Chapter 35: The Stirrup Appears
With the prominence of the weapon problem, there are enough strong men in the air of Yanmen Pass, but there are not enough weapons. The direct consequence is that the people's hearts and minds are unstable, and various emergencies may occur at any time.
Just when this problem arose, Meng Lie solved it in one sentence. I heard Meng Lie say: "Virtuous brother, don't worry, don't you hear that my Great Qin is famous for his armor." After the fall of Great Qin, many good craftsmen came from the Northland Ordnance Bureau with their families to join their ancestors, and now my Meng family happens to have an ordnance manufacturing workshop. If the virtuous brother has needs, the foolish brother should do his best to relieve the virtuous brother's worries. We only need to re-smelt the Hun scimitar captured by the virtuous brother and the broken weapons of yours, and we will definitely be able to create enough weapons."
Hearing this, Liu Jinna was very surprised. Although he didn't know what the weapons of the Qin army were, he had also fought with the Mengjia army several times, and he was also envious of the weapons in their hands. The so-called glimpse shows the whole picture, and you can guess 12 out of 10 just by the weapons used by the Mengjia army.
After listening to Meng Lie's words, Liu Jin said happily: "Since this is the case, then it will bother the eldest brother." I immediately ordered someone to hand over all the iron tools to my eldest brother, and asked my eldest brother to keep it a secret."
Meng Lie was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know what Liu Jin said that needed to be kept secret, so he asked, "What's the matter?" ”。
But Liu Jin just shook his head lightly and didn't speak. Instead, he said to Cao Xing and others: "As far as the soldiers we have at present, it is enough to rebuild the Yanmen Pass garrison." Now I command".
When Cao Xing and the others heard this, they were all shocked, and they clenched their fists and replied: "The end will be."
"Cao Xing is the commander of the first department, responsible for training 600 archers"
"He Qing is the commander of the second department, responsible for training 1,200 shield players"
"Yang Ye is the commander of the third department, responsible for training 1,200 pikemen. After the training of each department is completed, it will be reorganized," Liu Jin Zhengse ordered.
Liu Jin did this for a purpose. First of all, these strong men have never been exposed to formal military training, and they will definitely not adapt to it.
Secondly, all three have their own strengths. Taking Cao Xing as an example, he is good at archery, and using him to train archers can maximize the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In the end, it can prevent them from co-opting their subordinate armies, and even if they do, it is useless to disrupt the formation. This is what Liu Jin is really worried about, and this problem can be avoided by training separately.
Cao Xing, who was named, was all three of them shocked, and they promised in unison.
After arranging the infantry, the next step is to arrange the cavalry. I heard Liu Jin say again: "Meng Yao and Geyero each lead 1,000 soldiers, and they are responsible for organizing and training the cavalry, and there must be no mistakes." An inexplicable wind of generals spread from Liu Jin's body, making those who heard the order unconsciously feel obedient.
Meng Yao and Hierro, who was on duty outside the hall, also bowed down and replied, "No."
After everyone dispersed, Liu Jin said to Meng Lie: "Big brother, this matter is confidential, so you have to be careful." At present, there are still many internal responses of the DPRK and China forces in Yanmen Pass, please forgive me."
Meng Lie also knew that what Liu Jin said made sense, nodded with an awe-inspiring expression, and motioned for Liu Jin to continue.
Liu Jin understood, so he said: "I need you, eldest brother, to make 1,200 shields made of pure iron for me, and each of these shields must be two inches thick and seven feet high, okay?" ”。
After listening to Liu Jin's words, Meng Lie lowered his head and pondered, as if he was considering Liu Jin's purpose for doing this, and nodded after a long time.
With Meng Lie's approval, Liu Jin was relieved, and said in his heart: "It seems that his new equipment has been settled."
He immediately continued: "In addition, it is necessary to change all the spears to iron, the head of the spear is two feet long, and three blood grooves must be opened, and the blood groove must be deep, okay?" ”
As soon as these words came out, Meng Lie was immediately startled. Xin said: "Obediently, the two-foot-long spear head is almost the length of an ordinary short sword, and there are three blood grooves to be opened, this and this."
I couldn't help but ask, "Brother Xian, why is this?" ”。
"Without him, it is specially used in the army, and the eldest brother will know about it in the future." Liu Jin didn't explain, and said after selling it.
Seeing Meng Lie nodding, Liu Jin said again: "Finally, there is one more point, I hope that the eldest brother can mention the horseshoes of the younger brother to make four thousand war horses."
While speaking, Liu Jin saw that Meng Lie had a puzzled look again, and hurriedly explained: "This horseshoe is shaped like the hooves of a war horse, and it is nailed to the horse's shoe. With this thing, you can make the war horse climb over the mountains and mountains as if walking on the ground."
Although Liu Jin explained, Meng Lie was still a little puzzled. However, since it was a brother's request, even if he didn't understand, Meng Lie would not refute it, and immediately agreed.
Subsequently, Liu Jin ordered people to pack all the more than 10,000 iron weapons that had been piled up in five warehouses, load them into carriages, and bring them back to Meng's ranch by Meng Lie to be re-smelted.
In the next half month, Liu Jin devoted himself to the reconstruction of Yanmen Pass and the training of the army. It can be said that Liu Jin will personally participate in every detail.
All kinds of things come like snow every day, which makes Liu Jin very big. Fortunately, Liu Jin is very diligent, staying up late every day until late at night, and after dealing with the day's affairs, Liu Jin will rest.
After another half a month, Liu Jin lost a lot of weight.
At noon on this day, Liu Jin was watching cavalry training on the city tower. In the distance, the cavalry, lined up in a neat line, had been able to gallop back and forth on horses and swing sticks after a month of training.
This is not only due to the desperate training of the soldiers, but also to the bilateral stirrups invented by Liu Jin hundreds of years beyond the times.
The stirrup is a thing that can help the rider better stabilize the body on the horse and free the rider's hands.
With stirrups and without stirrups, for cavalry, it was definitely a world of difference.
Take the cavalry that Liu Jin is training now, for example, when there are no stirrups, the cavalry needs to invest more time in riding training, and also needs to invest more strength to connect and master the balance.
But with stirrups it was different, and the cavalrymen only needed to use their legs to kick the stirrups to easily control the horses. You don't need to spend more time on controlling horses, but you can spend this part of your time training horses to fight or ride and shoot.
In the distance, two thousand Han cavalry in red armor divided into two teams, and began to charge each other under the leadership of their respective Sima, Meng Yao, and Geyero.
Due to the effect of the stirrups, they are tied to the horses with their legs, so they do not need to worry about falling off the horses. The only thing to worry about is being hit by the force of the impact, or being stabbed by the sticks of the other team's cavalry.
But none of this mattered, so the cavalry remembered what the captain said on the day he became an army. Don't be afraid of getting hurt, I'd rather you be injured in training than die in war.
As soon as they thought of this, all the cavalry rushed to kill with all their might. Two long red dragons, crashing against each other on the open grassland. In the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the sound of ping-pong sticks colliding, and the screams of the soldiers after being injured rang out.
Liu Jin watched from afar, very happy in his heart. In just one month, 2,000 untrained strong men became a skilled horseman.
He believed that it would not be long before his army would become the strongest fighting force in the Han Dynasty and an invincible iron-blooded army.
Just when Liu Jin was secretly happy, in the northwest direction, a thousand-man cavalry escorted hundreds of carriages and slowly appeared on the horizon.
Meng Yao, who was leading the troops to train, saw this cavalry at a glance. They hurriedly ordered their troops to surround them, and in a moment two thousand cavalry surrounded the caravan.
"Xiao Yao, is that how you welcome the head of the family", seeing that it was Meng Yao who led the leader, Meng Lie in the horse team asked with a smile.
Touching his helmeted head, Meng Yao smiled embarrassedly and said, "Xiao Yao didn't know that the head of the family was coming, I'm sorry."
At this moment, a fiery red majestic war horse, carrying Liu Jin on the horse, also came to the two of them similarly. shouted loudly: "I don't know that the eldest brother has arrived, the younger brother has missed the distance, forgive the sins."
Before Liu Jin could get closer, Meng Lie found that the surrounding Han soldiers and soldiers were looking at the things on the carriage in their ranks, and their eyes were glowing green.
"Xiao Yao, don't restrain your subordinates yet." Meng Lie hurriedly said to Meng Yao, he was afraid that if it was too late, these soldiers would be robbed.
Meng Yao agreed, and when he began to restrain his subordinates, Liu Jin arrived.
As soon as Meng Lie wanted to take a stubble, he saw the green light in Liu Jin's eyes, and hurriedly said, "Brother Xian, you have to hold on, there are all your soldiers and horses around here." While speaking, Meng Lie laughed, and secretly said in his heart: "What kind of generals are there, what kind of soldiers the fuck have, it's too wild."
Liu Jin laughed and said, "Big brother, little brother is really overjoyed to see such a sophisticated weapon!" Quickly get a gun and give it to my little brother to try."
Seeing that the green light in Liu Jin's eyes was getting brighter and brighter, Meng Lie's heart was scolding, he was scolding himself, why the hell he had created so many sharp weapons for him.
Seeing that Liu Jin couldn't wait, he quickly pulled out a shot from the bundle of iron guns tied to the carriage.
The iron spear started and danced eight spear flowers in a row. On the two-foot-long blade, in the triangular head, three deep and hideous blood grooves shimmered in the sun, which was really not scary.
Liu Jin played with it for a while, and said happily: "Okay, well, with this gun, the day of revenge is not far away!" ”。 (To be continued)