Chapter 644: Wuchang
Qingchuan calendar Hanyang trees, fragrant grass and parrot island, this land, once lived in Heifu's previous life for several years, the scenery of the riverside is very familiar.
However, this is the Qin Dynasty, the Qingchuan Pavilion has not yet been erected, the parrot sandbar is far from formed, and the location of the Yellow Crane Tower is a barren reed bush. The only thing similar is the rolling Yangtze River east, and large ships, carrying soldiers from all directions, gather here.
It was now mid-spring February, and the 4,000 soldiers recruited by Heifu in Nanjun arrived in Xiakoujin in the south of Anlu County one after another.
Xiakou is the place where the summer water enters the river, as early as the spring and autumn period, it is to go to the Jindu in the south of the Yangtze River, in the past ten years, as the soldiers and civilians of Nanjun were forced by the government decree to migrate to Yuzhang to settle down, the two places have become closer. Xiakou has also become a bustling port, with more than a dozen ships coming and going from east to west every day.
However, Heifu did not let the army be stationed in Xiakou, but let the Jiangling Boat Division transport them to the opposite bank, Shaxian County, Hengshan County, on the side of the burned reeds, a large camp with a capacity of 20,000 people rose from the ground, which would be the base camp of Heifu's southern expedition.
Heifu named this place "Wuchang", according to the understanding of the young Licang, it is the meaning of wishing the southern expedition "Wuyun Changlong".
Subsequently, 4,000 soldiers from Nanyang and 2,000 soldiers from Hengshan, totaling 6,000 people, also gathered here to form an army of 10,000. In addition, 10,000 people and prisoners from three counties were escorted by local governments under the arrangement of Qin Shi Huang's decree and settled on the periphery of the barracks.
At night, the stove fire in Wuchang camp is far better than the fishing lantern in Xiakou, Jiangbei......
In the big tent, Heifu was still looking at the map and thinking, when a young man in soap came in and said:
"Junhou, the meal is ready."
Although he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, he had a good family education, a calm work, and the style of his father.
But Hefu tied it to the big road:
"Let's put it first, let Sangmu prepare the car, I'm going to patrol the camp."
The 20,000-strong barracks are like a city, the gate of the fortress is tightly guarded, and no one is allowed to enter or exit; because of last year's defeat, no one wants to fight this battle; according to the officials who escorted the soldiers and the people, there were not a few people who were waiting for an opportunity to abscond along the way.
The fear of the South, the passivity of the war, which made the whole battalion demoralized from the very beginning.
At this time, they traveled thousands of miles to Lingnan to fight with the Yue, and the three armies were confused and suspicious, and it was difficult to overthrow the army......
This is the lesson of Tu Sui's failure, Heifu will naturally not repeat his mistakes, and the most important thing at the moment is to calm the morale of the army.
The first thing Heifu inspected was, of course, the camp of the Eight Hundred Anlu disciples, and when he entered the door, he was greeted with enthusiastic cheers.
Among them are veterans who have served several times, many of them have participated in the battle to destroy Chu, and the tun commanders and centurions have all served as soldiers under Heifu.
As for the new pawns, they are relatively young, the older ones are in their twenties, and the younger ones are seventeen or eighteen, the same age as Weiyang and Licang. Most of their fathers and brothers are Heifu's old department, and they grew up listening to the legend of Heifu since childhood, and they are familiar with the battle of breaking through the siege of Liyang, the decisive battle of Qinan, and the battle of Heifu with the Anlu people.
In the minds of this group of young people, Changnanhou is synonymous with heroes!
This is also the reason why 800 people can take the initiative to sign up for the army, unlike other counties, where most of them are forcibly arrested by officials.
The morale of these 800 people is also the first of the whole army, and the great martial arts of Heifu have made them blindly confident, and the young people are all high-spirited, and they only need a little polishing to make a hard shield.
"You are my soldiers."
Heifu also treated him like a brother and nephew, and ate with them, and his mouth was full of Anlu dialect, which made everyone feel even more cordial, and when he learned that he would become the prince's personal guard, he raised his head even more, and felt that he was superior to the soldiers of the other battalions.
In addition to the Anlu camp, Heifu also went to the Gangneung camp and many other Nanjun camps. Although it is not as cordial as the Anlu camp, there is also the friendship of the old department, Gongao and Sangmu also volunteered to go to the Yanxian camp and Jingling camp with their hometown children to boost morale. The 4,000 soldiers of Nanjun can be regarded as temporarily pacified.
They began to believe that they were descendants, and even if they went to the battlefield, the general would never let them take the lead and fill the ravines......
Nanyang soldiers and Hengshan soldiers can't rely on the friendship of fellow villagers, although the accents are interconnected, but after all, they are separated by a layer.
When inspecting the two armies the next day, Heifu found that the soldiers were very worried, and the people were even more anxious.
It is useless to copy the movie and tell them loudly "why to fight", no one will give their lives for the face of the empire and the ambitions of the emperor.
Hefu could only assure them over and over again:
"The second and third sons are stationed here with peace of mind, there is no need to worry about food and clothing, before winter, the army will never leave the Wuchang camp for half a step, and the general will not let you go to Lingnan to suffer in the middle of summer!"
Although this statement could not cure the root cause, it did make the soldiers' worries a little easier, at least they could be honest for a while, and they would not think about running away all day long when they heard that the army was about to go south.
On the same day, Heifu gave an order to Licura.
"Go and inform the battalions, and let all the captains and five hundred lords come to the big tent for a meeting!"
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"Uncle Gong is right, the first military order issued by the prince is indeed Tuntian!"
Before nightfall, coming out of the camp tent, Li Cang couldn't help laughing, just now, Heifu summoned more than ten commanders and five hundred lords of the three armies of Nanjun, Hengshan, and Nanyang to a meeting, and the theme of the meeting was the arrangement of 20,000 soldiers and civilians.
"If you eat enough, you will be enough."
Before the meeting, Gong Ao learned Heifu's words and said to Li Cang: "Whether it was in Yuzhang ten years ago, in Beidi five years ago, or in Jiaodong three years ago, the first thing that the prince and the marquis got the military power and asked us to do was Tuntian, you wait and see, the prince will say so in a while." “
As expected, Heifu announced that the 20,000 soldiers and civilians would be stationed in the Wuchang camp until winter. The soldiers concentrated on training, and the people worked in the surrounding fields, striving for self-sufficiency, eliminating the difficulty of transporting food and salaries in the three counties—this was the best way that Heifu could think of to reduce the burden on the people of Nanjun.
Gong Ao, the fifth doctor, was appointed as a lieutenant and was responsible for military training, and as a veteran of more than ten years, Gong Ao had this qualification.
The Tuntian official is temporarily vacant, and Heifu is ready to let his Sosu Commander Xiao He be in charge of this matter, after all, sitting firmly in the rear, constantly sending soldiers and food, this is what Lao Xiao is best at.
After the meeting, Heifu stopped Gong Ao alone and asked him a question:
"Do you know how this group of soldiers is going to train?"
"Gong Ao knows."
Gong Ao has followed Heifu for many years, at most he is a Sima of another department, and now he is a lieutenant, so he is very ambitious, and he must do this errand well, so he approached and said in a low voice:
"I will envelop it with the friendship of the township party and tell everyone that if you want to live, you have to count on whom, let them go from the leader to the pawn, and only the orders of the prince and the marquis will follow!"
criticized the cruelty and indifference of the imperial court and preached Heifu's love and righteousness, which was Chen Ping's "tip" to Gongao.
As soon as Heifu heard it, he knew that Gong Ao was touched, and he was really taken crooked by Chen Ping, and shook his head helplessly:
"I'm not asking about mental skills, it's about skills!"
Those who are skilled, learn hands and feet, toilet equipment, and accumulate organs, so as to stand up as the winner of attack and defense. Soldier skills are one of the four major schools of soldiers.
According to Hef, every soldier should be "trained as a sibling" and have the ability and skills to kill the enemy in battle. The military games played by the soldiers of the Qin army, such as juju, throwing stones, and over-distance, can improve the physical fitness of the soldiers. Wrestling, hand-to-hand combat, archery, swords, halberds, etc., are the training of soldiers' individual combat skills.
Although wars are mostly collective victories, military discipline without skill alone is not enough.
After all, Gong Ao has been with Heifu for many years, and he is no longer the reckless Wuxia Amon of the past, he thought about it and said:
"In my opinion, the banner Golden Drum Army Formation must be trained, but fighting in the mountains and forests of Lingnan should be very different from the Central Plains."
"That's right!"
Heifu clapped his palm: "Therefore, the training should be different, the Yue people are scattered, and they do not confront the Qin army head-on, but escape into the mountains and forests and deal with our army." ”
In the mountainous jungle battle, it is impossible for the attacking side to invest more troops, and more often, it is no longer a large corps formation battle that the Qin army is good at, but a small-scale jungle ambush that the Yue people are familiar with.
It was precisely because of the failure to adapt to this change in the mode of warfare that the First Southern Expedition ended in failure.
Therefore, in addition to the fixed training program of the Qin army, for these 10,000 people, Heifu also asked Gongao to add training in jungles, mountains, and swamps.
He moved to Wuchang for this consideration, the surrounding area is not prosperous, the land is sparsely populated, the terrain is complex, and there are even many primeval forests, which is a good place for field training.
I don't expect everyone to become a special soldier, at least don't get dizzy as soon as you enter the forest, not knowing how to fight the battle.
Heifu predicted that after going south, the battle would no longer be based on troops and rates, but would be reduced to zero.
"The personnel of each canton have to be rearranged, and it is best to have two hunters who are good at activities in the forest, and spend another half a year training medical guards to ensure that each cantonment is equipped with one."
Reducing non-combat attrition is also a top priority.
"You have accompanied me to the south to Yuzhang, you have not drilled into the forest, you are the best candidate for military training, I will go to Changsha and Yuzhang later, I will transfer some military officials who have experienced the Lingnan expedition to help you."
After that, Heifu thought for a while and said in a low voice: "Of course, as you said, in addition to training, you must also use the friendship of the township party as a link, so that the soldiers and soldiers are like a family......"
And the big brother of this "family" is, naturally, a black man.
"No!"
Gong Ao excitedly took the order, and after arranging the affairs of the base camp for training and tuntian, Heifu was going to take Li Cang and a few pro-soldiers to continue to the next stop.
"Where do you want to go first?"
Licang rolled up the map, on which several points were drawn by Heifu, including Changsha, Lingqu, Guilin......
Heifu didn't hesitate: "Go to Tonglu Mountain first!" ”
If this is a strategy game, Wuchang is Heifu's barracks and farmland, then Tonglu Mountain (Daye) in southern Hubei is his arsenal! There are not only copper mountains that have been developed for more than 1,000 years, but also iron mines, which is really a treasure land.
The spear halberd in the Central Plains is not suitable for the tropical rainforest, and Heifu wants to equip this group of soldiers with a new weapon that is suitable for Lingnan operations!
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