Regarding training, because the rural soldiers lack armor and stomach, troops who lack armor and stomach are most afraid of crossbows. Therefore, the rural soldiers use bows and crossbows in combat, attacking to attack. The rural soldiers focus on defense and use bows.

Crossbow combat is the main focus, so the training of rural soldiers should also focus on crossbow combat.

Known crossbow tactics include: when defending a city, you can use a large shield to stand under the city, and the soldiers hide behind the shield to shoot at the enemies at the top of the city. For rural soldiers who lack armor and stomach, this tactics is particularly useful.

Importantly, there is a lack of armor in the countryside, but there are many things that can be used as shields, such as door panels, erected carts, and even tied rafts. They can be erected as large shields, door panels, rafts, etc., which are enough.

Easy to use.

In addition to the tactic of relying on shield formations, the most important point in exerting the lethality of bow and crossbow formations is to focus the fire to cover the shooting. It is very difficult to make the poorly trained rural soldiers project a dense rain of arrows into the enemy's formation.

Difficult. You must know that even with the level of training and eliteness of the Julu Army soldiers, not long ago, the Julu Army's crossbowmen threw thousands of arrows across a wall, and the hit rate of the blind fire was less than 500.

One percent, even the archers and crossbowmen of the Julu Army cannot achieve accurate coverage.

Fortunately, before going out to the army, I happened to find a way to guide the crossbow to focus the fire attack. You can imitate the command of a musical instrument and use the gun barrel to direct the shooting direction and shooting angle. During the giant deer, using this method, half

In a matter of seconds, the two problems of arrow rain direction and arrow rain distance were solved.

In this way, when the soldiers can shoot an extremely dense and accurate rain of arrows, the deterrence of the soldiers is at its strongest at this time.

But another problem arises from this. The soldiers of the Julu Army can adapt to the spear-guided shooting method within half an hour, but this does not mean that the country soldiers can also do it in half an hour.

After all, the crossbowmen of the Julu Army can understand the orders, and can move in synchronized order when they hear the orders. However, the rural soldiers and others are not familiar with the orders, and even if they hear the orders, their movements are difficult to match.

Also, the Julu Army was well-armed, and their crossbows were all of the same specifications. The ranges of their bows and crossbows were similar, so when they were covering the ground and shooting, the arrow rain was very concentrated.

However, as for the situation in the countryside, it is expected that among the armaments collected from the countryside, the strength of the bows and crossbows are different, and the arrows are also good and bad. This means that even if they use the same method, the rural soldiers are not concentrated enough to fire.

The power is sharply reduced.

Therefore, [organizing armaments] has become necessary.

Sorting out the armaments means that after gathering the armaments in the countryside, you need to test their strength, and then group them together with similar strength, so that the arrow rain can be as concentrated as possible during concentrated fire.

The two types of equipment, the crossbow, have a constant power, but for the same archer, if the previous bow is opened wider and the next bow is opened smaller, the range of the arrow will be very different. In other words, the two bows and crossbows

Among weapons, crossbows are more suitable for precise coverage, but bows and arrows are not. Therefore, in actual combat, the crossbow team should be responsible for covering and shooting, and the archers should be free to snipe.

When the crossbowmen of the rural soldiers can shoot extremely accurate and concentrated crossbow arrows, and the warriors among the rural soldiers hold hard bows and arrows to seize the throat, the rural soldiers can already compete with the enemy in terms of bows and crossbows, and even

It is also possible to overwhelm the enemy.

After the crossbow warfare method, the method of building forts and digging trenches is not difficult. The rural soldiers may not know how to fight in battle, but those who are familiar with digging trenches and felling trees cannot be too familiar. Nor can they dig in the countryside.

There is no shortage of tools such as hoes and shovels for soil, as well as tools for carrying and transporting soil. Building fortifications is the easiest of all things.

Mr. Lin Lin, Liu Guan, Zhang and Li Mengxi talked all night long. They talked about conscription, training, military law and discipline, military law and discipline, combat tactics, logistics, and so on.

Marching, etc.

Everyone has been talking about it until daylight finally ends. After working hard all night, I have written down more than forty pages of what everyone talked about. This is still a preliminary record. It needs to be sorted out and supplemented before it can be printed.

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Li Mengxi yawned tiredly. He flipped through the papers one by one and checked them. Guan Yu suddenly said, "Xi'er, if you send these words to the cavalrymen and others, can they understand them?"

This sentence stopped Li Mengxi from asking. Li Mengxi looked up at Guan Yu, then looked down at the paper full of words.

It seems that not many people are literate...

Something happened and the soldiers were illiterate, so how could they act according to the manual?

Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown, and then he thought of a way. He felt that he could select the literate people among the cavalry and then distribute them uniformly to ensure that each team had a literate person.

This method can only solve part of the problem. Li Mengxi does not know how many people in the cavalry are familiar with writing. It is possible that there is not even one person in a team, and there must be some teams that do not have a single literate person.

Li Mengxi thought hard for a long time, and he came up with an idea. The soldiers couldn't read, but they could understand it by looking at the pictures, right?

Since the soldiers are illiterate, we need to add some illustrations, how to set up camp, draw the illustrations, how to march, draw the illustrations, how to command the crossbowmen to fight, and draw the illustrations.

When it came time to draw pictures, which was something neither Liu, Guan, or Zhang were good at, this was when Li Mengxi showed his prowess.

Li Mengxi brought a piece of white paper and a pencil, and drew as he thought. The pencil flickered, and one concise and vivid illustration after another was completed in a matter of seconds.

When the sun rose, Li Mengxi finished the illustrations. Then he sorted out the content, checked again, added some more, arranged it again, cut out the illustrations and pasted them into it. After everything was ready, he sent it to

Craftsman camp.

Li Mengxi found the engraver and asked him to put down all the work he was doing and devote all his energy to engraving the printing plate.

"All the craftsmen in the army are at your disposal. I will carve the wooden tablets within one day, or two days at the latest. If they are completed as scheduled, you will be credited with your first contribution."

The engraving craftsman solemnly accepted the order.

The war is continuing, and the army is approaching Nanpi City. Next, it is time to talk about how to attack the city.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Originally, it was not difficult to attack the city. The Julu Army had 7,000 elite soldiers. This force was enough to defeat the enemy. But now, the situation has changed. It will take two days at the latest.

On the third day, the cavalry will rush to support various counties. As soon as the cavalry leaves, the combat strength of the Julu Army is immediately reduced by more than half. The originally advantageous force immediately becomes stretched. In other words, after the cavalry leaves, it is not even about siege, but the field battle.

It's starting to get difficult.

In response to this situation, Liu Bei made a bold decision. He decided that after the cavalry left, he would divide the remaining 6,000 troops into two groups, one with 4,000 and the other with 2,000.

The troops pressed under Nanpi City and relied on chariot formations and earthen forts to firmly hold back the main force of the enemy army. The other two thousand were led by Li Mengxi and retreated to the rear after dozens of miles.

Li Mengxi was surprised. His eyes widened and he asked Liu Bei, "What should I do if I go to the back?"

"Recruiting troops," Liu Bei said.

"Recruiting?"

"Yes. Once the cavalry has left, the troops are no longer strong and have no power to attack the city. The city still needs to be attacked. I will carry them in the front for a month. Xi'er, you can take the opportunity to recruit and train troops in the back. After one month, you can bring the troops back to rescue them.

I."

Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei for a while, then smiled, "Sure! That's it, wait until I come back to save you!"

Li Mengxi felt that Liu Bei's plan was very suitable for the current situation. At present, there were not enough troops. Even if Nanpi could be captured, the casualties would be heavy. In addition, there was a plan for all the counties to unite to stop the enemy, and Bohai County was also part of the plan.

In addition, the people from all over the Bohai Sea must be mobilized to join forces to resist the enemy. The combination of the two requires recruiting troops and helping local organizations organize manpower, so people must be sent to the rear.

It was a bit dangerous to carry the enemy troops at the front, so Liu Bei took over the dangerous job and left the safer job to Li Mengxi, who then went to recruit troops in the rear.

Based on preliminary calculations, based on the training speed of the Julu Army, in one month, rural soldiers who can fight in full force can be trained. Forty soldiers can be trained per person, which will lead to 2,000 troops in the rear, excluding craftsmen, logistics manpower, etc.

, and excluding the manpower needed to assist defense everywhere, even if there are only 500 soldiers left who can train troops, and each of the 500 soldiers trains forty, 20,000 soldiers can be trained in one month.

Liu Bei only had to hold the enemy troops under Nanpi City for one month. After one month, 20,000 rural soldiers came to support him.

The strategy has been finalized, just waiting for everything to be ready.

The army stopped on the road ten miles away from Nanpi City for two days. During the two days, the enemy troops from Nanpi City sent troops to attack many times. The enemy troops could not shake the tight formation of Julu Army. The enemy troops attacked several times.

He came to attack and retreated several times.

Two days later, the printing of the combat manual was completed. The printed combat manual had more than one hundred pages, of which illustrations accounted for more than half of the content.

The cavalry teams rushing to assist the counties were assembled. One thousand cavalry were divided into two hundred teams. Each team had only five cavalrymen. Each of the five people in each team was issued a combat manual. The combat manual was tightly wrapped in tung oil paper.

To protect against rain.

After the combat manual was distributed, Li Mengxi told the cavalry that everything should be done according to the manual.

"On this trip, the second priority is to defend against the enemy, and the first priority is not to conflict with the villagers.

After the troops are recruited, the barracks must be stationed outside. Drills and the noise of people and horses will inevitably disturb the people. When rural soldiers gather in one place and there are many brave people, they will inevitably bully the people. Therefore, the barracks must be outside.

This is not only true when you are stationed in a camp, even when you are marching, even if it rains heavily, you are cold to death, or you are soaked to death, you must not invade people's houses, not even if you want to rent them, or even go there, do you understand me?"

Li Mengxi glanced at the cavalry with stern eyes, and he shouted in a deep voice, "You and others will remember [If you freeze to death, you will not demolish, if you starve to death, you will not seize food, and if you do not take a stitch from the people], keep these three sentences in mind.

When the local soldiers send out troops to fight back, they should use this as a slogan to promote our military style."

After the explanation, Li Mengxi led the cavalrymen to shout several times in unison. The cavalrymen shouted the slogan of not demolishing the house even if they froze to death in unison.

Finally, Li Mengxi called each cavalry team to the front and explained seriously, "Remember, you are not allowed to accept money from the villagers, you are not allowed to attend banquets frequently, you are not allowed to get drunk all day long, and you are not allowed to bully the people into committing adultery.

Violation of law. After you leave, I will send a military judge to follow you, but if I find out whoever dares to violate discipline, I will kill him without mercy!"

Li Mengxi said this to each team in an extremely stern tone. After saying this, he asked each cavalryman to repeat it to ensure that everyone remembered this strict requirement.

All preparations were completed. One thousand cavalry were divided into two hundred teams, with five people in each team. Materials were distributed in groups of five. The materials were available. Each cavalryman was given many paper flags, and two kinds of flags were prepared: flags and guide flags. Each cavalryman

They all brought a total of thirty or twenty kilograms; each cavalryman also carried twenty kilograms of banknotes with a denomination of one hundred yuan facing up; in teams, each team carried a stack of military orders, which were stamped with the seal of General Zhendong.

Seal, you can use this order to give orders to the place when you go there; other materials, such as flag guns specially prepared for strong momentum, silk brocade for initial purchase of materials, cyan cloth to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, etc.

There are many more.

After the cavalry had eaten and drank enough, they took various supplies and set off in a mighty manner under the leadership of Guan and Zhang.

The military orders to the cavalry were to march at top speed day and night to intercept the enemy.

On the same day that Guan and Zhang led their team to leave, the messenger cavalry sent to Julu from the other direction had already arrived at Julu County.

The military order arrived at Julu, and the order was to assemble the combatable manpower in Julu as quickly as possible. After the team was organized, it mobilized the fleet, food, grass, tents and all other combat needs, and sent troops to the counties of Zhongshan County in Dai County to help the local people resist the bandit army.

Julu's combatable manpower refers to the young and strong civilians who can march in the queue after at least one month of queue training, and mobilize all the necessary combat forces. It refers to the guarantee that the Cangzhongtun can move without affecting their own food.

You can take as much food as you can, and it doesn't matter if you run out.

Adjusting the strength of Julu troops was Li Mengxi's back-up move. The military situation was urgent and non-cavalry could not rescue them. Although the infantry sent by Julu to the counties could not rescue the emergency, they could slow it down. The cavalry only had a team of five people. The biggest problem was the lack of manpower.
To be continued...