All cavalry, two infantry, plus two battalions of infantry, this is all Li Wen's belongings.

In addition to these combat units, the sailor battalion of the Eighth Route Army Corps dispatched 120 boats this time, of which 83 small boats were transferred from Yanshui to Luoshui by land within 10 days, and almost all of the 1,300 sailors of the battalion were dispatched for a distance of 94 miles, working in shifts day and night, and only then did the transfer of the sailor battalion be completed within the specified time. The other 30 or so ships were civilian ships obtained by Zhou Zhengyu through redemption or requisition, and ten of them were purchased from the big merchants of Yanzhou downstream, using Chen Zhe's connections, and these merchants who were preparing to actively enter the market of Yanzhou Prefecture naturally would not easily let go of this rare opportunity to befriend General Li.

With the cooperation of the sailor battalions, the logistical supply of the troops was much easier, and 1,000 combat troops marched west along the river valley, and the soldiers on the water got up early in the morning to make breakfast for the combat troops and waited, and only after the troops finished their meals and went on the road did they begin to pack up the camp and take care of their baggage, and then they got on the boat, sailed westward, rushed to the predetermined camp site in front of the troops, and set up camp and prepared dinner before the arrival of the large troops. As a result, the combat troops had to spend almost no physical effort on camping, marched 30 to 40 miles a day, and had ready-made tents to live in and hot meals to eat as long as they arrived at the predetermined camping site. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were accustomed to having soldiers to assist in the battle, were just right, but the veterans of the Zhejia Army who were marching with the Yanzhou Army for the first time were quite curious about all this. This march was the most comfortable march for them, and before entering the Gyeongju boundary, it was basically not a march, but only a hiking tour......

A navy is expensive, but on the Loess Plateau, once you have one, it will be very convenient in many cases.

Most of the roads in the highlands and mountains are built along those large and small river valleys, and most of the farmland and villages are distributed along these river valleys. The two counties of Yan'an and Fushi are located on the alluvial plain formed by the confluence of several rivers.

Marching along the roads of the river valley, if there is a naval army, the efficiency of military mobilization will be greatly increased.

This time, because there was a combat mission, Li Wenge did not arrange for the whole army to go to Gyeongju by boat, and the infantry and cavalry were all landlubbers, and it was not necessarily more comfortable to take the waterway than to take the dry road, and vomiting for three or four days was enough to vomit a unit down.

But since there is a water army, then you can save time and energy as much as possible.

Free troops from non-combat-related matters.

The generals who accompanied the army, in addition to the fine seal Minda, who commanded the cavalry, were the overall commander and the supreme commander of the two battalions of the Ori family. This symbolic figure of the alliance between the Eighth Route Army and the Zhejia Army is by no means a vase. The seventeen-year-old boy did not feel the slightest discomfort in the face of the battle of Jin Ge Iron Horse, and Li Wenge even felt that this kid adapted better than himself.

The first time I killed someone, I was only nine years old!

This is what Zhi Yuqing himself said.

Qin Wuyang killed people at the age of thirteen, and was written into history by Sima Qian, and the doll in front of him was already a murderer at the age of nine. Li Wenge secretly sighed in his heart, the war was chaotic. What kind of experience has it brought to the world......

In the strategic position of Fuzhou surrounded by enemies on three sides, Li Wenge believed that everyone in the state could be transformed into a qualified soldier at any time when necessary, not to mention that he had guarded Fuzhou for 50 years with his martial arts heirloom.

Even so, the murderous Folded Yuqing at the age of nine still made Li Wenge feel a certain deep sadness.

When he was nine years old, he was already able to steadily hold the eighty-one bar and score more than 80 rings, which is rare, but Li Wenge himself knows that it is not the same thing as killing people.

Fold Yuqing is young. Therefore, he has the vigor and learning ability that the veterans of the folding family do not have.

For several months, this young man was eagerly learning the new things that the new marshal had brought to the local army of this era. Spent three months on the Luziguan front. The number of exchanges with the party made Zhi Yuqing even more fascinated by Li Wenge's training strategy.

In fact, as a child of the folding family. He could see at a glance that although the combat power of the Eighth Route Army was strong, it was not strong enough to surpass the veterans of the Folded Family who had survived a hundred battles. What Zhi Yuqing admired was Li Wenge's tactical concept of killing and wounding as many enemies as possible while preserving his own vital strength as much as possible.

In the training codex drafted by Li Wenge, it was emphatically emphasized that the most basic combat capability of the troops was the ability to engage the enemy with a hand-to-head battle, and that the troops that did not dare to rush forward to engage the enemy in a direct face-to-face battle would always be second-rate troops. For the battle-hardened young man, this is much more profound than the new recruits who have just been recruited from the boot camp.

However, in the use of troops, Li Wenge's seriousness and prudence were astonishing, and the almost extremely conservative combat style made Zhi Yuqing quite unimpressed at first. At the strategic level, Li Wenge demanded that his troops must have the courage and ability to launch a frontal attack on the enemy at all times and at all times, but in terms of tactical command, Li Wenge rarely gave such orders, and almost everyone in the high-ranking officers of the Eighth Route Army, including Shen Chen and others, imperceptibly accepted Li Wenge's concept of using troops

Every soldier is precious, and it is irresponsible to put the lives of soldiers at risk unless necessary.

The Eighth Route Army's operational thinking was extremely simple, that is, to give full play to all advantages to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible, and never seek gains or losses in one city or one place at the expense of the increase in the casualty rate of the troops.

The army is the most valuable resource at any time, and veterans who have experienced the battlefield are a treasure, and Li Wenge will never easily sacrifice his treasure.

This is a new concept in this era, and the value of veterans is the consensus of all those who know the soldiers, but not all excellent generals will elevate this value to this height.

Li Wenge did not pay much attention to commanding in battle. He himself doesn't seem to be good at this, but he places great emphasis on gathering intelligence and planning for marches before the war. In the Eighth Route Army, the freewheeling military order is something that this army hates from top to bottom, even in the highly accidental Battle of Yinzhou, Shen Chen, who made a decision on the spot, still held a brief military meeting before the battle, and formulated two sets of preparatory strategies, but because the battle went extremely smoothly, these two sets of strategies did not come in handy.

From the current point of view, the preparation strategy at that time was still simple and crude, and the most practical skill that Zhi Yuqing had learned from Li Wenge during this period of time was cartography. The mountains and rivers that are very three-dimensional in the eyes of the Zhe Yuqing have become a series of height lines drawn by Li Wenge with a very simple quill on the new combat map, and at the beginning of the Zhe Yuqing was not very accustomed to it, but as time went by, the leaders of the younger generation of the Zhe family felt more and more the advantages of this new type of map - the battlefield was divided into narrow grids one by one, and the accuracy of the arrangement of troops on these grids was much stronger than the deployment made by himself with visual sense.

Of course, the battle-hardened Zhi Yuqing knows that people's eyes can sometimes deceive themselves.

So the young man began to learn arithmetic and geometry to a limited extent, and began to clumsily learn to use the instruments that seemed to him to be inexplicably wonderful in their own making.

In the two months after Li Wenge left Yanzhou for the capital, Zhi Yuqing finally believed in the victory or defeat of the war. The amount of land that can be achieved in advance can be determined by precise calculations.

The true meaning of war is nothing more than two, one counts. As a soldier of this era, Zhe Yuqing was very familiar with the latter, and he originally thought that he was equally proficient in the former, after all, he had already made clear the basic military principle of not winning before winning at a very young age. But he never knew that war could still be counted like this. When it comes to calculating numbers one by one, it is like a mercenary businessman, a trader who must compare baht, and calculate it clearly and every minute.

Sometimes Zhe Yuqing can't help but wonder a little, it's all so clear, will there be suspense in the war?

This did not prevent him from continuing to work in this calculation, because the more accurate the calculation, the greater the certainty of victory and the greater his confidence.

Now the land is folded by the Imperial Secretary. There are twelve men under him, six of whom are responsible for compiling scouts and other information and marking them on military maps. There were also six people who made all kinds of deductions and speculations about the movement and arrangement of troops on both sides of the enemy. Based on the results of the work of these subordinate young officers, he drew up corresponding battle plans and drafted corresponding battle orders.

These twelve people are all children of some literate and hyphenated families. After the training and study of the Liutao Pavilion in Fenglin Mountain, unlike those old and rough grass-roots officers, these young people who lead soldiers are slightly immature and have a relatively strong ability to accept new military concepts and surface operations. Although they are still the lieutenants of Jiupin, Zhi Yuqing believes that in time, these people will become famous generals in the future, different from other so-called famous generals in this era.

In Zhe Yuqing's view, the core purpose of the education model of Liutaoguan under the leadership of Li Wenge is to forge mediocre talents into famous generals who command the army through strict training and standard training.

Although this army is still only a few thousand troops, including only more than 2,000 combatants, it has already gained some military atmosphere to some extent.

Looking back at the fold army that he had stayed in for seven or eight years by this standard, Zhe Yuqing was a little dissatisfied.

Until now, Zhi Yuqing has always believed that the performance of his soldiers on the battlefield is still better than that of the Eighth Route Army.

But this alone did not make him relieved, and he had a feeling in his heart that Li Wenge's army was catching up bit by bit, and was gradually narrowing the gap with the Zhejia army. The speed of this change is not fast, but it is very uniform, in contrast, as the world's strongest army, the Zhejia army is stagnant at the moment, this situation continues, one day the combat power of the Eighth Route Army will surpass the Zhejia army, and this gap will become wider and wider.

The strength of the Zhejia army is the strength of the secular eyes, and the Zhejia army is essentially still on the level of the feudal army in this era.

However, the progress of the Eighth Route Army was something that was beyond this era, and Yu Qing even had a premonition that in time, this army would eventually leave all other armies, including the Jingshi Forbidden Army, far behind.

What exactly did Li Wenge want to do to build such a new type of army? There have been several secret discussions within the top management of the Ori family. pack

The important generals of the family, including the generals of the uncles, were worried that the army of the family would be merged in the future.

For these views, Zhi Congruan's reaction was very indifferent, only once, in private, the old Linggong sighed and said to Zhi Yuqing that the status of Fuzhou was too embarrassing, with the Khitan in the east, the party in the south, and the Hui and other tribes in the west, just on the side of the couch of the Northern Han Dynasty. If there is no reinforcement. It is difficult for the family to support it for a long time. Although the imperial court in Bianjing is currently favored by the Zhe family, in the final analysis, it is just a mutual use. The rise of Li Wenge is the most important event in Guanzhong in recent years, and how to deal with the relationship with Li Wenge will become the key to the fate of the family in the next few decades. Zhi Congruan asserted that it was only a matter of time before the new Yanzhou Domain Town turned against the central government, and the Zhi family was on his couch side, and since he was powerless to prevent its rise, it was always beneficial and harmless to be able to preserve some incense with him......

The family is lonely and hangs outside the territory, and nothing can be expected to be helped by the orthodox court, unless the world is unified in the future, which is another matter. But as long as the Khitan is not destroyed one day, the sixteen states of Youyun cannot be recovered, and the broken family cannot be comfortable.

In the long run. The Zhi family needs Li Wenge, a friend who will become stronger and stronger in the future, about this, Zhi Congruan wrote three secret letters to Zhi Deyan in a row, the old man hoped that after his death, the friendship and alliance between the Zhi family and Li Wenge could continue for a long time.

This is not only an expectation of the development of the Eighth Route Army, but also a prediction of the future development of Yanzhou Domain. The strength of an army is not yet in the eyes of this old guy, but the rapid development and expansion of Yanzhou for more than a year has made him think deeply. The old man was keenly aware that Li Wenge was not just a general who could lead troops, this was the most important point.

Since they didn't know what he wanted to do, the only option for the Ori family was to quietly crouch beside this increasingly powerful ally, quietly waiting to watch, and watch what happened.

After all, at present, among the feudal towns in the world, Li Wenge is the only one who has the ability to contain the party members and reduce the military pressure in the southwest of Fuzhou.

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The Eighth Route Army sent troops this time had a total of five capitals, three cavalry and two infantry.

As the supreme commander of the cavalry battalion, he personally led the capital. Kang Shishi led the first capital, and the other capital was led by Zhang Guizhi.

Both infantry units are being served by Jing Hai and Di Huaiwei respectively.

Jing Hai was a veteran who joined the army before the Layue Mutiny in the first year of Guangshun.

During the first battle of Luziguan, he was still a military commander. The second time, he was promoted to a senior because of his bravery in combat, and by June last year, the unit was reorganized and a regimental structure was established. With outstanding performance, he was promoted to the team and participated in the Battle of Yinzhou. After returning to Yanzhou, he was transferred to the Liutao Pavilion to study and train, and was appointed as the captain of the cadet team by virtue of his qualifications and military merits, after the Liutao Pavilion dropped out, he was transferred to the Luziguan front line to continue to serve as the captain of his original team, until this reorganization, Shen Chen promoted him again, and directly appointed him as the capital of the infantry of the Fushi Regiment, commanding two teams of one hundred infantry.

Di Huaiwei's qualifications are older than Jing Hai, he was one of the several chiefs when Li Wenge was in charge of the C team at the beginning, at the beginning of the training because of gambling problems and miscalculation of Li Wenge's determination to lose the post of chief, start from the small soldier again, participated in almost all major military operations since the Luziguan March, Guangshun in the first year of the Layue mutiny, he risked being shot by the soldiers of Jiedu Mansion and climbed over the wall to enter Jiedu Mansion to open the door for the brothers outside the house.

After many battles, this gambler, who was hated by Li Wenge at the beginning, now commands two teams of 100 troops, and his military rank has also been promoted to the rank of Imperial Captain, which he has obtained by virtue of his exploits in several battles by beheading the fourth rank and being wounded twice. His appointment was proposed by Shen Chen to be approved by Zhe Yuqing, of course, Zhou Zhengyu, as the deputy marshal of the Eighth Route Army, also said a few good words for him, after all, he was a veteran-level veteran, and the appointment was approved at the reorganization meeting.

Before the appointment was issued, Wei Xun personally talked to him, probably because he knew a lot about his previous vices, and also knew that Li Wenge did not like this person very much, Wei Xun talked to him for a whole hour, and twenty infantry were all right, and he was the only one who won this honor.

In the march to Gyeongju this time, Li Wenge saw this former soldier at a glance, and he also specially called Di Huaiwei over to inquire, but he did not show a face to Di Huaiwei as everyone imagined, but comforted a few words.

According to the regulations, the officers who hold the position of the capital must go through the training of the Liutao Pavilion, and Di Huaiwei is an exception, and when he returns from Gyeongju this time, Shen Chen and others will arrange for him to enter the Liutao Pavilion cadet team to make up the class.

This time Shen Chen did not accompany him, although the operation of Gyeongju is very important, but the defense of Luzi Pass is the lifeline of Yanzhou, and it is really a little uneasy to sit without Shen Chen to sit in Li Wenge, so this time he chose Zhi Yuqing as the commander-in-chief of the marching operation.

On the third day of departure from Jincheng, the army entered the territory of Huai'an County, which was under the jurisdiction of Gyeongju, and there was a small section of the Great Wall built by the Qin Dynasty.

"Please come to the military ——! of the meeting"

Li Wenge walked into the set up Chinese military tent, and immediately turned around and instructed the heralds around him.