And in July of the twelfth year, Bingzi, Yan Xian died with the son. In August, Zhou Fa attacked Yao Xiang, according to the army Surabaya, and before Chen, he was personally supervised by Jia. The Xiangzhong lost six games in a row, and thousands of people died. Thousands of people under the command of Xiangshuai rode to Mount Tai in Jibei, and at night, more than 5,000 people abandoned their wives and followed Xiang. Xiang Yong and lover, although the war has been defeated repeatedly, the people know where Xiang is, and they help the old and the young, and gallop to it. It was rumored in the Zhou army that Xiang was sick and dead, and Lu and Ren Cheng's scholars and women were all looking north and crying. Fu Fa then weighed the Zhou State, and the world compared it with his father Fu Xiong, the king of martial arts.

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Just as Xue Zan and the four of them were concentrating on studying and camping, Zeng Hua was thinking hard in Bacheng.

The entire city is now a functional city, like several other cities. Xianyang City has become an industrial city; Xinfeng City became a grain reserve center; The west city of the new Chang'an is a complete college city, with Chang'an University Hall as the center, Chang'an Theological Seminary in the east, Chang'an Buddhist College in the south, Yongzhou University Hall in the north, Chang'an Public Works University Hall and Chang'an Agricultural College in the west; However, Bacheng has become a military academy city, and the four military academies of Chang'an Military Academy, Yongzhou Military Academy, Yongzhou Martial Arts Academy, and Jingzhao Martial Arts Academy make Bacheng full of officers and non-commissioned officers. There are only more than 50,000 people in the entire city, and there are more than 30,000 soldiers.

Zeng Hua is reflecting on his past military system and ideas in this military academy city. His previous military path should have been too smooth, Zeng Hua has been thinking about this question, why? I wonder if I can get in touch with God's intentions? But Zeng Hua knew. This period should be a turning point in China's military affairs, both in terms of military ideology and military system and equipment. After hundreds of years of melee, under the requirements of survival and victory, countless military sparks continued to burst out, and finally burst out in the Tang Dynasty after precipitation.

Fortunately, I am only standing in front of this period, and it should be said that I am standing at the key point of the transition period. The Three Kingdoms have passed, and countless heroes have been swept away by the waves, as the mainstream ideology of the Central Plains. Metaphysics is almost ignorant of military affairs. It didn't help at all. At the time when the vitality of the Central Plains was greatly damaged. In the north, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, and Ding Ling surged south, and most of them relied on only brave martial arts to get ahead, and a few people who shined in military affairs relied more on their extraordinary geniuses in addition to reading a lot of history books and art of war books because they were literate.

However, with the deepening of the war, the accumulation will also increase, and heroes will emerge in large numbers, and the good old days of relying on "speculation" will be gone forever. However, Zeng Hua is glad that he occupies the commanding heights of history. As long as there are no big mistakes or continuous accumulation of errors, there should be no possibility of being overturned.

But stagnation alone is very dangerous, Zeng Hua knows that with his ability to cross people, his overall situation and strategic thinking should be among the best in this era. It's no wonder that many people in this era have never even gone out to the county where they live, let alone look at the whole world? Zeng Hua has been educated in the "global village" ideology, plus more than thousands of years of information. Naturally, his thinking is much broader and farther than that of his time. Moreover, Zeng Hua knows the Murong family and the Fu family well. And the other party doesn't know anything about Zeng Hua, so if he is unknown as a prophet, he will naturally have an advantage. But later face other enemies. For example, Goguryeo or Persia, Zeng Hua is simply black-eyed, how can he still rely on "foresight" to win?

Zeng Hua knew in his heart that he could win ten or twenty times by luck, but it was impossible to win a hundred times, and the final win or loss could be decided by only one victory or defeat. Xiang Yu has won so many times, and a big defeat has made him desperate. Therefore, Zeng Hua hopes that he can make Beifu's advantages bigger and bigger, and always walk in the "front of the times".

Recalling the previous wars, Zeng Hua felt that he relied on his "prophetic calculation" to win three points, and implemented a very appropriate strategy from the height of history; The three points rely on the implementation of a number of systems and measures that have been "proven to be very effective long ago" in history, such as the professionalization of non-commissioned officers and officers, the mastery and encouragement of the morale of the army by the clerks, the strict military law, and the clear reward and punishment system. Three points rely on the advanced technology of "early realization", such as the steel frying method, the blast furnace method, the god arm crossbow, the Mo knife, the counterweight stone thrower, as well as the longbow, chain mail, Luo ring armor, etc., and finally calculated their tactical level and other aspects actually accounted for only one point.

After calculating it, Zeng Hua couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, he really wanted to burn incense and make a wish. After ten years of fighting, God is now fighting so dangerously. It seems that this time it is very timely and necessary.

Now that he knew where the gaps and faults were, Zeng Hua began to make improvements.

Zeng Hua now thinks about it carefully, his infantry tactics are quite simple and poor. There are only square arrays forming horizontal or vertical lines, but this is what Zeng Hua decided through thinking.

At the beginning, Zeng Hua was poisoned by Romance, and he always wanted to put up an eight-door golden lock array or a gossip two-ritual array to fight the enemy. The effects of illusion, confusion, and tremendous lethality attached to these formations made Zeng Hua feel excited when he thought about it. However, when Zeng Hua personally commanded the army to conduct actual exercises, he realized that he had made a big mistake.

In that era when there was no "radio communication", it was impossible to ensure that the entire team needed to maintain the extremely consistent formation in the changing terrain and enemy situation, and the battlefield changes rapidly, and timely response is the most important. The change is a little faster, if one part of the formation reacts a little slower, the whole formation will become a pot of porridge.

Zeng Hua

In vain, these formations can indeed train the ability of the whole army during drills, but if they are insisted on being used on the actual battlefield, I am afraid that they will train desperately to let the whole army magically maintain the formation, and the chance of victory is also very low. It is better to let the sergeants train more in other qualities and team subjects.

So Zeng Hua simply proposed in Sun's side. Round. Cone row. Wild goose walking. Hook line. Xuan Xiang. Evacuation formation. On the basis of several formations and eight formations, it "integrated" the Macedonian, Roman phalanxes and later the western horizontal and vertical formations. It has changed slightly, based on a square or circular array, and then compiled into horizontal and longitudinal lines of circular rows, geese rows, and hook rows, and the horizontal and longitudinal lines can be divided into three types: Xuanxiang, sparse, and numbered.

In Zeng Hua's mind, the formation is simple and clear, and the whole army is quick and flexible to deal with. However, it is not a good thing that the tactics are too simple, and it is easy to come up with countermeasures after a few back and forth. It seems that in addition to the simple formation, it is necessary to add "added value". Play more tactically. This depends on the quality of non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers and officers. However, through several years of training and training at the academy. This should be achieved soon.

Zeng Hua suddenly thought of one more point, that is, the configuration of the Beifu Army's infantry army needed to make some changes. The current tactics of the Beifu infantry army are spearmen, sword players, and crossbowmen, which are very similar to the infantry tactics of the Spanish phalanx, which was known as the number one in combat effectiveness in the Middle Ages, and used pikemen, swordsmen, and gunners.

But the Beifu army was too defensive and conservative. There are stone cannons and bed crossbows in the long range, and there are divine arm crossbows and longbows in the medium range, and there are spears in the distance, and there are knife players in the back to support them, as well as Mo knife hands to press the formation. Coupled with the fact that it is very easy to deploy the ground van, this formation is quite sturdy. Whether it's a serial kidnapping horse or a Tiefutu, even if it's the Mongolian cavalry, which is known as the strongest cavalry, you will die as much as you can. It's simply Zeng Hua's favorite Italian football team's steel-and-concrete defense.

The spear held by the spearman in front of the Beifu army formation was nearly four meters long, which was no different from an embroidery pole. In this way, the spearman could do nothing but poke the spear there and wait for the enemy to rush through and die, and such a long spear is not only easy to break, but also difficult to poke the enemy in shaking. The ability to attack is far inferior to the ability to defend.

Zeng Hua decided to change the spear into a spear that was up to one zhang long and two and a half meters long. Turned the spearman into a pikeman. And changes were made to the armor and the organization of the army. Now the combat has been changed to battalion units, and sentinels are units of the troops, that is. There are twenty-seven posts under the jurisdiction of a battalion, and each post is the same class, either a pikeman or a sword player or a crossbowman.

In the battalion phalanx, the pikemen were lined up in dense horizontal formations, each of which consisted of thirty men in front of a sentry and nine columns in depth, totaling three captains of gunners. These pikemen are the barrier and support of the entire phalanx, they wear the heavy armor of the new infantry army, carry the sword at the waist, and hold the spear, standing at the forefront of the phalanx, relying on the strength of the team and the skill of the individual to defend and attack. The heavy armor of the new infantry army was also restructured by Zeng Hua this time, weighing 49 catties, and was strung with 1,260 pieces of iron armor, which was divided into body armor, armor skirt, and armor sleeves.

The body armor is divided into breastplate, dorsal armor, shoulder piece, and flank piece. The cuirass and back armor are made of Beifu's original floor armor, and the plate armor is surrounded by Tieshan Wen armor; The shoulder and flank pieces are made of small pieces of metro fish scale armor. There is also a layer of chain armor netted inside the body armor, and the innermost layer of cotton cloth is lined to prevent abrasion on the body. The armor skirt and sleeves are willow leaf armor with iron clipping, and the neck, shoulders, elbows, knees and other joints are made of iron ring armor to ensure the flexibility of the entire armor.

After testing, a spearman wearing the heavy armor of the infantry army could withstand three arrows within a range of ten meters against the Jin army's infantry bow, which was popular in the Central Plains. In other words, you have to shoot three arrows in a row at the same place in the infantry heavy armor to be able to shoot through, but is it possible in practice? Infantry heavy armor is more effective at resisting slashes, swords and spears. Its worst enemy is the hammer's blow, but the enemy may have been pierced into a sugar gourd by a spear before he could carry the sledgehammer.

Behind is also a squad of sword players, three columns in depth, a total of one team of knife players, followed by six columns of two teams of crossbowmen, and finally three columns of a long team of gunners pressed back. The sword and crossbow bearers wore new standard infantry armor, which was nearly half as light as heavy armor, weighing only thirty pounds. The cuirass and back armor were not plate armor, but all of them were made of large pieces of iron mountain armor, and the shoulder and flank armor were also fish scale armor, the armor skirt and sleeves were shortened, and the iron ring armor was not used at each joint, but the leather armor was replaced, which was more convenient for sword players and crossbowmen to fight.

The final dense formation is about 150 meters wide and 120 meters deep. As soon as the left and right flanks or rear flanks are attacked, the pikemen will immediately line up on the outside of the phalanx to meet the incoming enemy. After this improvement, the battalion phalanx became strong and had great mobility. Then a battalion and a phalanx formed a horizontal and vertical front to advance the operation.

After completing the corresponding equipment and organizational changes, Zeng Hua asked the Bacheng Military Academy to immediately compile the corresponding sergeant manual, non-commissioned officer manual, officer manual, and drill manual. The military system of Beifu will be further perfected and improved. However, Zeng Hua considered that the equipment of the Beifu infantry army was getting more and more, and it was getting heavier and heavier, which would seriously affect the speed of the infantry army's march. Zeng Hua equipped each infantry camp with more carriages and mounts, so that the power of the improved infantry machine did not decrease but increased, anyway, there were too many horses in Mobei and Xiqiang, and after a large purchase, not only did the equipment of the Beifu army improve, but also made the "cooperative economy" benefit of Beifu a step further. It's just that this military spending is looking up. It rose so much that Zeng Hua didn't dare to fight.

It's a matter of cavalry. Zeng Hua discovered through practice. The rate of stabbing the ground with a spear with a spear is far less than that of a slashing with a sword, and as long as the law is obtained, the damage caused by the two is almost the same. Zeng Hua thought about it and felt that this spear had almost no other use in cavalry than being a javelin to gamble on luck. So Zeng Hua divided the spear from the standard configuration of the cavalry to an optional configuration, that is, you can buy it yourself if you want to configure it. The weapons of the Beifu Army were all procured through the bidding system, so driven by competition and making money, Xianyang, Yang, Nanzheng and other arsenals had enough "high-quality spears" for sale.

Zeng Hua also discovered. It is possible to travel thousands of miles on horseback, but this is not as much a nomadic migration, even if you have a horse, because horses are more difficult to serve than people, and you can't run long distances every day, otherwise it will easily be wasted. If you don't spare any horsepower and change horses to travel day and night, you may become an infantry when you reach your destination.

In order to ambush the Yan army in Weichang, he saved the Wei army. Zeng Hua has been preparing for almost three years. I don't know how many materials, grain and grass were gathered, and I don't know how many tricks and how much thought was spent, so I transferred 80,000 cavalry to Jizhou, which is adjacent to Jizhou. Even with such meticulous and thorough preparation, it can only last for a few short days. Zeng Hua was very reluctant to strike at the Yan army at the critical moment when the Yan and Wei armies were at a critical moment. The risk is too great. According to his original idea, he was preparing to carry out multiple rounds of attacks on the Yan army, and then wipe out the Yan army in one fell swoop after exhausting it. However, the reality did not allow him to do this, because there was not enough food and grass, and the mount could not guarantee a long continuous battle.

But fortunately, Ran Min lived up to his expectations and fought hard to beat Yan Jun to three breaths with only one breath left, allowing Zeng Hua to pick up a big bargain. But this kind of cheapness is hard to come by, and you can't always live by it.

Zeng Hua was a little puzzled, he used to hear on the Internet how bullish the Mongolian cavalry was, as if they fought as fast as the horses ran. Now that he thought about it carefully, he analyzed the real marching time through those ignored specific dates, and Zeng Hua found that in fact, they were just making a big migration. However, people were born to do this, so their hands and feet look very nimble, which makes many people have an illusion.

Now the Beifu is still very effective in the cavalry source Mobei and Xiqiang, and through nearly ten years of assimilation, Xiqiang has almost all been integrated, and has been very identified with the Chinese nation and this "country". It seems that the next step is to fight the idea of Mobei people.

After being busy in Bacheng for a while, Zeng Hua returned to Chang'an to preside over the first martial arts competition in Beifu, because it was the first session, the influence was not big enough, but thousands of people gathered together was also very lively.

After the excitement, when Zeng Hua was thinking about how to implement the military rank system, he was pulled to meet Xue Zan and the four of them.

In fact, Xue Zan and Quan Yi wanted to be their own lords, the king of Zhou Donghai, the king of Jizhou, and the Jiantong road to guard Ji County. Zeng Hua knew that the Zhou lord Fu Sheng had become more and more noisy recently, and he was already very unpopular with the people of the Zhou country, and there was a faint tendency to overthrow him. However, Fu Fa, who stayed in Puyang, was prosperous, and his prestige in Henan of the Zhou State became higher and higher.

Originally, those old ministers wanted to unite under Fu Jian's banner, but Fu Jian was sent to Hebei early, and it was a little far away to quench his thirst. Everyone had no choice but to turn to Fu Jian's cousin Fu Fa. This Fa is also a character, quite the talent and style of his father Fu Xiong, after defeating Yao Xiang, who has always been an enemy of the Zhou State, his prestige reached its peak.

And Fu Sheng is also strange, although he is brutal, but he never kills a member of Fu family, I really don't know if he is pretending to be crazy or really crazy. Fa saw that he was getting more and more prosperous, and Fu Sheng didn't care about him, and still played his perverted killing game. But Jian was a little depressed. He was originally Xiong's sister-in-law, and he also inherited the title of King of the East China Sea. But he didn't expect that after leaving the town for a while, his prestige plummeted, and he saw that Fa surpassed him.

;;.Intention, ready to use the power of the Jin room to do great things. And the spokesperson of the Jin family in Jiangbei is Beifu (Huan Wen can only be counted as half, and the strength is not enough), so the whole county of Ji County has sent people to "communicate" with Beifu, hoping to obtain the support of Zeng Hua and Beifu.

Zeng Hua also made it clear that there is support, but if there is not enough interest, Beifu will not make a move, it depends on what you Fu Jian is going to exchange for.

sent Xue Zan and the two away, and Zeng Hua then met with his old acquaintance Jiang Gan and the two.

Jiang Gan and the others didn't have any other intention to come this time, but they just hoped that Zeng Hua would come forward to mediate the dispute between the prince and the prince of Pingyuan within the Wei State. The whole Wei country knows that Wei Lord Ran Min may not listen to anyone's words, but the words of Zeng Zhenbei in Beifu will definitely be taken to heart, maybe it is really as Ran Min said, he and Zeng Zhenbei are heroes and cherish heroes, and they are very close to each other.

Zeng Hua looked at Jiang Gan with an expectant face, knowing that this Shizi faction wanted to use his own hands to suppress the more and more arrogant Plains Gongran Cao.

Zeng Hua was silent for a while, and finally revised a letter in his private name, persuading Ran Min to put stability first, not to let the rivalry between the two sons affect the recovery of the Wei State, and it was best to separate the two of them, so as not to fight when they met.

Jiang Gan happily brought the letter to Ran Min, and after reading it, Ran Min thought so, so he ordered Ran Cao to return to the fiefdom of Pingyuan County to guard it, and not to do anything again. This game seems to have been won by Shizi Ran Zhi.

In the cold wind of the winter of the twelfth year of Yonghe, a voice in the Pingyuan City Mansion secretly said fiercely: "Ran Zhi boy, you think it's great to have Beifu as a backer, and I will also find a backer!" ”