Sleepless night!
When Buddha's dawn was approaching, Pang Ji's servants finally brought him some good news.
In view of the ferocity of this bandit army, the surrounding garrison troops had already gathered near Quanzhou City after receiving the news.
It's just that in the military system of the Song Dynasty, the ministries were not subordinate to each other, and the principle of small and large prime ministers was always followed, so that the group was leaderless, like a puddle of mud.
However, when they heard that Pang Ji, the transporter, was nearby, they immediately found their backbone.
So the two sides hit it off immediately, and in the early morning they converged into a powerful torrent.
The process of arranging the simulation is so complicated that even military enthusiast Li Ning didn't understand it. But there was another thing that made him happy. The Fujian archers holding compound bows were also ready.
Although the more Li Ning thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong - this order to recruit archers seemed to have been issued more than ten years later during the Qingli period... Why is it there now?
Did anything else happen during this period?
Just as he was thinking about it, Pang Ji, who had already arranged the military formation, walked up to him excitedly and said, "Sir, look, is this military formation worthy of a battle?"
Li Ning glanced at it, immediately gave a thumbs up and said: "Mr. Chun is really a good trick!"
"Hahaha! I'm not bragging. If we have an army of hundreds of thousands, we can still form a formation of tens of thousands of soldiers."
Li Ning almost choked to death from the sea breeze.
The so-called Pingrong Wanquan Formation is a set of formations created by Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty himself. A total of 140,000 soldiers were needed. Because the scale was so large that the beginning and end of the formation could not see each other, so more than 200 so-called "watchmen" were specially set up to act as lookouts.
But even with the high-altitude scouts, the formation of 140,000 people was still too chaotic and dense, which not only affected the transmission of military orders, but also severely tested the Song Dynasty's command system.
The command system of the Song Dynasty itself was a strange thing. First of all, the literacy rate of military officers is low, and war has always been carried out in a wild way. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the cavalry, which had no numerical advantage, captured the main force of the Liao Kingdom and beat them wildly. As a result, they won great victories across the city and at Yanmen Pass. However, this also caused a fundamental difference in the command habits between them and civil servants, who often acted as commander-in-chief of the army, thus creating a situation where the generals did not know the soldiers and the soldiers did not know the generals.
Under this situation, the wisdom of ten thousand people is already quite problematic, let alone a giant formation of 140 thousand people!
Therefore, although the so-called full array of soldiers and soldiers actually appeared in history, the final result was almost always defeat in every battle.
Therefore, Li Ning's evaluation of this formation is only a scoff.
Pang Ji was a little dissatisfied and asked, "Why are you laughing, sir?"
Li Ning clearly felt this dissatisfaction, so he had no choice but to yell: "We don't really take action, why bother with such a big battle."
Pang Ji, who had already guessed that he was not serious, naturally gave up his dissatisfaction, but he couldn't help but curious: "How are you going to retreat from the enemy?"
"Bluffing to intimidate, knowing the benefits and concealing harm to lure."
These words were so novel that Pang Ji was startled for a moment, and then he laughed and said, "It turns out you were just trying to trick them into leaving."
"Yes. It's just that my level of deception is limited, so I'm bothering all the fellow villagers."
"Sir, you are so polite." Pang Ji said with a smile, "You have to be careful on both sides. It's better to gather together first. If the negotiation fails, then..."
At this time, there was a noise in the distance!
Li Ning took a closer look and saw that the Macedonian army was gathering.
The distinctive Sarisha spear was now pointing darkly at the sky, as if dark clouds were falling to the ground.
Li Ning chuckled twice at Pang, who immediately understood and waved to several rural soldiers officers beside him. The phalanx of nearly 8,000 people began to move slowly.
They did not have Sarissa spears, but not long after they moved forward, the archers, under Li Ning's order, demonstrated the power of the compound recurve bow with a volley.
Due to the use of "glue materials", especially animal horns and sinews, the compound recurve bow has greater elasticity, a more solid force-bearing structure, and even a more comfortable grip. All these have greatly improved the range and accuracy of bows and arrows.
With such excellent weapons, the Song Dynasty would of course focus on training its users. Therefore, recruiting archers was very common during the Northern Song Dynasty.
After all, training an archer is relatively simple and easy, as long as you don't shoot yourself in the foot. But the fighting moves require repeated practice to form muscle memory.
Sure enough, after this round of volleys, although the arrows did not fly very far due to their arm strength, the Macedonian infantry phalanx on the opposite side was still startled.
The shooting range of bows and arrows in the Song Dynasty was generally about 150 meters, but if it were replaced by a crossbow, the starting range would be more than 200 meters.
As for the farthest range, since "there is still a fierce debate in the academic world", let's give him an unlimited range first - the arrow that Zhang Huan (to be tested) shot Xiao Dalin to death before the Chanyuan Alliance was concluded. According to legend (on the Internet), it is only a thousand steps away, or about 1,500 meters. This is probably not the ultimate range of the Song Dynasty crossbow.
After all, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Wei Pi increased the range of the three-bow crossbow to one thousand steps - there is a solid record in "Song History Biography of Wei Pi". The structure of the Eight Ox Crossbow is more complicated, and it often requires several or even ten people to turn the winch. Its power is higher than that of the three-bow crossbow with a simple structure.
One thousand steps - what is the concept of 1536 meters. The famous Mauser 98K has a maximum range of 1,500 meters and an effective range of 800 meters. You can pierce the chest from 600 meters away, and you can be sure of a headshot from 300 meters away. In short, if the time traveler landed a 98K, he would not be able to kill Xiao Dalin outside Chanzhou City.
The more distinctive M200 sniper rifle, which uses special bullets and a manual bolt operation, can only achieve an effective range of two thousand meters.
Of course, the accuracy of this thing is terrifying. If one fell to the ground, not to mention Xiao Dalin, Queen Mother Xiao might be able to kill them all.
Of course, Alexander is no exception. The Queen Mother was hiding in the camp and could not come out, but Alexander would charge forward at every turn. There are countless opportunities to kill him.
However, this man didn't dare to be rash today.
A black rain of arrows from the enemy rose into the sky, directly covering one-third of the distance between the two. What's even worse is that there are several things that are close to torsion trebuchets, which clearly shoot the bows and arrows across half the field.
"Stop!" Alexander ordered.
"Your Majesty, it is the other party that is advancing! Not us." Amintas reminded.
Alexander, who was used to winning battles, was obviously not used to it. At this time, Quanzhou City, unwilling to be left alone, also put on their show - a shower of arrows was sent out from the top of the city, and several of them directly penetrated Alexander's infantry square. Although the small round shield blocked a few, several soldiers were injured or even killed.
Li Ning frowned. Why didn't these bastards do something yesterday? I have to wait until today to cause trouble!
Pang Ji was also a little annoyed. He ordered his subordinates to use horns to communicate with the other party. After a sound that was much deeper than the vuvuzela, the people in Quanzhou City finally learned of Pang Ji's identity and intentions, and they stopped making any sound at that moment. Quietly prepare reinforcements to be ready.
Pang Ji was finally able to use the "donkey" to go into battle - there was a shortage of horses in the south and Fujian was mountainous, so donkeys were the main tool for freight transportation. As a businessman, Puyane naturally prepared a lot in the manor.
Contrary to what many people imagine, Macedonia is also a country that lacks excellent horse breeds. But their horses are still bigger than donkeys. If Pang Ji, who was nearly fifty years old, hadn't been so graceful and graceful, he would have been under great pressure and would have looked down upon him.
Seeing that the other party was waving to him and not bringing many followers, he ordered Amyntas's cavalry to chase and pick him up, while he walked forward with a few close followers to talk.
The reason why they could have a conversation instead of continuing a written conversation was because Li Ning and others tied Alexander from Linkas into a rice dumpling and used him as a village loudspeaker to communicate with each other.
The following is the first official exchange between the Song Empire and Western civilization.
"Your Majesty King Alexander. Why did you invade our country without any reason? We are thousands of miles away from Macedonia. How did you get here?"
Thousands of miles apart? Alexander was baffled by these words.
Amyntas clearly reported to him that they had found the way they came, which proved that they were in Asia Minor, not far from their hometown in Greece.
"This amiable old man, I think you have made a mistake. The Persians have seized our city-state in Asia Minor. We came here to save our compatriots with controversy and kindness."
This was the standard diplomatic rhetoric in the early days of the Eastern Expedition. It not only conforms to the facts, but also conceals the ambition.
"But this is not Persia, but the area east of Persia. You have indeed come thousands of miles away. Didn't you find anything unusual?" Li Ning stepped forward and said directly in broken Greek.
It must be admitted that his language talent is indeed very high. While others were preparing for war, he spent one night communicating with the Greek soldiers and quickly mastered classical Greek.
Alexander understood, and so did the soldiers behind him.
——Oh, it turns out that the great god of war, Achilles, actually sent them to a place further east in Persia. This is truly magical, and perhaps only Achilles, the god of war, can do it.
Yet their king was embarrassed. He knew that he had discovered the anomaly a long time ago, but in order to prevent the soldiers from having too much suspicion, he lied to the soldiers. Now that the lie has been exposed, I don't know how long his prestige can last.
Fortunately, the soldiers behind him didn't make any unnecessary noise, which gave him some peace of mind.
But immediately there was another problem, which was the "abnormality" Li Ning just mentioned.
That light curtain.
If this is really thousands of miles away, then the light curtain is the culprit.
He still remembered that Amyntas went back through the light thumb monkey, but Ptolemy did not, and what he brought back was completely different information, which made him feel that his subordinates had been deceived.
Moreover, his anger after being deceived seems to have brought him a serious failure.
Look at Alexander of Linkas, the guy with the same name as himself, who is now tied there in embarrassment, not only embarrassing the Greek warriors, but also fully proving the strength gap between the two.
Thinking about the bow and arrow just now, Alexander suddenly felt that maybe this was a more powerful country than Persia.
In this case, there was no need for him to provoke another powerful enemy before destroying Persia.
Therefore, he suddenly changed his attitude and gave the other party a sunny smile: "I'm sorry, dear old man, it seems I made a mistake."
The followers behind him chuckled, and Li Ning on the opposite side also let go of his worries.
Pang Ji saw the change in the young man's face and knew it was time for him to appear again.
"In this way, we will release all the prisoners and provide them with medical treatment. If you are worried, you can also use your own doctors. This is our sincerity!"
Alexander's eyes suddenly lit up and he couldn't help but admire: "This is really a kind country!"
The followers behind him immediately echoed. They are not flattering - this is not a Greek tradition - they share the same values as the king, so they naturally feel that what the king says makes sense.
But Pang Ji hadn't finished his words yet; "But, you have to slow down our plundered population."
Finally, he added heavily: "Especially women!"
The military systems of various Greek city-states were different, but Macedonia was undoubtedly one of the poorest. Women were allowed to accompany their armies, and plunder was often indulged by their commanders.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess the behavior of this group of people last night.
The reason why Pang Ji had such a request was naturally due to Li Ning's teaching.
On the other hand, the reason why the rural soldiers gathered so quickly was because the fear brought by this group of people was too great.
In fact, Alexander knew it well, otherwise, wouldn’t his teacher Aristotle’s many years of education have been a waste of time?
Therefore, he readily agreed to Pang Ji's request and quickly ordered his subordinates to execute it.
At this time, Pang Ji received a small note from Li Ning.
"Light curtain, if you can come, you can come again."
There was a buzz in Pang Ji's mind, this threat was too great. Today they were lucky enough to win, but if the opponent comes back again, I wonder if they will still be so lucky?
Considering this, Pang Ji couldn't help but ask: "What should we do?"
"One, build the city for control. Two, assemble the army and prepare for war!"
Pang Ji understood immediately, but he couldn't help but feel sad. Unexpectedly, the Song Dynasty would actually fight the enemy in his jurisdiction. So the people of Fujian...
Seeing his melancholy expression, Li Ning couldn't help but made a generous speech: "If you want to seek peace for the rest of your life, is there any reason not to practice military preparation?"
Of course Pang Ji understands this, but Li Ning, a young man, speaks a bit harshly. In the past, he was respected because of his knowledge, but now, Pang Ji's expression is a little uneasy.
Fortunately, Li Ning also knew the importance, so he softened his tone immediately and said with a metaphor: "There is a python outside the territory called a cobra. Every time he defends the enemy, he stands with his head held high, his neck swells like a fan, and hisses and screams. The enemy is always frightened by its ferocity. And retreat. However, there is poison in his teeth, and if it drips into the body, he will die on the spot. The fierce appearance is nothing more than a trick. Now we use a trick to retreat the enemy, which fails to show the clear principles of the program and puts the cart before the horse. The worry. The poison of Huang Song is far less than this python, so you should cultivate it."
This statement actually has no nutrition, at least the connotation is the same as before, which is equivalent to saying nonsense. Just because of the excitement, I used classical Chinese. However, Pang Ji found Cobra's statement quite novel and couldn't help but write it down. At the same time, he also secretly made up his mind to arm the snake Huang Song to its teeth.
Of course, this first required the emperor's permission.
It just so happens that such a major matter should be made known to both the government and the public.
