Chapter 119: Building a Broken Horse Sword
Gao Shun listened to Li Qin's question, was slightly stunned, shook his head and said: "I don't have any relatives in the next family, because I have been licking blood with a knife, I don't want to be tired of the family, so I have never married a wife and had children." ”
Li Qin nodded and said, "Brother Gao, how can a hero be homeless, it's better to make a home in this Fujiao Fort and settle down!" You live freely alone, maybe it's good, but you also have to think about the incense of the Gao family, the people here are simple, all industries are waiting to be prosperous, it is a good place to live! ”
Gao Shun hesitated, in fact, he has been thinking about this, the brothers are all dead, and there is no permanent property in the state, it is the same if he can't go back, seeing that Li Qin is a hero, he also wants to stay here to develop, he has always been unconvinced, but for Li Qin, it is really too much to serve, no matter who it is, he can lead hundreds of soldiers and scare away more than 30,000 Hun soldiers, if he still refuses, then except for the gods in the sky, he can't serve others anymore!
Li Qin said again: "Don't make a decision first, you can recuperate here with peace of mind, and when the injury is healed, let Jingqi help you build a house over Fujiao Fort, you live first, find a job, I see that you are skilled in arching and horses, it is better to be a head of the sect, teach the soldiers martial arts, if you want to stay for a long time, then I am naturally happy, leave a place for you in the army, if you still want to go, it is not too late to go at that time, you say yes?" ”
Gao Shun nodded and said, "Thank you Li Lang for your kindness, thank you below, and when the injury is healed, I will find a job in the castle and repay the grace of saving my life!" He agreed, and he felt like he had found an organization.
"What to repay or not to repay, you can see it, everyone is a brother!" Li Qin smiled, showed Gao Shun the injury again, and then left the house.
The Fujiao Army went out this time, suffered heavy casualties, and although they returned victorious, the soldiers who died in battle needed to be buried. Li Qin found a place with good feng shui outside Fujiao Fort, built a cemetery, buried the sacrificed soldiers, and properly arranged the families of the soldiers, and set up a stone tablet in front of the cemetery, written by Jia Xu, recording the war in support of Lian County and commemorating the fallen soldiers.
In this era, the treatment of soldiers is not high, and the family members are rarely compensated after the death, and there is no commemoration, Li Qin can respect the soldiers who died in the battle so much, and take good care of their families, which is very rare in this era, which also makes the surviving Fujiao soldiers feel that even if they may not be able to come back in the future, but their families can be taken care of, food and clothing are worry-free, even if they work hard for Fujiao Fort, it is worth it.
After a few more days, after arranging all kinds of matters, Li Qin began to recruit troops again, this time he planned to recruit five divisions of 2,000 infantry, and recruit another cavalry unit of 400 people, to form a medium-sized corps that could be pulled out for field battles at any time.
This recruitment, but also quite smooth, his victory over the Huns spread out, many people in the county came to take refuge, even if they can't be soldiers, but live near Fujiao Fort, at least life is safe, since Li Qin can defeat the Huns, naturally he can protect them.
Li Qin still used the same trick as before, let the strong men who signed up for the army run, then draw the bow, and do all kinds of tests, these things were all done by him, and they were handed over to Jia Xu and Meng Mu to do, and he concentrated on studying the future corps, what kind of weapons should be used, and what kind of formation should be used.
Judging from the battle situation of this expedition, Li Qin came to a conclusion that if he wants to defeat the cavalry charge of the formation, the first is to fight a positional battle, but this situation has extremely high requirements for the scouts, and it is necessary to get the news of the enemy cavalry in advance, how the enemy cavalry is marching, what is the speed, and whether he has time to prepare, if the above conditions are not met, but to fight an encounter, then when it is impossible to carry out positional warfare, what kind of method should be used?
Bows and arrows must be vigorously developed, there is no doubt about this, long-range attack weapons are the development trend of war, but at the current level of manufacturing, Li Qin has not yet invented a musket, otherwise he has to form a musket corps, then muskets and artillery are not good, it is necessary to improve the strength of the cold weapon army.
To deal with the large-scale cavalry corps charge, all dynasties and generations have good methods, but the feudal army, if only rely on the perfection of weapons and equipment, it is not enough, some dynasties have very good weapons and equipment, but they are helpless to deal with the invasion of foreign enemies, not that the generals are not good enough, nor that the soldiers dare not fight, and the court will not be [***] a mess, not to mention that the foreign enemy is too strong, but a combination of various factors, so that the Central Plains Dynasty has been destroyed by the foreign enemy.
The various stages of the development of the armed forces have their own surnames, and it does not mean that one can build one by knowing what kind of army should be built; war is a continuation of politics, and too many aspects are involved. Not only should we do what kind of defense we should do against the enemy, but we must also have logistical support, the support of the people, the collection of all kinds of materials, the time occupied, the road to take to transport troops and food, how to train generals, how to train soldiers, how to transfer troops in wartime, how to raise troops in non-wartime, how to cultivate fields, and if we maintain the soldiers' sense of fighting, if we cannot go without fighting for a while, the soldiers will be afraid of seeing blood, and so on.
As far as the Fujiao Army is concerned, at this stage, under the circumstance that the financial resources cannot support the expedition of a large army corps and the number of troops cannot be replenished immediately and on the spot, it can only establish small and medium-sized corps to carry out battles that do not leave the base area far, so as to ensure that the battle will be won.
Since it is a small and medium-sized legion, then this legion must be strong and powerful, not to fight a war of attrition with the enemy, but to fight a blitzkrieg, a quick battle. In this way, you can avoid a long time delay, manpower and material resources cannot be consumed, and secondly, you can knock the enemy out as quickly as possible, and you are powerless to resist.
To do it, as long as my Fujiao Army is here, others have to roll away for me!
Now the Fujiao Army can do this in Beidi County, but if it is placed in the entire Liangzhou, it will inevitably be a little insufficient, so we have to build an army again, so that the Fujiao Army is different from other armies, and when people mention the Fujiao Army, then there is naturally an idea: It is a very strong army, relying on hard fighting, we are afraid that we can't fight them, it is better to avoid the enemy for the time being!
Under this premise, Li Qin got the iron master of the Bin Department again, so he decided to let the soldiers add another weapon to the spear, which is the broken horse knife, which will develop into a Mo knife in the Tang Dynasty, and there will be a cold weapon era, the most luxurious military formation, the Mo knife formation!
The Mo Dao Array of the Tang Dynasty Infantry Army, such as the tactics of advancing through the wall, created a glorious war history in the Tang Dynasty, and also created the myth of Mo Dao. It can be said that when the Modao Legion arrives on the battlefield, as long as it opens its formation, it can scare the enemy and tremble in his heart.
There are many reasons why the Tang Dynasty Modao Corps withdrew from the stage of history, but in the final analysis, it is because of the emergence of other cheaper weapons, effective and inexpensive weapons are always the first choice for army equipment, the army in the Song Dynasty was equipped with spears, long knives, axes and crossbows, these weapons are far less luxurious than Modao, but they are equally easy to use, so the heroic Modao array will become history.
The Mo knife is a luxury, and it will definitely be replaced by other weapons. However, for the current Fujiao army, it is the best choice, because the luxurious Modao array, in appearance will be completely different from other armies, in the late Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms, the princes fought, often dispatched tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops, but in the final analysis, most of them still rely on the strong Ding, the newly recruited soldiers, in the Fujiao army, this kind of soldiers are not as good as auxiliary soldiers, but most of the armies in this era are such a component, after all, there are few elite soldiers.
It's not that the princes don't know how to train soldiers, it's that years of conquest have left them with no time to train soldiers.
In this realistic situation, even if the Mo Dao Formation is too extravagant and too expensive, it is the best way to deal with amateur enemy soldiers. In the face of the enemy soldiers who had just been pulled strong and had no will to fight, they had just put down their hoes, and as soon as they had just loaded a spear on the wooden pole, they were pulled out to fight...... What will the people who have just been pulled strong think? That can only be thought of: "The Fujiao Army is here...... It's terrible...... Why don't you run away! "Before the battle is fought, defeat is inevitable!
The Mo knife formation is difficult to practice, and there is no thought of becoming an army for a year or two, so even if the Fujiao army is equipped with a Mo knife, it will not immediately exert the power of the knife formation, but it is enough to scare people, first scare the amateur enemy soldiers, and when the enemy elite soldiers rush up, they should release arrows and arrows, and they should take spears to stab them, defeat the elite enemy soldiers, and then go to catch the amateurs, it's too late!
Li Qin made a plan, so he called the people from the Bin Department to discuss the matter of building a large number of broken swords. The patriarch of the Bin Department did not die when he fought with the prison sister Qiang, but he died when he was captured by the Huns, and now the head of the Bin Department has the final say, the elder brother of the chief, named Ha Dali!
Li Qin called Ha Dali, seeing that this person was in his fifties, tall and strong, and his two hands were like small pu fans, he first praised the hero, and then asked Dian Wei to bring the large broken horse saber, and asked Ha Dali: "This broken horse saber is made by your department, can it be made again?" ”
Ha Dali was very surprised when he saw this broken horse knife, and said: "This broken horse knife was indeed made by our department, but it disappeared a long time ago, I don't know who got it, how could Li Lang have this broken horse knife?" ”
Li Qin said: "This is the loot I got when I was suppressing bandits, can you still create it again?" I mean build a lot of them, I'm going to have at least two thousand! ”
Ha Dali was taken aback and said, "Two thousand? This iron ......"
"I'll figure it out, you just said if it can be built, how long will it take, and can it be as sharp as this one?" Li Qindao.
(To be continued)