Chapter 458: Enemy Tracks

Shanzhou, before the Han Dynasty, belonged to the territory of the Hu people, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty in the sixth year of Yuanding. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the second year of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty (60 years ago) set up Poqiang County, which belongs to Jincheng County. During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Nanliang established a country here and set up the capital Ledu. The name Shanzhou was set in the second year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In the second year of Emperor Gaozong Yifeng of the Tang Dynasty, Shanzhou set up a governor's office to supervise the military and political affairs of Shanzhou, He, Lan and Kuo. In the second year of Kaiyuan, the right section of Longyou was made here, and the 12 states of Longright were governed, and this place became the political and economic center of the Hehuang area.

The mountains in Shanzhou are stacked, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the Huangshui River flows from west to east. Because the terrain is mountainous, the left army of Shence first went to Lanzhou from Huizhou, and in the place of dozens of miles north of Lanzhou, it did not enter the city, cut into the road to Shanzhou, and rushed to Shanzhou.

'Angry hair rushes to the crown, relying on the place, Xiaoxiao rain rests. Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Guangde is ashamed, and it is still snowing; When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. Driving a long car to break through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. The left army of Shence marched all the way, and when it was forced to march, it walked with its head bored, and when it slowed down slightly, it sang Li Chen's two words to be full of Jianghong.

To change Jingkang to Guangde is to remember that in the first year of Guangde, the Tubo people broke through Chang'an and occupied it for 15 days. Although the emperor was not captured, it was a very shameful thing that the Tang Kingdom was broken by people and attacked by foreign enemies.

As for Helan Mountain, he won't change it, anyway, it means that he can't change a mountain every time he attacks a place, so what about flat land?

Gao Biao could hear the song, and he also walked with the sergeants, basically, all of them were like this, thinking of the situation when the meeting was held that day. He didn't regret it at all, and he didn't stop it to the end. Why did he join this Shence Left Army, he did not hesitate to transfer from the Right Army through his connections, in addition to feeling that the Left Army of Shence was more valued and had a greater opportunity.

The most important thing is that he saw something completely different in this army, and he felt very shocked, obviously it was a newly established army, why could he see a trace of a strong army in them?

In addition to this, there are things that he does not understand, but envies, and has never seen in other armies. It's not these changes, it's not what makes the barracks a family, everyone is a brother. It's not cruel training, it's not training to the death, and it's not a strict discipline. These were things he hadn't seen in other armies, but they weren't the things that moved him the most.

Now he understands that it is faith, and when this army was first established, there was a kind of faith, a kind of invisible power, which was influencing the army. It is this belief that allows the army to endure brutal training, strict discipline, and other leisure, sports, and speech, all of which are incidental.

If one day, this kind of simplicity to protect the family and defend the country, loyalty to the king and love for the people, and faith in faith, are wiped out, then this army will not be the army that attracted him in the first place.

Under the influence of this belief. When the order for the general mobilization of the whole army was issued, they were about to run thousands of miles, and when they were about to attack Tibet and the local people, the whole army was boiling.

They also heard that the people and their countrymen were being treated cruelly in Shanzhou, far away. This pair of soldiers, who are usually brainwashed by Li Chen with various stories and dogmas, are indignant, this group of Tubo dogs is so arrogant and cruel to the people of our Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, as soon as the ****** arrived, the whole army 'burned' despite the fatigue of coming from afar. Wipe the weapons, wipe the weapons, check the materials, check the materials, everyone is preparing.

Soldiers can "burn", but officers cannot. In fact, Gao Biao is right, now the Tang army is very dependent on logistics.

In fact, not only now, but also the Tang Army relied on logistics in the past, after all, with such a high allocation rate of bows and crossbows, and without arrows, could it shoot air?

It's just that now the Tang Army's combat strength relies on thunder and crossbows to a large extent. It's not that without these, the Tang army would not be able to fight. The main Li Chen was to reduce the damage, and if he could make up for it with equipment, he would not let the soldiers come forward in person.

This is also the trend of the future, to destroy the enemy remotely and not let the enemy fight hand-to-hand. That's what the barbarians did. The more advanced the civilization, the more inclined it is to destroy the enemy from a distance. From bows, crossbows, and muskets, to artillery, planes, and missiles.

Therefore, Li Chen also asked the Shence Army to start establishing such a system and ideas. It's kind of preparing for the future. However, hand-to-hand combat is inevitable, and even in modern times, when the army's automatic firepower is incredibly strong, there is still an inevitable time for hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, the Tang army did not let go of the training of hand-to-hand combat, the Tang army did not leave the logistics, without arrows and thunder, it would not be able to fight the army. The problem is that the sacrifice would be significant. How to achieve their goals while trying to reduce their sacrifices has become their most important job at present.

'The whole army was encamped. Xiaohu looked at the sky and ordered the whole army to camp. Immediately, everyone moved, trained for a long time and rigorously, so that they knew what to do with their eyes closed.

They unloaded the equipment from the horses and wagons and began to assemble them, and soon a simple rejection was set up, which was dug deep into the soil, and several rejection horses were combined with a fence to create a camp gate.

The most important defense was to encircle the wagons and regiments of the army to form a camp. More people picked up special sapper shovels and began to dig improvised trenches, which were not very deep, and they had already walked for a day, and they had not dug as deep as they had in that time.

However, when the trench was turned to the side, it immediately became a low earthen wall, and when the two were combined, it was almost a man tall, and it played a great role in concealment.

With sharp weapons, sapper shovels, plus a large number of people, three times and two hits, a simple but well-defended camp would be good.

Then, the tired soldiers, carrying their weapons, returned to their camps, which had already been set up, and by this time the supper was almost finished.

I saw a large cauldron with milky white soup inside, and the flames were blazing underneath, and a few pieces of coal were thrown into the fire, and a soldier with a fire in his hand kept stabbing it, and after stabbing it, he desperately fanned the wind to urge the fire. The spoon is almost done, and pour the dry powder into it, so that it can be eaten.

A large pot of mare's milk porridge is completed, and then it is served with an urn of salted meat, or dried fish, and pickles such as mustard, and it is dinner.

The soldiers had dinner, the flames continued to rise, and many things were thrown in for firewood except coal, and horse manure and weeds were not picked. This is to make tomorrow's lunch, and in the morning there will be a fire for the soldiers to have a hot meal, and the lunch will be prepared in advance today.

Because it is now close to winter, the days are short and the nights are long, so you have to buy time to hurry during the day, and rest a little longer at night, so do it well at night. It's also because it's close to winter and the weather is colder, so it's not easy to break down if you put it for one night and half a day.

There was nothing to do all night, and the next day, the camp was lively again, and the antlers were put away, which were specially made of antlers, made of metal, and easy to put away, which was why they dared to run long distances.

The cart was also put away, and the soldiers put a lot of supplies on the car, and the soldiers who had a vigil last night slept in some of the cars that were vacated because of the consumption of materials.

The carts were packed, and the soldiers piled up their equipment on their horses, their weapons in their hands, and their armor, arrows, and a small amount of food on their horses. Then breakfast was finished, and the whole army marched out.

It would be nice if we had more horses. Watching the soldiers advance, Gao Yu muttered to himself. At present, the luxury of the Shence Army will definitely make the armies envious, jealous and hateful, if they can see the equipment of the Shence Army. The Left Army has never been made public to the public, whether it is training or equipment.

Basically, each person has a horse, and some are responsible for pulling carts, and there are even more horses than people. Saying it will make many troops envious to death, it's too extravagant, Datang He once had an army with so many horses.

In the past, in the Tang Dynasty, soldiers would take carriages to the battlefield, and when they arrived at the battlefield, they would get off the carriage and line up, and there were not so many horses. And with the weakening of the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, it would be good to be able to maintain cavalry, where can there be so many horses.

Of course, these are Li Chen's smashing pots and selling iron, relying on the water-powered textile factory next to the Wei River to produce cloth in large quantities, and exchanging tea with those nomads.

The Tang Dynasty was corrupt, but it was not without horses. Fortunately, there are no too strong nomads in the north, so Ma Yuan is still fine, but the biggest problem is that there is no money to buy it. Li Chen relied on the strong productivity of the water-powered textile factory to make up these horses.

It's all mares, there is mare's milk, last night the pot was cooked with mare's milk, with the grain that was ground into powder, the nutrition is sufficient, with some meat, can ensure that the soldier's physical strength is enough. The soldiers of the Tang Army were not able to maintain their strength by drinking mare's milk like the Mongols. It is mainly a matter of habit and physique, the Mongols can do this, but the Han people can't do it.

Then, when the whole army marched, in order to be able to march for a long time, the soldiers did not ride horses, but only put their equipment on the horses, and led the horses to walk.

Of course, you don't have to work so hard, but for the sake of baggage, try to bring as much baggage as possible, so you must try to squeeze out every bit of strength. If it weren't for the sake of maintaining physical strength, even the equipment would have been worn by the soldiers.

Today, however, every soldier put on some of his equipment, for he had already walked for three days, four hundred and fifty miles, and that he might encounter the enemy at any time, so he had to keep his guard on his toes.

Xiaohu plans to travel only one hundred and twenty miles today. It sounds very easy, this is already the current limit distance of the Tang Army. The famous general Li Sheng, who once set a record, marched day and night for 12 hours, raided Caizhou, caught him off guard, and put down the rebellion of the feudal town.

Now, Xiaohu and they can walk one hundred and twenty miles in one day, and they are proud enough to conserve their physical strength. Do you know how far the Qing Dynasty Xiang Army can go in a day? Thirty miles. The Shence army walked a day's distance, and the Xiang army had to walk for four days.

Thanks to the usual training, adequate nutrition, and various convenient items, the time spent camping and cooking was saved. There are also crossbow arrows, the Shence Army has completely eliminated bows and arrows, and the standard strong crossbows can be a little more convenient in terms of arrow supplementation.

Even, Li Chen didn't forget such a good thing as leggings, so that the Shence Army walked out of this speed that was comparable to that of the forced march of later generations.

Many of the problems that Gao Yu was worried about before did not happen. The morale was high, even if they were in a hurry for three or four days, when the Tibetans appeared, they had the confidence to go down with one blow. The weight is enough to fight a high-intensity war. When the time comes, if you can't win, it's not that you can't retreat.

"Newspaper." , a fast horse galloped over, this is a sentry, no matter how difficult it is, you can't save this, otherwise if you don't send a sentry to the sentry, you will be attacked halfway, and you will die. Therefore, a thousand people have a mixed cavalry, and they are the only army equipped with two horses.

Xiaohu's face was pale, and he gritted his teeth, everyone was like this. The sentinels reported that a village had been sacked by the Tibetans in front of them, just down the road they had passed.

They basically advance along the Huangshui River, the terrain is relatively flat and easy to walk, and it is also a densely populated area because the terrain is more suitable and it is an agricultural area.

Today, it is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and all the small villages have been looted by the Tibetans, leaving no people or animals. Well, it's not entirely right to say that people and animals don't stay, and if you count dead people, it's quite a lot.

There were corpses everywhere, old and young, men and women, and relatively few women, probably taken by the Tibetans. Almost all of them were naked, not because the Tibetans had any special habits, but because even the clothes on their bodies were taken away by the Tibetans. And the state of death is even more strange, these Tibetan soldiers have changed their methods to kill people for fun.

I'm not going to let these beasts go. Xiaohu gritted his teeth and said what everyone had to say. If it's just a traditional army, it won't feel like them, anyway, it's not their comrades who die, and it's just some pity and can't bear it. Only when we are educated and able to guide the army can we have this kind of collective, national and national consciousness.

Probably indifferent, only those Tubo Tongcheek tribes, but they didn't dare to stay at the scene anymore, because there was a strangeness at the scene, which made them envious and made them a little uncomfortable. I'm going to continue to find out the information.

'Report that the enemy army has been found in the county town ahead. At this time, another sentinel came to report that the county town ahead had found traces of the enemy, but the Tubo sentry was immediately startled, and even the horse was startled. Because they suddenly felt a terrible military aura, they were finally their own people, otherwise he would have fled in the wilderness.

And just when the whole army was maneuvering because they heard the enemy's situation, and they wanted to rush to the enemy immediately, Xiaohu said coldly, "Set up camp." ’。 (To be continued.) )