It started pouring rain in the sky, and light rain fell in the Piyong Hall.
This was considered a key institution of the Jin Dynasty, but it was in such a dilapidated state, just like the country that was riddled with holes in the Jin Dynasty.
Food and military supplies were piled up in several relatively intact buildings. After Mi Huang personally inspected them, he came to the corridor and looked at the dark sky, feeling unhappy.
"The day before yesterday, several Yamen troops stationed in Hanoi County defected and surrendered to Ye." The expression on Mi Huang's face was unclear whether he was crying or laughing.
"How many people are there?" Shao Xun asked.
"No less than ten thousand people."
"Elite soldiers or weak soldiers?"
"It can be beaten."
Now both of them were silent.
In fact, this is what Shao Xun has always been worried about.
During the reign of King Sima Lun of Zhao, the imperial guards fought against each other. Last time they all stood aside and watched, but can you guarantee that they will do the same this time?
After the King of Changsha came to power, his first priority was to rectify the imperial guards. He made great moves. At one time, he personally served as the lieutenant general of the Northern Army. He wanted to completely control the Seventh Suwei Army and the Yamen Army, which really frightened many people.
But the Luoyang Chinese Army system has existed for so many years and has become a self-contained entity. How can it be so easy to change? As a result, there are many people who have come and gone with the two kings of Chengdu and Hejian, and the Imperial Guards, who have relatively good combat capabilities, have actually split.
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Most of the more than 10,000 people who surrendered this time were probably not the only one. The situation can be said to be quite serious.
"This is really discouraging." Shao Xun said with a bitter smile: "In this case, the Grand Governor (Sima Yi) may have no choice but to shrink the front line and retreat to Luoyang to defend it."
"Troublesome." Mi Huang nodded in agreement.
If Sima Yi no longer trusts the troops stationed abroad, then he can only order the troops to shrink and withdraw to the vicinity of Luoyang, putting all the troops under his nose and under strict supervision.
But shrinking the front line is not without consequences.
First, it will damage morale.
How will you let others view you if you surrender before fighting? This is actually very fatal when the enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered.
In particular, many scholars do not understand military affairs. They only judge the strength of the army based on the number of troops, and do not consider the quality of the soldiers, the level of equipment, and the level of elites.
Three thousand men is less than 30,000, but sometimes three thousand elite soldiers can defeat a mob of 30,000, and it is not surprising to capture and kill ten thousand or twenty thousand.
Therefore, it is very foolish to judge the strength of each party purely based on the number of soldiers.
But the battle line doesn’t lie…
There is something wrong with your retreat. Are you afraid? Are you really unable to defeat me?
The second negative impact is that it will lead to the loss of a large number of peripheral strongholds.
These strongholds are not insignificant, some are very critical, such as transportation nodes, water sources, material warehouses and even pastures.
Without these places, I don’t know how long I can hold on as a lonely city in Luoyang.
Both of the above are very real difficulties.
Although Mi Huang didn't know much about military affairs, he could still figure it out. Shao Xun was very familiar with marching and fighting, so he could see it more clearly.
It's a bit difficult to do.
"Why are you thinking so much! It's just one day at a time." Mi Huang suddenly stamped his feet heavily and was about to leave. Before leaving, he turned around and said: "The people of Kaiyangmen Street, I have asked Sikong to recruit soldiers." With more than a thousand people, it is not a problem to build walls and fortifications. If there is insufficient materials, demolishing private houses can be done."
"No." Shao Xun responded.
He felt more and more that Mi Huang was a good person.
He spoke politely, unlike other scholars who were condescending to him.
People are honest, if they don't play tricks with you, they will do whatever they should.
His military ability is indeed weak, and he does not often stay in the military camp, but if you have any problems, he will try his best to solve them after knowing them. As the saying goes, he will do his best to take charge of his position for one day after he is the leader of the building.
Such people are very good.
"After repairing the outer wall and building, you and Yang Bao can discuss whether to let people go or not." Mi Huang took two steps and added.
The so-called thousands of common people are real common people. In human terms, they are ordinary people with no power.
As for the children and family members of wealthy families, not many will stay in Luoyang. They have all fled to the suburbs to seek refuge. Some have gone far away, taking their servants with them to the mountains in the southern Xincheng and Luhun areas. .
If you really can't leave, you can find a way to live in the inner city, or group several or more than a dozen families together to help each other.
War is like this.
When the rebels come, no one is nobler than anyone else, and even wealthy families are more likely to become targets of robbery.
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The rest of the month flew by.
After entering August, the wind became more and more serious.
Almost every day, troops were mobilized out of the city, and disgraced troops were also withdrawn.
I haven't seen Concubine Pei for a long time. During these days, only one palace official came over and conveyed some news: In fact, there is nothing special, it is just to be calm and calm.
Shao Xun took the opportunity to ask for a large number of arrows, medicine, equipment, food, cloth and other materials, and even a lot of pens, inks, paper and inkstones.
He continued to teach the children and teenagers step by step, asking them to ignore external affairs and concentrate on their studies.
Of course, training is also essential.
Everyone is practicing archery today.
Shao Xun had been thinking about how to train soldiers before.
Among the soldiers of this era, pikemen are just pikemen. Apart from poking people with their spears, they don't know much about other skills. Sword-and-shielders are just sword-and-shielders. Even archers and crossbowmen have specialized units - this is called " Pure team".
But the military level is constantly developing with the times. By the Tang Dynasty, the requirements were very high. All soldiers must be able to shoot archery.
Long spears, walking bows, and horizontal swords are everyone's standard weapons, which means that at least you need to be proficient in three skills, namely, swords, spears, and bows.
In fact, it was far more than just a standard battalion. There were also weapons such as long-handled axes, hooks and sickles (for fighting cavalry), wooden poles, crossbows, heavy swords, and mo knives, all distributed to some soldiers.
After the Jin army's crossbowmen have finished shooting, they are done shooting, and there is nothing left for you to do.
After the crossbowmen of the Tang Army finished shooting, they would come forward with a Mo Dao to fight in close combat.
This is called "Flower Team".
If you rate soldiers, the scores of pure team soldiers will be relatively low, while the scores of fancy team soldiers will be high, because they know many skills and are more adaptable to complex and ever-changing battlefields. They can use weapons when they pick them up, and officers can use them.
More tactics.
But here comes the problem. The training cost of the flower team is too high, and they can only serve as soldiers to feed themselves. Traditional farming and fighting soldiers, they have to be busy with farm work and cannot get out of work, so they cannot do this.
This is a real problem and involves the reform of the military system.
In the upcoming battle to defend Luoyang, it is obvious that the advantages of the soldiers of the Flower Army have been infinitely magnified.
The more complex the environment, the more it tests the soldier's comprehensiveness and individual combat capabilities.
Shao Xun thought for a while, and with the level of the people under his command, it was too late for them to fully learn knives, swords, spears, axes, and bows. So he could only be realistic and pick the most important thing to learn first: archery.
"There are only thirty or so people who can shoot arrows." On the temporary battlefield, Shao Xun looked at the soldiers who were practicing archery repeatedly and ordered: "Form them into a separate team, with Li Zhong as the team leader.
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"No." Li Zhong, who was following him, immediately responded.
"Choose four other tall and brave men to come to me and listen to my orders. Let me -" At this point, Shao Xun looked at Chen Yougen and said, "You will be in charge, and you will be the captain. When we fight, if
Anyone who is timid and afraid of fighting will be killed immediately."
"No." Chen Yougen said excitedly.
"Just use the newly made heavy sword." Shao Xun added.
He likes to use two-handed weapons such as heavy swords or long swords.
This weapon evolved from the Mo Dao in the Tang Dynasty, and was very popular in the late Tang Dynasty. Every town had a two-handed epee unit, such as the Heiyun Changjian Du, the Left and Right Changsword Army, etc., which were generally elite units.
Epee swords that are used well are very famous, such as Huainan Zhang Shenjian, Wei Bo Shao Shenjian, etc. People even forget their original names.
The heavy sword abandoned defense, opened and closed widely, exchanged wounds for wounds, fought for life, faced the enemy's spear formation, and swung the heavy sword to kill them.
This is a very suitable weapon for outlaws.
When he was in Panyuan, Shao Xun personally gave guidance and asked the blacksmith to make a two-handed heavy sword.
After Chen Yougen saw it, he liked it very much, so he made two more and carried them specially for him as a backup. It is normal for weapons to curl their blades during battle, and it is best to change them at any time.
After arriving in Luoyang, Mi Huang came forward and found a blacksmith to make ten more.
Shao Xun planned to let Chen Yougen take four tall and burly men with extraordinary physical strength as his war supervisors. They were given a pair of iron armor, a crossbow and an epee to follow him all day long - Supervisor?
, originally means "supervising the war chief".
"The remaining three teams should take time to practice footwork and bow every day." Shao Xun continued to order: "I will teach you personally. Remember, you are recruiting soldiers. Soldiers have to be busy with farm work all day long, and they don't know a few skills.
It’s excusable, but we can’t be so lax in recruiting soldiers, and we must be worthy of our share of food and pay.”
"No." Huang Biao, Zhou Ying, and Zhong Badger responded at the same time.
"Training troops to fight a war, in the final analysis, training is the key." Shao Xun said: "There are always people who take a group of young men recruited from the fields and then hope to win with ingenious strategies. This is pure gambling. Everyone, even if
We will go into battle tomorrow, so I have to practice well today. After a short rest and two sticks of incense, we will continue to practice archery."
While everyone was resting, Shao Xun came to the children and teenagers from teams 1, 2 and 3.
They practiced yesterday and today they mainly learned cultural knowledge.
Seeing the governor coming, the young men saluted one after another.
"No need to be too polite, just review your lessons." Shao Xun said warmly.
His attitude towards these children is relatively good, although he will also crack the whip during training.
What the refugee army lacks is these people.
Without reserve cadres, you cannot govern the local area. If you cannot govern the local area, you cannot establish yourself in the long term.
There is only one time traveler, and even if he has any good ideas, he still needs someone to execute them.
A team of reserve cadres who agree with oneself is the main reason why a time traveler can effectively implement his will.
There are several new teachings in the camp.
The war was approaching, prices were soaring, and many people had no food and clothing, especially those ordinary scholars who had no power and power-mainly businessmen or children of local wealthy people.
Due to various reasons, they were temporarily unable to return to their hometown. In order to make a living, they accepted the invitation and came to Piyong to teach young people how to read and write.
This makes Shao Xun's daily life more abundant.
He now only teaches arithmetic and martial arts most of the time, and occasionally teaches "The Thousand Character Classic". However, he will be deeply involved in the daily management of the teenagers, and Wu Qian is his agent.
There is nothing to be embarrassed to say to others. These young people are his greatest asset. If there is an opportunity in the future, he will open a camp school near the army station, serve as the principal himself, and "produce" officer seeds in batches to reserve cadres.
The aristocratic families do have a monopoly on education, and it is precisely because of this that you need to break it.
Without a talented group outside of the aristocratic families, what else can you do except rely on them?
Chapter completed!