24. Thunder is loud

The black pressure of a piece of Hu Qi, people roaring and neighing, Chile leader Da Ma Jin Dao sat on the horse, waved his hand, and a group of Hu Qi in front of him holding a snow bright sabre screamed, immediately stopped screaming. beckoned again, called a half-discarded man with a messy face and quite vigorous hair behind him, and muttered a few words.

The big man then patted his furry chest, rested his legs on the belly of the horse, ran to the trench, and stood still in front of the passage left by the Xinghan army. Tearing open his throat, he shouted in a strange Chinese dialect: "I am a great Xianbei single in front of the great throne of Budugen, and the first warrior of Chile is also a vulture bone!" Here it is! Bona Han official, get back to your hometown quickly! If you dare to say the word 'no', tens of millions of Xianbei warriors will never show mercy, and when I enter the village, I will be called to wait for the bird's head to be in a different place! Then I guess I felt that the Chinese language was a little unpleasant, and I babbled and waved the weapon in my hand and roared for a while.

Wang Bo had already made up his mind that if he wanted to gain a foothold here, he had to drive Budugen out of Yunzhong County and seize the former set of fertile land where Xianbei was entrenched. Therefore, the battle with the Xianbei people is not only inevitable, but also a life-and-death battle related to life and death. Therefore, he didn't talk to him, called Li Damu and Niu Da, and pointed to the vulture bone that was jumping around with his hand.

The two of them understood, and together they raised the six-stone hard bow newly made by the logistics battalion, and aimed a little, it was two arrows. "Whoosh" and "whoosh" one after the other, like a meteor.

The cheerful vulture bone, who was foaming at the mouth and jumping around, suddenly saw an arrow coming from the wall, and quickly bent down and lowered his head, and his reaction was quite fast, but he didn't catch up with the speed of the long arrow. Originally, Li Damu shot an arrow to the left chest, piercing straight into the upper part of the shoulder of the vulture bone, and came out diagonally through the flesh and bones. A large puddle of blood was brought out, and the back of the vulture bone was sprayed, leaving only the long tail feathers in front of it to tremble slightly.

"Ahh ......" As soon as the vulture screamed miserably, he was lifted to the ground by the war horse that jumped under his crotch, and fell into a dog eating! Because the lewd ox is big, an arrow is shot at the horse.

The vulture bone that fell off the horse, spit out the mud and sand in his mouth, and was fine, but he didn't care about scolding anymore, and ran back to his main camp with a rolling belt, leaving behind a piece of laughter from the Xinghan army on the royal slave.

The leader of Chile, who frowned, looked at the gray vulture in front of him, and did not punish him, but only ordered him to go down and heal. Chong Yunuguan muttered: "If you don't eat and drink wine, you will be punished for drinking!" After speaking, he raised his right hand and screamed for a while.

With the shouts of the leader of Chile, the cavalry with white feathers on the left flank of Hu Cavalry was launched in an instant. In the end, it was the Hu people who grew up on horseback since childhood, from static to moving, and then to the whole army to form a charging formation, in just a few breaths. The left flank rushed to the middle of the trench, the only passage.

The right flank then rushed out of a large group of Hu cavalry with black feathers on their heads, but they rushed diagonally towards the edge of the trench, rushed to the front, raised their flat bamboo bows in their hands in unison, and shot arrows.

For a while, a large wave of arrows flew to the top of the pass. However, most of them were near the top of the pass, and the castration had been exhausted and fell at the top of the wall, and only a part of it flew on the top of the pass, almost no damage to the Xinghan army hiding behind the low wall.

When Hu Qi began to attack, Chen Zhi and Xu Chu had already pulled Wang Bo to the low wall behind him to hide. Because there was no time to prepare the materials for defending the city such as boiling oil, gold juice, and stones on the top of the pass, Yang Feng had no choice but to order the archers to fight back, and the hunting team and auxiliary archers had insufficient range and hid for the time being.

The Xinghan archers ignored the Hu cavalry who kept riding and shooting in circles on the edge of the trench, and more than 200 people were divided into three teams, and the volley shot at the Hu cavalry who were rushing into the narrow passage on the trench, and the three teams alternated.

Most of the bows and arrows held by the archers were three-stone hardwood bows that took a long time to make. The bow arm material is made of hardwood in the deep mountains, full of strength, the bow body is bent and wrapped in ropes, and the two ends poke out outward in the shape of horns, so everyone calls it "horn bow". The bowstring is made of three fine ox tendons and twisted ropes, which is more than twice the range of a stone bow held by a hunting party.

Such a bow and arrow, sixty or seventy volleys, it can be imagined that the Xianbei horsemen who were huddled together suffered heavy casualties and chaos at the moment, and there were very few who rushed through the trench.

After a few rounds passed like this, the half-wide passage turned into a bloody road of corpses, and the screaming Hu soldiers and fallen horses were also piled up together, and some were still struggling.

Many people and horses howled and rushed out of the guardrails of the passage, plunged into a trench several feet deep, and fluttered in the water for a while, and disappeared.

The momentum of the Xianbei cavalry charge behind has come to an abrupt halt, I don't know if it's because of fear, or if it's blocked from the way? On this side of the trench, dozens of Xianbei riders who were lucky enough to rush over stood there at a loss and stopped. There were also dozens of ownerless war horses, neighing and running towards the river.

In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly a hundred Xianbei horsemen had been lost, most of whom had been squeezed into the deep ditch by wounded horses. Hu Qi in the back looked at his comrades who were wailing in pain on the ground, and he didn't dare to rush up to the rescue, so he could only watch them until the blood ran out and he died.

The leader of Chile looked at it with a gloomy face, and the first round of attacks, which ended in a crushing defeat, stopped the Xianbei cavalry who were still shooting arrows on the edge of the trench, and ordered the attack to be suspended.

Dozens of Xianbei riders who rushed through the passage, in the dilemma, were accurately shot by the Xinghan archers, and finally more than a dozen people remained, dismounted and knelt to surrender, hung several wicker baskets on the wall, and hung them up and imprisoned, while Huanglong and Pinghan led more than a dozen auxiliary soldiers with experience in raising horses, and under the gaze of the Xianbei cavalry gritted their teeth, they swaggered out of the gate and gathered the long-hanging war horses.

The leader of Chile did not instruct his subordinates to release arrows to stop them, waiting for a pair of yellowed bull's eyes, thinking of countermeasures with a cloudy face, and from time to time glancing at the dense firing ports on the wall of the imperial slave.

Half an hour later, looking at the Xianbei rider who was slowly moving away, the imperial slave closed with jubilation.

Xu Chu jumped three feet high and shouted: "Xinghan Wansheng!" Xinghan Wansheng! ”

After being happy, he cleaned up the battlefield, and salvaged more than a dozen dying Xianbei soldiers from the trenches. The auxiliary soldiers of the Xinghan Army dragged them to death like dogs, along with more than a dozen people who had surrendered earlier, and were escorted to the newly established coolie battalion.

Wang Bo also sent Niu Feihu to lead the scout team, following the Xianbei cavalry who had returned from afar to monitor its movements. It was not until it was confirmed that the Xianbei cavalry had returned to the tribe that the order was given: the archers stayed, and the rest returned to Xinghan City.

An offensive and defensive battle with heavy thunder and little rain is over. The elated Xinghan army returned to Xinghan City, not to mention the celebration and rewards, the joy was enough, and the army and the people returned to the great construction of the past.

A few days later, after the morning run, in addition to the two guards, the middle and high-level of the Xinghan Army who received the notice gathered in the "conference room", and Wang Bo announced several things:

The first thing is that Xinghan City officially established the Xinghan Army from then on, and all armies will play this banner in the future. The whole army is divided into four major departments: the combat department, the auxiliary department, the logistics department, and the general headquarters.

The War Department took Liao Hua as the general. It has six battalions: cavalry battalion, sword and shield battalion, spear battalion, heavy shield battalion, bow and crossbow battalion, and scout battalion. In the future, each battalion will only be in charge of combat and drills, and each battalion will train on its own in peacetime, mainly to exercise physical fitness and familiarize itself with combat movements. One day of joint training every three days to practice the cooperation between various arms during the confrontation and improve the survivability of field battles. Every half a month, I went to the nearby Hu tribe to fight and saw blood.

The commanders of each battalion were all promoted to captains, and Ping Han, Liu Shi, Huang Long, Zhou Cang, Li Damu, and Zhang Baiqi temporarily served as commanders. Each has a deputy commander, who is selected from those who have performed well in the previous battles and peacetime, and is responsible for daily training. In wartime, it was placed under the command of the military commander.

From now on, the barracks began to expand. Pick out the best from the auxiliaries and hunting teams to replenish until they are full. The engineer battalion was 400 men, the scout battalion was 100 men, and the other battalions were 200 men.

The auxiliary army department has Yang Feng as the general. It has a baggage team and a hunting team. The commanders of each team are all military horses, led by Niu Meng and Niu Da. Responsible for the management, protection and wartime supply of grain and grass and military supplies for the Xinghan army.

The logistics department is headed by Chen Rong and Tian Chou. The name is Xinghan Juncheng, and the treatment is comparable to that of a captain. There are a number of formations, such as the collection team, the medical team, the craftsman team, the coolie battalion, etc., which are mainly responsible for the logistics production of the Xinghan Army and the building of armor.

The headquarters was led by Wang Bo and General Xinghan, supplemented by Yang Feng. It has an elite team, a guard battalion, and a guard battalion.

Xu Chu, the commander of the alert battalion, was the general, Wang Qi was the deputy commander, and Sima was the leader. Responsible for the monitoring and security of various mountain trails, camps, and two passes in the jurisdiction of Xinghan City.

Chen Zhiwei, the commander of the guard battalion, was the general, the smallest number, but all of them were Wang Bo's henchmen, Zhou Xiu, Liu Yu, Lu Shan and the Niu brothers led the team to form dozens of veterans, who were the first to follow Wang Bo's old brothers. Under Wang Bo's deliberate cultivation, these people are also vigorous, strict with themselves, and follow Wang Bo's pace, they have changed from an illiterate refugee to an elite man who is now full of iron and blood. Usually stationed around the "Xinghan General's Mansion", and patrols the camp and the two passes from time to time.

There are only eight people in the elite team, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Huang Long, Wu Huan, Ping Han, Li Damu, Liu Shi, Zhang Baiqi, they are usually elusive, but they must be there in wartime.

Since there is no army to refer to, and the mission of the elite squad is very important! Wang Bo took great pains to pin his hopes on them: he could change the situation on the battlefield and even speed up the process of a campaign, and then affect the outcome of the entire war. So when Wang Bo came up with a name for this team, he took a lot of brains. Slashing team? It's too bland! Tiger Guard? It's cheesy! Strike Destroyer? Not domineering enough! ……

After thinking about it, I finally came up with such a name: "Wolf Guard", which was barely enough.

"Wolf" shows that this is a group, fighting in groups, and also implying the spirit of indomitable and undying.

"Xiao" represents the meaning of beheading and capturing the commander, and also refers to having extremely strong and vicious combat effectiveness.

"Wei" of course means that this squad is the personal guard of the commander of the Xinghan Army.

The selection criteria are strict, first of all, Wang Bo's eyes, although the name is to examine the character, but mainly to see if Wang Bo has the impression of this person in his head. In terms of martial arts, Xu Chu, Chen Zhi, and Liao Hua formed a recommendation officer and served as an assessment officer, and they must first be able to survive a few moves under their hands before they are eligible to be considered for selection.

The pay is also extremely high. The place where the wolf guards play or haunt is generally the most dangerous place, so the treatment in all aspects is also the best, and the authority is also the greatest except for the chief officials of the various ministries. Except for Wang Bo and the chief general of the First Army, he was not ordered by anyone. Commanders below do not need to ask for instructions, they can be killed directly. In wartime, if the command of an army is not effective, with the consent of the whole team, it can be directly taken and replaced, of course, limited to the general and below.

The equipment is also the most important in the Xinghan army, unified in black armor, and even the cloak is black.

The standard formation is a team of seven, two shields, three guns and two bows. The minimum formation is a team of five, two shields, two guns and one bow. Now there are not many people, acting together, Wang Bo plans to build a number of standard teams with the increase in the number of people, the serial numbers are numbered in the order of A, B, C, and D.

Among the existing people, Zhou Cang and Liu Shi are sword and shield soldiers, Pei Yuanshao, Ping Han, Zhang Baiqi, and Huang Long are spearmen or long knife soldiers, and Li Damu and Wu Huan are long-range archers.

For the first time, the Xinghan Army determined the commanders and responsibilities of each department in the form of military orders. Everyone has a clear position for themselves.

Next, the second thing was announced: from among the auxiliary soldiers and logistics personnel, dozens of people who could speak back were selected and transferred, and after simple training by Wang Bo, they went to the counties and counties of Yanmen Pass, Youzhou, and Jizhou to set up recruitment offices. After recruiting Yan Zhao hot-blooded men who were determined to kill Hu, after joining Xinghan, his family was supported by the Xinghan army, and he was selected into the newly established "Hu Killing Battalion" after assessment.

After arranging these two things, Wang Bo let out a sigh of relief and lay down in the quilt to make up for sleep. Take a break from your head that has been running at high speed for a few days, and you won't wake up until noon.

When he woke up, he was startled, and Chen Zhi stood next to him silently, staring at himself stunned, quite close. Wang Bo, who came to relieve his gods, threw a pillow over, and scolded with the vernacular of his hometown in his previous life: "Two eggs!" Scare Lao Tzu to death? ”

Chen Zhi's eyes changed from stunned to smiling, and he said, "Everyone has something to do, what should you do?" After speaking, he returned to his previous facial paralysis.

Wang Bo couldn't hold back his laughter with a "poof", and hurriedly asked, "What does Uncle Zhi want?" I teach you to take charge of the guard, what is your dissatisfaction? ”

Chen Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and immediately turned around and walked out, and at the same time hummed in his mouth: "There are only a few pawns, and there is nothing to do, and it is extremely boring!" ”

"Stop!"

Chen paused for a moment, then turned back after a while and took a few steps forward to stand still.

Seeing Chen to hang like this, Wang Bo's heart was on fire: dare to take the safety of the master as a thing? Is this an attempt to rebel? couldn't help but scold.

After scolding, looking at Chen Zhi's still expressionless appearance, he sighed and said, "Come closer, let me think about it!" Then he touched his chin and looked at it violently, until Chen was about to leave, and then he held back something.

beckoned, and after some whispering, Chen Zhi understood: Wang Bo asked him to carefully observe all the people in the Xinghan Army from now on, and choose smart and clever people to set up secret guards.

The duty of the secret guard is to be responsible for detecting the movements of enemy forces; Know what your own people are doing. In the future, assassins and fine works will be sent to the vicinity of Xinghan; Insert eyes and ears in the Xinghan army. Named "Hawkeye Guard". The daily activities are carried out in the name of caravanserais.

After Chen Zhi listened, the coldness in his eyes dissipated for a while, and a trace of joy that a teenager should have. Then he clenched his fists and went down expressionlessly, and when he walked to the door, he turned around and said, "It is my duty that the lord is safe and sound!" ”

"Get out!"

Thinking of the caravan, Wang Bo immediately jumped, walked out of the tent and walked quickly to the logistics department, entered a large house with "Wine Workshop" hanging on the door, and turned into a hut set inside.