Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 673

As early as the summer harvest, as many as hundreds of teams have already started the battle.

From the regional competitions in various places, to the finals in Liaodong City.

In the end, the top eight teams were determined, and the most lively ones were Luo Shixin's Mu Niu Liu Ma Team, Zhao Gui's Vanguard Team and Murong Changsheng's White Horse Yi Cong Team. The three teams, one heavy cavalry and two light cavalry, naturally attracted countless people's optimism.

But the other five teams that came in are also very good.

Before the final, Luo Cheng even officially issued a quiz with prizes by the Jiedu Mission, which was actually a bet.However, it is issued by the official, the odds are set, and private lotteries are strictly prohibited.

The final was extremely fierce. After the summer harvest, the common people and business travelers were very happy to watch, and the betting was also very enthusiastic. The Jiedu Mansion unexpectedly made a fortune.

Of course, Luo Cheng also announced earlier that all the money will be used for the expenses of the orphan camp. Now the camp is even bigger. It is not only for adopting and raising step-children for the dead, but also for orphanages, Due to the comprehensive nature of the Junior Military Academy, the size of the orphan camp has now reached a huge scale of more than [-] people, including both boys and girls.

Boys and girls are divided into camps. The so-called camp is actually just using the previous name. In fact, the camp for righteous children is now established outside Liaodong City. There is a special camp city, which is equivalent to an acropolis in Liaodong. The orphan camp is composed of three relatively independent castles, which are divided into the orphan camp, the righteous women camp and the battalion headquarters.

Adopted sons learn literature and martial arts, while adopted daughters mainly focus on literature and supplemented by martial arts. In martial arts, they only practice fitness. In addition, female workers such as embroidery and arithmetic are added. Come in, study for five years, send to the schools in various villages to teach, teach for three years, and then return to the camp to teach and lead the team.

After staying in the camp for another two years, arrangements for marriage began.

Generally, they are married to officers of the Zhongwu Army, especially young officers who are also from the Yier Battalion.

Now, besides most of the youths who came out of Yier Camp, they are still serving as attendant officers in the Zhongwu Army, or have been sent down to the ranks to serve as the deputy of the fire squad, and now they have even formed a group by Luo Cheng's side. Guards with golden guns and silver crossbows composed of adopted sons.

There are 300 people in this group, all of them are adopted sons. They are divided into the Golden Spear Squad and the Silver Crossbow Squad. They are Luo Cheng's close bodyguards.

Luo Cheng attached great importance to the growing camp of foster children, but except for the foster children who left the camp city, the foster sons and daughters of the camp city were not included in the quota of the Zhongwu Army.

In fact, since King Qin came back, Luo Cheng has been readjusting the deployment of the Zhongwu Army.

The Zhongwu Army has [-] soldiers and is stationed in the six counties of Andong Road. Its duty is to guard the border areas outside the customs. It does not need to assume the duties of staying in Beijing and guarding the border.

They moved outside the pass to defend Liaodong.

Plow and fight.

Generally speaking, it is much better than in the past. In the past, the frontier garrison towns were dispatched from the Central Plains to guard in rotation, or every one or two years. The town soldiers lived in the Central Plains and took turns every time. In the past, they only defended for one year at a time, which resulted in military towns on the frontier, which have always been unstable.

Now the Zhongwu army has brought all their families to Liaodong, and even divided the land here, so guarding the border is guarding the family.

But there are also shortcomings.

First of all, although the Zhongwu Army has [-] troops, it has allocated troops to each county, such as [-] in Liaodong County, and [-] in Lushun.

In Luo Cheng's view, in fact, the six counties of Andong Road have a large territory, but they are not facing the same military pressure.The two counties of Liucheng and Liaoxi in western Liaoning are mainly in contact with the two tribes of Xi and Khitan, but now the two tribes are attached to the Sui Dynasty, so there is no pressure.

There is no need to station too many troops there.

On the contrary, the front line of Liaodong is much more stressed.

Especially on the border with Goguryeo, more troops should be stationed, and as the heartland on the Liaohe Plain, it does not need too many troops to garrison.

Therefore, Luo Cheng's plan now is to keep the outside and keep the inside.

Deploy the main force to the front line of the border, that is, the front line of the mountainous area, and in the plain areas on both sides of the Liaohe River, only focus on stationing troops in those big cities as a mobile force.

In this way of thinking, Luo Cheng intends to break the restrictions on the number of troops in each county.

Fifty-one thousand government soldiers and [-] county soldiers, a total of [-] troops, he has to rearrange.

There are generally two types of military formations in the Sui Dynasty. One is the establishment of the soldiers when they are stationed, that is, the establishment during training. It is the fire brigade brigade mansion, with ten soldiers in one fire team, 50 firemen in one team, and two teams in one brigade. Hundreds of people, one regiment and two teams of 200 people, one government has four to six regiments, 200 to [-] people.

And in case of war, some soldiers and horses will be drawn from various military mansions, gathered at the designated locations, and then reorganized.

This kind of wartime organization is still based on the team fire, but the team has become a hundred people, and above the team is a regiment or battalion. A cavalry regiment has 2000 people, or an infantry regiment has [-] people.

Above the regiment, there is another compartment, and above the compartment, there is an army.An army ranging from 2 to [-] people.

Formation is actually preparation for combat.

The different establishments are actually to adapt to the tactical thinking of different periods.

Just like in the musket era when platoons were shot, the organization of platoons and companies appeared. It was because in that era, muskets were most powerful when fired in volleys, so the platoon unit appeared.

Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period had an eight-array map handed down from generation to generation. This eight-array map is actually not a fantasy eight-diagram array. On the contrary, he is a military formation. The eight-array map was improved on the basis of the five-army model of the Han Dynasty. .

The five armies are the front, back, middle, left, and right five armies. The five armies simply divide an army into five parts: front, back, left, middle, and right.

The eight formation map is divided into nine parts, which is similar to the well field system in the Zhou Dynasty. The well field system in the Zhou Dynasty divided a piece of land into nine parts, and distributed the outer eight parts to eight common people, and then the middle part, For those belonging to the government, the eight common people planted their own land, and then cooperated to cultivate the government's land, and the harvest went to Zegong. This is the well field system.

Zhuge's Eight Formation Diagram is based on the army formation composed of wells. The army is divided into nine parts, each of which occupies one piece, and the remaining one is the part led by the commander, acting as the The role of the general reserve team.

Coincidentally, Luo Cheng's teacher, Zhang Xutuo, has eight wind arrays, which can attack and defend.

This eight-wind array is actually similar to Zhuge Liang's eight-array map, which is to change the past five armies into eight armies plus one reserve team.

According to the law of war, the nine pieces of land divided into wells are the place of the square formation. The five armies only occupy five or five positions in the front, back, left, and right sides, and the four corners of the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest are idle land. Only occupying five formations, this is the Five Armies Law.

(End of this chapter)