Chen Kefu looked up at the sky, the raindrops that kept drifting in the sky fell on his face, and the raindrops that condensed and slipped from his face revealed a kind of coldness, "Autumn is coming!" ”

An autumn rain and a cold, although it has just arrived in August, but after a rain, it immediately makes people feel that the summer days ago were still scorching and uncomfortable, as if it is a long memory.

After a night of heavy rain last night, it is still raining today, but it is not the same heavy rain anymore. In the gloomy sky, the lewd rain like cow's hair drifted with the wind, and a gust of wind blew, and Chen Kefu couldn't help but feel a little cold.

Just walked to the south of the camp, there was originally a large flat open space, and it was very lively here in the past, but now after the army retreated, although the entire camp was ordered by Chen Kefu, those people wandered in the camp from time to time, and also formed a lot of columns in the phalanx, shouting and making noise from time to time, but it could not be compared with the atmosphere of the previous camp.

On this large flat land south of the camp, there used to be a vast flat land that could accommodate 100,000 people, but at this time there were only a few phalanxes standing, and at a glance, although there were probably thousands of people, but they did not have that kind of momentum.

"My lord, look, those two phalanxes over there are the teams led by the two sons of the Li family." Rollin smiled and pointed to the corner of the clearing.

The people of the two phalanxes were an outlier among the many phalanxes lined up on the plain at this time, and the two squares side by side were all armoured, and each of them looked about the same height. All of them are tall men, and at a glance, they are almost all men about 1.8 meters tall, which can't help but make Chen Kefu a little surprised. These two battalions are 800 men, and I don't know where they got so many big men.

What surprised Chen Kefu even more was the armor on those sergeants, these were not those ordinary bright light armor, not the kind of ordinary two-crotch armor, but full-body armor. It's very similar to the armor of those generals, but after a few serious glances, it's not.

After looking at it for a while, he remembered that he had seen these armors before, but they were the heavy infantry armor he had seen last time when Li Yuan took him to see the warehouse of Weiwei Temple. It's just that somehow, I actually got here. It was also put on by every sergeant, and it could be seen that wearing these heavy full-body armor, if it weren't for the fact that those guards were all big men, it was estimated that ordinary people would not be able to support it for long if they wore such armor weighing fifty or sixty pounds.

This kind of heavy infantry armor also belongs to a kind of Mingguang armor, the front and back of the body armor are buckled with a belt in the middle, the two shoulders are made of animal skin patterns, and the belt hangs down with two large knee skirts, which are stacked with several rows of square armor. And on the chest part of the body armor, there is a bright and smooth large heart protector with the characteristics of the bright light armor. Each suit of armor also comes with a helmet with ear protectors.

At this time, the two battalions of tall soldiers in heavy armor lined up in two phalanxes, each holding spears in their hands, under the leadership of the two brothers Li Shimin and Li Xuanba, were doing the repetitive actions of each stabbing out, retracting, stabbing out, and retracting.

Although the movements of these sergeants are still a little jerky, it can be seen that these people have good physical fitness, wearing such thick armor, they can still stab out with spears over and over again.

Li Shimin's eyes were sharp, and at a glance he saw Chen Kefu with a group of guards watching their drills, hurriedly saying a few words to the sergeants, and pulled Li Xuanba over.

"Brother-in-law, why are you here, you see that my sergeants are doing well, right?"

Chen Kefu glared at him, "Since you are in the army, please call me a general." ”

Li Shimin smiled a little embarrassedly, and hurriedly arched his hand to Chen Kefu and said, "Li Shimin, the commander of the first battalion of the Suzaku Division, and Li Xuanba, the commander of the second battalion, have met the general, and asked the general to review the drills of all the sergeants. ”

"Well, you can see that these sergeants are in good physical condition? Where did you get these people? They should not have such a person in the auxiliary army with such physical fitness, and with such a body, they should have been soldiers a long time ago. ”

Li Shimin said with some pride, "General, these people are not auxiliaries, these are all recruited by me from the hundreds of thousands of people in the battalion, and they are all people who are six feet tall. And all of them are physically strong people, most of these people are hunters, unlike those farmers who are a little stiff, these people have some foundation, and they can train quickly. Many of them have some kung fu themselves, and some of them have hunted tigers and leopards. ”,

"Oh, I broke the barracks and trained 60,000 people yesterday, and I haven't seen many strong sergeants like this, why are there such strong men in your camp?" Chen Kefu said with some doubts.

Li Xuanba was only a sixteen-year-old boy at this time, and his intelligence may be much lower than Li Shimin. He laughed twice, and said angrily, "Brother-in-law, you don't know, my second brother said that anyone who comes to my camp only needs to be more than six feet strong, and they must have a foundation." As soon as he passed and entered my camp, my second brother immediately gave everyone a consistent amount of money, and when he entered my camp, although the training was more difficult than that of other camps, the daily food was enough meat and food tubes, and those people with such good conditions would of course rush to enter our camp. If General Chen Gui hadn't only asked me and my second brother to lead two battalions of men, it is estimated that we would have no problem recruiting another 800 strong men. Brother-in-law, my second brother is smart. ”

Looking at Li Xuanba's smug appearance, Chen Kefu also smiled, one foot of Sui is equivalent to about thirty centimeters, and this six-foot man is equivalent to more than one meter eight. It's hard to find any such person, he actually found eight hundred, and even said that he could find another eight hundred.

But thinking about the conditions he offered, they are indeed favorable enough. One person has always had money, these 800 people are 800 yuan, this is not a small number, this is 800,000 yuan, I don't know where they got so much money.

"Where did you get all this money? It's not a small number, and I don't remember that I ordered such an expense to be allocated to the lower levels. ”

Li Shimin smiled, "Back to the general's words, this money is the general's own money." Although 800 is a lot, it is not too much, and the young general still took it out. ”

Chen Kefu nodded, "Then how did these armors come back?" I remember the last time I saw it in the warehouse of the Guardian Temple, how do you know about these armors. ”

"General, don't forget, my father is the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple. I know that the general had attacked 80,000 unprepared light cavalry with 1,000 heavy cavalry, and that he had lost thousands of enemy troops in the first battle. The minister knew that there was such a batch of armor in the warehouse, so the minister also wanted to build a heavily armed infantry army, and if he shook the enemy head-on, it would definitely play a great role. It's just that the number of people is a little smaller, but the last general has got 3,000 pairs of such armor, and if they can be equipped, they will definitely be able to play a greater role. Li Shimin said with some regret.

Chen Kefu looked at the large number of strong men in front of him, and nodded, such a group of people can indeed play a great role when gathered. Especially looking at these heavily armed infantrymen, he remembered the Modao team that crisscrossed the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty.

"I remember that there was a batch of horse swords in the warehouse of the Weiwei Temple, do you know?"

Li Shimin hurriedly said, "Oh, I've seen those, but those horse swords are too short, but they are only about five feet, and it is not suitable for our infantry to wear heavy armor and hold horse swords." I think it is appropriate to hold a spear, and the infantry army is heavily armoured, and the spear of Zhang Yu is definitely a great deal of damage to the enemy infantry on the opposite side. ”

Chen Kefu smiled, the hoplites spent such a large amount of money, but it was not used to deal with the infantry army. In all dynasties, there was no shortage of hoplites, and without exception, the hoplites of all dynasties and generations were also used to deal with cavalry.

The heavy infantry phalanx covered in heavy armor is the real cavalry nemesis, and if it can also be equipped with a Mo sword, it is really like a tiger with wings, and it can advance like a wall in wartime. After planning in his heart, Chen Kefu asked, "Do you know how many of those swords?" ”

"My father once said that this heavy armor and horse sword are all materials that were missed, and this heavy infantry armor and horse sword are matching, and they are all about 3,000 pieces. It's still in the warehouse. ”

Chen Kefu smiled, "Luo Lin, you immediately ask people to go to the craftsmen in the camp to check and find a group of excellent weapon craftsmen to come out, I have swords for them to process." ”

After speaking, he looked at the two brothers Li Minmin and said, "Didn't you think you had fewer soldiers just now?" Okay, I'm going to give you such an opportunity now, you go and recruit people, continue to recruit these strong men over six feet in the camp now, and your two battalions will recruit 3,000 people. The conditions can remain the same, and each selected Minzhuang has the same money, and the other camp is full of meat and food. You don't have to pay for this money, you can go to the big account to ask Counselor Cangcao for money. ”,

Li Xuanba didn't feel too much joy, but Li Shimin suddenly became excited. In the past years, he was constrained by his father, and honestly, he came to Liaodong this time, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to enter the military camp, for him, the life in the military camp is so fresh and interesting. And now that he has the opportunity to go from a small soldier to a general who commands thousands of troops like his admired brother-in-law, his heart can't help but boil with enthusiasm.

"Brother-in-law, are you telling the truth?"

"Huh?"

"Oh, General, is what you say true? Do you really want me and Xuanba to unite 1,500 people each? ”

Chen Kefu smiled, "Of course it's true, by then, all three thousand of you will be wearing heavy armor, and your weapons will not be spears, but all of you will use horse-cutting swords that have been lengthened to about seven feet." At that time, the phalanx, like a wall to advance, not to mention the infantry, even the cavalry, such a phalanx can also be clothed in any direction, and it can completely become the assault vanguard of the whole army, and in the time of the big battle, break the enemy's formation and open the gap. If you perform well and train the battalion head well, I will continue to have the craftsmen make these infantry heavy armor and weapons, and then it will not be a problem for you to have 2,300 each, or even 51,000 is not necessarily impossible. In short, it all depends on the results of your training now. ”

Although Li Shimin didn't quite understand that Chen Kefu suddenly asked him to train this group of men and horses into hoplites to deal with cavalry. In his opinion, infantry against infantry, cavalry against cavalry is appropriate. But he admires this brother-in-law too much, and since it was his brother-in-law who said it, he just did it.

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