Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 187

Everything in the Wuyang Guard camp completely overturned all of Lu Xiangsheng's previous conjectures.Wuyang Guard's equipment, Wuyang Guard's morale, and Wuyang Guard's training were all beyond his imagination. It seemed that Yang Menglong led the soldiers very well, even better than him!The horizontal knives, long spears, and armor equipped by Wuyang Guard all made him full of praise.Although Wuyang Guard's armor is quite simple, it is a set of leather armor embedded with six steel plates to protect the vital points of the chest and abdomen, and there is no protection for the limbs at all, but those steel plates are quite thick, and even a light arrow within fifty steps cannot penetrate them. Moreover, it is light, and soldiers who have undergone strict training can run around like flying in it.If it was the Zhajia made by the Ming army, it would not be so light. It weighed nearly [-] catties, and it would be impossible to chase the enemy when wearing it.

Yang Menglong gave him [-] sets of such armor, and it was very cheap.

Lu Xiangsheng was even more fascinated by Wuyangwei's training.After watching Wuyang Guard's recruit training, he came to the conclusion that this kind of training method was something he had never heard of, but it was extremely effective!So I simply stayed in the military camp all day long, greedily learning all this.Yang Menglong doesn't care, he's a good buddy, there's no need to hide his tricks everywhere.His method of training troops is not so magical. It can be summed up in sixteen words: "Officers and soldiers are equal, rewards and punishments are clearly defined, discipline is strict, and orders are prohibited." They couldn't learn it even if they were taught the method. Only Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army could do it.The Tianxiong army was a different kind among the Ming army. They ran out of food for several days when they were suppressing the bandits. If they were replaced by other Ming armies, even if they did not break up, they should have mutinied. Only the Tianxiong army gritted their teeth and continued to fight, and finally won. It was because Lu Xiang took the lead. The soldiers had nothing to eat, and he didn't eat either. They really shared the joys and sorrows.If there is another army that can copy the Wuyang Guard's model, it must be the Tianxiong Army. Lu Xiangsheng wants to imitate it, but he still wants it.The two simply stayed in the barracks all day, exchanging their training and combat experience. Lu Xiangsheng's strategy opened Yang Menglong's horizons, and Yang Menglong's wild way of using tactics also benefited Lu Xiangsheng a lot.

"The musketeers are divided into multiple rows, stepping forward in unison with the beat of the drum, until they are only thirty or forty steps away from the enemy, and then raise their guns in salvo. After the first row is finished, they immediately retreat and reload, and the second row continues to shoot. So many The platoon of Musketeers opened fire in turn, and the bullets rained endlessly. Even if the enemy had three heads and six arms, they could not escape death. After shooting the enemy's positions in disorder, the cavalry or infantry immediately charged, or simply let the Musketeers rush forward with their bayonets and stab them fiercely. There are two holes in the bayonet! This style of play does not have any tricks, but it puts forward extremely strict requirements on the discipline of the musketeers, because when they fire at the enemy, they also have to bear the enemy's arrow rain or even musket shooting To put it bluntly, it is an exchange of human lives. The enemy's arrows are like rain, and the comrades around him will fall in clusters. Most people will collapse soon in this situation. If their hearts are not big enough and their wills are not strong enough, Letting them go up is just to deliver food to the enemy!" Yang Menglong pointed to the formation of crossbowmen who were practicing salvo, and explained to Lu Xiangsheng the tactics of queuing up and shooting.

Lu Xiangsheng felt the same way: "Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, in all battle formations, archers have taken the lead. Wearing leather armor and holding powerful crossbows, they are dozens of steps away from the enemy archers and shoot repeatedly until one side completely collapses. This formation The method of counter-shooting is similar to the three-stage shooting method created by Mu."

Yang Menglong said: "Yes, this is a housekeeping skill that our ancestors have played for 2000 years. I don't know how many Hulu wailed under the rain of arrows that came like a wind, but now they have been completely abandoned. I When fighting against a musketeer, you often fire a gun in a panic, and before you can reload the bullet, the enemy will rush in front of you, and the musketeer will only be slaughtered, which is really sad and deplorable.”

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said, "Tell me more about queue training. This is very important."

Yang Menglong said: "Queue training, internal affairs training, and military posture are all of little use. To put it bluntly, they are subtly instilling a concept of 'unconditional obedience to orders' into the hearts of every soldier..."

Lu Xiangsheng's body shook slightly: "Unconditionally obey the order?"

Yang Menglong said: "Yes, obey orders unconditionally. A unit that obeys orders unconditionally, even if the command issued by the commander is wrong, they will still carry it out without any discount. Even if the general dies in battle, all the senior officers die Now, as long as there is a low-level officer in command, they will continue to fight, and they will never retreat until they receive orders."

Lu Xiangsheng gasped: "Terrible!"

An hour later, at the riverside, Wuyangwei let Lu Xiangsheng see what an army that obeys orders unconditionally is like: Han Peng ordered them to go forward, but he was busy talking to Lu Xiangsheng, leaving the soldiers who were going forward to dry. When they got to the side, the hundreds of soldiers kicked all the way into the bitterly cold river, kicked in a neat queue across the one-meter-deep river to the bank, and then continued to walk forward. Obviously, there was no According to Han Peng's order, they will never stop unless they are too tired to cramp!
Lu Xiangsheng gasped again: "Terrible!"

This terrifying force made Lu Xiangsheng extremely envious.Yang Menglong was also generous, and taught him his own experience and methods of military training without reservation. Seeing the two chatting endlessly, the soldiers of Wuyang Guard were not at all unhappy about being stolen from their teachers. Gloating: It seems that the Tianxiong Army is going to be in trouble!
After all, Yang Menglong is a busy man, he only stayed in the barracks for seven days, and a lot of people came to urge him.The potatoes have been harvested, and he has to decide how to distribute the mountains of potatoes; similarly, the 60 shi potatoes have been delivered, and Cheng Ji urged him to help build a potato processing plant; most importantly, Nanyang Those thousands of households in Wei also came over and asked him when he would go to see them!He really wanted to cut himself in half and use one as two!In desperation, he had no choice but to return to the Wuyang Qianhu Office and continue working.

The potato distribution plan is very simple. All military households are given ten shi per household. As for whether they keep the ten shi potatoes for themselves or sell them, it is up to them.The remaining 10,000+ shi left [-] shi as dishes for the Wuyang Guards and the miners, and the rest were all processed into potato noodles for storage—who knows what will happen next year, and it’s not a bad thing to store more food.The military households who received the potatoes were overjoyed. Ten dan was enough for them to eat for a long time!

Some laughed while others cried, and the military households were still immersed in the joy of the harvest, and a burst of miserable crying came over.A group of hundreds of households came, but they were not from Wuyangwei, but from Nanyangwei.These poor hundreds of households were all in tattered clothes and skinny. As soon as they entered the door, they rushed over and hugged Yang Menglong's leg and cried loudly: "My lord, save the thousands of military households in Nanyangwei, we are about to starve to death." It's..."

What is cuckoo crying blood?

What is liver and intestines broken?

That's it!

Liu Jintang’s misfortune was too great. Not only was he unlucky, but the whole Nanyang Guard was also unlucky. Under the wrath of Chongzhen, the officers with more than a thousand deputy officers in Nanyang Guard were almost wiped out. Now it can be said that the group has no leader.Hearing that the Nanyang Guards were going to be disbanded, there was a burst of mourning. The Nanyang Guards were in a state of disarray. Many people stole some things and ran away. With the Nanyang Guards gone, their originally extremely meager food and wages were naturally gone. Waiting here to starve to death?But after hearing that Yang Menglong took over the entire Nanyang Guard, people's hearts miraculously settled down. Later, when the news came that the potatoes in Wuyang Guard's field had a bumper harvest, even the fleeing military households came back.In the past year, they have heard too much about Yang Menglong and Wuyangwei. Wuyangwei can eat enough food, the children still have books to read, and little Yang Shuai even subsidizes the military households out of his own pocket. The military households were mad with jealousy!Now that General Xiao Yang is going to take over all the guards, they also see hope. Even the servants who went to other guards because of their martial arts skills have come back with a look of embarrassment. Let's do a good job in the sanitation of the guard, clean it up, don't fight or make trouble, just wait for Yang Menglong to take office, and then follow Yang Menglong to live a good life like those bastards in Wuyang Qianhu Office.But Yang Menglong seemed unwilling to take over this mess, and there was no movement for a long time. Seeing that the little rice left in the guard was about to be eaten up, and the weather was getting colder every day, everyone was in a hurry. Represented by the popular Baihu, they went to Wuyang to cry...

After listening to the cries of the representatives of Nanyang Wei, Yang Menglong took out [-] shi of potatoes and asked these poor people to take them back. Let's get through this winter first... Those guys came miserable and happy when they left , all secretly glad that they didn't run away, otherwise they would have to regret their intestines.No, even before Yang Menglong officially took over, he gave them great benefits, a whole ten thousand stone potatoes, enough for them to eat for a long time!
"What are you going to do with those military households in Nanyangwei?" Qi Hu asked with a smile after sending off those guys who came to cry for poverty.

Yang Menglong said: "As usual, they continue to farm their fields. As for the soldiers, they are no longer needed. I will recruit others."

Qi Hu agreed: "Yes, it's okay to let them farm, but it's absolutely impossible to let them go into battle."

Yang Menglong rubbed his temples and said, "When I think of having to manage the eating and drinking of tens of thousands of military households who are yellow and emaciated and will collapse when the wind blows, my head is buzzing...Old man, do you think I am born to be busy? Damn it, it’s been a whole year, and there’s never been a moment to take a breath!”

Qi Hu smiled: "You will be even busier next year."

Yang Menglong frowned, and heaved a long sigh.That's right, it took him a year to manage the Wuyang Thousand-Households Office. Now he has to manage four Thousand-Households Offices, so he must be exhausted?Now he is repaying the debt for the ease and laziness before the crossing. He was too lazy before, and now he has to pay back twice as much!
The north wind is blowing, yellow leaves are flying, and dark clouds are covering the sun. Everything reminds people: Chongzhen's three years are coming to an end.

What will it look like next year?
(End of this chapter)