Chapter 289: Fierce Soldiers
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The affairs of Zhuojun have been initially settled.
Li Chongjiu was in the arsenal of the general, and the armor was all counted and equipped in the army.
For example, Wei Chigong, Zhao Quanting, Zhao Que'er, and Chen Ke looked at the batches of armor, strong bows and crossbows equipped in the army, and they were dazzled.
The 8,000 soldiers of Shanggu County, the 10,000 soldiers of Zhuo County, and the 2,000 soldiers of Liaoxi County all changed their armor.
Most of the armor in this arsenal is two-grade armor, and there are also a lot of Mingguang armor, as well as a small amount of sleeve armor, which is enough for 20,000 county soldiers to have one armor.
Not much for most of the foot soldiers, the armor is still too heavy, wearing twenty or thirty pounds of armor, it is basically impossible to go on the road for a long time, so the armor is usually loaded on the car, carried by the auxiliaries, and then put on uniformly when fighting.
Therefore, the most feared thing for the foot soldiers is ambush, and on the march, in case of an ambush, their armor is too late to wear. Even after the formation, if the infantry wants to pursue, how can they chase people with such heavy armor, so the heavy infantry without cavalry will always have to defeat and cannot achieve victory.
As for the strong bow and hard crossbow, that is the biggest harvest in the arsenal, just the three-stone arm crossbow, there are 3,000, as for the four-stone to five-stone stepping crossbow, 500 five-stone waist open crossbows, the horse army for horses to use the horse crossbow for horses, as well as the light hand crossbow, and the crossbow that can be loaded with five arrows in a row, one bow and three arrows, there are also hundreds.
Of course, there are twenty bed crossbows, which have three ox crossbows, five ox crossbows, and eight ox crossbows, among which there are both bed crossbow-like sharp weapons that killed the Khitan generals in Yuyi Town, and some are even better.
These weapons are the accumulation of the national strength of the Great Sui Dynasty, the material of the 190 counties in the country, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty stationed these materials in Zhuo County in order to realize the hegemony of conquering Liaodong, and now they are all cheap Li Chongjiu.
The rest of the swords, spears, guns, swords, horses, lances, and lances don't need to be mentioned, and the arsenal is piled up.
Li Chongjiu's 20,000 county soldiers, after this equipment, at least in terms of equipment, did not need to give much to the most elite government army of the Great Sui expedition to Goguryeo, and even surpassed.
As for the grain storage in the granary, which can support 40,000 people for three years, Li Chongjiu decided to use it as military supplies, so that the 20,000 county soldiers under his command will not need to be used in the military cantonment in the future, and they will all be out of production and trained in the standing army.
From the arsenal, he also collected a thousand horse armors, thinking of Luo Yi's Youzhou iron cavalry, Li Chongjiu thought that if he used troops to Hebei and Liaodong in the future, in the land of a horse and a flat river, the heavy armored cavalry was undoubtedly a good weapon to break the formation.
It's just that most of Li Chongjiu's current battles are Turkic horses on the grassland, or Yanqi horses raised by the Sui army's pastures, and the rest are a large number of horses. Li Chongjiu did not lack horses at all, and there was no shortage of horses in the Sui army.
However, although the horse can bear the load, the pack horse is not good at galloping, and the explosive power is almost none, although the Turkic horse gallops quickly, and bears hardships and stands hard work, and can withstand rough feeding, but it is short and has poor weight. As for Yanqi horses in all aspects, there are no obvious shortcomings, but there are no specific advantages.
Therefore, Li Chongjiu wanted to form a heavy armored cavalry, and only Liaodong horses came to mind, so Li Chongjiu persuaded Tudiji to select hundreds of cavalry to supplement the Wansheng army, and expand the Wansheng army into a fine cavalry of 2,000 horsemen.
Among the Wansheng army, the eight hundred cavalry were uniformly dressed in armor, and Li Chongjiu and Tudi Ji inspected this army outside the city of Zhuo County.
I saw that the cavalry were all wearing thick armor inside, and they were uniformly wearing felt shirts outside, but their faces were covered with iron masks, and almost only two eyes were exposed, and the war horses were also in addition to this, and the tall Liaodong war horses dragged up heavy armor and people, but it was very easy.
In addition to the iron armor, compared with Luo Yi's Youzhou iron cavalry, the Jurchen cavalry was much more casual on horseback, in addition to having a horn bow, there were maces, bones, spears, big guns, clubs, big axes, small axes, iron hammers and so on.
Li Chongjiu was also surprised that when the Great Sui cavalry charged into battle, most of the weapons used were horse lances, or spears and spears, which were very uniform.
Where is there such a Jurchen cavalry, Tudi Ji didn't care, and said to Li Chongjiu, the sons and daughters are lazy, you Han people have so many rules, they won't, rest assured, we have our own tactics.
Li Chongjiu originally wanted to let Tu Di Ji drill the heavy cavalry. Tudi Ji laughed, and said that the drills of your Han people, we don't know, we have been hunting all our lives, hunting and fighting are the same, the difference is to kill animals and kill people.
After saying that, Li Chongjiu asked Tu Di Ji to let the Shen Ya cavalry conduct a safari drill, only to see that the originally seemingly scattered Shen Ya cavalry, although the formation was scattered, but the march was in an orderly manner, marching in groups before and after, and there were archers and cavalry to cover them.
It seems that there is no practice at all, and this qiē ability to fight is innate.
Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh, the descendants of the Heishui Cavalry, the Jurchen cavalry, and the Jurchen cavalry in history, were famous for their heavy iron cavalry. The Song people commented on the Jurchen cavalry, saying that there were long cavalry, perseverance, heavy armor, and bows.
The Jurchen cavalry is very famous for its tenacity and good fighting, and if the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000 words, they themselves often say that they can't fight more than 100 rendezvous, how can they be called a horse army! It is said that in the battles between Zhu Xianzhen and the Song army, the Jurchen cavalry charged dozens of times.
Thinking of the Jurchen cavalry that destroyed the Song Dynasty in history, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart, but looking at the current Yan cavalry, as well as Tudiji and Wugunai, they were all laughing and laughing heartlessly. Their awe of themselves is also from the heart, how can they be compared with the Jurchen cavalry who burned and captured captives in history.
Just as Napoleon famously said that justice and justice are only within the range of a cannon, how can aliens live in peace with you without feared forces. Only by being strong forever can we stand in the middle of the national forest.
Li Chongjiu thought of this, and nodded with satisfaction to Tudiji, Wu Gu Nai, and then said: "Wu Gu Nai, I will hand over this cavalry to you in the future, are you interested?" ”
Wu Gu Nai was stunned for a moment, since the people of the Yan Dynasty could remember, there had never been such a cavalry, so it was an incomparable honor for him to be able to command such a fine cavalry.
Wu Gu Nai didn't say anything, just nodded, well, it was considered to agree to Li Chongjiu's appointment.
The new army has been formed, and the following is the reward for the army.
After the treasury of Youzhou was laid, Li Chongjiu rewarded the soldiers and soldiers of Shanggu County with silk and copper coins.
This time, all the troops were happy, and for the county soldiers, the benefits went without saying. In the past, the county soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty did not have military salaries, so joining the army was to serve, and the common people were recruited to serve in the county soldiers for one to two years, and they could go home after the service.
Therefore, for the county soldiers, the people who joined the county soldiers really couldn't survive and ate for a mouthful of food. You must know that the government army of the Great Sui is only exempt from rent and taxes, and if you want to get rich, you can only rely on looting after defeat, or slaughtering the city to have income.
Li Chongjiu's county soldiers are also average, and now that the world is in chaos, it is not easy for the people to have a full meal, and the matter of military pay is a luxury. Of course, the county soldiers went out three times, the first time to capture Shanggu County, the second time to capture Liaoxi County, and the third time to capture Zhuo County.
The first two rewards were higher than one degree, but this time when Zhuo County was captured, Li Chongjiu's reward to the army was twice as high as that of Shanggu County. For Li Chongjiu's county soldiers, he was so ungrateful to Dade.
Rewards keep morale high, and being well-equipped can make soldiers feel valued. Li Chongjiu himself is not a soldier, and he has no way to start with how to train a strong army, such as relying on morale and faith in history, to fight 25,000 miles alone.
But as a businessman, what he can do is not stingy with money, try his best to configure the best equipment and treatment for his subordinate army, as for how to train soldiers, Li Chongjiu will let go of his subordinate generals, I believe that they are all born with soldiers, and they are definitely more experienced than himself as a layman, and the so-called layman does not interfere in internal acts, which is what Li Chongjiu knows.
As for the reward of the army, this time it is all given cloth, as well as copper coins, Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town are outside the Saiwai, and now it is a large logistics distribution center. After three years, Li Chongjiu finally took root in Huaihuang Town completely.
Now none of the herdsmen on the grassland do not know Huaihuang Town, the storage of Yuyi Town, from the western grassland such as the Turks generally go to Huaihuang Town, and the east of Liaodong direction, such as Khitan, Yan Yan is to go to Yuyi Town. Now Huaihuang, Yuyi two towns have become the trading center of foreign trade, and have become a common circle of Han people.
Here, although everyone is still fighting for a few stinky money, the negotiation method between the Han and Hu people is no longer to speak with a knife. Just as in history, the Ming Dynasty opened the tribute, and actually played a role in the border of millions of male soldiers, since the Ming and Mongolia have not had a major war for decades......
In the case of such prosperity in the two border towns, there are many merchants who are accustomed to Mobei, and the chamber of commerce is set up in Huaihuang and Yuyi two towns, and they are sending small caravans and packhorse teams to the north, east, and west to establish small markets, and go deeper into the grassland to trade materials with herdsmen.
Therefore, because of the convenience of selling goods, the various tribes on the grassland gradually tacitly accepted that the Han people used copper coins and cloth as exchange currency, and it was no longer the habit of bartering in the past, especially the five tribes of the Xi nationality, and the tribesmen gradually began to talk about the transaction was no longer based on horses and sheep, but the copper money and cloth of the Han people.
Therefore, Li Chongjiu simply gave copper coins to the soldiers this time, and the soldiers of the cloth, Xi and Yan tribes had no objection to this.
Just when Li Chongjiu was training troops in Youzhou, the news came from the grassland that the Xue Yantuo Department in Mobei was defeated by the Turks, and the Turks Luo Khan Chen had 300,000 soldiers outside Huaihuang Town. (To be continued.) )