Volume 8: Chapter 292 of "Mighty Rivers and Mountains": When Habit Becomes Nature......
The dawn of the new day did not make any difference in the world, the sky was still in absolute darkness before dawn, the grassland was still covered with green leaves and dew, the roar of wild beasts suddenly sounded somewhere in the wilderness, and they were attracted by the smell of blood as they had been since the outbreak of war, and the soldiers who had fought desperately on the battlefield were now being dragged to the cave of a certain beast. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
People who have not experienced war imagine that the battlefield is beautiful, they will dream of establishing meritorious deeds before going to the battlefield, but in fact, when they go to the battlefield in person, no one has the time to think about anything, and their only thought left is to seize the time to rest and prepare for the next battle.
Soldiers are tired does not mean that they will fall asleep immediately, especially for recruits It is really difficult for them to fall asleep immediately after experiencing a bloody battle, the tension of the first battle and the scenes of the battlefield experience, they are always replayed in the mind, the fragile nerves continue to accept the torture that cannot be refused, the dilemma of wanting to sleep but not being able to sleep and not being able to get up is simply a lingering nightmare!
"It's hard for him to survive to the end of the battle, right?"
The tone was not indifferent, it was just a little bit of a sense of seeing through the situation, and the owner of the voice was a team leader, who was watching a supplementary soldier stunned at the campfire.
Every soldier has a process from a recruit to a veteran, and this process is really too cruel for a soldier, ten recruits on the battlefield can really live to become a veteran The number is often much less than imagined, and it is estimated that there are three or four left, which means that the quality of the recruits is good.
Sometimes knowing the end doesn't mean you can change it. For example, the team leader knows that a soldier under his command will inevitably die if he goes to the battlefield again, and he has no right to choose, knowing that it is difficult to survive, he must bring the soldier who is not in good condition to fight with others.
"What the tribe needs is brave warriors. It's not a weak coward...... "The team closed his eyes, the old bird who has experienced several battles and survived often knows that physical strength is the basis for surviving as a soldier, he does not pity the qualifications of others but does not mean that he does not have his own ideas, of course he persuaded those supplementary soldiers, but unfortunately the persuasion had no effect, so he said a big truth: "If you can't adapt to death, it's the best result." ”
The pre-dawn darkness was dispelled by the fish white of the east, waiting for the morning sun in the east to reveal half of its body. The Leopard army led by Matan was ready to fight again, as it had done the other day.
It must be noted that the leopard army of Matan's part has been fighting with the Xiongnu in the frontier battlefield of Wumu for more than ten days, and during these ten days, both sides seem to be very satisfied with the current situation, and neither of them has raised the idea of completely defeating the other party.
"It's not that I don't want to! It can't be done at all! There was no bitterness in Martin's tone. He was even a little excited: "The Hun army is constantly reinforced, which shows that our goal has been achieved!" ”
In a state of war, everyone is a pawn in the hands of the supreme commander, and the chess pieces are also weighted or not, and obviously valuable pawns can always get attention. Correspondingly, there are some special treatments. The two Leopard armies engaged in the war with the Xiongnu had already met a day earlier. They share the high efficiency of logistical supply, and of course they have to shoulder a little more responsibility.
Li Lan is also a lieutenant under the Leopard Army, and he hesitated: "Now that the Hun army has increased to 15,000 men, it is difficult to stop it with less than 7,000 men in our two divisions, right?" ”
The Han army was formed with 5,000 fighters, which means that more than 3,000 soldiers of Ma Tan and Li Lan had been killed or lost their combat effectiveness in the past ten days.
"The order of the commander (Koga) is to resist for another day, and after a day we will withdraw to the fort behind the mouth of Kamizen Valley. And...... I don't think it's a big difference between two to one and it's not a problem for us to defend one more day. ”
Compared with Ma Tan's full confidence, Li Lan has an inexplicable worry.
Li Lan wasn't afraid, he didn't understand what the Hun commander on the opposite side was thinking. It stands to reason that the Huns should be very eager to break through the Leopard Army's defense line and rush into the hinterland of the Umu Grassland, but the Xiongnu commander in front of him behaved very calmly and did not mean to break through the Leopard Army's defense line at all.
Li Lan always couldn't help but guess: "That Xiongnu commander seems to prefer a war of attrition near Shangshan Valley Pass?" ”
Matan agreed. But he didn't care: "As long as there are enough arrows, we will never suffer in a war of attrition!" ”
Li Lan couldn't refute that the proportion of battle losses in the past ten days was indeed his own advantage, usually a cavalryman of the Leopard Army was killed, and two Hun cavalrymen were definitely buried together, including the difference in equipment, and more of it was probably the advantage brought by the supply of the Leopard Army.
"What about today? Or continue to engage in a senseless head-to-head battle with the Hun cavalry in front of the battle? ”
"Of course! You can't lose to the Huns in momentum, if you retreat here, there will be a psychological shadow in the battle behind! ”
"But...... We're going to retreat tomorrow too! ”
"So today we must give a profound lesson to the invincible Huns!"
"How?"
Ma Tan smiled "hey, hey, hey ”
Li Lan was obviously stunned: "Why didn't I know this news!?" ”
I have to be very surprised, the Shence Army is different from other legions, and in fact, when the Leopard Army receives the combat mission, every captain knows very well that the Shence Army will not give the Leopard Army any help in this operation.
Li Lan doesn't seem to be a decisive soldier: "The commander won't have an opinion, right?" This is our war zone...... Wouldn't it be a problem for us to let the Divine Army fight instead? ”
This time he was surprised: "How come!" The Frost Commander had already told our Commander beforehand, and the Commander had agreed, so there should be a Hongling Envoy to issue a military order in a while. ”
Li Lan was still extremely skeptical and puzzled, he didn't understand that he was also a lieutenant, and the gap between sources would be so big!
In an almost routine conversation, two lieutenants on the front line led their cavalry out of the barracks with different intentions, and although it was only for more than ten days, they were accustomed to the kind of unskilled combat. When they came to the battlefield again, the Huns were once again in position and waiting.
Li Lan pointed forward sullenly: "Look! It's the same again today! They set up the same formation we set up yesterday! ”
Ma Tan looked at Li Lan who was speaking, he felt that Li Lan's mentality was a little strange recently, as if the number of complaints had increased a lot?
In fact, the Hun army in front of nothing has not changed, in the past, the Hun army never put any formation when fighting, they always set up a few twisted phalanxes according to different tribes when fighting, and now the Hun army looks more like a group, the entire Hun army is no longer divided into several pieces as before, although it can not be like the leopard army cavalry formation with deep meaning of the military formation, but it can finally set up a glaive with left and right wings and the cavalry formation of the Chinese army.
Ma Tan smiled and said, "Just let them learn." The formation is the same, can they still learn our tactics? ”
Li Lan really has such worries!
The horn sounded in the desolate land, and the left and right flanks of the Hun formation moved forward......
The glaive formation may have been a relatively large number of formations used by the cavalry of the ancient army, and the reason for this is that the cavalry is more mobile and easier to complement. This formation is an asymmetrical formation in an arc-shaped configuration of the whole army, shaped like a crescent, and the general's formation is usually located at the bottom of the crescent concave. When fighting, pay attention to attacking the flank, resist the enemy with a thick moon wheel, the recess of the crescent moon seems to be weak, but it contains danger, the general should have a strong combat power in this formation, and the strong generals are suitable for the brave, and it is also suitable for some asymmetrical terrain. And as for how much the Huns learned...... It is not yet known.
"According to the usual practice, it should be the Huns who should take the initiative to attack today, right?"
"Hateful convention! But it is. ”
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were also two armies that had such an uninnovative mode of operation, and one of them took the trouble to carry out the same deployment, even if the same deployment suffered a big loss, and the result was that the commander-in-chief of the other army's combat mode was disrupted. When the commander of the other side became accustomed to that mode of warfare, the commander of the premeditated side did not fight according to the usual practice, and as a result, the commander of the other side, who was accustomed to the uninspired mode of warfare, was defeated......
"Are you on or am I on?"
"I'll go!"
Ma Tan smiled and watched Li Lan ride away, he didn't have Li Lan's concerns, how could the Huns learn to set up a formation? Learning the form does not mean that you have learned the core. Setting up a formation is just a preliminary strategy, and how to use it flexibly is not something that can be learned if you want to learn, otherwise there won't be so many things in the world that draw tigers and become anti-dogs.
In fact, the Huns are really consciously imitating, but not really imitating, their intention is to understand the combat mode of the Han army, and there is no doubt that imitating the standing formation of the leopard army is easier to understand and digest. For this reason, Yi Zhixie's order to the commander of this Xiongnu army is: It doesn't matter if you lose some troops, the most important thing is not to lose in vain, and to understand the combat mode of the Han army as soon as possible is only good and no harm!
. (To be continued) (To be continued.) )