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Chapter 30 Troop Training
Du Yushi's words also reminded Emperor Jiayou.

He wanted to reuse Wei Yuan because the other party created a set of military training methods.

However, Wei Yuan's military talents were ignored or not paid much attention to.

"I have been busy with political affairs recently, but I forgot that with only 3,000 men, he withstood the Liao army's attack of 50,000 men."

"Di Qing, even if you are stationed in person, it's nothing more than this, right?"

Emperor Jiayou murmured.

Over the years, he has believed that this emperor can do justice to the people of the world.

In addition to not fulfilling his ancestor's last wish to regain Yanyun, in addition to his foreign policy being a bit too weak, in addition to being indecisive on many things, except for the death of Di Qing.
It seems that there is no one or anything that he is sorry for.

At the very least, in his dynasty, very few people in the world starved to death.
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In the second year of Jiayou's reign, it was mid-March.

After Wei Yuan arrived in Daizhou, he almost lived in the barracks inside Yanmen Pass.

Nowadays, the training of all military officers is gradually getting on the right track.

On this day, he was discussing the next plan with Xu Changzhi,

"In the past, military training methods focused more on the formation of soldiers, but in the future the enemy we will face is the Xixia and Liao armies."

"They all have cavalry that is incomparable to us in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The cavalry is the best at rushing into formations. We can no longer pay too much attention to formations like before."

The peak period of Han military formation was in the early Tang Dynasty.

The generals who led troops in that era could not be said to be good at leading troops if they did not know how to use the one-word long snake formation or the three-talent formation.

However, with the development of cavalry, various countries attached great importance to heavy cavalry, and the shortcomings of the military formation also appeared.

That is, it is not flexible enough and it is difficult to successfully resist the sharp edge of the cavalry attack.

In response to this phenomenon, Di Qing figured out a way back then to allow multiple arms to fight in a mixed manner while maintaining the same military formation.

Later, Zhang Fu also carried forward this method, and was able to gain a slight upper hand against Yelv Ren first.

In Wei Yuan's previous life, the Yue Family Army abandoned military formations in field battles and switched to more flexible mobile operations.

Further integrate various arms into many legions with their own missions in wartime.

For example, the Beiwei Army, as the final legion, will be sent to control the battlefield situation whenever the war is unfavorable or in a stalemate.

Another example is to break the enemy's army and be responsible for the frontal charge.

The cooperation between various arms has been further sublimated into the cooperation between various corps.

This was of epoch-making significance in ancient battles.

Wei Yuan also wanted to work in this direction, so he had previously proposed the idea of ​​unified training to the governor of Daizhou.

"Brother Wei, it's just you and me here. You might as well share your thoughts so that I can know how to help."

Xu Changzhi asked.

Wei Yuan said bluntly: "I divided the seven thousand soldiers into three battalions, namely the trapped camp, the forward camp and the Youyi camp."

"Each battalion must have various types of soldiers, so that they can forget all the military formations they have learned before."

"Cavalry, shield soldiers, spearmen, crossbowmen, chariot soldiers, and scouts must ensure that every base in the camp is equipped with many types of troops."

"We are focusing on training in one direction based on the characteristics of each battalion."

After a pause, he came to the sand table and planted several flags of the Liao army outside Yanmen Pass.

Then the three Zhou flags were placed in Yanmen Pass.

"The first flag represents the forward battalion. This battalion focuses on training physical fitness and fighting the enemy head-on. When the battlefield is in a stalemate, there is no distinction between top and bottom."

"Then we use heavy cavalry to control the situation on the battlefield, while in the Youyi camp, we mainly practice shooting skills to achieve the purpose of harassing the enemy outside the frontal battlefield."

Trapped in the camp, he mainly practiced riding and shooting.

But each battalion, and even each soldier, must be able to master all kinds of ordnance proficiently.

When a certain shield soldier in the camp dies, he can pick up the shield in time and form a shield formation with the other shield soldiers.

After hearing what Wei Yuan said, Xu Changzhi gradually understood,

"The soldiers have been trained for a long time. For example, the crossbowmen are the best at using crossbows. If we let them focus on practicing swordsmanship, if they fail in their archery skills, won't they have to pay for it?"

Wei Yuan said: "There is no need to focus on training, just let them improve their existing melee level."

"The only thing that has changed is that after physical training, the inherent coordination of arms is replaced by the coordination of corps." "When waiting for war, each corps performs its own duties and serves as each other's horns. It is no longer a simple shield soldier. Move forward, the cavalry charges, and the crossbowmen suppress the formation."

Xu Changzhi suddenly realized, "Such a novel military training method, if successful, will be enough to change the existing military structure."

Wei Yuan is very confident about this.

In fact, the plan he mentioned remains true to its roots and coincides with the three-three system tactics of the previous life.

That is attack-cover-support.

But the difference is that Wei Yuan's three-three system is larger in scale because it is difficult to subdivide it into each soldier.

Take capital as the unit.

Thirty people are responsible for charging, trapping, and harassing.

But these thirty people have one focus, such as charging or harassment.

One hundred people per capital, and the same is true for the other two teams of more than thirty people.

And among these thirty people, they can be subdivided into three teams of ten people, and among these ten people, they can be subdivided into three teams.

Further down, it cannot be subdivided.

As a result, the previous military formation combat model was completely abandoned.

"Change is good, but I'm worried that in the end, such a change will not be as good as the previous military formation."

Xu Changzhi also talked about his worries.

Wei Yuan said: "How can you know the result if you don't try it? The previous combat was too easy to target. For example, if we set up a shield formation, the enemy would break it with heavy cavalry."

"We have a crossbow formation, and the enemy will charge quickly with light cavalry to break through it."

"But if we use this set of corps to fight together, we can completely make up for these shortcomings. They can attack and defend each other. When we are trapped, there will be amazing results."

He is right. If no one tries these methods, there is no way to analyze whether they are good or bad.

Improving the military system is only the first step in Wei Yuan's military training.

"Tomorrow, the soldiers will be marching hundreds of miles across the country in armor, as if they were marching in a hurry. It will be a big burden."

"You have to make sure that our supplies can keep up. At least one meal a day has meat."

Wei Yuan couldn't help but warned.

Military training cannot be accomplished overnight, it requires being down-to-earth and reaching the top step by step.

A hundred miles of cross-country travel is just the appetizer.

Subsequently, every once in a while, there will be a devil training week.

The soldiers are required to exercise endurance, physical strength, etc.

After discussing some details with Xu Changzhi, Wei Yuan planned to train with the soldiers with him tomorrow.

As a general, you should take the lead, so that the soldiers can have no complaints.

Xu Changzhi went down to make arrangements.

Lin Zhaoyuan, who was far away in Yangzhou, sent a letter briefly describing some of the situation of the Sheng family in Yangzhou.

There are two main points.

First, Wei Shuyi is about to give birth, and Wei Yuan's second sister has also arrived at the Sheng family. Now everything is ready.

Second, Gu Tingye, the son of Gu Yankai, was assassinated.

However, it is said that he finally resorted to a knife-drag technique and killed the thief who was about to kill him, and was lucky enough to escape the disaster.

Seeing this, Wei Yuan smiled and said:

"Gu Tingye's maternal grandfather, Mrs. Bai, was a famous wealthy businessman in Yangzhou. Before he died, he entrusted most of the family's inheritance to Gu Tingye."

"The people of the Bai family naturally didn't want to, so they took a dangerous move and wanted to assassinate Gu Tingye."

"Did you know that Gu Tingye was forced to jump into the river by the killers hired by the Bai family? But now, because of the moves I taught him, he did not jump into the river, but instead killed him on the spot."

"So he managed to survive until the arrival of the Yamen guards. In this way, did I have a life-saving grace for him?"

(End of this chapter)