The war in Muzhou has reached a stalemate, and both Wang Lanling and Shanzhou Mu are mainly attacking in small groups.

Neither side is fooled by such things as retreat and defeat.

You run yours, I just don't chase anyway.

Wang Lanling couldn't retreat too far, once the battlefield was pushed to the vicinity of Linshan County, the military force that the other side could mobilize would be stronger.

So even if he retreats a few kilometers, as long as the other party doesn't follow up, Wang Lanling still wants to fight back.

It's the same with Shanzhou Mu's side, this plan to lure the enemy deep into this kind of plan doesn't work, Wang Lanling's troops retreated very quickly, and his troops can't see the shadow of those people until they complete the encirclement.

The distribution of the front is too scattered, which is a disadvantage for the Muzhou Legion.

First, there is a gap in the level of troops between the two sides, especially the local soldiers in Muzhou have no intention of fighting, and once the supervision is weak, it is easy to run away in the middle of the fight.

For example, the Shanzhou Legion continued to insist on fighting until the commander died, which was impossible for the Muzhou Legion, and these people wished that the commander was dead and they could escape smoothly.

So this is the current stalemate, and both sides are waiting.

The old emperor ordered them to take Wang Lanling in one go, but Shanzhou Mu directly rejected it.

In this kind of super-large-scale battle, if he directly piled up human lives in it at any cost, it was estimated that half of the Shanzhou Corps under his command would die.

Shanzhou Mu is the old emperor's own person, and he is also one of the few people in the Jiang family who can fight, and his opinion is still very effective for the old emperor.

After Shanzhou Mu's report was quickly transmitted to the old emperor, and at the same time understood Wang Lanling's current strength, the old emperor calmed down.

"Order, order the Lanzhou Navy to go south and conquer Shanhai County!"

"Order the Shazhou Legion to attack Shanhai County in the north!"

This is a place with a population of four million, and after realizing that Wang Lanling has occupied such a huge piece of land in just two years, the old emperor paid full attention to this young man who was less than twenty years old.

50,000 troops, close to 5 million people, as well as ports, pastures, mines, coal yards, military factories, shipyards......

If this son is not removed, there will never be a day of peace in the empire!

This incident also made the old emperor realize some problems, why was Wang Lanling able to develop like this in just two years?

The old emperor thought seriously.

He quickly thought of why!

The reason, of course, is that those people in Muzhou don't know about the royal law!

Those people only knew the county officials, but they didn't know the majesty of the empire, and there was a lack of restraints.

If there was a governor in Shanhai County who restrained Wang Lanling, how could Wang Lanling be so reckless?

There is also the matter of business, if Wang Lanling can't do business and trade with the outside world, he won't be able to get so much money to develop himself.

There is also the flow of people, if the flow of people between counties is restricted, and the flow of all kinds of books and talents is prohibited, how can Wang Lanling use a small county town to stir up the storm in the entire Muzhou?

No business!

Prohibition of population movement!

It is forbidden for local officials to appoint county officials without permission!

Local officials are forbidden to become bigger, and various departments must not exceed their authority!

The old emperor suddenly thought about it and found that these were all a few years ago!

It turns out that the world is quite peaceful, but because of a few wrong policies, the rights of many people have been relaxed? Let the country be unstable.

Is this fashionable and not too late? In order to avoid the appearance of the second Wang Lanling? The old emperor soon began to gather people and began to set things right!

When the old emperor wanted to go backwards and prepare for peaceful evolution to make "everyone" go backwards and live a hard life? The students of the Longzhou Government School are also holding tea parties.

Not only the Longzhou government school? For example, the enemies of Tongzhou Official School, Yunzhou Official School, Muzhou Official School, Shanzhou Official School, etc., are all holding tea parties.

The intellectuals of these schools were discussing the matter of Wang Lanling.

The social of high-level intellectuals, the identity is the ticket to the venue? Knowledge and insight are the real strength.

These people all have some internal channels, and the various characters sit together? When I was drinking tea and chatting, I simulated the general situation on the front line.

"Wang Lanling now has more than 40,000 elite soldiers, and the imperial army is 250,000, and there are reinforcements from various counties and counties that are constantly being mobilized."

One young man said, "This has been discussed many times? This time, let's talk about Wang Lanling's tactics, this person has always used soldiers to defeat the strong with the weak, and he is good at fighting impossible battles. ”

A girl wearing an official's uniform next to her said: "It's true, I have prepared to surround him several times, but the result is that he has been counter-surrounded, and he is particularly good at mobilizing troops and sending generals, using small forces to surround large troops." ”

The families of these young people of the empire must be wealthy, because on the table they sat around, there was a two-meter-long and wide sand table, which simulated the battlefield layout of the front line at this time.

The hill occupied by Wang Lanling was planted with small red flags, and the imperial army was surrounded by small golden flags.

A man with glasses said: "The number of Wang Lanling should be small, but according to the reports of the soldiers on the front line, every time there is a battle, I feel that there are endless people on the other side. ”

Another boy said: "It should be a hidden strength, the actual number of people on the side of the mountain navy should be more than this number, the herdsmen, pioneers, horse thieves, officers and soldiers over there have all taken refuge in him, I am afraid that the actual strength will exceed more than 100,000." ”

Spread rumors with a mouth.

However, the rest of the people believe this, after all, Wang Lanling has now integrated the troops of a county, plus the soldiers who surrendered before, it is normal to have more troops.

Several people looked at the layout on the sand table, and at this time the beautiful girl said: "Re-demonstrate the battle situation for a while." ”

The servant next to him quickly said, "Yes! ”

The servants took the lengthened tweezers and began to rearrange the sand table.

Next to the sand table, a manservant began to explain in a deep voice.

"On March 23, Wang Lanling personally went to the battlefield to command, and the forces of both sides were assembled."

"At 2:05 p.m., the First Corps of the Shanzhou Army attacked the flank of the Yingyang Army, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides!"

The two servants who were in charge of placing the flags soon placed several flags on a hill, indicating that a battle was underway.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, Shanzhou Mu got the enemy's movement and launched the Linghuwei, Xuanwu, and Qilin armies to attack Wang Lanling's camp!"

Several other servants quickly placed flags representing the three armies in the center.

"At 3:20, the position of the Shanzhou Army camp was quickly evacuated, and the personnel dispersed and retreated to the mountains ten miles to the southwest."

"At 3:25, the 1st Corps of the Shanzhou Army attacked the left flank of the army."

Originally, the formation of the Imperial army was a greater than number facing the bottom, but after such a fuss, it became a smaller number, and it became a layout in which the main force was in front and the rest of the troops were behind the wings.

Because the flank position was stuck by the owner, it was impossible to provide support and protection in time, so the imperial army that attacked out cautiously retreated, and while defending, it knocked down those two positions.

The follow-up two sides spent a lot of time in a short period of temptation and defensive counterattack, and fought more than a dozen small-scale battles, but neither dared to attack rashly.

Once a certain position cannot be defeated for a day or a night, then the two sides will tacitly agree to cease fighting for five or six days to replenish ammunition and troops.

The bespectacled boy looked at the changing battle situation and quickly said, "I've actually seen it a few times, but there's a problem. ”

"Wang Lanling is indeed a rare famous general in the world, and his ability to lead troops to fight is the number one among the famous generals in ancient and modern times, judging from the battle situation in the past half a month, he is a character who will not take risks easily."

"But look at this place."

The bespectacled boy pointed to the simulated scene of the sand table, "I personally asked some officers who came back, and they said that the enemy had been blown up to the ground, and there were ditches and tunnels dug by Wang Lanling everywhere. ”

"I'm thinking, why didn't Wang Lanling stick to the city, and dig a ditch on this barren mountain?"

The owner of the tea party is that beautiful girl, who has a high status and status.

The girl explained: "Because Wang Lanling is preparing to attack with fire, there is nothing that can be burned in the barren mountain now, and it is said that Wang Lanling in the Yanshan Lake area is very familiar, and he stayed there for a long time last year, and the nearby herdsmen often do business with Wang Lanling." ”

"The people of Shanzhou Mu eat horses and chew, once they lose the territory of Yanshan Lake, they can only retreat to Tianmu County, and Tianmu County has no danger to defend."

Fire attack is indeed the best explanation, Wang Lanling has played with fire too many times, once Wang Lanling finds an opportunity to burn the logistics, then the battle situation is not easy to say.

The boy with glasses nodded, looked at the sand table and said, "What is the use of this ditch dug by Wang Lanling?" I heard that the Shanhai County side fought twice, but they didn't defend the wall, and they just dug a trench outside. ”

The man next to him said: "It's useless, this is just a simple barricade, it's better than nothing, if there is a fight, it will take more than a day to dig a ditch, and it is impossible for soldiers to carry farm tools to fight." ”

The man with glasses said: "It should be of some use, otherwise Wang Lanling would not have dug this." ”

The man said unhappily: "What's the use of what you say?" The range of the gun is 100 meters, and after this time to finish firing and then change the bullet, people will already rush over. ”

"Even if you don't rush over, it's a barricade, or you were killed by someone else, since it's useless, why don't you honestly line up and shoot it, and you have to hide in the ditch with pieces?"

Although people are more likely to be hit by bullets when they gather together, the power of multiple people to shoot together is also multiplied.

In particular, queuing up to shoot can ensure that the bullets are not in space, and the cross fire can be used to suppress the enemy's approach.

As the man said, the usefulness of the trenches is not obvious, and it is troublesome.

The man saw that the man with glasses stopped talking, so he continued: "Except for the marksman, when we usually shoot, when we shoot, the bullet flies out and is offset in four places: up, down, left and right. ”

"If you shoot on the ground, it will be stable, but the hit rate of the bullet will also be reduced, and you have to lean up to the muzzle of the gun to hit the top of the person, do you think this is suitable?"

"And how many people can be hidden in a ditch? The person behind wants to help shoot, but doesn't it have to climb higher than the person in front to avoid hitting his own person? ”

The rest of the people felt that it made sense.

What Wang Lanling was worried about did not appear, although the imperial army had seen Wang Lanling's trenches, they had not learned it.

Because it has just been converted from melee combat with cold weapons to muskets.

To be honest, the essence of slashing with a knife and shooting at a gun is actually the same, and these muskets have limited proximity and shortness and accuracy.

In addition, the gunpowder of the musket is pyrotechnic powder, and if it is fired while lying in the trench, it will cause a large cloud of smoke that is not easy to disperse

Because the rifle has a short range, by the time it is time to reload, the enemy has already rushed in with bayonets.

At the beginning, the gun attack distance was short, so the cannon was placed in front of the infantry as the main attack, so that there was no need to worry about hitting your own people.

Later, after the technical change of the gun and the range was greatly changed, the cannon in front was equivalent to looking for death, and then it began to retreat behind the infantry and become pure fire support.

Wang Lanling's mountain naval regiment, the advantage was grenades and improved guns and artillery.

The Empire also has the same high-quality weapons, but the army has not completed the transformation from top to bottom, and still uses the same ancient model of weapons.

As for where did the military spending......

If there are more dead people, you will understand where the military spending goes, and you will also know what will happen if the weapons are not advanced enough!

Just thinking about coping with it, thinking about this is enough, and naturally he will be taught to be a man by Wang Lanling's army combat effectiveness.

At present, the trench is indeed sorry for the effort to dig it, and it is indeed of little use.

Wang Lanling's trenches are used in conjunction with machine gunners!!

Once the machine gunner and trench are combined, it is a big killer against the infantry!

The empire wasted the most critical few months, and did not really realize the strength of Wang Lanling, and even Wang Lanling was not forced out by machine gunners!

At the beginning, Wang Lanling only had two machine guns, and then gradually developed to ten.

And now, Wang Lanling has more than ten machine guns!