Chapter 395: Preparing for the Hunting Ground
"The big war is in late autumn?"
Liu Qingshi, who was sitting on the side, opened his eyes when he heard Li Ming's words, a touch of seriousness flashed in his eyes, and then hurriedly communicated with Li Yang's master Xu Jin, who looked moved, and confirmed with Li Ming that there was nothing to do here for the time being, and hurriedly arranged for someone to pass the message.
"Uncle, remember to remind me by the way."
Li Ming saw the movements of the two, with a smile on his face, and reminded softly that the reason why he chose to tell the two at this time was for this purpose.
The big war is about to start, no matter how the fight is, your family must always be protected first.
"Don't worry, it's indispensable."
Hearing Li Yang's words, Liu Qingshi smiled, then stood up, wrote a secret letter quickly in person, and sent it to his hometown in an urgent manner again.
Fortunately, in the successive letters, both Qingsongguan and the Li family have always been preparing, and even if there is this new letter, it will not be messed up.
Li Yang watched his uncle leave, took a sip of water, his eyes wandered over his four followers, and when he saw that the four of them were all looking at him eagerly, a smile flashed on his face, and he turned to look at the scholar Zhao Xiu.
"Zhao Xiu, you are the only one of us who has been in the barracks, if you want to find someone who knows the soldiers, it is you."
"Tomorrow the emperor will send us to the hunting ground to contact the soldiers and horses, do you have anything to teach us?"
Emperor Daqian said that he would give him 300 soldiers and horses to command the battle, but Li Yang was not sure whether it would be based on his command ability or his ability to control a unit.
He had experience in this area, but not much, and besides, commanding ordinary people in ancient battles and commanding modern warriors were two different things.
However, he knew some of the foundations of commanding soldiers, and there were only two key points among these foundations.
The first point is to set up officers at all levels, from marshals to generals to adjutants, and the smallest officials can even lead dozens or hundreds of people, so that the command of the troops can be simplified to the greatest extent, and the organization can be raised to a very terrifying level.
Whether a general can command the army or not often depends on whether the general can control all officials at all levels.
Of course, he also knew that commanding ancient soldiers was still very simple, and the reason was that ancient soldiers were basically uneducated, and they didn't think about why they were fighting. Most of the soldiers have a herd mentality, and if others go forward, they will move forward, they just know that they can withdraw after the battle, it's that simple.
These command methods are often effective only when the battle is carried out in an orderly manner, and once the war enters a stalemate, both sides are fighting chaotically, and often the orders are not very useful. At this time, there will be a second way, which is to control the troops through sound. In ancient times, there was a very complete set of methods of using sound to transmit military orders.
For example, when it comes to beating the drum, what kind of technique to use to beat the drum, or how many times to beat the drum, there are all clear rules, but they are only simple orders. If you want to retreat, then you can beat the gong, and the so-called Mingjin collection army evolved from here.
In addition, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, a large banner will be set up in the army. The purpose of the flag is to let the soldiers see that their own flag stands, which means that the army is not defeated, and once the military flag falls, the result of the battlefield is self-evident, so there is a saying that the ancient war is to defend the battle flag.
If there is a battle flag, the military spirit will be there, and the troops will have cohesion.
In addition, how to bury the pot to cook, arrange the troops to advance, and how to control so many people to maintain the formation in the war are all a knowledge.
Li Yang knows a little about these, but he doesn't know much, and it is precisely because of the lack of guidance from people like Zhao Xiu who have personally been in and out of the barracks and understand the detailed rules.
"In order to test you this time, the emperor handed over three hundred soldiers to you, I don't know what the purpose is, but no matter what the purpose is, you must first have control over these three hundred soldiers."
"And to control an army, the most important thing to do is to have prestige, only with prestige can you command the army, and how to establish prestige, there is a most convenient way: there are thorns, teach thorns, act with a clear purpose, and strong execution, and do what you say."
Zhao Xiu also knew the importance of this, and hurriedly said everything he thought of along the way: "What I am most afraid of is that the three hundred soldiers are all unknown and do not listen to movements, but generally this situation rarely happens." ”
"The head of the palace is personally appointed by the emperor, and he must have the ability to command the foundation of an army, and if the worst happens, then he must make a move, punish them collectively, severely consume their physical strength, and then give grace after their physical strength is exhausted."
"In addition to that, there are some tricks ......"
Zhao Xiu is worthy of experience, and when he talks about some details of the military camp, it makes people's eyes blaze and he feels reasonable.
Li Ming did not have the slightest conceit, he was always listening to Zhao Xiu's words, while listening, he nodded again and again, and only after Zhao Xiu finished speaking did he pat him on the shoulder and affirmed his words.
"Thanks to Brother Zhao Xiu, this statement is of great use to me."
Li Ming showed a big smile on his face, and then looked at Liu Wu, Liu Zhuang and Wang Guangyun, and the smile on his face was full of smiles: "However, it is not enough to have a strategy, the emperor may also give us an army that directly and completely obeys the order, testing our ability to command the army in battle, we have to practice something today." ”
"Oh? What is it? ”
Hearing Li Yang's words, Liu Zhuang raised his eyebrows and couldn't help asking.
"Cooperative combat capability."
Li Yang smiled, and then a flash of light flashed in his eyes: "Let's go, and go to the courtyard with me." ”
When the four of them heard this, they hurriedly got up and followed him into the courtyard.
"Tomorrow we are going to the hunting ground, and we don't have time to learn if it is too esoteric, so today we will practice the most basic."
Li Yang lifted the spear in his hand and looked at the four followers around him with a glint in his eyes: "How to make a move in one place." ”
"An army, a group of people, if you want to exert the greatest strength, then you must work hard in one place, how to make efforts in one place, there are many things in the middle, but the first point to do, that is, to have a center."
"This center is the goal we are working hard together, let's talk about the simplest me, as the main general on the battlefield, then you have to attack directly in the direction I point to, everything is centered on me."
Li Ming looked at their eyes, and the spear in his hand pointed to a wooden stake in front of him: "Let's start with the most basic practice, and you should remember that the direction in which the spear is pointed means that you will go in which direction, and you will follow me and give it a try." ”
After Li Yang finished speaking, he pointed the spear in his hand, and rushed up with his figure, and several people around him were stunned for a moment, followed by the reaction, and hurriedly followed, but when they arrived at the place, they saw that Li Ming was already looking at them with a smile.
"I didn't pay attention for a while, come again."
Looking at Li Ming's smiling eyes, Wang Guangyun grabbed his sideburns and hurriedly spoke.
"Remember, where my weapon, whether spear or anything else, is pointed, it means that it will be moved."
The corners of Li Ming's mouth smiled, and then the spear in his hand suddenly pointed at a place, and the person had already rushed out with the movement of the gun.
This time, the four people around him were concentrating and performing a little better, but they were still uneven, and Li Ming didn't care, but continued to lead them to continuously train this reaction ability.
Fortunately, among several people, Zhao Xiu, who has the worst martial arts, is also a martial artist who can be a ten, and he is quick-witted, and such a simple cooperation took less than two hours to almost move his body at will, and he can quickly rush wherever the spear in his hand is pointed.
"Okay, let's add another command, in the middle of the sprint, the spear in the hand is raised to stop immediately, no matter what speed and terrain it is, it must stop immediately."
Li Ming smiled, and then added a new instruction, he first let everyone remember the appearance of his spear held high, and then the spear in his hand suddenly pointed in one direction, and the four people who had reacted quickly just now were stunned for half a beat before they followed, and when they saw Li Yang's smiling eyes, their faces turned a little red, and they continued to follow Li Yang to practice various gestures.
Forward, stop, retreat, left, right.
In this way, Li Ming prepared five commands one after another, and spent the whole afternoon with the four of them constantly practicing, training, and running-in.
Not only them, but even the disciples of a kind of Green Pine View were carefully watching their training, silently memorizing these five gestures in the process.
Finally, when it was time for dinner, no matter how suddenly he changed his movements, the five of them could react in time while concentrating.
"With this, it is enough, tomorrow there are three hundred people, Liu Wu, Liu Zhuang, Wang Guangyun, each of you will lead a hundred people, Zhao Xiu will observe the situation with me and quickly make countermeasures, I am the commander, your task is to try your best to lead their respective teams of 100 people to follow my instructions and respond quickly."
At dinner, Li Ming carefully advised, and the four of them nodded cautiously, and after dinner, Li Ming saw this and went back to the house to silently practice the [Qingsong True Qi] internal strength every evening, and began to prepare for rest.
He rested, but Wang Guangyun met again, and carefully summarized the orders during the day, and then slowly went back to practice and went to sleep.
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The royal hunting ground, located in the valley of hundreds of miles outside the imperial capital, covers an extremely vast area.
Emperor hunting is often regarded by many people as a matter of fun, and the name of today's emperor's love of hunting has even affected his majesty to a certain extent.
But only the high-ranking officials of the imperial court knew that it was fake to have fun, and it was real to train troops and fight in it.
Since the founding of the Great Qian Empire, there have only been a few real hunting activities here, and more on weekdays, it is the military exercises between the sergeants here.
Each unit assigned a part of the elite soldiers, stationed in the vast mountains and forests, trained on weekdays, and had to fight once a month, and the winner was rewarded.
In addition to ordinary soldiers, some potential talents in the imperial court will also be sent here to familiarize themselves with the soldiers and horses, understand the battle, so that everyone has a certain ability to lead the troops to fight, not to ask how many heroes and heroes can be produced, there can be more generals who understand soldiers and horses, so that everyone can have basic military judgment, and command ability, and understand what it is like to march and fight.
Of course, on the other hand, there is also the suspicion of deterring other countries.
There are not only the armies and generals of the great cadres in the hunting grounds, but also some people sent by various countries, and every six months, a competition of various countries will be held to show their might, so almost all of them are sent to the field The most elite troops of each country.
Three years ago, the Great Qian Empire had always been a steady leader.
But since three years ago, the Great Qian Empire has been repeatedly defeated in the competition of various countries, and even made a lot of jokes, only a year ago, Wei Qing, a disciple of the Wei family, led the team to a draw, and then was transferred to the palace to protect the emperor's safety, so that the following year was repeatedly defeated.
A wise officer on the battlefield was transferred to be a guard, which made people wonder at the same time, and also made many countries think that this was a cowardly move by the emperor of Daqian who was afraid of death.
Among them, the increasingly heavy raids of the Xiongnu are the most jumping.
Only a small part of the people and those soldiers who participated in the war knew that the most elite army of the Great Cadres had been sent in the past three years, but ...... The weakest army in the hunting grounds, and the great cadres who have only been familiar with the army for less than twenty days.
And Wei Qing of the Wei family, only on some occasions when he needs to come forward, will he be transferred back to the emperor's side as a 'guard', and almost all of them are in the hunting ground on weekdays, honing their skills and training the army under the guidance of some old generals.
The gate of the hunting ground was always open, and some soldiers on duty were paying serious attention to every movement, and today the emperor was present, and every place looked solemn and cold.
An officer had been waiting for a long time to welcome the new general, who was going to lead the soldiers at the bottom to participate in the Tournament of Nations, had been waiting for a long time.
However, when he saw the head of the court coming with four followers, he couldn't help but be stunned.
In the past, the people who were transferred here to participate in the training were all people who did not have any big names, just like Wei Qing, a disciple of the Wei family, became the first master of the younger generation in Beijing, which was only limited to the family of military generals in Beijing and a small number of top circles, and the reputation was already the loudest.
Each of the others was brought here for training in a low-key manner after discovering the talent of the generals, and then led the weakest troops to face the armies of the nations, so that they could have a clear understanding of the soldiers and horses of these countries, and none of them had ever been publicized, because in this case, the purpose of the newcomers to fool the nations would not be achieved.
However, today, what does it mean that the head of the palace, who has already been famous all over the world, came over?
The officer even wondered if he had guessed wrong, until Li Ming walked up to him.
"Dare to ask, but from here to enter the hunting ground?"
(End of chapter)