After more than 60 minutes of chickens and dogs, the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion of the lower army finally gathered in front of He Bai. He Bai looked at the soldiers wearing helmets in front of him, and estimated the number of people in his heart, about exactly about 5,000 people. Although it took twice as long as the assembly time of their own private soldiers, they were more equipped and quite elite.

Look at their equipment again, except for the fiery red suit inside. Three thousand of them were clothed in sturdy leather armor, while the other two thousand were clothed in leather armor and covered with black fine iron fish scale armor. He Bai couldn't help but gasp, this armor rate far exceeded that of the former Taiyuan County soldiers, and he was really ashamed to be the most elite army in the country.

Look at their individual equipment, each with a two-meter spear; On the left waist, there is a ring-headed waist knife, a dagger with a slap hip, and a hook-inlaid shield; a foot bow on the right waist and a pot of sharp arrows; A short Ge and a sickle in the back. The leather-clad soldier carried a large rhubarb crossbow and a small one-armed crossbow with ten rounds of arrows on his back. Seeing this, He Bai took another breath of cold air, the average person's equipment is more than sixty catties, and if it is converted into Han catties, it will be twice as heavy.

Each soldier stood a war horse on one side, and the war horses of the ironclad elite soldiers were more than six feet five inches high at the shoulders, and each was draped with fifty pounds of scale armor and horse harness. The horses of the leather-armored soldiers were six feet high at the shoulders and draped with felt harnesses. Each horse has an iron hook on its saddle and a halberd, a riding bow and a pot of arrows. The horses above the rank of marquis were all the best horses with a height of more than seven feet at the shoulder. This equipment is really luxurious.

He Bai found that the soldiers in leather armor and the soldiers in iron armor were staggered, faintly showing the appearance of subordinates, like auxiliary soldiers. The remaining 1,000 soldiers were scattered at the end, and looking at the direction and interval in which they stood, it was as if there was a carriage beside them. That's supposed to be a battle-ready baggage soldier. Maybe because He Bai was in a hurry, he didn't bring the carriage at the same time.

After the five horses panted and climbed the point platform, he knelt down on one knee and bowed: "Report, Lord Captain, the whole army of 5,100 people has been gathered, including 2,000 soldiers, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 1,100 baggage soldiers, all of whom are missing." Please also ask the captain to inspect it. ”

He Bai pointed to the last and asked, "Did the baggage soldiers not drive the carriage?" ”

Wu Sima suddenly sweated profusely, and said: "Captain Qiqi, because since the Xiyuan Army was built, the first army of my army had gone to Runan and had a big battle with the Yellow Turban Thieves, so most of the Wugang cars were damaged, and they have been sent to the Jingshi arsenal for renovation, and they have not been reassigned at this time, so they can't come to gather today......

Wugang car is an infantry armored vehicle specially manufactured by Wei Qing for the expedition to the desert in the Western Han Dynasty. Wugang car length two zhang, width one zhang four, the outside of the car tied to the spear, the inside of the big shield. It can transport soldiers, food, grass, and weapons. It can also be used for combat, and the military chariot used for combat should be covered with cowhide rhino armor, tied with spears, and set up a strong big shield.

Some Wugang cars have shooting holes, and archers can shoot arrows through the shooting holes in the car. When fighting with a Wugang car, several Wugang cars can be chained together to become a strong fortress. I didn't expect the Xiyuan Army to be equipped, which is a good thing.

He Bai hurriedly asked, "How many Wugang cars are there in our army?" ”

Sima Zhao Zhiyu of the Chinese army said: "Our army has a total of 300 Wugang vehicles, and the remaining 800 are all baggage vehicles. ”

He Bai gasped again, three hundred Wugang cars could be laid out in a small temporary castle with a length of two hundred and fifty steps and a circumference of one thousand and five hundred meters. If there are enough arrows, it is almost an impenetrable active fortress. Just like Li Ling in the Western Han Dynasty, 5,000 soldiers plus Wugang Che, even more than 100,000 Hun cavalry could not help him. If it weren't for the fact that the arrows were exhausted and a traitor betrayed, Li Ling would be another champion.

However, although weapons are good, they also need to be used. Anyway, I have never heard of the prestige of the Xiyuan Army in history, and if I think that people can't do it, weapons are not of great use. Later, Dong Zhuojun never heard of how powerful the foot soldiers were, thinking that the impression of the Xiyuan Army on Dong Zhuo was too bad, so all these good weapons in the army were abandoned and ignored. Blinded the elite army that Emperor Ling of Han spent a lot of effort to build.

From Zhao Zhi's mouth, I learned that the Eighth Colonel of the Xiyuan Army, also known as the Eighth Army of the West Garden, each army has 5,100 people, all of whom can fight independently, and together they are a large group army of 40,800 people. The lower army is basically the big forward, the auxiliary army is the secondary forward, the upper army is the central military department, the dian army is the rear army, the left and right auxiliary armies are the left and right reserves, the full-time escort of the middle army, and the left and right armies are the left and right wings.

And each army is divided into five parts, front and back, left and right, each part has five songs, the song is the most basic independent combat unit, each song has two hundred elite soldiers, two hundred auxiliary soldiers, one hundred heavy soldiers. The Central Military Department has an extra 100 baggage soldiers, which happen to be elite baggage soldiers who specialize in driving and arranging Wugang vehicles.

The soldiers and horses of the first army of the Xiyuan Army are only counted as regular soldiers, not as auxiliary soldiers and baggage soldiers, so a school is usually counted as 2,000 people, but in fact there are 5,100 standing men. If it is an expedition, depending on the distance of the journey, it is necessary to levy thousands to 20,000 people, and the maximum number of people can reach 30,000.

He Bai was relatively only a primary school student for ancient warfare. The tactics are okay, the strategy is average, and the weapons science is only afraid that it will be blind. Most of the thieves dealt with before were undisciplined and well-equipped gangsters, rioters and ordinary thieves. Most of the tactics used are taken for granted, and they have never faced the army of the Han Dynasty, let alone the elite army of the Han Dynasty. I used to call myself a good general, but I really don't know what it means to be ashamed.

Looking at the sophisticated equipment in front of you, if you can use them smoothly and command the army to successfully defeat the state and county soldiers of five or six times the enemy, and your own loss is not more than two percent, then you can be regarded as a good general.

He Bai cleaned up his mood and ordered: "The drill begins, let me see what you can do." ”

After the five Sima received the order, they practiced in the martial arts arena in a way that was mainly based on one department. All of a sudden, the flags were fluttering, people were shouting and neighing, the dust was flying, the sound of killing in the martial arts arena shook the sky, and the army staged an offensive and defensive battle of the elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty in front of He Bai.

First of all, the ironclad elite soldiers took the big yellow crossbow, everyone opened the crossbow, and fired it in unison, two thousand sharp arrows flew towards the wooden target in the distance with a sharp whistling sound, and the wooden target three hundred steps away grabbed the sound, and the sawdust flew wildly, all of which were pierced by an arrow. This is followed by the one-arm triggering of the auxiliaries, which serves as a cover for the opening of the rhubarb crossbow. After the three arrows, if there is no good defense capability, it will basically be the end of the total collapse of the whole army.

Then came the exercise of the five soldiers, 5,100 soldiers, in front of He Bai, showing a superb and skillful spear, knife, shield, ge, arrow, dagger, boxing, wrestling and other martial arts skills. Although the baggage soldiers, they are not weaker than the Wu Shichang of the original Taiyuan County soldiers, and the ironclad elite soldiers are comparable to the hundred generals. He Bai was very embarrassed when he saw it, he was not good at so many martial arts.

Finally, there is the cavalry tactics of dancing halberds, archery on horseback, and one-armed crossbows. Although thousands of horses are vertical and horizontal, they are no less than 10,000 foot formations, and the essence of skills is no less than the white horse righteous servants of Beiping. The scene in the field was like a breathtaking look at He Bai, and it was indeed an elite soldier who gathered elite soldiers from all over the country. It's just that the West Park Army is not very famous in history, which is really puzzling.

After the drill was completed, Wu Sima led dozens of soldiers to the stage to meet He Bai, and without waiting for He Bai's praise, the generals knelt down and pleaded guilty: "What the captain said is true, after the invasion of wine, our strength and tenacity have already decreased by as much as thirty percent. It's no longer as tough as when I first became an army last year, and I ask the captain to forgive me. ”

He Bai was stunned, and then looked at the five thousand soldiers on the field, only to see that after the big exercise, all the flags were toppled down, the queue was crooked, and the weak pillars were panting with spears, thinking that it was not like this at the beginning. However, this is already good, and the physical fitness of his own private soldier is only this strength.

This is mainly because the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the army went to Runan County, Yuzhou in October last year to fight, and did not return to Xiyuan again until February this year. The other armies have fallen for seven and a half months, and I am afraid that even fifty percent of the original combat strength is gone. If there is no self-appearance in this world, I am afraid that the entire West Garden Army will be completely destroyed. Now it is good that a battalion of the army can be saved.

Since Zhao Zhi and other generals took the initiative to ask for guilt, they all knew that they were wrong, and of course they had to be more strict as the main generals.

He Bai groaned: "Well, although the combat power has decreased, it is still within my bottom line, and I will spare you this time." It is necessary to know that there is a folk proverb, the fist does not leave the hand, and the song does not leave the mouth. Only by studying hard and practicing hard can we make martial arts proficient and smooth. We are all people who are armed with swords and spears to fight for their lives, and the world is in turmoil, so you will enter the warehouse early with swords and soldiers, and put the horses in Nanshan, which really shouldn't be. If one day you return to the battlefield, with today's ability, how many people will survive? ”

"Although the color of the wine is good, it also needs to be moderate, and if you don't do it too much, you will harm yourself. In addition, military discipline must be re-established, and physical skills must be re-trained. In the future, women were not allowed to be seen in the army, and all of them were driven away from the barracks ten miles away, and they were allowed to have a private meeting with them every five days for a day of rest. However, only half of the soldiers and horses were allowed to rest, and the other half continued to practice and waited for the next day to change and rest. Every three or five days in the future, I will come to the camp to have a look, and if you wait for another retreat, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

The generals were stunned, and they knelt down again to receive orders. He Bai let them go and prepared to return to Beijing. He Bai looked back at the entire West Garden, except for the soldiers and horses of the Eighth School, the other soldiers and horses were afraid that they would not be enough. Only by firmly grasping the military power of the lower army can we gain something in the future chaos.

And Emperor Han Ling has the virtue of nurturing them, and if they want to get their loyalty, they need to wait until after the death of Emperor Han Ling. And he has no kindness to them at present, but it is not good to force himself to govern the army, and he has to have a relationship with them.