Volume 8: Chapter 289 of "Magnificent Rivers and Mountains": The Battle of Umu (1)

In the early morning, as soon as the morning sun emerged from the eastern horizon, the horns in the fort were sounded, and there were all kinds of movements in the various troopers in the sound of the continuous and strong horns, and the only thing that was more common was that the sleeping soldiers opened their eyes and woke up, they turned over and reached out to grab the robes hanging on the wall, dressed very quickly, and then walked out under the leadership of the chief. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As soon as the ordinary soldiers came out of the hoarding house, they saw that there were already people queuing up to receive the morning food, and they just took a little look at it and did their own thing, which is the case with the army, and it is better to pay attention to things that have nothing to do with them than to finish their own things quickly, after all, the army emphasizes practical efficiency, and if it is done slowly or wrongly, it will be punished.

The clothes of the soldiers queuing up to receive the morning food are different from those of ordinary soldiers, they don't have too many pendants on their bodies, mainly because they are lightweight, their faces are more resolute than ordinary soldiers, and their eyes are relatively flexible, it seems that because of their profession, they can't help but look around even if they are eating, as if they are looking for something?

The soldiers who get up early to prepare belong to the scout battalion system, they are all scouts who are strictly selected, and the reason why they get up early is of course subject to military orders, and today they will have a warm-up activity, and they will prepare immediately after eating.

Since the Leopard Army transferred scout camps from the border army, of course they need a short run-in period, so they cannot carry out some difficult in-depth reconnaissance tasks, their task today is to go to the nearby Xiongnu territory to conduct the simplest patrol exploration, with the intention of searching whether there are any nearby Huns or other tribes' camps, if they find anything, they need to record and report. As for whether the garrison will send corresponding cavalry for military operations based on the results of the scout's probing, this is not what the scouts need to pay attention to at all.

The Han Department attaches great importance to the construction of scouts, after all, as the ruler of the Han Dynasty, Lin Bin deeply knows the importance of intelligence to the battle situation. In this way, the scout's equipment and horses must be quite good.

Each scout of the Han Department must carry a short crossbow with a crossbow and fifteen crossbows; a three-foot combat knife used in combat; a two-foot dagger for melee defense; enough to eat a month's worth of dry food, a bag of water with a capacity of about 20 catties; The rest of the personal belongings are not allowed to be carried during the mission.

Due to the different ethnic habits, the scout system of the Han and the Xiongnu are completely different: because the Xiongnu scouts are more familiar with the grassland and have relatively strong survival ability, they basically act alone and rarely form a collective exploration; The scout members of the Han tribe are basically the original grassland people, and they naturally have no shortage of common sense of survival in the grassland, but because there are hard and fast rules prohibiting acting alone. Therefore, every time the Han scouts go out on a mission, they take five people as a basic scout unit, that is, five people as a team, which increases the possibility of exposure, but greatly ensures that the results of the scout's investigation can be transmitted back to the headquarters. It will not be like a Hun scout who acts alone, and the information detected cannot be transmitted.

There is a special group in the Han scout system, which is a special scout unit formed by the beast taming tribe annexed by the Han tribe during the migration to Liaodi, these special scouts know how to domesticate war eagles, and the basic condition for being recruited is that each person must have a mature war eagle. After they served in the army, they fundamentally improved the scout capabilities of the army scout battalion. In this way, of course, there are special treatments for these special scouts.

Pu Kauken was a special scout, he was combing the fluff of the war eagle at the moment, the war eagle was cooing in comfort, and as the owner of the war eagle, he was very happy to enjoy the curious and envious eyes from the robe. Since he joined the Han army, he has carried out several relatively simple tasks, and the army takes great care of these special scouts, who are treated as soldiers but are treated the same as junior officers in the class-oriented Han army. No wonder it's enviable.

"It's all there!"

A loud roar, it is too tinged with the army of a modern republic.

Influenced by Lin Bin. The orders and tactical terminology of the Han army were really ahead of their time, which basically produced some tactical knowledge of small-scale operations, so the small-scale combat skills of the Han army were basically ahead of this era, and they invisibly increased a lot of combat effectiveness.

Putting the chain that was attached to the eagle's talons, he stood up and ran over to accept the roll call.

The roll call procedure is also a unique rule of the Han army, although it seems a bit useless, but in fact, it is precisely every roll call that invisibly increases the sense of belonging and collectivity of the grassroots soldiers, at least there will be no situation where the members of the same team do not know each other.

There are dozens of scouts on the school grounds, and the roll call does not need to be done by the captain, of course, it has nothing to do with the chief, and the leader of the team will pronounce a person's name every time he moves his mouth, and the soldiers who are called to the name will respond with a full "Arrive!" There is no doubt that this is again a special feature of the Han army.

The scout battalion's team rate basically has a rudimentary parchment map, and after the name call, he will always take the captain and the chief to the side to distribute the mission area, and the process is usually not very long. During this time, the soldiers had to bring the horses over and load them with reins, chews, saddles, stirrups, and other tools.

It must be noted that since the Han Ministry equipped the army with mature stirrups and saddles, the first country to follow up was the Han State, but the Han State followed up basically without much difference, and the number of Han cavalry was too small. The Huns also seem to have sensed that the role of stirrups and saddles was being imitated, but at present the Huns did not equip saddles and stirrups on a large scale, because of the limitations of the industrial base.

According to the Xiongnu's digestion and manufacturing capacity, if the Xiongnu wanted to popularize the saddle and stirrup, it would take at least half a year to prepare for the whole army, and the Xiongnu army would be fully equipped with saddles and stirrups after a year or a year and a half, and one year was enough time for the Han to greatly weaken the Huns, and the price paid and the proportion of benefits were completely in line with the interests of the Han Ministry, so it was reasonable for the Han cavalry to equip the saddle and stirrups.

The loud trumpets sounded again, the gates of the fort were slowly pushed open, and the scouts who were ready galloped out of the fort in groups, and they formed dozens of units during the gallop and rushed towards their respective destinations.

The beard of Koga's chin fluttered gently in the grassland wind, and he watched the scout leave, calculating with wistfully how much time it would take for the Leopard scout and the border scout to be able to run in. The run-in period is naturally shorter and less, and he only has a month to familiarize himself with, and then he will immediately take on the task of attacking the war potential of the Xiongnu in advance.

In fact, Jiahe thought that the wolf army was more suitable than the leopard army to be transferred to the Umu grassland, because the wolf army had previous experience in performing military affairs in the Umu grassland, and they could quickly adapt to the battlefield of the Umu grassland, but unfortunately Lin Bin seemed to ignore this and sent the leopard army here.

Did Lin Bin really ignore it? Of course not! Koga was a local commander, and he didn't understand how difficult it was to consider the movement of the legion for the sake of a big move. Transfer the Leopard Army to Sushen, and then transfer the Wolf Army to the Umu Grassland? This is simply a repetitive waste, and the waste of time is not only a waste of time, but also causes some losses that the Han Department cannot afford. The wolf army is currently stationed in the place of prudence, and there is a large-scale riot in the place of prudence, and the deployment of the wolf army at this time will only make the riot in the land of prudence worse, and may even lose control of the place of prudence!

Of course, Koga is not complaining here, he is just sighing slightly.

Human rights? Just kidding! In this era, there is no such thing as so-called human rights at all, and there has never been such a thing as human rights in the military, and the military and the civilian population are completely different in nature. Soldiers, especially senior generals, have no qualifications to complain at all, what they can do is to obey and endure, once the soldier complains and resists, then the soldier is degenerate, and the only result found is to be cut by the army, which may be forced to retire, and the serious thing is to directly evaporate from the world.

After reading this, Koga turned around and walked towards the temporarily established shogunate, where there was the command structure of the Leopard Army, and he needed to communicate and discuss with the staff officers at all levels of the Leopard Army, which was also the most important thing in the early stage of the operation, they needed to consider countless possibilities, and then simplify the countless possibilities into a battle plan. During this period, the content of the deliberations basically became the future war objectives of the Legion, and everything would be carried out on the basis of deliberations, and if there were any variables, it would be another matter.

During the warm-up of the Leopard Army, a lot of things happened around the world, it is worth mentioning that the war in the Han Kingdom re-broke out with the passing of the winter buffer period, and a great war was brewing near Lu'an, and that war basically determined the future direction of the Han Civil War. Xilin judged that the Han civil war had reached a new stage, and the Huainan family was cooperating with the actions of the Xiongnu Shan Yuting, so it was almost expected that the Xiongnu would begin to make big moves.

At the same time, according to the news from the Western Regions, the advance team of the Xiongnu was found in front of Pu, and the Xiongnu were doing the same thing with the Han Department, which was doing preliminary exploration, indicating that the time for the outbreak of the Great War was not far away.

After some consideration, Lin Bin decided to send the Shence Army in advance, because according to the intelligence, the Xiongnu also divided a part of the army to fight for control of the Umu grassland......

(To be continued,) (To be continued.) )