"I want to fight, but although the enemy has high fortresses and deep ditches, those who have no choice but to fight me must attack them and save them..."
After the Chushan City Wall began to take shape, in addition to further improving the defense system with the city wall as the core, a number of courtyards were also intensively built.
In addition to serving as generals' camps and residences for officials and people, these courtyards also served as the first place where the samurai's residences for training military officers and generals were moved to the north bank.
The warrior's studio was set up under the state school, but Xu Huai, Xu Wuqi, Xu Wujiang, Guo Junpan and others personally served as the school's principals and taught.
The war was urgent, and the samurai dormitories were initially organized to conduct short-term rotation training every two months. They taught the art of war, military formations, military discipline, flag drums, and signaling, and the training of weapons and equipment. The skills of riding, archery, and swordsmanship were included in the side work, with only a little instruction.
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The Samurai Zhaishe has been established for three phases, each with eighty to one hundred military personnel, and the fourth phase is particularly large.
In addition to the generals and military officials selected from Chushan, there were more than 300 middle and low-level military officials who fled from Jiaopi and other places after the collapse of Xuanwei's army, and 50 military officers selected by Wang Fan from Anzhou to Chushan to watch the enemy.
Many military generals and military officials were all enrolled in this period of samurai warriors. There were as many as 400 people in total, and there were a total of twelve rooms to practice the art of war.
In order to successfully run this period of warrior studios, Xu Huaite selected a group of outstanding samurai students from the previous three periods of warrior studios to serve as team leaders and discipline monitors.
Xuanwei's army fled back to the middle and lower-level military officials, who were better off and could accept the status quo.
They suffered a disastrous defeat in Jiaopi, with heavy casualties in Paoze, and the Xuanwei Army has also been withdrawn. The generals with military rank and rank still have a choice. As low-level military officials, they can only be incorporated into the Chushan Camp to obey orders from now on.
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Chushan had the power of life and death over them, not to mention that they were not hastily mixed with random soldiers and thrown out to fight with the enemy. Instead, they were given the opportunity to learn the art of war and military formations, and the opportunity to heal their wounds and rest their minds.
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No matter how tight supplies were in Chushan, even if they sacrificed their lives to serve as reserve army generals and military officials, the food supply was still better than that of ordinary soldiers. What could they be dissatisfied about?
However, Anzhou sent more than fifty people to Chu Mountain to watch the enemy, including six commanders and twenty-one generals. They listened to Xu Huai, Xu Wuqi, Zhou Jing and others teach them the art of war, military formations, and other methods.
, naturally they were sincerely convinced, but all those who sacrificed their lives, regardless of their previous rank, were all mixed up, led the troops, and enforced academic discipline, were still low-ranked young military officials in the Tianxiong Army, so they felt a little unhappy.
Xu Huai didn't care what their mood was, but he went straight to the point and made it clear that there would only be a few formal full-day lectures, maybe ten or eight days later, all the students would be engaged in actual combat in small teams and responsible for spying on military intelligence.
Tasks such as enemy harassment and terrain survey are directly combined with actual combat.
If the people who have been grouped into formations cannot get along with each other and form a tacit understanding before this, and cannot trust and rely on each other, they will have to bear the consequences of their own casualties when they enter the battlefield.
The teaching of the art of war and military formations is not limited to a few military books such as "General Martial Arts".
Especially for middle-level military generals such as generals and commanders, according to Dai Viet regulations, they will take the art of war test before they can be awarded the rank of military officer.
It is impossible to sort out the most basic knowledge points such as the art of war and military formations for them from beginning to end in a short-term training. It mainly focuses on combining specific combat examples and reminding them of various points of attention in the hope that they can improve; and using small teams to practice combat to let them initially understand
Understand the characteristics of the enemy forces.
At this time, there is a shortage of military officers and generals in the army, and it is impossible to
To break away from the camp, the current only way is to conduct short-term training in rounds to check for deficiencies among the military officers and generals. At the same time, it also allows more generals and generals to have the opportunity to live and practice together to promote internal cohesion.
And this time in Zhaishe's teaching, Xu Huai directly laid out the situation faced by the Huaishang defense line and how to deal with it in detail, and analyzed it one by one with Zhushesheng:
"...At this time, the enemy army relied on the villages along the Mingxi River and advanced step by step towards Chushan City. They used elite armored soldiers and cavalry to cover the hard labor in building the wall, and dragged the resistance horses built in the rear to the front.
.If we send out troops to counterattack, the scale of the troops and horses is too small to shake the guarding forces on both wings. If the scale of the troops and horses is sent out to be large, they will quickly withdraw to the built forts in the rear, causing us to spend a lot of time but gain nothing. This can also be done
It is said to be a high fortress and a deep ditch in another sense. In this case, how do we attack it and save it, so that it has to fight us when it comes out of the high fort and deep ditch, and enter our army to occupy the right time, location, and people?
Are you going to fight our army on the peaceful battlefield? As the saying goes, "Fight in formation and then fight. The regularity of the art of war and the ingenuity of its application depend on one mind."
, carefully consider the pros and cons, choose the pros and eliminate the cons, only then can you win a hundred battles without danger!"
War seems to be full of mysteries. Both sides will find ways to cover up their intentions and mislead the other side, but most of the time they are transparent.
Chushan transferred a large number of elites to Huangyangzhai, and then successively transferred craftsmen, laborers, Yue Hailou, Zhong Changqing and others to Huangyangzhai. How could they not guess the intention of the water attack here?
Therefore, Xu Huai did not strictly keep Chushan's strategy of building a weir and intercepting the Mingxi River upstream a secret while he was teaching the art of war in the warrior's house.
Xu Huai even made this point clear and distributed the maps of Shimen Ridge, Qingyi Ridge and Kantu including Chushan, Zhenyang and other cities, and asked the students to work in groups to work on paper and deduce the situation between the two sides tomorrow.
The battle is about to break out on both sides of the river.
At the same time, Zhu Shesheng must be involved in this process, calculating the consumption of materials, and selecting war equipment. More importantly, breaking the conventional formation of troops, and considering what kind of formation should be used in the low-mountain area near Huangyangzhai.
The formation can better adapt to the battlefield environment.
Although military strategists in their early eight generations had a profound understanding of marching operations, "Soldiers are like water, water is controlled by the ground, and soldiers are defeated by the enemy." However, after the establishment of the Dai Viet dynasty, the system of using culture to control military affairs and using culture to control military forces finally
It actually evolved into a situation where every major military operation in the border states would be given formation plans and strategies by the central government.
Generals have a psychological habit of relying on the strategies given by the central government and not daring to go beyond them. How can they expect to be undefeated and win more, and how can they expect to achieve brilliant results?
Before the official establishment of the warrior's residence, Xu Huai focused on breaking the Chushan generals' new interpretation of the concept of "formation before fighting", hoping to break the inherent ideological prison.
Even though there were generals sent by Anzhou in this warrior's house, Professor Xu Huai did not hold anything back and spoke out the essence of uniting the army in battle.
Of course, whether the old mental prison can be broken down depends on the individual understanding of the generals and whether they can be less constrained by the supervisors, who are mainly soldiers, after returning to Anzhou on Jinghu North Road to continue to lead the army.
Of course, Chushan soldiers and horses also talk about formations and formations, attaching great importance to the deployment of various war weapons, long and short weapons, long bows and short crossbows between the formations, but in this aspect, it is more important to the generals and military officials.
There are higher requirements. We cannot just follow the formation diagrams given in the military manual, but we must be more detailed.
Pay careful attention to many factors such as the enemy, the terrain, the weather, and the time of day, and arrange your troops more rationally.
Regarding the combination of war weapons and military formations, Xu Huai did not hesitate to explain Chushan’s improvements to many war weapons.
The red cavalry is extremely sharp. Whether it is Wang Zhen who is responsible for guarding the capital, or Liu Xian who is stationed in Huaichuan, Hu Kai, Zheng Huaizhong, and Han Shiliang all focus on building chariots and integrating them into the army, using the chariot array to better protect the infantry array.
Suppress enemy cavalry assault.
However, the effect was limited. The vehicle formation formed by Xuanwei Army in Jiaopi could not hold up for long before it was torn apart by the enemy.
In addition to the weak combat power of the Xuanwei Army, its willpower from top to bottom has not really been tempered by bloody battles, and it is also subject to many shortcomings of traditional tanks.
Chariots, mainly side carriages, shield carriages and iron pulleys, are traditionally wooden structures.
If it were to be made light, it would be difficult to withstand the assault of armored heavy cavalry. Even in infantry confrontation, it would be difficult to protect itself well, and it would easily be knocked to pieces by the opponent's vehicles.
If you want to build a strong vehicle and achieve the effect of a "sufficient city", you need to build a heavy vehicle.
However, heavy vehicles weighing from 800 kilograms to 1,000 kilograms, which require about ten people to operate, are secondary. The main thing is that these vehicles run on the compacted post road, which is not much, but when they leave the post road and enter the soil
Soft wilderness is a disaster.
Even if they are barely dragged into the battlefield by mules and horses, once they are arrayed, it is difficult to change the formation according to changes in the enemy's situation, and it is difficult not to have flaws and loopholes.
The Xuanwei Army's formation east of Jiaopi was repeatedly pulled by the Red Husband Cavalry and Zhong Changqing's troops. If the connection went wrong, it would be torn apart and broken through in one fell swoop.
People in the world have never thought about cast iron wheels and frames, but cast iron is heavier than wood, and the tracks and other parts are also very easy to wear.
Even though the frying and smelting method has been used to prepare refined iron for hundreds of years, in addition to the need for further forging and improving the properties of the refined iron, the main reason is the traditional frying and smelting method, which produces a limited amount of refined iron in each furnace (the same is true for pig iron smelting in most areas).
(Small furnace), it was difficult to cast iron tools such as cart hubs and frames, which were considered to be quite large at the time.
Larger iron tools, such as iron plows, are mainly cast with pig iron first, and then the cutting edges are forged using the steel-filling method.
The bottle-shaped blast furnace improved by Chushan this time produces refined iron in one step. In addition to greatly increasing the output of refined iron, it also makes it possible to cast large iron machinery such as hubs and frames.
Although fine iron is directly used to cast iron machinery, its performance cannot be compared with that of forged weapons. However, when used to cast medium and large chariot parts, the same level of strength is more than half that of pig iron.
In short, Chushan’s currently trial-produced refined iron shield vehicles weigh less than 400 kilograms each. At the same time, the wheels are wrapped in cork to increase the contact area with the ground. They are operated by three to four soldiers to enable them to operate on soft soil.
The movement above barely meets the requirements.
Xu Huai still feels that the current refined iron shield chariot is too bulky, but he wants to further improve it to truly advance and retreat freely on the battlefield and facilitate formation. It is best to control it under three hundred kilograms, but it will take time step by step.
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The refined iron shield vehicles currently being urgently cast will be given priority to Tang Qing's headquarters and guard barracks, which will be responsible for facing the main enemy force at Huangyangzhai. However, Xu Huai also took out a few shield vehicles to demonstrate the moves to Zhu Shesheng.
The key points of riding and fighting in a vehicle formation...
