Chapter 88 Elite Danyang Soldiers
However, after a cursory look, the level of these thousand people was at least average, and there was no old or weak among them.
After asking, I found out that Zhao Yun and Tian Yu had long ago picked out the old and the weak.
It’s no wonder, after all, Liu Feng is the young master, and he was the one who dug out these four thousand chapters from Cao Bao.
Both Zhao Yun and Tian Yu have upright personalities. They are too late to thank Liu Feng, so how can they select all the elites and leave only the old, weak, sick and disabled for him?
So on the contrary, Zhao Yun and Tian Yu went out of their way to wipe out the old and weak, leaving only these middle-to-upper-level soldiers.
Liu Feng was secretly grateful to Zhao Yun and Tian Yu, while Pan Zhang and Xu Sheng's eyes were already shining brightly.
Pan Zhang, in particular, wished he could start picking people right away, but Liu Feng hadn't given the order yet.
In fact, from the perspective of combat strength, the twenty armored soldiers Pan Zhang had previously led were much stronger than these soldiers.
If nothing else, if Pan Zhang were to lead the army in heavy armor, it would be possible to defeat the thousand troops in front of him with just one charge.
Because these soldiers are not only tall and powerful, but more importantly, they all wear armor.
Although he is wearing leather armor inlaid with iron plates, it is still armor, and it is full body armor.
It should be noted that there is a huge difference between having armor and not having armor. Among the thousand soldiers in front of you, no one is wearing armor, not even the most common leather armor. The soldiers are all wearing commoners and carrying Just wearing weapons.
This is still an elite Danyang soldier, which shows the lack of equipment in this era and the preciousness of armor.
Liu Feng asked later and found out that these Danyang soldiers were not all without armor. There were a total of two hundred sets of leather armor in this thousand-man camp, but they generally did not wear them during training for fear of loss. , all stored together in the barracks.
There is nothing we can do about this.
Although the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty were nominally a continuation of the same dynasty, they were actually two separate and completely different dynasties.
The Western Han Dynasty was much stronger than the Eastern Han Dynasty in terms of mobilization and taxation capabilities.
The Eastern Han Dynasty could only adopt a policy of virtual borders and focusing on the interior, highly elite the central army, while suppressing and weakening local county soldiers.
As a result, over time, the local county soldiers were not only very small in number and poorly equipped, but also had no hematopoietic ability at all.
The equipment and hematopoietic mechanisms of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty were basically concentrated in the central government, as well as in a few places such as Nanyang and Xuzhou.
This led to the fact that at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the heroes were fighting, most of the heroes in Guandong were just rookies pecking each other. They lacked the effective protection of armor, which caused the casualty rate to remain high and the survival rate of veterans to be very low.
Liu Feng really wants to change all this, but judging from the current situation, it is still quite difficult.
Xuzhou originally had hematopoietic function, but it was a pity that Tao Qian took the initiative to provoke Cao Cao, resulting in Pengcheng Kingdom being slaughtered to ashes by Cao Cao.
The Tieguan Camp built in Pengcheng Kingdom was naturally destroyed.
Xuzhou's other hope is the Tieguan camp in Guangling, but now Guangling does not obey the state government, so it can only be seen but not eaten.
"Wen Gui, Wen Xiang, you go and choose. These people are temporarily organized into three songs. Wen Xiang is appointed as the army commander, and is also in charge of the 400 people in the first song department. Wen Gui is appointed as the military commander of Qu. Take charge of the second song department, and the remaining two hundred people will be organized into the third song."
Speaking of this, Liu Feng remembered something and added: "By the way, the relatives you two brought. Soldiers can also be incorporated into it, just send their names to the Bingcao."
Pan Zhang and Xu Shengda were delighted and took their men forward to make the selection.
The people Pan Zhang led were naturally the twenty soldiers. These soldiers had been transferred to Liu Feng's command by Liu Bei and were still led by Pan Zhang.
Xu Sheng brought hundreds of relatives, including more than a hundred young people.
He personally selected thirty of them and brought weapons and leather armor from the family's inventory.
Possessing armor in the Han Dynasty was a serious crime and would be punished by the clan. This is not just for iron armor, leather armor is also included.
However, the Eastern Han Dynasty was not as good as the Western Han Dynasty after all. Rich families from all over the country had long dared to save armor, but they did not dare to wear it too ostentatiously.
Although the Xu family is not a famous family, they are still powerful in Ju County. It is not a big deal to take out a few sets or even a dozen sets of leather armor.
When it was time to hand over the plot, Cao Bao specially removed his direct line officers.
Otherwise, when it is handed over to Liu Bei and his son, will this officer be retained or not?
If you keep it, then who will this army listen to in the future?
If he didn't stay and drive away, wouldn't Cao Bao be slapped in the mouth and lose his face?
Cao Bao would not do such a stupid thing, so he summoned his confidants away early.
For so many officers' positions were vacant, fortunately there were twenty soldiers and Xu Sheng's relatives to fill them, otherwise Liu Feng might have to use Liu Erying's manpower.
After Pan Zhang and Xu Sheng followed Liu Feng, they also had the habit of making preparations in advance.
They have already arranged the positions of low-level officers, and now that they have taken office, they have quickly arranged the positions of officers.
“Who is Cao Meng?”
Liu Feng shouted to Bu Qu, and a strong man wearing leather armor rushed out and saluted Liu Feng: "Young master, I am Cao Meng."
This Cao Meng , is the only officer left by Cao Bao.
This man can be considered a confidant of Cao Bao, who stayed here specifically to help Liu Feng organize his training.
In Cao Bao's words, Cao Meng is still brave enough to fight, and he is also loyal. He wants to leave Liu Feng as a confidant.
Liu Feng naturally couldn't refuse. This would never restore Cao Bao's face.
Therefore, after obtaining Liu Bei's consent, Xu Sheng's department made an adjustment. It was responsible for three unsatisfied songs instead of two full ones.
Liu Feng nodded and ordered: "Go and organize the team. The two hundred men in the third song will be given to you to serve as the garrison. If you do a good job, you will be corrected."
Cao Meng When he heard that he had the opportunity to become a military commander, he was overjoyed. He knelt down and thanked him on the spot: "Thank you, young master!"
So, after regaining the command system, Qianbuqu reorganized the team.
Liu Feng stood aside, his brows a little nervous.
He was very disappointed with the quality of Danyang soldiers.
Even with the command of the officers, the formation speed was still very slow, and some soldiers even ran several times before finding their positions.
That’s it, Danyang’s elite soldiers.
It can only be said that the so-called elite soldiers of Danyang only mean that these warriors dare to fight. It does not mean that these warriors are really strong in combat. Otherwise, they will not be defeated by Cao Cao's Yanzhou County soldiers. .
But soldiers with such lax military discipline and lack of training can still be called elites.
It can only be said that in this era when all the heroes came together, the princes were really noobs pecking each other. Those in the imperial court who really knew how to train soldiers were all killed or fled in Luoyang.
By the time Taishi Dong came to power, he had only the field corps under his command, which was a mixture of Liangzhou, Bingzhou and Luoyang Central Army, and professional soldiers.
And when Master Dong died, it was even more torn apart.
(End of this chapter)