Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 67 Qi Jin's Training
"Furious, leaning on the railing! Xiaoxiao Yuxie..."

In the early morning of October [-]th, the first year of Taichang, the military songs of thousands of people rang out loudly, and the wind and snow stopped on this day.

Tens of thousands of people are training on the Yanshan Daying school field.

On the high platform of the school field, Qi Jin and Zhu Youjian sat in high positions, while the three guards of Habayashi and the left guard of Tengxiang were training under the guidance of Zhejiang soldiers.

Four thousand people train eleven thousand people, the speed is not bad.

However, within three days, the three guards of Habayashi and the left guard of Tengxiang had begun to take shape. Compared with three days ago, it could not be said that one was in the sky and the other was underground, but they had changed greatly.

All of the [-]-strong Ming army put on brand-new mandarin duck warwolves. In order to adapt to the weather in Liaodong in advance, the Zhejiang soldiers wore cotton armor, chain mail, cloth face armor, and gauntlets on the outside. .

Compared with Zhejiang soldiers, Habayashi Sanwei and Tengxiang Zuowei are different.

As the imperial guards, Habayashi Sanwei is dressed in fish-scale armor, gauntlets on both hands, and a phoenix-winged helmet on his head, which looks very mighty.

In order to make the army uniform, Zhu Youjian asked Tengxiang Zuowei to also put on fish scale armor.

Wearing cotton clothes inside, fish scale armor on the outside, holding a spear and a gourd hammer, it looks very intimidating, but the weight is also equal.

It is very uncomfortable to wear nearly [-] kilograms of equipment on the body. Not to mention the slow movement, you will start to pant after running hundreds of meters. It is really difficult for this group of "recruiters".

Zhu Youjian originally wanted to ask Tengxiang Zuowei to change the armor. After all, the armor is heavy and it is a real heavy armor.

But after thinking about it, he still didn't think it was necessary.

As far as the physical strength of these recruits is concerned, they can't move even with armor, so it's better to wear the lighter fish scale armor first.

On the battlefield, the fish scale armor was replaced by a triple armor of chain mail, cotton armor and cloth face armor.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, Nurhachi's Baijia Balaya is an elite infantry who wears chain mail inside, cotton armor in the middle, and cloth face armor on the outside, and carries seventy catties of heavy armor.

In Zhu Youjian's mind, it is impossible for him to require everyone to wear seventy catties of heavy armor, but at least sixty catties must be required.

In addition, according to the time, Mangui should arrive at Yanshan Daying tomorrow, but it is estimated that he will be a little dumbfounded when he arrives.

At present, there are only more than [-] people in the Royal Horse Supervisor with an establishment of more than [-], and they were all assigned to Tengxiang Zuowei by Zhu Youjian to Sun Yingyuan. It can be said that there are no soldiers belonging to Mangui.

But Zhu Youjian is not worried, as long as he publishes the list, there will be a steady stream of people from all over the world to join the army.

Fifteen taels a year, this military salary can be said to be three taels higher than that of the frontier army, and ordinary farmers in Daming have three acres of land. Not to mention having three acres of land, he is already considered a rich peasant.

Most of them in Ming Dynasty were poor people who could only be tenants who were exploited by gentry, small and medium landlords, and vassal kings.

With this kind of military salary, as long as you work for one year, it is equivalent to being a tenant for ten years. As long as you let the word out, some people want to be.

"Your Highness, Sun Yingyuan is a mighty fighter."

While Zhu Youjian was thinking, Qi Jin suddenly praised Sun Yingyuan, and when Zhu Youjian looked, he saw Sun Yingyuan wearing a mountain armor, patrolling with a big gun.

"Why do you know?" Zhu Youjian asked curiously, not seeing any tricks.

"This man is tall and strong. Your Highness looked carefully. His armor is bloated, which means that there is another layer of armor in the Shanwen armor." Qi Jin explained:

"He was wearing two layers of armor, but he practiced with the army for two hours and never sat down."

"Not to mention anything else, this endurance alone is enough to be a vanguard general."

"But I heard that the very elite dead soldiers in Houjin and Baijia Balaya can fight fiercely for several hours wearing triple armor. Is it fake?" Zhu Youjian asked curiously, Qi Jin could only smile and said:
"Jianlu's triple armor and Beilu's triple armor are often layered with cotton armor, chain mail, and cloth face armor."

"With this set up, the weight is about [-] jin, and the so-called fierce battle..."

"The last general has read the pond newspaper of the Ministry of War. The dead soldiers of Jianlu often act as vanguards to tear open the gap in our army, and then lead the subsequent Jianlu army in to disrupt the formation."

"After that, it will never be mentioned."

"Thus, judging from the future, the dead soldiers of Jianlu will only go into battle for a quarter of an hour at most."

Having said that, he pointed to Sun Yingyuan and said:
"Shan Wen armor weighs thirty catties, and the armor that Commander Sun wears inside must be fish scale or cloth face armor, otherwise it would not be so bloated."

"In this way, including the weapon, the whole body is nearly [-] catties of weapons, but walking in the courtyard for two hours, isn't this kind of endurance rare?"

Qi Jin stroked his beard with a smile, and at the same time, Yang Lian, who was wearing a blue official robe, also entered the school grounds.

As soon as Qi Jin saw Yang Lian coming, he didn't speak again, and Yang Lian ignored Qi Jin and sat on Zhu Youjian's left chair.

Yang Lian is very disdainful of the relationship between Qi Jin and Zhu Youjian. Perhaps in his opinion, it is really not good for a general to be so close to the prince.

Therefore, he did not go to welcome Qi Jin three days ago, and stayed in his room these few days.

If they go out of the camp, they must go to Qingling to pay homage to Ming Guangzong Zhu Changluo.

As soon as he came, Zhu Youjian and Qi Jin stopped talking about training, but began to discuss various points of marching and fighting.

As a student, Zhu Youjian took the lead in asking:
"Old general, I have watched you command the army out of the camp these few days. It seems that each command has different requirements. Why?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian questioning soldiers and horses again, Qi Jin explained:
"The marching order of the army is very important. It's normal for His Highness not to understand, because ordinary military books don't say this."

"As far as my Ming Dynasty is concerned, a complete army must have five troops: the forward, the left, the right, the middle army, and the rear army."

"Five teams, if calculated as a battalion of [-] people, it is also [-] people."

"It is a technical job to direct so many people out of the camp, and this technical job cannot be rushed."

Having said that, Qi Jin began to preach according to the procedure:

"Taking the example of His Majesty's horse inspector, if the organization is sound, then when camping outside for battle, the first ones to leave the camp must be the cavalry."

"Why?" Zhu Youjian asked knowingly, wanting to see if Qi Jin could come up with any tricks.

Qi Jin explained: "This is because the cavalry is fast. After they leave the camp, they can quickly advance to a place two or three miles away from the camp, then stop standing still, and start guarding after setting up the formation."

"Under their vigilance, the infantry units went out of the camp in sequence according to their position and direction, and formed a guard on all sides at a distance of [-] steps from the camp."

"After the infantry leave the camp, the supply team will finally leave the camp."

"At this time, all the troops are out of the camp, and the order must be changed."

"The infantry retreated and passed the cavalry and walked in the front, and then the cavalry escort led the baggage team and marched at a distance of two miles from the infantry."

"If it snows heavily, the cavalry will step on the snow to clear the way, and the infantry will follow behind."

"According to what the general said about the front, rear, left, right, and middle organization, when marching, march in this direction."

"The vanguard is the first, the right army is next, the middle army is the center, the left army is next, and the rear army is the last."

"If you encounter a three-way intersection during the march, the whole army will stop immediately and send rangers to look out from a high place."

"If you encounter dense forests and valleys, you must first send Tangqi to search and investigate in the depths, and then march if there is no abnormality."

"To be on the safe side, the chief general will also set up secret codes for each department, so as to identify the main and guest soldiers when they don't know each other, and to avoid the enemy's camouflage."

Speaking of this, Qi Jin stopped explaining, and Zhu Youjian also nodded, and after thinking about it, he said:

"My Ming army has rarely engaged in expeditions in recent years, so I would like to ask, if it is an expedition, how should the luggage be allocated?"

(End of this chapter)