The two banners of "Yanzhou Jiedu Luzi Pass Inspection Envoy Li" and "Zhangwu Army Front Battalion Commander Li" shook in the wind above the wall, but they were also quite majestic, but in the eyes of the party people not far from Guanbei, just the three words "Zhangwu Army" made these ethnic minority soldiers from Xiazhou full of cynicism. Over the years, many of these flags have been trampled under their feet without much effort. There is a joke that is not ridiculous among the upper echelons of the Tuoba family, and it is said that the big names of the Tuoba family agree that the flag of the Zhangwu Army is only worthy of being torn to make dirty clothes for women, or to make diapers for babies.

However, in the eyes of the nobles of the Yeli family who sent troops this time, things did not seem to be so simple.

Yeli Ronglai frowned at the repaired Luzi Pass at a safe distance of one hundred and fifty steps away, from this position he could not see the specific layout of the Guancheng, and the figure of the soldiers guarding the pass was relatively blurred, but he could still see one thing, Luzi Pass was no longer the original Luzi Pass that was half broken and did not need to pass through the gate to be able to enter and exit freely, the horizontal wall has blocked the road, if you want to pass, you must pass through the gate of the city gate, otherwise the wall must be destroyed again.

As the number two person in the second largest family in the party, Yeli Ronglai has followed his brother Yeli Rongyuan to participate in combat operations since he was a teenager. In his memory, there has been no trace of Luziguan since it was destroyed by the party Xiang Mo Ning Ling Tuoba Yi Yin five years ago.

Luzi Pass is not a dangerous pass, but if the besieging party does not have enough siege equipment, only by digging or hitting logs to destroy the wall of the earth and stone structure, the use of manpower will reach thousands, and Yeli Ronglai only has 500 people in his hands at this time, of which there are only about 240 combat soldiers, that is, regular soldiers, and only 11 pairs of armor, all of which are equipped with noble officers.

This kind of siege warfare, in recent years is the first time that the party is facing it, the previous mode of operation is that the army broke into the pass and plundered in the field, and there was no army to garrison and there was no city wall to rely on to grab the towns and villages cleanly, the Zhangwu army in the history of several times out of the city to meet the battle, basically in the field about no more than two quarters of an hour was defeated by the whole line and fled back to the city to hold on. The tradition of the Dingyan Army was to only grab food and wealth and plunder the population, and not to spend effort on the cities and counties that were guarded by the walls.

Of course, when the defenders are weak, it is not completely impossible to break the defenders' will to fight and seize the city by going to the city in hand-to-hand combat. However, when fighting in the hinterland of the Central Plains Dynasty, the party had to face many dangers, and although the battle of Yinxia in the Later Tang counterattack in the fourth year of Changxing was unsuccessful, its mobilization ability and equipment ability really made the eight major tribes shudder.

Therefore, as the victor's side, the Tuoba family at that time, Mo Ning, ordered Tuoba Renfu to deliver a plea to Luoyang as soon as possible after the victory of the Yinxia Defense War. In this era, whoever is strong is the master, since the Han regime in the Central Plains can casually mobilize an army with more troops than the total population of the eight major tribes, then it is natural for them to be the boss.

It is also for this reason that every time the party members invade Yanzhou, they will not stay in Yanzhou for more than a month, and last year's large-scale plundering of five counties did not break this time limit.

It is also for this reason that the party members instinctively reject the time-consuming and laborious tactics of attacking the city. Although Tuoba Yiyin has been cutting down trees to make siege equipment since the second half of last year, it is not used to prepare for the attack on Yanzhou, these newly built siege equipment are basically concentrated in the Youzhou region in the north, and it will take a long time to pull them over temporarily. What's more, the party members unanimously believe that for the Zhangwu army, even if they don't use these big guys, they may not be able to capture the city.

In the past, the city was not attacked because it could be bypassed and slaughtered the towns. But now, when Luzi Pass and Weiping Pass are repaired and garrisoned, it is different. This is an obstacle that cannot be bypassed, and as a key place for the party cavalry to go south to Yanzhou, the strategic value of Luzi Pass is extremely important. This is an indisputable fact, so although Yeli Ronglai felt a little headache, he finally made up his mind to launch a strong attack tomorrow and use the flesh and blood of the party warriors to open the southward passage of the nomads.

"After conquering this place, you must talk to the head of the family and Tuoba Mo Ningling, and garrison troops here to defend ......."

Yeli Ronglai was secretly ruthless in his heart.

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Lying on the slope, covered with loess and sparse vegetation, with yellow mud on his face, only his two eyes exposed to observe the situation down the slope, and his two nostrils exposed to keep his breathing, Li* felt very unhappy. He couldn't help but adjust his lying posture every once in a while, otherwise he was afraid that the blood and tendons in his body would be tangled together. In particular, he admired the harrier of Minda even more, who had barely moved since he had been lurking here two hours ago—except for the constant chewing of a straw stick in his mouth.

"That's Ye Li Ronglai, right......?"

Li* looked at the man who was surrounded by a group of party officers in armor and asked softly.

"Probably...... It should be ......" Xifeng Minda had never seen this ancestor of the Yeli family, so his answer was not very positive.

Li* looked at the group of humans: "...... Didn't you say that there are only two pivotal inscriptions, why are there so many people? ”

"Only those two helmets with feathers on them are the pivotal signs...... The others were other nobles and officers......"

Thin Seal Minda muttered quietly.

"How can you tell the difference between them?"

"Indistinguishable...... Our armor is self-prepared, the general conditions of a little richer and a little more generous small nobles may have armor, more than ten accounts of the big nobles, if there is no armor can not rob other people's armor, so there is no armor can not be used to distinguish the size of the judgment, but generally speaking, the clothes and fur worn by the higher level will be better, and the lower level will be worse. In the clan system, except for the fact that the cardinal can pin different colors of feathers on the helmet according to his preference, the nobles do not have a special rank mark in the army......"

Li* pondered for a moment and asked, "The people who can gather around Rong Lai are all high-ranking officers, right?" ”

Xifeng Minda pondered for a long time while observing: "Those few who are not in armor are personal guards, and all those who are in armor are officers, in addition to the two cardinals, there should be four Lingneng and eight Lue; There were only twelve people here, and some of them might have been in charge of setting up camp and didn't come along......"

Li * secretly cried out in his heart that it was a pity that observing the enemy's situation before the battle, it was taboo for the senior generals and officers of the army to gather together so densely within a radius of 160 or 70 paces. This is also in the era of cold weapons, otherwise only one shell is needed, and the entire command layer of this party army will be collectively reimbursed.

"If you use the Fuyuan Crossbow at this distance, will you be able to eliminate all of them?"

Xifeng Minda looked at it, shook his head and said: "There is no problem with the range, but it is difficult to aim accurately at this distance, a salvo can kill three or four at most, and the others will immediately disperse, if you are lucky, you may be able to kill Yeli Ronglai or injure him." However, your crossbowman training time is too short, and it will be difficult to follow up after a salvo...... It's impossible to kill all of them......"

"It's good to be able to kill three or four...... "Li* said with some regret.

He glanced in the direction of the city: "Shen Chen, this guy, it's really stupid not to take advantage of such a good opportunity......"

Xifeng Minda sneered and said: "This kind of opportunity is not needed, just killing these people will not make the whole army lose its command......"

Li * was stunned for a moment, but listened to the fine Feng Minda said: "As long as you can't kill Rong Lai, it's useless to just kill other officers, I said, there is a commander for every two soldiers in our party, in the war, it is very simple to appoint a new commander in the army, we are used to fighting alone, even if there is no cooperation from others, we can continue to fight." Unless you have one of those marksmen in your army who can shoot Rong Lai with an arrow at this distance......"

Li * Leng paused: "Can't you do it?" ”

Thin Feng Minda snorted: "I'm not a fairy......"

At this time, a party officer in light armor urged his horse forward and walked in the direction of Luzi Pass.

Li* was stunned: "What is he going to do?" ”

"Shhhh

Thin Seal Minda reminded hurriedly.

Lee*'s heart was suddenly shocked, but he saw that in the other direction, a young soldier who was grazing horses and sheep walked leisurely in his direction.

He suddenly lowered his head and buried his face in the grass and dirt.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, Li*'s heart beat faster and faster, and he secretly prayed in his heart that this person would not step on him.

It seems that lurking is really a technical job.

The young soldier didn't notice anything, he walked to the side with a big grin, hummed a tune that was very popular in the Yanzhou region, walked to a big tree in front of Li * and Xi Feng Minda, and unbuttoned his pants very comfortably......

In the sound of rushing water, Li*'s scalp tingled, and it wasn't until the soldier tied up his pants and walked away that he exhaled a long breath and raised his head, only to see that Xi Feng Minda had already raised his head, and he was still biting a straw stick on his mouth and looking left and right, as if no one had ever come.

Li * sank his breath and asked, "That person just now didn't seem to be humming a song from your party......

He replied very naturally: "That's natural, he's Han ......"

"Han ......?" Li*'s surprise was really not small, he knew that there were Han slaves in the tribe of the Dangxiang people, but he did not know that this situation had spread to the army.

"Haven't you counted the horses? Although on the surface this is the establishment of two cardinal inscriptions, but in fact, there are less than 300 warriors of our clan who really ride horses, and they are all single horses, judging from the length of their bodies and limbs, these people were originally responsible for carrying food and armor and baggage...... This must be the deputy soldier who was in charge of staying in the camp, and he was temporarily dispatched, and the original deputy soldier became a regular soldier, and the original Han slaves were naturally brought in as a deputy soldier......"

The explanation of the fine seal is simple, but Lee* feels more and more that something is wrong.

What do the party members want to do when they assemble a large number of elite troops?

Now that it's not even March, the Dingyan Army has not only assembled the elite main force in the direction of Youzhou, but also barely cobbled together a second-rate army to attack Luzi Pass in this livestock giving birth season, what is this for?

Before he could think clearly, he heard the fine seal minda beside him softly "Huh".

Li * immediately put these distracting thoughts aside and followed the gaze of Thin Seal Minda.

But he saw that the officer of the Yeli family who was riding to the city gate had already dismounted, and the place where he dismounted was only about twenty paces away from the city gate, and it was easy to be threatened by the archers in the city at this distance. Of course, given the level of his armor, as long as he doesn't shoot him in the face, he usually doesn't cause fatal damage.

The officer had already taken off a single wooden bow, and he was obviously carrying a good troumber bow on his back, but it was useless, but he used this single wooden bow, and in his hand he was also holding a bamboo arrow with limited power.

He stood in front of the gate, gestured with his hand for a while, as if to measure the distance, then bowed his left leg, straightened his right leg behind him, tilted the upper part of his body back at an angle, and pulled the bow full—

"Whoa—"

The bamboo arrow shot diagonally towards the castle tower—

Li*'s gaze followed the bamboo arrow in an arc in the air, and then the arrow slanted down and disappeared behind the city gate......

The officer turned around and flew on his horse satisfied, and galloped back.

"What is he doing?" Li * said with a frown.

Sending an officer to shoot an arrow at the head of the city for no apparent reason would not be pointless.

"Test firing—" Minda, who had regained his composure on his face, said softly.

"Test firing?"

"Hmm...... It looks like tomorrow will attack the city, and this man has been confirmed as the leader of the archers—"

Li* frowned, he still didn't understand.

Xiao Feng Minda glanced at him and explained in a low voice: "Most of this group of soldiers, including the regular soldiers, are some guys with rare archery skills, so the accuracy of archery will be very poor. Shoot the city pass from the ground, you need to roughly master a unified position angle and the strength of the bow, otherwise the area on the city pass is limited, most of the arrows either cross the city pass and fall to the pass or have not yet reached the city pass and fall, so there will be a leader when shooting arrows to the city head tomorrow, and the other archers will stand in a horizontal team based on him, and adjust their bow opening posture according to the angle of his archery and the amplitude of the bow...... This will ensure that most of the arrows will fall on the city, and will not deviate too far......"

“…… So what's the point of him going for a walk today? Lee* asked with a frown.

"He is usually used to using a wooden bow, and the difference in the strength and accuracy of different bows is too large, since the army is mainly equipped with a single wooden bow, he can only use a single wooden bow, so he must first try to shoot an arrow to find the right head......" Fine Feng Minda nodded.

Li * sighed for a while, it seems that any kind of long-range strike weapon, even if it is as simple as a bow and arrow, still needs to be test-fired to correct the coordinates before launching, and the ancient people may not understand the truth of this, but these experiences and laws they have summed up from previous wars should not be underestimated.

The biggest problem of the ancient army was that there were too few literate people in the army, and these basic experiences and knowledge could only be passed down from generation to generation through oral transmission. In an era when wars were frequent, it was better to say that once peace came, and there was no threat of war for many years, these oral experiences could no longer be tested in actual combat at any time. Over time, the veterans and recruits in the army rotated frequently, and gradually no one knew the meaning of doing this, and even many soldiers and officers and even generals who had not fought in the war would find these cumbersome rules cumbersome and unnecessary, and these good habits would be eliminated as bad habits in the army.

When an army can no longer find even a single soldier who has been on the battlefield, there is little hope for the army to remain combat-ready. Because the experience of trading blood and life in battle after battle has been lost, some celebrities may write down some of their experiences in their art of war, but the spontaneous behavior of one person alone will not solve this problem. In addition to the factor of corruption, the loss of the experience and wisdom of the predecessors is also an important reason. An army that practices firing bows and arrows every day, if it has not been honed in actual combat, will definitely shoot these arrows all over the position in the formed elevation shooting, and it will not form a dense attack. And an officer who has never commanded a battle would never think of conducting a calibration before directing everyone to carry out a projectile.

The gap between the ancient army and the modern army is not only manifested in weaponry and strategy and tactics. War is a discipline that needs to be studied and inherited for the modern and modern military, and it is necessary to summarize the lessons and lessons in a timely manner and turn them into common sense and habits. For the ancient army, war was only an examination room for testing courage and all kinds of tactical tricks, and in addition to thanking God and their own good luck, only a very few soldiers who survived the examination room would consciously think about why they were able to survive and why they won the war. And those who often think about these things are called famous generals by later generations; Those who wrote these down are called art of war.

It is necessary to compile these experiences and laws that have been formed bit by bit into teaching materials, into codes, and into courses that must be studied by soldiers, and into things that must be understood and understood clearly as a soldier or officer......

Li * exhaled softly, there is a long way to go to build a modern army......____________________________________________________________________________________

Every footprint of the times has a long way to go...... Make a whining and continue to canvass for votes......