Chapter 644: The Theory of the Five Elements of Virtue and Fortune
"Ten thousand years of the king! Great Wu Wannian! โ
At this time, Qingji was accompanied by the great Sima Wu Zixu, the national captain Sun Wu, as well as Tian Sui Tho, Xu Menchao, Xiong Zidan and other Wu generals, inspecting the Wu military camp.
By the way, a military exercise was conducted, so that Qingji could review the three armies and inspect the current combat effectiveness of the Wu army.
The camp of Wu Jun is located on the bank of the Qinhuai River twenty or thirty miles away from Jinling City, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful.
In this extremely wide camp, there are 70,000 or 80,000 sharp soldiers of Wu State stationed all year round.
This is the mobile force of the state of Wu, that is, the field army.
The army of Wu has reached an unprecedented standing army of 300,000.
Is it much?
Many!
But in the face of the huge territory of Wu State, it can only be regarded as barely strong.
Excluding the garrison and the city defense army, in every battle, Wu could recruit 80,000 soldiers and horses to put into the battlefield at any time.
If Qingji issues a mobilization order and urgently conscripts soldiers, within three days, he can summon 200,000 or 300,000 soldiers who had already retired and returned to the fields by land and water.
Waiting for Qingji's order, they can go to the front line to fight......
At this moment, Qingji, standing on the three-zhang high point platform, close to ten meters high, can let Qingji see the sassy heroic posture and vigorous demeanor of tens of thousands of Wu soldiers on the school field at a glance!
"Ten thousand years of the king! Great Wu Wannian! โ
On the huge school ground, 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers of the Wu army held their heads high, as if looking up to the gods, looking up at the king they were loyal to.
Their expressions were extremely excited, and their faces were full of expressions.
Qingji stood on the worship platform, and as far as the eye could see, there was a crimson ocean!
If it is according to the "Five Elements of Virtue", its rule is that the five elements win, namely: wood and earth, gold and wood, fire and gold, water and fire, earth and water, and the cycle repeats.
There is also a saying that the five elements are born together, namely: wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, gold gives birth to water, and water gives birth to wood, and the cycle repeats.
Dynasties are very concerned about what kind of five elements their virtue is, after all, it is related to orthodoxy and the mandate of heaven, how can they change it from time to time?
The Fuxi Dynasty was wood, the Shennong Dynasty was fire, the Yellow Emperor Dynasty was earth, the Qin Dynasty was water, the Han Dynasty was in the earth and fire, the Tang Dynasty was earth, the Yuan Dynasty was gold, the Ming Dynasty was fire, the Qing Dynasty was water, and the rest of the dynasties said differently.
As far as Qingji knows, the Ji Zhou royal family belongs to Tude and Shang Huang......
Because the Shang Dynasty destroyed the Xia Dynasty and overcame fire for water, and the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty and conquered water for the soil.
Of course, the theory of the five elements of virtue and luck has not really been formed.
It's just that the kings of Wu have admired red more, and it has certainly been carried forward.
According to this statement, Wu Chengzhou Tong belongs to Huode, Shang Chi!
Therefore, the flag costumes of Wu are mostly red.
Crimson!
This is purely Wu Wang Qingji's personal preference.
The spear is like a forest, and the flag covers the sky!
On the huge school ground, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Wu army formed several phalanxes, standing there in an orderly manner, shouting heartbreakingly, "King Wannian, Dawu Wannian"!
Such a shout has already penetrated the sky and resounded through the four fields.
This is Qingji's army, and it is Wu's army!
They are the sharp knives of the Wu Kingdom to conquer the world!
They are invincible warriors!
Their fame has long been crowned in China, making the enemy fearful!
Just standing here, Qingji overlooking it, I can't help but have my blood pumping and my blood boiling!
"Let's get started."
"No!"
After receiving Qingji's instructions, Wu Zixu, as the great Sima, immediately went down to convey the general's order and announced the official start of the military exercise.
The school field suddenly became empty.
From the beginning of the military exercise, Qingji sat at the front of the worship platform, the place with the widest field of vision, and then put his Longyuan sword on his knees and looked ahead.
"Winter! Winter! Winter! โ
Accompanied by the sound of war drums full of murderous aura, on the school ground, a team of thousands of crossbowmen grew.
No, archers, to be precise.
Because from the first round, it is the archery skills of the Wu army archers that will be displayed, not the arrow array.
"Archer, prepare!"
The archers, who were lined up in an orderly manner, stepped forward step by step as a whole with the shouts of a captain.
"Kachatsa ......"
A group of fifty archers pulled their bowstrings in unison, and the arrows were aimed at the target eighty paces on the opposite side.
Not every archer can do it in a hundred steps.
In fact, in the battle of a large army, the power of a single archer is very small......
"Put!"
With the swing of the command flag, the arrow suddenly came out of the string, and after a muffled sound of "snatching and grabbing", it accurately hit the target.
No missing arrows!
"Good!"
The generals standing behind Qingji clapped their hands and applauded.
"Next team!"
"Ready!"
Fifty archers in one round, three arrows per person, must ensure that the arrows are not missed.
Even if you don't hit the bull's-eye, you won't miss the target!
All the crossbowmen had been tested in archery, and then they all gathered together to form a huge phalanxโ
Arrows!
This is exactly what Wu Jun is good at, the invincible arrow array!
"Ready!"
With a shout from the captain, all the crossbowmen, thousands of crossbowmen, loaded their crossbows and stepped on the crossbows, or put their fingers on the triggers of the crossbow machines, and looked straight ahead.
At a distance of more than a stone's throw from the Wu army's arrow array, there is a large area of scarecrows, and a piece of scarecrow will be tragically "baptized" by the Wu army's arrow array!
"Put!"
After an order was given, a dense rain of arrows suddenly shot out of the Wu army's arrow array.
The crossbow arrows, like locusts crossing the border, spread all over the sky, falling rapidly from top to bottom.
"Puff puff!"
"Take!"
Thousands of crossbow arrows flew by, hitting the scarecrow, or stuck in the ground, the tails of the arrows still trembling and making a "buzzing" sound......
"Good!"
"Color!"
This time, even Qingji couldn't help but stand up and clap his hands, which can be regarded as a compliment to these Wu Jun crossbowmen.
Commendable!
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be crushed tactically, and if you are rich, you will be covered by firepower!
Now the state of Wu has a chance to outperform the enemy in terms of weapons and equipment, or even completely crush the enemy!
"Boom!"
The crossbowmen stepped back and were replaced by three hundred vehicles that had been deployed for the exercise.
Single-wheeled, two-wheeled, square cart (cart box), driving four horses or two horses.
There are three armor soldiers in the car, one in the middle is responsible for driving the car and is called "the king", the one on the left is responsible for long-distance shooting called "shooting" or "multiple shooting", and the one on the right is responsible for close-range hand-to-hand combat called "Rong right".
The state of Wu has a history of chariots, but it is not very long.
In the past, the Duke of Jin Jing gave Wuchen thirty chariots, about 2,000 people, and personally went to Wu to teach the people of Wu to drive chariots.
This became the prelude to the decline of the state of Chu and the rise of the state of Wu......