Because artillery is different from gun shells, shells can be fired in a curved way or aimed directly, and the breech projectile enters a parabolic state after flying a certain distance, Wei Guo used this principle to line the artillery into a 20 rows x 12 columns of artillery arrays, and through the barrage coverage, the fixed target and the cluster group target are struck to enhance the hit rate.

The biggest advantage of this tactic is that it improves the hit rate within the unit density, which is conducive to attacking infantry phalanxes and large fixed facilities, and the disadvantage is that it is necessary to preset the position, lacks flexibility, and needs to concentrate a large number of backward artillery with performance, and the front and rear guns must be cross-configured, the firepower level is thin, and the echelon configuration firepower cannot be formed.

In addition, in the eyes of Wei Guo, the placement of two or three hundred artillery pieces seemed to be a kind of deterrent and demonstration of the Xian army, but in the eyes of Bai Liyan, it was undoubtedly a complete stupidity.

Strong firepower is the core of the army's operations, and the top secrecy of its combat position should be guaranteed at all times, and the position of the artillery will be exposed prematurely, and it will become the enemy's first target in wartime.

After listening to Bailiyan's report, Zhao Xun then asked

"The old man has listened to General Lu's report on the preparation of the town army, the people and the reserve soldiers have not yet been in place, the old man is worried that it may be difficult to attack and defend in August, and it will have to be delayed until the end of September at the earliest, what does the deputy marshal of Baili want?"

"Due to the delay in the summer harvest, it was really difficult to attack and defend before the end of August. At present, our army has gathered about 100,000 troops, 350,000 people, about 450,000 people, and 400,000 reserve soldiers are still on the way to the assembly, and they can arrive before the end of the month at the earliest.

However, as far as the strength of our army is concerned, the later it drags on, the more beneficial it will be for us, once our army lands on the west bank, the cavalry will reach the border of Liang State, that is, a month and a half of effort, at most in early December, the main battle will basically end, and the wait is still worth it. ”

"The Western Front attacking the Changsun Guards is not worthy, it is not like the Eastern Front Guards confronting me and being at the forefront, the Western Front Guards are shrinking to various cities, and the main force is at the forefront of the confrontation with Changsun.

"Zhao Shuai Mingjian, when he went to the Western Front, did not intend to engage the guards head-on, but only cut off their local communications and grain routes. If they go out of the city, they will be divided and annihilated, and if they hold out, I will surround them until they run out of ammunition and food, and then they will either starve to death or die of sleep, and there is no other way. ”

Compared with the main force of the Eastern Front Guards, which were all placed on the front line and covered by the artillery of the Xian Army, the nature of the Western Front Guards belonged to the occupation army, and its second-class combat effectiveness garrison was responsible for the security of the rear occupation area, and the first-class elite was placed on the front line of confrontation with Changsun.

This means that even if the Xian army can attack the Western Front at a surprise speed, it will need to face the guards who hold the city, and if the defenders cannot hold out, the Xian army can only fight for each city and land, otherwise it can only be surrounded.

With the strength of the Xian army advancing westward, it was not enough to encircle all the cities in the seven counties one by one, Zhao Xun was worried that it would fall into a fierce battle, thus dragging down the main force of the Xian army, but Bailiyan neither planned to surround the cities, nor did he intend to fight them one by one.

First of all, the main force of the western front of the guard army is on the front line, and the rear is mostly weak soldiers on the second line, and the main force of the Xian army in the west is cavalry and mounted infantry, which has an absolute mobile advantage. It is only necessary to hold the key points in various places, give priority to capturing the granaries of the guards, cut off the retreat channel of the main force of its first-line configuration, and then wait for the defenders in the rear to assemble, and then send troops to destroy them on the assembly road, which is much stronger than simply attacking a city and attacking a main force.

Secondly, the Wei army could not imagine that the Xian army would kill thousands of miles from east to west in a month or two, and in the face of hundreds of thousands of menacing Xian army's main force, the Wei army might not have the courage to fight when caught off guard.

Finally, the strong of the guards were the elites, and their lower-level officers and low-level soldiers had no personal rights, and the guards still relied largely on the redemption of personal rights and the promotion of officials to boost morale.

When the enemy army cut off the grain route, cut off the retreat, and the morale was frustrated, all the ransom and the promotion of officials to the knighthood were just an empty dream, the life was gone, and the personal rights were all empty talk.

Therefore, Bai Liyan is not worried about the Western Front Guards at all, as long as it moves, there is always a way to eliminate it, I am afraid that if he does not move and die in the stronghold, it will be troublesome.

The next day, the temperature was a little high, and Bailiyan went to Quanhe to inspect the navy and inland water. The average width of the Quanhe Xianguo is about 120 steps (about 105 meters), the widest part is 280 steps, and the narrowest point is 70 steps.

Although the average width reached 120 paces, it was still very dangerous for a boat of 10,000 or even 20,000 stones to turn around in waters with such a width of the river.

Since the width of the river is the width of the river surface, the width of the channel below the river surface is much narrower, and if it is at low tide, there is a high risk of running aground.

To this end, Bailiyan mobilized more than 100 inland river warships of 3,000 stone and 5,000 stones, more than 400 trough ships, more than 120 warships of less than 3,000 stones, more than 750 trough ships, and more than 1,000 civilian and merchant ships of less than 5,000 stones, and more than 700 small boats and fishing boats for the purpose of crossing the river.

In late August, the local militia reservists arrived in Ganfu one after another, during which it was found that sporadic smallpox had been introduced into the army, killing six soldiers and 22 people, and epidemic prevention and vaccination became imminent.

At the same time, in mid-August, it was discovered that the Guards had begun to build fortresses along the coast, and the progress was extremely rapid, and by early September, some of the camps had been rammed up with earthen walls of one and a half feet.

Because the terrain requirements for landing operations are extremely harsh, the choice of landing sites is limited under the existing technical conditions, and the focus of the defense of the guards is to build barracks and fortifications with the landing site as the core.

What is intriguing is that in the past few years, the Guards have never built fortifications in the Dekang area, and even in May, the Guards have not attempted to build defenses along the river, and it is inevitably a little late to do so.

The reasons for this are nothing more than two possibilities, one is that the population of Dekang has withered in the past few years, and there is no manpower to repair it, and the other is that the large-scale construction project requires money and food expenditure.

In May and June, the guards who were transferred to Dekang were busy attacking Changsun, hoping to deter the Xian army and wait for change.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, Bailiyan received the news from the border pass of Ganfu, and Mooney broke away from the caravan halfway, and personally rushed to the border between Ganfu and Changyin, and was rushing to Yangdu under the protection of the royal guest, which was a bit unexpected.

According to the news sent by Xiao Gongyi, the Jin Xuedi people have learned the news of the armpit people, and the source cannot be ruled out as the news that the Jin Xuedi caravan got from Gudapa and Figos last year, as well as the news from the Central Plains thieves.

At the same time, it is said that more than 50 years ago, the Kinchodi people also found a ghost ship in the northeastern sea off the east coast, which sank on the way back to the harbor, and Mooney came to confirm the news.

Getting this news, Bailiyan was also taken aback, the east coast of the Jin Xuedi people is north of the plateau mountain range east of Qianyue Mountain, and further north is the east coast of the Song Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, and the boats of the axillary people can float to the high latitudes of the southern hemisphere, which also means that they are very likely to have islands in the ocean east of the Jin Kingdom.

Of course, it may also be that after the rudder was damaged by the storm, it drifted all the way south until it was trapped at sea, and the ship lost control, drifting aimlessly with the current, and finally drifted to the sea area of the Jinxuedi people.

On September 12, Mooney hurried all the way to Yangdu, much older than he had been three years earlier, and even dismounted from his horse and was still panting and sweating profusely.

"It's been a long time, and you're looking a lot older."

"But better than you, I have two sons, but you don't have one, and no one will avenge you in the future!"

Mooney sneered, quite proud, Bailiyan's face suddenly felt a little unbearable, and then Mooney pulled the young man beside him and said

"This is my eldest son, Kiel, who came out with me this time to see the world."

Bai Liyan looked at the white-haired and golden-skinned young man in his early twenties, dressed in snow-bright armor, in his early twenties and sixties, who was quite similar to Mooney, who spoke not fluent in the Central Plains, and bowed in the manner of Jin Xuedi

"Hello, I'm Mooney Kiel Quika."

"Oh, hello, huh...... In your army, is there a military position? ”

At this point, Old Mooney interrupted

"It's just a worthless joint leader, not worth mentioning."

"The tiger father has no dogs, he became the head of the joint group at the age of twenty-five, and ten years later, he is not as prosperous as you. I brought my son out this time, not because I wanted to memorize the terrain of the Central Plains, so that I would come back to seek revenge after 30 years. ”

"Hehaha...... Anyway, thirty years later, you and I are gone, what are you afraid of? ”

The joint commander of the Jin Xuedi people is equivalent to the capital of the Central Plains, with 700 to 1,000 soldiers, and the next is the joint commander, equivalent to a centurion, with 80 to 100 soldiers. Since there is no military rank of 500 commanders, the smallest group military and tactical unit of the Jin Xuedi people has a staff of 1,000 people, and the Central Plains is the smallest group tactical unit with the chief as the core.

Mooney's son is only twenty-five years old, and after graduating from military school, he should first become the commander of the wing, that is, the position of centurion, and will not be promoted until three to five years later. At the age of 25, he was promoted to the head of the United Nations, at least his ability is excellent.

In the military system, the Jin Xuedi people are stronger than the Central Plains people, and the low-level military system in the military system is the capable and the incompetent, and the high-level is controlled by the aristocratic military class, while the aristocratic military elite has been from the military school since childhood, and has been strictly trained at the grassroots level and has a strong tactical literacy.

Even if the ability of most people is not high, the high degree of elitism of the Jinxuedi people's command level has largely solved their intellectual deficiencies, concentrated the few military talents at the upper level, and strictly trained grassroots officers and soldiers to fight, so as to create a war machine suitable for the Jinxuedi people to the greatest extent.

However, it is not omnipotent, because the Jinxuedi people lack good strategic ability and excellent commanders at the grassroots level, after their elite command level is eliminated, the lower levels of the army will be leaderless and begin to grasp the rules and regulations, which is the inevitable drawback of their own cultural development.

On the other hand, in the Central Plains, the cultural system is developed, and the retention rate of talents is much higher, but the shortcomings of the system have led to the army being filled with power relations from the bottom up.

Taking Xianguo as an example, 25 years ago, officers and nobles at all levels accounted for 60 percent, 20 percent were related to the aristocracy, and common people accounted for two levels. When the common people show unique qualities, they are absorbed by the aristocracy through marriage, and then form a family personal dependence relationship.

When the aristocratic forces block the free promotion channel of talents, with the passage of time, a large number of outstanding talents cannot rise, and are forced to fight and consume at the grassroots level, and the nobles refuse the common people to get involved in the right of the army, and the metabolism of talents is renewed, the combat effectiveness declines, and even defeat is the inevitable result.

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