"Dalang, look at this."

After Ximen Qing took the seat with Wu Haogu, Old Man Murong took out a few pictures from a pile of manuscripts and handed them to Wu Haogu.

After Wu Haogu received it, he looked carefully. The contents of these manuscripts were about the organization and equipment of infantry. In the old man Murong's vision, the main force of the Song Dynasty's new army must be infantry. The troops of the Song Dynasty should be as simplified as possible. Regardless of auxiliary soldiers, all combat soldiers were divided into four types: spearmen, swords and shields, archers and crossbows.

Among them, the spearmen must be equipped with heavy armor and a spear that can resist the impact of cavalry. On the battlefield, the main responsibility of the spearmen is to form the main body of the battle formation, which is used to fight the impact of the enemy cavalry or launch group attacks, and break through the enemy's battle formation.

The sword and shield soldiers must at least have leather armor, vine shields and blunt weapons such as well-built straight swords or iron whips, iron bones and other blunt weapons. If the opponent is equipped with heavy armor, they must replace the sword with blunt weapons that can break the armor. On the battlefield, the responsibility of the sword and shield soldiers is to cover the battle formation composed of spearmen or act as a pioneer when they are used to pull out the city.

Archers must be equipped with archers with strong bows, feather arrows, paper armor and self-defense hand knife. They must undergo rigorous training to achieve a level that can be continuously and accurately fired. Their continuous shooting can be used to attack enemy battle formations and suppress enemy archers. Precise shooting is a light cavalry used to shoot enemy light cavalry at close range. Generally, they will use cavalry shooting to disturb the opponent's military formation and create possibilities for heavy cavalry rushing. Therefore, high-level archers are very important for the safety of infantry formations.

Crossbow soldiers are used to deal with heavy cavalry and enemy heavy armor infantry, or to kill enemy archers at long distances. Therefore, they must have the ability to move quickly, so they do not need to wear armor. In addition to crossbow machines and crossbow arrows, they only have a short knife or are not worthy of it.

In order to facilitate command, Old Murong believed that each army should only be organized in a separate formation rather than a "flower team". That is, a team of about a hundred people (excluding auxiliary soldiers) has only one army. Therefore, the soldiers under each team only need to learn the tactics of one army to be qualified. The reason for this arrangement is to train qualified infantry in a shorter time to facilitate the replenishment of the troops during wartime.

However, as infantry teams, they must be proficient in all four methods of infantry fighting. The current Privy Council Military Academy is the prototype of the later military academy, and in theory it should also become the source of grassroots officers in the Northern Song army in the future. Grassroots officers should be the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the troops. Therefore, their requirements cannot be reduced.

As for the preparation of various types of troops in the first part, Murong Wangyou's suggestion is to have a team of captains, a team of swords and shields, two teams of archers and a team of crossbowmen under the first part. The general himself should also serve as the commander of the spearmen, because the spearmen are the pillars of the entire battle formation. Once it collapses, the entire team may be destroyed.

In other words, in the "Military Book" written by Murong Wangyou, the unit with 500 soldiers is the most basic combat unit.

Of course, in addition to combat soldiers, auxiliary soldiers are also indispensable. The number of auxiliary soldiers required by different types of troops is also different.

The spear team needs the most auxiliary soldiers, not only because the heavy armor of the spear soldiers needs the help of auxiliary soldiers to put on or unload them, but also because the supplies of a "team" are carried by the spear team (the spear team is also the general), so the actual number of the spear team is also the largest, with more than 200 people, of which at least 100 are auxiliary soldiers, and at least thirty mule and horse carts will be equipped.

The auxiliary soldiers of the other four teams are all below 50 people, and there are only about ten mules, horses and carts equipped with them. In other words, the total force of a unit can exceed 800 people when the number of troops is full.

In addition, the auxiliary soldiers are also equipped with short spears, swords, shields and soft bows, which can be put into combat when necessary. The large chariots equipped with auxiliary soldiers can also be mounted on wooden tiles to form a chariot array and used as defensive fortifications.

"Mr. Murong, your 'Soldier Book' is about to be compiled?" Wu Haogu finished reading the manuscript and asked Old Man Murong with a smile, "It seems that it won't take too long, and the Military Science Department will be opened, right?"

"It's early!" Murong Wangyou shook his head, "Where have you been here? There are marches, camps, formations, baggages, building cities, sieges, and cavalry! To be honest, although I have been with the army and are still familiar with military books, the only ones who are really proficient in cavalry are there, and other things have to be explored. However, when the students of the Military Academy selected by the Sixth Route in Shaanxi arrived, they could practice with them and always find ways."

"It is not easy to find the way to train troops and train generals," Wu Haogu put the manuscript back on the old Murong's desk and said with a smile, "This dynasty has been thinking about this since its founding. It has been more than a hundred years since its founding. Isn't it helpless?"

This is actually the "small contracting method" of Wu Haogu praising himself, cultivating grassroots officers, and then recruiting soldiers and training. Isn't it just what he "thought" to come up with?

With this method, Wu Haogu could have been the title of "great bourgeois military strategist" in later generations, right?

Maybe the future "Heavenly Tribulation" of the Song Dynasty could be safely survived by thousands of officers from the Military and Academic Division of the Privy Council. It is theoretically fine. It is still the second year of Yuanfu, which is 1099 AD. There are still more than 20 years before the Northern Expedition of Xuanhe! If the Military and Academic Division is not interrupted, it can be at least twenty periods... It is not a problem to train five or six thousand officers. They can support at least one thousand troops during the war.

That would be 500,000 warriors! By then, the entire Song Dynasty's imperial guards will be completely renewed! With so many elite warriors, Liao, Jin, and Xia, will they all easily defeat them?

Thinking that he might have changed history, Wu Haogu was in a good mood, so he took Wu Yanen's letter out of the letter bag and handed it to Old Man Murong with both hands.

"Sir, look at this."

"This is..." Murong Wangyou took the "letter", opened it and looked carefully, "Haha, it's interesting."

"Is it feasible?" Wu Haogu asked.

Murong Wangyou asked back: "It's feasible? Which aspect are you referring to?"

"Can the Kingdom of Goryeo win?" Wu Haogu wanted to take the test of Old Man Murong.

"Win?" Murong Wangyou shook his head, "It's a bit lingering... Although the Koryo Kingdom fought well with the Khitan during the Holy Sect dynasty, that was eighty years ago. In the past eighty years, the Goryo Kingdom had not had a battle, and it was more important than military affairs. I'm afraid that the whole country had forgotten about the war."

The Goryeo Kingdom was indeed much stronger in military performance than the Song Dynasty! They fought three major wars with the Liao Kingdom during the era of Emperor Shengzong of Liao and Empress Dowager Xiao. The war lasted from 992 AD to 1019 AD, and fought for more than 20 years, with two defeats and one victory. The first two major defeats were defeated, but they won a great victory in the third war. In the end, not only did not destroy the country, but also received a large area of ​​"give land" south of the Yalu River.

However, after the Third Liaoli War, the Kingdom of Goryeo did not fight anyone again. His wife lived in a mediocre way for eighty years. He also learned from the Song Dynasty to control martial arts. Although the Kingdom of Goryeo was a noble Jinshi in power, it was slightly better than the situation of being the poor Jinshi in the Song Dynasty, but I think it was not much better.

"What if Goryeo wins?" Wu Haogu asked.

"Win?" Murong Wangyou thought for a while, "If this is true, there will be a life-and-death battle between Liao Li."

"Can you?"

"Of course!" Murong Wangyou said, "Just promise that our dynasty wants to restore the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so why not revive the people of the Goryeo to restore the old land of Goguryeo?"

The relationship between the Goryeo and Goguryeo is studied by historians and not considered by politicians. Once the Goryeo can defeat Wanyan Jurchen, although this is impossible, how could they live south of the Yalu River? Then, the old place of Goguryeo will be restored, and it will become the target of the Goryeo army's northern expedition.

"Okay!" Wu Haogu smiled, "It's enough to have Mr. Murong's words... By the way, who will the Bohai people help?"

"Bohai people?" Murong Wangyou thought for a while and said, "It should be a matter of no help."

"Okay, that's all." Wu Haogu smiled, "Let's go back and hand over this letter to Mr. Cai, let the officials and the ministers discuss... They have many good things to discuss these days, right?"

"A good thing?" Murong Wangyou smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid it may not be!"

"What's wrong?" Wu Haogu was stunned.

These days, Wu Haogu is busy with family affairs and does not pay much attention to the situation in the court.

Murong Wangyou shook his head, "I am also half an outsider, I can't explain it clearly. I only know that many ministers have submitted memorials to oppose the military and academic departments and Jiehe Commercial City."

"It's okay," Wuhao Ancient Road, "as long as the official is still there, these things can always be promoted."

Some people objected long ago as he expected. After all, these two major events were major reforms, and the progress was very fast, exceeding the acceptance ability of many people. This was actually a last resort, because Zhao Xu, the official's health was getting worse and worse, and he probably couldn't last for a few years.

Once Zhao Xu dies, whether Empress Dowager Xiang or Empress Dowager Liu is in the dynasty, it is not appropriate to carry out major reforms in the situation of the heroine Youjun. Therefore, Zhang Dun and Zhao Xu both wanted to take advantage of the current time window to do everything they should do.

Wu Haogu also had the same idea. From now until next spring, it will be a critical period for the establishment of Jiehe Commercial City!

In any case, this market must be established.

So when Wu Haogu left the Murong family, his mind was full of the establishment of a market... This matter must be accelerated! It is already July, and it is only five months before the end of the year. If he cannot sign a contract with the Liao people this year, it will be hard to say next year.
Chapter completed!