"Commander of the army, I don't know how long your army has been in the army?" Shi Wansui asked cautiously, he had witnessed the battle process of Yuwen Wen's spear formation, and its performance was very sharp, but now it seems that there are many unknowns.

First of all, weapons, Shi Wansui is familiar with military books, and he has led soldiers for many years, and he knows that spear formation is quite effective against cavalry, but it is the first time to use unheard of spears to form a foot battle like this.

Its power is also very intuitive: its own side, no, it should be said that it is difficult for the infantry of the Southern Army to break through this dense spear forest, Shi Wansui witnessed the process of attacking the spear formation several times, and felt that the pikemen on the other side seemed to be well-trained and well-coordinated, so he wanted to know how long they had been in the army.

"It's been more than four months since February this year!" Yu Wenwen didn't plan to hide anything, this was an army that he had spent a lot of effort and money to build, although it was still a little immature.

The template for the construction of his new army is the Swiss phalanx of Europe from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, but the current 'sharp' phalanx still has many shortcomings, and the most important point is that the Swiss phalanx is an offensive phalanx, and his own new army is only a defensive counterattack type.

Before the Swiss phalanx attacked, experienced veterans (about 30% of the total strength) were sent to stir up the enemy formation in several groups, and after tearing the flaws, the phalanx soldiers rushed into the enemy formation on foot and killed the enemy.

"It's only been four months?" Shi Wansui was a little incredulous when he heard this, he had also trained the soldiers, and knew that it would take at least a month just to make the recruits clear the left and right, and it would take more than two months for the queue to stand decently, but it was really suspicious that the other party's soldiers had such an effect after only four months of training.

"Practice for three days and take one day off." Yang Ji next to him added that he was also a little worried about Yu Wenwen's unheard-of training intensity before, but now the facts speak for themselves.

Shi Wansui was even more dumbfounded when he heard this, according to his experience, if he dared to train soldiers like this, he was afraid that sooner or later he would mutiny, and with such a large training intensity, where would the soldiers eat and eat would be doubled.

Seeing his expression, Yang Ji knew what the other party was thinking and added some content: "The average military salary is consistent per person per month, and it is full. ”

Shi Wansui no longer knows how to express his feelings at this time, this year, the military salary of ordinary soldiers is only about four or five hundred wen per month, not to mention the inevitable layers of deductions from the generals, the other party offers an average monthly military salary per person, and I really don't know what to think.

Even if he was good at his soldiers when he led the troops himself, he really couldn't figure out what to do with so much military salary, and it was better to train cavalry with so much money to stimulate morale, he was confident that with hundreds of cavalry in hand, he could fight more than 2,000 people.

Not to mention anything else, can these two thousand infantry dare to rush the camp? It is possible to rush two or three hundred miles day and night to attack the enemy's vital points? To put it mildly, if the war is unfavorable, there is no place to run on just two legs.

"It's not easy to buy a horse." Yuwen Wen guessed what the other party was thinking, and said helplessly, he knew that a general like Shi Wansui, who was good at cavalry, couldn't look down on the infantry phalanx and didn't want to argue too much, after all, if there was enough horse resources, cavalry was the king.

Shi Wansui came back to his senses at this time: Anzhou rebels, no, the territory of the Anzhou army is indeed difficult to get enough war horses, it seems that Yuwen Wenlian's infantry spear formation can also be said to be adapted to local conditions.

He recalled the rumors he had heard in the army yesterday: when Yang Su, the head of the marching army, attacked the Hexi camp of the Anzhou army yesterday, he was repeatedly defeated in front of a spear array, and even hundreds of his elite troops were folded inside.

At that time, Shi Wansui was still a little unconvinced after hearing it, thinking that his failure to succeed was the result of the Anzhou army's struggle to the death, and it was a bit sensational to be approachable with the spear array.

As a result, today's battle was really like this, and he still wanted to ask what the white fog and the inexplicable arson were, but considering that it was a new person, I was afraid that it would be bad to ask too much, so I didn't speak again.

Defeat at his hands was convincing. Shi Wanzai thought.

"Well, speaking of which, do you know who the general surnamed Yang was who led the troops to attack our military camp yesterday?" Yu Wenwen suddenly remembered an unsolved mystery yesterday, and he had always been very concerned about whether that general was the later Sui Dynasty minister Yang Su.

Hearing that Shi Wansui said that it was Yang Su, the prince of Qinghe County, Yu Wenwen complained with regret on his face: "The treasure map of Yang Gong's secret treasure"

Hearing the shouts of his own soldiers in the north, Yu Wenwen looked at it and his eyes lit up: "Speaking of war horses, it's not easy to buy them, but isn't there now?" ”

Everyone looked to the north, and saw that their cavalry had begun to outflank the defeated soldiers of the Southern Army, and the battle was about to settle, and it was time to divide the spoils......

The battle at the mouth of the two rivers finally decided after half a day: the imperial court's southern army was defeated.

At the beginning of the war, the Anzhou army relied on the secret weapon 'thunder' to blow up the large array of the southern army, and then chased and killed all the way, and chased it halfway to the middle of the southern army's deceitful plan, and the forward fell into chaos, and the middle army of the Anzhou army was almost broken through by the opponent's cavalry, and successfully came to a 'general head among the ten thousand troops'.

The two sides were in such a stalemate, killing a group, a dilemma, and finally the defenders of Anzhou Hexi Camp participated in the battle to gather their own morale, and the spear formation under the command of the unified army and Gongyu Wen Wen of Xiyang County performed well, not only rescuing their own soldiers who were besieged by ambushes in the north, but also breaking down the ambush and turning the situation around.

The cavalry of the Zhengnan Army, which had rushed into the Anzhou Army's large array and stirred, gradually became untenable in the face of the gathered infantry formation, and was squeezed out, and the cavalry of the Xiangzhou Army who arrived in time entered the battle as reinforcements of the Anzhou Army, which became the last straw that crushed the camel's camel, and the cavalry of the Zhengnan Army retreated under the opportunity of Yang Su, the head of the march, and preserved its strength, but the infantry no longer had the ability to return to the sky, and collapsed one after another.

The east side of the battlefield is a river, and the west side is a wilderness, and the cavalry of the Xiangzhou Army outflanked most of the soldiers of the Southern Army from the west side to the east, and the other party threw away the weapons and surrendered without thinking about anything.

Most of the soldiers were civilians who had been temporarily conscripted, and they had been frightened as the protagonists of the deception before, and ran for miles in a panic before they were retracted by the generals, and under the supervision of the other party, it was easy to muster up the courage to turn back and support their own soldiers, but the situation collapsed and they were attacked again, where did they still have the heart to resist.

More than half of the soldiers who could fight were lost, and they were deterred by the sensational killing methods of the Anzhou army's spear array, and they had no intention of fighting again, the overall situation was decided, and in the face of the tide of Anzhou soldiers, they had no choice but to surrender to save their lives.

The marching marshal Liang Shiyan and other generals led the cavalry to withdraw, and the marching commanders Tu Wanxu, Li Wei and nearly dozens of generals were killed, and most of the foot soldiers, chariots, horses, and property became the spoils of the Anzhou army.

As for the captured weapons, armor, horses, and food, although the camp of the southern army was burned as a partition, the important baggage was transferred in advance, and the result was just received by the Anzhou army.

Compared with last year's Battle of Changshou, although the Anzhou army allowed the enemy cavalry to escape with several important generals, it was also qualified to be called a great victory, after this battle, the main combat power of the imperial court in the territory of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion disappeared, and the defense strength of the counties and cities in each state was weak, and unless there was foreign aid, it could not resist the attack of the Anzhou army.

The victory was followed by a big question: what to do with the captives?

Cutting off the head and building the Jingguan is such a bloody thing, naturally it can't be done, most of the other party are ordinary people, not some vicious mountain barbarians or scum, if you do this, it will only make the reputation of the Anzhou Army greatly damaged.

Therefore, even with any means such as pit killing, drowning, etc., you can't even use it, and after taking the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, you have to rely on the people to farm and cultivate the land, not to mention that if you kill people indiscriminately, then you will lose the people's hearts.

Therefore, according to the 'custom', there are about several ways to dispose of prisoners: reorganization, replenishment, servitude, drive, dismissal, and imprisonment.

It was considered a 'bumper harvest' to capture so many people in this battle, but the captives were raised and there was not so much food, so they had to be dealt with accordingly.

Some generals who surrendered on the battlefield and the soldiers under their command were reorganized into the Anzhou Army to 'make meritorious contributions', and other captured ones were sorted and resolved.

There are two kinds of prisoners: soldiers, conscripts, and those who can't be used and can't be put in the soldiers have to be 'disposed of', and the rest are ordinary soldiers who are obedient, and the generals of the various departments of the Anzhou Army who participate in the war select people from them to supplement the soldiers.

The conscripts were ordinary people, some of whom were left to work as coolies and transport baggage as strong men in accordance with the practice of this era, and most of the old, weak, sick and disabled were sent home.

There are not so many places to be imprisoned, so referring to the previous treatments, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, made a decision: except for a part of the cavalry sent out to pursue the soldiers, the rest of the army rested for a day and digested the prisoners by the way.

Seeing that it was the moment to grab the spoils and prisoners, the generals of the Anzhou Army were gearing up, and Yu Wenwen, the main general of the spear formation who had made great achievements in this battle, even used his strength to let Shi Wansui lead the team to recruit his old subordinates.

What class of troops is the most powerful this year? It's cavalry! There was Shi Wansui in the southern army, and many of the original old subordinates were mostly cavalrymen, seeing that the black pressed a large number of prisoners, Shi Wansui, regardless of whether there were acquaintances in it, always felt that he wanted to pull the old guy, so Mao Sui recommended himself to help Yuwenwen 'recruit and rebel'.

Yuwen Wen, who couldn't help it, took Fifth Brother Chen, Yuwen Fifteenth, and Yang Jixing rushed to follow Shi Wansui to the prisoner camp to rob the cavalry, his new army tactics are a little special, especially the pikemen are not suitable for using ready-made captives to supplement the troops, so they simply go to recruit cavalry and sword soldiers, of course, archers are also okay.

As a supporting part of the cavalry, the war horse is also a lot to do, anyway, no matter whether it is enough or not, grab it first, just when Yuwen Wen led his men to rush into the prisoner camp and prepare to rob, he was suddenly stunned somewhere.

"Master Chen, you take the others to pick the prisoners, and stay for fifteen."

Fifth Brother Chen and Yang Ji were confused and took Shi Wansui to continue to rob people, Yuwen Wen looked around for a round, and then pulled the reluctant Yuwen Fifteen to squeeze into the group of captives.

At first, the soldiers guarding the captives wanted to follow the second son of the governor of Anzhou to avoid any accidents, but they were politely refused, and the reason why Yu Wenwen did this was that he had met an acquaintance.