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Chapter 38 Preparation

Before the meeting the next day, the courtyard of the village armed forces was already crowded.

The vendors on the street shouted loudly, selling fried peanuts and sunflower seeds, as well as some cheap goods commonly used by soldiers in the army.

Several guards with red armbands patrolling nearby were driving away a few small vendors who wanted to sneak in and sell wine.

A few people who were familiar with him when they were serving were squatting in the corner and chatting. There were also a few people who were addicted to the chess that had become popular in Si for many years playing with people on the chessboard they were drawing with them on the chessboard they were drawing on the ground. A group of people stood next to them watching.

Doudou...

When the whistle sounded, people from various villages and communities in the village stood up one after another, packed their bags, and quickly closed their mouths.

The people in charge of military affairs in the township held a thick military book, and the people from each village stood together according to the village community.

But there are only twelve volumes of military books, and there are no ones who have not come.

Several villages and communities explained that those who didn’t come either came later when they got sick or left the village and community after applying for approval before, and went to the South China Sea. Anyone who could come had already arrived.

"The same is true when you go to the South China Sea. As long as you retire within five years, you will be recruited. However, the place where you serve is in the South China Sea, there is no difference."

After checking the list between the township armed forces and the people from various villages and communities, they gave an explanation.

During the special recruitment of each village, the representatives of Mozhe stayed in the village, and the village was responsible for some service and other matters.

The villages in each village have at least been sergeant commanders, and are usually former low-level officers such as Sima and have certain organizational capabilities.

Especially in recent years, activities such as collective labor and digging canals that require organizational skills, we have also trained the village officials of each village and community, and we still have the ability to lead the villagers to gather.

After gathering, the people from Xuanyi tribe in the village came forward to talk about the general situation. They would set off to the county tomorrow, and finally assembled at five agglomeration points including Pengcheng, Peiyi, Guangling, Ju, etc., and were assigned to each tribe nearby.

Not all of these people are war soldiers. If they really fight, except for some people who have transferred to the army to serve as second-line troops, more than half of them will be used as baggage soldiers.

The real main combat force is still the regular divisions. These temporarily recruited retired soldiers from the second line are generally used as anti-line and stretching fronts in battle.

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Peiyi.

As one of the five assembly points in Si Shang, except for Yangyu, Nanhai, nearly 20,000 people had gathered here in a few days.

The tent was tied up, and the internal staff of the Supervision and Inspection Department, who were holding armbands, wandered around the streets and patrolled the order.

In a military camp outside the city, Mi, a gang captain who had just been promoted to lieutenant colonel, was chatting with several colleagues.

Because the existence of the original sergeant, sergeant, sergeant, and lieutenant were generally high-ranking bureaucrats who served in the central government of various countries, similar to the Grand Sima, and the company commanders on Si were generally sergeants, and the higher level was the school, which was in line with the times and the habits of the world at this time, bypassed the name lieutenant.

Four years ago, the illegitimate prisoner Mi returned from Zhao territory. Because of his merits in Zhao territory, he was promoted to the lower school and then entered the military academy to study. After his two and a half years of study, he went directly to the Cavalry Brigade as the deputy brigade commander for more than a year.

Then he was arranged to be a brigade with an empty cavalry brigade as a brigade commander. This brigade with an empty cavalry brigade is an informal light cavalry brigade. A brigade that should normally be 1,500 people, actually has less than 400 people.

However, there are all military officers at all levels, from the brigade commander to the Sima Chief, the airs are complete, but there are not so many soldiers.

Sima Chang said that he had more than seven or eight people, and the fewer ones might have two cadres, and the entire staffing was empty.

Many people came back from Zhaodi, and they were superb in riding skills, but they were not suitable for the regular martial knight organization in Si Shang, and the organization of infantry and knights gradually decreased. Most of them were cavalry officers of such informal light cavalry.

One is that the martial knights responsible for the rushing are strict training, and they are basically veterans who are over-age; the other is that with the popularity of horse greed, there are many people who can ride horses on Si Shang, but it is unrealistic for those who can charge intensively according to discipline to rely on direct recruitment.

Anyway, neither Song and Chu did not have very powerful cavalry, and the elite martial knights of Wei were built before Wu Qi defected. The regular cavalry of Si Shang could also be suppressed. The informal light cavalry composed of a large number of good families became the largest number of cavalry among the Si Shang.

The brigade representative who partnered with the gangster Mi was a young man of similar age as him. He was a regular professional class. After he finished his studies, he worked as a staff officer for several years before he was incorporated into this kind of brigade and became a brigade representative. The two were still classmates at that time, but they were not in the same class. The gangster Mi was a year earlier than him.

After the reorganization four years ago, Si Shang had a total of eight regular divisions except for their arbitrary troops.

Not counting in the South China Sea area, these eight divisions are divided into different directions.

The Peiyi area is the top main force in Si Shang, with a total of three regular infantry divisions, two martial knight brigades, one artillery brigade and one engineer brigade.

The main purpose of the battle is to the southwest of the Song, Wei and Qi. In the concept of the General Staff, once a war occurs, the Peiyi army can attack Song and Wei, or can be mobilized to the Jucheng direction to cooperate with the Jucheng army to enter Linzi from the side and back.

The commander of the Peiyi Legion is Liuzhi. In addition to those regular troops, once a war breaks out, brigades like the silence captive Mi are also under the jurisdiction of Liuzhi.

The Tianshu Captain Mi and others had already gone to Peiyi for a meeting. Their brigade would give priority to making up for it. Once the battle was fought, they would follow the main action and use it as the purpose of raiding, harassing, slaughtering, and scavenging.

The entire brigade has been busy these days, and it has already begun after the mobilization order was officially issued.

The brigade has complete cadres and complete staffing, and even military camps exist, which means there are not enough people.

Before it was time to formally accept the retired soldiers, the officers in the brigade were arguing, mainly to discuss how big the gap between them and the most elite First Martial Knight Brigade in Si Shang was to fight.

Many officers in the brigade were from Zhao, and they all felt that when it comes to killing people, they might not be better than the First Martial Knight.

The deputy brigade coach shouted: "I was in Gaoliubian Fortress and led our company's people to attack the Hu people's settlement. I don't know how many times I fought."

"About this, when the First Martial Knight Brigade followed the giants to fight the Nanji River Battle, it deployed infantry on both sides to raid the defense lines of the Qi people."

"To be honest, look at that battle now. If our brigade is on, we can do it too. At that time, the Qi people could no longer hold on. When the artillery bombed, they had already dispersed. And when they just opened the gap and broke into it, the opposite side had already collapsed and had no establishment. No matter how they fought, it would be fine."

"If we really fight, we can't fight them, but they will definitely not be able to compare with us in other things."

Another man also shouted: "That is, in terms of equestrianism, the people and equestrianism of their Martial Knights Brigade is not better than ours..."

A few people laughed. Speaking of this, most of them had already surrendered. They realized that the rushing formation was much different from those martial knights, so they could only find confidence in equestrianism.

The slander captain Mi did not participate in the debate. He went to the Martial Knight Brigade to be a deputy brigade commander. He had seen the training and rushing exercises of the Martial Knight Brigade, and he knew very well how big the gap was.

The cavalry of the Martial Knight Brigade could keep the rider close to the knees within a hundred steps. The cavalry of Zhao at that time could not maintain such a good formation.

This kind of training cannot be practiced for three or four years, and it is really incomparable to them if the cavalry is hedging. If the cavalry is hedging, the gang captain Mi also understands that if the two sides face off, his journey will not take long.

As for the light cavalry brigade like them, who are all good at fighting figures in the village community, with superb riding skills and courage, but in terms of discipline, they are really inferior to those martial knights.

In recent years, the tasks of each training exercise of the light cavalry like theirs are either raiding the granary or circling back and disturbing the opponent's formation when they are in the battle, or chasing the defeated soldiers and not allowing the opponent to reassemble. There is basically no task of rushing to the formation, and basically no similar tasks are trained.

There are also differences in the configuration of some armaments. The Martial Knight Brigade uses swords and basically does not use spears.

However, their brigades are all ring-headed knives, mainly chopping, and some companies are also equipped with some disposable spears. They are used during charge, and they are discarded and changed the knives after the charge. Some companies will also issue some flint rifles with short barrels.

In some places, it seems to be similar to those of the Hu people in the north, except that the Hu people there use short bows that are convenient for casting on the right time, and these people are equipped with short-barrel muskets.

To the self-deprecating words of the silence captain Mi, these people are the infantry who can't shoot in formation and the martial knights. They are not as good as chariot soldiers in the storm, and they are only the only ones who can run fast and can harass these two advantages.

Light cavalry brigades like them are similar to most of the troops in Si Shang, and they are all available inside, including representatives of Mozhe, military officers, doctors, military musicians, and commanders at all levels. What they do is different in combat purposes.

When the debate in the barracks was about to end, someone came in and said, "The brigade coach, the brigade representative, and the superiors have an order to let you go. It seems that the people will be divided tomorrow."

This is something I already knew, but I didn't confirm the specific time, and everyone was not surprised.

Just go to one of the two, and the brigade representative said that he would let the prisoner Mi go, and he happened to hold another meeting for the remaining people.

After leaving the military camp, he was not far away from the camp. After entering, he did not see Liuzhi, but the representative of the army met him.

After saluting, the legion representative smiled and said, "Previous prisoners are all old cavalrymen, and many of them have made great contributions, and they are very wild."

"At that time, more than twenty people dared to rush to the Qi army to grab flags. Later, they fought with brothers because of stealing noble prisoners for military merits."

"They are all good fighters who fight in villages, communities and courtyards, so they must be suppressed. If they can't be suppressed, it's okay to fight the battle with the wind. Everyone is brave, but the real war depends on discipline, not personal courage. You also know that those Hu people in the North back then were probably not inferior to you in terms of personal courage, but they just couldn't win."
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