equipped with light armor and swords, bows, crossbows, armor-piercing cones, etc. The heavy cavalry is dressed in heavy armor all over the body, and it is equipped with a hard-pole riding gun and a spare riding spear, and the war horse is also wearing ring lock armor, but it is only the head of the horse and the front blade of the war horse, which is not considered a heavy armor in the real sense.

Zhang Yue's army building idea focused on flexibility, offensive and penetration capabilities, so it actually reduced a certain amount of armor weight and defense, but the tenacity of cold forging armor made up for this lack of problems. Huining Guangxiang Military City is trial-producing light and heavy ring lock armor, medium and long-range light and heavy crossbows, medium and heavy torsion trebuchets, etc., which have not yet been mass-produced.

"There are only 1,000 people in a regiment in heavy steps, and only 500 people in heavy cavalry, but in fact there is less than one battalion, when will it be expanded?" The marching Sima and the Jianya army both commanded Bian Ji looked at the soldiers on the school field and asked a little depressedly.

The Tooth Army was originally withdrawn, but after the war it was reverted to five battalions. It is divided into 1,000 heavy steps, 500 heavy cavalry, 500 scouts, and 500 barracks, all of which are elite soldiers. Maybe it will be transferred away in the future, of course, it can't be cheaper for others. Moreover, the township soldiers were expanded to 4 brigades of 20,000 people, and they were ready to take half of them to the Hehuang prefectures, and the cost was simply incalculable.

"This is a lot of money, save a little first, and then expand after the war! It's not suitable for Jingzhou to train elite soldiers in this place...... "Some things Zhang Yue is not easy to say, because the battle in Hehuang has not been completed, and the armies are scattered and garrisoned, and it is very troublesome to select elites. But it doesn't matter after the war, the land in Qinghai is vast and sparsely populated, and the armies are convened to conduct drills, and then reorganized and reorganized, and they are not afraid of any big movements.

He personally supervised the second brigade to change its outfit, and tried it for a few days, and the overall effect was good. Zhang Yue also spent more attention on the training of officers in the training battalion, which was a group of low-level officers and veterans below the head level, and after completing their studies, they were sent to the township soldiers to escort grain and grass as a logistics reserve, and they naturally stayed in Hehuang after the war.

In the next few days, the Jingzhou Spring Examination ended and the results were released, and 120 students were admitted to the Ming Law and Ming Arithmetic Department this time, which of course Zhang Yue deliberately lowered the admission qualifications, waiting for the post-war transfer to Hehuang Prefectures for backup. And there were only twenty people in Jinshike, and he insisted on going to Tokyo to take the Ministry of Rites exam, so Zhang Yue ignored it.

On the seventh day of the second month, Li Hui, the commander of the Jingnan Army in Pizhou, arrived in Jingzhou with 10,000 soldiers of the Fourth Army and brought the last batch of grain and grass that Pizhou could transfer. Zhang Yue sent people to receive them, arranged for the soldiers to be stationed in the camp to rest, welcomed Li Hui to the palace to stay, discussed combat matters, and notified Shi Chenghong of Taozhou and Du Yanhui of Longxi to lead troops north to Jincheng, Lanzhou.

Three days later, Feng Qianhou, Niu Congxu and others were arranged to stay behind, Zhang Yue led the second brigade of Gao Changhai and Shang Huaqing, and the elite of the tooth army of Bian Ji and Yang Xuanli, and joined forces with Li Hui with a total of 17,500 soldiers, so as to observe that Zhai Congen and Chang Deben led 10,000 township soldiers to march and officially set off from Jingzhou.

It was the evening of six days after arriving at Dingxi Fort, and it happened to be on the way to Huizhou, Lanzhou, Longxi and other places for inspection. Moreover, Huining rushed to send a batch of new equipment before the war, which happened to be transferred to the Second Brigade, which will take some time.

The army was stationed in the ready-made grain camp to rest, and Bian Ji went to arrange the change of clothes. Zhang Yue and Li Hui sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and Zhai Congen, Chang Deben, the observation envoys of Changyi and Hexi, and Wen Yuankai, the assassin of Huizhou, accompanied them, and sent people to invite Ma Renyu and Dong Guangmai to come.

The two arrived quickly, both acquaintances and relatively young, and the years passed and did not seem to have changed much. Zhang Yue raised his hand and asked the two of them to sit in the vacant seats next to him, and said with a smile: "The two of you are rushing to send troops from afar, and you don't have time to receive them well, I don't know what you have seen and heard about this trip to Lanzhou?" ”

"The city is dilapidated, the suburbs are barren and populated, and the river valley is full of fishy people, full of Qiang tribes, and there is not a single Han in sight." Ma Renyu is also a soldier and concise.

"Isn't it! In addition to grazing cattle and horses, collecting raw fur felt can bring a little income, and it will not be able to recover without ten years of operation. Among them, Lanzhou, Longxi and Weizhou have fertile land, and as long as they immigrate, they can also have tax income in two or three years. Liangzhou didn't go to our family, but Huizhou is not bad, according to Wen Zhijun said, now there is a trend of turning losses into profits, and in another year or two, in addition to offering salt and iron war horses, you can pay taxes and grain according to the number of households. (To be continued.) )