Chapter 565: Training of the Tang Army
Ordinary days always pass so slowly, this is already the fifth day, Su Dingfang led the army to continue training outside the city, attracting many ordinary people of Gaochangguo to watch, they have never seen this kind of training.
In their impression, if they want to kill the enemy, then the ability to fight immediately must be strong, but they have been here for three days, and the Tang army seems to have never trained to fight immediately, and we have never seen the way they train.
The first training is the installation and movement of ballistas, and now the Tang army has entered a new level, they have long been out of the previous scene of swords and soldiers, and many wars are even over without the two sides meeting, which is all the credit of artillery.
Many ordinary people in Gaochangguo were watching from a distance, they didn't understand what these Tang soldiers were doing, they took so many ballistas and installed them, loaded and dismantled, and then put them on the carriage and ran into the distance, couldn't they use up all their strength?
Lord Zhao has been watching these days, although he is the minister of the Tang Dynasty, but he doesn't know much about the army of the Tang Dynasty, and after watching it for the past few days, it is basically clear that Su Dingfang is training the speed of these artillery.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is impossible for you to open fire in one place all the time, so when you receive orders from above, you must be able to switch artillery positions as quickly as possible.
The second is grenade throwing, veterans are very clear, can throw the farthest with the least force, and even control where to throw, but for recruits there is no such ability, there are 800 recruits in the team from Chang'an City, so this training project is mainly done by them.
The objects used in the training are also specially made to weigh about the same as real grenades, so that the real throwing distance can be simulated.
Of course, there will also be live-fire training, and every three days, the troops will come to live-fire training, which is also what Li Xiang demanded; if all the training objects are used, they will not be able to smell the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, and it is very likely that the soldiers will not be able to experience that kind of situation, and only by letting them smell the smell of gunpowder on the battlefield will they know that they are not far from the battlefield.
When the live-fire training was carried out, the people and ministers of Gao Changguo were dumbfounded, how could it be that it was a thing the size of a brick, how could it have such a big explosion power? And there is so much black smoke, if we fight our army, it only takes five or six hundred of these things, and maybe we can reimburse thousands of cavalry.
Su Dingfang didn't care about their experience, this is also a way to promote the prestige of our country, Wadahan and the border soldiers have seen it a long time ago, but the people here have never seen it, so Su Dingfang doesn't mind playing it for them again.
When the ballista was fired, the officials here all came out, and the Datang army could attack targets several miles away very accurately, and it was a multi-frequency attack, and they had a scene in their hearts, if our tens of thousands of cavalry attacked the Datang barracks, according to their two attack methods, it is estimated that our people have not touched the door of the camp, and half of them will die.
After the ministers of Gao Changguo saw this scene, they also had other thoughts in their hearts, if the people of the Tang Dynasty proposed to station soldiers again, could we still refuse like that? If we anger them, don't look at these people with smiles on their faces, they all say that people in Datang turn their faces faster than they turn books.
The king of Gaochang is the most scared in his heart, he is a person who has little ability, when he saw the training of the Tang army on the city gate tower, this guy's left hand began to tremble with fright, if he didn't pull his cuffs to death, it is estimated that he would be able to let others see.
How capable the Tang Celestial Empire is, I used to listen to what others said, and today I finally saw the facts, so for these people, they have to reconsider the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, especially in terms of words, they must not come by their own temperament as before, don't look at the only five thousand troops here, if you really attack the capital, it will be the same as what Wadahan said, at most it will be half a month.
After returning to the palace, the high-level officials of Gao Changguo were still thinking about the scene just now, many people's souls had not yet returned to this body, and they were still thinking about the explosion outside the city, and they all began to think about themselves, fortunately, this explosion has nothing to do with us now, no wonder Xue Yantuo will be destroyed.
If Datang uses such a weapon to attack us, let alone our small Gaochang country, what can we do even if it is a dozen countries in the Western Regions? I'm afraid that I will have to be swept away by Datang at that time.
"Hasn't General Zhenguo sent a letter yet?"
The king of Gaochang Kingdom slapped the table, and then everyone put their souls on their bodies, and the explosion just now scared their souls away, and now they are thinking about how to have a good relationship with the envoy of the Tang Dynasty.
"If you go back to the king, no."
One of the generals below said honestly, it has been out for half a month, and even the whereabouts of the other party have not been found, Xue Yantuo's people seem to have disappeared in the past few days, and they no longer rob other tribes, because when they rob other tribes, their whereabouts will inevitably be exposed, and they also know that Gao Changguo is going to exterminate them, and they don't know which corner they have hidden in the past few days.
"Where is General Zhenguo?"
The king of Gaochang Kingdom was a little irritable, he looked at where his soldiers and horses were, and thought that he could command by remote control and kill Xue Yantuo's people as soon as possible, so that the army could come back as soon as possible, and he could also comfort himself a little.
"Why is it moving so slowly?"
When his subordinates marked the location on the map, His Royal Highness the King was immediately dissatisfied, now it was only three hundred and fifty miles away from the capital, didn't they search for it in the past few days? You must know that the army of Gaochangguo is different from that of the Tang Dynasty, they are all cavalry, and they can travel at least hundreds of miles every day.
This is the advantage of nomads, even if the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are equipped with war horses, if they do not have special training, they will not be able to go so fast, nomads are born and raised on horseback, so they can do everything on horseback, the speed of travel should not be so slow, there is only one reason why it is so slow now, General Zhenguo is afraid of death......