Overlord!

Chapter 23 Yanzhao Heroes

After talking about the money, Lu Fan continued: "The other item is quite a lot. There are more than 3000 bolts of cloth and silk in the camp. There are even more than ten bolts of brocade."

Sun Ce frowned slightly, but was not delighted by the large amount of cloth.

Because of the appearance of so much cloth, the reason is very sad.It was caused by the collapse of the monetary system, and coins were not good enough, so the trade of all parties used cloth as the unit.

And the interpretation of brocade is "brocade, gold, it is hard to make, and its price is like gold."

At least until the Tang Dynasty, cloth and silk were long-term circulation currency among the people.Cao Wei even gave up struggling directly. He didn't even mint currency, and completely used cloth as the currency.

Sun Ce is still a bit ideal, he can't accept the transactions of the people under his rule, they all carry the cloth boldly, and then negotiate the price on the spot.

So he said: "Distribute all the cloth and silk, and make uniform uniforms and robes for the soldiers. If there are not enough tailors, let Shao Zhuo recruit women from Liyang."

Lu Fan hesitated for a moment, then said: "Earlier, Hui Shijun forced women to marry officials. There were complaints among the people, and those who had brides in their families hid all day long and did not dare to show their faces. If women are recruited again, there may be a civil uprising."

Sun Ce looked at Lu Fan with a solemn expression, and said, "Don't worry, Ziheng underestimated the patience of the people."

Not to mention ordinary people, even aristocratic families and powerful people are extremely powerless in the face of the army.

The Cao family loves wives, Cao Pi and Cao Rui have all engaged in the forced recruitment of women and remarried to others.Moreover, it is regarded as a national policy and promoted every year.The aristocratic family under the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng system, wives and children separated, father and daughter husband and wife, crying on the road, dare not resist, let alone ordinary people.

As long as they can survive, the people still have a choice, and they will not take the road of rebellion and uprising.

Afterwards, Sun Ce said with a relaxed smile, "Furthermore, conscripting corvee is something that the government has always done. We don't bully the common people and forcefully pull women. Allow them to voluntarily sew robes for the army, so that they will be exempted from household registration in the next year." Endowment. Presumably someone will actively apply for it.”

Household tax is poll tax.

The big man has always paid more attention to taxes than taxes.Land tax is [-] tax one, even [-] tax one.It seems that the burden on the people is extremely light.However, in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, taxes were notoriously heavy. People starved and died everywhere, and drowning infants was common, so that there was a folk proverb that "the Wei River does not wash the mouth and pays."The root cause is that Ding Fu is too heavy.

Now, as long as we sew robes for the army, the whole family can be exempted from all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes from the elderly in their sixties to the infants.

This is easier than any corvée.

Lu Fan thought for a while and said: "This is undoubtedly a good government. But the key lies in how to win the trust of the people and how to supervise the small officials who are harsh and good at paying taxes."

Sun Ce stood with his hands behind his back, and said calmly, "We only need to pay attention to these issues. With so many heroes under my command, isn't there a single virtuous official who can share my worries?"

All these specific administrative measures can be solved by a capable minister serving as the county magistrate.After all, Liyang is only a county with only a few ten thousand households. A wise county magistrate who is proficient in affairs can make the politics clear and the territory peaceful.

Sun Ce felt that Shao Zhuo should be able to take on this role.He was indeed a little weak in courage, but his ability to be tactful enough to discourage Sun Ce, and even develop a deformed and prosperous business in the midst of chaos, is undeniable.

Lu Fan said: "Then I will ask the soldiers to move all the cloth and silk to the county government. Lord Shao is making a plan to count the number of young and strong men and women in the county. It is convenient to recruit corvees and sew robes together."

"Another item, the army now has 320 pairs of leather armor, 27 seven pairs of iron armor, and [-] pairs of black armor. It needs to be distributed as soon as possible to form a combat force. Who does Bo Fu want to distribute to?"

The iron armor is the two crotch armor, which means two blocks, and is draped on the front and back of the body to protect the chest and back. It is a relatively common type of armor in the military today.

In this era, armor is one of the core components of an army's combat effectiveness.

Regarding how to distribute these armors, Sun Ce thought for a while and said: "Gather all the black armors and distribute them to the knights to form a black armored cavalry that can decide the battlefield with one blow."

"The iron armor is divided into three parts, one hundred for Cheng Gong, one hundred for Jiang Qin, and one hundred for Xu Kun."

It is impossible to separate the iron armor, that is to disperse the combat power.

So getting the Iron Armor may not be something worth celebrating.Because this determines that they will become the mainstay of the army.When defending, wherever the battle is most anxious, they will push there.When attacking, they must act as daredevils, be sharp for the whole army, storm the enemy's phalanx, and open up the situation for the war.

Of course, this also represents Sun Ce's trust.These three are undoubtedly Sun Ce's most important generals at the moment. Cheng Pu has powerful generals like Huang Gai and Han Dang under his command.Under Jiang Qin's command is Sun Ce's most important infantry general, Zhou Tai.When Sun Ce attacked Jiangdong, he was pointed at him. He was arrogant, persuaded the soldiers to break the front, and thus opened up the situation.

As for Xu Kun, he was under Sun Ce's command, and he was second only to Sun Ce in bravery and skill.

No matter who among the three of them defeats their opponents, they will make their own side form a sweeping momentum.

In the end, the leather armors were evenly distributed to Cheng Pu, Sun He, Jiang Qin, Zheng Bao, and Xu Kun, each with [-] pairs of leather armors, which was enough to form a phalanx of veterans in the front row.

Lu Fan continued to introduce: "There are more swords and halberds in the army. There are tens of thousands of them. In addition, there are more than five hundred oar shields and rattan plates."

Sun Ce paid more attention to this, and said: "Except for the supplementary swords and halberds for the old elite, the rest of the halberds, spears, oar shields, and rattan shields are not to be distributed. Released by the team."

Lu Fan heard Chen Wu talk about Sun Ce's formation of mandarin ducks, and he also remembered the sentence: "For a general who doesn't know the formation of mandarin ducks, it's useless to read military books."

But he really didn't remember which military book recorded this formation, so he asked: "General, this mandarin duck formation doesn't seem to be a common horizontal or sparse formation in the army?"

Sun Ce nodded, and said firmly: "Mandarin duck formation is indeed not an ancient method of the sages. But the art of war has been developed for thousands of years, and future generations should reform the old traditions and improve the art of war. The mandarin duck formation should be one of the evolutions of the sparse formation, especially suitable for the terrain of Jiangdong. It's confident."

Lu Fan raised his head, and under the sun at this moment, Sun Ce was full of heroism and full of confidence.As the commander-in-chief of an army, this calmness and confidence give everyone strong confidence.

Lu Fan couldn't help laughing, maybe this is Sun Lang's unique talent.

Needless to say, it is convincing to believe its claims.

Referring to the terrain in the south, Lu Fan said: "The formation of mandarin ducks is suitable for the terrain with many mountains and rivers in the east of the Yangtze River. How should the knights be arranged? There are now 73 qualified war horses in the army, and more than a hundred pack horses."

Sun Ce laughed and asked, "Ziheng has suddenly become rich. I don't know how to spend it? There are only dozens of war horses. In the future, we will have thousands of war horses, ten thousand war horses!"

Sun Ce was sure that after defeating Liu Yao, he could get more than [-] men and a thousand horses just by recruiting soldiers.

Therefore, regarding the arrangement of only a few dozen war horses, Sun Ce was very calm, and said: "All qualified knights will be equipped with two war horses to take turns in battle. Rangers will be equipped with two pack horses to carry supplies."

Sun Ce once led an army of tens of thousands to conquer Yuan Shu, and he can be said to be the general who is most familiar with various cavalry tactics in the entire south of the Huaihe River.

The brave knights in the army, whether they are brave knights or qualified war horses, are not as weak as the fat house imagined by later generations.

Brave warriors can wear heavy armor, advance and retreat, endure and endure for a long time, fighting fiercely for a day and a night, so as to open the gap and decide the outcome.

Although the stamina of war horses is not as good as that of humans, they can still carry heavy armored knights into battle again and again.In particular, the cavalry has the advantage of mobility and can actively decide whether to fight or not. They can change horses and fight again, taking turns to rest.

"If you can't fight more than a hundred rounds, what is a cavalry army?" This famous saying can be described as the most accurate summary of cavalry combat.Cavalry combat is really very turn-based.Unless the opponent is a medieval serf, the knight can't be a wave at all.

As for why the knights are not given pack horses, it is because of sudden riding, which is not used at all.They marched with their horses and followed the army, and they just put tents, bags, millstones, tungsten, flint, water bags, etc. on the carts.

As for the heavy armor, it is naturally worn on the body!
There is a strict order in the army that all officers and soldiers must wear armor and helmets to carry equipment when they set off, and they can only remove their armor after entering the camp.

Unless you are marching inside, you may not meet the enemy for a few months. With the permission of the military order, you must not leave your armor or weapons.

Even armor lovers of later generations can run around in armor, not to mention these well-trained, powerful and burly elite soldiers.

On the contrary, the rangers need to disperse to reconnaissance, get out of the marching brigade, and need pack horses to carry their tents and other supplies, so they need pack horses even more.

Thinking of these cavalry, Sun Ce said, "By the way, how about the forty or so Youzhou cavalry?"

Lu Fan said: "These Youzhou Tuqi are indeed elite. Among the more than forty people, there are five people who are over seven feet seven inches tall, and they have all been selected by Chen Wu. The others are also skilled in arching horses. kind."

Sun Ce nodded, and said: "In the land of Yanzhao, there have been many generous and tragic soldiers since ancient times. This is indeed much stronger than the south. There are many horses in the army. Although these cavalry were not selected as Xuanjia cavalry, But they are also qualified cavalry, and they all turned into rangers to scout the terrain."

Although Sun Ce is good at archery, he actually does not believe that bows and arrows can determine the outcome of the battlefield, especially such things as cavalry and archery.

In the era of cold weapons, it will always be the battle of gold and iron horses that decides the outcome of the battlefield.

Unless the opponent is an unarmored bandit like Zheng Bao's, both sides are wearing armor, and the damage that the bow and arrow can cause may not be even [-]% of the effective damage.

As for riding and shooting, it can be classified into the category of metaphysics.Since ancient times, the Central Plains heavy cavalry has crushed the grassland cavalry head-on many times, chasing the Hulu to the north.

But right now the big man is the true supporter of the heavy cavalry, and the big man relied on the heavy cavalry to beat the Huns into submission.

The cavalry archers who can only shoot freely, not to mention Sun Ce, any other generals do not like them. Even though Zhao Wuling King Hufu has reformed cavalry and archery for hundreds of years, the light cavalry is only an auxiliary weapon on the battlefield.

But cavalry who can get on their horses to look for opportunities, get off their horses and shoot at foot, and rush into the formation, is not a soldier at all!

A truly strong army has always been a warrior who dares to see blood with the sword.

Even if two rangers ran into each other and dared to raise their guns and ride their horses, the one that would destroy the front and trap Chen would have a higher winning rate.

Therefore, although these Youzhou Tuqi did not pass the selection of Xuanjia cavalry, they are first-class rangers.

Sun Ce asked: "Who is the leader of these cavalry? Let him come to see me later, and I will talk to him about cavalry training."

Lu Fan replied: "His name is Xian Yulie, and it is said that he was born in the famous Xianyu family in Yuyang."

Fresh at Shi.

Sun Ce looked sideways at him, this is a big family in Yuyang County, with heroes in the clan rising together, they are well-known in Youzhou.

But these obviously have little to do with Xian Yulie.Xian Yu's family is a big family with thousands of children, even if Xian Yu Lie came from such a wealthy family, he is still a sideline.

Under the procuratorial system, the county nominates one or two people every year. With so many wealthy families in the county watching eagerly, it will not be easy for the heirs of the Xianyu clan to get a turn in a few years.Brothers in partial houses can only find their own way out.

Sun Ce admired Xian Yulie's joining the army, seeking fame, and traveling all the way to Huainan.

This reminded him of Zhao Yun, who was also a hero of Yanzhao, but he had achieved great success in Yizhou.

It's a pity that this top Confucian general in the late Han Dynasty may not have heard of Sun Ce's name now, even if Sun Ce sent someone to invite him, he would not be able to invite him.Otherwise, he could serve as cavalry supervisor and serve as the top cavalry general under Sun Ce's command.

After chatting with Xian Yulie, Lu Fan continued to report on several other items.

Liu You's grain and grass have been transported over one after another. After integrating the stocks of various treasuries, there are still nearly [-] shi of grain and grass in the camp. If only the elite are supplied, it will be no problem to last until the autumn harvest.However, it is slightly insufficient to count the soldiers who garrison the fields, and the grain must be distributed for the soldiers to cultivate the fields.Therefore, the food crisis is still severe and needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

The salt in the camp is as high as nearly three thousand stones, which is already very rich.Sun Ce waved his hand proudly and ordered the transfer of five hundred shi to the military doctor.

Although the army is in Shatai and strictly selects elite soldiers, any such talents as doctors are not included in the list of elimination, which makes the doctors in the army appear to be relatively large in scale.

There are 34 doctors who have practiced medicine for many years, and [-] experienced doctors.This kind of talent, basically in every powerful manor, there are one or two people in every army, and the collection is very impressive.

In the army of the Tang Dynasty, each battalion had a "sickness inspector" who inspected the sick and wounded every day in order to arrange medical treatment and evacuation.

Sun Ce also imitated the Tang system and divided these military doctors into the Sima camps of various ministries. However, Sun Ce didn't like the name "sick child" very much, so he directly named him "School Inspector". General soldiers.They wash the silk cloth with salt water and take care of the soldiers.

As for the female nurses, there were more than a hundred of them in Sun Ce's camp.However, they were not in the combat queue, and the soldiers could not see them.Even if they are marching and fighting, they are still in the rear camp.

These female medical officers can only be seen when the battle on the front line is fierce, and a large number of wounded and sick patients are sent to the rear camp for intensive care.In this era, the defense of men and women is not so serious. When Cao Cao marched west, Mrs. Bian even brought people to take care of the army. The customs are different from those of later generations.

Regarding how to control women, "Mozi Orders" also has detailed regulations: "When a woman arrives in the army, order the men to go to the left, and the women to go to the right. If there is no parallel, they will all obey, and those who do not follow the order will be cut."

So regarding the female soldiers in the battalion, Sun Ce actually didn't worry too much, and even felt that the scale could be expanded.They take care of wounded soldiers during wartime, and they can also help soldiers wash clothes, mend starch, and repair military tents and flags in peacetime.Otherwise, a group of savage soldiers, with fingers like rolling pins holding needles and threads under the lamp to mend military robes, would indeed be a bit irritating to the eyes.

A well-disciplined army will never harass women.

After all, in the Seventeenth Prohibition 54 beheading, regarding the crime of treacherous soldiers, there will be no tolerance, and immediate beheading will not be pardoned.

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(End of this chapter)