NovelBonte Chapter 30
Chapter 30
Chapter 30
What Xiao Qi didn't expect was that these few veterans heard that he was not a pure military officer, but had the same background as a Jinshi in the palace examination handpicked by the emperor.
Immediately became respectful towards Xiao Qi, even Xiao Qi felt that they were flattering.
After everyone chatted for a long time, Xiao Qi heard some clues from the words of these people.
I also understood what was going on.
It turns out that the Southern Song Dynasty had always used civil servants to suppress military officers. Even if civilian officials were of the same rank as military officers, military generals would still be controlled by civilian officials.
A literati and military officer like myself is equivalent to going down to be gilded, and the way up is very smooth.
That's why these guys are so respectful to themselves, so that they can have a good relationship with themselves now, so that they can become old subordinates recognized by themselves in the future, so that they can get their support and be promoted faster in the future.
Xiao Qi couldn't help being a little speechless, no wonder the Song Dynasty always lost battles, these military generals obeyed the words of civil officials, and let those literati who don't understand military command to fight, did Zhao Kuo forget the lesson of destroying 40 Zhao soldiers on paper?
In any case, it is good that these people are willing to surrender themselves so quickly.
He carefully discussed the training details with a few veterans, and Xiao Qi now has battle formation proficiency, so he picked out from his battle formation proficiency, the spear formation that was specially designed to deal with the cavalry attack.
In his previous life, he had seen introductions to various battles in the Cold Weapons Era. Among them, heavy armored cavalry were recognized as killing machines in the Cold Weapons Era.
However, the five-meter spear array is also the best way to deal with the cavalry charge.
Xiao Qi sent someone to apply for [-] spears measuring [-] feet long, but news came back that there were [-] or so spear heads left over from earlier in the warehouse, but no barrels.
Although dissatisfied with the military supplies of the Song Dynasty, they didn't know what to prepare, but since they had three hundred spears, they should be brought first.
Send someone to bring these spear heads, and then order someone to find a strong and thick wooden pole one foot six feet to make the gun barrel by yourself.
After searching around for more than half a month, I even found a carpenter to saw some logs, and made a hundred five-meter gun barrels with the thickness of the wrist, and finally got three hundred five-meter spears.
The shafts of these spears were thick, coupled with the five-meter-long and thick iron spearheads, it was impossible for a weak sergeant to firmly control the spears.
Xiao Qi selected 500 relatively strong sergeants from the [-] people and asked them to practice spear formation.
The spear formation is actually very simple as long as the arm strength is sufficient. Everyone only needs to quickly dig a shallow pit, put the end of the spear in the small pit, and point the tip of the spear diagonally in the direction of the enemy's cavalry charging into the formation.
The purpose of digging a hole on the top of the gun shaft is to prevent the spear from being knocked away by the horse. In this way, where the spear has leverage, basically as long as the cavalry rushes over, the spear will either be broken, or the horse and cavalry will be pierced by the spear. superior.
No matter what the situation is, those horses and cavalry are absolutely either dead or injured.
This spear team was personally trained by Xiao Qi, because the Song Dynasty was unable to compete with the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin in the plains, and could only defend against the city wall very early on, and the spear combat had basically been abandoned.
Otherwise, why would there be only a few hundred left in the warehouse, and there are no gun heads left over from many years ago, and there are no gun barrels.
Xiao Qi made a lot of noise here, but although Xiao Qi is not very old, he is a Jinshi in the palace examination hand-picked by the emperor, and he is also an official martial arts doctor personally conferred by the emperor, so even though he is only from the seventh rank, no one It's okay to trouble him.
It was just that the eunuch came over to ask Xiao Qi what he was doing with such a heavy spear.
Xiao Qi explained to the eunuch the usefulness of the spear array, and told the old middle-ranking official that if there was no spear array when encountering cavalry in the plains, those who were waiting for the infantry would be slaughtered.
After listening to Xiao Qi's detailed explanation, the old middle official left satisfied.
The arrival of this eunuch made Xiao Qi's team of 500 people more respectful to him. Even his Shangguan and Fuguan, the third and fourth grade officials, were much more polite to Xiao Qi.
After all, being able to interact with the people around the emperor was something that all the third- and fourth-rank officials dreamed of.
But not everyone has good intentions towards Xiao Qi, among them, the deputy envoy of the regiment training of Jiankang Mansion is very disgusted with Xiao Qi.
Not only because Xiao Qi took the fat vacancy that he planned to sell for a high price, but also because his backstage leaked the news to him, asking him to find a way to send Xiao Qi to the battlefield, and it is best to let him die in battle.
Although I don't know why his important minister in the court did this, but since his backer has spoken, he can do as he wants, and he is all relying on this backer to get to where he is today.
If he is disobedient, he only needs to say that he is a petty loser, and he may not even be able to keep his head.
Xiao Qi didn't know that someone was plotting against him, even if he knew, he wouldn't understand why he wanted to attack him.
Sometimes this kind of hatred is very inexplicable. In the ancient officialdom, some high-ranking and powerful people may be able to anger others for a small matter, causing that person's family to be ruined inexplicably.
Without knowing it, Xiao Qi has been working hard to train the three hundred spears.
He divided the 300 people into two teams, and a team of 200 people served as the main force to form a spear array to meet the enemy.
The other 100 people serve as a mobile team to prevent the horse team from suddenly attacking in other directions in disguise.
The other 200 people were organized into a knife and axe team. The purpose was to kill cavalry who fell into the spear formation, or hacked to death injured horses that fell into the formation, and the provincial spear formation was messed up.
The only lecture Xiao Qi gave them was very simple, that is, once you meet the cavalry, if you are timid and turn around and run, you will definitely die. Who of you can outrun other horses?
Just forget about fear and use the spear array to withstand the charge of the cavalry. As long as those cavalry are blocked, the cavalry who cannot charge will definitely not be our opponents!
Although these sergeants are all veterans, they have more or less been on the battlefield several times.
They were completely convinced by Xiao Qi's words, they had seen a team that was frightened and collapsed when they saw the cavalry charge, and none of them were left to be hacked and killed by others.
As sergeants, of course they knew that the Jin Kingdom was attacking the Song Dynasty. If they wanted to survive on the battlefield, they had to practice this spear formation seriously.
They also understood that this spear formation was effective against cavalry charges, so they consciously carried heavy spears every day, and seriously practiced the various tactics Xiao Qi had formulated for them.
Nowadays, the food in the Southern Song Dynasty is still very sufficient. Although these soldiers cannot eat a lot of food and meat, they can still eat two meals a day.
In the Song Dynasty, there were two meals a day, one at noon and one in the evening, and there was no such thing as lunch.
Xiao Qi led the army for the first time, of course he did not have the bad habit of withholding military pay like those old officers.
It didn't take long for his battalion to train hard and keep up with the food, and soon became strong and strong, becoming a well-trained and strong army.
(End of this chapter)