Chapter 486: Hidden Dangers
Analyzing the current situation as a whole, Baili Yan will plan to take the lead with Sikong Nan:
"When this barbarian army goes to intercept it, most of the people guarding the city wall are crossbowmen, and our army can take the opportunity to seize the city wall and rob all the people and grain and grass. What does Brother Sikong think? ”
"Where did our army go after the robbery?"
"Take a detour to the back of the Jin Xuedi bandit army, and find a hiding place to take shelter from the limelight for a while."
"But we have few people and walk slowly, what can we do?"
"How to deal with Kong Hua and Qian Xiasheng, how to deal with these people, only take a small part, and leave most of them to drag Jin Xuedi for our army."
"What about the grain and grass, if we still divide the grain and continue like this, our army will be very passive."
"Of course, this time, we can't divide the grain and grass for another month, we have to take what we can. I pondered, let Fang Liang take our people, the guy to send people to blend in with the people in the city, and the driver acted to create trouble, and then the inside and outside should cooperate, get rid of them, and minimize the casualties of our army. ”
In order to ensure the progress of the city repair and save manpower, the construction period of each batch of Jin Xuedi is one and a half years, and after the expiration of the construction period, another batch of people will be replaced.
At the end of February, the roads are no longer affected by the snow around March, so the grain and grass reserves at the site can be used until March of the following year.
"There's another thing that's more troublesome. These newcomers have only been training for a few days, and although they have strength, their combat strength is weak and they are not enough to fight. And the general will find that there are some words that they don't seem to understand, especially the three and four generations. ”
"I've also found that there are real problems with verbal communication, but you can't rush it, you have to take it slowly. What they don't understand, explain it to the descendants who can understand the original dialect, and then let them relay it to those who don't understand, so as not to make the training too radical and intensify the internal problems of our army. ”
Due to the long-term cultural cleansing of the Jinxuedi people, whether it is the second generation, the third generation, or the fourth generation, there are more or less communication barriers. There are fewer second-generation people, but there are also, especially military terms, which ordinary people in the Central Plains can understand after saying it once or twice, and they need to be repeated several times to comprehend.
Most of the three or fourth generations of people have lost the ability to speak the Central Plains, and can only understand the general situation, and even need to use the Central Plains people to translate the communication content.
The language expression efficiency of the Jin Xuedi people is not high, which leads to the fact that the descendants of the Central Plains use more vernacular than Yayan when expressing the Central Plains, and the communication between the Xianjun and the new Ding is more cumbersome.
Negotiated the plan with Sikong Nan, and asked Lu Gao, Su Hong, Bai He and others for their opinions, and then summoned all the generals, made a gesture that had not been prepared in advance, and notified Fang Liang and Feng Ming.
After all, these two people are outsiders, even if they are outsiders of the vassal states, they are more reliable than these two people who have indifferent to the identity of the Central Plains.
Feng Ming, judging from recent observations, this person is the kind of guy who can stir up trouble, but after the matter is bigger, he pushes others into the pit, and he shrinks back himself, and does not make a head bird, and he is a rather selfish person.
Bai Liyan could even think that this person would not work hard in most cases, but thought about how to preserve his strength. Although I don't know the roots, I can't escape Bailiyan's eyes.
When asked who the Dao Sect had entered the city to lurk, Feng Ming really did not volunteer to take the initiative to go to the danger alone, and Bai Liyan finally forced Fang Liang. Of course, Fang Liang was not willing, after all, it was a fateful mission to go deep into the tiger's den, and if he was not motivated, of course he would not be willing to take risks.
Compared with Feng Ming, Fang Liang is more honest and reliable. Feng Ming is a slippery head, but he still has to use him now. Therefore, there must be a descendant of the Central Plains who can suppress him, and quickly surpass him in prestige and seniority, and only the generals who can win the battle and take the lead can win the trust and support of the low-level soldiers. Feng Ming's timidity will eventually bury himself.
Make a plan, and the army will set out as soon as it gets dark.
The camp was ninety miles from the barbarian wall, and it took two days to drag thousands of people. Infantry and women, as well as prisoners, severely restricted the mobility of the army, and Bailiyan had to face up to this problem.
On the way, scouts returned one after another to report the news, the Jin Xuedi people dispatched 6,000 people, including 2,000 light cavalry, to the west to cut off the retreat of Kong Hua and Qian Xiasheng's department, Bai Liyan could even think that most of them had not left the city wall now, and the main force of the Jin Xuedi people had already laid a net nearby, just waiting to block their way from behind.
The Jin Xuedi people who stayed behind to guard the eastern city wall had 2,000, 500 infantry troops, and 1,500 crossbowmen.
Bailiyan arrived ten miles north of the city wall in the afternoon two days later, the height of the city wall was only less than one zhang, and hundreds of crossbowmen of the Jin Xuedi people stood on the city fortress twelve miles long and condescendingly patrolled back and forth, and the gap was very large.
Scattered infantry troops drove the descendants who were cutting wood outside the city walls, and dragged the felled logs into the city on horses, and there were quite a few of them. Jin Xuedi artificially reduces logistical dependence, and firewood is the main heating on the construction site, and coal is only used for simple iron, not for heating.
In addition to the fact that a large amount of coal needs to be transported from the rear, which is extremely inconvenient, the Jinxuedi people do not have many coal mines outside the Guan, and the output is limited, which is concentrated on military production, and the surplus is not enough to supply the heating of a large number of people.
Bailiyan arranged for Fang Liang to lead ten veterans of the Xian army, and a number of reliable and usable second-generation people, hiding daggers, bringing logging axes and horses, disguised as lumberjacks, and the drivers mixed in.
At the end of the evening, the Jin Xuedi people drove the people who were logging outside the city back to the city, because Fang Liang and the others were too far away, they were mistaken for a small group of people who were missing, they were scolded and humiliated, and they were driven back to the city, and the logging axes were confiscated.
"My lord, that's okay, right?" Jiang Jie lay on the snow and shrunk his head, and said worriedly.
"It's not a big problem tonight, and we have to show the stuffing tomorrow morning, so we can't delay it too long. Let's go, it's our turn after dark! ”
Jin Xuedi people distributed a metal plate made of tin to each man for cooking, and every time he received a meal, the foreman collected the dinner plate from the previous meal and distributed this tin plate, and Fang Liang and more than a dozen others appeared out of thin air, obviously they couldn't get through. They can only delay overnight, and wait until the next day to collect tonight's plate, and they may reveal their filling.
Returning to the camp after dark, Bailiyan drew the general defense of the Jin Xuedi people on the ground and assigned the attack mission for tonight.
"The city gate is still not open, but the Jinxuedi people blocked the entrance and exit of the four gates very tightly with stone bars and bricks after dark, and it will be very difficult to enter the city through the city gate. Therefore, they can only find a way to climb the city wall from the periphery, and they have more troops at night than during the day, so as long as they kill the Jinxuedi people in the city and block the horse road leading to the city wall, they can quickly control the whole city and deal with the remnants of the Jinxuedi people, and the sealed city gate will eventually block their escape passage.
But they set up a bonfire every hundred paces twenty paces around the wall, and set up dozens of piles around the wall for the night perimeter to illuminate the perimeter. If we make a rash move, we will inevitably be discovered.
Therefore, it is necessary to send capable men and horses to cross the blind spots between the campfires, and then climb the city walls, first occupy one or two corners, and then make a big move to expand the area of occupation. And Fang Liang will also build momentum in the city and cooperate with the action. ”
"So, what's that blind spot?" Feng Ming asked.
Su Hong took over and explained:
"It's the blind spot where the eye can't see, or where it's hard to see."
"Is there a place in this world that you can't see?"
Feng Ming said again, Su Hong's cheeks twitched, and a sense of powerlessness swam into his heart:
"Can you see the dark place where the light is blind?"
"Oh, just talk about the shadows, it's not over, what are you talking about!"
Feng Ming also used strong words, and Bai Liyan said at this time:
"Not all blind spots are dark spots, but all places that are invisible and negligent are blind spots. Behind the back of the person, on the back of the person's head, on the top of the person's head, and places that people can't think of are blind spots, not only the places that can't be seen, the places that can't be imagined, the places that can't be touched, and the places that can't be reached, are all blind spots. ”
"Then you can't see it when you turn your head, what are you doing with so much effort!"
Blind spot of vision, blind spot of thinking is the beginning of the formation of the pioneer battalion of Bailiyan, the current combat situation, the introduction of new terms, the Central Plains people have long experienced the blind spot, but did not transform it into a realistic concept and professional terms, Bailiyan put forward the concept of blind spot of vision, the vast majority of people can quickly understand.
However, Feng Ming and other second-generation people, after a serious cultural purge, the Central Plains culture is seriously faulty, their way of thinking is coerced by life, and they are unable to deeply understand the content of the Central Plains culture, which will inevitably lead to communication and understanding barriers.
Bai Liyan ignored it and continued:
"After my on-the-spot investigation, the east, north, and south sides of the barbarian army city wall are slightly higher than the west side, and the west side is easy to climb.
Feng Ming and Su Hong led 1,500 people under their command, and after Sikong Nancheng was killed, they climbed the city wall from the east of the city and outflanked the enemy from behind. ”
When Feng Ming heard the news, he assigned him to the higher city wall, and he was quite complaining:
"Then why can't I take the men and horses to the west of the city, and your people will do it first in the east of the city."
Bailiyan replied to him without being salty or indifferent:
"How are you going to get up the wall?"
"Climb up, of course." Feng Ming disagreed.
"Then can you send two hundred people in one go?"
"That's not easy, it's not easy to climb, a wall more than one person high, if you can't climb it, it's a bad seed."
"In thirty numbers, can you send two hundred people to the city?" Bai Liyan questioned.
"What a big deal, how can you send two hundred people to the wall within thirty numbers, you can show me."
"Since you can't do it, obey the arrangement!"
"My people can't do it, your people can do it, what to blow!" Feng Ming was disdainful, and he didn't believe that he could send two hundred people to the city wall within thirty numbers.
"You can't do it, someone else can do it, and those who can do it understand first!"
"Humph......"
Snorted unconvinced, Feng Ming turned his head and stopped paying attention.
After strict military training, the Xian army can only form a human ladder to deal with the four gates blocked and there is no ladder, and the wall wall with a height of two or three meters can only form a human ladder, and dozens or hundreds of people can be sent to the city head in a short time.
There are 200 Xian troops among the 1,000 people under Fang Liang's command, and Baili Yan will transfer another 500 Xian troops, which can quickly build a human ladder and send 1,500 people to the city head more than two meters high on the west side. There were 1,500 people under the command of Feng Ming and Su Hong, of which 300 were the old foundations of the Xian army, and the efficiency of climbing the city wall of about three meters was far less efficient than that of Sikong Nan's 1,500 people.
Of course, if the offensive and defensive areas are reversed, Feng Ming's department will be slower, and it can be done theoretically, but the main offensive task is related to the success or failure of the battle, and if Feng Ming drops the chain at a critical moment, he will kill everyone.
Bai Liyan also intended to support Fang Liang to suppress Feng Ming, and the main attack task this time was none other than Fang Liang's department.