Chapter 162 Liwei (Part 2)
Zhang Yu hurried to Huachi Town, and Wang Ju had already gone to Liyuan Fort. Liyuan Fort is a heavy army in Huachi County, and there are two battalions of Zhenwu Army soldiers. Both are Zhenwu Army, but not the first battalion of the army. However, Wang Ju and Zhenwu Army had a holiday, which made Zhang Yu even more worried.
So he hurriedly rode his horse and rushed towards Liyuan Fort.
When I arrived at Liyuan Fort, I saw a crowd of people outside the fort, gathering countless soldiers, strong men and strong horses.
Zhang Yu's head exploded and he hurriedly squeezed in and asked.
A veteran told him: "General Manager Zhang, County Magistrate Wang and Inspection Officer Yao are in the military parade."
"parade?"
"Well, it means let's practice and let this new magistrate take a look."
"That's good," Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief and found Wang Ju and Yao Shi in the crowd.
Wang Ju and Yao Yi watched, first glance at the officers and soldiers, including the army of the camp, second glance at the strong men, then look at their archery skills, sticks, swords and guns.
"There are so few horses in the foreign army?"
"Qingzhou is mostly Liangmao area, lacking flat valleys and soil plates, so it is not easy to raise horses, so the number of horses in the foreigners is not large. Even if there are, many foreigners seek profits and use it to exchange for the things needed in the tribe." Yao Yi replied.
Not only the foreigners in Qingzhou, but also the number of horses in Xixia is not large.
There were many, but almost all the people in Xixia were soldiers, and they could not lack war horses. Moreover, although the Hetao was flat, the water and soil deteriorated further since the end of the Tang Dynasty, which was not conducive to the grazing of cattle and horses. If Xixia did not establish a country and did not set up so many troops, then war horses would be enough and even redundant. Just like the Five Dynasties, they offered war horses to the Central Plains every year and asked for rewards, and once asked the Central Plains dynasty to prohibit such horses. However, when the country was established, the number of horses became tight. The Qingli War broke out. In order to support more cavalry and exchanged shortage of materials with private merchants in the Song Dynasty, Yuan Hao had to trade a large number of horses to various tribes in Jiashan, Liao Kingdom. One was to "export", and the other was to reserve it for himself.
Wang Ju frowned.
He did not come blindly, but before he came, he thought of a series of plans, including horses.
But if the foreigners in Qingzhou lack horses, it would be a bit difficult to deal with.
However, Wang Ju remained calm on the surface and continued to watch.
It should be said that Yao Yi stationed in Liyuan Fort in the town, and he did a good job in training alone. Zhang Yu in the rear was not simple, and with the arrival of the diagnosis, Fan Zhongyan also laid a good foundation among the foreigners. This is the reason for the victory of the battle in Dashun City in the future.
But these soldiers still could not satisfy Wang Ju.
The worst is the two battalions of imperial guards, which are really bad, almost terrible. There are many crossbowmen who are dissatisfied with arrows and crossbows, not to mention accurate. The second is the Poche Army, but the Poche Army performed a little better than the imperial guards. The best performance was the Fan Luo, but Wang Ju felt a pity that the number of cavalry among them was too small, and the Fan Luo Ba Luo was about less than four hundred people. Wang Ju didn't want to ask whether there were empty salary or not, at least he couldn't ask now, but there were only more than two hundred people in this Fan Luo army.
Then he thought of the majestic posture of the foreign army in Di Qing's victory in Kunlun Pass. Perhaps Di Qing deliberately selected it. The Fan Luo Army would not be that powerful normally.
Seeing Wang Ju looking at the two imperial guards dissatisfiedly, Yao Yi explained again: "I deliberately let them practice these two battalions of imperial guards, and the imperial guards in other places will be worse."
Wang Ju nodded.
Just like the battle in Hei'ao Ridge, the wealth was touching, but when he was ambushed and sniped, the Black Bee Thieves quickly became defeated.
He continued to watch the performance of Fan Luojun and the strong men.
The individual is pretty good, some people have good riding skills, and their archery skills are excellent. However, the overall lacks cooperation.
Wang Ju was amused that the three countries of Song, Liao and Xia were defeated. It was such a group of mobs that actually repelled Li Liangzuo's 100,000 troops. Of course, the Song and Liao army could not be better either. No wonder the Jin people quickly annihilated the Liao Kingdom after the rise, causing the Northern Song Dynasty to perish.
At this time, Zhang Yu also squeezed over.
"Mr. Zhang, you are here too."
"Magic Magistrate Wang, what are you doing?"
"If you check the troops in Huachi, you will have a clear idea."
"It's hot weather, aren't you afraid that they will be disgusted?"
"If you gather to review it, you will feel disgusted. What does the court do to raise so many troops? They are soldiers, not husbands, and they have to coax and hold them."
"The border tranquility is mainly quiet."
"Mr. Zhang really thinks this way in his heart?" Wang Ju asked, "You can't think this way if Sun Changqing thinks this way."
Zhang Yu had no choice but to say, "Don't stir up any bad things."
"Mr. Zhang, I asked Sun Gong for the right to train military, but I have my own sense of doing things." Wang Ju felt funny in his heart and thought, my future opponents will be Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Cai Jing and others. If I can't pass this level at the moment, I'll prepare for a retreat earlier than Hangzhou.
He also said: "The way to govern the country and the army is the same. We use both kindness and power to strengthen military discipline and win the morale of the army with kindness. General Manager Zhang, have you seen Zeng Xianggong's "The General Law of Wu Jing"?"
Zhang Yu shook his head.
"One day, you should take a look, and it will write some methods of reward and punishment for marching constraints."
This book has some reference significance, but cannot be believed in them all. For example, in this volume of Military Camp, it records some ways to quench thirst and hunger in harsh environments, and some are still good.
But some people are inexplicably washed away the rice, steamed and exposed again. This is also understandable. However, after ten steamed rice in later generations, Wang Ju couldn't understand it. In addition, in the case of extreme food shortage, soak it with a foot of coarse cloth, soak it in a liter of vinegar, dry it, boil it in a square inch, and dipped it in vinegar to eat it. One foot of coarse cloth can be eaten for fifty days. Wang Ju Lei has this situation, such as eating grass roots, bark and belts during the Long March, but when it reaches this point, can the Song army still be weaved? He has surrendered long ago. Zeng Gongliang thought the Song army was the Red Army.
Furthermore, if a liter of rice can be eaten for a day, a cow or horse can be eaten for fifty people a day. First of all, this liter of rice is not millet, and millet is lighter, so how heavy is it? This involves another confusing unit of measurement in the Song Dynasty, huhu and stone. A stone is not ten dou, it is weight. If it is calculated by rice, it is only seven stones, less than eight stones. A huhu is only ten dou, a tumble of ten liters, and a liter of rice is less than three taels.
The Song army had a poor meal, lacking meat oil and eating a lot, especially during the march that Zeng Gongliang said, he consumed a lot of energy and had a greater appetite. So can he eat for a day? If you are wrong, the standard answer is actually two liters.
Then when it comes to this cow and horse, more than one kilogram of rice a day is enough, and the meat is fuller than a rice tube. Even if a cow or horse is small, it is okay to take about 300 kilograms of meat. A kilogram of rice tube is full, but when it is used, it can only be filled with seven or eight kilograms of meat. What is the reason for this?
But I can also read it. Even Wang Ju planned to finish reading it himself and give Yao Yi a look. But he had to apply ink moderately, such as rice and meat...
Zhang Yu didn’t know, it turned out to be a book written by Zeng Xianggong, so it would probably be fine.
After the group of people was released, including the commanders, there were also good ones. Wang Ju remembered it one by one in his heart, calmly on the surface, walked to the front and looked at the crowd of dark people, many people, more than a thousand imperial guards, more than two thousand strong men, strong horses, and a few strong men had not arrived, but most of them had arrived.
Wang Ju said: "In order to support you, the court took out two-thirds of its income. How many poor families went bankrupt for you, but I saw that they were raising a group of mobs."
We were unhappy when we gathered together in a hot day. This question immediately started to cause trouble, especially those strong men. I didn’t rely on your court to support me. As for taxes, do you dare to collect them?
Wang Ju waved his hand and said, "Don't be dissatisfied. I'll introduce a person, he, Li Sangou, who is an ordinary villager in the small village where my official's hometown is. Let him show you how big the gap is between you and an ordinary villager."
Yao Yi wants to cover her face, what an ordinary villager, isn’t this bullying?
Zhang Yu also wanted to cover her face.
But everyone doesn't know, okay, let's see how awesome the ordinary villagers in your small village are.
Wang Ju brought a bow and handed it to Li Sangou.
Li Sangou pulled it away with force, and the bow was broken.
This time, it was a commotion. What Li Sangou pulled off was not the mulberry wooden bow in the hands of ordinary people, but the standard bow. How much strength does it take?
Wang Ju asked one of the ten generals behind him: "There are strong bows in the castle."
"Yes, the bow in Yao's hand is a strong bow. It is said that it takes nearly three stones of strength to pull it full."
"That's it," Wang Ju asked Yao Yi for a bow.
Some people are very worried. Everyone knows that Yao Yi's big bow is almost no one in the village except Yao Yi, and the soldiers who fell into the army are not satisfied.
Yao Yi knew it in his mind, it would be strange if he couldn't pull it open. He asked the soldiers to enter the fort to bring the specially made black paint bow and handed it to Li Sangou. Li Sangou bent his bow and shot ten arrows in a row. He didn't see his head right, and even with this big bow at such a fast speed, it was not a job for humans to do.
And the arrow hit the bull's eye.
Thousands of people were dumbfounded together. What awesome villagers who came?
Li Sangou asked for another war horse from a Fanzi, rode on the horse, and shot arrows while galloping. This time he was a little bit off, but five arrows hit the bull's eye.
He got off the horse and came to Wang Ju and said ashamed: "I haven't ridden a horse for many years, so my head has fallen down."
But everyone was silent together. When people who were close to each other heard this, they burst into tears. They had not ridden a horse for many years, and there was also this riding technique and this accuracy. So what accuracy would they have before?
Wang Ju said again: "Or you might think he is an exception, but I am the one who used to be a slaughter (a poor scholar). Even if I am only eighteen years old this year, I am a civil servant, and I have never participated in any military training. However, you are not even as good as me!"
Wang Ju said, asking the soldiers to bring a black lacquer bow, of course it was not Yao Yi's big bow, it was not a powerful person, it was a boring thing for himself.
With the bow and arrow, Wang Ju came to the middle ground. Everyone was very nervous. If a scholar and literati were allowed to compete, he would be even more ashamed. Moreover, Wang Ju's delicate face also made everyone ignore his stronger body.
Zhang Yu understood a little, but there were still many that he didn't understand.
Chapter completed!