Chapter 728 Beyond the Times
“What does it look like for a girl to hold a sword and scare people all day long?”
Feng Yong scolded her like a big brother, and then carefully took the dagger from her hand.
Zhang Xingyi made no other movements, but rolled his eyes twice, "Alang doesn't like women who dance with swords and guns?"
“Since... well, the way Si Niang is strategizing is much more likable than the way she is holding a knife.”
Feng Yong coaxed, quietly throwing the dagger into the corner.
Zhang Xingyi curled his lips and said, "Liar!"
This guy is not willing to speak ill of my sister at this time.
But when he heard him praising himself for his strategic planning, the joy in his heart couldn't help but overflow his face.
"Why did I lie to you?" Feng Yong said sternly, "I need to take Zhang Yi with me on this expedition. Sanniang cannot be in charge, and Amei is just a dull worker."
“When the time comes, can’t you take care of all the affairs of the Qiang Protector’s Office? Especially those barbarians, you must pay more attention.”
“I heard that the Prime Minister has begun to ask Baima Di Wang Yang Ju to gather the Hu people from Yinping in Wudu, select those who are good at riding and archery, and send them to the Longyou Governor’s Mansion to prepare for the formation of the Yicong Cavalry Army.”
"I estimate that within four or five years, at least most of the Han's cavalry will be composed of barbarians."
“Especially those barbarians under the jurisdiction of the Huqiang Xiaowei Mansion, we will have to select cavalry from among them in the future.”
Horses cannot be raised in a day or two.
The Qin State relied on Longyou as a horse-producing area and gained a superiority in riding and riding over the six eastern countries.
Especially after Emperor Guangwu's resurgence, all the counties in Hexi were closed to horse farms, and only Liuma Garden remained in Hanyang County (now the three counties of Tianshui, Nan'an and Hanyang combined).
So raising horses in Longyou has been a tradition for hundreds of years.
But the growth of a war horse can take up to three years at the earliest.
Fortunately, the Han Dynasty was good at martial arts. In the Yongliang area, most people, both Han and Hu, could ride horses.
Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to train a qualified cavalryman from a complete novice in less than three or four years.
From here it can be predicted that the Han’s cavalry in the next few years, whether they are men or horses, can only be drawn from Longyou, Wudu, and Yinping.
How to appease the people while deploying officials is a great test of governance methods.
For example, Emperor Xiaowu's methods were more brutal.
After many battles in the early stage, the country's war horses were greatly reduced, and finally they had to be forcibly recruited from the private sector.
This is similar to the forced requisition of private cars in later generations. Anyone else would jump in and yell.
So subsequent successors began to adopt other methods.
For example, the government allows the public to raise an official horse, and it is a female horse. It is agreed that the horse will be returned after three years. During these three years, the pony born by the female horse will belong to you.
If you raise ten official mares, you will have to pay back one more when you return them, which will be treated as interest.
Later, when the government needed horses, it would directly buy qualified war horses or transport horses from the people.
This policy continued until the chaos of the Later Han Dynasty.
Thanks to the foresight of the late emperors of the Han Dynasty, the implementation of this policy has resulted in the popularity of horse breeding among the people of the Han Dynasty.
Although based on the land of Longyou, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty and Cao Wei's cavalry are still far behind.
But there is a humanoid plug-in that cannot stand up to the big man.
First, it ensured the grain output of the Han Dynasty, and then improved the financial income of the Han Dynasty.
In the end, it actually has a special charm aura, a wisdom-lowering aura and many other BUFFs for barbarians.
Coupled with the subversive improvements to the cavalry, horseshoes alone can reduce at least half of the horse losses.
After several battles, Emperor Xiaowu consumed hundreds of thousands of war horses accumulated over three generations in one go. The loss was so huge that it was simply shocking.
A large part of the reason for this is that the hoofs of war horses were not protected. In frequent and fierce wars, war horses damaged their hoofs for various reasons.
A good war horse has to withdraw from the battlefield in its golden age because its hoofs are damaged prematurely. This is the most regrettable thing.
As for the improvement of the saddle and the addition of double-sided stirrups, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry has been increased by at least two to three times.
If quantity is insufficient, let quality make up for it. There is nothing wrong with that.
The guarantee of food, financial support, the following of the Hu people, plus the improvement of war technology, etc.
As long as one of these conditions is lacking, the Han Dynasty will not be able to form an elite cavalry in the shortest possible time.
Now that the formation of the Han cavalry has reached the final step, we must not take it lightly.
Zhang Xingyi snuggled into Feng Yong's arms and listened to him describe these things in detail.
This was the first time she heard his vision and plan for Longyou's military affairs.
The more I listened, the more frightened I became. At the same time, while my heart was beating violently, a burst of joy could not stop oozing out.
What was surprising was this man's foresight. The title of Ghost King and Xiao Wenhe really did not unjustly accuse him.
What is gratifying is that it turns out that he has been so dedicated to planning for the Han Dynasty all these years.
If he tells his thoughts to his sister (the queen), her sister will definitely value him more. By then, will there be less obstacles between herself and him?
I thought that this man had such a lofty ideal that few people could match him. He could be regarded as a hero in the eyes of the world, but yet he was so considerate to his daughter's family in the backyard.
There may or may not be such a good man in the world, but she has only met one now.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xingyi felt that the heat that had subsided suddenly came back again, making her heart beat faster. She subconsciously grabbed the skirt of Feng Yong's chest.
“Six Niang, it’s getting late, you should go back.”
Feng Yong persuaded in a low voice.
Zhang Xingyi twisted his body and murmured, unwilling to get up.
Feng Yong took a deep breath and picked her up...
Zhang Xingyi is not as tall as Guan Ji, nor is she as small and exquisite as Amei. When held in her arms, she is neither light nor heavy, just right.
Opening the door, Feng Yong carried her back to her room and put her on the couch under the light of the corridor.
Zhang Xingyi closed her eyes tightly. She felt that her face was about to be burned. Even Feng Yong could hear the pounding heartbeat clearly.
In the dim light outside, Feng Yong kissed her cheek gently...
Zhang Xingyi waited for a long time, never waiting for his next move. She couldn't help but quietly opened her eyes, just in time to see the last figure before the door was closed.
There was a soft "click" sound, and the room became completely dark.
Zhang Xingyi was so angry that he grabbed the pillow and threw it at the door!
Feng Yong outside the door turned around, pretending not to hear the sound inside.
At the same time, I counted with my fingers over and over again, it was not enough, I had to wait some more.
I am a time-traveler with a conscience, he said in his heart, and he sticks to the bottom line unwaveringly.
Feng Yong, who kept his conscience, had a good sleep.
When I got up the next day, I didn't bother to look at Zhang Xingyi's stinky face. He had breakfast with Guan Ji and then asked Amei to go out of the city with him.
The military camp outside Pingxiang City is different from other places.
The fenced-in area was far beyond what was needed for a normal military camp.
In addition to the fact that the soldiers protecting the Qiang Xiaowei Mansion need to frequently fight in actual combat, this place is also responsible for the testing of new warfare methods and new weapons, so the area is naturally larger!
When the test site was once again on tight alert, the soldiers in the military camp knew that the guys in the engineering battalion were preparing to start again today.
It’s just that the security at the testing site was a little too tight this time.
Although you can't see their faces clearly, some of the generals are wearing white robes and some are wearing dark red cloaks. With these attires and this kind of formation, they are most likely to be leaders of an army. .
“What’s new in this engineering camp? Has it attracted so many generals?”
Someone murmured.
"Is that what you should know?" the leader of the team scolded, "Don't ask about secrets that you shouldn't ask, don't read secrets that you shouldn't see! Have you forgotten the rules of confidentiality?"
“Yes! I was wrong!” The criticized soldier stood up with a snap.
A bamboo whistle sounded not far away.
“Okay, everyone, stand up and line up!” the commander ordered, “Continue training!”
Soon, the commander who organized the training stood in the central open space holding a small flag and waved it a few times.
Ten soldiers, led by their respective commanders, began to form an array around the commander.
The flag changes again, and the formation changes again.
They need to keep the various changes in the formation in mind. At the same time, each commander must remember the various passwords issued by the commander, and lead his own people to the designated position according to the passwords.
When they are all proficient, they will use the tun as a unit to form larger formations such as qu and bu.
Compared with the military formations they have practiced before, this formation is more varied and the various small formations are extremely complicated and difficult to practice.
In the testing ground on the other side, with Zhao Yun as the center, Wei Yan sat on one side and Feng Yong sat on the other side, not getting too close to the old man.
Jiang Wei, Zhang Yi, Jufu, Huo Yi and others sat around the three of them.
Especially Huo Yi, after a winter of supplementary training, and participating in the suppression of the rebellion in Longxi, he actually chopped up several rebels with a knife, and finally took off his internship hat.
Although he was sitting upright, he couldn't help but steal a few glances at the three big guys sitting on top, feeling a little excited.
“What is that wall for?”
Zhao Yun pointed to a high wall hundreds of steps away from the stage and asked.
“Old General, that is a city wall built by an engineering camp, which is similar to the wall of an ordinary city.”
Feng Yong explained, "What we saw this time was the engineering battalion of the Qiang Xiaowei Mansion demonstrating how to use equipment to destroy the city wall, so they built such a city wall."
“How high? How thick?”
Zhao Yun squinted his eyes and seemed to be sizing up the city wall.
Feng Yong coughed.
Amei, the senior secretary and personal secretary standing behind him, immediately handed over an opened notebook.
Amei’s words written with charcoal pens are already eye-catching, at least one level better than someone’s dog-crawling font.
"Well, it's five feet high, two feet and five inches wide at the bottom, and one foot, two feet and five inches wide at the top."
Fifty feet in this era is about twelve meters, which is not too low.
Zhao Yun nodded, this is already the wall of a medium-sized city.
"Is the city wall strong? Don't you just let people pile it up at will?"
Wei Yan suddenly asked.
Feng Yong smiled calmly, crossed his legs and said, "The products from Nanxiang must be high-quality."
He has the confidence to say this. The predecessor of the engineering battalion was the Nanxiang Engineering Team.
What’s more, the Nanxiang Engineering Team has produced many works over the years.
Shuangnan Avenue is the best representative.
There is also the road from Nanzheng to Juxian. Even when the prime minister led the army to station in Hanzhong and passed Jianshan, he specially selected the Nanxiang engineering team to come over and build Jianshan into Jianmen Pass.
During the attack on Pingxiang, digging trenches, building city walls, and intercepting the Weishui River were all done by the engineering team.
When Wei Yan heard what Feng Yong said, he had no choice but to shut his mouth angrily.
While they were talking, Wen Shi, the chief engineer of the engineering camp, came over and saluted Feng Yong, "Your Majesty, everything is ready."
Feng Yong looked at Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun nodded.
Feng Yong nodded to Wenshi again.
Wen Shi got Feng Yong's consent, turned around and walked off the stage, raised his whistle and blew it hard!
As soon as there were shouts, soldiers from the engineering battalion began to enter the site carrying various types of wood.
Some are long and some are short, some are thick and some are thin, some are thin and some are thick.
They first laid sleepers on the ground as a stable frame for the trebuchet.
At the same time, the soldiers next to him began to assemble the stone throwing cart.
The whole scene looks busy but not chaotic, tense and orderly.
Wenshi, the engineer, is responsible for overall coordination and provides guidance from time to time.
Two tall counterweight catapults were quickly erected.
Zhao Yun's face was slightly surprised. Although he didn't know how powerful this catapult was, the speed of its production was a bit beyond his expectation.
Zhao Yun was even more surprised when he saw two almost identical stone dump trucks.
“How could it be so fast?”
Zhao Yun finally couldn't help but asked.
“Standardization.”
Feng Yong said a term very eloquently.
"Every item produced in Nanxiang will be measured uniformly, no more, no less, and the difference cannot be more than one point."
It does not mean that the current measurement is not uniform, but the error is too large to be standardized.
Taking one foot as an example, some differences are as much as three or four centimeters. How to deal with this?
So from Nanxiang to Yuexun, and then to Pingxiang, the same scale is now used.
Even the five major wool spinning workshops have to enforce unified standards of measurement.
“Dismantle the trebuchet into different pieces of wood, and then let the craftsmen make them according to the pattern and the same scale. When it comes to assembling, just assemble it according to the drawings.”
Zhao Yun couldn't help but look at Feng Yong, "What drawing?"
Feng Yong coughed again.
Behind him, Amei handed over another piece of paper. On it was an exploded view of the riprap truck, with the length and thickness of each module marked on it.
Although no student has been able to draw a map so far, drawing a drawing of a trebuchet is still qualified.
Zhao Yun took the drawings handed over by Feng Yong, twitched his face a few times, shook the paper and asked, "Can the craftsmen understand these? And the soldiers can understand them?"
“Well, old general, the craftsmen and soldiers in the engineering camp cannot do it if they are illiterate.”
At least the frequently used words, numbers, and units must be understood.
“Some craftsmen are students from Nanxiang Academy.”
Feng Yong added.
This time, not to mention Zhao Yun, even Wei Yan, who had always wanted to find fault, looked over.
In other people's army, it is difficult to pick out one of the hundreds of soldiers who can read, but you actually use them as craftsmen? !
Where is Sven?
What do you think scholars are?
(End of this chapter)