Chapter 82: The Autumn Harvest is Busy
At dusk, I heard the sound of fighting in the west, and found reinforcements arriving in the east. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info horse reinforcements were not polite, just spread out all their troops, ate the reinforcements cleanly, a whole regiment, and then marched to this place. Along the way, it should be the "enemy" who thought it was reinforcements, and he was defenseless, and he directly killed to the north of the vital area, and then it was equivalent to stabbing the "enemy" from behind. World War I.
Ma Yuan learned about Ma Biao's "casualties" and said: "There are basically no casualties in my hands now, and there are three complete regiments, you have lost too much here, defend here, I will take these three regiments and go directly to Dongshan." The Dongshan garrison is at most one regiment, let's not give them time to react. ”
Ma Biao agreed, and Ma Yuan hurried east with his men and horses. The soil waist connected by the two mountains has a total of 6 miles, and in less than half an hour, the horse aid has reached the east mountain. Ma Yuanchuan ordered, don't fall in love with the battle, quickly surround it, and now our army has an absolute advantage in numbers. Everything should be done to encircle the superior, because according to the rules, being surrounded is equivalent to the destruction of the "enemy", and now that there is a numerical advantage, it is necessary to surround the "enemy" as soon as possible.
There were no "enemy soldiers" on the main road, and perhaps they focused on dealing with the enemy down the mountain. The horse aid advanced rapidly, and the "enemy's" camp was already in front of him, and the lights were bright before the camp, and many "enemy troops" were converging, and they were about to march there.
The whole army of horse reinforcements quickened their pace and surrounded this large battalion. Then he walked easily to the open space in front of the large camp, and the torches on both sides shone on the calm face of Ma Yuan. Above the open space, it was probably Li Xiaoquan who was gathering military horses, probably preparing for the last fight. As a result, just after the gathering was completed, this side was surrounded by soldiers from three regiments of Ma Yuan.
Li Xiaoquan's face was darker and colder under the light of the torches, and his eyes were staring at Ma Yuan. His eyes were like sharp arrows, and he shot his horse up and down like a hedgehog. Ma Yuan said with a smile: "Commander Li, it seems that you have to listen to my arrangement below." ”
Li Xiaoquan sighed, shook his head and said, "Hey, careless, careless, regret not listening to Wu Han's words." ”
Ma Yuan said with a smile: "Victory or defeat is a common thing, why bother too much, besides, the training of troops mainly depends on other aspects, not victory or defeat, General Li should not be too relieved." ”
Li Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and said, "I really hope I said this to you." ”
Li Xiaoquan's Dongshan troops were all captured, and Ma Yuan captured almost all of Dongshan's troops in two separate times, and he suffered almost no casualties. Dongshan was also the place where Li Xiaoquan hoarded grain and grass, and Ma Yuan quickly sent people to accept the defense, and then sent people to Nanshan to inform Wu Kui Jingang and others in Nanshan. Inform them that the grain and grass have been controlled by themselves, and ask them to make their own decisions, and whether they want to guard the mountain or not.
Jiang Hexing also got the news at the same time, and immediately ordered that the battle of attacking the mountain is over, there is no need to fight again, even if Wu Kui and the others defend the Nanshan, it is meaningless, there is no grain and grass, what is the possibility of guarding the mountain? End as soon as possible, and each other can save some face, after all, military training is not a real battle, and they can't let Wu Kui and them be captured by Ma Yuan like Li Xiaoquan.
The whole army returned to Xiuwu City, and the training entered the second stage, where the cavalry was contested, and each division drew a regiment. On the grassland, practice long-distance running. Each regiment should bring its own 10 days of dry rations, march south, see the farthest that regiment can go, compete according to the point system, and deduct points if you fall behind, after 10 days, whoever has the most men and horses left in the army, and who runs the farthest is considered to win. After 10 days, it turned out that Wu Kui's army won the first place under the leadership of Wu Han, followed by Ma Yuan, and Ma Biao's team was the worst.
Later, he practiced heavy cavalry, which was compared to who ran faster in a short period of time, or Wu Kuijun won, Ma Yuan second, and Li Xiaoquan third. Ma Biao's team did not have heavy cavalry, seeing the majesty of their several teams, they immediately proposed to Jiang Hexing that they should also be formed, so that they could give the enemy a fatal blow at a critical time, Jiang Hexing took it right, and gave Ma Biao an order, after this training, a militia regiment was formed near the summer capital. His army was to be stationed near Mingwu, and Ma Biao was happy to accept the order.
Then they competed in bows and arrows, mounted archery, and infantry archery, and Ma Yuan's men won a great victory. Li Xiaoquan was second, Ma Biao was third, and although Wu Kui's troops had many archers, there were few high-level archers, so they could only take the last place.
Then they competed in other sports, from strapping backpacks to how to bury pots and cook food, etc., as long as there are things involved in the army, there are competitions in military training. Everyone didn't feel nervous, they just felt that it was very fun, and they learned a lot from the brother troops.
Finally, under the unified command of Zhang Jie, the whole army practiced attacking the city, how to advance, how to retreat, and how to respond, and practiced for half a month.
After a few days of drizzle, the sky finally cleared. Everyone knew that in the next two days, Wu Han would lead his men and horses to demonstrate how to break the city.
In the afternoon of this day, the sun was still shining, and the southern wall of Xiuwu City was empty. From the south side of the city wall, all the officers and men of the exercise were at least a mile away, lined up in a neat queue to watch the performance of Wu Han and others.
I saw Wu Han with 10 people, pushing a car, and there was a white wooden box on the car. The wooden box was covered by a curtain in front of it, so it must not be visible from the city wall. These 10 men, fully armoured, each holding a shield to cover their heads, while pushing the cart forward. It's not about raising your shield and looking at the road ahead.
There were also two squads of warriors around these 10 people, also full of armor, holding a shield in their left hand and a shovel in their right hand.
It was these 20 soldiers who were the first to reach under the city wall, each put down his shield, and began to dig the ground with a shovel in his hand. It had just rained, the ground was not hard, and soon a big hole was dug by the city wall, and some people jumped into it to continue digging, it seems that these boys are going to dig through the city wall?
After a while, Wu Han came over with the car, the tunnel had been dug, and the car was pushed into the tunnel, just under the city wall. After a while, everyone saw that a long rope was pulled out of the tunnel, and the excavators had already evacuated first, and Li Xiaoquan and the people pushing the cart lit the rope at the scene, and watched the rope snorting towards the city wall. Li Xiaoquan waved his hand, and everyone ran back to the team.
The rope was burning very slowly, and everyone saw that the rope was burning slowly enough. Everyone had to hold their breath, and at this time, the small squad leaders and platoon leaders kept passing down orders, ordering everyone not to shut up, open their mouths, and cover their ears. Everyone's mouths were tired, and they all wanted to yawn, when they saw the rope enter the tunnel.
Everyone waited, not daring to blink their eyes, looking at the city wall, and then at the tunnel, counting in their hearts, to see how long it would explode, and how powerful it was.
Time seemed to stop, and the sun in the sky was still scorching, but no one felt his presence. Everyone was waiting, and suddenly, there was a loud bang, like the sky was cracking, and everyone was unresponsive. I just looked at the front stupidly, and at the city wall in front of me, black smoke rose, and I couldn't see anything, and the smell of smoke diffused. A fire broke out at the city wall, and a mushroom-like cloud of fire arose, and the light of the fire grew bigger and brighter in the black smoke. The earth was like an earthquake, and although the warriors were at least a mile away, they still felt the earth shake significantly, and many people had fallen without paying attention.
In the midst of the black smoke, the city wall could not be seen clearly, and I did not know what the situation was. After a long time, the black smoke cleared, and everyone found that the city wall had not moved, but was still standing there safely.
Everyone's eyes are focused on Wu Han. Wu Han was also the first experiment, he thought that he would definitely be able to win a big victory, and the city wall would definitely be able to open a big opening, so that soldiers and horses could enter the city. As a result, from a distance, the walls seemed to have not changed much.
Wu Han felt a little fever on his face, and immediately led people to the city wall to take a look. The city wall was obviously damaged, there was a big black hole underneath, about 6 feet wide, but the wall was very thick, and only the bottom was blown open, and there was an obvious large crack on it, and there were many small cracks. After Wu Han saw it, he went to Jianghexing, Wu Kui and other generals to report the situation.
After hearing this, Jiang Hexing smiled and asked the army to disband. He took a cadre of generals to observe again, and after reading it, Jiang Hexing took everyone back to Xiuwu City and held a meeting to comment on the situation of the large-scale military training.
Jiang Hexing looked at the generals at the table, turned his head to look at Wu Kui and said, "Wu Kui, I have an idea, how about you take a look?" ”
Wu Kui said: "And the king, if you have an order, just say it." ”
Jiang Hexing said: "We have conducted a good training this time, conducted drills in all aspects, and made full preparations for future wars. But what, this blasting city, obviously the preparation is not good enough, I want to hand over this task to Wu Han, what do you think? ”
Wu Kui smiled faintly: "He Wang, this was originally what we didn't do well, and it is said that we should continue to do it well, it is our duty." ”
Jiang Hexing said: "You are stationed here, the original task was to deal with the Xianbei people, but now there is no Xianbei anymore, and there will only be the Xiongnu family in the future." To deal with them, there is no need for siege battles, as long as the cavalry, light cavalry and heavy cavalry together, it is estimated that it will be enough. But for the sake of the future, I want to fall Wu Han out, his future goal is not to deal with the Huns, but to study how to break the city here in Xiuwu City, you have no opinion, right? ”
Wu Kui said: "It is my honor for Wu Han to be reused with Wang, how can I have an opinion?" ”
Jiang Hexing nodded and said: "Very good, in the future, Wu Han will be specially stationed in Xiuwu City, studying the blasting of the city, when it will be successful, when will it be reported, and when will I promote you to be the division commander." ”
Jiang Hexing said this and looked at Wu Han. That Wu Han didn't have an excited expression, on the contrary, he was a little ashamed, he heard Jiang Hexing's encouragement, and quickly stood up and said: "King He, if you can't blast the city with cloud thunder, I would like to come and see you." ”
Jiang Hexing said: "Groping slowly, don't be in a hurry, besides, it's not particularly fast to transport gunpowder from Xianwu, don't say anything about coming to see you at every turn in the future." I am not willing to kill my enemies, let alone my own brothers. You study it slowly, this Martial Arts City is not crowded for a week, and not too many people will know how you practice yourself. I'm leaving your unit for big use, and you have to know it in your heart. ”
Wu Han nodded again and again, and didn't say much.
Jiang Hexing glanced at the crowd: "Our training is over, although our army has also fought, but we have not fought a major battle, attacking mountains and attacking cities, I just let everyone get acquainted with it." In fact, I have an idea that I want to tell you, that is, in the future, when we encounter such a strong city, or a dangerous obstacle, we can see if we can bypass it and not fight? ”
Ma Biao said: "If this is the case, I am afraid that the supply of grain and grass behind me will be controlled by the enemy." Although our cavalry can run long distances, for more than ten days in a row, without major replenishment, but the infantry can't, and the grain, grass, and baggage still have to be transported from the rear. ”
Jiang Hexing: "The surrounding area of Mingwu is also full of grasslands, you set up a convoy by yourself to transport supplies and baggage, and see how much baggage our army can carry." Also, my goal is to march along the river and supply by boat, so that we can reduce a lot of casualties. ”
Ma Yuan said: "What does the king mean, in the future, we can use ships in the big war, and the supplies will all depend on the ships, and then after our army goes ashore, we will control the transportation lifeline of the enemy army, and then we can basically win without a fight." ”
Jiang Hexing nodded and said: "That's it, we have to give full play to our own advantages, and we must use all the advantages along the river, along the river, and along the coast." In this way, the transportation of troops is also fast, the supply is also safe, and it can also bypass the enemy's heavy troops. They can't cut us off our supplies, but if we go around, we'll cut off their supplies. As for some places, such as the land of the Huns, if there is a war one day, our big supply still depends on herds, but if we want to march quickly, we must have a convoy to cooperate, which is also the reason why I transferred Ma Biao Dao Mingwu. ”
Everyone understood the meaning of Jiang Hexing, and came up with a lot of good ideas, about military training, about supplies, and Li Xiaoquan proposed that all officers of the army take turns to go to military academies for training, because there are more and more ways to transport troops in new ways, and if the officers are unable to understand and adapt, I am afraid that it will be too late in the future.
Jiang Hexing gladly accepted Li Xiaoquan's proposal, and after discussing with the generals to rotate and train officers, he issued an order to select cadets from among the militia, even those who had never really been in the army, to reserve grassroots officers for the future. After all this was done, the troops began to withdraw. Jiang Hexing and Zhang Jie together led the recruits to Zhangwu City. Along the way, autumn has burned all over the grassland, a golden field and trees, which looks unique.