Among the more than 100 captives who were captured, only about 20 were party members, and the remaining 100 or so were Han slaves from the Yeli tribe. The highest position among the party captives was Yeli Ancuo, his military rank was "Cheng Mo", and there were eight tent soldiers under his command, this young Yeli nobleman was quite tough in battle, and it took Ling Pu a lot of effort to catch him, and several soldiers of Team B did not take the knife from his hand until he pulled his arm off the ring, but other than that, this kid was not too seriously injured.

After asking for confessions, how to deal with these captives became a troublesome matter, and they were all cut down according to Liang Xuan, but Shen Chen was resolutely opposed, in his words, it was called ominous killing of prisoners. Wei Xun, who was originally the most vocal in this matter from his position, kept his head shut at first, and finally said to Shen Chen slowly: "These party members will not surrender, let alone help us fight like a thin seal, if they are left, they will have to feed them, and they will spend manpower to guard them, and if these people are not careful, they don't know what kind of chaos will be caused when they make trouble, if they don't kill them, it will become a big burden for us......"

Shen Chen was dumbfounded by his words, and turned his gaze to Li * as if asking for help.

Li * smiled bitterly and said, "Wei Xun is right...... That's why I'm not in favor of keeping these party captives behind......"

“…… But—" he changed his words, "although it is convenient to kill them, it is not the best way, and besides, Xifeng is also a party member, so he must always take into account his feelings......"

"Let's exchange them for something affordable...... Li said lightly.

"What?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Let one go back, Guan Yeli's family wants something, anyway, it's also their clansman, let the Yeli family take money, grain, fur, livestock, and horses to ransom them......" Li * said with a slight smile.

“…… These hulls are unruly and difficult to train, and if they are not careful, they will cause trouble—" Wei Xun muttered quietly.

"It's okay, pick out the slaves of the other tribes and give them to the Yeli family, let the fine seal go to rebel against them, Lao Wei, you go to help, and the rest of the Yeli family, after being locked up, tell the guards that each person should only be given a bowl of water for one cake every day, and the cake should be small, not more than the bottom of the bowl, and the water will only be given to the shallow bottom of the bowl, and in a few days, they will not have the strength to toss......" Li * said disapprovingly.

"Pick the youngest one and put it back, and bring a message to their patriarch, these captives, according to the number of soldiers under their control, each soldier has one horse, and the officer has as many horses as he manages, and that Yeli Ancuo, since it is in charge of eight soldiers, even if it is forty-eight horses, it is limited to the Yeli family to come and redeem them within a month, otherwise from the beginning of the month, we will neither give these people food nor water to drink......

Seeing the casual expression on Li *'s face when he spoke, the officers in the room couldn't help but shiver, Shen Chen opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, Li * preemptively said: "Originally, they came to rob us and kill us, to attack our passes, poison our land, burn our villages, plunder our food, and humiliate our women...... Next time they don't have a long memory and will come to make trouble, that is the tiger returning to the mountain, these people are the first time to fight this time, and next time they may be considered veterans, so it is not cost-effective to knock on a stroke, they are full of evil, and there is no pity to die, since they don't kill them, it is already a blessing, and they have to use food to support them, there is no such reason in the world - raising pigs and sheep is to fatten up and eat during the New Year, and raise them...... Do any of you have a good habit of eating human flesh? If there is no politeness, whoever has the habit of taking these captives away from him, Lao Tzu will fight but do not want the ransom, and let the brothers who are good enough to eat......"

Saying that, his gaze swept towards Shen Chen, Shen Chen suddenly felt cold all over his body, and stood up with a smile while enduring the tingling sensation on his scalp, and said in a somewhat nervous tone: "...... That one...... My lord...... Let's see how far they've dug the trenches......"

After that, the commander of the army opened the door and ran away.

Everyone laughed, and Li * shook his head and said to Wei Xun: "How to deal with those Han prisoners, have you thought about it?" ”

Wei Xun hurriedly stood up and said: "The lowly duty has already been thought about, originally it was planned to let them go to the execution and killing, but now that the lord is useful to those Hulu, the lowly think, simply tie the Hulu called Yeli Ancuo to the tree, let the group of party members watch from the side, and each of these Han slaves will whip a whip, and it will be over......"

In other words, before starving, Yelian House had to be whipped more than a hundred times......

Li * couldn't bear to think about it anymore, he coughed dryly: "Let's do it, when will Brother Zhou come over to get someone?" ”

Wei Xun said: "It should come with the cart carrying grain tomorrow, and there is a team of supplementary recruits who come with him, the queue training and combat skills training have been completed, Lu Xun has already trained three teams, this time he sent a team, and the remaining two teams are ready to be temporarily incorporated into the box team, my lord, the box team is now in Luziguan side of the labor group, cooking group, medical team has more than 150 people, and there are more than 100 people who are arranged to repair roads under the name of Gao Daren, plus the carpentry team on the mountain, There are also more than 100 people in the ironwork group who are left behind as cooks, as well as those copywriters and other miscellaneous personnel recruited by adults, and now with the addition of 100 people in the two new teams, the strength of the van team is almost 500 people......

Li * was stunned: "Hmm...... Are there already so many of them? ”

Wei Xun rolled his eyes: "My lord, the strength of the van army is almost double the total number of combat troops in the front battalion, but it is still a team formation, and I think it is unreasonable-"

Li * said with a headache: "But I am only a battalion officer now, and the team level is already the highest military unit I can set up......"

Wei Xun coughed dryly and said, "My lord, does Jiedu Mansion pay the Xiang Soldiers?" ”

Li * suddenly understood, and said with an "oh" voice: "You suggest that I set up a box barracks?" ”

Wei Xun said solemnly: "It's not a suggestion, I think that our army must form a battalion-level box soldier unit, otherwise a 'team' of 500 people is too appalling." Brother Zhou's military rank is the imperial lieutenant, and he is originally an officer at the first level of battalion command, and with his qualifications, it is a fair thing to be the commander of the battalion. ”

"Hmm-" Li * nodded thoughtfully, "Then how many teams are there under the box barracks?" ”

Wei Xun obviously thought about this question carefully before coming to Li * to report, so he answered very fluently: "There are still five teams, one team for labor and one team for cooking, and those trained recruits are also formed into a team, the convoy of escorting grain and grass is formed into a team, and the Lang Zhong who treats the wounded is formed ...... team."

Li * nodded: "The copywriters will be under your control in the future, and a new military position will be set up to be called secretary, and you will be the secretary in charge, and the clerks in the army will be called this name in the future, and the secretary in charge will be concurrently served by the officer in charge of the army." ”

Wei Xun nodded: "I know that there is this official in the Jiedu Mansion." I was also about to say that there should also be a supervising officer in the box barracks, and the affairs in the camp would be too busy for a single person, and a deputy supervisor should be appointed to be the supervisor of the box barracks, and the team supervisors of each team should also be set up ......"

Li * nodded: "You are right, the rank of the officers in the box barracks is half a level lower than that of the front battalion, and the team supervisor of the box barracks has the same rank as the deputy military officer of the front battalion, that is, the captain of the accompanying army, but at the moment I don't have so many edicts in my hand, so let everyone check the school for the time being, as for the rank of the deputy supervisor of the battalion and the supervisor of the box barracks, it will be set as the deputy lieutenant of Renyong, I can appoint this at this moment, do you have a success in your heart?" ”

"Yes - Lou Shaowu, the team supervisor of Team B, this person is very cautious in doing things and speaking, and he can take charge alone!"

"Okay, then I'll order the appointment tomorrow—" Lee* nodded.

Wei Xun said: "My lord, the regulations of my front battalion are different from those of other battalions, and the inspection is actually the meaning of agency, so it is best to use it in ministry dispatch, not in military ranks, it is easy to confuse the upper and lower ranks......

Li* frowned: "Then what should I do?" ”

Wei Xun smiled mysteriously: "My lord, the adults in the front camp have the final say, whether there is an edict from the court or not, as long as the adults say that someone is the team supervisor, the brothers in the camp will treat him as the team supervisor, and no one will not admit it, not to mention, won't the clothes be embroidered with that military rank mark in the future?" ”

Li * suddenly realized the implied meaning of Wei Xun's words, he heard it, smiled and waved his hand: "I know, let's do what you want!" ”

"In addition-Wei Xun, Team C has not set up a team supervisor so far, what's going on? I've been waiting for you to recommend someone for me! ”

Wei Xun was stunned for a moment and said, "Team C's team supervisor, it is not appropriate to meddle in his humble duties!" ”

"Why?" Lee* asked softly.

Wei Xun said: "My lord, Team C is the old foundation brought out by the adults themselves, which is equivalent to the personal soldiers around the adults, and they are ordered to supervise the army, so they can't even supervise the adult's personal soldiers, right?" This non-compliance system is a taboo in the military! ”

Li * sighed softly, it seems that it will take a relatively long process to make this group of people fully accept this new thing, he pondered for a moment, and said: "In this way, since you don't recommend it, then the team supervisor of Team C will be led by you as a battalion supervisor, you must remember that since the military supervision system is a system, there can be no exceptions, and with exceptions, it is no longer a system......

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On the road in front of Luzi Pass, there are now six deep ditches, the nearest one is about 20 steps away from Chengguan, and the farthest one is about 90 steps away from Chengguan. The depth of each ditch is about one person high, but the width varies, the closer the ditch is to the city pass, the wider the ditch, the nearest ditch is about eight steps wide, the farther ditch is relatively narrow, the farthest ditch is only three steps wide, and the horse can jump over after running.

These ditches did not block the road, and each ditch had a road passable, and this road was about two steps wide, and could pass a wagon carrying baggage in one direction, but the road was not straight, and the passage on the first ditch was in the center of the ditch, and the passage on the second ditch was on the westernmost side of the ditch, close to the cliff to the west, and the passage on the third ditch remained at the easternmost end of the ditch, close to the cliff to the east. The passage on the fourth ditch is a third of the way closer to the west side of the ditch, the passage on the fifth ditch is a third of the east section, and the passage of the farthest sixth ditch is left in the center like the first.

The officers had not yet felt it when they began to dig the trench, but by the time the trench was halfway through the trench, they had gradually seen some passages, and although such a trench had a road to pass, its defensive effect and its effect as an obstacle to the enemy's cavalry and infantry were far from comparable to those previously seen, and after seeing the power of the crossbow machine in the battle a few days earlier, almost no one in the front battalion doubted it.

After interrogating the prisoners, the five hundred elite cavalry of the Tuoba family led by Tuoba Guang's distant relatives had been stationed at Qinglingmen, and the troops of the two pillars of the Fang Dang family had been drawn from the direction of Suizhou to the direction of Weiping Pass seven days ago.

Five hundred elite cavalry of the Tuoba family, this information worried the officers who had just calmed down from the joy of victory, and almost all of them understood the gap between the elite of the Tuoba family and the rabble of other tribes with auxiliary soldiers in the Dingyan army. Although this time it was almost easy to defeat the Noriya with the advantage of the defenders, but in the face of the elite Tuoba warriors, who were good at fighting, would the recruits who had only seen the cruelty of the battlefield for the first time a few days ago be able to hold on?

During the military meeting, Xi Feng Minda, a traitor to the party, explained in detail to Li * and others the establishment of the Tuoba family's army and its actual combat strength.

The army of the Tuoba family adopts the tribal military system like the army of other tribes, but the difference is that the main soldiers and deputy soldiers of each copy are not like other tribes on behalf of the combat soldiers and baggage soldiers, in the Tuoba army, the main soldiers and the deputy soldiers are extremely elite and brave soldiers, relatively speaking, the regular soldiers are served by experienced veterans, and the less experienced ones serve as deputy soldiers, the veterans here are relative, and the deputy soldiers of the Tuoba family are also old birds who have been on the battlefield at least four or five times. It is completely different from the logistics baggage soldiers of the Yeli family who are not even accurate in shooting.

The armor of the Tuoba army is quite sophisticated, all of which are obtained from the standard cavalry armor of the Central Plains Dynasty, the generals of the Tuoba family are all wearing Mingguang armor, the cardinals are wearing Shanwen armor, the soldiers are equipped with powerful Tuogmu bows, the arrows used are made of iron, and the regular soldiers are equipped with horse lances (that is, lacquer guns of the Central Plains), and the deputy soldiers are equipped with thick-backed scimitars.

The harriers of the Tuoba family are the first-class elite main force among the eight major tribes of the party, and they are by no means on the same level as the harriers of other families. In terms of quantity and quality, the harriers of the Tuoba family are far above the other seven.

According to the calculations of the fine seal Minda, if the Tuoba family dispatched the troops of the two Shuming this time, the number of harriers in its army should be between twenty and thirty, and the range of scouts and warnings was about thirty to fifty miles.

It's already comparable to a battlefield microwave surveillance system, Li * sighed with his tongue.

The strength of one harrier is so terrifying, twenty to thirty harriers will pounce on it, what kind of terrifying situation will it be......

I'm afraid that just these twenty or so scouts can annihilate all the troops of the front battalion in the field......

The Yeli family has suffered such a big loss this time, how can Tuoba Guangyuan give up......

Therefore, when Shen Chen immediately proposed to dig a trench outside the city, there was almost no opposition in the army.

Lee * against!

What he opposed was not the trench itself, but the implementation plan of digging three wide trenches suggested by Shen Chen, this guy from the future disdainfully called this kind of trench "Desperate Ditch", he believed that it was absolutely undesirable to completely block the trench of traffic, this kind of trench may be able to cause certain casualties to the enemy, and the effect of the same can actually be not great, as long as there is enough manpower, the enemy can fill these trenches one by one before attacking the city.

What's more, this kind of trench will not only hinder the enemy's siege, but also hinder your own counterattack.

So Li * himself made a new trench design scheme, in this scheme Li * modified the original design of three ditches into six ditches, each ditch has a narrow passage in a different position, and these passages are not connected, the enemy cavalry or infantry, if you want to enter the flat area in front of the city gate through this passage have to constantly turn left and right, this distance of more than 60 steps may not be anything for the enemy cavalry, it only takes a blink of an eye to sprint with all your strength, but in the face of such a trench defense line, No matter how strong the enemy army is, he can only go back and forth a few times by one horse, and he can't even think about galloping at full speed, so it will take a cavalryman about two minutes from the beginning of entering the farthest trench to completely leaving the trench area.

It's two minutes without interference......

Unfortunately, the entire trench area was within the crossbow machine's coverage range......

Moreover, the passage is narrow, and even if the enemy army has thousands of troops and horses, they can only pass through one by one.

During these two minutes, all enemy troops entering the trench area were targeted.

Another point that Lee* insisted on was to spread the width of the trench by ladders, much to the bewilderment of all the officers. However, this suggestion actually saved some of the physical strength of the whole army, so no one objected, only Liang Xuan suggested that the farthest trench was too narrow, so narrow that as long as the enemy army jumped at a certain muzzle speed, he could jump through, and basically did not need to go to the middle to squeeze the narrow passage.

In this regard, Li * smiled and did not answer, Xi Feng Minda was thoughtful, and Shen Chen patted Liang Xuan's back with a wicked smile and praised him for finally moving his brain......

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