Chapter 605: The Most Efficient Military Formation for Killing Enemies (Please vote and subscribe)

You Zhi listened to Luo Chong's plan, which was as exciting as listening to a spy novel. At the same time, he was smart and quick-witted, and quickly understood the real responsibilities of the Jinwu Guard.

"So will my next work direction after taking office still be the Xin Tribe?" After some understanding, You Zhi quickly adapted to the role of the commander and began to actively ask about the work regulations.

"That's right. Currently, the main reconnaissance direction of the Jinwu Guard is in the Xin tribe and the grassland. In addition, you also know that we will build a city in the grassland next year. You should prepare for this in advance. It's not the first time that you have followed your uncle to the grassland. You are familiar with the place, so I have to give you an important task.

Find a place suitable for building a city along the lake. First, it must meet the needs of building a dock. This is very important. Second, it is best to be close to a water source. This water source does not refer to lake water, but the river flowing to the grassland. If our ship can sail to the depths of the grassland, it would be even better.

Third, this place must be suitable for farming. The area of ​​arable land that can be reclaimed must at least guarantee the food rations of the population of a city. Fourth, there must be trees. This is not a hard requirement. It's best to have it, but it doesn't matter if there is no tree. I mention this mainly for firewood considerations. If it doesn't work, we can transport coal there in the future.

This is the site selection standard for building a city. You can choose a few more places like this. In the future, we will definitely build more than one city. As long as there is a suitable location, you can write it down and report it to me.

In addition to these things, you also have to train your own manpower to expand the situation. I will allow you to recruit some small tribes in the grassland in the name of Han tribe, and select smart and capable people from them to train. However, you must distinguish between peripheral members and internal personnel. Peripheral personnel are only responsible for intelligence collection, but not for transmission, and they must not know what they are really doing. In addition, there are many ways to collect intelligence, such as secret arrest, torture, and bribery. These are all available.

The above are all about the grassland. Regarding the Xin tribe and some internal personnel training, you can select people from the soldiers who have retired due to injuries, or you can recruit some. "You should raise these orphans from childhood, especially those newly joined tribes in Weishan County and Liuyang County. There are many orphans among their tribesmen. If there are any who are unwilling to raise them, you can take them in.

Well, how about this? In my name, we will set up many orphanages in the Han tribes. On the surface, it is a public welfare institution that takes in orphans in various places. The management rights will be under the name of Jinwu Guard. In this way, you can also develop manpower and select talents from childhood to absorb them into Jinwu Guard. "

After hearing You Zhi actively asking about the work, Luo Chong also made plans for the next tasks of Jinwu Guard, including short-term reconnaissance targets and long-term training models.

You Zhi was happy when he heard it. The leader's plan was perfect. When there was a shortage of manpower in the early stage, they could rely on recruitment and bribery. In the later stage, they would also build orphanages as their own talent reserve institutions. In this way, the development ideas of the entire Jinwu Guard would be clear.

So You Zhi immediately bowed again to show his loyalty, and Luo Chong nodded with satisfaction, but reminded him at last, "Your predecessor was killed because he concealed information. I don't want you to follow in his footsteps. Remember to summarize some information for me regularly. Even if there is nothing important, you must report it on time. Even if you find out that Maodun has a few more children, it's okay."

You Zhi's heart trembled, thinking that the leader was setting task targets for him. No matter if there was anything wrong, he had to report some information at the right time. So he said, "Don't worry, leader. You Zhi will never let you down. He will abide by his duties and keep secrets."

"Well, what a good way to abide by your duties and keep secrets. I hope you can remember what you said today. Remember, outside this room, the Jinwu Guards are just my guards, including your uncle and your wife. No one can tell anyone without my order. As for when the Jinwu Guards will make this duty public, I will naturally notify you then."

"Yes, then leader, about my marriage to Jiang Lei?" You Zhi responded, and finally asked tentatively.

"Hurry up and do it. I will only give you one and a half months. You will be out to take up your post by then. I can promise you that after the city on the grassland is built, you can take your wife there to reunite, so you should hurry up to choose the site for the city."

"Yes, I understand." You Zhi bowed again and said yes. Then he received a set of Jinwu Guard's tiger talismans, seals, waist badges and other tokens from Luo Chong and went home directly.

In the next few days, Jin Yi's beheading caused a lot of public opinion in the Han tribe. After all, it was the first time that the leader executed a criminal official in this way. However, after the official office posted a notice announcing his crimes, the people began to think that he deserved to die.

You know, there are tens of thousands of cattle and horses. If they are transported to the Han tribe and distributed to various places, the people can rent a few more livestock during the busy farming season. But now because of him, all these cattle and horses are gone. Who will speak well for him in such a matter?

At the same time, since the notice was posted publicly, Niu Wei and others who were studying in Han also knew the news. However, before he took the initiative to find Luo Chong to explain, Luo Chong directly summoned him and gave them the punishment of suspension of classes with an absolutely strong attitude, and asked Niu Wei to immediately send people to Maodun and Xin tribes to ask them to pay the money immediately, otherwise the Han tribe was ready to send troops to attack at any time, so he could take care of himself. If he continued to delay, Luo Chong would be the first to kill him.

Niu Wei had no choice but to immediately send 20 people from the 50 people studying abroad back to take care of it, 10 people to find Maodun, and 10 people to return to Xin tribe to contact the commander-in-chief. At the same time, he was also very depressed. The opportunity to learn from the Han tribe that he had finally won might end just because of such a small matter.

He also couldn't understand why the commander-in-chief would do such a thing, and that damn Maodun actually detained his livestock, causing the Xin tribe to be at odds with the Han. It seems that it's time to change people in this sea salt business.

On the other hand, You Zhi, who was promoted in a low-key manner, began to prepare for the wedding after contacting Jiang Xuan and Jiang Yong, and persuaded You Jiang to join him as a relative.

Jiang Xuan learned from what he saw and heard in the Han tribe and the recent beheading of Jin Yi that the Han tribe actually had a way to obtain a large number of cattle and horses. Although this matter was messed up because of Jin Yi, Jiang Xuan, who had seen the Han tribe army, did not care about it. He believed that with the strength of the Han tribe, it was absolutely capable of defeating any enemy and obtaining cattle and horses.

Sure enough, just two days after Jin Yi was beheaded, more than 2,000 cattle and horses escorted by dozens of caravan members arrived in Hanyang City, which made Jiang Xuan look up to the Han tribe. After a long period of observation and thinking, Jiang Xuan finally made a decision on the day of You Zhi's wedding. He agreed to let You Jiang join the Han tribe.

Luo Chong was very happy to know this. He first rewarded You Zhi and allowed him to go to the metallurgical workshop to forge a special weapon. Then he specially summoned Jiang Xuan and officially gave the surname Jiang to You Jiang. But it was still Jiang.

Then the two agreed on the specific relocation of You Jiang tribe. Jiang Xuan was obviously very sincere and said that he would obey the arrangements of the leader. He only made a few requirements on the sacrifice.

Unlike the Han tribe, the Jiang clan attached great importance to sacrifices, and there were many objects of sacrifice, such as offering sacrifices to heaven, praying for good weather, good harvests, and a prosperous population. Luo Chong said that this was no problem, because the Han tribe also offered sacrifices to heaven.

In addition, Jiang Xuan also proposed to offer sacrifices to Sheji, She for the god of land, and Ji for the god of grain. This is a very important sacrifice for any agricultural civilization. However, Luo Chong only paid attention to mathematics, physics, and chemistry in his previous life, and was really a half-baked person in this aspect. Therefore, when he started to offer sacrifices, he neglected this item and only promoted the concept of respecting heaven and following ancestors, that is, worshiping the heaven, earth, and nature and ancestors. It was not until Jiang Xuan proposed the gods of land and grain that Luo Chong suddenly remembered the term Sheji.

There is no doubt that the term Sheji is a traditional Chinese culture that has existed since ancient times. Since Luo Chong remembered it now, it is inevitable to add it to the list of sacrifices. He told Jiang Xuan that when the Han tribe established the capital in the future, they would build a special altar called the Temple of Heaven to offer sacrifices to the country and the land.

Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with Luo Chong's attitude of being able to accept advice with an open mind. However, when it came to offering sacrifices, the two had a dispute. The reason was Jiang Xuan's words, "Human sacrifice is needed in years of disaster."

Human sacrifice? That was something that only the cruel Shang Dynasty would do. Luo Chong, who held the principle of "people-oriented" in governing the country, naturally could not agree to such an inhumane thing happening in the Han tribe, so he directly rejected it.

"Sacrifices must be offered, but we can't put all our wishes on the gods. If we do that, the gods will be exhausted and will think we are greedy. So when we encounter a year of disaster, we must first find a way to save ourselves. In a good year, we encourage production and store more food for backup. This is more useful than offering sacrifices a hundred times in times of famine. As for human sacrifice, I don't care about other places, but it is absolutely not allowed in the Han tribe."

Luo Chong's attitude was very firm. At the same time, he explained the plans made for good years and bad years, as well as his own policy of collecting taxes and storing grain, and the system of protecting grain prices.

Hearing the leader say this, although Jiang Xuan was still not satisfied with the matter, he finally agreed to it, because the methods that Luo Chong said were all feasible, and he also agreed to other things. He didn't have to worry about the sacrifice of living people. Moreover, Luo Chong also said that if he only wanted living things, pigs and sheep could be killed at will, but people and cattle and horses could not be killed, because these were all labor.

The disaster year would reduce the population, and if he performed human sacrifice, it would only anger the gods, which would not help alleviate the disaster.

In the end, Jiang Xuan could only accept Luo Chong's statement, because he recalled the history of the Jiang family, and human sacrifice did not have any benefit for the disaster. He didn't know if it was really because of this that angered the gods.

In this way, the two of them completely finalized the matter of the Jiang family's submission, and the time was set after the summer grain harvest next year. Luo Chong made this arrangement mainly because he took into account that there were too many things in the first half of next year, and the migration in spring would affect the spring plowing. After moving directly here, there would be no place to stay, so it was the best way to postpone it until summer.

After solving all the problems in Hanyang City, Luo Chong set out again to the military camp outside Fuma Pass. After inspecting the weapons training and tactical action training of individual soldiers, Luo Chong began to formally carry out formation training.

However, when the four thousand people were first arranged, the soldiers performed very well, the golden drums and orders were clear, and the soldiers changed formations quickly. Luo Chong did not summarize many formations, only three. One is the hollow circle car formation, which is a defensive formation specially used to defend cavalry with cars arranged in a circle on the periphery and soldiers defending the cars.

The other is a hollow circle formation combined with spears and shields, with sword and shield soldiers and long spears and round shield soldiers as the defense line, and all the archers are concentrated in the center of the circle. A formation can play a good defensive role against cavalry, and at the same time, the archers inside can also play a defensive counterattack, both offensive and defensive.

The last one is the attack formation of the pig, with the first echelon of sword and shield soldiers in the front row, the second echelon of spear and halberd soldiers, and the last row of archers shooting long-range projectiles, and cavalry guarding the two wings. After breaking through the enemy, it can also be used for pursuit and encirclement.

These three large formations have clear division of labor. After two or three months of training, the soldiers can also follow orders. However, Luo Chong suddenly found a big problem in the final small unit assault formation.

Before, I always wanted to establish a formation according to the type of soldiers. However, when forming a small formation of less than five people, I suddenly found that five or six sword and shield soldiers stood together, with excessive defense, but no long weapons to suppress the enemy, and the spearmen were just the opposite. They had excessive long weapons but no shield for defense. This is nonsense, isn't it?

Luo Chong also had some understanding of Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation. He knew that the mandarin duck formation was not a single type of soldier. A small mandarin duck formation must have one or two wolf-whip soldiers, which can also be regarded as long spearmen, and then there are rattan shield soldiers, which can be regarded as sword and shield soldiers, musketeers, and short gunmen. In short, they are all coordinated by multiple types of soldiers, and any formation can be both offensive and defensive.

And Luo Chong's way of dividing troops is obviously problematic.

So Luo Chong could only urgently order the military system to be reformed. Overall, there were not many changes. Cavalry, archers, and scouts were still formed separately. Only the sword and shield soldiers and spear soldiers were mixed with the general flag as the unit. A single small flag still had a single soldier.

In this way, they could quickly form a large formation to defend against the enemy. When attacking, the soldiers could also form a small formation nearby to charge.

From the six-man Liuhe formation, to the five elements formation, the four elephants formation, and finally the three talents formation, all were practiced.

In particular, the three talents formation in a group of three was listed as the focus of training by Luo Chong. Its main purpose was to capture prisoners. The shieldman was responsible for attracting hatred and resisting damage, a spearman was responsible for engaging the enemy, and the last prisoner capturer went forward to capture people. Even

the officers of the two guards had to sigh after seeing it. This formation had a clear division of labor, both offensive and defensive, a small number of people, and flexibility. Compared with the five elements formation and the six-combination formation, it was the most efficient in killing the enemy and capturing prisoners.

(End of this chapter)