Meng Wu's problem was left to Yang Duanhe to worry about, and Shen Bing had no interest in arguing.
After all, strategy is a matter of public opinion and mother-in-law theory. Without a fight, the result will often be inconclusive.
What's more important is that the strategy decided by Shen Bing and Yang Duanhe is only "tentative".
In fact, it cannot be regarded as tentative, because everything is based on Anling City. Without Anling City, it would have to be re-planned.
If this is the case, why do we have to argue about right and wrong?
As for why Ying Zheng sent Meng Wu to lead an army at this time, Shen Bing thought this was Ying Zheng's strategy to divide the work:
At this time, the Qin army was dominated by Wang Jian's family, and it fell into decline after Meng Ao's death.
Even Meng Wu's son Meng Tian was far behind Wang Jian's son Wang Ben.
From the perspective of Yingzheng, the most taboo thing is "one family dominates".
Therefore, in history, the reason why he used the combination of Li Xin and Meng Wu to destroy Chu was because of this plan. Unfortunately, Li Xin was defeated, and Ying Zheng had to use Wang Jian when he fell.
Now I just replaced Li Xin with Yang Duanhe.
But after all, Yang Duanhe was Wang Jian's old subordinate, so he naturally supported Mengshi in order to share the credit.
Shen Bing doesn't need to worry about these, his focus is always on training.
The training situation surprised Shen Bing. With good food and good training, the soldier's figure has shown obvious changes in more than a month.
Although the individual muscles are not as exaggerated, the whole energy and spirit are different.
The bench press has increased from 80 jins at the beginning to 140 jins (about 35 kilograms in modern times).
This is what was previously called the "beginner's welfare period", and the progress at the beginning is almost doubled.
Although this 35 kilograms is nothing to modern people, the average bench press weight of modern fitness enthusiasts can reach 45 kilograms.
The problem is that it has to be compared with the people of this era.
In this era, soldiers' food was poor and nutritionally unbalanced, and it was not uncommon for people to starve to death.
At this time, under Shen Bing's targeted training, his strength increased from 80 Qin Jin to 140... This is not just one or two, but generally increased to 140 Qin Jin.
This is like the Mo Dao team formed by the Tang Dynasty: they were given particularly good food, coupled with training and the best equipment, and they became an elite force that could fight against the cavalry.
In other words, elites in ancient times were often based on good food and strong strength.
The difference between Daliang Jun is that Shen Bing used modern scientific fitness methods to raise his strength to a higher level in a short period of time.
These are normal.
With Shen Bing's scientific training, and most of the soldiers in the Liang Army were young people in their early 20s, it is not surprising that their strength increased so rapidly during the welfare period.
What Shen Bing didn't expect was that the Liang Army would still have more than 70,000 people after training for so long... Shen Bing thought it would be good to have 60,000 left at this time, but after training for a while, there would be only 50,000 left.
As a result, out of about 72,000 people, almost no one was eliminated.
Shen Bing believes that this may be human potential, especially at a critical moment of life and death, the potential it unleashes is always surprising.
But Wei Yao has been worried about this army.
He made several suggestions to Shen Bing during training:
"Lieutenant general, jogging will train your marching speed, and strength will train your combat ability."
"Wei Chen knows that these are the key points of military warfare."
"However, the entire Daliang Army has no helmets or armor. If the two armies confront each other, I'm afraid..."
This worry is indeed justified. Just like Shen Bing has been worried about the black armor army not having armor before, the difference between cold weapon combat with armor and without armor is still quite big.
The problem is that there are as many as 70,000 people in the Liang Army. It is almost impossible to universally equip rattan armor. The only thing that can be done is to equip each person with a round shield... Round shields are much faster to make than square shields. They only need to make the skeleton. Then braid the rattan in circles.
The vine shield compiled in this way is not a problem in protecting bows and arrows and light equipment attacks, but it is probably still powerless against the fully armed Chu soldiers.
Shen Bing replied:
"Don't worry, we will start practicing the formation tomorrow."
Wei Wei responded, but there was doubt in his heart...
Practice formations?
Daliang has practiced all kinds of formations.
And...can't formation solve the armor problem?
However, although Wei Wei was confused, she did not dare to ask any more questions.
In the end, I didn’t expect that this formation could really solve the armor problem.
Because Shen Bing's formation is not the formation used in the Qin Dynasty, but the Mandarin Duck formation used by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Japanese.
Back then...no, I should say the future.
The main reason why Japanese pirates were rampant in the Ming Dynasty was that Japanese swords were sharp and easy to chop.
In view of this characteristic, Qi Jiguang created the Yuanyang Formation to prevent the Japanese crowns from getting close, so they defeated the Japanese pirates and made them frightened.
The essence of this formation lies in the use of something called "wolf trap" for defense.
"Langzhen" is not complicated. It is actually the moso bamboo that is found everywhere in the south, and it is still with branches and leaves.
Chu State happens to be in the south, so there is no shortage of moso bamboo.
Most Chu infantry troops used bronze swords, so they were suitable for defense.
Of course, this "Langzhen" is not just bamboo.
It adds some iron barbs to the moso bamboo. These barbs are mixed in the branches and leaves of the moso bamboo, making it difficult for the enemy to distinguish them.
Therefore, when unsuspecting enemies line up and rush forward, they will be injured by the barbs in the branches and leaves.
If the enemy discovers its danger, the charging speed will also be blocked... It can not only block the enemy's sight, but also act like a modern "barbed wire" to block the enemy.
Then, the spearmen in the back row will fire their guns at the enemies trapped in the "wolf trap".
If some enemies are lucky enough to get through this "wolf trap", the last thing they have to face is the sword and shield wielder.
Therefore, this formation is divided into two columns on the left and right, one group of soldiers each. From front to back are sword and shield bearers, wolf spear bearers, three spearmen, and a group of archers at the rear for reinforcements.
Shen Bing found the hook and drew a picture on the spot... The picture was very simple. It was just a slender barb, thicker than a bamboo branch and similar to a bamboo branch. It was difficult to find it if it was mixed in.
After looking at the picture, he said confidently:
"Don't worry, Lieutenant General, my subordinates will prepare it and send it to your house after a while."
Shen Bing added:
"I need fifty thousand."
I was stunned immediately:
"Five...fifty thousand, this..."
This amount was beyond the ability to owe. Of course Shen Bing knew this, so he explained:
"I have already said hello to the general, and this thing will be made by Daliang craftsmen."
"All you need to do is supervise the production."
I breathed a sigh of relief now.
The reason why 50,000 are needed is because the Liang Army has 70,000.
If every fifteen people need two "wolf traps", then it would be almost ten thousand.
And if a "Langzhen" needs to be equipped with five barbs, it will cost 50,000.
This number is indeed a bit scary, but if you add one point to the army...