The Tang Dynasty already had complete and mature training methods for infantry training.
Wang Nanran, Gao Xiuyan, Zhang Shouyu and others were all very proficient in infantry training.
There was no need to worry about these.
Changing the training methods indiscriminately might be counterproductive, and Wang Nannan Others are also unfamiliar with new training methods, and the training effect will be greatly reduced.
Regarding infantry training, Zhao Ziliang only took time to go to the infantry training camp every day to check the training progress, find deficiencies, and correct mistakes.
Most of his time was spent on cavalry training.
The construction of the army includes many aspects, first is training, second is ideology, and third is weapons, equipment and logistics.
Training matters have already begun.
While training, equipment and facilities must also be improved.
In terms of infantry training, Zhao Ziliang has replaced most of the training facilities on the training ground and added some facilities for training strength, agility, and endurance.
In terms of cavalry, Zhao Ziliang allocated 6,000 horses from the entire army to equip the cavalry battalion.
This was already 90% of the horses required by the Great Dou Army.
In addition to the horses, the cavalry equipment included stirrups, high bridge saddles, cavalry lances, The waist knives, bows and arrows are all fully equipped.
The training of cavalry is definitely not accomplished overnight.
It must go through a long period of training to form combat effectiveness.
Fortunately, the recruits recruited are basically from Hexi, and they all know how to ride.
For these recruits who have good riding skills, I want to recruit them.
It is not too difficult to train an elite cavalry.
The first factor for cavalry to form combat effectiveness is riding skills.
This problem is not a problem for the new batch of recruits recruited by the Great Dou Army.
Without this problem, other problems will be fine.
Solved.
For the training of the cavalry, Zhao Ziliang personally formulated the training plan, including basic training and tactical training, and personally led the training of the troops.
He spent most of the day at the cavalry camp training location.
The cavalry battalion originally had 600 veterans, but after two battles, more than 100 people were lost, leaving less than 500 veterans, and more than 1,200 semi-veterans who had experienced two battles.
In order to allow new recruits to enter as soon as possible State, Zhao Ziliang asked a veteran to lead two and a half veterans and two recruits, mixing the recruits and veterans together.
Although the combat effectiveness declined seriously in a short period of time, there was no war in a short period of time.
As long as the first three months were spent, Basic training, entering the tactical training stage, combat effectiveness will soon be improved.
Although the soldiers in the cavalry battalion all have good riding skills, Zhao Ziliang still arranges for at least two hours of riding training every day.
The rest of the time is spent training on the three combat movements of chopping, slashing, and stabbing during riding, as well as mounted shooting.
Combat movements are only trained on the three movements of chopping, slashing and stabbing.
Zhao Ziliang believes that for ordinary cavalry, as long as these three combat movements are trained in place, after a long period of uninterrupted training, a cavalry's individual combat ability will be greatly improved.
As for other combat movements, they are too cumbersome and It is too complicated.
A single cavalry does not need to train too many combat movements, which will distract their energy.
It is like practicing martial arts.
As long as you are proficient in one martial arts, you are already a master.
As for mounted archery, there is not much to say.
Just keep practicing archery.
The training project of mounted archery requires a large amount of arrows to be supplied to the cavalry for archery contact.
Therefore, the manufacturing of arrows and crossbows can keep up, but they are used for The trained crossbows and arrows do not need to be very good, so the production time does not need to be spent too much.
The Da Dou Army has specialized craftsmen to make weapons, crossbows and arrows.
Zhao Ziliang only needs to arrange the production tasks. , the craftsmen will finish it on time.
However, Zhao Ziliang's request to complete the manufacturing task of 100,000 arrows within a month made the leader of the craftsmen, Mr.
Cao, shake his head like a rattle: "No, no, general, it's not that the lower officials and the craftsmen under my command don't work hard, it's really impossible."
The time you requested is too short.
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It is impossible to complete the production of 100,000 arrows in one month.
Unless you allocate double the number of craftsmen, it will be impossible to complete it in one month."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "I want to ask you, general, apart from giving me the special fine steel carved feather arrows, do you use grinding tools to pour molten iron into the arrows or do you make them one by one?"
Cao Yan said: "Of course, you need to use grinding tools to focus on the molten iron.
If you build them one by one, it will take more time."
Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "Since it is poured with abrasive tools, it should be easy to make arrows.
Why can't we make 100,000 arrows in a month?"
Cao Yan said with a grimace: "General, the production of an arrow is divided into multiple processes, including filling the arrowhead, making the arrow shaft, trimming the feathers, inserting the feathers, assembling the arrowhead and the arrow shaft, etc.
Among these processes, Inserting feathers and making arrow shafts are the most time-consuming.
Our craftsmen have limited manpower and are really busy."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "In this case, then you outsource the processes of making arrow shafts, trimming feathers and inserting feathers to nearby people.
You are only responsible for filling the arrows with grinding tools and assembling them into complete arrows. , let the nearby people take the feathers and materials for making arrow shafts home, let them polish the arrow shafts and install the trimmed feathers on the arrow tails.
You send people to tell the people how to do it.
The feathers need to be repaired.
How long to cut and how to install it on the arrow tail?
All arrow shafts must be polished straight and have the same thickness.
The diameter must have a unified standard.
They cannot be different in thickness or bent.
You send people to people's homes every day to collect them.
Register the quantity and press the quantity.
Pay the people for their hard work.
If you are worried that the people are wasting materials, you can consider letting the people purchase the materials themselves.
Once the production is completed, we will purchase them according to the price of each arrow."
Cao Yan slapped his head and said with great joy: "This method is very good.
The polishing of arrow shafts and the trimming and placement of feathers are not complicated.
With a little guidance, the people can make it.
If every household nearby participates in making it, It will be ready soon” Zheng San watched Cao Yan leave happily and smiled at Zhao Ziliang: "The general's move can be said to have accomplished many things with one stone."
Zhao Ziliang was a little surprised that Zheng San could see his intention, and asked with a smile: "Well, tell me about it."
"First, it reduces the burden and pressure on the craftsmen; second, the soldiers can get a timely supply of arrows for training and combat; third, leaving this matter to the nearby people can increase their income. , As long as the people are skilled in craftsmanship, they can make more every day, and our army will have a steady stream of arrows in the future, as long as we have money."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said nothing, turned around, mounted his horse and headed out of the station, while Zheng San followed him.
There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land outside the station that are the property of Dadou Army.
Dadou Army is basically self-sufficient in food and grass.
It is also responsible for building a considerable part of its own military supplies.
The Jiedushi Office and the imperial court only allocate military pay and part of the ordnance and war horses.
Zhao Ziliang came to the fields outside the station to see the growth of the seedlings and the irrigation conditions of the canals.
It was already May, and the seedlings in the field had grown a lot.
The winter wheat had been harvested.
The Tibetan people came and took it away last time.
Quite a part.
The serious shortage of food has forced people in the Hexi region to give up planting wheat and plant other food crops with shorter growth cycles.
Otherwise, they will run out of food before harvesting wheat.
They plant soybeans, peas, highland barley, broad beans and other food crops.
The growth cycle is shorter.
Although these grains cannot be used as staple food, they can still fill the stomach when there is no food.
Like the common people, the Da Dou Army also had to plant the upper-grade fertile fields with wheat, the middle-grade fields with highland barley and millet, and the lower-grade fields with crops such as soybeans, peas, and sorghum.
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Although the yields of these crops are lower, they are not the main staple food. , but the growth cycle is short, and the orange stems can be chopped into pieces and used as horse feed.
Zhao Ziliang and Zheng San led some of their servants to watch the growth of the seedlings while walking on the field ridge.
Not far away, some Tibetan prisoners were weeding the seedlings and catching insects under the supervision of Tang army soldiers.
In this era, there are no herbicides and no Dichlorvos is all manual work.
Although this kind of farm work is a bit harder, it is not tiring, and there is food to eat.
As long as you work hard, you will not be beaten or killed.
For the Tibetan prisoners, it is already Very lucky.
Many Tibetan prisoners tried to escape before, but were quickly recaptured.
Not only were they killed, but other prisoners in the same group were also killed.
This was because the Da Dou Army implemented a continuous sitting system for prisoners.
According to Zhao Ziliang's request and instructions divided all the prisoners into groups of ten people, with a team leader, and every ten groups constituted a team.
A hundred-man team is a group of a thousand people, with a captain of a thousand.
As long as one person in each group tries to escape, the others will be implicated, and the other members of the group will also be killed together.
Pushing this upward, if the scale of the escape expands, one person If one group of Centurions escapes collectively, the entire Centurion will suffer.
If one Centurion escapes collectively, all the Thousands of Soldiers it belongs to will be seated together.
After the Da Dou Army promulgated such measures and systems, some Tibetan prisoners did escape at first, but soon other people in the same group or team were implicated, so that all of them were killed.
After this happened several times in a row, the Tubo prisoners began to supervise each other in order to save their lives.
In addition, in order to survive, some Tubo prisoners volunteered to act as the Da Dou Army's spies among the prisoners.
As long as there was any abnormal movement among the prisoners, these prisoners would be hidden among the prisoners.
The "detailed work" involved will report the prisoners truthfully.
Over time, the prisoners began to be suspicious of each other and no one trusted each other.
From then on, the management of the Tibetan prisoners by the Da Dou Army became much easier.
Zhao Ziliang looked at some fields and found that the fertility of the fields was insufficient, so he said to Zheng San: "This land is not fertile enough.
We must find a way to fertilize the crops."
Zheng San said with a bitter face: "Although our army has thousands of people, they make a lot of manure every day.
The amount after one or two months is quite considerable, but it cannot handle the large amount of land, 20,000 acres, and every man in the army only makes a lot of manure every day."
I’ve tried pulling it several times but it’s still not enough.”
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "We can't rely solely on the excrement of soldiers.
The excrement of cattle, sheep and horses can also be collected as fertilizer, and the excrement of these livestock is still very fat."
Zheng San was stunned and asked: "Isn't the excrement of livestock collected and dried in the sun to be used as fuel?
How can we still fertilize it?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "Of course you can.
You can use wood for the fire.
In addition, you can also ask the prisoners to collect fallen leaves in the woods.
Rotten ones can also be chopped into pieces and sprinkled in the fields.
You can also dig up the silt in the ditch and transport it."
In the fields, these can be used to fertilize the fields.
With fertility, the crops will grow well.
It's not enough to just rely on the weather for food.
We have to find a way ourselves."
Zheng San thoughtfully nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make arrangements right away":