Chapter 40: Night Attack

"Wei Aiqing, do you think it will take a few days for us to take this Liaocheng in Great Xia?" Dou Jiande was asking his close advisor Wei Zheng, Dou Jiande had three major advisors, Ling Jing, Zhang Xuansu, and Wei Zheng, all of whom were resourceful people, and he also gave full trust to these three people.

"King, it is not difficult for our army to take this Liaocheng, and it is not difficult to kill Yu Wenhua, the difficult thing is that once our army takes Liaocheng, it will inevitably have a direct confrontation with the Han State that dominates Qilu, the elite of the Han army is famous all over the world, can the king think about what to do once Li Wei intervenes?" Wei Zheng has a clear understanding of Li Chengzong's Han army's combat effectiveness, which army dares to publicly put forward the slogan of equal wealth and poverty, the Han army is, whose throne is pushed up by the people, the Han King is, compared with the young hero, the Xia King he served, hey, although he can be regarded as a good person, and he is also a benevolent and righteous king, but in this troubled world, only benevolence and righteousness are not enough, the Han King is not only benevolent and righteous with the Xia King, but also ruthless is not comparable to Dou Jiande, The only thing that made Wei Zheng dissatisfied with Li Chengzong was that Li Chengzong despised Confucianism and attached great importance to strange skills and ingenuity, and the status of craftsmen and merchants in his territory was much higher than that of scholars who read sage books, if it weren't for this, Wei Zheng would have gone to Li Chengzong a long time ago.

"King Han, isn't it Li Chengzong's little milk baby? Speaking of which, the little milk baby is also considered to be from the Shi clan, but he acts more almost coldly, Lone sent someone to investigate, the whole army of the Han Army is only seventy or eighty thousand people, and it has to be stationed in Qing, Lai, Mi, Cang, Hai five states, I heard that he recently took down Qizhou, how can there be troops to fight with Lone? "Dou Jiande is very confident, but don't you know that there are armed police and militia in the military mobilization system of the Han army created by Li Chengzong?

Unlike all armies of this era, the Han army is an army with a soul, and from the day the army was officially established, Li Chengzong built this army in accordance with the requirements of the modern army.

The greatest characteristic and advantage of the modern army is that it is a strong team spirit, relying on which it can produce various flexible tactics and control the army with high efficiency. For example, when the enemy's attention is greatly tilted towards the right flank, the front-line commander can easily take advantage of this weakness to attack from behind without sticking to the front and right side of the defense. Coordination, organization, and discipline regard the whole army as a whole, rather than relying on the combat strength of individual soldiers -- the modern army, which is the murderous war machine in human history.

Through brutal corporal punishment and daily training, the Han soldiers gradually lost their ability to think for themselves and formed a reflex execution of orders. The fear of sticks and whips is ingrained in a modern army, and the more fearful they are on the battlefield, the more they will mechanically carry out orders.

Today's Han army has reached the astonishing combat ability that can brave the enemy's dense arrows and march in a tight formation, and can perfectly change queues in the middle, and from a distance of 400 paces, it will also be subjected to non-stop crossbow fire, and 5,000 people will not necessarily collapse if 4,000 people are hung up in an offensive battle.

As for other armies, including Li Er's Xuanjia soldiers, their battles mainly rely on personal bravery, relying on rank and merit, and robbery (especially nomadic tribes such as Turkic and Khitan) to maintain their fighting spirit, so those tactics will have the saying that they will not be stopped and the siege of the city will be que, to put it bluntly, they hope not to force the opponent to fight hard. If you try your best, it's not going to be easy.

And for the Han army, the harsh military law and training almost made the Han soldiers become zombies and walking corpses on the battlefield, the soulless army can only rigidly kill or be killed, and can not actively fight, in order to inject soul into the Han army, Li Chengzong constantly emphasized to his Han soldiers that they are not his Li Chengzong's army, the Han army is all the army that recognizes the Han people, is the guardian of the Han people, and constantly strengthens the connection between the Han army and the Han people.

Li Chengzong was born in the great army that swept the world and swept the eight wildernesses in his previous life, although in this medieval era, he could not copy that great army in its entirety, but Li Chengzong was still willing to build an army with as much shadow as possible of that army, rather than a private army like the Li family's army.

"Gentlemen, there are many Xia soldiers, and I have few soldiers, I don't deny this, but what kind of goods is Dou Jiande's Xia army, compared to everyone, it is clear to everyone that a group of farmers who put down their hoes, where will they be the opponents of our Han Iron Cavalry? Lone asks you to defeat the Xia army in one battle and break Dou Jiande's backbone, do you have confidence??? At the pre-war mobilization meeting, Li Chengzong, the king of Han, yelled at his generals.

"Those who offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away!" Almost all the officers of the Han army stood up, and they used this murderous word to express their determination to their supreme commander.

"The mighty !!! of the Han army" Earth-shattering slogans and rumbling horses' hooves broke the silence of the night, "Enemy attack!" The mournful shout sounded in the Xia army camp, although the Xia army camp also has defense facilities such as horse rejection fences, but for the Han army that has been equipped with firearms, this is a small case, a few iron pineapples (that is, primitive grenades) were thrown over, and the horse rejection fence was blown up, and the Xia soldiers who were bluffing shouted "The Han army has a demon ......."

The camp was bombed at once, Dou Jiande's Xia army was a standard feudal army, this bombing of the camp could not be stopped, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officers, the army was chaotic, like headless flies, the soldiers scattered and fled, completely chaotic.

Bands of Han cavalry entered the camp of the Xia army along the gap, how could the feudal army be the opponent of the modern army? In the shouts of the Han cavalry "put down the swords and guns, surrender immediately", one after another Xia soldiers stopped resisting......

"Wang, go quickly, Li Xiaoer doesn't play cards according to the routine, his favorite is a sneak attack, if you don't go, you can't go......." Wei Zheng and a group of Xia army generals persuaded Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande shouted sadly and sadly: "Poor and lonely 100,000 Hebei Erlang......" Before he finished speaking, he was pushed on the war horse by his brother-in-law Cao Dan, Cao Dan was a whip according to Dou Jiande's war horse, and the old Dou's war horse was in pain, screamed, spread his hooves and ran north, The civil and military generals of the Xia Kingdom also fled one after another, and while fleeing, they scolded this fucking fight?

Dou Jiande has been running for twenty miles before he braked the reins of the horse, gathered the defeated soldiers, and the old Dou was so painful that he couldn't do it, and the 100,000 Xia army was attacked by the Han army at night and lost more than 40,000.......