Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 38 Macedonia
"Gongtai, please help me seal the letter and call Zhongda over." Bai Tu said to Chen Gong.
"Huh? What does Bai Gong want to see Zhongda for?" Chen Gong asked puzzledly.
The only person Chen Gong directly addresses as his lord is Lu Bu, but he also insists on using honorifics in the dialogue.
"Training!" Bai Tu said seriously, handing a few pages of paper to Chen Gong.
Looking at the printed text above, Chen Gong knew that the white map was another waste of manpower and was printed directly by Cheng Ji.
But nothing much was said. After all, it was difficult to recognize what Bai Tu wrote by hand. In order to maintain the dignity of the "Lord", it was worth spending some manpower!
But after Chen Gong read what was written above, his eyes began to light up, and he continued, "There's no need to trouble Zhongda. Xiaopei's trap camp can't do without him."
That’s right, the “Zhongda” that Bai Tu and Chen Gong were talking about was Gao Shun, not Sima Yi who was conquered in the dream!
When Bai Tu first learned about Gao Shun's courtesy name, he was also surprised, but gradually he felt that it was "as expected".
"Shun" and "Da" have complementary meanings. It is normal for Gao Shun to use "Da" as his courtesy name, and he happened to be the second child, so he became "Zhongda".
This can also explain why Gao Shun appeared in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" but did not have a courtesy name...
Normally, the ancients avoided mentioning their given names but not their given names. However, since the courtesy name is exactly the same as that of the founder of the Jin Dynasty, it is normal that the "Three Kingdoms" written in the Jin Dynasty omitted his courtesy name.
Originally, after Bai Tu had chosen the troops, he wanted to ask Gao Shun, who was good at training soldiers, to come to Qu'a - no matter how much Yuan Shu blocked it, Gao Shun could still come with a few personal guards and light equipment.
After hearing Chen Gong's reluctance, Bai Tu couldn't help but ask , "I have high hopes for this new army! Although it is just a strange one, if used properly, it should be enough to deal with Yuan Shu's difficulties in the spring. If Zhongda doesn't come, does your father have to train new soldiers himself?"
"And me!" Chen Gong recommended himself.
"Gongtai...is there no other important matter recently?" Bai Tu was a little confused.
It’s not that I don’t trust Chen Gong, but I didn’t expect Chen Gong to be interested in training new soldiers.
"Dealing with Yuan Shu is the most important thing right now, isn't it? Don't worry, Mr. Bai, just leave the new recruits to me!" Chen Gong said excitedly.
Bai Tu was somewhat puzzled by his attitude, but since Chen Gong had already said so, he agreed and said, "Then Gongtai, you should do more work if you are capable. I will assign 10,000 men to you for the equipment of the new army, and you can raise the rest yourself."
Although it is convenient to produce purely through Chengji with manpower, the cost-effectiveness is not high. The most efficient way is to use real craftsmen as technical guidance and assist with "synthetic" corvée labor.
"Yes!" Chen Gong agreed immediately.
Watching Chen Gong leave in a good mood, Bai Tu still didn't understand what part of his pleasure he had chosen when choosing a troop type...
In order to form an army as quickly as possible, Bai Tu did not choose a type of soldier that was difficult to train or had complicated equipment technology .
Even the prototype of this type of soldiers existed earlier than the Han Dynasty - Macedonian infantry!
It was created about five hundred years ago and was the weapon that the Macedonian Dynasty relied on to sweep across the Mediterranean region.
Of course, Bai Tu was not sure whether there was such a thing as the Mediterranean Sea in his world...
The training methods and equipment technology of the Macedonian infantry are not complicated. If they are really used on a large scale, they may not be stronger than the standard infantry of the Han Dynasty, especially because their weaknesses are too obvious, but their fighting style is very peculiar.
First of all, in terms of equipment, the main weapon of the Macedonian infantry was a four-meter-long spear per person, which was extremely long among infantry arms.
Moreover, their fighting style was to form a square formation with layers of long spears in the front, cooperating with the Macedonian cavalry to kill the enemy.
To a certain extent, the role of the infantry phalanx is to create an output environment for the cavalry. It is difficult for the enemy to directly break through the Macedonian infantry phalanx. Instead, they can be easily restricted by the phalanx like a forest of guns and be in a position that is convenient for the enemy cavalry to harvest.
Of course, its weaknesses are also very obvious. Once the enemy's long-range attack power exceeds the range that the small round shield can withstand, and the cavalry cannot quickly resolve or contain its long-range output, the infantry phalanx will become a target.
And once the front-line infantry fell and were killed inside the phalanx, the Macedonian infantry's short sword close combat was also very weak...
He even has a problem of not being able to make sharp turns. He would panic immediately if someone goes around him from behind or to the side.
But it doesn’t matter!
What Bai Tu values is the "strangeness" of the Macedonian infantry.
The Macedonian infantry, which appeared for the first time on the battlefield of the Han Dynasty, were safe at least in the first few battles. They could even cooperate with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to deal a head-on blow to Yuan Shu!
That's right, another advantage of the Macedonian infantry for Bai Tu at this time is that there is no need to train additional cavalry. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry led by Lu Bu is definitely more powerful than the Macedonian cavalry, and they only need to refer to the tactics of the Macedonian phalanx.
Moreover, there are no technical difficulties in the equipment. Even the forging technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty itself can be used to upgrade it - after all, the original Macedonian infantry still used bronze.
As for Chen Gong...
It was seeing this alternative way of coordination between infantry and cavalry that gave him countless inspirations!
Chen Gong had recently been designing a way to combine the city defenders with the cavalry to fight the enemy, which was good at pincer attack and attacking the enemy. He named this tactic "莎角阵阵" (a method of attacking the enemy with a horn)...
"掎角" does not mean "horn". "掎" means "pull", which refers to pulling the horns of the prey, and is extended to mean to restrain.
However, there are still many immature aspects, for example... the army defending the city must have a "city" to defend, which lacks flexibility and cannot be considered a "military formation". It can only be said that it is facing the enemy in a "cornering force".
Bai Tu's new army showed Chen Gong a new way, which was to use infantry as a "city" and also to actively create an output environment for cavalry...
That's why Chen Gong, while admiring Bai Tu's omniscience and genius, took the initiative to take on the task of training the new army!
This new army and new military formation gave Chen Gong inspiration. At the same time, Chen Gong was also very confident that some of his own ideas were not found in this military formation, and the two could complement each other.
Bai Tu handed the new army over to Chen Gong, and mobilized officials from the three counties to recruit skilled craftsmen.
We also need to build city defense equipment to make preparations for both scenarios.
In the spring of next year, Yuan Shu will definitely take action against Bai Tu, and what Bai Tu needs to do is to hit him head-on first, let him know that he is not easy to capture, buy time to pacify Jiangdong, and then delay until he proclaims himself an emperor or something, and then destroy himself...
