Chapter 610: What is Shock (II)
According to the modern concept of military parade, walking in front of the foot phalanx will be the honor guard of the three services, although there are also three armies such as car soldiers, building boat soldiers, and infantry, but Lu Zhe can't really make a three-service honor guard, right? Therefore, it can only be carried out in the newly formed corps model.
The wide cement pavement, a large number of soldiers are moving forward with neat steps, and the music on the scene is also converted into rhythmic drum beats, which have long been familiar to the soldiers, whether they are training or in battle, they are listening to such drum beats in a queue to advance, and now under the attention of the public, every soldier is nervous and afraid that he will take the wrong step, and the queue is naturally more neat than usual under the deliberate observance.
On both sides of the road were all standing and watching, and they kept cheering at the phalanx of soldiers who were stepping on neat steps, which naturally made the soldiers in the phalanx feel proud, so that the soldiers couldn't help but raise their necks when they followed the rhythm, and walked like a proud rooster.
Raising his neck and slanting his head to take a step, I can imagine that this looks very much like the picture that only appears in the Soviet Union or Russia military parades, but don't get me wrong, Lu Zhe didn't train what posture to take for the parade, especially for the concentration of soldiers, let alone what to walk in the right steps.
For people who have never seen the soldiers lined up neatly in the drum beat, what they can see is only the soldiers lined up in a phalanx, raising their feet in unison, and stepping down in unison, which is full of shocking pictures, but for people who are used to seeing military formations, this is not a big deal, at most, they feel that Lu Zhe has trained an elite army.
One phalanx after another walked in neat steps, and the Qianshou who watched were so close that they forgot to cheer, and what they saw was an astonishing scene, each soldier in a red battle robe was wearing a plate-like iron armor, some kneepads with zài scales and armor on his joints, and a kind of pocket on his head that he had never seen before (in fact, it was the M35 helmet of Germany in World War II). In terms of weapons, the spears in the hands of the soldiers shimmered with cold light in the sunlight, and there were six hundred and twenty-five such soldiers, all of whom tilted their four-meter-long spears forward slightly. The entire phalanx looked like a forest of moving spikes.
It's too senran, it's too murderous, the calm Qianshou no longer cheers, some are full of envy or proud expressions, and they even can't help but "tsk" twice to the people they know or don't know next to them, "My family's so-and-so who also serves in the army", most of the young men will make no secret of their envy, eager to become a member of the army immediately.
Six hundred and fifty-twenty-five soldiers lined up in a boxy phalanx and tilted their spears forward, if you really want to describe it, it is the shape of the Macedonian phalanx, when this formation was laid out and seen by the Qin state's dowry group. Their eyes widened, and some of the military couldn't help but show a look of surprise.
"Aye! This formation looks ...... As long as the spear is lengthened, isn't it possible to deal with the Hu people's single horse? "Dong Fei has an expression of discovering a new world.
Some generals of the Qin army couldn't help but glance at Dong Fei with contemptuous eyes, similar to this kind of hedgehog-like formation Huaxia has long existed, but it is generally in a static state, and it is difficult to maintain a rigorous formation when moving.
The really knowledgeable generals of the Qin army paid attention to the rhythmic drum beat, and they observed that the soldiers of Lu Zhe who were advancing in a phalanx raised their feet and landed their feet in line with the rhythm of the drums, and in an instant they immediately discovered the secret that the phalanx could move in unison, and everyone was ecstatic because of the discovery of this secret.
Why is it difficult for soldiers to train since ancient times? First of all, it is because it is difficult to unify the order, and there is a delay in the order of zài. So one or dozens or hundreds of soldiers may be no problem to train, but if there are more than a certain number of soldiers, there is no need to think about it at all.
What methods did the generals who know how to train rely on before this? The answer is that there is a group of qualified officers who can be used as tentacles to extend to all aspects of the army, and to make the army a whole according to strict organization and coordination.
Why the integrity of the army should be pursued is a key. Because the army has always needed a formation, and the formation is used to play the largest and most suitable strike surface in the whole, the higher the control of the formation, the combat effectiveness of the army will definitely increase gradually. It is not very difficult to maintain a stationary formation. Generals who have studied relevant histology can do it, but it is not so easy to control the coordination of formation movements.
In the past, the armies of the Chinese countries did not beat the drums of war during battles, but they have always been simply used as a signal to "beat the drum and march". That is to say, when the drums are beaten, the army is on the line, and there is no zài using the sound of war drums to control the pace of the advance of the soldiers.
Now, some generals of the Qin army have discovered the secret that the drum beat can control the rhythm of the soldiers' steps, which is the simplest and most convenient way to control the coordination of the formation forward, which means that in the future, the army can rely on the speed of the drum to change the rhythm of the army's advancement as long as it trains a little, and this rhythm can also maintain the rigor of the formation, and will not pull and split the formation by themselves because some soldiers are walking fast and some soldiers are slow, isn't it worth their ecstasy?
Sergeant Lu Zhe, who formed the phalanx, was approaching, waiting for the first phalanx to enter the viewing platform to find the uniform of the troops, and a sound of inhalation sounded unsurprisingly.
"Too much, too much, too ...... Extravagant! ”
The so-called luxury is the armor on the soldiers, Huaxia also has plate armor, but the number is pitiful, because it is too time-consuming and too time-consuming to make the metal into a plate style, and at the same time, the large and fitting plate armor needs to use a lot of beeswax to polish to be smooth, they can see the silver plate armor on the Lu Zhe soldiers who are lined up in the phalanx are reflecting the sunlight, from here it is inferred that those armors have been repeatedly polished, and beeswax is a luxury at all times, how can you not feel luxurious?
Without hydraulic stamping equipment, it would take at least ten blacksmiths to take turns beating the iron plate to create a pair of plate armor, and how much time it would take to complete the shaping of the iron plate would depend on the blacksmith's skill and experience, and in addition, it would have to be polished with beeswax as mentioned above to remove some iron slag and water chestnut. Now at a glance, Lu Zhejun, who is in one phalanx after another, is wearing plate armor, and the first-order joints are also wearing scaly armor parts, along with a body of armor and weapons, so the value of the equipment on a soldier's body is definitely not a small amount.
"No wonder the casualties of their repeated battles are so small, I heard that against the most elite fencers of the Qi State and the single horses of the Yan Kingdom, a fair 30,000 vs. 30,000 match, they only died more than 600 people under the total annihilation of the Qi and Yan coalition forces, of which more than 200 people were trampled to death by the galloping horses' hooves after failing to control the horses......
The person who said those words must have heard hearsay, or he was sitting closer to the position of some of Lu Zhejun's generals, and wanted to use wrong statements to seduce Lu Zhejun's generals to refute, and use this to dig out more secrets of Lu Zhejun.
The history of iron armor in China is very long, but because of the blank of cheap anti-rust means, it is easy to rust and the elimination rate is too high, and the high elimination rate of armor in contemporary society with low productivity is relatively large, and the iron armor with relatively cheap materials is not accepted, but the bronze armor with expensive materials is the mainstream.
The military generals of all countries who came to watch the ceremony naturally thought that Lu Zhe had cheap anti-rust methods on his side, and naturally wanted to discover this secret.
In fact, in ancient times, there were only a few ways to prevent rust, and the most effective way was to keep the iron with grease on it, but this was not cheap at all for the ancient times when food was always scarce, especially in ancient times, when the oil that could be provided was only animal oil or vegetable oil.
History has become unrecognizable under the intervention of Lu Zhe, just as the method of fermenting noodles has been advanced, and the method of extracting oil from beans has also been advanced. For the oil needed to maintain iron weapons, there was no need to guarantee its practicability, so cheap methods of preventing rust were created.
A soldier who can wear armor must have an armor, even if it is rattan armor, leather armor or armor, this is one of Lu Zhe's "turtle flow" concepts. Therefore, when Lu Zhejun went from a non-commissioned soldier to a general, he was either provided by the military or purchased with his own money, and he must have a suit of armor.
The phalanx of soldiers who participated in the parade ceremony, all the soldiers who appeared so far all have armor, and no matter how you look at it, Lu Zhejun, who does not participate in the parade and maintains the order, is also wearing armor, how can you not understand that having armor and not having armor are two different things?
If there is a body of armor protection, even if it is a piece of leather armor, as long as you are not shot in a position without armor protection when dealing with arrows, depending on the distance of the arrows, the person who can still fight with dozens of arrows on his body is definitely a soldier with armor. And soldiers without armor protection......
Groups of armored soldiers marched by, waiting for the heavy infantry phalanx to appear, and when people were already completely numb, especially the envoys from all over the world who came to watch the ceremony, they were too lazy to be surprised again, at most they just let out sighs such as "what a tin can".
Surprise, envy, and jealousy were almost the feelings of the people who came to watch the ceremony, and while they were numb, they would surely imagine what it would be like if their own army were confronted with almost all of their armoured soldiers.
The envoys of Qi and Yan who came to watch the ceremony were originally full of disbelief that they were beaten so badly last time, thinking that Lu Zhe was just taking them off guard with a single horse (in fact, it was a light and heavy cavalry) that no one had ever seen that could fight hand-to-hand, but now that they saw Lu Zhe showing a different kind of "turtle flow", they were completely out of temper in an instant. (To be continued......)