Chapter Fifty-Seven: Becoming an Army
At the end of the Han Dynasty, since the three Zhang Jiao brothers raised troops in Jizhou, the Central Plains was extremely chaotic in the following decades, and it was an unprecedented chaotic war situation since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the midst of www.biquge.info common people at dawn, there is another kind of people who are active throughout the chaos with different identities, and those people are the heroes and scholars.
These people use blood ties as a bond, rely on various warlords to help them achieve great things as a means, in order to achieve the goal of advancing to the supreme power, in order to achieve the goal of advancing to the highest power, the most ferocious and wonderful game has been waged for tens or even hundreds of years.
Some of these great clans bet on the wrong treasure and did the wrong thing, and finally disappeared in the world, leaving only a short-lived name in the history books. And there are some who are wise enough and lucky enough to break away from the original class like a fish leaping into the dragon gate and become a well-known gate valve in the world.
Among them, the most proud one is headed by Hedong Wenxi Pei's family, and the powerful gate valve that has lasted for thousands of years is represented. Some of them grabbed the best card in the world and played the worst game in the world. And in between, there are more people like the Koji clan, who make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal of a strong family, but the final result is mediocre.
Although he symbolically asked Koji Wen to throw an olive branch to Koji Yi, Yanbei still picked up troops and distributed armor weapons after Koji Wen left, recruited elite soldiers and strong generals from all over the country, and prepared to deal with Ko Yi's possible attack.
After all, Yan Bei was really not sure that he would get the benefits of the Koji who was familiar with all kinds of tactics.
The more than 200 brave warriors carefully selected by the Koji clan showed superb combat ability in the battle when they were sniping and killing scouts, and they had far surpassed Yanbei's subordinates. And according to the equipment on the corpses that were killed by luck, Yanbei's soldiers and horses could not have an advantage in equipment.
The only thing Yanbei has is that the number of people far exceeds that of Lu Yi.
In order to make up for the difference in the quality of the soldiers, Yanbei recruited the elite soldiers and horses from all over the country to form two special teams of soldiers and horses to deal with the rebellion, and launched an unprecedented large-scale training in Handan within ten years.
In just a few days, Handan was sprinkled by Sun Qing with more than 1,000 scouts with bows and arrows, and the main roads were strictly guarded, and ears and eyes were installed in Yecheng to pay attention to the movements of Lu Yi at any time. On the other hand, Handan City entered a state of combat readiness under full martial law, and as many as 1,800 elite soldiers were dispatched from all over the country, equipped with the best armor in the arsenal, to train with the late Zhao Wuling King Congtai.
In the eyes of Yanbei, the sergeants sent by the generals from all over the country can be called elite, ninety percent of the soldiers are covered with large armor, wearing leather armor, carrying spears and swords, strong crossbows and crossbows, and running for thirty miles without getting tired, which can be called elite soldiers. It's just that they're a complete mess above the battle formation.
They can be said to be the strongest combat power in Yan Bei's hands, but Yan Bei still has no bottom in his heart against Lu Yi, who is proficient in battle formations.
These soldiers fought against each other, which can be described as the best choice. However, the requirements for the battle duel are more battle array coordination and combat will...... Otherwise, even the most elite soldiers equipped with elite armor soldiers will be scattered by the enemy in formation.
Most of the predecessors of these people were recruited by the Han Dynasty, or the Yellow Turban remnants in Montenegro, all of whom were good men who had suffered a lot, but they did not have the leadership of a commander who was proficient in battle formations, so there was a big gap in the real elite in terms of organization.
And this is a completely complete army of soldiers and horses. This is simply unthinkable in the land of Yan Zhao, which has long been negative in the tradition of riding and shooting.
In order to equip these 1,800 people, Yanbei almost moved nearly half of the equipment in Handan City's arsenal, swords, spears, crossbows, and arrows, which were not used; Armor and robes, not fine. It was during this period that the light of the Eastern Han Dynasty's century-old savings was stained, otherwise it would cost tens of millions of dollars just to form such an army.
In terms of the establishment of the army, Yanbei continued the Han army, with five people and one army, and a military commander; Two Wu and one Shi, set up the long; Ten tithes and one team, set up a team leader and team vice; Six teams and one song, with military marquis; one of the three songs, with a school captain; The captain is in command of all, and Gao Ran is temporarily the captain and is directly responsible for Yanbei. Under the captain, there is a military commander, but it is temporarily vacant, if the captain is not there, the military commander can temporarily lead the captain's department.
The ordnance of each army consisted of two sword-and-shield men, one spearmen, and two crossbowmen. The whole army is composed of 720 sword and shield soldiers, 360 spear soldiers, and 720 strong crossbow soldiers, which can form five formations and be prepared for attack and defense in all directions.
And this army, which directly belongs to Yanbei, is named the Xiaoya Army, which is taken from the name of the Xiaoya captain that the general Zhang Chun had previously served as Yanbei. Gao Ran was also officially appointed by Yanbei as the captain of Xiaoya, commanding the Xiaoya army.
Gao Ran was originally reluctant to command the army for Yanbei, but Yanbei insisted that he command the army. First, there is no talent around Yanbei who can directly command a department, whether it is Jiang Jin or Sun Qing and others, they cannot command this army out of the level that Yanbei wants to achieve, and Gao Ran has been a marquis of the Han army, and he is the only talent around Yanbei who has systematically studied the army; Come, if Gao Ran does not have a direct subordinate to obey his orders, as soon as Yanbei leaves in the future, I am afraid that he will not be able to impress the arrogant soldiers around him with his own strength.
In view of the fact that these two points are more or less in the agreement between Gao Ran and Yanbei, Gao Ran reluctantly agreed to Yanbei's request for unifying the army.
The Xiaoya Army, in the face of the threat of Luyi from the northwest in Yanbei, rushed to the army.
It is foreseeable that the general trend of the world does not have much time left for this army to practice, and in the near future they will undergo the most difficult test from the battle array.
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Just in the whole Handan City is like a crazy machine, patrolling all day long, training constantly, Yan Bei riveted enough strength to fight with the Yi Yi who entered Yecheng this year, the information brought by the Tanma from Yecheng was like a piece of cowhide wrapped around Yanbei's fist, unloading most of the strength.
I don't know who wrote the letter from Lu Yi, but with Yan Bei's understanding of Lu Yi's character at the Koji Wen place, it is likely that this letter was written by Lu Yi, who had never met him. The letter is written with a good mulberry card, and the front is the name of the thorn is generally written in large characters Xiping koji, Erziyi, worship Zhennan General Yan.
And on the back of the wooden card, that is, where the text of the letter is written, four big characters are written in ink - why don't you dare!
Through the powerful ink stains, Yanbei can smell the confidence and arrogance of the writing owner.
There is a way that words are like people, such an arrogant righteousness, Yan Bei couldn't help but ask himself, he might be able to control such a hero?
"If you don't try, how do you know?" Yan Bei played with a sharp crossbow arrow on the top of the cong platform, waved his hand and threw it on the wooden pillar, the huge force made the crossbow arrow penetrate into the wooden pillar three inches, got up and said loudly to the servant standing beside him: "Tell Sun Qing, who is guarding the door, open the city gate and let the horses go, Lu Yi is coming!" ”
"Thorn!"
Under the cong platform, Gao Ran stood in a lunge, holding a long iron spear in his palm, and suddenly shouted in his mouth, and the thirty catties of iron spear did not move at all in his palm, stabbing forward like a poisonous snake, and there was a slight sound of breaking the air under a light and shadow.
"Kill!"
After Gao Guan, there was a huge army formation composed of 1,800 people, more than 700 large shields smashed to the ground, and the spearmen in the middle of the two ring sword and shield pawns shouted at the same time, and all of them passed the spears through the gap between the two shields to leave a punch, and stabbed forward fiercely.
"Slash!"
Gao Ran suddenly took a step, his right hand suddenly retreated, and the iron spear that was more than a foot old was suddenly retracted, but in an instant, his left hand grabbed the place two feet behind the blade of the iron spear. The whole action is done in one go, as if it never stabbed out.
"Kill!"
With Gao Ran's order, the spearmen holding the spears suddenly took back their weapons in unison, although many people could not move in unison, and the spears withdrawn were not neat, but they still looked majestic; Immediately afterwards, the two half-squatting ring knife pawns behind the big shield on the left and right of the spear pawn exerted their strength under the foot of the shield in one hand, and slammed a step forward, and then with a loud shout, the ring knife held in the right arm slashed forward over the chest-high shield.
Gao Ran stood tall with his spear, as if an enemy had appeared in the clearing on the right, and suddenly raised his spear and pointed obliquely, shouting: "One hundred and fifty steps, wind up!" ”
As soon as Gao Ran's voice fell, the knife hand standing behind the sword and shield pawn and the spear pawn immediately inserted the ring knife straight into the yellow earth under his feet, quickly untied the strong crossbow he was carrying from his back, quickly stretched the string with waist force, took out the crossbow arrow from his back waist and placed it on it, and raised the strong crossbow high and pointed in the direction pointed by Gao Ran.
"Fat!"
However, in the time of eight breaths, Gao Ran shouted again and gave the order to shoot, and then the sound of a strong crossbow collapsing strings was heard in the military formation, and a black cloud composed of more than 700 crossbow arrows quickly rose from the military formation, and the crossbow arrows made a screaming sound and accurately hit the direction Gao Ran pointed.
These crossbow arrows had no arrows, only sharpened heads by straightened wooden arrows, but they were also half-inserted into an inch under the strong force of the crossbow.
Without Gao Ran's prompting, these strong crossbowmen quickly rewound up after the shot, ready to shoot, and with Gao Ran's second order, the crossbow bolts were shot a hundred paces away.
Three shots in succession, landing one hundred and fifty paces, one hundred paces, and fifty paces away, and then the crossbowman put away his strong crossbow, and the crossbow sword held a spear and a strong crossbow stood behind the ring knifeman, and set up the spear on the large shield to prepare for the oncoming enemy attack.
Yan Bei looked at the wall on the top of the cong platform, and nodded secretly, whether it was the right cooperation between the sword and shield hand and the spearman or the strong crossbowman three times in a row, it could be called an elite soldier. However, the only thing that made him unhappy was that the crossbowmen's arrows were not neatly fired, they were too dense in some places, too loose in others, so it was good to rely on a salvo of crossbows to actually hit the enemy in a third.
In the composition of the Xiaoya Army, the strong crossbowmen in Yanbei's heart are the top priority of this army.
Sighing slowly, Yan Bei looked to the south and looked at the large verdant forests beyond the city...... It would be great if he could subdue Koji Yi and use it for him.
The archery and tactics of the Qianghu people are the supplement that Yanbei urgently needs now!