From Chief to Ball

In contrast to cavalry, before the appearance of stirrups, the period of training cavalry for farming nations was very long, and the training impact also took a very long time.

Before that, Chen Jian had stipulated that the land of each tribe must be reclaimed according to the regulations. The three furrows could just accommodate the wheels of the chariot, including when the church planted the city of E, and the width of the furrows was also rigidly stipulated. The width of the ditch is just equal to the track of the chariot wheels.

Moreover, with Xia City as the center, the ditches on the land are also strictly arranged in the direction of east, west, north, south, so that if there is a frontal impact, there will be no bumping of the wheels.

Chariots are not suitable for raids from the rear, the most suitable is the front, especially the front of the army formation which is not so dense. It can be said that just one surprise attack can cause the opponent's infantry to fall into chaos and gaps.

Perhaps after several battles, in order to deal with the chariots, the enemy may improve the infantry formation, which may be arranged extremely closely, and use hedgehog-like spear formations or shield formations to withstand the impact of the chariots.

There is no need to worry about this. The grenadier sword and shield soldiers trained by Chen Jian can play a role, using black powder to blow up gaps. The dense formation is the best stage for black powder weapons.

At that time, it will depend on the adaptability of the commander on the opposite side. Is it to prevent the tanks from impacting the densely organized formation?Or in order to reduce the casualties and confusion of black powder, disperse the army?

No matter how you choose, at least in Pingyuan and at the gate of the house, the initiative of the battle is in Chen Jian's hands. As long as he seizes the opportunity of the opponent's hesitation, he can turn the tide of the battle.

Nowadays, most of the cities live along the river, and they choose flat land suitable for planting, which also creates an excellent stage for the chariot to play.

This kind of heavy-duty, the strongest assault unit on the plain is extremely expensive, and it is by no means something that a tribe can afford by relying on its own people. Once this kind of chariot has achieved great results in the war, it will form a deterrent force. It will prevent the various tribes from dissenting, and let the new military aristocratic class gradually gain power while being restricted by the city.

If city officials want to win and gain more benefits, they must rely on these new military aristocrats who can drive and fight; if the new military aristocrats want to own chariots and afford the wear and tear of chariots, they must rely on the new military aristocrats in the city. This is a kind of restriction for the various officials.

The first chariot was not perfect, with many flaws, and the skills of the tribesmen who drove it could not be fully controlled. Once it hits the chariot, it could neither turn nor stop. It needs continuous improvement. When the technology matures, the horses can be upgraded to four. , so that the impact will be stronger.

The harness of a horse is different from that of a cow.Cows use their necks to exert strength, but immediately rely on their chests. Knowing this difference, they used tribal hides and various woods to make makeshift harnesses, and asked copper smelters to make horse bits and bits.

In addition to the three people on board, a chariot needs to be followed by about [-] infantrymen. These [-] infantrymen are also new troops. They need to learn to follow behind the chariot to attack the gap and expand the scope of the gap.

Ordinary archers and the troops covering the formation and maintaining the formation are not full-time professional soldiers, but ordinary soldiers and auxiliary soldiers conscripted from the city. They will consume the opponent's energy and create opportunities for the chariot to charge. They do not need to follow The chariot charged.

Four five-man squads plus three chariots are used as a combat unit, called Yicheng.

In future battles on the plains, chariots will need to be the core of the attack. There are too many tactics that the clansmen can't master, and Chen Jian is not the kind of genius who can perfectly seize the opportunity. This one-handed method may take a long time.

Except for the fifty sword and shield soldiers specially trained for next year, there are still 110 out-of-production new troops. For the time being, Chen Jian only plans to organize a combat unit of three times, that is, seventy people.

These [-] people will use this chariot for training in batches. The production speed of the chariot is very slow, but the training cannot be stopped. When the first crew is using the chariot for training, the remaining two soldiers will train five people to cooperate in killing the enemy. And team impact.

The remaining forty people are trained as professional archers, and it takes at least two or three years to train a qualified archer.

It doesn't mean that being able to draw a bow and shoot an arrow is a qualified archer. An archer needs to master the skill of throwing. After measuring the distance and choosing the appropriate elevation angle according to the usual training, it can ensure that the throwing hits the army formation a hundred steps away. Individuals can do it.

The battle of the archers also revolves around the chariot, and they are responsible for suppressing the chariot before it hits.

If the chariots cannot open up the situation, they have to follow the infantry and shoot directly with heavy arrows at a distance of about [-] steps from the enemy's formation, relying on heavy arrows to loosen the opponent's formation and prepare for the infantry's impact.

These forty full-time archers and fifty sword and shield soldiers need to be specially trained to ride horses. They are not used as cavalry, but as fast and mobile mounted infantry.

If the front is really stalemate, they can use the mobility of the horses to quickly come to the side of the enemy's army. Even if the pottery bomb is not successfully produced, they can also use the impact of the sword and shield soldiers to cooperate with the archers to smash the opposite flank or Directly attack the opponent's commander.

The entire training of the 160-member new army was all about offense, and offense required the most skill. The previous few battles and offenses were not performed well.

The recruited soldiers passed the training during the autumn and winter slack seasons and could guarantee defense in this era. What Chen Jian lacked was the means of attack.

In the previous life, when the nations were at war, the number of chariots was often used to describe the strength of the country. There were endless sayings about the country of a thousand vehicles and the country of ten thousand vehicles.

By analogy, one can see the strength of Xiacheng, with all the strength of the city, it is just a country of three vehicles...

Chapter 31 Autumn Fu

The incident of the new army did not cause much disturbance in Xia City. The barracks were training every day. Although the people in the city had finished harvesting the beans, they were not idle at the end of autumn. Curiosity would always be overwhelmed by the sleepy Sandman when they were tired. win.

A total of 23 catties of [-] catties of bean seeds have been harvested, which has achieved the effect of harvesting four for one planting. The agricultural production at this time is already quite good, with a yield of seventy to eighty catties per mu, far exceeding Chen Jian's expectations.

The land directly under the jurisdiction of the city has harvested [-] catties, plus the seeds that all tribes need to hand over and return, the total amount of beans produced by the city is [-] catties.

The wild people outside the city also took advantage of these few days to collect all kinds of taxes that should be paid. Ten soldiers and a tax collector who could count were wandering in the villages outside the city every day.

Although the wild people were happy that they finally saw the harvest, they also hated those tax collectors wearing fur hats, and secretly called them furry, implying that they were not human.

The tax collector knew his reputation in the wild village, and he felt helpless, but there was nothing he could do.

According to Chen Jian's original regulations, these wild people had to pay more than just food.

According to the population, before the Lidong Festival, each person needs to pay five birch poles and bird feathers to make feather arrows; each village needs to pay a certain amount of firewood, and it takes them three days to go upstream to cut, along the The river is put down as the public property of the city; some thatch for filtering wine and a certain amount of animal skins need to be prepared... Among them, the hats on the heads of these tax collectors are made of these paid animal skins.

In addition to paying the taxes of these entities, some corvees must be dispatched to repair thatched roofs, dig mud in trenches, clean up feces in toilets, block some river branches that are about to recede, and get rid of the smelly Fish out the retting grass and hemp from the retting pool, strengthen the city wall of Yangguan, and pick a large number of hazelnuts and acorns...

All kinds of these show inequality everywhere, but they have to be completed with the support of violence.

Some folk songs that are not love songs gradually appeared in the villages of the wild people, and they were widely spread.

Ji Yun, a 14-year-old boy in the school, had just passed the examination and became a tax collector for more than a month. He had heard those wild folk humming more than once.

The general meaning of the lyrics is: Ding Dingdongdong came to chop the trees, cut down the firewood and put it by the river, the clear water of the Caohe River made waves, it was because of the sweat we cut down the trees.You are tall and upturned wearing a fur hat, and you don’t bend over to plant beans and cut wheat, so why are you carrying bags into the city?If you don't go hunting in the mountains, why can you eat pig badgers?

What was even more unacceptable to Ji Yun was that when he went to the village of "Fish", several children were playing games there. After drawing a border, a child limped on one leg and chased the child running behind the border. The child who hopped around with his legs curled up had on his head a straw hat that must have been the same as Ji Yun's. If any of the children were caught, they would yell, "Run, the tax collector is here!"

When the "catfish" who accompanied him to the village to count, his face turned green when he heard the children shouting, he yelled a few words and drove the children away.

Catfish was the first tribe to move from the east. They were unwilling to accept the identity and restrictions of wild people at first, but after Xiacheng harvested the wheat, she could not resist the temptation of those wheat grains, and agreed to Chen Jian's condition, bringing all the people with her. The clan moved to the lower reaches of the Caohe River.

Although they were the first to leave the Meteorite tribe's rule, they were the latest to settle down in the lower reaches of the Caohe River. The best land had already been occupied by other tribes, so they could only live in the most remote places.Because of her name, the whole tribe takes fish as their surname, and this fish is a broad sense. Not all people in the tribe are called Yu XX, but may be various fishes.

Xia Chengyi sent field officials to teach them how to plant, and borrowed a thousand catties of bean seeds and [-] catties of wheat seeds from the private property of the four clans. She was still very grateful to Chen Jian. Quantity, and if you borrow public property, you have to borrow ten and repay twelve.

Now that the beans have been harvested and the wheat has just begun to grow, the tribe may have to go to the city to borrow grain again this winter.Chen Jian only lent them seeds, but the food they ate had to be public property, that is, borrowing ten and paying back twelve.

Catfish looked at the young Ji Yun, who had just grown fluff on his mouth, and thought that this child might not know too much, and maybe he would make a wrong calculation.But when he thought about it, Yuqian'er, who was about the same age as Ji Yun, felt a little bit in his heart, she was not too old but not easy to fool.

He led Ji Yun to the warehouse in the village, looked at dozens of bags of poor beans, and sighed: "That's all, you followed me when I harvested. A total of 360 catties were harvested, and I will pay you back one." A thousand catties of seeds are taxed for ten, and a total of [-] catties are paid."

Ji Yun sneered and said with a laugh: "Patriarch Catfish, you made a mistake. You collected the tax first and then paid back the seeds, so you have to pay back a total of 460 catties. You missed a hundred catties."

Catfish smiled awkwardly, thinking what are you learning in the school?How can such a young child calculate so clearly?Thinking of how many children of my tribe are still in the school, staring at Ji Yun's tall leather hat, I thought enviously: "If only those children can pass some exams, then they can directly have the status of Chinese people." , and have the qualifications to be an official, the tribal assembly can only elect a few people at a time, and it still depends on the school."

It's a pity that she is already old, and she rejected Chen Jian's invitation back then, knowing that her village might not be able to obtain the status of a Chinese at the latest, and she felt a little annoyed.

Ji Yun didn't know what Catfish was thinking, so he waved his hands and asked the soldiers behind to lift up the steelyard, and the two of them lifted the weight of the beans.Catfish stared at the stars on the scale quickly, afraid of making mistakes, and kept shouting: "The scale should be lower, not so high."

"Don't worry, I won't charge you a little more. Apart from these, what about other things? What about birch arrow shafts? There are 110 people in your village except children under five years old. You need to pay 550 birch arrow shafts and two bags Thatch, [-] pieces of firewood four paces thick, and [-] bird feathers, but you are not allowed to go to Luodao to catch them, so don’t forget.”

Catfish pulled Ji Yun and said bitterly: "Everything else is easy to say, but the birch poles are not enough, and you demand that the grain must be vertical, which is a bit difficult."

"What do you mean? The texture is not vertical, and the feather arrows will break. You don't have enough quantity, right? At the beginning, the rules were set, and they must be handed in before the Lidong Festival. If you don't hand them in, you will know the consequences."

"Yes, of course I know. But can you give me a few days?"

"The rules are set. If you pay one day late, you will be fined ten more. If you can't pay in full before the winter solstice, you will be fined for grain directly, and you can't borrow grain from the city."