Chapter 41: Under the Heavenly Saint Military Exercise
After Zhao Zhen finished planning the affairs of Tubo, he was not worried about the small seedlings he had planted in the Great Song Dynasty, so he rushed to the Royal Academy in a hurry.
In order to improve efficiency and reduce the impact, Zhao Zhen only brought Xiao Shunzi and a few Ouchi guards, and came to the Royal Academy with a light car. Seeing the neat environment inside, and the students who were immersed in reading or talking everywhere, Zhao Zhen's heart was full of pride: "This is the source of his future strength!" ”
Zhao Zhen deliberately sneaked into the library of the Royal Academy, and saw a room full of scholars, and felt that his efforts were not in vain.
After making an inspection, there were three guys who aroused Zhao Zhen's interest. Most of the others were reading literature or books on skills, and the three of them did get together to discuss physics and chemistry. In this era, the fallacy that half of the treatise on language rules the world has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there are not many people who can quietly study the "miscellaneous science" of mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Zhao Zhen approached them pretending to be a student, trying to probe their bottom.
"The three benevolent brothers, the younger brother is reasonable, I heard the discussion between the three benevolent brothers just now, and the younger brother is also very interested, can you bother the three benevolent brothers to solve the doubts for the younger brother?" Zhao Zhen pretended to be shy, bowed to the three and asked.
"Eh, do you dare to be interested, do you want to move your seat?" Zeng Gongliang, who has a cheerful personality, was the first to invite.
"Good!" Zhao Zhen motioned to Xiao Shunzi and them, don't show his feet, he happily walked up and sat with them, and asked, "I don't know what the three brothers are talking about?" ”
"That's the case, some time ago, Brother Bi Sheng figured out a new printing method, which greatly improved the printing efficiency. No, this Yan Suyan's eyes are red, he wants to get a timer, and he also said that the current timekeeping method is not accurate. So let's discuss his proposal together. Zeng Gongliang, who has always been at the bottom of his age, was very happy to be a brother, and volunteered to point to the other two and explain to Zhao Zhen.
Hearing this, Zhao Zhen's saliva couldn't stop flowing down, and in the end, Xiao Shunzi couldn't stand it anymore, so he dragged him out of the library.
Zhao Zhencai, who suddenly realized, slapped his head: "I'm really a pig!" There are so many cattle in the Song Dynasty, you must tidy up well when you go back, but you can't let them be buried. "Xiao Shunzi has long been accustomed to his master's off-line behavior from time to time, and he doesn't care about it.
Then, Zhao Zhen went to see Fan Zhongyan again, talked with him for an afternoon, praised him for his excellent work at the Royal Academy, and encouraged him to continue his efforts. Subsequently, Zhao Zhen went to inspect the general prison and the arsenal, and guided their work by the way, and of course had an official addiction by the way.
In a blink of an eye, the ten days passed quietly in the busy, and when the time for the military exercise came, Zhao Zhen took the ministers and came to the observation platform of the royal garden early.
The royal gardens have long been under martial law, and the forbidden army and the field army have made preparations in their respective territories. In order to make the referee more prestigious, Zhao Zhen also specially invited the two old ladies of the Zhe family and the Yang family to come and sit in the town. Not only are they highly qualified, but more importantly, they are old, which is a great capital in the Song Dynasty.
According to the regulations of the exercise, the field army acted as the invading side, and the forbidden army represented the defending side, assuming that the situation was that the enemy invaded the Gyeonggi area, and the forbidden army was ordered to intercept it. Each side sent 1,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry, and deliberately gave the forbidden army a wait, that is, they could call in twice as many reinforcements to help.
The area of the royal garden is not very large, and all of them add up to two small rivers. Divided into three mountains, the observation platform is located on the highest mountain, and the north and south meet only ten miles away.
The arrows, knives and guns used in the exercise were made of wood and stained with white ash for marking. The referee team is led by the two old ladies of Zheyang, and the referees are the escorts of the two. At this moment, everything is ready and only the east wind is owed.
"The Gyeonggi Defense Military Exercise has officially begun!" With Zhao Zhen's order, the first military exercise in the Tiansheng year officially kicked off.
The exercise began, and as the two bigwigs of the field army, Chong Shiheng and Zhi Weizheng, the two of them were staying on the observation platform and drinking tea. Zhao Zhen was so angry, this product is too faceless! Picked up the cushion next to it and smashed it.
"Yikes! Who! It's so immoral, why throw things around! The smashed Chong Shiheng immediately jumped up and began to spray indiscriminately, Zhi Weizheng pulled his clothes, and quietly pointed at Zhao Zhen.
Chong Shiheng slowly turned his face, and saw that the emperor was looking at him obscenely, that face, more professional than other Sichuan opera actors, immediately came to Zhao Zhen with a lewd smile, and asked tentatively: "Official, are you looking for a small one!" ”
Zhao Zhen slapped him in the face, and said angrily: "You said that you are not too small, can you be serious!" Do you want to force me to find you a daughter-in-law? ”
"Spare me! The little ones are going to fight for you! How can you find a daughter-in-law! Chong Shiheng put on a disgusted expression, and begged for mercy.
"Just wait, you! Let's talk about it, let you do the drill, and you will send Yang Jinhua and Ma Su to fool around! Zhao Zhen pointed at him, looking angry.
"Official, you look down on those forbidden troops too much, let those two boys just practice their hands!"
"I know they're useless, otherwise why train the new army! I'm saying that you've made people lose face like this! Although they are not worthy of the son, we have to be low-key! Mixed with me, I haven't learned this bit of good morality! ”
"Official...... You have too many good qualities, and you can't learn them from the youngest! Chong Shiheng said flatteringly.
"Of course I know! Go back and sit, be a good general, and see what virtue you have! Zhao Zhen said narcissistically.
During the time when Zhao Zhen and Chong Shiheng were fighting, both sides of the military exercise were ready, and when they saw that the posture was about to start, Zhao Zhen also returned to his seat, packed up his mood and watched the monkey show.
Since Zhao Zhen chose this place, it was a hilly terrain on the whole, and the cavalry brigade could not be expanded, and this thousand people were just enough. I saw that the commander of the Sanya was in the ink for a long time, and finally arranged the soldiers of the guard foot on a hill, preparing to use the hill as a barrier for defense. He also arranged the cavalry guarding the horses at the foot of the mountain, and it seemed that he still wanted to confront the field army head-on, but they all puffed up, thinking that he was the eldest and the second.
However, when I saw that the field army was more arrogant, Yang Jinhua was a female overlord, and she had followed Zhao Zhen for a few years, and her temper was even better. Seeing that there was only such a little forbidden army, she was completely dismissive, and immediately drew a circle on the side of Ma Sudao, and led the thousand infantry to rush towards the position of the forbidden army.
On the observation stage, Chong Shiheng looked at Zhe Weizheng with a black face and laughed, and he deeply agreed with Yang Jinhua's performance!
As the saying goes, clay figurines still have three points of fire. The forbidden soldiers saw that Yang Jinhua was coming with a thousand infantry, this was a complete slap in the face, and the anger value of each one was rushing upward, and Xu Jun and the others were all green when they saw it.
Yang Jinhua came to the small hill about five hundred steps in front of the forbidden army to rest for a while, and the only dozens of scouts were sent out, although Yang Jinhua despised the opponent very much, but the military quality that should have not been lost. After a short time, the scout cavalry brought back the forbidden army's defense map, and these scout cavalry were all simply learned to make a map, in order to accurately spy on the military situation.
Yang Jinhua took the information and looked at it, and found that the forbidden army did not have any big battles, but arranged 1,000 infantry on each of the two opposite hills, and placed 1,000 cavalry at the foot of the mountain, thinking that no matter how the field army came, it would have to face the danger of being flanked. However, Yang Jinhua didn't feel at ease, she didn't plan to play with others at all, she believed that the strength that Zhao Zhen told them before was fundamental, and the conspiracy was just a helpless move for the weak.
After understanding the other party's intentions, Yang Jinhua led the infantry towards the other party step by step. Although the terrain is uneven, there is still a relatively neat pace, and the indomitable momentum instantly compares the lazy appearance of the forbidden army, and the ministers on the observation stage nodded and praised. The laymen were lively, the ministers looked happy, and the generals were different, they deeply realized how difficult it was to maintain the formation in the movement when leading the troops, and this alone could also reflect the difference of the field army. They all pulled their necks, ready to watch the show be staged.
Seeing that the field army began to attack, and there were only 1,000 people, Xu Jun discussed with the others, and prepared to take advantage of the fact that the other party had no cavalry to help, and scattered all his 2,000 cavalry, wanting to eat the field army in one go.
"Five Consecutive Arrays Ready...... Array! Seeing the opposing cavalry rushing head-on, Yang Jinhua decisively gave an order, and with her order, the thousand-person team quickly formed five linkage rings.
"Standing spear," Yang Jinhua rode on a horse and stood in the circle and shouted loudly.
Ulala's, a ring becomes a spiked gear. Those forbidden cavalrymen, when have you seen that scene, the old elder's spear, it hurts if you don't die if you hit it! They were as fine as monkeys, and they surrounded the field army, but the dog bit the hedgehog and couldn't bite it.
"Shoot me hard!" Hearing Yang Jinhua's order, the crossbowmen raised the crossbows in their hands and kept shooting at the cavalry of the forbidden army.
Under a burst of wild fire, all the cavalry were incomplete, and they were all declared dead by the referee after a short time. Just imagine that at close range, nearly 300 crossbows were shot out in minutes, and the forbidden army was defenseless, so it was too late to make an effective response.
After easily finishing the cavalry, the field army returned to a phalanx and walked towards the forbidden army on the mountain, and at this time it also entered the range of the opponent, and the forbidden army also began to fight back with bows and arrows. Due to the terrain restrictions, it was not easy for the field army under the mountain to attack the enemy above, so Yang Jinhua thought for a moment and ordered each team to disperse and attack in small groups.
The dense formation has been changed, and the defense of bows and arrows in the squad formation has become more comprehensive, and the bow and arrow attacks of the forbidden army have almost lost their effectiveness. In a short time, the field army rushed to the top of the mountain, and one by one they fell into a melee with the forbidden army in small teams.
The field army was one against two, and because of the advanced weapons and tactics, and the fact that the opponent's cavalry had just been dealt with, the morale was high. The scuffle lasted only a quarter of an hour, and few of the forbidden troops were standing, lying on the ground one by one, wailing for a long time.
Even if the weapons are changed to wooden for the sake of drills, it still hurts to knock on people......