Shen Long said: "I have been working underground for more than 20 years, and I have seen a lot of coal, and I believe that it will not be long before I can find out where there is charcoal and how much." Please leave it to me with confidence. ”

Tong Yuan smiled: "Haha! How could I be willing to let the elite unloading department dig coal, ah, dig charcoal. If you find charcoal or iron in the mountains, you only need to find out the location, the reality, and the rest later. ”

"My initial plan is to organize a special Mintun to engage in charcoal digging. However, our military tun, especially those in the unloading department, is old and unsuitable for fighting, and after the inverted fight, we can also become the grassroots officials of the mining mintun, so that we can continue to display our skills. ”

Shen Long is overjoyed, he, the unloading department, is engaged in inverted buckets and construction, but it is indeed a problem when he is older, and it is really good to solve the back road in this way.

With Tong Yuan's permission, the Unloading Department threw itself into the inverted bucket without affecting the construction much.

As a unit, they do not participate in military exercises. In the future, when there is a war, they will also be used as engineering troops, or carry out special operations such as mountains and tunnels.

After Tong Yuan inspected Heyang and Yaxian, the time for the military exercise was approaching.

This time, all members of the Haoyang Military Tun Association participated, assuming that a nomadic tribe had been plagued by heavy snow in early spring and had come to plunder. There was a post on Liangshan on the Haoyang side, but after discovering the enemy's attack, it began to mobilize to meet the enemy.

I have already greeted the neighboring two counties in advance, and there will be no misunderstanding on our side. The 500 people who were completely seedless were also ready.

As a spectator this time, Tong Yuan should take a good look at whether the military exercises he envisaged can play a role in discovering problems and training the troops. In order to let the three counties west of the Yellow River gain something from the exercise, he called the county lieutenant and other relevant officials over to learn about and watch together.

He also sent people from Hedong to bring a few soldiers who had performed well against the Xiongnu in Yang County, Pingyang counties, and townships in winter, and asked them to watch them together, preparing to exchange and sum up their experience afterwards.

Two wolf smoke floated from Liangshan Mountain in the north, which was the Hu people's attack on the mountain outpost.

In order to intensify the suddenness of the enemy's attack, the start time of the exercise was determined by the Qiang side. The production here in Haoyang has also been as usual, after all, during the exercise, it is required not to have too much impact on production.

Zhang Ji immediately sent officers on duty to block key roadblocks, and summoned the local garrison of the new army and the families of the dreadnoughts to form several mobile forces, and the light cavalry scouts of the new army immediately launched reconnaissance, and infantry was also sent to important roads and hills.

Tong Yuan saw Zhang Ji's arrangement and was also thinking. After he gathered his troops and horses, he did not attack in a whole team when the enemy situation was unknown, but at the same time as reconnaissance, let the troops deploy to ensure a number of key areas. This arrangement is much more reliable than some fierce generals rushing directly in the direction where the enemy is possible.

After the troops attacked, Zhang arranged for the people to respond and take refuge. Even the families of the Dreadnoughts and the New Army should not be allowed to go into battle without being properly armed.

"De Jong's arrangement is very consistent with his way of being an official."

He then held a brief meeting with the corresponding officers. He already had several sets of plans, such as the situation that the intelligence was wrong, the situation that the enemy was repelled by the outpost, the situation that the soldiers and horses of one county could be repelled by gathering soldiers and horses, the need for several nearby counties to gather troops and horses, and more serious situations......

After determining the situation of the enemy's attack, he sent the first round of messengers to transmit the sound to two nearby counties to complete the task of warning and communication, but at present, the enemy's situation is unclear, and he cannot judge the direction of the enemy's attack, so he does not ask for help or overreacts.

In order to ensure the accuracy and continuity of front-line intelligence, he also refused to travel to and from the northern tuns and collected information from each tun.

Sure enough, after a short time, the scout reported that the enemy had been found in the northeast direction, and the enemy was mainly cavalry, and he was not resolute in the pursuit of the scouts, and there was a possibility of scattering and plundering.

Those who returned from the tunhu side reported that the tun had moved to the townships, but the northeast of Bailiangtun could only be defended in situ due to the distance, but it encountered the enemy outpost.

Zhang Ji and others sent scouts to probe again, and at this time, it was necessary to make a judgment based on the enemy's situation, whether to gather troops and horses to attack.

If those were only feints of the enemy, then after the departure of the main forces, there was a danger that the rest of the place would be greatly destroyed. But it is even more undesirable to hesitate, and when the enemy situation is revealed, it is estimated that it will be too late.

Acting immediately, Zhang Ji let Mintun be armed and take over the defenders in the northwest. The mobile forces were assembled in two directions, one advancing from the northwest to the east, and the other leading himself, starting from the direction of Haoyang, first joining up with the troops and horses that had been defending the place in the hills of the northeast section.

Tong Yuan learned through more than half a year that the information on warfare in ancient times was very limited, but it was also extremely important. Like in the past, when playing the game, it was impossible to show the enemy forces clearly on the map.

Zhang Ji's arrangement is already to ensure efficiency and take a light risk for the sake of the people. If the enemy who simulated the attack was not 500 unseeded Qiang, but nearly 10,000 enemy troops, the other side would definitely want to destroy Haoyang's mobile forces as much as possible.

Zhang sent a second round of messengers before the attack to ensure that the information on the battlefield would not be delayed for his side.

In the latter part, it was inconvenient for Tong Yuan and the others to continue to follow, but they also sent scouts with red flags to investigate the situation. When both parties see this color, they will know that they are observers and will not pay much attention to it.

……

The next day, in the city of Haoyang.

Tong Yuan, Zhang Ji and others reviewed and summarized the day's exercises.

In this battle, 500 Hu people broke through the mountain sentry and entered the plain to plunder. Because Zhang Jibu reacted quickly, within three hours of the incident, he followed the hilly rivers in the northeast of Haoyang and suppressed the Hu people in the northeast corner.

The nomadic light cavalry, which had no superiority in numbers, faced with armoured shield-spear infantry and a large number of archers, was unable to tear through the defensive line and attack the second line of defense formed by the rear and armed civilians.

In the end, the new army's light cavalry relied on their familiarity with the terrain and the physical strength of their horses to achieve nearly 100 casualties. Zhang Ji's side won.

Tong Yuan was satisfied with the operation in this Romance Campaign. However, at the tactical level, although the new army of Bingzhou could resist the attack of the nomadic light cavalry, it could not abandon the defensive line and attack the opponent. In the end, more than half of the enemies managed to escape.

Moreover, the Quan Wuxian Qiang side also made a summary, and they felt that they would definitely not be able to defeat Tong Yuanjun. However, when you enter the plains, you will see large wheat fields and many villages.

It doesn't take three hours, but only half an hour to cause extensive damage, plus in real battles, you can also trample on wheat fields, and the losses will be aggravated.

In other words, the Hu people only need to pay the price of 200 people to destroy tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, which can also rob a lot of cloth and grain. Of course, under a strong pursuit, the population and livestock could not be taken away.