Chapter two hundred and eighty ninth
The affairs of Zhuo County were initially stable.
Li Chongjiu immediately counted all the soldiers and armor in the arsenal and equipped them to the army.
For example, Yuchi Gong, Zhao Quanting, Zhao Queer, Chen Ke and others looked at batches of armor, strong bows and hard crossbows and equipment into the army, and they were confused.
The eight thousand county soldiers of Shanggu County, ten thousand county soldiers of Zhuo County, and two thousand county soldiers of Liaoxi County were all replaced with armor.
Most of the armor in this arsenal are two-level armor, there are also many bright light armors and a small number of squid sleeve armors, which are enough for 20,000 county soldiers to have one armor.
Not many for most infantrymen, the armor is still too heavy. It is basically impossible to wear twenty or thirty kilograms of armor on a long distance, so the armor is usually loaded on the car and carried by auxiliary soldiers. When fighting, it will be put on uniformly.
Therefore, the most feared infantry is ambush. If they are ambushed on the marching road, their armor will not be worn. Even if the infantry wants to pursue after array, how can they chase people under such heavy armor? Therefore, heavy infantry teams without cavalry will always have to defeat the battle and cannot win.
As for the strong bow and hard crossbow, that is the biggest gain in the arsenal. There are three thousand crossbows with three stones, one thousand crossbows with four stones to five stones, five hundred crossbows with five stones, one thousand crossbows with five stones, one thousand horse crossbows with five stones, one thousand horse crossbows with horses used by horses, light hand crossbows, and Yu Ke loaded five arrows and three arrow crossbows with one bow and three arrow crossbows.
Of course, there are twenty bed crossbows, including three ox crossbows, five ox crossbows, and eight ox crossbows. Among them, there are sharp weapons like crossbows that killed the Khitan general at the head of Yuyi Town, and some are even better.
These weapons were all accumulated by the national strength of the Great Sui country and the material of 190 counties across the country. In order to achieve the hegemony of conquering Liaodong, Emperor Yang of Sui stationed all these materials in Zhuo County. Now they are all cheaper than Li Chongjiu.
There is no need to mention the rest of the swords, spears, spears, and steps, and there are mountains of them in the arsenal.
After this equipment, Li Chongjiu's 20,000 county soldiers, at least in terms of equipment, was not required to give in, and even more than the most elite government troops that went to Goguryeo during the Sui Dynasty.
As for the grain storage that could last for 40,000 people for three years, Li Chongjiu decided to use it as military supplies. He would not use military troops under his command in the future, and would be out of stock and train the standing army.
From the arsenal, he also picked up a thousand horse armors. Thinking of Luo Yi's Iron Cavalry, which was so terrifying that Li Chongjiu thought that if he was to Hebei and Liaodong in the future, he would be on a flat land of horses. Heavy armored cavalry is undoubtedly a good weapon to break the formation.
However, most of Li Chongjiu's battles now include Turkic horses on the grassland or Yanqi horses raised by the Sui army's pastures, and the rest are large numbers of horses. Li Chongjiu did not lack horses at all. There was no shortage of horses in the Sui army. According to the later battles of the Tang army's government soldiers, each of the ten men and one team of soldiers must be equipped with more than six batches of pack horses.
However, although the load horse can bear the weight, it is not good at sprinting and has almost no explosive power. Although the Turkic horse is running and fast, it is hard-working and capable of rough feeding, it is short and has poor weight bearing. As for the Yanqi horse, it has no obvious shortcomings, but it has no specific advantages.
Therefore, Li Chongjiu wanted to form a heavy armored cavalry, and only the Liaodong horses came to mind. Therefore, Li Chongjiu persuaded him to suddenly dike and select hundreds of Marine cavalry to supplement the Wansheng Army, and expand the Wansheng Army into a two thousand cavalry elite cavalry.
Among the Wansheng Army, the eight hundred cavalrymen were all wearing men and horses in their arms. Li Chongji and Tudiji were inspected outside Zhuojun City.
I saw that the cavalry of the Marine were all wearing thick armor inside and felt shirts outside, with iron faces covered on their faces, almost only their eyes were exposed. In addition to this, the tall Liaodong war horses dragged heavily armor and people, but it was very relaxed.
In addition to iron armor, compared with Luo Yi's Youzhou iron cavalry, the Jurchen cavalry were much more casual on the horse. In addition to all of them, there were maces, bones, spears, big guns, sticks, big axes, small axes, iron hammers, and so on.
Li Chongjiu was also surprised that when the Great Sui cavalry rushed into the formation, they mostly used horse spears, or spears, which were very unified.
There are no Jurchen cavalry like this? I don’t care about it suddenly. I told Li Chongjiu that the men are used to being lazy. You Han people don’t know how to do so many rules. Don’t worry, we Marine people have Marine people’s own warfare.
Li Chongji originally wanted to let Tudiji, so he practiced the heavy cavalry of the Martin. Tudiji laughed and said that we don’t know how to train you Han people. We Martin people have been abilities in hunting all their lives. Hunting is the same as fighting, except that one kills beasts and the other kills people.
After saying that, Li Chongjiu asked the Martial Cavalry to conduct a safari drill, and saw that the Martial Cavalry, which seemed to be scattered, had advanced and retreat in an orderly manner during the journey, and had bows and cavalry to cover them.
It seems that I have no practice at all, and all the skills of fighting are born with me.
Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh that the descendants of the Heishui Mohe who were the same clan as Sumo and Mohe in history, the Jurchen cavalry, and the Jurchen cavalry in history were famous for their heavy iron cavalry. The Song people evaluated the Jurchen cavalry and said that the enemy had long cavalry, namely perseverance, namely heavy armor, and namely bows and arrows.
The Jurchen cavalry is very famous for being tenacious and good at fighting. If you don’t mention the Jurchens if you are less than ten thousand, they often say that they cannot fight more than a hundred rendezvous, so why is it called a horse army? It is said that in the battle between Zhu Xianzhen and others and the Song army, the Jurchen cavalry charged dozens of times.
Thinking of the Jurchen cavalry that destroyed the Song Dynasty in history, Li Chongjiu couldn't help feeling unhappy, but looking at the current Marine cavalry, the sudden diji, Wuguna and others, they were all laughing and laughing heartlessly. Their awe for themselves was also from the bottom of their hearts. How could they compare them with the Jurchen cavalry that burned and killed and raped in history?
Just as Napoleon's famous sayings are only within the range of cannons, if there is no fearful force, how can the aliens live in harmony with you? Only by staying strong forever can they stand among the forests of nations.
When Li Chongji thought of this, he nodded to Tudiji. Wugunai was satisfied and then said, "Wugunai, I will hand over this cavalry to you in the future. Are you interested?"
Wuguna was stunned. Since the beginning of memory, there was no such cavalry among the people of the Marx, so it was extremely honorable for him to command such a cavalry.
Wugunai didn't say anything, just nodded and said yes, which was to agree to Li Chongjiu's appointment.
The new army has been organized, and the following are the rewards for the army.
After the treasury of Youzhou was captured, Li Chongjiu rewarded the soldiers of Shanggu County and the foreign troops.
This time, the army was very happy. There is no need to say much about the benefits for the county soldiers. In the past, the county soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty had no military pay, so they joined the army and served. The civilians recruited county soldiers from one to two years, and they could go home after serving.
Therefore, for the county soldiers, the people who joined the county soldiers were really unable to survive, and they wanted to have a meal. You should know that the government troops of the Great Sui Dynasty only exempted the rent and taxes. If you want to make a fortune, you can only earn money by robbing after victory or slaughtering the city.
Li Chongjiu's county soldiers were also average. Now the world is in chaos, and it is not easy for the people to have enough food. Military pay is a luxury. Of course, the county soldiers went out to fight three times, first to capture Shanggu County, second to capture Liaoxi County, and third to capture Zhuo County.
The first two rewards were once higher than the other. This time, Li Chongjiu's reward to the army was twice as high as that of Shanggu County. This was so inconscionable to Li Chongjiu's county soldiers.
Rewards can maintain high morale, while well-equipped can make the soldiers feel valued. Li Chongjiu himself was not a soldier, and there was no way to start how to train a strong army, such as in history, relying on morale and faith alone, to fight for a strong army of 25,000 miles.
But as a businessman, all he could do was to be generous with money and try his best to allocate the best equipment and treatment for his subordinates. As for how to train troops, Li Chongjiu let go of his subordinates and generals. I believe that they were all born in leading troops and were definitely more experienced than himself, an outsider. The so-called layman does not interfere in his inner affairs is what Li Chongjiu knows.
As for the rewards of the foreign army, they were given cloth and copper coins. Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town were outside the frontier, and now they are large logistics distribution centers. After three years, Li Chongjiu finally completely took Huaihuang Town into the frontier.
Nowadays, no one on the herdsmen on the grassland does not know about the existence of Huaihuang Town. The ones from the grassland to the west, like the Turks, went to Huaihuang Town, while those from the east, such as the Khitan and the Mohe went to Yuyi Town. Nowadays, the two towns of Huaihuang and Yuyi have become the trading center of foreign trade, and have become a common circle of Han people.
Although everyone is still fighting for a few bad money here, the negotiation method between the Han and Hu people is no longer talking with a knife. Just as in history, the Ming Dynasty issued Altan to tribute, but it actually failed to work with millions of soldiers on the frontier. There has been no major war between the Ming and Meng for decades.
With the prosperity of the two border towns, many merchants who were used to traveling to the north of the desert set up the Chamber of Commerce in Huaihuang and Yuyi towns, and sent small caravans and pack horse teams to build small markets north, east and west, and went deeper into the grassland to trade materials with herdsmen.
Therefore, because of the convenience of selling goods, the tribes on the grassland gradually accepted that the Han people used copper coins and cloth as units as exchange currency, and no longer had the past habit of bartering goods, especially the five tribes of the Xi tribe. When people gradually began to talk about transactions, they no longer used horses and sheep, but the Han people's copper coins and cloth.
Therefore, this time Li Chongjiu simply gave copper coins, cloth, Xi tribe, and the soldiers of the Martin army had no objection to this.
Chapter completed!