There was a heavy 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 of the Jin Dynasty that was riddled with holes.
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 poor 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 attacked each other. Last time they all sat on the sidelines, but can you guarantee it will be the same this time?
After King Changsha came to power, his first task was to rectify the imperial guards. He made great moves. He once served as the Lieutenant Colonel of the Northern Army and 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 system. How can it be changed so easily? As a result, there were many people who had a close relationship with the two kings of Chengdu and Hejian, and the Imperial Guards, who had relatively good combat capabilities, actually split.
Most of the more than 10,000 people who surrendered this time were 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 Governor (Sima Yi) may have no choice but to shrink the front and retreat to Luoyang to defend it."
"Troublesome." Mi Huang nodded in agreement.
If Sima Yi no longer trusts the various troops stationed abroad, then he can only order 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.
If you surrender before fighting, how will you be viewed by others? This is actually very fatal when the enemy is outnumbered.
In particular, many scholars do not understand military affairs. They will only judge the strength of the army based on the number of troops, and will not consider the quality, equipment level, and elite level of the soldiers at all.
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? Is it really unbeatable?
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! Let's take it 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, you can demolish private houses."
"No." Shao Xun responded.
He felt more and more that Mi Huang was a good person.
He spoke politely, unlike ordinary scholars who were condescending to him.
People are honest, if they don’t play tricks on you, they will do what they should.
His military ability is indeed weak, and he doesn't often stay in the military camp, but if you have any problems, he will try his best to solve them after he knows about them. As the saying goes, he should do his best to take charge of his duties after he was in charge of the building for one day.
Such people are very good.
"After repairing the outer walls and the building, you and Yang Bao can discuss whether they will be released 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 without power.
As for the children and family members of wealthy families, not many will stay in Luoyang, and they have all fled to the suburbs to seek refuge. Some walked far away, taking their servants with them to the mountains in Xincheng and Luhun in the south.
If you really can’t leave, you can find a way to live in the inner city, or bring together several or more than a dozen families 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 tighter and tighter.
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 Wangfu Dianji came over and conveyed some news: In fact, it was nothing special, it was just a matter of being calm and calm.
Shao Xun took the opportunity to ask for a large number of arrows, wound 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.
The soldiers of this era, pikemen, were pikemen. Apart from poking people with their spears, they didn't know much about other skills. A sword-and-shielder is a sword-and-shielder, and even archers and crossbowmen have specialized units - this is called a "pure team."
However, military level continues to develop with the times. By the Tang Dynasty, the requirements were very high. All soldiers must be able to shoot arrows.
Spears, rifles, and cross swords are everyone's standard weapons, which means that at best you need to be proficient in three skills, namely, swords, guns, and bows.
In fact, it was far more than a standard battalion, as well as 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 to do without you.
After the Tang Army's crossbowmen finished shooting, they had to come forward with 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 cost of training the Hua Tui is too high, and they can only be recruited soldiers who eat food. 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 involving 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, spears, 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. .”
"No." Li Zhong, who was following him, responded immediately.
"Choose four other tall and brave men to come to me and listen to my orders, let them -" At this point, Shao Xun looked at Chen Yougen and said, "You will be in charge, and you will be the captain. When fighting, 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 prefers 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 two-handed epee troops, such as Heiyun Changjiandu, Left and Right Changjian Army, etc., which were generally elite troops.
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 injuries for injuries, and fought for life. Facing the enemy's spear formation, he swung the heavy sword to kill them.
This is a very suitable weapon for outlaws.
When he was in Panyuan, Shao Xun personally guided him 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 asked 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 machine, and an epee to follow him all day long - Superintendent? , originally means "supervising the war chief".
"The remaining three teams should take time to practice footwork every day." Shao Xun continued to give instructions: "I will teach you personally. Remember, you are recruiting soldiers. Soldiers have to be busy with farm work all day long and do not know a few skills. It’s excusable, but you can’t be so lax in recruiting soldiers, you have to be worthy of your share of food and salary.”
"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. Let’s take a short rest and burn two sticks of incense before continuing to practice archery.”
When everyone was resting, Shao Xun came to the children and teenagers of the first, second and third teams.
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 brush up on 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 a place. If you can't govern the place, you won't be able to gain a foothold in the long term.
There is only one time traveler, and even if he has any good ideas or ideas, he still needs someone to execute them.
A reserve cadre team that suits one's own preferences is the main reason why the time traveler's will can be effectively implemented.
There are several new teachings in the camp.
With the war approaching, prices soared, 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 and reserve cadres in batches.
The aristocratic families do have a monopoly on education, and it is precisely because of this that you need to break it.
Without a talent group outside of the aristocratic families, what else can you do except rely on them?
