Zhao Bing once felt the same and even felt helpless about Wang Yinglin's confusion. At the beginning of the founding of the army, there were only a thousand people in the entire army, and they heard all the whistle blowing. With the combination of flags, they could command the entire army. As the team expanded, they were equipped with military horns, war drums, and lanterns, which were enough, but the organization became larger and larger, and the number of people became more and more, and the command system had to be upgraded.

As the saying goes, one hundred people are boundless. On the battlefield today, there are no modern communication instruments, telephones, radios and other technologies, so commanding large corps is a relatively difficult task. After all, on the battlefield, people barking, horses barking, there are too many interference factors, and the infantry phalanx is wide and thick. If you only rely on the shouting of grassroots officers to issue combat commands, except for the small number of people in front, most soldiers cannot hear it. In this case, commanding combat is a rash talk.

Fortunately, although the soldiers were disturbed by a lot of listening to human voices, they could see them with their eyes, and there were instruments with louder volumes than human voices. So Zhao Bing could only gradually adapt to the current situation and slowly restored the old command system with flags, musical instruments and pond cavalry as the main means, so that a division-level command organization's communication system could form a military band.

Zhao Bing naturally devoted a lot of effort to it, constantly improving various quotations and flag languages ​​so that he could express more meanings. Military rules require soldiers to "know the order", and this order is not as simple as our modern understanding of "beating drums and marching, and singing gold to withdraw troops; the commander's flag points to the whole army moves together". He also understood that many of the statements in novels and film and television dramas are simply "discussed talk", and even nonsense, which deceived himself in his previous life for twenty years.

Take the golden drum with the highest appearance rate as an example. When the storyteller says that when he withdraws the troops, he often says a gong sound of a gong sound. The troops retreat together. In fact, the "gold" is not a gong, but a bronze bell, a musical instrument that looks very much like a bronze bell. The gong is of other use. If the two armies are in stalemate, the main general will knock the bronze bell and ring the gold. The sound of the gold is to stop attacking and establish a fixed position. The second sound of the gold is to ask the soldiers of each unit to slowly retreat back to the main formation and continuously call the gold, which means that the soldiers of each unit will quickly retreat and run away from the battle for several steps, then turn around and stand firm towards the enemy, step back slowly, but they will run wildly.

The drum-beating march is also not the same as in the movie. During the attack, the general ordered the soldiers to rush over like evil dogs and rush over. Then, after the fight, they probably would have lost their energy. It was very important to preserve physical strength in ancient times, so the army would use drum sounds to control the speed of soldiers. There are two types of drums in the army, one is beating drums and the other is step drum.

Infantry drums have a low presence in modern people's impressions, but it is indeed the most important drum to command infantry to attack the enemy, because it controls the speed of soldiers to catch the enemy. When a little bit of the stance drum, the infantry will advance ten steps forward. It is a very important means for them to maintain their physical strength. Its function is similar to the rhythm of the march using bagpipes and snare drums in modern Western armies. Beating drums is the well-known Central Army drum. It is all about it. When the drums sound, the whole army charges, but in fact, beating drums means continuous beating drums. It is the final charge command of the army after getting close to the enemy. When the infantry hears it, they will run forward and charge forward, which is used in the final stage.

As for the 'Ambush, the ambush is everywhere', it is nonsense. Who launches an ambush and uses a roar to remind you? The actual situation is that the ambush is coming out from all directions, and the one who fires the artillery is also ambushed. During the march, if you hear a roar of a roar, it is a warning that an emergency will occur, so that the entire army will stop, and then watch the situation of the army's flag to make arrangements.

Of course, a series of complex tactical actions cannot be controlled by only the golden drum, and other instruments are needed to refine more instructions. Among them, horns are used the most because of their huge sound and the tone changes according to the size and size, so that different instructions can be distinguished more carefully. For example, when the chief general of the army holds a meeting, the officers of each department hear the central army blowing the trumpet, so that they can rush to the central army tent as soon as possible to start a military meeting, and then each receives military tasks. The so-called drum-beating and gathering generals is of course fake.

Because of the diverse categories of military instruments and different functions, not everyone can remember or understand them, ordinary soldiers and grassroots commanders are more likely to "look at the flag during the day and lights at night". They only need to look at the high flags of the headquarters, and double lights at night. The styles and colors of flags of each unit are different according to the level, so according to the organization, soldiers only need to look at the flags of their own teams, and officers look at the commander's commander's flag, for example, soldiers look at the flags of the captain's flag, the captain looks at the flags of the commander, and the flags of the central army.

When commanding, soldiers saw the flag raised and kept yelling, urging the soldiers to pack up as soon as possible, pull out their camps to fight or march. In this process, no one could listen to verbal orders, mainly to prevent false orders from being sent or disrupting the morale of the army. They could only look at the flags and listen to the sound of the golden drums, and ignore everything else. Of course, if a large army with more than tens of thousands or even more than one hundred thousand people fought, the five-sided and five-colored flags became the second-level level, and the main general could only rely on the Tangqi to maintain contact and command of the generals of each unit, and only gave orders in the general direction.

Therefore, in ancient times, those who could be obeyed orders were called troops that could be war-free after formal training. This not only means that soldiers have strong combat effectiveness, but also because just by remembering and familiarizing themselves with these diverse and varied flag instruments, it took a lot of time to train. If you can do a little, then you will naturally be a well-trained regular army...

"Ah..." Wang Yinglin's face turned pale, his mouth twitched constantly, and he said in surprise. At this time, he understood why the little emperor said that the previous battle was just foreplay and watching the market. At this time, the Mongol cavalry opposite was pressing on the entire line, and tens of thousands of war horses gradually changed from trotting to fast running, like swarms of locusts flying low, stirring up smoke and dust covering the sky. Even though he was relatively far away from the battlefield, he still felt the earth trembling under the pedal of thousands of horses. He couldn't help but grab the railings of the looking building.

Seeing the enemy cavalry coming overwhelmed by the sky, Wang Yinglin looked at his camp again, and saw that the flags had been raised, and the yellow flag representing the central army swung in the air for a week and nodded backwards. Then a loud horn sounded, and the infantry lined up and stood up to form a dense formation. Then two short horn sounds sounded again. The infantry turned back in the sound of command, took back thirty steps, and then turned to face the enemy. The artillery troops arranged behind them were exposed in front of the formation.

"Governor Wang, you have never seen the scene of ten thousand horses rushing to the formation!" Zhao Bing had already stood up to see the enemy at this time, put down his telescope and turned his face and smiled.

"I... I have never seen such a scene before, so I can't help but be nervous. Please don't laugh!" Wang Yinglin reluctantly squeezed out a smile and replied.

"Haha, the first time I saw this kind of scene of rushing to the formation of ten thousand cavalry is not much better than yours. I felt my legs were weak, my back spine became cold, and I was worried that I could not resist the impact of the enemy cavalry." Zhao Bing also smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I am afraid that I am not as good as Your Majesty. If I hadn't held the railing, I would have been unable to stand!" Wang Yinglin said with a wry smile.

"I'm not afraid of seeing it once. Looking at the recruits in front, I don't know how many people are going to have to be scared, but aren't they still standing in front? At the moment, the whole Mongolian army is moving together, which seems to be amazing, but in fact it's just a desperate move and a desperate bet. As long as we can withstand their impact, the victory is decided!" Zhao Bing said in a deep voice at the battlefield.

In most people's impression, the main force of the Mongols was light cavalry, so they could come and go without a trace and defeat their opponents with excellent mobility. In fact, this is true. The early Mongolia itself did not have this kind of light and important classification, and whether it was for encirclement or assault, its equipment was the same. However, as the scope of the conquest expanded, the advanced weapons of the army that fought with it began to gradually pay attention to the protection of cavalry.

With the transformation of cavalry tactics, heavy cavalry began to appear in the Mongolian cavalry organization. Heavy cavalry first appeared in important elite guards. The Mongolian Khan's direct subordinate Qiexue Guard fixed heavy cavalry with both men and horses in armor. As a nomadic people on the grassland, the Mongolians started their business by cavalry shooting, but as an army sweeping across Europe, facing the heavy cavalry in Europe, it was inevitable that the Mongolian army would develop heavy cavalry with strong cavalry with strong cavalry in the late stage.

But from Zhao Bing's perspective, the equipment of Mongolian heavy cavalry is only compared to the large number of Mongolian light cavalry. The weight of the entire heavy cavalry is much lighter than that of the heavy cavalry in Europe. After all, Mongolian cavalry mainly pays attention to fast mobile combat. Generally speaking, the distinction between light and heavy cavalry is divided according to the use method. Typical Mongolian cavalry engaged in assault operations are covered with armor, and the armor is usually covered with a leather inside and scales on the outside, or lock armor received from the enemy, and a helmet. The horses riding are often wearing a small amount of leather armor. The main weapon is a long spear, and each soldier also brings a short scimitar or a mace, which is hung around the waist or placed on the saddle.

Zhao Bing knew that another common tactic of cavalry was to place cavalry archers on the two wings of the heavy cavalry to match their attacks. This tactic is naturally not to expect cavalry to play a shocking role. It is essentially to use it to distract the enemy's attention and create flaws to facilitate the heavy cavalry to break the formation.
Chapter completed!