On the whole, the soldiers and horses of Jiankang Mansion stationed in the Tun Division are under the command of fierce generals like Li Xiaotian, after more than two years of intense training, the tens of thousands of troops here can basically be called elite soldiers and horses, and Li Xiaotian is also a pragmatist, not paying attention to what looks good or not, but more highlighting the flexibility of tactics and the effect of actual combat. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info so the Jiankang Army infantry army is equipped with a lot of partial box cars and crossbow cars in large quantities, and at the same time, a large number of crossbows and strong bows are also equipped with a large number of crossbows and strong bows, focusing on the long-distance killing ability of the infantry army.

And what surprised Gao Huaiyuan was that Li Xiaotian actually let every crossbowman carry a spear at the same time, after watching the exercise, Gao Huaiyuan knew the reason why Li Xiaotian did this, it turned out that this guy learned from the experience of the battle between Gao Huaiyuan and Polu outside Jizhou City...

He had each crossbowman carry a spear, and when the battle came, he had the crossbowmen stick the spears diagonally into the ground, the tip of which was pointed straight ahead, so that a dense forest of spears was formed in the ranks of the crossbowmen, and they could safely stand in the midst of the guns and shoot arrows at the enemy who attacked them, but the enemy could no longer rush into the ranks of the archers and slash and kill them as before.

Although the archers in the past could inflict a lot of damage on the opponent at a long distance, they would lose their combat effectiveness and become victims of the enemy's cavalry, and often became the first to collapse in battle. Moreover, the proportion of crossbow soldiers in the Song army's infantry army is quite high, and the highest can reach about seventy percent of the total strength.

But when each of them is equipped with a spear, they gain considerable melee ability, and when the enemy is still at a long distance, they use their bows and crossbows to kill and wound the enemy, and the spears on the ground provide them with cover, so that the enemy cannot rush into their formation, and when the enemy approaches them, they can abandon the bow and crossbow, pick up the spear, and become pikemen, rows of spears are quite powerful for restraining the enemy cavalry, even the most resolute enemy troops, They don't dare to attack the spear formation easily on horseback, in that case they will pay a huge price for casualties...

Equipping crossbowmen with spears solves this problem very well, reducing the number of professional pikemen in the establishment of the infantry army, concentrating on the formation of shield soldiers, providing a more solid defense for the army, and also improving the combat effectiveness of short-handed combat.

A more important advantage is that the pikemen do not have to carry out too complicated training, nor do they need to have too strong melee combat skills, as long as they have a strong enough will to fight, they will not retreat, and face the enemy in a tight array, and the enemy cavalry will basically meet them, and they will have to rest.

After Gao Huaiyuan watched the exercise commanded by Li Xiaotian, he immediately praised Li Xiaotian again and again, and praised Li Xiaotian again and again that this method was good!

And Li Xiaotian was also modest, bowed to Gao Huaiyuan and replied: "The last general would not dare to take credit, if it wasn't for the fact that he followed the adults to Jizhou to fight with the Tartars, he would never have thought of such an idea, and this method was not thought up by the lowly position alone, but by many brothers in the army who participated in the first battle of Jizhou!" It's all thanks to your lords! ”

"Hahaha...... You, Li Xiaotian, have also learned to wear a high hat for me! At the beginning, I was forced to do so, but I didn't expect it to be used by you now! Yes, deserve the reward! Someone, write down this merit to General Lee, and submit it to the Privy Council for a reward! Think more about this method, in short, the more the better, the more practical the better, and when the time comes, it will be enough for them to use it against the enemy! Hehe! "Gao Huaiyuan was in a pretty good mood, he also remembered that this was when he was forced to be helpless, and let the archers use sharpened wooden sticks to pestle the ground to resist the impact of the Mongolian cavalry, and the effect was quite good, and now it is used by Li Xiaotian and them in actual combat, and he really likes this kind of thing." In addition, we must immediately promote this method of Jiankang Mansion to the whole army, and we must let all the armies of the DPRK be organized according to this method within a month, so that although the burden of archers is increased, a spear will not increase much weight, and it should not have a big impact, but it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of archers! Not bad, not bad! Gao Huaiyuan then continued to order.

After seeing the situation here of Li Xiaotian, Gao Huaiyuan immediately galloped towards Zhenjiang Mansion, this time he didn't even have the courage to take a boat, he simply led a group of guards to ride on horseback, and went to Zhenjiang Mansion by land, the experience of seasickness in Qingyuan Mansion a few days ago made him remember it vividly, and this time made him a little nauseous when he saw the boat, so he didn't dare to take a boat again in a short period of time, and Zhou Hao, Erhu and others under him could only smile bitterly and ride out with him. When they arrived at Zhenjiang Mansion, the water and land transportation here were very busy, the boats coming and going on the canal were almost end to end, most of the ships to the north were full of grain or utensils covered with rainproof reed mats, and the ships going back were pulling all kinds of iron and other things from Jingdong, and some official ships were loaded with silver money and other things, many of these ships were to unload materials in the direction of Xuzhou, and the grain and armor and other things were to be sold to the Jin country, in exchange for a large number of silver coins, copper and iron and other things. There are also some that are directly used for jewelry, and the business seems to be quite good...

And Zhenjiang Metropolitan Commander is not a bystander, or the same Luo Zhuo when he was with Gao Huaiyuan when he was on the Northern Expedition to Li Quan, over the years, although Luo Zhuo has not been promoted, but he has not been dismissed because of large-scale adjustments, he is still a diligent general, and he is known as a prestige in the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Division, so Gao Huaiyuan did not move him, and continued to let him stay in the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Division as the commander.

After the Northern Expedition, Luo Zhuo was quite hit, he originally thought that his soldiers and horses were the soldiers and horses commanded by Bi Zaiyu, how could it be second to none among the Southern Song Dynasty armies, but he didn't think that in the Northern Expedition Li Quan's first battle, their Zhenjiang Commander's soldiers and horses performed the worst, and the losses were the greatest.

Later, he didn't even catch a share of following Gao Huaiyuan to continue north, but was ordered to garrison Chuzhou and Yancheng to suppress bandits, and Zhenjiang was reduced to a second-rate soldier.

Later, after he led the army back to Zhenjiang, he was indignant, and he also eliminated his previous arrogant thoughts, and desperately began to train the troops, and also tried his best to ask for some low-level officers from the front of the palace, and directly filled his Zhenjiang Metropolitan Division, taking the first class position of teaching, helping him to train the troops, and later he passed Huayue, and also came a group of Wusheng who went north with Gao Huaiyuan to resist the Mongolian army's Wusheng battalion, and filled his army with officers.

Over the years, Luo Zhuo has worked hard to strengthen the army, and he has done his duty, and the year before last, he went to Beijing to participate in the rotation training of senior officers, and his results were quite outstanding, so Gao Huaiyuan did not move him, let him stay in Zhenjiang, but the official position did not move, but the grade gave him two levels, for which Luo Zhuo was also quite affectionate, and he was grateful to Gao Huaiyuan for his magnanimity. . . .

Hearing that Gao Huaiyuan had inspected Zhenjiang Mansion, Luo Zhuo naturally hurried to greet him, and according to Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, he came to a drill on the campus outside the city, so that Gao Huaiyuan could review the efforts he had made over the years.

Looking at the officers and soldiers of the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Division on the school field, Gao Huaiyuan nodded again and again, until after watching the whole drill, Gao Huaiyuan personally took the stage to praise all the officers and soldiers present, and let them continue to maintain this style, and then took Luo Zhuo back to Luo Zhuo's big tent...

Luo Zhuo is also a good general, he has been lying in Zhenjiang for many years, and he rarely goes back to his home a few times, he lives in the camp every day, and he doesn't build a good house, so he lives in such a tent with the officers and soldiers.

After looking at Luo Zhuo's tent, seeing that there were still a lot of books piled up here, Gao Huaiyuan casually opened and read a few books, and found that there were not many military books in these books, and the most of them were actually those books on tactics published by him and Hua Yue in recent years, and a few of them were written by Gao Huaiyuan about the experience of previous wars, and after turning the pages, I saw that Luo Zhuo had written a lot of annotations in the blank space, some of which were quite incisive.

So Gao Huaiyuan smiled at Luo Zhuo and said, "It seems that General Luo has read a lot of books over the years!" What do you think? Do you have any lessons? ”

Luo Zhuo immediately bowed down and replied, "Lord Qiyu! At the beginning, the subordinate officials were arrogant, and they didn't know the height of the sky, and they always thought that the soldiers trained by the humble duty were the strongest soldiers and horses in the world, but they didn't think that in the first battle of the Northern Expedition, the lowly Zhenjiang Army was so unbearable compared to the soldiers and horses of the palace division led by the adults, and even the Flying Tiger Army as a righteous army was much inferior, which was really ashamed!

In the past, I only thought that General Bi was an immortal general, but after the last time I had the honor to accompany the adults on the Northern Expedition, I knew that the tall talent was really the talent of the general in this world! Humble duties are not enough to be adults!

Therefore, after coming back, the lowly post personally checked the soldiers' samples and recruited a new batch of recruits, and he didn't dare to slack off over the years, so he trained it to such a degree, but he was not satisfied, and he hoped that the tall man would give him a point or two, and the lowly post would not dare to be arrogant no longer in any case! ”

Gao Huaiyuan was very happy with Luo Zhuo's answer, and said with a smile: "General Luo is too humble, and he is too exalted to my Gao, how dare I compare with General Bi!" It's just that I'm lucky, the soldiers dare to use their lives, so that Gao has done a little thing!

And after seeing the situation of the Zhenjiang Army today, Gao was very relieved! In time, the Zhenjiang Army will definitely be able to make contributions on the battlefield! I am confident in this! One day, I hope to go to the battlefield with you and recover the old land of the Central Plains together! ”

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