Chapter 83: Sharpening the Knife
On the first day after Emperor Yang Guang withdrew his troops, although the sky was drizzling, the people and craftsmen in the entire camp were mobilized by Chen Kefu.
After walking around the camp, he also clearly felt the panic mentality of everyone in the camp. For this situation, he has no good way, he can only strengthen his practice and arrange their time to the full, so that they have no spare time to think about the east and west.
Although Chen Kefu had already decided that this training would only focus on the training of the Fifth and Sixth Divisions, and he did not plan to train the rest. First, there are too many people, and he doesn't have so much time to train, and second, there are only 10,000 people in the broken barracks, and it is unrealistic to want to train hundreds of thousands of people at once.
Even the fifth and sixth divisions were singled out, and he also planned to select a few thousand more among them to focus on training. Now he has weapons, someone, but he just doesn't have time. He must devote all his energy to training a combatant army in a short period of time.
Giving everyone weapons and training them right now is just to pass their time and save these people from making trouble.
The whole camp went around, Chen Kefu was still quite satisfied, although these people were still a little flustered, but they were indeed quite hard during training, and they did not find that they were lazy.
After returning to the camp, Chen Kefu immediately summoned the officers who were still in the camp.
Li Jie, the third-in-command in the broken military camp, was completely offered by Chen Kefu at this time. There was only one team left in his hands led by Shen Guang, the Lang general, but even if Shen Guang, an old man from Nan Chen, did not invest in his old master, Li Jie did not have much hope for him. Now that Shen Guang is leading so many people, and he was sent out by Chen Kefu to go on a ranger, for him, it can't help him at all.
For Chen Kefu's deliberate suppression, he had no choice for a while. First, his foundation in the broken military camp is too shallow, and no one will help him in the suppression of Chen Kefu. Second, now that the barracks are leading the troops, he has no choice but to find someone to support the field, so he can only admit this loss first, and wait until he has passed the current level.
Fortunately, Chen Kefu was also polite to him on the surface, and this time after receiving his military power, he was asked to be responsible for the selection of people and training, at this time Li Jie was standing in the camp tent, reporting to Chen Kefu.
"Now that the recruitment of new troops for the Fifth and Sixth Divisions has been completed, 10,000 people for each of the two divisions have been put in place, and the 2,200 newly recruited troops of the Sixth Division Li Shimin and Li Xuanba have also been fully recruited. According to the general's orders, we first selected all the good horsemen in the large camp, and this part was about 10,000 people, and we selected 4,000 of them. The 5th and 6th divisions, each with 2,000 men, were organized into five light cavalry battalions. There are enough horses in the army now, and all the horses, weapons, and armor have been issued, and they have begun to train, but although these people are good at riding, it is unlikely that they want to become cavalry in the short term. ”
Chen Kefu nodded, "It's okay, it's because it's difficult to become a soldier in a short period of time, so we have to train as soon as possible, even if we can't let them go into battle to tear them apart now, but at the critical moment, it is still feasible to have such a few thousand men and horses filling the scene, and even rushing into battle." However, although we will not need them for the time being, we must not let up and train this cavalry with all our might. Our broken barracks are cavalry, and there will inevitably be some damage on the battlefield, and this cavalry team will be our supplementary source of troops at that time. In my opinion, in the future, the broken barracks will be replenished with new recruits, all of which will be replenished from the cavalry of the new army that has already been trained, and then the new army will be replenished from the people's strong, and we must not directly supplement from the people's strong, and we must always ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the broken barracks. Now the destruction of the barracks is our foundation, and there is no room for failure at all. ”
"Yes, we must take into account what the general said!" Li Jie is now respectful to Chen Kefu on the surface, basically agreeing to whatever he says. But what he was thinking in his heart is not something that ordinary people can know. Chen Kefu smiled at him and didn't respond.
Li Jie continued, "According to the instructions of the general, after we selected the people who were good at horsemanship, we also selected all the people in the camp who were good at shooting. All those who could pull the infantry longbow and had good archery skills were all recruited into the 5th and 6th divisions of the new army. The people in this camp are all from Shandong, Henan, and Hebei, and the people in these places are relatively fierce and martial people, and there are many hunters. We initially selected a total of nearly 10,000 people, and according to the instructions of the general, we selected 4,000 strong men with good archery skills among them to form ten longbow battalions, and the 5th and 6th divisions each had five battalions of 2,000 men. For the rest, we selected 2,400 men who were physically able, and formed six crossbow battalions, each with three battalions of 1,200 men. ”,
Chen Kefu laughed a few times, "General Li really deserves to be favored by His Majesty, he is really talented." Leaving this conscription matter to you is really a big relief for all of us. General Li did a good job, only what he wanted, and everyone did their best, not bad, really good. Now we are all alone in the land of Liaodong, everyone should work together, and now we are like a leaky ship on the sea, everyone has to give their best. Only with one heart can we get to shore safely, and if someone has selfish intentions, then in the end everyone can only capsize with the ship. ”
"Now it is really difficult for our recruits to train to become an army in a short period of time. But we also have no way, in Liaodong, there may be a battle at any time, just with 10,000 horses breaking the barracks, it is undoubtedly a source of water, and it is not a long-term solution. We didn't have much time to come to this new army, and most of them were peasants who had not seen blood. Therefore, it is imperative to strengthen the crossbow troops. Melee combat is a weakness for recruits, but if you shoot from a distance, it will have a much less impact on recruits. Now that we have a lot of arrows, we are not afraid of running out of bows and arrows, and this is our advantage, and we should make use of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, and use our advantages in sufficient armament to make up for the shortcomings of our soldiers' lack of training. General Li, how did you choose and assign the other soldiers? ”
Li Jie was so angry that Chen Kefu was desperately suppressing him, but he sat on top and said shameless things like not to use selfishness, his face turned a little pale, and his hands were clenched into fists, but he had a good upbringing since he was a child, and he still didn't have a seizure in the end.
At this time, when he heard Chen Kefu's question, he forced a smile on his face and said, "Back to the general's words, after forming the light cavalry battalion and the bow and crossbow battalion, according to the general's instructions, I selected 8,000 tall and strong people from the army, these people are tall and strong, and they have strength, these people are all melee infantry soldiers, and they will become spearmen." These men were divided into twenty battalions, and each of the two divisions led ten battalions of 4,000 men. Two thousand four hundred hunters from the mountains were also selected, all of whom were armed with shields, and when they fought in the field, they would be large arrays with shields, and if they were fighting between the mountains and forests, these hunters from the mountains would be strange soldiers and would definitely be able to play more roles, and all of them were equipped with bows and crossbows, and they would also be responsible for detective tasks in the future. ”
Listening to Li Jie's recruitment work done so well, Chen Kefu also looked at the young general seriously. To tell the truth, Li Jie's performance is indeed very good, although there are no amazing moves, but all the military affairs are handed over to him, and he will be able to handle them in an orderly manner. Such a person is completely like a highly talented student from a famous military school in later generations, and he is really envious of everything.
Although Chen Kefu has won several battles, he basically relies on the strong army of the broken military camp and the help of veterans such as Li Benlei. In the broken barracks, he basically didn't have to worry about all the things like marching except for some big ideas. If it weren't for those people, if Chen Kefu had completely come back to unify the troops and horses, it would have been good to be able to lead a group of two hundred people.
Even now, he thinks that he has learned a lot of leading knowledge from veterans such as Li Benlei, but compared with Li Jie in front of him, he still feels far behind. If such a person can be used for himself, it is most suitable to be his chief of staff, but unfortunately, such a person is not with him all the way. How could a person from a background like Li Jie be willing to be subservient to him. He didn't have to think about it to know that if Li Jie couldn't please him at all, this person would definitely be transferred away at that time.
sighed in his heart, and continued to smile, "Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, what happened to the two of you?" ”
After Li Shimin came to the broken barracks, he was qualified to participate in the military deliberations for the first time, and although he and his fourth brother each led 1,500 troops, they were not ranked at all in this camp. If it weren't for Chen Kefu's notification that they would also come to participate in the military conference, there would be no place for them here.
Li Shimin heard Chen Kefu, who was the most top, call him, and stood up excitedly, "Back to the general's words, the last general has recruited 2,200 more people according to the general's order. The conditions given by the general are too generous, and everyone in the camp is vying to sign up, if it weren't for the general's request to recruit only 2,200 people, it is estimated that 12,000 people can be recruited. ”
Chen Kefu also attaches great importance to this heavy infantry tossed by Li Shimin, although a powerful heavy infantry army cannot be trained overnight. But such a force is something that makes his heart move, as long as he thinks about the powerful Modao team that has been recorded in the history books, he is enthusiastic.
Although he doesn't have a Mo knife now, and he doesn't have a Mo knife combat method, he believes that as long as he is willing to invest manpower and material resources into it, then in this era, Mo Dao will definitely originate from his army, and Mo Dao will definitely bring him rich returns.
Let's go on, go up the charts