Chapter 21 Training
Li Laoer never dreamed that the situation in Jizhou did not change because of the information he provided. Instead, it led to the impeachment of the anti-Qing heroes Wang Yuanya and Zhu Guoyan in history by officials of the Donglin Party. Emperor Chongzhen could not withstand the pressure of the Donglin Party's one-man rule and was forced to send the Jinyiwei Tiqi to Zunhua and invite Wang Yuanya and Zhu Guoyan into the capital, so he almost locked it in the capital, because Wang Yuanya and Zhu Guoyan seized several shops that had collusion with the Later Jin Dynasty, and the backstage owners of those shops were the Donglin Party.
In fact, this is not the first time that the Donglin Party secretly helped the Jurchens of the Later Jin Dynasty. The Donglin Party member Wang Huazhen was the most responsible for his defeat in the Battle of Guangning. However, in order to excuse Wang Huazhen, the Donglin Party pushed all the charges to Xiong Tingbi.
Originally, Wei Zhongxian had no intention of killing Xiong Tingbi, but Wang Wenyan from the Donglin Party used a vicious plan to lent a knife to kill people, angering Wei Zhongxian and eventually killed Xiong Tingbi, causing the Ming Dynasty to cut off its own arm.
But Li Laoer didn't know what happened in the capital and Da'ankou. He had just obtained a thousand herd slaves and had already had one hundred war horses. Wang Quan sent another one hundred war horses and could form a cavalry of 200 people, but he had insufficient weapons and armor on hand, so it was very difficult to form a cavalry of 100 people.
"You are slaves I exchanged for precious items from Lin Danhan. I will be your master in the future! I have the power to kill you! As long as you make contributions on the battlefield, you can regain your freedom!" Li Laoer stood in front of the team and opened his voice and spoke loudly.
"Are you willing to be a slave for the rest of your life?" Li Laoer asked loudly.
"I don't want to." The voices of a thousand herd slaves were uneven.
"Hit louder, I can't hear clearly!"
"I don't want to!" The herds' slaves raised their voices by several decibels.
"Speak louder! I still can't hear clearly!"
"I don't want to!" The roar of a thousand muslims shook the sky.
"Since you don't want to be a humble slave for the rest of your life, then take up your weapons and fight! Use the blood of your enemies to exchange for your freedom!"
Li Laoer first conducted a strict assessment of the new Thousand Muslims. The main contents of the assessment: Horse riding and archery are their strengths. Almost everyone can pass the assessment, but there are not so many weapons that can be provided for them to use.
Since there were insufficient weapons, Li Laoer thought of one thing: first create simple weapons such as shields and spears.
The shield is naturally a wooden shield. It nails thick wooden boards. The double-layer structure is a very strong wooden shield. As for the spear, it is also the simplest wooden gun. If one end of the wooden pole is sharpened, it becomes a wooden spear.
Although Li Laoer was a engineer, he had been in the People's Liberation Army for many years, and his minimum skills were quite good. So he taught those recruits who did not have war horses only one move: a spear left stab.
Back then, the mainstream spearmen were the right-spike tactics, while the sword player was holding a shield in his left hand. The spear that stabbed to the right was easily blocked by the opponent with a shield. The left-spike tactics were to exert force on the right side, and the spear stabbed out with the left hand, just aiming at the opponent's right hand without the shield. This was easy to succeed. Moreover, the left-spike tactics were to stab the front and back, ensuring that the attack of the soldiers in the back row was not blocked by the soldiers in the front row. Without the cover of the soldiers in the front row, they could continuously shoot out guns and assassinate adjacent enemies diagonally to the left. The enemies in the front row were handed over to the companions, and the frequency and power of the attack increased exponentially.
This left-spike tactic is used to deal with infantry, especially the heavy infantry of the Later Jin Juzhen. To deal with cavalry, the direct-spike tactic should be used, but Li Laoer did not intend to rely entirely on spearmen to deal with cavalry. In fact, spearmen defeating cavalry is just a false proposition, and it is the setting in the game. In real wars, infantry is always at a disadvantage against cavalry. To deal with cavalry, they can only rely on fortifications, resisting cavalry, caltrops, trapped horse pits and various obstacles.
The herd slaves formed a group of ten people. Listening to Li Laoer's command, ten people stabbed out with spears.
During this period, Li Laoer also guided them one by one.
The left-spit tactic that appeared in later army after the musket was installed with bayonets has had hundreds of years of experience and improvements. It is impossible for Li Laoer to teach the herdsmen in a short period of time. Therefore, he could only teach some simple basic movements first and then let them train repeatedly.
While practicing assassination, infantry training was also conducted in queues.
Originally, Li Lao Er wanted to use the method of training for disciplined people to eat meat, but the undisciplined people had no way to eat, but now let alone meat, they don’t even have enough food. Therefore, they can only use the method of corporal punishment and sticks. If the movements are not in compliance with the norm, they should first put the military sticks ten times, and then do a hundred push-ups when hungry. This tastes really bad. After several days of training, the herdsmen were afraid of Li Lao Er’s sticks more than the enemy’s swords and guns.
If you want to get enough food, you can only grab the food of other horse thieves first. If you steal other horse thieves, you can not only obtain food, but also obtain weapons.
At present, two hundred people of the thousand herd slaves on Li Laoer have been incorporated into the cavalry. Only one hundred cavalry have standard weapons in these two hundred cavalry, of which less than fifty have armor and bows and arrows. The other fifty cavalry only have one wooden shield and a barely usable saber. The remaining one hundred cavalry, not to mention armor, don’t even have a knife, and can only hold a wooden stick as a cavalry. As for the eight hundred infantry, they are all spearmen, and all are simple wooden guns made of sharpened at one end of the wooden pole, and some of them are equipped with wooden shields.
Although the equipment is very simple, Li Laoer is confident that he can defeat several nearby horse thieves.
The Yinshan Mountains south of the Mongolian grasslands are the hiding place of horse thieves. In the Dahong Mountains northwest of Zhangjiakou, there is a horse thieves of about 200 people. In fact, these horse thieves also have various connections with the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants. They never robbed the caravans of Shanxi merchants. To put it bluntly, they are also a potential quasi-military force raised by Shanxi merchants.
These horse thieves never robbed the caravans of Shanxi merchants. They robbed other small caravans, or simply robbed the caravans of Lin Danhan or Tumots, and sometimes even went directly to rob the Mongols of cattle and sheep.
Li Laoer was a nationalist in his previous life. To be honest, what does it have to do with Li Laoer when robbing Mongols? But in order for his own team to survive, Li Laoer could only practice with these horse thieves. What's more, these horse thieves and Fan Yongdou and others colluded. For this crime, Li Laoer thought that these horse thieves deserved to die.
But then again, in the Yinshan Mountains, the only horse thief who had eaten the bear heart and leopard dared to rob the Shanxi merchant caravan was Li Laoer.
Li Laoer and the herd slaves who had been trained for half a month, first attacked the monkey in Dahongshan.
Chapter completed!