The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 406
(It’s sun again, I’m weak, and I’m in a trance. I wrote this chapter on my stomach. I tried my best. I’ll make up more when I’m done. Thank you)

Meiying is sparse, the ice is melting and venting, and the east wind is darkly changing the years.

The days are warming up day by day, the grass is green, the trees are sprouting, and another spring is coming.

Zhao Tama's military training on the bank of the Yellow River was not a large-scale exercise, but a cavalry team of more than a thousand people.

This cavalry has a total of more than 600 people and is composed of three parts. The Scarlet Pioneer Regiment has [-] people, and the Dragon Guards' Ninth Commander and Tenth Commander each have [-] people.

The Scarlet Vanguard Army is Zhao Tao's personal guard. They were all selected when they were young, and it goes without saying that they are loyal.

The [-]th and [-]th commanders of the Dragon Guard Army, after years of continuous blood changes, replaced those who were from military households, those with family members, those who were unable to continue, those who were timid and cowardly, and those who had complicated and changeable minds replace.

Now the rest of these can be said to be brought in by Zhao Tong. There are not many locals in Gyeonggi, and most of them are refugees. They lost their land in their hometown and had no one to rely on. Zhao Tong selected from thousands of people to be included in the Forbidden Army.

In addition to the normal military salary, Zhao Tong has a lot of rewards in private. These people have no capital, but Zhao Tong's reward is more than the military salary. Privy Councilor, East Mansion and West Mansion.

Some of these people fought against Wang Qing in Lianghuai, and most of them also participated in the conquest of Fangla. They are not melon eggs. They have seen the battlefield and blood, and they dare to fight. different.

Perhaps the overall combat power of the more than 1000 people is not as good as that of the Western Army. After all, the Western Army has fought more battles, but it is not far behind, because it is a selection of the best.

Regardless of strength, speed, and reaction, they are all out of a hundred, and Zhao Tong replaced their horses with the best and weapons with the sharpest, instead of ordinary instructors teaching them how to handle swords and guns, but directly let Lu Junyi, Du Po, and Xu Ning three People personally guide, not only long soldiers have to learn bows and arrows, but also short soldiers have to practice.

As for the battle formation, let Zhang Xian take the lead. He has already passed on all the art of war in Meng De's new book to Zhang Xian, so that he and these cavalry can hone each other and make progress with each other.

Zhao Tang felt that it would not take long for this team to reach the level of the cavalry of the Western Army, and even surpass it. After all, they have been eating small things, but unfortunately there are only more than 300 people.

But this is the biggest business Zhao Tun can do in Gyeonggi right now, if it goes on any longer, something will happen.

Thousands of 800 people can still deceive people's eyes and ears. If there are more people, people with a heart will find out and go up to stir up wind and rain.

And these more than 1000 people, he actually intends to use them as a private army, in case of emergencies in the future. After all, he only has the right to manage troops, not the right to deploy them. Once something unpredictable happens in the future, some of his subordinates can use them. A word from the Emperor Daojun, or the control of the Privy Council, would not directly turn him into a polished prince.

Operating under the eyes of Emperor Daojun is actually extremely risky. Although Emperor Daojun indulges in fun, he is not at all confused about power, especially military power.

And the system of the Song Dynasty also determined that it was impossible for Zhao Tun to play a big role in the Tokyo Forbidden Army. If he wanted to steal the beam and replace him, it would be impossible.

At this moment, he was leaning on the tiger leather chair, watching Zhang Xian command the cavalry to form various formations.

There are fourteen chapters in Mengde's new book, the first one is the general outline, the last one is the political strategy, and the remaining twelve chapters on the Art of War are: Lin, Bing, Fighting, Zhe, All, Array, Column, Number, Group, Zai, Forward.

Among them, the formation chapter is about the formation method. There are large formations and small formations, many of which are deduced from Yin-Yang Bagua and Qimen Dunjia, implying the way of mutual generation and restraint between heaven, earth and universe.

Although more than a thousand years have passed, the current army is different from that of the three-point era, but it is not necessarily impossible to use it. Many formations can still come in handy. The worst thing is to use formations to drill soldiers, which is better than rigid orders.

Zhao Tong watched carefully, the [-] cavalry started from the formation of a long snake, followed by the formation of two dragons coming out of the water, the formation of three talents, the formation of four gates, the formation of five tigers and sheep, the formation of six Ding and Liujia, and the formation of seven stars and Big Dipper. The eight-door golden lock formation, the nine-character chain formation, the ten-sided ambush formation, and some large formations set up small formations, and the small formations combine with large formations.

Moreover, using formations to train troops, especially cavalry, is also equivalent to practicing riding skills. After all, there is no room for mistakes between horses, and subtleties require exquisite control.

Seeing that the whole team in front could advance and retreat, move freely, and come and go like a tide, Zhao Tang couldn't help but nodded. Zhang Xian's hard work these days has not been in vain, and this army already has the appearance of some elite soldiers.

It is extremely difficult to train an elite soldier from the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, just like trying to train a group of sheep to change their temperament and become wolves, the possibility is almost slim.

But this army is different, there are no lazy military households of the imperial army, nor the kind of old veterans. Zhao Tong even stationed them alone to prevent them from having too much contact with other imperial soldiers.

Firstly, it was because of the matter of private rewards, which must not be disclosed, otherwise it would be difficult to explain, although he had put a password ban on this matter, but he was not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

The second is that the veterans of the Forbidden Army all have jingles passed down from generation to generation, which are full of lazy and slippery ways of being a soldier. It is better not to know such things.

Therefore, this cavalry is not the foundation of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army. Zhao Tong is confident that he will be trained as an elite soldier. He has already emerged and will stand out in time.

Zhao Tong sat on the chair and pondered for a while, then suddenly called Zhang Xian and said, "I see that although these soldiers advance and retreat quite methodically, they seem to have insufficient stamina!"

Zhang Xiandao: "What the lord said is that these people's stamina is indeed a bit weak, and they still haven't practiced enough to develop long-term strength."

Zhao Tong squinted his eyes and said: "The strength to be able to continue fighting is very important. Regardless of cavalry or infantry, it is most taboo to decline again, exhausted three times, and then decline may be inevitable, but exhausted three times is absolutely unavoidable."

He said these words with certain considerations. Take the Western Army as an example. The Western Army has always been good at fighting. It has been fighting against Xixia and Fan people for hundreds of years. Many general families even have ancestral combat experience and family art of war. It was spread, but when they met the Jurchen cavalry, the results of the battle were hard to describe.

Before and after the Jingkang Incident, the Western Army participated in major battles such as the Battle of Taiyuan and the Battle of Fuping.

The reasons for the defeat can be summed up in various ways, but one of them is acquiesced by everyone, that is, lack of endurance and lack of Jurchen strength on the battlefield.

The terrain in the northwestern part of the Song Dynasty was changeable. When the Song army fought with Xixia, the Xixia cavalry and infantry often used complex terrain to cooperate in combat.

The Western Army, which has fought against the Xixia people for tens of hundreds of years, is also used to this type of battle. They often use cavalry to intercept, that is, use small groups of elite cavalry to compete with Xixia cavalry to block the enemy's cavalry and infantry. connect.

The Western Army has been fighting like this for a long time, and they have long been accustomed to the habit of the Xixia elite cavalry to rest after one or two charges.

And the boasted words of "Jingyuan Iron Cavalry are the best in the world" were ruthlessly exposed at this moment.

Although the Jurchen cavalry also attacked with heavy cavalry, there were 50 cavalry archers in every 30-man team, and they were used to fighting in two parts. The 30-man cavalry archer team often rushed in front of the Song army to shoot at close range or even fight. This made the Western Army very uncomfortable.

Because almost all the cavalry troops in the Song Dynasty were specialized in cavalry and archery. [-]% practice guns and knives.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Western Army is far inferior to the Jurchen cavalry in melee combat ability at close range. Even when they are really close, many of them have no strength to fight weapons anymore.

The tactics used by the Western Army to fight Xixia did not work against the Jurchen cavalry. They couldn't adapt to the long battlefield rhythm and continuous combat methods of the Jurchen cavalry. Coupled with other factors, they naturally suffered defeats one after another.

Zhao Tong felt that if one wanted to defeat the Jurchens head-on on the battlefield, endurance as the basis of combat was indispensable.

Jurchen have been fishing, hunting and nomadic all year round, all of them are tough, and they have an advantage in their own strength. If the strength is no match for the opponent, then it will be even more difficult to win.

Zhang Xian said at this time: "My lord, this subordinate understands."

Zhao Tong pondered slightly: "This article can be regarded as the core of future practice!"

Zhang Xian was slightly surprised when he heard that, Zhao Tun was making the regulations for the training of soldiers, he hurriedly said: "The subordinates will find notes on paper when they turn around!"

Zhao Tun nodded, and walked towards the Yellow River with his hands behind his back, watching the torrential river, rushing forward, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He just wants to set a tone for the future training. This tone is specifically for Jurchen's fighting style. Even if he can't suppress the opponent, he will not be defeated at the first touch. A big defeat is a loss...

(End of this chapter)