Chapter 281: Training Methods for Elephant Soldiers This is just a gift from Confucianism, the killer weapon of the family and Buddhism has not yet been used, although I don't know what it is, but in terms of value or destructive power, it should not be under the five thousand war elephants, it seems that the anti-Li Zhen alliance really hates Li Zhen to the core, and vows not to give up if he is not put to death.
Bafa Valman was also shocked and inexplicable, how did Li Zhen offend you?
So much so that you have to spend so much money to kill him?
However, compared to this question, another question in Bafa Valman's heart is more eager to get an answer, that is, how did Confucianism train so many elephant soldiers?
This is not a simple job, it is not only time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly.
After all, it is very simple to collect 5,000 elephants, and the elephants at this time are not protected animals for future generations.
But if you want to train 5,000 elephants into qualified war elephants, the difficulty is not ordinary.
However, Bafa Valman also knew that this was someone's secret and could not tell him, so after a few side knocks, he gave up the plan to get to the bottom of it, and began to think about how to use the five thousand war elephants more reasonably.
In fact, the Confucian method of cultivating war elephants is very simple, and it is not too secret, but the Nanyang people do not like to think and do not sum up experience.
But the Han people are not as lazy as they are, and after understanding the weakness of elephants, they have summed up a set of professional targeted training programs.
Isn't this elephant afraid of loud noises and sudden movements?
So let's play various sounds next to the elephant while it is resting, so that the elephant can slowly get used to it, what's the difficulty?
At first, the elephants were a little uncomfortable, but because at the beginning, the soothing music was played, which not only did not frighten the elephants, but helped the elephants to rest, and gradually the elephants accepted the sound.
Once the elephant has acclimatized, it is time to try to play some slightly more intense tunes......
After getting used to it again, you can play intense tunes, such as "General's Order" or something......
Later, you can play the drum directly next to the elephant, but the elephant has gradually accepted the sound, so it will not be frightened......
Immediately after that, it was bombarded with artillery, which was very far away at first, and then slowly put into the distance......
In the end, even if the cannon is placed directly in the elephant's ear, the elephant will no longer be frightened......
The Confucian elephant soldiers were successfully trained.
Of course, there are many failures among them, but on the whole, the success rate is more than a hundred times higher than that of the Nanyang people who rely purely on luck to train elephant soldiers.
The only problem is that this training method is still too slow, Confucianism has been deployed in Nanyang three years ago, but until now it has only trained 5,000 qualified elephant soldiers, and now in order to kill Li Zhen, all of them have been given to Bafa Valman.
At the same time as handing over the elephant soldiers to Bafa Walman, the anti-Li Zhen alliance also told him about the situation of the cannons in the Tang army, and also demonstrated them to him several times.
But the situation was the same as Li Zhen's guess, and in the face of the warning of the anti-Li Zhen coalition, Bafa Valman did not take it to heart at all.
In his opinion, what kind of cannon or the like is just an exaggeration of the anti-Li Zhen alliance.
Especially after the anti-Li Zhen alliance put a few cannons in front of him, although the sound of the cannons did shock Bafa Valman, but after he saw the power of the cannons, he no longer cared about them.
The power of this cannon is indeed a bit large, but the scope of the impact is only one or two zhang at most, unless there are thousands of such cannons, it is far from possible to threaten their own 400,000 troops.
Did the Don Army have tens of thousands of cannons?
Of course there is, but there are not so many cannons on the side of the Young Army - there are only 5,000 people in the Shenji Battalion, and it is impossible for everyone among these 5,000 people to be gunners, as well as gunners and grenadiers, etc., although they have also been trained in artillery, but according to the fact that a cannon needs five gunners to operate, even if 5,000 people are all on it, they can only control 1,000 guns.
It seems like a lot, but the problem is that everyone is going to control the artillery, so who will carry the ammunition?
Who will be on the lookout?
…… These are things that need people.
In fact, there are only 300 cannons in the Shenji Battalion, but most of these cannons are more than 100 mm in caliber, and there are even more than a dozen heavy guns over 150 mm.
It is said that the terrain of the South Sea is not suitable for the use of heavy artillery, because the South Sea is rainy, the air is humid, the ground is also muddy, and the jungle and mountains are all over, which is not conducive to the march of heavy artillery at all.
And the mass of the 150 mm heavy artillery is quite amazing, generally above five tons, such a heavy weight in the terrain of the South Seas, I am afraid that it will fall into the ground before taking two steps, and the five-ton cannon is stuck in the soil, and it is difficult to get it out by manpower alone, and even if it is made, it will fall into the soil after a few steps......
This will severely slow down the Boys' march.
In fact, when Li Zhen came to Nanyang, he didn't bring a 150-millimeter heavy gun at all, just because he considered that the heavy artillery could not exert its power in Nanyang, so he simply gave up.
This batch of heavy artillery was entrusted by Li Zhen to Hou Junji to bring, because when he arrived at the actual place, Li Zhen found that although the terrain here in Nanyang is not good, there is a livestock here that is quite suitable as a drag tool - elephants, with elephants, they are not afraid of the weight of cannons at all, and it is a big deal to disassemble the heavy artillery and let the elephants be transported separately.
Therefore, after learning of this situation, Li Zhen urgently sent a letter to Datang, asking Hou Junji to bring fifteen 150-mm heavy guns and some 120-mm howitzers by the way.
If Bafa Valman had seen the power of a 150-millimeter heavy cannon under Li Zhen's command, maybe he would have ......
No, he would have been vigilant, but now he turned a deaf ear to the Confucian warnings, and although he had noticed the power of the cannon, he did not pay much attention to it.
As for the reason......
Well, mainly because the cannons brought by Confucianism are too small and too small......
This is also a helpless thing, the supervision of Datang's military industry is very strict, especially the cannons, each one has a unique number when it leaves the factory, it is impossible to sell it privately, and even scrapped it has to go through many inspections, and it is impossible to obtain a large number of them.