Since the drill, the middle and high-level officials of Huangzhushan discovered something strange, that is, they saw Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen entering and exiting the school grounds for several days in a row.
Could it be that Zeng Ziwen, who had been a prisoner for half a year, finally decided to submit to the Tang Dynasty?
But it doesn't look like it. Although this Zeng Ziwen has been frequently in and out of school with Li Xuan these days, it has been revealed what position he holds.
Based on Zeng Ziwen's original status and qualifications, if he wanted to submit to the Tang Dynasty, the official position he would obtain would definitely not be low. The title of a general could not be lost, and his actual position would not be low either.
However, no one has ever heard what general title Li Xuan gave him!
It can be said that he did not submit to the Tang Dynasty, but this is not the case, because many people saw with their own eyes that Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen often discussed military affairs, especially training matters.
This situation seems strange.
The reason why this strange impression was given to outsiders was that Zeng Ziwen refused the title of general or any other official position that Li Xuan wanted to confer on him.
Although Zeng Ziwen was relieved and was willing to help Li Xuan solve some problems in military training and tactical command, he was still unwilling to hold any position in the Tang Dynasty because he would not be able to pass the test in his heart.
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Li Xuan didn't care about this. What he needed was Zeng Ziwen's ability. As for official titles, official titles in the Tang Dynasty were not worth much anyway. Zeng Ziwen's rejection of the official position in the Tang Dynasty did not affect him from helping him solve some training problems.
The problem.
Moreover, Zeng Ziwen's behavior was more of a kind of psychological comfort for himself. Could it be said that he did not submit to the Tang Dynasty if he did not hold an official position?
This kind of behavior is a bit similar to hiding one's ears and stealing the bell.
Therefore, Li Xuan did not insist on Zeng Ziwen's refusal to serve as an official in the Tang Dynasty, nor did he use the title of private military consultant to save the country. He directly took Zeng Ziwen to get busy to improve the training system of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
It has to be said that even though Zeng Ziwen was not very good at leading troops in battle, he was from a family of generals. He had read various military books and had a very solid understanding of how the army of this era should train and even fight.
Theoretical skills.
Well, to put it bluntly, his ability to talk on paper is quite good.
However, what Li Xuan wants is his ability to talk on paper. If you want Li Xuan to really let go and let Zeng Ziwen lead the new army of the Tang Dynasty to fight, Li Xuan is still worried. He is worried that Zeng Ziwen will be scared to tears on the battlefield again!
Zeng Ziwen's theoretical level is quite good. Although most of his theories are limited to the training and operations of cold weapon troops, in the army, whether it is a cold weapon army or a modern army, many things are understood, and some things that are not understood are slightly different.
It can be used with some modifications.
Five days later, with Zeng Ziwen's help, Li Xuan finally produced a complete new army training manual.
This training code is not a completely new one, but a compilation of many training methods for the new army of the Tang Dynasty that have been issued one after another, and finally summarized into a document.
There are not many words in the full text, maybe more than 10,000 words, and the content is also very simple. It only records the organization, basic training methods and basic tactics used together.
However, although most of these things were formulated before by Li Xuan, Li Xuan was not a professional soldier before, and his knowledge of military theories was hearsay, so it was inevitable that there would be some jokes and mistakes made by laymen looking at experts.
For example, when Li Xuan trained the troops before, they were always prepared for large-scale head-on confrontations, which resulted in the size of each team being of a single type.
In other words, none of these teams actually has the ability to fight alone.
In this regard, Zeng Ziwen raised his own question, what should we do if we have to divide our forces to fight?
You can't just dispatch the entire army regardless of the size of the enemy. For example, when dealing with a small enemy patrol, only twenty or thirty people are enough. However, how should you allocate the troops at this time?
Regarding this issue, Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen discussed this issue for several days. At first, Zeng Ziwen suggested integrating the subordinate teams and dispersing the spearmen, musketeers, sword and shield players, and archers so that each team could
Each team has the ability to fight independently.
But this proposal was rejected by Li Xuan without hesitation.
Why?
Because the enemy the Tang Dynasty King's Division faced was the Ming army, and the number of the Ming army far exceeded the Tang Dynasty King's Division. In the foreseeable future, if the Tang Dynasty King's Division faced any Ming army, it would require all its strength.
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While other arms are fine, arms like musketeers require scale effects. If the number is too small, there will be no obvious actual combat effect.
Limited by the fact that the hit rate of muskets in this era is too low at medium and long distances, if a musketeer wants to achieve effective hits at medium and long distances, what he needs is coverage shooting, which means that a large group of people need to shoot and there will be fewer people shooting.
It's of no use at all!
However, the need for small-scale operations mentioned by Zeng Ziwen does exist. After Li Xuan considered it, he planned to create a temporary establishment.
On weekdays, they still train separately, and when necessary, they will directly transfer personnel from each team to form a small combat team.
After all, the new army of the Tang Dynasty now has very few troops. It is too small to concentrate the troops for combat. It is unlikely to adopt a strategy of dividing the troops during the battle. It is enough to create a temporary organization and wait until it is needed. There is no need to specialize.
This disrupts the training and deployment of the entire army.
After all, according to Li Xuan's plan, he wants to gradually increase the proportion of musketeers, and eventually eliminate spearmen, archers and even sword and shield men. When all infantry are musketeers, there will naturally be no arms to match.
It's defective.
Nowadays, what limits the number of musketeers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is only the number of muskets produced. However, the production of muskets can now reach twenty per month, and it is still gradually increasing. Considering that the number of musketeers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is not large in the first place, this amount every month
The output of twenty pieces per month is enough for initial use.
After the new army training code was officially issued, the training of the new army of the Tang Dynasty became obviously more formal. Perhaps the effect on the musketeers was not obvious. After all, Zeng Ziwen's expertise was not in the musketeers, but in the cold weapon troops, so he was very good at spearmen and bows.
The effect of the hand and sword and shield hand is quite obvious, and the archer who used to look weak has improved significantly.
These archers have personal archery abilities, but what they lack is systematic training, especially formation training.
Now with Zeng Ziwen's help, the quality of these cold weapon soldiers has improved significantly.
While the new army of the Tang Dynasty was undergoing intensive training, time passed day by day, and soon the summer harvest was about to come!
If it were in the past, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty would have suspended training to help with the summer harvest and planting, but this summer, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had already packed up their swords, guns and dry food and set out on the road before the summer harvest officially started!
The old, weak, women and children who stayed behind in Huangzhu Mountain did not complain that they went out during this busiest time of the year, but were willing to take on more farm work.
Because everyone in the mountain knows that they will not be able to harvest enough food this summer, and they need to go out to collect food when the food outside the mountain is also being harvested, so that thousands of people in Huangzhu Mountain will not go hungry in the second half of the year.