Valley Emperor

Since the drill, the middle and high-level officials of Huang Zhushan have discovered a strange thing, that is, they have seen Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen enter and leave the school grounds for several days in a row.

Could it be that Zeng Ziwen, who had been a prisoner for half a year, finally figured out that he wanted to submit to the Tang Dynasty?

But it's not the same. Although this Zeng Ziwen followed Li Xuan frequently in and out of the school these days, he revealed what position he held.

With Zeng Ziwen's original identity and qualifications, if he wants to submit to the Tang Dynasty, then his official position will definitely not be low. The title of a general cannot run away, and his actual position will not be low.

However, no one heard that Li Xuan gave him the title of general!

It can be said that he did not submit to the Tang Dynasty, which is also different, because many people have seen with their own eyes that Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen often discuss military affairs, especially training affairs.

How strange is this situation.

The reason for this strange impression to outsiders is that Zeng Ziwen rejected the title of general or any other official position that Li Xuan wanted to grant him.

Although Zeng Ziwen has loosened his mind and is willing to help Li Xuan solve some problems in military training and even tactical command, he is still unwilling to take any position in the Tang Dynasty because he cannot pass the test in his heart. .

Li Xuan doesn't care about this either. What he needs is Zeng Ziwen's ability. As for the official title, anyway, the official hat of the Tang Dynasty is not worth much. The problem.

Moreover, Zeng Ziwen's actions are more of a kind of psychological comfort for him. Could it be that he did not submit to the Tang Dynasty if he did not hold an official position?

This move is a bit like stealing the bell.

Therefore, Zeng Ziwen refused to serve as an official in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan did not force it, nor did he use the title of personal military adviser to save the country. He directly brought Zeng Ziwen to work to improve the training system of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

I have to say that even though Zeng Ziwen's ability to lead troops to fight was not very good at the beginning, he came from a family of generals, and he has read all kinds of military books. He has a solid understanding of how the army should train and even fight in this era. theoretical foundation.

Well, to put it bluntly, his ability to talk about soldiers is quite good.

However, what Li Xuan wants is his ability to talk about soldiers on paper. You want Li Xuanzhen to let go and let Zeng Ziwen lead the new army of the Tang Dynasty to fight. Li Xuan is not at ease. He is worried that Zeng Ziwen will be scared to cry on the battlefield again!

Zeng Ziwen's theoretical level is quite good. Although most of his theories are limited to the training and combat of cold-weapon troops, the army, whether it is a cold-weapon army or a modern army, has a lot of things figured out. It can be used just by changing it.

Five days later, with the help of Zeng Ziwen, Li Xuan finally came up with a complete new army training code.

This exercise code is not completely new, but has sorted out many training methods of the Datang New Army that have been issued before, and finally compiled it into a document.

The number of words in the full text is not many, but it is more than ten thousand words, and the content is very simple. It only records the organization and basic training methods and basic tactics used in combination.

However, although most of these things have been formulated by Li Xuan before, Li Xuan was not a professional soldier before, and he was anecdotal about military theory. It is inevitable that there will be some jokes and mistakes that laymen see from experts.

For example, when Li Xuan trained the troops before, they always prepared for large-scale head-to-head confrontation, which led to the size of each team being a single type of arms.

In other words, none of these teams actually have the ability to fight alone.

Zeng Ziwen raised his own question.

No matter the size of the enemy army, you can’t dispatch the entire army with one mind. For example, when dealing with a small-scale patrol force of the enemy army, only 20 or 30 people are enough. However, how should you assign troops at this time?

In response to this issue, Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen discussed for a few days. At the beginning, Zeng Ziwen suggested that the subordinate teams should be integrated, and the spearmen, musketeers, sword and shield players, and archers should all be scattered and distributed, so that each Each team has the ability to fight independently.

But this proposal was rejected by Li Xuan without hesitation.

Why?

Because the enemy facing the King of the Tang Dynasty is the Ming army, and the number of the Ming army far exceeds the number of the King of the Tang Dynasty. It is foreseeable that the King of the Tang Dynasty will face any Ming army in the future. in order.

As for other arms, it's okay to say, but the arms of the Musketeer need scale effects. If the number is too small, there will be no obvious actual combat effect at all.

Due to the fact that the hit rate of muskets in this era is too low at medium and long distances, if a musketeer wants to achieve effective hits at medium and long distances, what he needs is coverage shooting, that is, a large group of people will shoot, and few people will shoot. It's no use at all!

However, the need for small-scale operations that Zeng Ziwen said did exist. After Li Xuan considered it, he planned to create a temporary system.

On weekdays, they still train separately, and when there is a need, they directly select personnel from each team to form a small-scale combat team.

After all, the new army of the Tang Dynasty now has very few troops, and it is too small to concentrate troops to fight. It is unlikely that a strategy of dividing troops will be adopted during battles. This disrupted the training and deployment of the entire army.

After all, according to Li Xuan's plan, he wants to gradually increase the proportion of musketeers, and eventually eliminate spearmen, archers and even sword and shield fighters. When all the infantry are musketeers, naturally there will be no coordination of arms. defective.

Today, the only limitation on the number of musket soldiers of the Datang New Army is the number of muskets produced. However, the production of muskets has reached 20 a month, and it is still gradually increasing. Considering that the number of the Datang New Army is not large, this is the case every time. The output of 20 sticks per month is also enough for initial use.

After the official release of the new army training code, the training of the new army of the Tang Dynasty was obviously more regular, and the effect on the musketeers may not be obvious~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After all, Zeng Ziwen's expertise is not in the musketeers, but in the cold weapon troops. Therefore, the effect on spearmen, archers and sword and shield players is quite obvious, and the archers who seemed to be soft before have improved significantly.

These archers have individual archery abilities, but what they lack is only systematic training, especially the training in formation.

Now with Zeng Ziwen's help, the quality of these cold-weapon soldiers has improved significantly.

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty was training intensively, the time passed day by day, and soon it was the day of the summer harvest!

If it was before, the Datang New Army would suspend training to help the summer harvest and summer seeds, but this summer, the Datang New Army had already brought their swords, guns and dry food on their way out of the mountains before the official start of the summer harvest!

Those old and weak women and children who stayed in Huangzhu Mountain did not come out because they complained that they were the busiest time of the year, but were willing to undertake more farm work.

Because everyone in the mountain knows that they will not be able to harvest enough grain this summer, and they need to go out to the mountain to 'harvest grain' when the grain outside the mountain is also being harvested, so that thousands of people in Huangzhu Mountain will not go hungry in the second half of the year. !