Chapter 52: Loyal and Filial Piety

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, and when Pang Kongming came, he patted Pang Kongming's shoulder and said, "Old Pang, although you are not very good in the queue, the battle just now is very exciting!" If you're so wonderful on the battlefield, I'll make sure you're all at it! ”

When Pang Kongming heard this, he was a little embarrassed, scratched his head with a red face, and said: "General, I haven't been taught by you, if it weren't for your teaching, my old Pang would have been on a rampage now, where would there be any scattered advances, what military maxims would be concentrated on attacking!" ”

Li Cunhuan laughed and said, "Master led the door, and the cultivation is personal. If you don't have talent, even if Bai Qi Sun Wu personally teaches you, it's useless! Well done! I'll go next door to see how the training of the loyal and filial piety army is! ”

The name of the Loyal and Filial Piety Army was stolen by Li Cunhuan from the Loyal and Filial Piety Army in the last years of the Jin Kingdom, the Loyal and Filial Piety Army was formed in the last years of the Jin Kingdom, and the soldiers recruited many young men who fled from Mongolia to Jin, although there were only 400 people, but they were extremely brave. It was also the only army in the Jin State at that time that could fight against the Mongol iron cavalry that dominated the world.

The surname of the loyal and filial piety army formed by Li Cunhuan is also similar to that of the Jin State, but the difference is that the loyal and filial piety army formed by Li Cunhuan was selected from which captured slaves, and most of them were Han Chinese.

In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, especially the Huangchao Rebellion, and the rebellion of Qin Zongquan, causing a large number of Han people to flee north. In particular, Qin Zongquan rebelled, he never brought grain and straw to fight, but used a car to carry the corpses of people who had been salted with table salt, and threatened the old and weak to fight. As a result, "the west is Guannei, the east is Qingqi, the south is out of the Jianghuai, the north is Weili, the fish is rotten and the birds are scattered, the population is cut off, and the thorns and hazelnuts cover the wilderness."

And many of these people who fled north fled into Hebei, but Hebei was not much better at that time, Li Keyong fought all year round, and Li Keyong was okay militarily, but economically it was terrible. Some of the oppressed people fled into the grasslands.

The powerful gradually became a member of the steppe peoples, while the weak ones were plundered by the steppe people and became slaves. Li Cunhuan rescued more than 5,000 Han Chinese alone, as well as other captives composed of Jurchen, Murowei, Yuju and other ethnic groups who became slaves due to war and other reasons.

Li Cunhuan selected 800 of his strong ones among them and handed them over to Duan Ziyao to train according to the methods he taught.

Because the number of people trained was small, Li Cunhuan was free to distribute the meat of cattle, sheep and horses that froze to death in winter to the loyal and filial piety army and the black-clothed army. The black-clothed army couldn't see much difference, but when Li Cunhuan came to the camp of the loyal and filial army, he could clearly see the difference.

To be able to become slaves and survive, they were all greatly tempered. Coupled with the current sufficient supply of nutrients, the loyal and filial soldiers are in good spirits.

The Loyal and Filial Army is not a cavalry army, they are an infantry. Because of the lack of weapons, Li Cunhuan only equipped each of them with a three-meter-long spear. Even the shield is only equipped at the front of the battle formation.

But even so, it did not weaken the prestige of the loyal and filial piety army in the slightest.

Li Cunhuan did not alarm anyone, but stood from a watchtower to watch.

I saw that Duan Ziyao led the soldiers to train below, and the scarecrows lined up one by one, and placed a few small mud balls in the throat, heart, and eyes of the scarecrows.

Duan Ziyao's eyes swept a sharp glance at the soldiers who were preparing for training this time, and said loudly: "Don't say I didn't remind you, the team with the worst results this time has half the meal today, and it runs twenty laps around the martial arts arena in full gear." ”

Li Cunhuan took a look at the martial arts field, one lap was nearly 300 meters, and twenty laps were not about six kilometers, even Li Cunhuan felt his scalp numb.

"Let's go!" Duan Ziyao coldly commanded, and the herald beside him immediately blew the brass horn.

According to Li Cunhuan's rules, the assassination must be completed within five breaths, and a military judge is blowing the whistle, and each time it is sounded, it is one breath. If the spear is not stabbed out in the five breaths, or if the spear is not fully withdrawn, it is a failure.

Before the five breaths had passed, the soldier had already stabbed out his spear. Duan Ziyao did not teach the soldiers how to be clever in martial arts, the only thing he taught was "Thorn!" A simple move, a ruthless attack.

With the sound of five whistles, the military judge scored with a blank face, three points through the soft mud, two points for the stabbing of the soft mud, one point for the scarecrow, and zero points for the stabbing miss. After going back and forth three times, Li Cunhuan looked very carefully, and found that this group of soldiers was generally good, and they were basically able to stab the scarecrow every time they stabbed out. The average person is able to penetrate a lump of ooze.

Li Cunhuan shifted his gaze to the other side, this is not a spear assassination, but a hand-to-hand fight, in the cold wind, the soldier is just wearing a pair of short close-quarters pants, ** brass-colored strong upper body. Holding a short sword made of hardwood, they fought with each other.

Each fight was three-on-three, and in their left hand was a small round shield only thirty-five centimeters in diameter. However, they are very flexible, and often attack with two defenders and one attack. And it's not the one in the middle who attacks, and it's very flexible, maybe on the left, maybe in the middle, maybe on the right. The practice is all about fighting skills in the melee.

This was discussed by Li Cunhuan and Li Cunxiao with several fierce generals in the army, because the attack method of the loyal and filial army was mainly a pike phalanx improved from the Macedonian phalanx, and the most feared thing during the spear advance was to be close to the enemy. So Li Cunhuan let them practice a set of melee combat skills. If you are close to the enemy, you can have a means of resistance.

Outside the martial arts arena, there is also a team of soldiers, that is, one hundred and fifty people are training and running, because in Li Cunhuan's plan, they are all hoplites, but now there is no armor, so everyone carries a thick tree on their shoulders, which is cut down from the mountain, and then carried back by the soldiers for repairing the camp and making weapons.

"This army is too simple. Brother Huan can't help but pay too much attention to them! Sha Yan looked at it for a while, but did not see any difference, and couldn't help but hesitate to put forward his opinion.

Li Cunhuan's favorite thing is for others to put forward opinions, even if it is wrong, Li Cunhuan does not care, and will not be punished for this. That's why Sha Yan Ke didn't hesitate to put forward his own objections.

Li Cunhuan pointed to the soldiers below and said with a smile: "You can't see anything, but what I see is perseverance!" Hard as steel-like will, firm as Tarzan-like discipline! The Loyal and Filial Piety Army will be my rock! ”

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