Chapter 82 Heavy Infantry

Chen Kefu looked up at the sky, and the raindrops that kept floating in the sky fell on his face. The raindrops that gathered and fell from his face exuded a sense of coldness, "Autumn is coming!"

An autumn rain and a cool thing. Although it was just August, after the rain, it immediately made people feel that the summer days that were still hot and uncomfortable in the past seemed to be a long memory.

After a heavy rain last night, it was still raining today, but it was no longer the heavy rain that was splashing. In the gloomy sky, the drizzling rain like cow hair was drifting with the wind. A gust of wind blew, and Chen Kefu couldn't help but feel a little cold.

I just walked to the south of the camp. There was originally a large flat open space, which was very lively in the past. However, after the army retreated, although the entire camp was ordered by Chen Kefu, the civilians wandered in the camp from time to time, and formed a lot of queues in the square formation, making noise from time to time, but they could not compare with the previous atmosphere of the camp.

On this large flat ground south of the camp, there were a vast flat ground that could have been listed at 100,000 people in the past. At this time, there were only a few square formations standing sparsely. At first glance, although there were about thousands of people, they no longer had that momentum.

"Sir, look, the two square formations over there are teams led by two young masters of the Li family." Luo Lin said with a smile and pointed to the corner of the open space.

The two square arrays were considered an anomaly among the many square arrays arranged on the plain at this time. The two square arrays arranged side by side were all armored, and each of them looked almost tall. They were all tall men. At first glance, they were almost 1.8 meters tall men, which made Chen Kefu a little surprised. The two battalions had 800 people, and I don’t know where they got so many big men.

What surprised Chen Kefu even more was the armor on the soldiers. These were not ordinary bright light armor, not ordinary two-crotch armor, but full-body armor. They were very similar to the armor of the generals, but they were not after taking a few serious glances.

After looking at it for a while, he remembered that he had seen these armors, but they were the heavy infantry armors that Li Yuan had seen when he took him to see the warehouse of Weiwei Temple. But for some reason, they actually got it here. They put on each soldier. It was obvious that they were wearing these thick full-body armors. If the guards were not all big men, it would probably not be possible for ordinary people to wear such armor weighing fifty or sixty kilograms.

This heavy infantry armor is also a type of Mingguang armor. The front and back of the armor are buckled in the middle, and the shoulders are made of animal skin patterns. The belt is drooped with two large knee skirts, and several rows of square armor plates are laid on it. The chest of the body armor has a bright and smooth large heart protection mirror with the brightguang armor. Each set of armor is also equipped with an ear-protecting helmet.

At this time, the two battalions of heavy armored soldiers in two battalions lined up in two square formations were holding spears in their hands. Under the leadership of the two brothers Li Shimin and Li Xuanba, they were doing the repeated actions of stabbing, retracting, stabbing, and retracting each.

Although the movements of these soldiers were a little awkward, it can be seen that these people have good physical fitness and wear such thick armor and can stab the spear over and over again.

Li Shimin had sharp eyes and saw Chen Kefu with a group of guards watching their exercises at first sight. He hurriedly said a few words to the soldiers and pulled Li Xuanba to run over.

"Brother-in-law, why are you here? Look at me, the soldiers, are doing well?"

Chen Kefu glared at him, "Since you are in the army, please call me general."

Li Shimin smiled awkwardly and hurriedly bowed to Chen Kefu, "The last general Li Shimin, the battalion commander of the First Battalion of the Zhuque Division, and Li Xuanba, the commander of the Second Battalion, met the general, and asked the general to review the soldiers' practice."

"Well, you can see that these soldiers have good physical fitness? Where did you get these people? With such physical fitness, there should be no such person among the auxiliary soldiers. With such a body, they should have been war soldiers."

Li Shimin said proudly, "General, these people are not auxiliary soldiers. These are all recruited by me from hundreds of thousands of civilians in the camp. They are all six feet tall. And they are all strong people. Most of these people are hunters, unlike those farmers who are a little stiff in their hands and feet. These people have some basic skills and are quick to train. Many people themselves have some skills, and a few have hunted tigers and leopards."

"Oh, I trained 60,000 strong people yesterday. I haven't seen many such strong soldiers. Why are you all such strong men in your camp?" Chen Kefu said in confusion.

Li Xuanba was only a sixteen-year-old boy at this time, and his intelligence might be much lower than Li Shimin. He laughed twice and said angrily, "Brother-in-law, you don't know, my second brother said that all strong men who come to my camp are only six feet tall and must have a foundation. As soon as you pass and enter my camp, my second brother will immediately give everyone money, and I will come to my camp. Although the training is more painful than other camps, the daily food is enough. Of course, those people will rush to enter our camp with such good conditions. If General Chen Gui had not only asked me and my second brother to lead the two camps, it would be fine if we would recruit another 800 strong men. Brother-in-law, my second brother would be smart."

Looking at Li Xuanba's proud look, Chen Kefu also smiled. One foot of Sui is equivalent to about 30 centimeters, and the six-foot man is equivalent to more than 1.8 meters. It is not easy to find any such person. He actually found eight hundred, and even said that he could find eight hundred more.

But thinking about the conditions he offered was indeed quite favorable. One person has a coin of money, and these 800 people have a coin of 800 people. This is not a small number, this is 800,000 yuan, and I don’t know where they got so much money.

"Where did you get so much money? One person is always there, this is not a small number. I don't remember that I ordered such expenses to be allocated to the subordinates."

Li Shimin smiled, "If you want to go back to the general, the money is the only one who owns his own money. Although it is 800 guan, it is not too much. The young general can still take it out."

Chen Kefu nodded, "How come these armors come back? I remember seeing them last time in the warehouse of Weiwei Temple. How come you know these armors too."

"General, don't forget that my father is the Shaoqing of Weiwei Temple. I know that the general used a thousand heavy cavalry to attack 80,000 unprepared light cavalry, and lost thousands of enemy troops in one battle. I know that there is such a batch of armor in the warehouse, so I also want to build a heavy infantry army. If I shake the enemy head-on, it will definitely play a big role. But the number of people is a little smaller, and the last general has got three thousand pairs of such armor. If it can be fully equipped, it will definitely play a greater role." Li Shimin said with some regret.

Chen Kefu looked at the large area of ​​strong men in front of him and nodded. Such a group of people could indeed play a great role in gathering. Especially looking at these heavily-dressed infantrymen reminded him of the Modao team that circulated the Western Regions during the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

"I remember there was a group of horse-killing swords in the warehouse of Weiwei Temple. Do you know?"

Li Shimin hurriedly said, "Oh, I have seen those, but those horse-killing swords are too short, only about five feet away. It is not appropriate for our infantry to wear heavy armor and hold horse-killing swords. I think it is more appropriate to hold a spear. The infantry approves heavy armor and hold more than meter of spear, which will definitely kill and damage the enemy infantry opposite."

Chen Kefu smiled. Heavy infantry spent so much money on it, but it was not used to deal with the infantry. Heavy infantry in all dynasties will not be lacking, without exception, and heavy infantry from each dynasty and dynasty are also used to deal with the cavalry.

The heavy infantry phalanx dressed in heavy armor is the real cavalry nemesis. If you can still be equipped with a Modao, it will be like a tiger and can advance like a wall in wartime. After planning in your mind, Chen Kefu asked, "Do you know how many horse-killing swords are there?"

"My father once said that the heavy armor and the horse-slaying sword were all missed supplies, and the heavy infantry armor and the horse-slaying sword were matched, both of which were about 3,000. They are still in the warehouse now."

Chen Kefu smiled, "Luolin, please check it out among the craftsmen in the camp immediately, find a group of excellent weapons and craftsmen, and I have a sword for them to process it."

After saying that, he looked at the two brothers Li Minmin and said, "Didn't you just think you had few soldiers? Okay, now I'll give you such an opportunity to recruit people and continue to recruit these strong men over six feet in the camp. Your two battalions have recruited 3,000 people. The conditions can be the same. Each selected Minzhuang person has a regular amount of money, and the cattle food and esophageal tubes are full. You don't have to pay this money. You can go to the big account to ask the warehouse counselor for money."

Li Xuanba did not feel too much joy, but Li Shimin suddenly became excited. In the past few years, he was constrained by his father and honestly came to Liaodong this time, but unexpectedly he had the opportunity to enter the military camp. For him, life in this military camp was so fresh and interesting. Now he had the opportunity to go from a soldier to a general who commanded thousands of soldiers like his brother-in-law, and his heart was filled with blood.

"Brother-in-law, are you saying true?"

"Um?"

"Oh, General, are you saying it true? You really let Xuanba and I unify one thousand five hundred people?"

Chen Kefu smiled, "Of course it's true. At that time, all three thousand of you are wearing heavy armor, and your weapons do not use spears, but are all using horse-slashing swords that are longer than seven feet long. At that time, you can set up a square array, like a wall to advance, not to mention infantry, even cavalry, such a square array can be covered in all directions and can become the assault vanguard of the entire army. During the war, break the enemy formation and open the gap. If you perform well at that time and train the camp, I will continue to let the craftsmen build these infantry heavy armor and weapons. It is not a problem to let you each command two thousand three thousand, and even five thousand is not impossible. In short, everything depends on your current training results."
Chapter completed!