Nine hundred and seventy-fourth chapter Mo Dao mighty (2)
Of course, to select Modao officers, you don't go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. Any crooked melons and dates will do.
First, it’s height, weight, and wingspan.
The current Han army standard Mo Dao is eight feet five inches long and weighs about forty kilograms (Han system Jinliang, about ten kilograms today).
Therefore, this requires the user to be no less than seven feet three inches tall.
In addition, the Mo Dao is heavy.
And the main combat methods are chopping and swinging.
This requires the user to have sufficient physical strength.
Therefore, Mo Dao soldiers must have strong lower body and strong upper limbs.
This way you can maintain strong physical strength during combat.
Finally, wingspan is also important.
The Mo Dao is a long weapon. The longer the arm span of the wielder, the better the cutting effect.
Therefore, at this moment, in the military camp, the first round of screening starts with height, weight and wingspan.
One by one, candidates lined up to be selected by the Habayashi Guards.
If any one of height, weight, wingspan and age fails, you will be told directly that you can leave.
Li Ju stood at the end of the team, looking at this selection method, his heart was filled with pride.
He has enough confidence in his physical fitness.
In fact, the physical fitness of most Han military officers is extremely excellent.
Moreover, because they have been engaged in heavy infantry work for generations and have received battle formation training since childhood, basically, the officers are soldiers with extremely powerful lower body and extremely strong upper limbs.
If the bottom wall is weak, it will not be able to lift up the big shield and cannot stand on its own.
Without muscles in the upper limbs, it would be unable to withstand the impact of the Huns cavalry and the powerful arrow strikes.
Such people, when on the battlefield, become the enemy's target and breakthrough point.
Therefore, in this round of selection, only more than a hundred people were eliminated.
Moreover, there are at least 40 or 50 people who have exceeded the age limit.
It can be seen from this that the quality of the elites in the Han army is very high!
Even Yizong, who was standing on the barracks, was amazed: "There are so many heroes in the world!"
For any aristocratic scholar-bureaucrat of the Han Dynasty, recruiting heroes and joining their shogunate is an irresistible temptation!
Looking at the hundreds of officials filing into the military camp's playground, Yi Zong murmured: "Whether it's a dragon or an insect, it all depends on the next screening!"
In theory, the current Mo Dao soldiers of the Han army can become a qualified Mo Dao soldier as long as they meet the requirements of height, weight and wingspan.
In fact, the training of Mo Dao soldiers is simpler than that of crossbow soldiers.
Generally speaking, a county soldier who has received rough military training can become a qualified Mo Dao soldier after two or three months of training.
However, this time, the Yulin Guards did not choose soldiers.
But an officer!
At least it’s quite long!
One person is very senior, and he is responsible for two teams.
On the battlefield, front, back, left and right, they were all his comrades.
He must have ears to listen to six directions and eyes to observe all directions.
Not only do you need to pay attention to the orders from the team leader, Sima, and captain at all times, but you also need to encourage your soldiers at all times.
Therefore, it requires not only courage, but also wisdom and sensitive responses.
What's more, the Habayashi Guard selects officers.
It’s always a matter of picking the best eggs, and it’s better to have something less than too much!
The selection of the Habayashi Guards has always been about only the best soldiers, the best officers, and the best talents.
People who are not good enough or outstanding enough in this army cannot impress even the arrogant soldiers below, let alone impress the superior officers!
The Xiliu Camp's team rate may not be enough to be a leader in the Yulin Guards.
………
Li Ju followed the team and entered a martial arts arena.
Li Ju is no stranger to this kind of martial arts arena.
He used to train with his father and peers in such martial arts arenas all year round.
Whether it is a spear or a halberd, a large shield or a broadsword, they are all weapons that a qualified military officer must master proficiently.
In addition, a qualified information officer must also have sufficiently sensitive hearing and discernment abilities.
They must be able to clearly hear the drumbeats coming from the Chinese army at any time and in any environment, and immediately distinguish what they mean.
In addition, they must be able to distinguish clearly and keenly the sound of the firing of friendly crossbow troops and the vibration of enemy bowstrings.
And it is necessary to immediately identify how many enemies have just attacked.
Only such a talented officer can protect his soldiers to the greatest extent on the battlefield.
Talented officials who cannot do this will often harm others and themselves.
However, this Yulinwei's martial arts performance field was different from those that Li Ju was familiar with.
The difference is that these weapons almost only have one kind of long sword that Li Ju has never seen or heard of before.
This kind of weapon, standing up, is taller than a person's height.
Although it is not as long as the halberd, the main battle weapon of the Han army in the past.
However, its power is stronger than the halberd!
Its handle and blade are almost the same length!
The handle of the knife is about five feet, and the blade is about three feet five inches to four feet.
The entire blade is almost made of fine iron. After being polished by skilled craftsmen, it looks cold and extremely sharp. It can almost break a hair!
With just one glance, Li Ju's heart and soul were taken away by this long weapon!
"This is a weapon born for officials..." Li Ju thought in his heart: "If I can hold this weapon...it will be..."
This kind of weapon doesn't even need a demonstration to make people realize how terrifying it is!
During the chopping, I am afraid that any enemy will be chopped off by them, including people and horses!
It is simply the scythe of death!
Like Li Ju, the other officials were already deeply intoxicated with Mo Dao the moment they saw him.
They seemed to have met their first love, looking at these long swords with hot and crazy eyes, and couldn't help but get excited.
"This is the weapon a military officer should have!" someone said.
Compared with it, the halberds and spears used by the officials in the past are simply weapons used by Yidina and can be completely eliminated!
"This is the Mo Dao!" A Yulin officer who looked like a captain, holding a Mo Dao, proudly announced its name to these crazy and passionate officials: "This is also one of the future officials.
fundamental!"
This is a fact, as the emperor lifted the equipment restrictions of Mo Dao.
It can be foreseen that in the future, the Han army's border army's military officers and soldiers will popularize this kind of weapon.
Even if it costs as much as fifteen thousand yuan per handle!
However, although Mo Dao is expensive, Mo Dao soldiers are not expensive!
Any militiaman who has received formal training can master this weapon in a short time.
Unlike archers, it requires more than three years of training.
It's not like the cuirassiers, which not only have strict requirements on the quality of the riders, but also require money to pile up. It also takes a long time to train a qualified cuirassier. Even if it is trained and cultivated with a cavalry that is already good enough, it will not work.
It will take at least a year to achieve combat effectiveness.
A qualified cavalry requires more than three years of training.
In other words, after the price reduction of Mo Dao soldiers, Mo Dao soldiers have the same potential as crossbow soldiers for large-scale popularization and equipment!
The cost of 15,000 yuan is actually the same as that of the Dahuang Crossbow.
The requirements for the Dahuang Crossbow are too high!
No one except Hercules can pull it open and use it alone.
If the big yellow crossbow can be like Mo Dao, Zhongren Zhi can be used.
The Han army had already spread it to every barrier and beacon tower, so that the Huns could feel the malice from the world!
Judging from the current situation, the Han army is likely to have more than 100,000 or more Mo Dao soldiers to garrison the world in the future.
In front of such a large number of Mo Dao.
Even the cuirassiers would probably attack the streets!
Because, cuirassiers are destined to never exceed 10,000!
This is a very easy and simple calculation result. There are about ten million young and strong men in the world. And the riders of the cuirassiers are only one in a thousand!
But Mo Dao soldiers can be widely equipped.
Basically, qualified young people can use this weapon.
This means that Mo Daobing is actually the most economical and most suitable weapon for the Han Dynasty.
It can both defend and attack.
It is not afraid of cavalry or infantry.
It can be used in any war zone such as plains, Gobi, plateaus, mountains, forests and hills.
Whether it goes north or south, whether it goes to the grasslands or the water network and mountainous areas in the south, its power will not be reduced.
Moreover, it is also very economical.
Unlike cavalry, where one person has two horses, raising one cavalry is equivalent to raising a team of infantry.
According to this captain, there is no weapon more suitable for the Han Dynasty than the Mo Dao!
It is Xing Tian’s relative and Hou Yi’s divine bow!
From the moment he saw Mo Dao, the captain fell deeply in love with it!
Like caressing a lover, the captain gently caressed the Mo Dao in his hand.
The Mo Dao in his hand now is the third generation Mo Dao of the Han family.
Since the emperor ordered the Shaofu to forge the Modao for the first time five years ago, the Shaofu and the Mohists have never stopped improving and improving the Modao.
Now, in Yulin and Hubenwei, under each captain, there are two or three Mohists from the Mohist school training with the army.
They will improve and improve their designs based on actual use by the military.
Take Mo Dao as an example. The original Mo Dao had a blade that was too short and had not yet left the category of a horse-killing sword.
In addition, the handle of the knife is also very unscientific, and it is easy to fall off due to excessive force.
Therefore, before the Battle of Mayi, the Mo Dao that began to be installed in Yulin, Huben and Xiliu Camp began to have a design where the blade and the handle were equal, and a soldier grip was added to the handle of the Mo Dao.
Grip grooves.
However, later in practice, it was discovered that the blade was too long, making it easy for soldiers to accidentally injure friendly troops during use, and it was not conducive to maintenance. The grip grooves were also somewhat unaccustomed.
Therefore, the Mo Dao now equipped has a smaller blade, and it is made of fine iron that is more suitable for chopping. In terms of the design of the groove, it was also the Mohist who inspected and observed more than three thousand Han troops.
After adjusting the size of the hand, specially designed grooves suitable for use by the Han army allowed the soldiers to just hold the Mo Dao without being too narrow or too wide, and the size was just right.
In addition, the long-range weapons carried by Mo Daobing have also been improved.
Five years ago, when the Mo Daobing first appeared, the officers of the Yulin Guard and the Huben Guard discovered that the Mo Dao Soldier had a huge flaw. It could only fight in close combat and lacked long-range firepower.
This means that Mo Dao soldiers cannot fight alone.
This is simply unacceptable to the Yulin Guards and the Tiger Guards!
At that time, the Mo Dao was expensive to make, with a Mo Dao easily costing 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, or even 100,000 yuan!
Such an expensive Mo Dao can't fight alone?
What's the use of it!
Because of this, the scale of Mo Daobing has been unable to expand.
So, the Mo Dao officers of the Yulin Guard got together to discuss why the Mo Dao soldiers could not use long-range weapons.
Archers all need long-term training, so all kinds of long and short bows are automatically abandoned.
However, crossbow does not require any special training.
Even if it is a farmer who has never received special training, if you hand him a crossbow, he can operate it.
It's just that their accuracy and discipline are not as good as those of the army.
So, they began to look for a long-range crossbow suitable for Mo Dao soldiers.
It can't be too big, like the big yellow crossbow, so Mo Dao soldiers should be called strong crossbow soldiers.
It cannot be too small, otherwise the range will be insufficient.
Then, the crossbows in the Han army came into everyone's sight.
The Chuanzhang crossbow is a three-stone crossbow with a range of between fifty and one hundred steps.
Moreover, it is neither too big nor too small, and its weight is very light, making it suitable for Mo Dao soldiers to carry around.
But in the last one or two years, the Mo swordsmen suffered a lot from using their crossbows.
Because, although the Han army's previous Qianzhang crossbow only had the strength of three stones, it needed to be stretched from the waist. That is to say, every time it was stringed and filled, it was necessary to use the waist to open the string.
This is simply an unforgivable flaw on the battlefield!
The Mo Dao soldiers could not imagine the embarrassment of using their waists to cock their crossbows when the enemy rushed over.
But, now, this problem no longer exists.
The Mohists and the Shaofu teamed up to improve the design of the crossbow.
This makes this kind of powerful crossbow no longer requires waist force to wind and fill.
It can be easily wound with one foot.
It's not just filling that's faster than before.
Moreover, it is more suitable for use with Mo Dao.
In this way, Mo Dao soldiers have long-range firepower. Even if the enemy is at a long distance, Mo Dao soldiers can give them enough damage and deterrence.
The Han army's Mo Dao Formation can now fight alone.
It can gain a foothold on the battlefield without relying on crossbowmen!
Moreover, due to the price reduction of Modao, this weapon can even replace all the halberds and spears currently in service in the Han army.
But, after all, this is just imagination, fantasy, expectation, and hope.
In China, it is impossible to convince others by relying on words and descriptions.
He wanted the Modao to replace the halberd and spear and become the main force of the Han army alongside the cavalry.
That still needs actual combat testing.
Just like the actual combat verification in the Battle of Mayi!
Just like the Battle of Mayi, it announced the arrival of the age of cavalry.
Mo Daobing also needs a decisive victory that will attract the attention and admiration of the world!
In the eyes of this captain, the upcoming battle between Gaoque and Yinshan is the most suitable battlefield! (To be continued.)
