XXXIII. Conquer the town of Mae River
In front of the entrance of Wanjiazhuang, a big flag with a red background and black edge is erected in the center of the field, the pattern on the flag is drawn and embroidered by Liu Ce in accordance with the style of the Qin and Han dynasties in the previous life, the black giant bird curls up in the middle of the blood-red background case, like a phoenix bathing in fire at any time to spread its wings and fly high, majestic and solemn, and the same big flag on the side is written on the red background with the big word "Jingwei".
There were more than 800 soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion standing neatly in front of the Daxu, wearing leather armor and holding spears and shields, looking up at the banner erected high, and they all had a strange feeling in their hearts.
Liu Ce came to the front of the soldiers, looked up, and saw that the team composed of these homeless people had straight waists, and their bodies were much stronger than more than a month ago, and there was more fortitude in their eyes, which was like two people.
In the ranks of the team, the banners of the main generals were spread out, fluttering in the wind, and the faces were full of irrepressible excitement before sealing Chou Nian, Yang Kaishan, Yang Youhuai, Sun Chengli and the banners.
He cleared his throat, glanced at Xu Hui and Qin Mo beside him, took a deep breath and said loudly: "From today onwards, my Jingwei Battalion has been officially established, and the relevant military orders and regulations have been promulgated before, so I won't say more!" Start now! You are no longer outcasts, but real soldiers! What is Military? Be disciplined! Obey orders! Defend your homeland! Protect the people! Strike at the invading enemy! Sweep away Liuhe and return the world to peace! This is a real soldier! My Jingwei camp is just being built now, and it is extremely difficult to gain a foothold in this troubled world, everyone! Do you have the confidence to fight for your own glory and dignity, with me! Stepping on this bleak world, and returning the world to peace! ”
"We are waiting for the general's dispatch! Calm the troubled times! The eight hundred people on the field spoke in unison, resounding through the sky, and their eyes glowed with blazing light.
Qin Mo, Xu Hui and the others were deeply shocked, and they couldn't speak for a long time, although Liu Cejun's military regulations had been revised by themselves, they were still harsh to the extreme, several times harsher than the ace army. For example, the policy of prohibiting the soldiers from driving after conquering the city and "looting for a few days" has broken the cognition of Qin Mo and Xu Hui, in their minds, looting the city after it is captured is the best way to maintain morale and relax tensions. In addition, the cruel company system shocked veterans like Sun Cheng and Feng Chounian, who had served in the Thunder Army for many years...... What is Liu Ce going to do? Too brutal, right?
Of course, the military order is cruel, but the ensuing reward regulations are also very tempting, the materials captured in the war will be distributed to the soldiers in proportion to three, of course, strategic materials such as military horses and iron weapons must be handed over as soon as possible and then settled into other materials Money and food distribution, excellent performance of the soldiers will also have additional rewards. During the sergeant training, three meals a day are full, and at noon each person must be two taels of meat, but it can not be wasted, and additional meat will be replenished before the battle or the training intensity is strengthened to ensure sufficient physical strength. Now the village basically eats a big pot of rice, but the families of the soldiers can get an additional three buckets of rice, two taels of salt and some other items every month, temporarily as the soldiers' salary benefits, at the moment Liu Ce is not rich in his hands, because the gold and silver are temporarily useless, the soldiers of the Jingwei battalion and the homeless people in the village do not want it, tens of thousands of taels of silver and thousands of taels of gold can only be stacked in the corner of the warehouse to eat ashes, Liu Ce plans to wait until the commercial area to do the calculation. As soon as these reward and punishment regulations came out, 600 homeless people immediately chose to join the Jingwei camp, and Liu Ce only selected more than 200 strong people who had become a family to join a training, which made the homeless people who did not join the Jingwei camp sigh, but fortunately, Liu Ce thought that so many baggage needed to be carried, so he organized them into a baggage team and handed them over to Ye Bin and Xu Hui to manage, and Xu Hui, who was moved, choked up for a while.
Liu Ce waved his hand, signaling the shouting crowd to calm down, and then thought about it, there was nothing to say for the time being, and there was no follow-up after starting the training directly, and the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion immediately began to continue the training under the leadership of their respective banners.
"You little bunnies have me! If you go to the battlefield, you must dare to run, and before Lao Tzu dies, you must pull the back of your whole family! Feng Chou intimidated the soldiers in his banner more than once, in his opinion, if he died in battle, it would be fine, but if he was clicked by Liu Ce because his subordinates ran away, it was really important to be aggrieved, and he couldn't afford to lose this person.
"Mr. Qi, don't worry, did you run? I'm going to run away, we're all gone! Of course, you can remember that you can't punish us arbitrarily during training, there are regulations in the army, and the arbitrary corporal punishment of sergeants regardless of military rank will be served with a military stick. The threatened soldier replied with a smile, because everyone in the village, including women and children, are literate, especially the soldiers of these Jingwei battalions can at least know hundreds of words, so they can read and memorize the rules and regulations in the army, and they can't fool if they want to.
"Damn! Teach Lao Tzu a lesson! Feng Chounian kicked his ass, "Give Lao Tzu a good drill who will beat you, hurry up!" Back! ”
This kind of scene keeps happening between the flags, especially Yang Kaishan knows that coercion alone is not enough, so he simply "currys" his soldiers, often picks up a dish when eating, and gets up from time to time when sleeping to see if the soldiers have covered the quilt, and tries to share it with them if he has meat. Gradually, the flags also have to learn from each other, caring about their soldiers' living and eating, especially Sun Cheng, once there was a drill soldier who was too tired and fainted for a while, and he was immediately picked up by him and ran all the way to Ye Bin's place and kept shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and the whole flag soldiers who were moved wept and practiced harder......
What Liu Ce wants is this effect, so that the soldiers can truly unite together with each other in honor and disgrace, and even in the face of great hardships and dangers, they can overcome obstacles and be invincible.
"General Liu, the cotton clothes and quilts for the winter are far from enough at the moment, and the grain can last for another two months, but the salt and oil are already insufficient, plus the Jingwei camp has worked hard, and the meat can't last a few days, look at these ......" Qin Mo and Ye Bin stood behind them, and looked at Feng Ying with Liu Ce, a good old man, who was making a huge object from the hardwood cut down by the homeless people.
Liu Ce sighed, the Jingwei Battalion was established when it was established, and the bold words were of course exciting, but the difficulties can be imagined. The winter in this other world is very cold, especially the warmest winter in the northern region is also minus 10 degrees Celsius, if you don't prepare some supplies for the winter, I don't know how many people will freeze to death, at most less than a month, it will snow heavily, and if you don't prepare everything, the Jingwei camp will fall apart, it's a joke to think about it.
"Chen Qing, are they back?" Liu Ce asked.
Qin Mo said: "It's time to calculate the time, and it will arrive in the afternoon at the latest." ”
As he spoke, there was a sound of footsteps, and Chen Qing came to Liu Ce with two soldiers and hugged his fists: "General, I'm back." ”
Liu Ce nodded: "It's hard work, let's go down and rest first, and we'll talk about it later." ”
"No need, I'm not tired." Chen Qing rejected Liu Ce's proposal, his face was full of energy, since he put the horse's shoes on the horse, the horsepower was much better than before, and it was more secure to ride on the horse, although it took four hundred miles to go back and forth in two days, Chen Qing still felt energetic.
Chen Qing took out a piece of paper from the iron armor on his chest and said: "There are more than 9,000 thieves in Meihe Town, nearly 1,000 sharp soldiers, and the main gate is currently being reinforced, if it is forcibly taken, it will be very difficult......"
"Who will be the thieves?" Liu Ce asked.
"The thief's first name is called Jin Heng, when the officers and soldiers of Ao County surrounded and suppressed the thieves, this guy led the rebellion, resulting in the defeat of the whole army, this thief is ruthless, and the Jin family army under his hands is notorious and violent and ferocious, even if the upper level of the thief and the bandit capital want to give him three points, he is the top elite among the thieves." Chen Qing told Liu Ce what he knew.
Liu Ce closed his eyes and was silent, quickly calculating the gains and losses in his heart, and Qin Mo beside him also lowered his head and pondered, after all, the strategy of attacking Meihe Town was proposed by himself, but now the thief army in Meihe Town is much bigger than he thought, and he doesn't know if it is worth fighting this battle.
Slowly Qin Mo spoke: "Jin Heng I have also heard a little about this person, since he was born in the army, learned to have a good hand and two whips, at the age of twenty-seven he was promoted to the general of the flag by the local Taishou, but he was conceited, and he was quite dissatisfied with the children of the army sergeant at that time to join the army for the gilding, which led to the suppression of thieves in Ao County because he lost all the plates, but although this person has a bad reputation, he is a fierce and fearless man, very warlike, and those sharp soldiers under his command are also all bold, not easy to ......"
"Belligerent?" Liu Ce's eyes lit up, "How warlike is this person?" ”
"Where there is a war, you must take the lead, rush to the front, and compare the madman with bravery......" Speaking of this, Qin Mo was suddenly stunned, "General, you mean ......"
Liu Ce hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt his words, and the two looked at each other and smiled, making Ye Bin and Chen Qing stunned......
Qin Mo then said worriedly: "Even so, the county town is more than two zhang (one zhang and three meters) high, and there are many trees and rocks at the head of the city, and there are hundreds of shooters, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to attack." ”
Liu Ce smiled when he heard this: "That's why I ordered Lao Feng and Gao Laohan to hurry up the production of the equipment in front of them, and strive to make three of them before the expedition, so as to win enough capital for the first battle created by my Jingwei Battalion." ”
Qin Mo's eyes were full of admiration, as soon as he and Liu Ce proposed to attack the county and town, he immediately began to prepare siege equipment, although he didn't know what the big guy in front of him was for, but Qin Mo knew that Liu Ce must have a reason for doing this, after all, everything he has done since he came to this Zhuangzi has been proven to be not flashy......
"Tell me to go down, and prepare to send troops in three days!" Liu Ce made up his mind and said to Chen Qing, who took the order and left.
When Chen Qing sent Liu Ce's order to the Jingwei battalion army, the whole army was boiling, after Liu Ce's training policy these days, the whole army has more or less gone out to kill thieves and bandits, including the new soldiers have seen blood, they have gradually become accustomed to war, morale has always been maintained at the peak, and even many people rub their hands and are eager for war to come. As for how many times the number of thieves is their own?
"My Jingwei battalion doesn't ask how many enemies there are, only where they are." This sentence that Liu Ce and the generals occasionally said during training a few days ago was firmly imprinted in the minds of this group of homeless soldiers, and quickly spread throughout the village, and even Qin Mo felt majestic.
As for failure? If it doesn't exist, how can the Jingwei battalion fail? If you want to lose, you will not be defeated in the hands of this rabble. This is the inner thought of all the Jingwei battalion soldiers, these days since the training of the thieves, invincible, sometimes thirty people dare to attack hundreds of thieves, the thieves are holding their heads and running around, crying dad and shouting mother, this kind of continuous thief is undefeated and the direct consequence of the loss is that there are no thieves and no bandits within a radius of dozens of miles, and the last seven or eight days can only nest in the village to play with the drill, try to hold down the self-confidence that has swelled to the extreme.
Soldiers can be inflated, which helps to maintain morale, but Liu Ce, the generals who lead the army to fight, must not be inflated, and need to calmly analyze the current situation, and try to ensure that the minimum casualties will expand the victory rate, so at the moment when Chen Qing conveyed the military order, the general manager of each banner ordered the veterans of each banner to train themselves, and then went to Liu Ce's place to discuss the battle together.
"Xu Hui, you are also going out to fight this battle, and you have to step up the training of these auxiliaries in your hands in the next few days? Try to keep morale good. "Liu Ce decided to let Xu Hui also participate in the war this time, many veterans of the original Thunder Army are only Xu Hui has no military exploits, and no one is convinced by the more than four hundred soldiers, although these are not soldiers, and the training is only in the morning and the afternoon is busy with other affairs, but after all, the four hundred people, who doesn't know that pulling out and training hard for a few days and then taking it out to see the blood is a veteran, Liu Ce dared to pull out more than 100 homeless people who had only trained for two days to fight the camp that was many times larger than his own and won a big victory, so all the flags, including Yang Kaishan, were all jealous of Xu Hui's soldiers, Even Chen Qing and Guo Tao patted their chests several times and proposed to train these people to ensure that they were on par with the war battalion, in the final analysis, they didn't want to quickly stand up for themselves and take a flag to take the flag, but Liu Ce just didn't allow it, and wanted to give Xu Hui a chance, although the chance of the auxiliary soldiers going to the battlefield was not high, he just wanted to use this to block everyone's mouths.
People are no exception, including Xu Hui, he is handsome and elegant, polite to people, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a cadre of materials, according to the words of the previous life, compared with Xiao Xianrou, many girls in the village secretly sent him Qiubo, but he was determined to make a world in the Jingwei camp, and now Liu Ce has given himself such a good opportunity, how can he not grasp it, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Please rest assured, general, I will urge the sergeants under my command to practice well, and never drag the Jingwei camp back!" ”
Liu Ce nodded, Ye Bin will also fight together, this person is no less knowledgeable than Qin Mo, with his help, Xu Hui will not have any big problems here.
"Inform Lao Feng that he and Gao Laohan's craftsmen will also bring it with him in this battle." Liu Ce thought about it and felt that it would be safer to bring Feng Ying and Gao Laohan's more than 100 guys with him, after all, no one could guarantee that none of these siege equipment and weapons were damaged.
After discussing for a while, they decided on a siege strategy, and then they went back to their own camp to continue their exercises.
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Under the banner of the word "Feng", Feng Chounian pointed to the flag and pointed to the flag flag of "Yang" not far away and said loudly: "Remember!" I don't care who our flag loses to, but if we are compared to Yang Kaishan, a bastard, Lao Tzu will beat your ass out of the shit even if he takes a hundred military sticks! ”
Under the banner of the word "Yang", Yang Youhuai said to the soldiers: "Don't cause chaos to this banner at that time, you will obey the military orders, understand!" ”
Under the word "Sun", Sun Cheng was surrounded by everyone in the middle, "I only have one sentence for this battle, I treat you well on weekdays, whoever dares to run will be the first to kill him......"
Under the banner of Yang Kaishan, I saw that he was asking the soldiers, but how did he make himself look majestic on the battlefield......
"I really want to bring a soldier myself!" Yang Fan looked at the four flags in front of him under the banner of Liu Ce, and couldn't help but blush, especially Sun Cheng didn't look at himself after becoming the flag chief, which made him feel a lot of fluctuations in his heart......
Three days later, October 25.
"Are you ready?" Liu Ce rode his horse to the front of the manor, looked at the neatly arranged soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion, and said loudly.
"Ready!" More than 1,300 soldiers and craftsmen present roared, and many of them trembled slightly from nervousness and excitement.
Liu Ce nodded with satisfaction, and the three-meter spear in his hand was raised high above his head and pointed to the sky: "Today!" It was the first battle since the formation of my Jingwei Battalion! I'm going to let the whole world know! What kind of army is my Jingwei battalion! Let's go! ”
"The Jingwei battalion will win! The general will win! The cheers were deafening, and the two big flags embroidered with the Jingwei bird totem and the Jingwei characters were waving in the wind, and the flags between the flags also echoed each other......