Qian Song

Chapter 34 Reorganizing and Supervising the Army

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More than 2 soldiers from the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army took turns to attack the remaining three villages. After nearly a month of fighting, they only took down two villages after paying a lot of casualties. The remaining Hanjiazhuang, No matter how hard they fought, they couldn't beat them down.

Now that the Zhao and Song courts had already sent [-] forbidden troops to attack Qingxi, it was impossible for Li Cun to continue to use Hanjiazhuang to gain experience for the soldiers of the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army.

Therefore, Li Cun ordered that four ten-foot-high arrow towers be built 150 meters away from Hanjiazhuang, using straw ropes and bamboo poles to build scaffolds for later generations.

For Li Cun, who now has [-] to [-] military dependents and many military craftsmen, this kind of small work can be easily done in half a day.

After the arrow towers were built, Li Cun ordered people to move the four bed crossbows to the four arrow towers respectively.

At the same time, Li Cun asked Sun He, the leader of his own soldiers, and Su Dong, whom Zhang Shi strongly recommended to Li Cun, to lead 100 troops each to prepare for the attack on the village.

As soon as the battle started, Li Cun personally commanded the four bed crossbows to shoot Jackdaw Arrows rhythmically and uninterruptedly into the Han Family Village.

The bed crossbow is condescending and can release dozens of arrows at a time.

The man standing on the wall was so crushed that he couldn't even raise his head.

Some people may wonder why the people in the Han family village don't fight back with bows and crossbows?Don't they have bows and crossbows?

On the contrary, there are not only bows and crossbows in Hanjiazhuang, but also a lot of them. The key point is that this village also has a large number of archers with superb archery skills.

It is precisely because of this that the soldiers of the Huben Army and the Fang Baihua Army were unable to attack Hanjiazhuang for a long time, and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing this, some people may be thinking, then the people in the Han family village should fight back with bows and arrows!

In fact, it's not that the people in Hanjiazhuang don't want to, but they simply can't do it.

The effective range of the bow and arrow is within 120 meters. When it reaches 150 meters, the bow and arrow are already powerless. Besides, the arrow tower built by Li Cun is more than ten meters higher than Hanjiazhuang. Soldiers must shoot on their backs, which will undoubtedly make the range of bows and arrows closer.

On the other hand, the bed crossbows have a maximum range of 150 steps, and they are still condescending at a place [-] meters away from Hanjiazhuang. The four bed crossbows can almost cover half of Hanjiazhuang.

In this case, Hanjiazhuang is naturally how Li Cun wants to fight.

There is no suspense in the ending.

Under the suppression of the firepower of the bed crossbow, Sun He led a hundred soldiers of the Huben army, charged up the city wall in one charge, and then easily opened the village gate under the cover of the bed crossbow.

Seeing this, Su Dong immediately led a hundred soldiers of the Huben Army into Han's Village.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the people in the Han family village had no choice but to surrender one after another.

Adding up the front and back, in just one hour, Li Cun took down Hanjiazhuang, which more than 2 Huben soldiers could not take down in a month.

The point is, under Li Cun's command, the soldiers of the Huben Army only injured less than five people, and the only one who died was himself who accidentally fell off the ladder and hit his head on a rock.

Seeing this scene, the generals of Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army who finally understood a little bit about fighting because of their experience for a month realized how huge the gap between them and Li Cun was.

It is not an exaggeration to say that even Niu Meng, who has the best record, is far from worthy of Li Cun's shoes in terms of his ability to command troops.

Li Cun did not take this opportunity to attack the prestige of the generals of the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army, but directly ordered that all the men who participated in the resistance in Hanjiazhuang be executed, and the women were rewarded to the meritorious soldiers. reorganization.

(During this process, there was a small episode. Su Dong actually found Li Cun and pleaded for Han Bie, the coach of Hanjiazhuang, and the dozens of crossbowmen taught by Han Bie. The reason was that they were all rare talents. pity.

Li Cun considered that the Huben army really lacked long-range attack means, and heard that Han Bie could even make the famous god arm bow, so he pardoned Han Bie and others and their relatives. )
In fact, Li Cun had finished the reorganization a long time ago, and the Huben Army had already trained and fought with the reorganized new establishment.

However, there are still some high-ranking generals that Li Cun has not yet appointed, for example, the commanders of the established Huben Left Army and Huben Right Army, who will succeed Niu Meng as the leader of the Huben Horse Army, etc...

This is also the reason why a group of ambitious generals from the Huben Army and Fang Baihua Army have been working hard to attack these Zhuangzis.

Unfortunately, all the generals failed Li Cun's test!

It can be said that Li Cun has given everyone a fair chance, but no one can live up to it.

There is no way, Li Cun can only watch the appointment by himself.

Li Cun did not engage in any complicated appointment ceremony, but directly announced the appointment in public early the next morning:
"I appointed Sun He as the acting leader of the Huben Zuo Army."

"I appointed Su Dong as the acting leader of the Huben Right Army."

"I appointed Niu Wei as the acting leader of the Tiger Benma Army."

"..."

To be honest, many people are actually dissatisfied with the appointment of Sun He, Su Dong and Niu Wei as acting leaders.

After all, these three people did not have the real combat exploits like Niu Meng and Zhao Han'er. As for breaking the Han Family Village in the end, anyone can see that under the command of Li Cun, anyone who goes there will definitely be able to take down the Han Family Village. Su Dong had nothing to do with him at all, and as for Niu Wei, he deserved even less credit. Many people even suspected that if Niu Wei hadn't been for Niu Meng's own younger brother, he definitely wouldn't have gotten this high position.

But then again, Sun He, Su Dong and Niu Wei are not worthy, but who is worthy?

It is because everyone is unworthy that Li Cuncai employs people as relatives, not because Li Cun does not know the rewards and punishments and employs people unfairly.

The point is, there must be someone sitting in these seats, right?Would it be necessary for Li Cun to personally command the battalion-level or even company-level generals?

Therefore, although some people think that Sun He, Su Dong, and Niu Wei are not worthy of contemporary leaders, no one complains about Li Cun.

In addition, Niu Meng is the leader of Huben's front army, Zhao Han'er is the leader of Huben's middle army, and Fang Baihua is the commander of Huben army and the commander of Huben's rear army.

All the senior generals of the Huben Army were born.

As for Li Cun's new commanders, Kong Lengzi and Zhang Goudan served as the former commander and the latter deputy.

And Li Cun's personal soldiers are still all served by the best soldiers in the Huben Army, and this is also the birthplace of the generals of the Huben Army.

Surprisingly, Li Cun appointed Zhang Shi as the capital supervisor of the Huben Army. At the same time, he appointed a large number of wounded, especially those who were disabled due to the war, as the supervisors of each army. That is to say, there must be at least one supervising army for every hundred people, and the level and treatment of these supervising troops are the same as those of their commander-in-chief, and Li Cun also specifically emphasized that the troops in wartime are managed by the commander-in-chief. Wartime troops are managed by the supervising army. To put it simply, the general in charge of the army manages the battle, and the supervising army manages life.

In fact, this matter has already had signs.

In the past month or so, all the people appointed as the supervisor of the army, including Zhang Shi, have been learning from Li Cun—no matter how busy Li Cun is usually, he will definitely spare two hours a day for Zhang Shi. These supervisors are in class.

Previously, others did not know the intention of Li Cun's move, and the answer was not revealed until now.

For this, the generals who commanded the troops were naturally a little bored.

But Li Cun has always said one thing, no one can shake Li Cun's absolute dominance.

Furthermore, it is inevitable that the well will be broken, and the general will inevitably die in battle. They all fought hard on the battlefield. Who can guarantee that they will never be injured or disabled?And when that day comes, I also hope that not only will I not be abandoned, but I will be reused.

Therefore, although some generals in charge of the army complained about Li Cun's appointment of individuals to distribute their power, no one questioned Li Cun's appointment.

After the reorganization of the troops was completed, Li Cun ordered the distribution of military equipment and brand new weapons.

Military equipment, that is, military uniforms, military shoes, military quilts, etc. with uniform styles.

The weapons are mainly the weapons used by the mandarin duck formation, supplemented by spears (this spear is no longer a four-meter and six-meter-long spear, but a standard-length spear).

In fact, the reason why Li Cun created the Macedonian phalanx at the beginning was mainly to train the obedience of the soldiers of the Huben Army. It was not really to move this old western battle formation with many problems to the East to embarrass people.

But then again, although the Macedonian phalanx has many problems, it cannot be denied that it can still play a key role in some special battlefields, at least it is one of the few types that can fight against cavalry Infantry formation.

Moreover, the Macedonian phalanx, especially the Macedonian phalanx that only needs long guns, is cheap and easy to build, and it can train soldiers' obedience well.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Li Cun still reserved a Macedonian camp for each army.

As for the other battalions, they are mainly infantry battalions mixed with mandarin duck formations and pikemen.

In addition, Li Cun specially set up a very special battalion - the car camp.

In his last life, Li Cun visited the Jiaodong Party Spirit Education Base.

There, Li Cun specially studied the chariot invented by Qi Jiguang.

This kind of chariot is five feet long and weighs six hundred catties. It has both offensive and defensive capabilities, similar to the armored vehicles of later generations.

The staff of that vehicle read a lot of ancient books, consulted many experts, comprehensively considered the functions of the tank in actual combat, and finally demonstrated the specific proportions and dimensions. There is a record next to the restored tank. Qi Jiguang once used that kind of tank The Mongolian iron cavalry, which far outnumbered its troops, was defeated.

Therefore, based on the chariot invented by Qi Jiguang and his own insights ahead of the times, Li Cun found skilled craftsmen to manufacture [-] chariots, and then distributed them among the armies so that each army could form a chariot. car camp.

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When the Huben army completed the final reorganization and re-equipment, Fang La and others also knew that Cai Zun and Yan Tan were leading their troops towards Qingxi.

——The people who resented Zhao Song along the way had tried their best to report the situation of the Song army to the rebel army, and finally passed it to Fang La.

Therefore, although the news of Fang La's group was slower than Li Cun's, they still knew the details of the Song Army who was marching towards Qingxi swaggeringly.

Fang La gathered his generals and officials together and asked, "How should I respond when the Song army comes to attack?"

After a pause, Fang La asked again: "How should I deal with Li Cun?"

Hearing this, Bao Kang said: "We should work together to defeat the Song army, show the power of our righteous army, and show the world."

Fang La heard the words, and looked at Fang Wu noncommittally.

Fang Wu immediately understood and said: "Today I have [-] main troops and [-] auxiliary troops, and the enemy only has [-], which is twenty times the enemy. Why do I need foreign aid?"

At the beginning of Fang Wu, Fang La's direct descendants said that they could repel Cai Zun and Yan Tan's crusade without the help of the Huben army in this battle.

Even Fang Fei said: "His Huben army has conquered twelve villages and is sitting on the grain mountain treasury. If our Yongle army does not cheer up the army, defeat the incoming enemy, and capture the county, who in the world will know that our Yongle dynasty is orthodox?"

Bao Kang actually understood Fang La and others' propositions very well.

You know, the members of the Fang Layi Army are almost jealous of the members of the Huben Army!
——The Huben army has a good meal, and they still have money to take, and they also share women. I can't go on anymore.

In fact, quite a few members of the Fang Layi Army have recently joined the Huben Army.

If things go on like this, Fang Layi's army may be astigmatized.

Therefore, Fang La needs a hearty victory, a victory that belongs only to Fang La, to stabilize the morale of the army.

In the end, even Wang Gong and Old Buddha said: "To kill these five thousand monsters, my army is enough."

Seeing this, Bao Kang could only give up his idea and agreed that Fang Layi's army would go alone to face the [-] Zhao-Song Forbidden Army led by Cai Zun and Yan Tan...

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(End of this chapter)