Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

This is not the modern age of later generations!In modern times, the role of the guard of honor is basically only a performance function. The prevalence of powerful firearms makes the military formation, an ancient offensive and defensive method, completely disappear on the stage of history.The spiritual effect of formation drills is far better than the application in actual combat. Except for some military parades and the like, the biggest role of formation drills is to cultivate the obedience spirit of new soldiers, but it is useless in actual combat.

Standing in line waiting to be bludgeoned by machine guns?Standing in square formation and waiting to be bombarded by artillery fire?Are you still lining up neatly and rushing forward?If so, how many people would have to die on the battlefield. The revolution in weapons has completely changed the battlefield mode of the modern army, which is completely different from the era of cold weapons.

But the significance of the queue in ancient times is very important.

During this period, combat methods all over the world relied on cold weapons, and the training of the queue was entirely for actual combat application.In the era of cold weapons, any military formation needs to be based on queue training. For infantry, apart from the application of weapons in their hands, the most important thing they need to train is the queue!

However, the queue training at this time is still in a relatively primitive stage. The requirements for soldiers are nothing more than that the walking speed is not too different, and each row and column should not be too deformed. Compared with the uniform queue requirements of later generations, it is far worse.Not to mention that Jiang Yuan himself was from the army, and he is very familiar with queue training. Even a middle school student's military training level in later generations is enough to teach these soldiers well.

In fact, it can't be blamed for the low level of the soldiers of the Jing Dynasty. How many educated and knowledgeable people are there in the world at this time?The vast majority of all human beings are illiterate, ignorant, and have never seen the world. Many people can't even distinguish between left and right, how can they be neat?Obviously, the distinction between east, west and north is very clear, as well as up and down, front and back, but when it comes to left and right, many soldiers are dumbfounded.But the ancients couldn’t help it, which doesn’t mean that Jiang Yuan couldn’t help it either. He had led a lot of soldiers, and it’s not like he hasn’t seen the stupid and ugly ones. He has taught a few like Xu Sanduo.

He ordered all the soldiers in the Gyeonggi Day Camp to tie a red cloth on their right wrist and left ankle, and they must put out the hands and feet with the red cloth first every time they walk, otherwise they will be punished.After a month like this, all the soldiers in the camp could clearly distinguish between the left and the right, and even those who were really stupid would know which foot to step first.Queue training is a daily training program. After so many years, these soldiers' platoon drill ability is much stronger than that of modern ordinary troops. How can it not be amazing for a 1000-person phalanx to walk through?

When the phalanx arrived in front of Yongding Gate, all the soldiers pulled out their waist sabers and pointed them at the sky. A thousand soldiers turned their heads to the tower and shouted loudly: "Da Jing is mighty, the country is prosperous! Da Jing is mighty, The fortune of the country is prosperous!" For a moment, the roar was earth-shattering, resounding through the sky!

The light of Yi Dao reflected the sun's rays, which was very dazzling, and the armor on the soldiers was also very strong, but the most dazzling thing was the vigorous spirit of these 1000 people.Different from the confusion and confusion in the eyes of ordinary soldiers at this time, the faces and eyes of these sergeants reveal a confidence and hope that are different from others. The fighting spirit of these people does not come from the bloody satisfaction from killing, but from If you make meritorious service, you will be promoted and rewarded, and you will change the fate of the whole family!

Jiang Yuan exhausted his efforts to build the Gyeonggi camp. In order to change their thinking, he even paid hundreds of literati to teach them to recognize simple characters, simple arithmetic and drawing.After several years of teaching, the worst soldiers in this army can also know hundreds of characters, and the strongest soldiers can already understand military orders and documents independently.

Don't say that the culture of ancient soldiers is not important, the reserve of knowledge is very important for any industry.Knowledgeable people are absolutely different from uneducated people. They have different ways of thinking from the bottom of their hearts.Whether a person has knowledge can be seen from their behavior and temperament. How can a person who is muddle-headed and thoughtless understand the meaning of an order from a superior?If you don’t understand how to do things, what can you do?

Xue Jin and Abonajiang didn't know how these people were different from ordinary troops. They only knew that they had never seen such an army.Although these two people couldn't tell exactly where the difference was, they always felt that this army was terrifying, quite terrifying.The northern barbarian army is also very powerful, and the two of them are naturally very familiar with these northern barbarian soldiers, but those soldiers are either slaves whose lives cannot be controlled by themselves, or civilians who are eager to rob women of wealth. The goal of stimulating them to fight is nothing more than to use How can these people have any faith at all to snatch money by robbers?When did they see such a thriving army in Gyeonggi Daying? !

These two people are still comforting themselves in their hearts. They think that these people are the most elite soldiers of the Jing Dynasty. Except for these 1000 people, the rest of the army is nothing special... But is this true?

After the guard of honor of the Thousand Ritual Knife passed by at the beginning, the phalanx of 1000 archers came next.These soldiers were dressed in armor, with long knives and sword pots on their waists, and long bows on their backs.Like the guard of honor in front, their footsteps are also orderly and mighty. 1000 people raise their legs and step at the same time, the sound gathers together like drums, and all movements are uniform, just like one person.

The archer phalanx was followed by the crossbow soldier phalanx. Apart from the still neat pace, the most attractive thing was the crossbow machine they held in their hands.These 1000 people held single-man crossbows in their hands, but their shape was different from the common crossbows nowadays. The length of the bow was three feet two inches, and the length of the string was two feet five inches, which was larger than ordinary crossbows. , and there is a metal ring at the head of the crossbow machine, which looks like it can be pedaled with feet. If the string is wound like this, the pulling force of these crossbow machines is definitely not as simple as two stones.

What kind of crossbow is this?This is quite the famous god arm bow.

Although Jiang Yuan didn't know how the god-arm bows of the Song Dynasty were made, since the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry could make bow arms with overload, it is of course possible to make bow arms into crossbow machines.The strength of the standard bow of the archers is almost two stones. No matter how strong the pulling force is, the soldiers may not be able to pull it away. However, if the crossbow is pedaled, the bow arm can be pulled apart if it is made of more than four stones.The magic arm bow made by the Ministry of Industry can shoot 320 steps, and after flying so far, it can still penetrate half an arrow into elm wood. It is easy to shoot through armor with this strength, unless it is heavy armor, leather armor and Ordinary iron armor is useless under this kind of bow/crossbow.

After the crossbowmen are spearmen, swordmen, shieldmen, etc. The equipment of these soldiers is quite familiar. These two envoys are already numb to the orderliness of the Jing Dynasty army, and they are surprised every time they pass a phalanx If not, they would be shocked to death, and at this time they finally calmed down.But at this time, the phalanx of light infantry gradually passed by, and the phalanx of heavy infantry came next!

"Bang, bang, bang, bang..." The footsteps sounded from far to near, and the people on the tower were all startled, what kind of army is this!Apart from Situ Sheng, only Shun Wang Situhui on the tower had seen these powerful heavy infantry Modaoshou, and the others had no idea what kind of team it was.

You have seen similar heavy armor, but what is that shiny long knife?The sharp blade of Mo Dao shone with a bone-piercing cold light, like the teeth of a tiger or the sharp claws of a black bear. Although no one saw how they were used, such an army standing there was already frightening.

Behind the heavy infantry was the cavalry regiment. Although their phalanx was also very neat, the envoys of the Northern Barbarian Kingdom on the tower finally breathed a sigh of relief.Although the equipment of these cavalry seemed strange to them, in the eyes of the northern barbarians who were all cavalry, it was absolutely impossible for any country in this world to have stronger cavalry than them.In terms of cavalry, they never thought that they would lose to the Yasukuni people. Just because the northern barbarians learned to ride horses as soon as they learned to walk, those Jing people would not be able to catch up with horses even after more than ten years of training.

Situ Sheng wasn't surprised by their performance, but he didn't take it seriously either. The infantry had already deterred them strongly enough. As for the cavalry...wouldn't it be better for them to be negligent?The more negligent you are, the worse your death will be.

The phalanx of the Field Army has all gone, and after that it will be the auxiliary arms of the Gyeonggi Camp.

Leading the way is the engineer phalanx.This time the engineer phalanx not only had people, but also horse-drawn carriages following it.Xue Cheng carefully observed the items on the carriage. There were pontoons, which he knew, and cloth bags, which he had seen before, but what were those boxes on the carriage behind them?And what are those packaged and packaged things?That's fine, but what are those forked wooden poles that are suitable for support? ...Those things are definitely not sandbags, and there is definitely an unknown mystery in them.

There is indeed a mystery.The boxes of mines were homemade landmines, and the boxes of explosives.Because there is no mine/tube, Jiang Yuan doesn't know how to make a grenade, but the mine and explosive package are still easy to copy.The ones placed on the carriage are just for show, and the real ones have been strictly guarded. Except for him and Situ Sheng, only the sappers who trained the mines and the craftsmen who made gunpowder have seen them, and the rest of them don't know. Affection.

In order to keep it secret, Jiang Yuan separated the craftsmen in every link of making gunpowder and weapons. Even if one craftsman leaked the secrets, there was no way to reveal the entire process of making firearms.Some things cannot be applied immediately by revealing a little method. If you don’t pay attention to the management of things like gunpowder, you will hurt the enemy before you hurt yourself.

Xue Jin pursed his lips and frowned. He thought that there would be nothing worth noticing after the field team had passed. As a result, there were more things to pay attention to than not less.More and more carriages appeared below the city, but he didn't recognize many of the things on them.

At the beginning, he had seen weapons like bed crossbows, and the carts behind were full of wooden stakes and metal parts. He knew each of these things separately, but these things were piled up in the What are they used for together?He was getting more and more confused.Thin-skinned iron buckets with a diameter of two feet appeared on the last carriages. What can these things be used for?Save rainwater?Fetching water?It's definitely not that simple.His intuition told him that this was definitely an important item in the Jing army, but he didn't know what it was.

If these things had appeared in front of his eyes at the very beginning, he would never have had so many doubts. At most, he just felt that Jing Jun was playing tricks.But after seeing such an elite field army, how could the remaining phalanxes be just useless decorations?He glanced at Aberna River. This purebred northern barbarian was even more surprised than him. The questions in their hearts were about to explode, but they couldn't ask them out.Even if I ask, will Jingren answer?Think and know not.

At the end of the military parade, the field army mobilized 3 people to form a complete army formation, and marched from south to north to the foot of Yongdingmen. , the national fortune is prosperous! The Great Jing is mighty, the national fortune is prosperous!"

The same is true of mountains and tsunamis. Being watched and looked up by such an army, it feels like owning the whole world.Proud and smug, that's what this army feels like.Their expressions seem to say that they are omnipotent and can sweep away all enemies they face!

Standing in front of all the soldiers, Jiang Yuan looked back at these subordinates with passion in his heart.He wants to use this army to help Situ Sheng build a big world, a real heaven/chao dynasty!

The faces of the two Beiman envoys were ashen, their teeth were clenched, and their eyes were wide open.However, only [-] soldiers can have such an aura. Is this really the army of the Jing Dynasty?So what's up with this feeling of rebirth?

At this moment, Abernajiang had only one thought in his mind: after returning to the Beiman Kingdom, he must show the great strength of Chen Jingguo to the Great Khan. These Jingjun troops must not be easily provoked. The reason why they did not fight the Beiman Kingdom The meaning is nothing more than because the cavalry under his command are not strong enough, but if the Beiman intends to attack Yasukuni, then the Beiman army, which has lost its field advantage, will definitely be crushed by those weapons that don't know what to use!Beiman and Yasukuni should live in peace from generation to generation and be brothers forever, and war must not be taken lightly!

Xue Jin's teeth were already biting into his lips, and he didn't even know the blood was coming out.Compared with Abernajiang, who was of northern barbarian blood, he felt his body fluttering, and his heart and lungs were aching.Is this Yasukuni? !This is the land of the Central Plains? !Didn't you say that Yasukuni is very weak?Didn't it mean that the northern barbarian country can send a few people casually to wipe out the entire Yasukuni?But what happened to these troops in front of them? !Is Yasukuni actually very powerful? !

Since he was a child, countless people around him have instilled in him the idea that Jingguo is weak and Beiman is strong, saying that Jing people are timid and Beiman are brave.After listening to it for so many years, these words have been deeply rooted in his heart.He is proud that his ancestors left the Jing Dynasty and went to the Northern Man, and he is ashamed of the blood of the Central Plains flowing in him, but what about now?Yasukuni's powerful army slapped him hard.No matter how much he distorts the facts, he has to admit that Yasukuni's army is really powerful, absolutely powerful!It is stronger than the countries in the Western Regions, stronger than the countries in Europe, and not weaker than the army of the Northern Barbarians at all.If they fight head-to-head, the northern barbarians may not win...

He couldn't say that the Beiman Congress would lose, but he had a faint feeling in his heart that the Beiman might...

He knew very well that Beiman was not as rich as Yasukuni, nor did it have the development potential of Yasukuni.The development of Yasukuni is based on creation. They can create commodities and food to exchange for more wealth, but the northern barbarians are different... The stability of nomadic civilization is difficult to compare with that of farming civilization. They lack stability and are still in the In the early stage of social formation, the ability to resist pressure and creativity was not as good, and the prosperity of the Northern Man depends more on whether they can plunder the property of other countries. Once the objects they plunder become stronger, then they will die .There may be no difference in a short period of time, but after a long time, it will be judged!

In the past, the biggest difference between the armies of the two countries was that Yasukuni had more ironware, and the soldiers of the northern barbarians were stronger. But now, Yasukuni mastered more than just ironware. Those weapons and equipment that he had never heard of or seen before had already entered the battlefield.As Yasukuni's technology is getting stronger and stronger, powerful weapons are gradually making up for the gap in soldiers' physique. Once the enhancement of technology exceeds the physical strength, then...

He didn't dare to think about it anymore.Xue Jin only knew that once Beiman failed, he and his ancestors would become the laughing stock of history!When he thought of this, he felt severe pain in his heart and lungs, and almost coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Situ Sheng looked coldly at Xue Jin, who looked extremely ugly, but showed no sympathy. He just felt relieved for a while, and smiled indifferently, as if he was discussing with the two envoys whether the peonies in the imperial garden were blooming well. .A clown, but that's all!

His Royal Highness sneered in his heart. Even he, who has always been familiar with the training level of the Gyeonggi Camp, was surprised when he saw this military parade. How could the others calm down?Seeing such a powerful army, the Beiman would never dare to lightly provoke the border to disrupt the current stable situation, otherwise they would not only have no way to gain benefits, but would lose even more.

The civil and military officials who watched the military parade were all greatly stimulated, but most of them were excited.No one would not like their country to be more prosperous, but there are exceptions - King Shun and King Yizhong... King Yizhong is very honest, and he doesn't show anything if he is pleasing to the eye.Ever since the deposed prince died, there was no possibility for their family to reach the top. It would be better to live an honest life and keep their lives safe and sound. Therefore, this concubine Yizhong County King has never shown any signs of resistance.As for Shun Wang Situhui, his expression was colorful and attractive, and he didn't know if he would give up that unrealistic delusion.