Chapter 206 A Little Insight
In today's Hedong, the cold north is like a signal of war, and the return of love is like ringing the war drum, heralding the arrival of a big war.
Chu Tianya still decided to go back to Qixingzhai first.
When he parted from Jiao Wentong, Chu Tianya asked him to return to Qingyunbao and convey the military order, saying that a major meeting would be held in Qingyunbao seven days later, and all leaders would attend. During this period, all the troops in Xishan should practice quickly to prepare for the war. Moreover, after the meeting is over, there will be a "major" military measure.
Chu Tianya didn't say what the specific military plan was, and Jiao Wentong didn't ask much. Raising soldiers for a thousand days is used for a while. After a year of running-in, it is time for the Hedong Rebels to show their real knives and guns.
Just returning to Qixingzhai, Chu Tianya went to Tianji Peak to find Yelu Yanchen. As a result, on the same day, Yelu Yanchen was drunk and unconscious.
Chu Tianya was a little stunned, because he knew that Ye Lu Yanchen was not the kind of person who did not know self-discipline. His abnormality must be for a reason. So he asked the close servant beside Yelu Yanchen, and only then did he know that it was because of the gun barrel!
Yelu Yanchen's painstaking efforts to polish a flil gun barrel that can be successfully fired, but it didn't take long for him to find a fatal problem, that is, the barrel can only fire three pieces of ammunition in a row, and it will become as brittle as a burnt bamboo tube. Just step on it gently with your feet, and you can break it into pieces!
What is the practical value of such a thing? Is it possible to spend all the money and food, exhausting the painstaking efforts, and consume countless human and material resources in exchange for a barrel that can only fire three times?
When Chu Tianya heard this, he could only sigh.
It is not Yelu Yanchen's incompetence, but the existing smelting and casting technology in the Song Dynasty, so that the temperature and pressure resistance of steel is far less than the rapid expansion and combustion of gunpowder that supports the flect. This gap is a span of science and technology span of hundreds of years and thousands of years. Can Yelu Yanchen alone overcome it in a short time?
Chu Tianya himself is at most a half-piter who has seen pigs walk. Not to mention in the Song Dynasty, even in the 21st century, he is not sure that he can make a gun with his own hands.
It seems that there is no fire gun on the battlefield this winter.
But Chu Tianya is confident and patient, and will succeed sooner or later. Instead, he is now worried that Yelu Yanchen will not have this patience and confidence. This diligent old man who is keen on gunpowder is drinking wine to drown his sorrows.
Bai Qi has always understood Chu Tianya's thoughts best, so he bravely said that he would stay to serve the drunken Yelu Yanchen. When he wakes up, comfort and encourage him.
When he left Tianji Peak, Chu Tianya was a little lost. Originally, he had hoped to test the first musket of the Song Dynasty with his own hands today, but he failed.
"That's all, good things take a long time! If it is so easy for me to advance the military technology of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, wouldn't it be disrespect for those great inventors in human history? Chu Tianya can only comfort himself with this idea.
The next day, Chu Tianya went to the Hu Ben riding camp to visit their training in person. After Anu sent Pearl to Tianshu Peak, he returned here to host the drill and did not stop for a moment. Now Tang Ang is also back, and the two devil commanders begin to torture the cavalry and soldiers fiercely. The two of them are like two blacksmiths with sledgehammers and small hammers, beating tens of thousands of tiger riders with one hammer. Now there are only 5,000 people left, and finally there are not too many people to streamline.
That is to say, the original group of tiger riders who destroyed the exiles of Liao as the main force has been made from a piece of stubborn iron into an "iron tendon", which is a bit of elite. However, they still need to be tested and tempered in actual combat to become real steel cavalry.
Wang Xun, who is responsible for providing "theoretical guidance" to Hu Benqi, was once a cavalry vanguard in one of the few capable troops in the Song Dynasty. He told Chu Tianya that although the Hu Benqi was not formed for a long time, most of them were cavalry in the Liao army and grew up on horseback. Therefore, the foundation of individual combat ability is very good, which is unmatched by ordinary Song cavalry. After this period of training, the tacit understanding and feelings between the sergeants, and this cavalry has a little "elite force" spirit. As long as they fight a few hard battles on the battlefield in the future, they can stand out and become real battlefield knives.
In the era of cold weapons, cavalry often change the outcome of a war because of its mobility and strong impact. The reason why Jin's army is strong is that they have the most powerful cavalry force on the continent. Tietufu and crutch horses are like tanks and armored vehicles on the battlefield today, making it difficult for the Song Dynasty to compete with the flesh and blood infantry sergeants of other barbarian tribes. Even the Liao Kingdom, which used to fight with cavalry as the main battle, could not compete with the cavalry of the State of Jin.
Chu Tianya did not fantasize about creating a cavalry force that can really defeat Tiefutu and abductors. It's like attacking the other's strengths with one's own shortness, which is unrealistic. But if you have cavalry, you may not have an advantage. Without cavalry, you must be at the greatest disadvantage.
Chu Tianya did this to make the shortest board on the barrel as long as possible. So that this wooden barrel can hold more water.
The war may break out at any time, and the people of Jin will not give Chu Tianya and Song too much time to prepare.
Seeing the soldiers sweating and training hard on the school yard, one of the people in Chu Tianya's heart planned to become more and more determined - to hold a large-scale military exercise immediately!
This is the event he will announce at the leaders' meeting in a few days.
The Hedong Volunteer Army has expanded to more than 100,000 people in just half a year, and has been stationed in Qingyunbao, Monk Cave and Qixingzhai. There are quite strangeness between the various troops. If the Jin people call, they will definitely gather together to fight against the enemy. At that time, not to mention that the leaders and sergeants of these troops will feel strange, and even Chu Tianya himself, who is in command in the middle, will be at a loss.
Commanding a legion of 100,000 people must be different from the feeling of bringing several troops around to put out the fire when they were guarding Taiyuan. Chu Tianya needs to practice his role as a supreme commander through this military exercise. The leaders and soldiers below also need such a large-scale military exercise to find their role positioning and warm up the feeling of a large-scale battle. Otherwise, when the war comes to an end, 100,000 people will rush to fight. Now there are no high-end communication tools. A group of strangers come together to the battlefield, and it is even possible that their own people will beat their own people.
The young leader Chu Tianya, the same young 100,000 Hedong Rebels under his command, urgently needs a large-scale military exercise to warm up. Even if it is to grind the gun, it is better than rushing into battle.
Almost all the cavalry of the Hedong Rebel Army gathered in Qixingzhai, with a total of more than 20,000. Except for 5,000 tigers, the other cavalry were under the command of Wang Xun. In addition to Jiao Wentong's 3,000 Xiaoqi and hundreds of Khitan cavalry subordinate to Xiao Linglong led by the Yelu brothers, the rest are all "Qingyunzhan" infantry.
From this point of view, the Hedong Rebel Army is still mainly infantry. In view of the special landforms of Taihang and Xishan and even the whole Hedong, the focus of Qingyunzhan infantry is on mountain jungle warfare and city attack and defense.
These two items are also the weakness of the Jin cavalry.
So militarily, if Wanyan Zonghan really goes south to attack Taiyuan again, Chu Tianya is really not panicked. He is sure to rely on his geographical advantages and the city to maximize the strengths of the Qingyun Zhan infantry, and fight against the weaknesses of the golden soldiers who are not good at mountain warfare and attacking the city. When it comes to it, compared with the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin, the Xiaoqi and Huqi, which are not excellent in combat effectiveness, can also give a fatal attack to the people of the People of the Kingdom of Jin like a flying knife.
If you just need to guard Taiyuan, Chu Tianya has nothing to worry about at all. Nowadays, Taiyuan's military strength is many times stronger than last year's Taiyuan. But the problem is that if Taiyuan Tokyo is lost and the Song Dynasty is destroyed, it will be a real big trouble.
Therefore, Chu Tianya wants to really find a solution to this big problem through this large-scale military exercise.
It was late at night, and Chu Tianya still didn't fall asleep. In front of an oil lamp, he lay on the desk to write and draw, and there was a lot of waste paper beside him.
He sketched the outline of the next military exercises, from the arrangement of the leaders to the location of the army, to the subjects and evaluation of the exercises, all of which have to start from scratch. The only thing he can recommend is some introductions to the establishment of the army in "General of the Martial Arts" and the military genres that he has seen on movies and TV in his previous life, which contain fragments of military exercises.
Innovation is both raw and difficult, but also exciting and exciting. Although the Hedong Rebel Army can't do any sea, land and air three-dimensional operations, it is also interesting to combine modern military concepts with the current situation of the Song Dynasty.
Chu Tianya believes that there must have never been such a "military exercise" in China. This will be an innovation.
Full dedication made Chu Tianya ignore the concept of time. In a blink of an eye, it was dawn, but he was not tired at all. Later, he simply called Baixun and communicated with him about the fruits of his night's labor while it was hot.
Bai Xun was really stunned.
The training of soldiers in autumn and winter is not strange at all; the group fight against the simulated actual combat "military exercises" is obscure, not to mention understanding.
But after all, he is a smart man. After Chu Tianya explained to him, Bai Shu immediately understood and clapped his hands. He said that such "military exercises" are too meaningful for the current Hedong Rebel Army. The biggest advantage is to let the sergeants under the command of the leaders get familiar with each other, and also let the lord have an understanding of the abilities and specialties of each force. Only when you go to the battlefield in the future can you command freely. One hundred thousand soldiers are familiar with the implementation of large-scale battles and battlefield tasks.
With excitement and urgency, Chu Tianya barely slept for two hours, and immediately got up again to formulate the details of the military exercise with Bai Shu.
Bai Qian told Chu Tianya that after his inducement and persuasion, Yelu Yanchen got rid of the shadow of failure and cheered up again and continued his "invention".
Jinwei also reported a small matter that Chu Tianya had ordered before, saying that the two sisters of the boss's wife of Taiyuan Star Picking Building, Zichen and Qingyan, did come to the Qixingzhai Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and were later taken to Tianshu Peak by Mr. He. I haven't seen the two of them since then.
Hearing this news, Chu Tianya couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He said, in case the delicate sisters were killed on Tianshu Peak by the old man, it was really a hot hand. The husband and wife of Shi Kequan, who picked the star building, were full of enthusiasm. How can I tell them at that time?
I hope everything is fine.
By the way, He Bo has been mysteriously beating on Tianshu Peak for a long time, and he doesn't know what kind of result will be.
There are indeed a lot of big and small things, but Chu Tianya doesn't want to be distracted now. He just wants to plan the next large-scale military exercises.
In the next few days, Chu Tianya almost tossed this plan restlessly. After living for two lifetimes, except for preparing for the college entrance examination, he has never been as close to books, pen and ink as he is now. Bai Shu, the dog-headed military division, did not dare to be idle. He called all the documents in the military plane hall to help the master plan the military exercise plan together.
It took five days for the military exercise plan to finally come out. Chu Tianya knew that it was not perfect, but it was just the product of a group of people building cars behind closed doors. When it comes to Qingyunbao, we have to discuss the revision with other leaders. What he wants to do now is to take the lead and pull out the first thread. The rest will be brainstorming and relying on everyone's wisdom and strength.
Everyone collects firewood, and the flame is high. Chu Tianya is very self-aknowledged. He knows that he is not an all-rounder like Baidu and Google, and he does not have excellent achievements in any field. His only advantage is that he has a little more insight than people in this era. What he wants to do now is to turn this little bit of "knowledge" into huge energy through the efforts of many people.
Newton, who was hit in the head by an apple under the tree, probably never thought that human beings could really land on the moon in a spaceship one day. The reason why he was great was that after he was smashed by the apple, he had "a little bit" beyond the "knowledge" of most other people in that era. It is this little "knowledge" that makes Newton greater through the efforts of more people for many years.
What Chu Tianya wants to do now is the kind of thing that Newton did in those years. He doesn't want to build a spaceship to conquer the solar system, but he hopes that through his little efforts, he can change the people around him and more people, so as to change the whole country and the whole era!
Eyes on the big part and the hands on the small part. Now Chu Tianya's best thing to do is two things, one is the fliliary gun, and the other is the major military exercise in front of him.
After the draft was completed, Chu Tianya had a hard sleep, made up his sleep and nourished his energy, and prepared to go to Qingyunbao to participate in the leader meeting to be held tomorrow.
When he was packing up the room and preparing to start, Uncle He appeared at the door.
"Hey hey! Young master, the old man is back. He's iconic laughter made Chu Tianya feel an inexplicable excitement. Looking at the old man's look, it seems that there is some unexpected surprise.
"Have you finished tossing things on Tianshu Peak?" Chu Tianya laughed.
"Tossing? What's that called tossing!" Uncle He seemed to be a little unhappy and said annoidly, "You don't know how much the old man suffered and worried before choosing these eleven people for you. Well, including the old man himself, there are twelve in total!"
"What eleven, twelve?" Chu Tianya is a little puzzled.
"Hey hey, come to the yard and have a look, won't you know?" Uncle He also sold the key.
"Oh?" Chu Tianya smiled curiously and walked outside the house.
In the yard, there are ten people standing neatly, four women and six men, some know each other and some don't know each other. But they all have one thing in common, that is, they all wear big cyan cloaks.
"Sir, is this the close guard you selected and trained for me?" Chu Tianya looked at these people, very curious and suspicious.
"What, what's wrong with the young master?" Uncle He walked to those people in no hurry. Only then did Chu Tianya find that Uncle He was also wearing a blue robe.
Chu Tianya laughed and said, "Sir, even you have fought in person?"
"That's right. The old man finally found one thing to do for himself, that is, to serve as the leader of the 'Qingwei' from now on. Uncle He didn't seem to be joking at all. His expression was rarely serious and serious. He said, "Didn't the court once award the young master as 'Qingyun Shuai'? The young master's personal guard is not called a wolf's tooth dog claw, but a green guard. From today on, twelve of us will follow you inseparable. In addition to protecting your safety, we can do anything for you. Our only purpose is to be loyal to our Lord!"
"Twelve? Obviously, there are only eleven here!" Chu Tianya is a little curious.
"Hey hey!" Uncle He laughed a little obscenely again. He walked to Chu Tianya and said, "Master, don't be impatient. Let the old man introduce you first. There were twelve people just now, which reminded the old man of the legendary 'Twelve Days General' in Taoism. Therefore, twelve people have a new name, a name that only the master deserves.
"What?" The more Chu Tianya listened, the more confused he became.
"Twelve Tian Jiang, Qinglong, Rosefinch, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Noble Man, Snake, Liuhe, Gou Chen, Sky, Taichang, Taiyin, Tianhou." Uncle He said with a smile.
Chu Tianya also smiled. This kind of thing is popular in the Song Dynasty, especially for the older generation like Uncle He. If everything has nothing to do with Taoism, he will feel unhappy.
He Bo pointed to the woman standing on the far left that made Chu Tianya feel the most complicated, "She, rosefinch. The lord has known each other for a long time.
Wanyan Daike, wearing a mask, took a step forward. He did not speak or move, but quietly stared at Chu Tianya.
Her eyes are much different from before. In addition to love, there is also loyalty, which can even be said to be piety.
Chu Tianya nodded to her, but he was surprised: What did the old man do to them on Tianshu Peak? Even Wanyan Daike would look at me like this? ... To make an inappropriate metaphor, it is obviously the look of a well-trained police dog when looking at its owner!
"Twelve Qingwei, everyone has their own strengths and skills. Rosefinch, the lord is very familiar, and the old man won't say much. He Bo pointed to a short man standing beside Wanyan Daike, "He is a white tiger, and the lord is also familiar with him."
"Xiaofei? White tiger?" Chu Tianya couldn't help laughing. It is really difficult to associate the title of White Tiger with the appearance of Xiaofei.
Xiaofei took a step forward and hugged his fist without saying anything.
Chu Tianya's expression changed in consternation. Because today's Xiaofei is indeed very different from the past. What's the difference? ... He became quiet and calm, and his eyes were very peaceful, but the fortitude that appeared indifferently was undoubtedly unfolding his strong self-confidence.
"Lord, Xiaofei used to be your most trusted close-body. Now he is also worthy of your trust. Not only that, but he also has to look at his skills with new eyes. Uncle He laughed and said, "I dare not say anything else. The light kung fu in the world is better than him. It must be unique. Moreover, he has practiced the most special kung fu in the world. Does the lord want to know?
"Okay, let's demonstrate!" Chu Tianya is curious.
He Bo didn't make a sound. He took a few steps forward, picked up a small stone on the ground and suddenly hit Chu Tianya.
How fast the old man took action!
But what is faster than him is Xiaofei's figure!
He stood in front of Chu Tianya like a phantom of light, and took the stone shot by He Bo in his hand!
Chu Tianya was shocked!
It's too fast!
"Master, you have seen that in addition to running for his life and doing things, Xiaofei's most important role is to block the open gun and hidden arrows for the master at any time." Uncle He said, "If he can catch it, he will catch it; if he can't catch it, he will block it with his body!"
Chu Tianya not only took a cold breath and looked sideways at Xiaofei, with a trace of surprise and pity in his eyes.
Xiaofei's expression was still calm with a trace of fortitude, and he smiled at Chu Tianya.
"Xuanwu, it's your turn." Uncle He's voice interrupted Chu Tianya's thoughts.
Qiu was injured and came out.
He Bo walked to Qiu's side and said to Chu Tianya, "Lord, among the twelve guards, the green dragon rosefinch, white tiger and Xuanwu are the core. Twelve hours a day, at least two of the four of us will be less than ten steps away from the young master. Qiu's favorite place is the place where the assassins are most likely to hide and attack; of course, he is also one of the twelve Qingwei - perhaps the strongest assassin in the world!"