Volume 2 West River White Boyan Section 9 Preparation
"Then we opened a stockade and went from house to house to collect grain. The young and middle-aged people were all organized into the ranks as laborers, and at the same time they recruited some people to replenish the food, and worked hard to fatten themselves. ”
The leader of the tribal alliance, who had been starving for several days, said viciously with a look of gritted teeth......
Next, the team not only drove the ox cart on the road, but also intensified the reconnaissance of the surrounding villages and villages. At present, the tribal alliance of Baoji Village does not have any horses, so their reconnaissance ability is very low, and they can only detect the area within ten miles of the official road.
Zhao Hong hopes to find a village without a wall to protect it and grab some food, which can greatly reduce the casualties during the attack, and also help to give full play to the advantages of the stronger team and let them quickly enter the battle.
But many things are not as people wish, Zhao Hong's team encountered several villages on the way, but all of them were defended by high walls. These villages located in the Taihang Mountains have generally brought into play the wisdom of China's working people in adapting measures to local conditions. The walls of the villages are different from the Baoji villages where Zhao Hong originally lived, and the walls of the Baoji villages were made of soil, and the walls of these villages were almost all made of stones.
The stone is very strong and does not collapse as easily as the soil culture, so the walls of these villages are often very high, almost more than one zhang, and even more than two zhang.
Attacking such a village head-on, it is estimated that the loss of manpower will be enough to disintegrate the small tribal alliance. Zhao Hong, who has no capital, naturally has to be careful in his calculations, and he can't afford to squander the only capital in his hand.
Now as a leader, Zhao Hong deeply feels the difficulties of leadership, facing these villages, Zhao Hong's team is like a hungry fox seeing a group of turtles, the fox wants to eat turtles to satisfy hunger, but is afraid of breaking his teeth. In such a heart of gain and loss, I can never find a village without walls,
Zhao Hong never thought that he would become a robber one day, he had received so many years of communist quality education, summarized so many answer templates, and memorized so many test question types of routines, but one day it was completely useless. But he had to lead a group of people to rob and rob innocent villagers. Since there was no quality of a robber in the previous quality education, let alone a standard answer to be a robber, Zhao Hong currently feels like a new daughter-in-law who is about to get on a sedan chair and pierce her ears and eyes, and has no experience at all.
In the final analysis, how to lead subordinates to rob and rob is also a science. Opening these walled stockades was a big challenge for the Zhao Hong group, which was a first-time robber. It seems that it is not easy to do anything, even being a robber requires professional skills.
In the past, when he was in Baoji Village, the scene of Dai Xiao made Zhao Hong hate the attack of the bandit group, but he made people, and this time he was going to make a cameo appearance as a robber, which couldn't help but make Zhao Hong sigh that the world was impermanent.
Sighing alone will not fill the stomach, and no grain will fall out of thin air. As the saying goes, three stinkers are better than one Zhuge Liang, and Zhao Hong, as the leader, decided to meet again. Although Zhuge Liang seemed to be a seven or eight-year-old child in Langya, Shandong at this time, this did not affect Zhao Hong's use of this concept at all.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hong sighed again and recalled the time when he was in junior high school before. At that time, Zhao Hong always lamented that he was born at the wrong time, so Zhao Hong, who lived in socialism, could not grow up with the capitalist Bill Gatsby.
Now Zhao Hong has a new goal------ Dangwen, who was born in the same year as Zhuge Liang. Zhao Hong, who has been trained by socialism for so many years, hopes to train him to become a disciple of quality education------ and in the future, he can compare Zhuge Liang, who received traditional education from feudalism, so as to fully demonstrate the superiority of socialism in later generations.
Although education is very important, but the immediate food is the big problem, adhering to the collectivism Zhao Hong intends to gather the wisdom of everyone to discuss the way to be a robber, so the third ministerial meeting was held.
The meeting was still convened under the common expectation of all the people of the tribal alliance. The meeting was held in a harmonious and happy atmosphere to discuss the matter of looting grain and other property and holding up the strong.
Zhao Hong, whose face looked very melancholy, couldn't help frowning, and he looked at the expressions of the five chiefs. Subsequently, Zhao Hong first determined the theme of the meeting.
"Recently, I observed several villages, all of which were deep trenches and high walls. Is there any way to minimize losses and quickly break through these walled villages? ”
The four elders from Baoji Village all remembered the defensive battle that took place in Baoji Village a few months ago. The attack and defense of the Baoji Village defensive battle left a deep impression on all the survivors present.
Dense rain of arrows, brutal shooting, and the cruelty of fighting on the wall. In the bloody defensive battle, the personnel training and ability were stronger than the strong men of Baoji Village, and several grades of bandit groups were finally forced to give up the attack on Baoji Village due to heavy losses. It is indeed very difficult to attack and fight when the enemy is on guard.
Cao Peng, whose ancestor was in the border army of the Han Dynasty, knew more or less about military knowledge than others. He lowered his head and thought about it, and thought about what his father told him about the siege of the city----- like when the regular army really attacked the city wall and other strongholds, relatively speaking, the equipment needed was relatively heavy, and most of the siege equipment had wheels to facilitate movement, even the siege ladder and the big shield also had four wheels. In the final analysis, the siege equipment carried by people is not in the stream, and it is a light siege weapon.
"Then let's build a heavy siege machine, that thing works well and has few casualties. It is much more effective against the city wall than an ordinary ladder, and Liu Song, a carpenter, should be better at making that thing. ”
Cao Peng's words not only made Zhao Hong laugh out loud, but also felt that he was not playing with himself. Finally, Zhao Hong reluctantly suppressed his smile.
"Brother Cao, it takes a lot of time and personnel to build heavy siege equipment. If I had that food, would I still need to open a village and grab food? ”
"That's right." Cao Peng, who was in a state of thought, thought about it and echoed the leader's opinion.
The others did not speak for a moment, and everyone fell into a brief silence......
Suddenly, a voice broke the dull atmosphere. "How about we learn from the Xianbei people to do a sneak attack?" When Zhao Hong heard this voice, his eyes suddenly lit up, sneak attack ---- a good way, this is much better than a strong attack, both speed and casualties are much smaller. Zhao Hong, who couldn't help but admire in his heart, knew that it was Wang Ming as soon as he heard this voice, and it was really Keming Junde. So Zhao Hong looked his eyes in the direction where the voice came from, and sure enough, it was his younger brother Wang Ming, and then Zhao Hong responded to Wang Ming's speech with a smile.
"The last time the Xianbei people attacked the city wall, they almost succeeded, and the defense of ordinary villages, the improvised armed strong men in it could not be compared with Shiyi City in any way. So we have a good chance of winning the sneak attack. ”
"Little brother, you're right, we took a lot of advantage in the fight with the Xianbei people last time, which is of course related to the fact that the Xianbei people are not good at foot combat on the city wall, but it also shows that our combat effectiveness is still remarkable." Zhao Hong looked a little confident, and successfully knocked down the Xianbei people on the narrow city wall with a neat door panel, and then resisted the Xianbei people's attacks. This was a relatively proud battle commanded by Zhao Hong.
"However, I'm afraid that the combat effectiveness of the newly joined homeless people can't be compared with the strength of Baoji Village, which is familiar with our tactics, and the combat effectiveness is worrying!" Looking at Cao Peng, who was mostly new to the list, he spoke again with a worried face.
"Yes, I don't have a fixed place to live, and now I'm moving every day, so I really can't train." Li Yong also sighed when he heard this, and his face was a little worried.
"But this time we're dealing with ordinary villagers, so it shouldn't be so difficult!" Liu Song, who had not spoken, made an estimate and slowly expressed his judgment.
"Well, it's settled, using the method of sneak attack at night."
Not long after traveling along the official road, an unlucky village appeared and was discovered by Jing Zhuang, who was in charge of investigating the situation. Zhao Hong stood on the hill and looked at this village, the village in the industry is not large, there are only a few dozen households. A big village like Baoji Village can't be taken down by everyone. Due to the unfamiliarity of life, the name of this village is naturally unknown.
Zhao Hong, who saw the village clearly, began to observe the terrain around the village, and familiarity with the terrain was very necessary for the entire sneak attack. The east side of the village is a hill with high terrain, a dense pine forest hundreds of steps away from the north of the village, the south side of the village is the official road of Jingcheng, and the west side of the village is countless harvested farmland.
Naturally, the crops have already been harvested, and the bare farmland is littered with straw from various crops. In the bleak autumn wind, straw, grass ash and other debris swirled and danced. It is difficult to see the situation in the distance.
When the sun was about to set, the dying sun turned red like blood. As the commander-in-chief, Zhao Hong stood on the commanding heights far away from this village, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when he looked at the village with smoke curling in the evening. This meal is likely to be the last for many people in the village. The whole team stayed at a distance from the village to avoid being spotted by the villagers.
Cao Peng was standing beside Zhao Hong, and he also looked at the village that was about to be attacked. Seeing Cao Peng with a resentful look on his face, he lowered his voice and whispered to himself.
"Robbing and robbing innocent villages is really a shame for us!"