Chapter 35: Military Exercises (I)

Lu Bu raised his hand to signal the audience to be quiet, "Now I announce this battle, and the first person to achieve combat merit is... ”

Lu Bu flipped through the seal in his hand, "I'm sorry, the first place is myself, Lu Bu, beheaded a thousand commanders of the Huns, captured the son of the Right Xian Wang, shot the Right Xian King of the Northern Xiongnu, and rewarded five Xiongnu women, one hundred taels of gold, ten horses, and one hundred cattle and sheep." “

"Grandma's, Gao Shun, why did you kid count me in?"

The soldiers and the common people in the audience laughed good-naturedly, and they preferred the occasional foul words of the generals rather than the heroes who stood tall.

"That's it, I don't have too many Hun women, so I'll take the reward, and I don't want the rest of the gold, horses, cattle and sheep, and donate them to the Invalides."

"Obey the order, Gao Shun thanked the Lord for the reward for the Invalides."

When the soldiers and civilians in the audience heard that Lu Bu had donated all his rewards to the Invalides, they couldn't suppress their enthusiastic applause, and they didn't know who took the lead in shouting, "The Han army is mighty!" "Lu Bu is mighty!" slogan.

The army and the people responded one after another, like a tsunami in the mountains, even the rebels, border troops, and county soldiers who had not experienced this battle shouted slogans together, they were all soldiers, who didn't like such a commander?

"Okay, let's continue to announce that the second place in military merit is Wang Shuang, the sharpshooter of the first squad of the Dangkou Cavalry in the trapping camp, who shot a total of fifteen Hun rangers and Hun soldiers, one Hun centurion, three Hun women, one Hun slave, fifty taels of gold, fifty cattle and sheep, five horses, and a large acre of land."

There are many rewards below, which will be announced by Gao Shun instead of Lu Bu, anyway, the eight hundred and fifty soldiers who fell into the camp this time will each reward at least one Hun woman, fulfilling Lu Bu's promise to them, and even some Huns surrendered troops, like Jin Riyan and his brothers, they also rewarded Hun women.

Other left-behind soldiers, craftsmen in the craftsman battalion, and female logistics soldiers were also rewarded with gold and silver, cattle and sheep, or food. It took a long time to give out all the rewards.

Lu Bu continued: "Those who receive Xiongnu women, don't worry, there will be military exercises for a while, and the winning side will have a heavy reward, anyway, in the future, there will be wars with all the tribes of the grassland, some women will be, and some slaves will be,"

"You rabbit cubs, who don't give Lao Tzu ten or eight little cubs out, Lao Tzu will cut off the size of your heads above and below, as long as you have military merits, are you afraid that you can't afford to raise them? If you really can't afford to raise it, I, Lu Bu, will raise it for you, just give birth to Lao Tzu. ”

It is rare for Lu Bu to say a few foul words, but these lower-level officers and soldiers, ordinary people like to listen to foul language, and this is called mingling with the masses.

The other Han army units that did not receive the reward were envious, jealous and hateful, especially the veterans of the border army who were going to participate in the exercise, and they could not wait, they wanted to reorganize and train as soon as possible, become a member of the trapped camp, go out to fight as soon as possible, make military merits as soon as possible, and receive rewards as soon as possible.

As for the question of whom they are allegiant, in the minds of these soldiers, they listen to whoever is in charge of food, who gives money, and who is good to themselves, and they will work for whomever they want, and they do not even have the consciousness of loyalty to the king, and where is there any consciousness of the country or the nation.

Eventually, all the rewards were handed out, and most people were beaming. Next, Lu Bu announced the last highlight of today's meeting, the start of the military exercise codenamed "Xinghan 183", trapping the camp against the veterans of the border army.

The exercise site is at the foot of the only high mountain near Yunzhong, Yuanhu Mountain, and an area with a radius of several tens of miles is designated as the exercise area, with small hills, plains, forests, rivers, and common terrain.

The two sides of the exercise each selected 1,000 infantry, the border army wore the traditional Han army crimson uniform, and the trap camp wore a kind of yellow and green military uniform, some asymmetrical and different shapes and sizes of yellow-green blocks intertwined, irregular, you read that right, is the most primitive camouflage uniform.

However, due to technical reasons, it is impossible to achieve the effect of modern camouflage uniforms, and the military uniforms are also hand-dyed, but they are also a big step ahead of the traditional military uniforms. And he was also issued with a belt and leggings, but he looked very powerful and handsome, and his whole body was very compact, at this time, no one noticed that Dian Wei, who was originally behind Lu Bu, did not know where to go.

In order to prevent accidental injury, all iron spears were replaced with wooden guns, crossbow arrows and feather arrows were removed, and all spear heads and arrows were wrapped with white cloth and stained with white lime.

A large number of referees were added to the scene, as long as the white lime left a mark on the fatal parts of both sides, it was judged dead or injured, and the dead immediately withdrew from the exercise, and the result of the exercise was that one side was all killed, and the other side was considered victorious.

The border troops were set up as the red side of the exercise, and the trap camp was the blue side of the exercise, and the stands of the exercise director's office were erected on the halfway slope of Yuanhu Mountain, and the high-raised stands could basically overlook the entire exercise area.

Lu Bu, Jia Xu, Zhang Zhongjing, and the commanders of various counties, as well as Ma Jun, Guan Laotie, and Guan Hu of the craftsman battalion, as well as high-level officials of the Southern Xiongnu, all sat in the stands.

Lu Bu signaled the exercise to begin, and high-pitched horns immediately sounded around the stands. The stands were full of Han and Huns who did not participate in the exercise, and those who did not participate in the exercise in the camp and the border army were divided into two phalanxes, facing each other from a distance, and both sides set up a row of war drums, ready to beat the drums and cheer.

At the beginning of the exercise, only the 1,000 Red Army led by Xu Huang and Fang Yue could be seen from the height of the stands, lined up in a neat and tight infantry phalanx, starting from their own positions, intending to find the main force of the Blue Army for a decisive battle. After Gao Shun's blue army entered the exercise venue, it disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and there were no people to see at all, especially the color of their clothes, which was difficult to find from a distance.

Out of caution, Xu Huang sent more than a dozen sentinels to inquire about the enemy in all directions, but after a while, none of the spies came back to report the enemy situation.

Xu Huang didn't know what was going on, but Lu Bu, Jia Xu and others saw clearly from the stands that none of Xu Huang's spies were missed, and all of them were wiped out by the Blue Army's Swinging Cavalry Team.

Most of the spies were killed by long-range bows and arrows, a few were the Swinging Cavalry Scouts who were ambushed behind trees or in the grass, and those who were killed at close range, yes, the sentries who were trapped in the camp were named Scouts by Lu Bu and Gao Shun.

Losing the sentinel is like losing his eyes, Xu Huang has no way of knowing the opponent's movements, what the opponent is doing, he also thinks it is not good, and successively sent several batches of sentinels, but the ending is the same, the stone sinks into the sea.

He discussed it with Fang Yue, such a goalless random search would be a waste of physical strength, it was better to occupy a favorable terrain and wait for the rabbit.

Anyway, if the other side wants to win, they must completely annihilate their own side, they hold firmly, the other side can only attack head-on, and when the two armies face each other, they still have a chance to defeat the blue army in a frontal battle.

Fang Yue also agreed with Xu Huang's analysis, and Xu Huang commanded his men to move to a hilly area in the center of the exercise area, where the terrain was higher and the view was good, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Lu Bu and Jia Xu in the stands saw the changes in the Red Army, and knew Xu Huang's plan, Lu Bu said to Jia Xu: "General Xu Huang's soldiers are the way to use troops in a dignified and upright manner, good and not good, if he is given a force advantage in the army or simply as a defensive commander, he is absolutely competent, and he will never be greedy for merit and rashness, giving you a sense of invulnerability, but unfortunately this exercise, defense alone cannot be won." ”

Jia Xu continued: "The lord is right, General Gao Shun first eliminated all the sentinels of the Red Army when he came up, so that the Red Army did not know the enemy's situation, and could only passively defend, one wrong step, one wrong step, they are now walking according to Gao Shun's steps, and the defeat is decided." This is the one-way transparency of battlefield intelligence that the lord told me, let's see how General Gao Shun performs. ”