After a month of basic training, the team finally began to train their combat capabilities. At this time, the archers, infantry, and cavalry were trained separately.
Crossbowmen are required to shoot ten arrows continuously within one minute, and these arrows must have a certain degree of accuracy and direction. They must also practice the use of shields and swords to prevent the enemy from suddenly rushing in and being too late.
To retreat, archers are needed at this time to make the final resistance with shields and swords.
The most important and largest infantry in Kaiping Town is the phalanx army, which is a small phalanx composed of 256 people. There are a total of 20 such small phalanxes. These small phalanxes form various types of formations.
Such a large square formation can be flexibly changed on the battlefield, ensuring that these spearmen can effectively attack the enemy in any direction.
In addition to forming a formation, spearmen must also train to advance quickly with spears in their hands, pursue the enemy, and march more than one mile without any confusion in the formation. In order to cope with the enemy's sudden counterattack, as well as unexpected attacks from the flanks and rear, they must be prepared at all times.
Maintain the integrity of the formation and make the enemy invincible.
The next step is the cavalry. Kaiping Town originally had 600 trained cavalry. The cavalry trained this time are all new recruits. It is impossible for others to bring in precious cavalry, so we choose from these people, those who have experience in riding horses.
Two thousand four hundred men were trained as cavalry.
Each old cavalryman leads four new cavalrymen and conducts horseback training with them, teaching them how to maintain formation, how to charge intensively, how to slash enemies with swords on horseback, and how to shoot arrows while running and perform mounted shooting.
The training lasted for three months, and it did not even stop during the Chinese New Year. In order to show that he shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, Jia Ke stayed in the military camp during the Chinese New Year and did not go back. He had a meal with all the soldiers in the military camp.
A New Year’s Eve dinner with a big bowl of meat and wine.
After three months of training, this 10,000-strong unit has clearly transformed. Under the policy of veterans leading new recruits, the team's combat effectiveness has not dropped much.
Winter turned to spring, and after three months of training, the army was basically formed, but without any actual combat, Jia Ke still felt a little unsure.
After careful consideration, Jia Ke decided to hold a grand competition between troops and conduct confrontation training between phalanxes.
Training is about simulating actual combat as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results, otherwise there is no point in doing all those showy things.
However, in order to prevent casualties among the soldiers, during the training process, everyone used bamboo poles wrapped with cloth strips and dipped in lime. During the confrontation, it was ordered that anyone who was poked in a vital part of the body should withdraw immediately, which was a shame, but the white
The point was very obvious, and the hundreds of people supervising them were not blind, so they immediately caught them.
In fact, this method was not thought up by Jia Ke. It was the training method described by Shi Naian in "Water Margin". It should have been a training method commonly used in the army during the Song Dynasty. However, no one had done it in this time and space.
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Fan Kang was very impressed by Jia Ke's idea. This way, he could simulate actual combat as much as possible while ensuring safety, and the training effect would naturally be twice the result with half the effort.
At first, Jia Ke still asked for confrontation between small square formations, but later gradually expanded the scale.
Later, it developed into a large-scale confrontation with Huang Baifeng and Feng Mo each leading 5,000 men, crossbowmen, phalanx troops, and cavalry.
Then there was a cavalry drill against the enemy formations.
Three thousand cavalrymen acted as Tatars and attacked the phalanx army in formation.
In order to raise these three thousand cavalry, it was not easy for Jia Ke. He used almost all the horses captured in several wars in Kaiping Town. There were still some remaining horses that had not been castrated. These horses were used in these wars.
Very few were captured, and almost all were private horses owned by Tatar nobles.
The Tatars have very strict control over horses. All the horses that can be sold to the court are castrated horses to prevent the court from buying back the horses and breeding them to enhance the strength of the cavalry. It is Tang Kuai who serves as the internal agent of the Tatars.
, it is also difficult to buy uncastrated stallions. Jia Ke set up a horse farm specifically for one or two hundred stallions to breed horses.
After several drills, different combat methods were trained. During the combat, we fully discovered our own shortcomings, corrected these shortcomings, and continued to develop the discovered advantages.
Liu Yu came back from the capital before the Chinese New Year and brought more than 120 young men according to Jia Ke's instructions.
As soon as Liu Yu returned to the capital this time, he first met with Lin Zhixiao and told him that he was coming back on the order of his uncle to deliver a message to him.
Lin Zhixiao did not dare to neglect, and immediately went to see Jia Zheng and reported to Jia Zheng the news that Jia Ke sent someone to deliver the letter. Jia Zheng heard that it was Jia Ke who sent someone to deliver the letter. Jia Zheng heard that it was Jia Ke who sent someone to deliver the letter. He immediately summoned Liu Yu without hesitation.
In Mengpo Zhai, Jia Zheng met Liu Yu, who was tired of life.
When Liu Yu saw Jia Zheng, he immediately invited him to pay homage. Jia Zheng was Jia Ke's father and their old master.
Jia Zheng knew that Liu Yu was Jia Ke's personal guard captain and was loyal to Jia Ke, so he was very friendly to him. When he saw him saluting him, he asked him to get up quickly.
After Liu Yu saluted, he took out Jia Ke's letter from his arms and presented it to Jia Zheng with both hands.
Jia Zheng took the letter, opened it and looked at it carefully. Jia Ke gave him a detailed explanation of the situation at the border during this period. He also told Jia Zheng that he had assigned his soldiers to take charge of the troops below. Now he is short of people and needs
Some honest young men from peasant backgrounds served as his bodyguards so that he could continue to train them.
Jia Zheng was moved when he saw this, thinking that Jia Ke wanted to treat the troops as his own private soldiers. He was shocked that he had such ambitions at such a young age.
But this matter still needed to be covered up for him. After Jia Zheng read the letter, he took out the fire sickle and lit the letter on fire.
After finishing these things, Jia Zheng said to Liu Yu: "I already know the purpose of your coming back this time. You choose people from Xiacaozhuang and Wangjiatun first. If there are not enough people, I will transfer them to you from other villages."
Liu Yu respectfully replied to Jia Zheng and said: "Bring these two people from Zhuangzi with you, that's almost it."
Jia Zheng also told Liu Yu: "When selecting people, it is better to have fewer people than too many. There is no requirement for good martial arts, as long as the person is clean and honest."
Liu Yu wrote down Jia Zheng's words one by one.
In the next ten days, Liu Yu traveled between the two villages and selected one hundred and twenty strong young men.
Originally, many families in Wangjiatun did not want their children to go to the border, but later they heard that many of the people who had served as Jia Ke's soldiers had now become officials and were on an equal footing with the county magistrate. So they immediately changed their attitude.
It has become common practice to send one's own children to join the soldiers and give money and gifts to Liu Yu.
But Liu Yu lived up to Jia Ke's expectations for him and did not take any benefits from it. Instead, he selected the best among these young men and selected one hundred and twenty from the two Zhuangzi. After choosing the good man, there was no delay, and he led
With one hundred and twenty people, they hurried back to Kaiping Town. When they arrived in Kaiping Town, it was just before the Chinese New Year.
Jia Ke did not give them any preferential treatment and directly ordered Liu Yu to start training. Their training was more difficult than that of ordinary soldiers. Those soldiers had been soldiers for a while after all.
The people Liu Yu brought back this time were all farmers who had just put down their hoes. The training was particularly difficult. Jia Ke gave Liu Yu full responsibility for this matter. This was a test for him and an opportunity for him to perform.
Jia Ke's personal troops not only have to train infantry, but also archers, swordsmen, cavalry, and almost everything that can be trained.
Therefore, the training time is extremely long. When the ordinary soldiers have completed the training and entered the maintenance training, the guard team still wakes up in the middle of the night and trains desperately. This kind of training has continued for half a year, and Jia Ke is now satisfied. My dear
The formal training of the troops can be considered completed.