After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 306 Beginning of Army Expansion

However, the news of the new law in Huaicheng still did not go forward, and it became more and more serious, so that many students from the State of Lu rushed to Huaicheng in person to express their opinions and opinions on this.

Meng Di didn't expect this, so with a big wave of his hand, he re-expanded the lecture place outside Huaicheng, and built a lot of houses for the students who come and go, and sent special personnel to maintain it.

Although Meng Di himself was a martial artist in two lifetimes, he firmly believes in one truth, that is, the more he argues, the clearer he is. What's more, there are people like Ji Ran, Sun Wu, and Bai Gui by his side, and in the end, there will definitely be a comparison. Satisfying result.

However, this brought about an unexpected surprise, that is, these students came from all over the world. After seeing the scenery of Huai City, they were deeply shocked, as if they had come to a strange country.

The clothes and conversation of these local people are relatively more elegant. The main reason is that these people can live well as long as they work hard to farm, and the land rent collected by the Han Dynasty is very little.

These ordinary people can do other things to supplement their families at other times, because there are many workshops around Huaicheng, and the Book of Songs says that there are enough warehouses to know etiquette, which is very well demonstrated in Huaicheng.

This is in stark contrast to other vassal states, where ordinary people are struggling to survive. The only thing that can be compared with it is the Qi State in the whole province, but their people don't have such spirit and conversation .

The most important reason is that the voluntary school organized by Meng Dixing has achieved initial results, and most of the officers in the army are literate, and there are great Confucian scholars like Zuo Qiuming in Huaicheng to encourage them to study. The effect is remarkable.

Even for the people of the Song Kingdom who just moved here, most of them are now living with peace of mind. They are very satisfied with their current life, but occasionally when they think of the Song Kingdom, they feel a little sad.

After the news spread, the newcomers were not only students, but also ordinary people. After all, the Lordship System of the Han Dynasty has been promulgated. As long as you farm well or be an official, and gain more military merits in wars, you can get corresponding rewards. knighthood.

This is very attractive to the common people, and even many Yihu tribes, after hearing the news, brought their own tribes to join them, and the reputation of the entire Han Kingdom spread among the vassal states in an instant.

The economy of Huai City has developed so much in a short period of time that Bai Gui had to consider expanding Huai City again. Build a city wall outside.

Since then, Huai City has been divided into the inner city and the outer city. The two cities are similar in function, but the inner city has gradually evolved into a concentration of government-served functional departments, and the outer city has been expanded into a business circle, and according to the function.

The Fangshi in Huaicheng will be resettled in different regions, so that the entire Huaicheng will become orderly.

But Mengdi was very busy during this period, because he wanted to build up an elite force that he had always mastered, so he selected a group of cavalrymen and prepared to send them directly to Sun Wu's men for training.

What he didn't expect was that according to the infantry selection rules, less than 5000 cavalry were selected from among the cavalry. .

To put it bluntly, as long as he can ride a horse, he can enter the cavalry, but the situation is different now. He must consider further improving the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, but these are all his old brothers who fought with him on the battlefield.

Most of the people are not yet old enough to retire. After much consideration, Mengdi decided to split up the cavalry and go out to select a group of cavalry. For those who are too old and their personal abilities are not good enough, let them train the cavalry on the spot. .

After all, they have followed the battle for so long, and they have some experience in cavalry tactics. The remaining category is combat ability, but the corresponding skills are not exquisite enough. They were left in Huaicheng to serve as a mobile force.

The remaining nearly [-] cavalry are relatively qualified. Mengdi plans to use this period of time to conduct rigorous drills, select some soldiers who are suitable to serve as officers, and prepare to build a new cavalry team with them as the skeleton.

The most important thing in an army is the officers at the grassroots level, so fairness and justice are a must. Mengdi presides over this point personally, allowing these cavalry to compete with each other, and then select the best people to train them.

The main reason is that Meng Di has no time to do these things because of the constant battles during this period of time. Now that some people have started to imitate his cavalry tactics, he will keep improving and strive to maximize the combat effectiveness of cavalry.

On this point, Sun Wu put forward a lot of suggestions, that is, to emphasize the cavalry's tactics when fighting, because now the crossbow has basically been finalized and divided into four grades, and the lightest one is specially used by the cavalry.

The heavier one is for infantry, and the other two are large crossbows, one for field battles and the other for city defense.

However, these crossbow arrows are not very effective in piercing the armor of chariots, so a special weapon is used, which is throwing spears. In the Zhou Dynasty, chariots used longbows when fighting long-distance.

When the distance is relatively short, spear throwing is used to increase the lethality, but it is relatively difficult for chariots to concentrate, and the effect of throwing spears is not obvious, so gradually they are relatively less used.

But cavalry is different. When faced with the impact of chariots, light crossbows have limited lethality. At critical times, spears can be used to limit the speed of chariots and can give fatal blows to chariots wearing armor.

Meng Di was very satisfied after the experiment. As long as the cavalry was trained, when they were running at high speed, they could throw the short spears in their hands, and the armor could be pierced within a few dozen steps, and the effect was quite good.

At this time, the Han army was relatively regular, and it completely pushed the war to another level. This time, the reorganization of the cavalry made Mengdi's cavalry attack power completely up to a new level, and gradually began to equip light crossbows.

Because the situation in front of him is not very optimistic, Tian Qi has brought people to the vicinity of Zhongshan at this time, and he has not obeyed Gao Zhang's orders at all, but has been looking for excuses to delay, obviously waiting for an opportunity, the situation has changed Very weird.

(End of this chapter)