On the one hand, there are completely different training factors for this army and the Han army of this era, and on the other hand, the luck of this new army is relatively good, and it did not meet the Tuoba strong soldiers who can fight well in the first battle, and the most important thing is that the battle is basically a preset operation on the position that has been arranged in the front battalion, and the whole process and mode are like a neat and happy exercise. Such a battle can be encountered but not sought, and the first battle of the front battalion out of the mountain should be regarded as good luck.

This time, though, the good fortune of Lee* and his officers and soldiers ran out.

When they saw that the enemy had been standing in front of the trench and watching but never attacked, the officers of the front battalion knew that this time there was not so much advantage to take advantage of, and the hard-dug defensive facilities could only play a role during the day, and as soon as the sun set, these facilities would be useless, and even with the ability of fine sealing Minda, it would be difficult to use the crossbow machine to aim and shoot at night in the dark, and the most powerful defensive weapons of the Luzi Pass defenders were unlikely to play a large role in killing and injuring the enemy in this new battle.

In the evening, Lee*, who was well aware of the situation, convened a meeting of the officers again, and this time even the officers of the supervising army and some of the older commanders were also notified to participate in the military meeting. At the meeting, Lee* unabashedly gave a brief explanation of the grim situation facing the officers, and asked them to be prepared to defend the city pass, and through these officers, Lee* hoped that through these officers they would be able to carry out a final decisive mobilization of the troops.

After the end of the last battle, Jing Hai was promoted to the commander, the lack of veterans made the former battalion in the Shiwu and other grass-roots officers can not be filled, before for the needs of training, some veterans who participated in the Layue Mutiny were appointed as the commanders of several recruit teams, and these recruits have not yet set up a chief until the first time they participated in the war seven days ago, after the last battle, the meritorious personnel of the whole army have been rewarded with meritorious ranks, and some outstanding captains have been promoted. Although the chief is one level older than the Wu chief, he still has not yet gotten rid of the concept of "the head of the soldier and the tail of the general", and like the chief of the army, this is still a position that directly contacts the grassroots soldiers.

In the army of this era, the Shiwu one-to-one system was implemented, that is, one chief personally led a team, and concurrently took charge of another army with a team commander. Lee* did not destroy this primitive mode of compilation. After all, a company in his era had a strength of 100 to 200 people, which was basically equivalent to a battalion that was not properly organized in this era, so the density of three non-commissioned officers among 10 people was too dense, which did not conform to the characteristics and actual conditions of the army in this era.

Jing Hai went down the city and walked into the makeshift barracks, and at the sound of his command, the nine soldiers who had already eaten in advance quickly stood up and stood in a row.

Jing Hai glanced at the soldiers, most of whom had already experienced the previous battle, and his gaze finally rested on the faces of two recruits who had just been recruited, which made the two rookies who had not been in battle a little nervous. Jing Hai smiled bitterly, took a deep breath and prepared to speak......

But he didn't know what to say, he hadn't studied, and he wasn't usually good at speaking, even when he was the commander of the army, he basically didn't say more than half a word except for the password prescribed during training.

But now he had to speak.

“…… It's getting dark, and as soon as it gets dark, we'll go up to the city pass and garrison—"

"Our mission is to defend the two battlements on the city wall—"

"It's our duty not to let the pigs outside the city climb up these two stacks—"

"If you don't have any extra words, as usual, listen to my orders, hold your position, and you'll be fine-"

"Anyone who runs backwards without an order will die immediately - there will be an overseer standing behind you, those bastards are all guys who killed people in the city at the end of last year and set fires without blinking, cut off a handful of deserters in them without even blinking an eye!"

"Those who die at the head of the city will be posthumously awarded the rank of Ninth Rank of the Imperial Court, and his family will be able to obtain fifty acres of land, and he will not have to pay grain for twenty years——"

"The people who died at the hands of the Overseers didn't have any fart, they died in vain—"

Speaking of this, Jing Hai took a deep breath, and basically said everything he felt should be said - although the soldiers basically knew these things.

What the soldiers didn't know, Jing Hai felt that he might not know.

How fierce the enemy is, Jing Hai himself has not seen it, and the group of enemy troops he encountered last time is too vegetable, and he is almost not a strong enemy at all.

"Do you understand—" Jing Hai let out a low growl.

"Understood—" the soldiers replied in a more or less neat and forceful manner.

Two slightly nervous voices were half a beat slower, and it was the two newly recruited soldiers.

Jing Hai glanced at them, then looked at Wu Chang with a little shame on his face, and pointed at the two of them expressionlessly: "When you go to the city wall, the two of you follow me, if you don't want to lose your life, follow ......"

Wu Chang Yu Biao, the two recruits, suddenly blushed, and said loudly: "Report-"

Jing Hai nodded at him and motioned for him to speak, Yu Biao said angrily: "Or I'll take the two of them-"

Jing Hai thought for a while and shook his head: "I'll bring it, you bring the veterans, it's not that you are not worried about you, you don't speak very clearly, the new brother is nervous when he goes into battle for the first time, and he may not be able to hear the order clearly, above the city tower, this is a life-threatening matter......"

As he was talking, Hao Keji, the supervisor of Team A, pushed the door and walked in, with a strange middle-aged man with a white face and a two-handed-eight mustache but wearing a military gown.

"Lizheng - salute!" Jing Hai shouted the password.

All the soldiers immediately saluted with a flat chest, Hao Keji returned the salute solemnly, and the man behind him followed the salute at a loss, but Luo Quan's legs could not stand straight, and the flat-chested salute could not be done.

Hao Keji looked at Jing Hai and asked, "Is the lecture finished?" ”

Jing Hai nodded: "Please supervise the team—"

Hao Keji waved his hand: "I am a prison officer, I dare not give a lecture to the brothers, only the head of the team can give a lecture to the brothers, this is the rule." The big battle is coming, I was ordered by our inspector and supervisor to come and see everyone, you are the main force of Team A, last time the city defended the city out of a Xiao cavalry lieutenant and six cloud cavalry captains, good performance, if the first living Xiao cavalry lieutenant in the whole battalion can be out of our Shi, it will be a very glorious thing, this-"

He turned around and introduced the middle-aged soldier behind him and said: "This is the copywriter in the battalion, if the brothers want to leave anything for their parents and brothers and sisters, if they have become brothers, if they want to leave anything for their families, tell him, and he will write them down for everyone......"

At first, when he said the ranks, the faces of the two recruits were still very excited, but the veterans were faint; At this moment, as soon as he said the words of the suicide note, the recruit's face suddenly turned gray, but the veteran was still faint.

Hao Keji has been a team supervisor for a month and a half, and he has also experienced a battle, and he has a better understanding of the psychology of these rookies, and he said with a smile: "...... In our ranks, this is not a taboo, the general will inevitably die in battle, not to mention our soldiers? What I do every day is to put my head under my armpit, so I don't have so many taboos, Zhao Xu, Cao Jiu, don't have a dead face, it's not a big deal, after a while, everyone knows that as long as you kill people desperately, there won't be too many chances of being killed, but just be careful......"

After that, the supervisor of Team A waved his hand, stopped talking nonsense, and instructed the copywriter: "Secretary Gongsun, let's start!" ”

The copywriter known as "Secretary Gongsun" hurriedly bowed his hand - he was indeed not very familiar with the new military salute in this army - and said: "Yes...... Be...... My lord! ”。

Looking at the "secretary" spreading out the pen, ink and paper, the soldiers' reactions were different, although the two recruits forced themselves to suppress their nervousness, but their pale faces could not be concealed.

Jing Hai was the first to stand in front of the "secretary" and said: "Tell my father, serve the ten acres of land with your heart, that is earned by his son's life, no need to pay food, serve well, a year's eating, drinking, chewing and wrapping is enough, maybe you can have a little savings, tell us a daughter-in-law......

The veterans smiled knowingly one by one, and the two recruits were also stunned by Jing Hai's extremely "fresh" last words.

Immediately afterwards, the veterans stepped forward one by one and said their "last words".

"Send a letter to my mother, teach her not to howl all day long, our lives are very big, we can't die, how can we earn another ten acres of land this time, if we can fight a few more battles this year, I estimate that our family will be able to afford to hire tenants next year......"

"Tell my wife, tell her to take good care of the baby for us, and don't steal men, otherwise we'll go back and beat her to death......"

"Tell our brother, our Lao Tzu's eyes are not good, don't let Lao Tzu go in the middle of the night, our brother is young and strong, there is no harm in doing more work......"

"Tell Aunt Cui, don't follow your family to escape this year, and when you have saved up enough 20 acres of land, we'll go back and marry her......"

Such wonderful "last words" made Secretary Gongsun stretch his neck and choke, but under Hao Keji's urging, he had to record them one by one......

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The sky was getting dark, looking at the cloudy sky, Li*'s heart sank a little, it seemed that tonight was destined to be a night without moonlight. This is the reason why the enemy has been waiting patiently in front of the trench, and it seems that a fierce battle is inevitable tonight. Although they are not completely unprepared for this, it is still difficult to say how much chance they have in the face of the formidable Tuoba army.

The air was warm and moist, and it seemed to smell like a heavy rain was coming. Although the rain would cause some obstacles to the enemy's attack, it would probably have a greater impact on his own group of soldiers who had not been trained for a long time, so Lee* could not help but pray in his heart, hoping that this would be a night that was not too difficult in comparison.

As the sky darkened little by little, the soldiers of the armored team began to march up to the city, and the veterans of the third team still played the role of supervising the battle team this time, but this time everyone put a wooden bucket full of water beside them, which was used to prevent the enemy from throwing torches at the city. Judging by the fact that the enemy in front of him calmly waited for dark, Lee* estimated that the enemy troops would not have raised fire when they crossed the trench area, but they would have lit torches before entering the city.

It is one thing to cross a trench under the cover of night, and quite another to go out into the city in the dark on a night without moonlight, the former being clever and the latter being stupid and lacking common sense.

The cavalry armor on the enemy's body can't stop the crossbow arrows, but it still has a good defense against the bow and arrow, fortunately, several of Li *'s teams are all infantry teams, and he has no plans to set up an archery team for the time being.

As the sky changed, the visual distance of the defenders at the head of the city was rapidly decreasing, and now even the people at the head of the city could no longer see the situation at the farthest ditch no matter how hard they looked, and as for the enemy's movements, they were basically completely invisible.

The most basic judgment can only be made, without the sound of a large number of dense horses' hooves, the enemy brigade should not have left.

Shaking his head to dispel his last bit of illusion, Li* turned his head to the cliff on the left - I hope Shen Chen and they can lurk a little better......

According to the judgment of the fine seal Minda, there should be at least ten or more harriers among the five hundred centaurs of the Tuoba family this time, and the general lurking and ambush in front of these scouts are basically looking for their own death, unless they are relatively strong in terms of troops, which will make the enemy dare not easily go deep in the face of the ambush, but this tactic is not realistic, at least for the front battalion that is not superior in strength.

Therefore, although the military village on the mountainside on the left side has been repaired and can garrison troops, neither Li * nor Shen Chen thinks that it is a safe choice. For soldiers who have not been trained for a long time, they can defend the city pass that is attacked by the enemy on one side, but they can never hold the fortress that is theoretically attacked on all sides.

The terrain of the place where the fortress is located is not steep, and even the party members who are not good at fighting in the mountains do not have much difficulty to climb up, and there is not much difference between setting up an ambush in that kind of place and committing suicide.

The only place to choose is the towering cliff within a hundred steps in front of Luzi Pass, on which to set up an ambush, as long as it is well hidden, the party members can never find it just by looking up below, and if the harriers want to reconnoiter above, it is absolutely unrealistic to climb head-on, they either climb up from the not so steep and not so steep side of the west side of Tumen Mountain for nearly 30 miles, or they can only dig out nests one by one on the loess mountain wall and then climb up by stepping.

There is a vertical drop of more than 20 meters between this steep mountain wall and the gentle slope more than 100 steps away, and it is easy to set up an ambush on it, but it is extremely difficult to rush down from this cliff to attack the enemy, and it is not much different from committing suicide by jumping off the cliff. The Tuoba family has never had the habit of detouring south, so although the road of Luziguan can no longer be familiar, there is basically no concept of the surrounding mountain paths that have no strategic value (horses are extremely difficult to pass), and to completely explore the nearby topography, it takes enough manpower and time.

It is already very rare for the Zhangwu army to dare to go out of the city to fight in the field when its own side is defeated and retreat, and it dares to go out of the city to set up an ambush when it still maintains a complete structure, which has never appeared in Tuoba Guangyuan's life for more than 20 years.

Shen Chen personally led a hundred soldiers of Team B and Team D who had field experience to lurk on the top of the cliff at this moment, they had been lurking on it for nearly six hours, and the soldiers were strictly ordered to limit themselves to their own hiding points, not to make any slightly larger movements, and it was strictly forbidden to talk and talk, and even urine and urine could only be solved on the spot.

For a professional army, a flock of startled birds, a few frightened mountain rats scurrying around, these are enough phenomena to trigger the whole army to be on alert. Even at a height of dozens of feet above the enemy's head, Shen Chen was still cautious as if he was squatting beside the enemy.

Hidden in the grass and trees on the top of the cliff for so long, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all in place, everyone smells and smells bad, this kind of latent may not have a lot of exercise, but it is still a very physically exhausting act, at this moment the sun has entered the mountain, and from time to time there are soldiers sleeping in the darkness, and they need to keep waking up from their companions to avoid really falling asleep.

The enemy army that came this time was obviously not comparable to those rookies before, the army was assembled in front of the pass and did not set up a village, but basically could not hear the sound of private talking, and there were swimming sentinels on the slopes of the flanks and flanks from time to time, monitoring the situation around, not a large army of tens of millions of people, even if the warning distance of five hundred horses was only a few hundred paces enough.

When the ambush needs to be lurked and then launched, and whether it is launched or not, it is necessary to have an accurate judgment of the battlefield situation, which is the main reason why this ambush must be led by Shen Chen himself. Although the current officers' meetings have to be recorded in detail every time, and a few literate soldiers are gradually practicing making plans, there is still a long way to go before a relatively complete staff headquarters can be established, so the current command still depends on the commander's on-the-spot performance.

In this regard, Shen Chen was undoubtedly the only choice among all the officers in the front battalion.

The sky was getting darker, and each commander could hardly see anyone else except for the soldiers around him, and the sky was like a dark cauldron overhead, so dense that no gaps were exposed, and the bright moonlight on weekdays was blocked behind the heavy cloud curtains......

Suddenly there was a noise at the bottom of the mountain, and it seemed that the soldiers who had been sitting and resting stood up, and with their movements, the iron pieces attached to the leather armor made a sound, and then it seemed that one of them shouted again, and it was too far away to hear clearly, but it was clear to both the people at the head of the city and the people who were lying in ambush at the top of the cliff that the enemy was about to begin to attack the city......

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Well, just write about the war with a headache, alas...... Continue canvassing