The troops of the southeast theater of the Great Shang Dynasty were stationed on the plain one hundred and thirty miles away from Luofeng Village, and from this position, you could already see the sparse grassland. In order to suppress the unique guerrilla tactics of the Qiang cavalry, the Shang Dynasty army used logs, mud and stones to create layers of wooden fences more than six feet high and sharpened at the top of the border without a boundary line, and dug out a series of traps more than four feet deep and three feet wide in the grass, plus some technical camouflaged traps, forming an almost invulnerable war defense line.

No matter how clever the Qiang cavalry is, they will also have a headache in the face of this dense layer of traps. Even if they could use acrobatic methods to jump over the horse trap with their beloved mounts, avoid the camouflaged traps that were as numerous as cattle hairs, and lose the impact of the cavalry after a period of acceleration, it would be impossible for them to cut through the hard log wall with the pitiful copper knives and axes in their hands!

What's more, now on the southeast defense line, the army of the Great Shang Dynasty has been concentrated with 500,000! Just look at the scene of people in the barracks being crowded together, and it is enough to deterrent. If it was really a small number of cavalry attacking the defensive line, I was afraid that those recruits would throw a stone at each of them, and they would be stoned and drowned alive. Hundreds of thousands of branches can become a long spear in a forest, and it is even more white and bright in everyone's eyes, even if they are holding ordinary wooden sticks in their hands, just stabbing them with wooden sticks, they can also pound those damn Qiang knights into a piece of mud like pounding garlic, right?

The question is...... Among the more than 500,000 soldiers, at least 470,000 were holding ordinary wooden sticks in their hands, and as for other equipment, not to mention standard leather armor, the vast majority of them did not even have the most basic military uniforms, and they still wore the clothes they brought out of their homes.

Some of these clothes are sewn with home-woven cotton cloth, some are made of nitrated cowhide and sheepskin, and some brothers are simpler, and they directly find a rag and wrap it around the vital parts, and then wipe a few handfuls on the body I don't know if it is black and gray and other toys, which can be regarded as civilizing themselves.

Such a group of rabble carried a six-foot-long dog-beating stick in their hands, which looked like a prehistoric civilization version of the beggar gang assembly, and it was no wonder that the expression on the face of Dongbohou Jiang Hengchu was like turning a book, fidgeting with excitement for a while, and wandering around in the camp tent in annoyance for a while.

Walking out of his handsome camp, looking at the dense array in front of him, with no end in sight, Jiang Hengchu muttered to himself: "500,000 soldiers, even if the soldiers of the entire Dashang Dynasty are gathered together, there are not more than half of the soldiers I command now!" If I really trained these 500,000 soldiers rigorously for a few months, and then distributed them with even the simplest halberd, I would have a very considerable military force! ”

There are a few more ** words, Jiang Hengchu is really inconvenient to say, "I really have mastered the army of 500,000, maybe I, the East Boy, can climb one step further and become the world's Boss sitting in the center!" ”

But standing in Jiang Hengchu's tent, the fifty thousand team commanders were densely packed, but Jiang Hengchu's dream was dispelled, and a corps commander looked at Jiang Hengchu and said cautiously: "Now our legion personnel have been expanded enough, although the method of promoting the company to three levels is used to promote those veterans with rich combat experience to captains, but they all lack the necessary command skills, and some people do not have the necessary command power of a grassroots commander, let them command the army, it is okay to make a small fight, once the battle is launched on the plain, A flaw in our chain of command will be the fatal wound of the entire battle! ”

"That's right!" Another commander complained: "Although I have 10,000 soldiers under my command now, what can really be used on the battlefield is only a brigade of 1,000 soldiers under my original command. Those recruits not only have no weapons, armor and standard uniforms, but even the basic life can not be guaranteed, fortunately it is summer, and soldiers can sleep in the field, but each person can only be sent two steamed buns and a pickle every day, and now the people below me are already complaining, and if this continues, I am worried that the soldiers who were originally forcibly recruited together will mutiny. ”

"You are at least leading a group of soldiers who can beat people with wooden sticks, you are really anxious, pick up stones from the ground, and throw 10,000 stones down, although it is not as good as 10,000 arrows, but it is also a little lethal, right?" One of the captains cried out, "But what about the 10,000 soldiers I was given?" It's all slaves who have been temporarily recruited from those noble lords! In order to prevent the slaves from escaping, the damned lords and nobles strung a copper chain on all the slaves and tied them tightly into a string. Such a unit can only hold a spear without a head in one hand, and if only one person is hacked to death, it will drag down a whole fifty people! It's not so much that I manage a team of 10,000 people, but that I manage a team of 200 slaves tied together! ”

Jiang Hengchu waved his hand distraughtly to interrupt the speeches of the other captains, looked at Li Shi, the official in charge of managing logistics, and asked, "When will the food weapons to support us from the Chaoge side be in place?" ”

Li Shi shook his head and said, "We have urged and urged, but there has been no clear reply from Chaoge's side." Chaoge is now fighting on three sides, and they will definitely meet the needs of Wen Zhongtaishi on the Eastern Battlefield first, and Huang Feihu, the king of Wucheng in the Western Battlefield. According to the calculations of the lower officials, we will not be able to get the supply of grain and grass from Chaoge in a short period of time. As for weapons and armor, even if we send all of Chaoge's inventory, it would be nice to be able to help us arm a team of 100,000 people. ”

Including Dong Bohou Jiang Hengchu, dozens of people in the camp tent were staring round. Li Shi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The lower officials have urged Chaoge many times to urge grain and grass, but they have not been able to get support, but Doctor Fei Zhong has taught the minister a clever plan, although it hurts Yin and morality, in the case of no choice, it can also temporarily deal with the current situation." ”

"First of all, there is the issue of food and grass," Li Shi raised a finger and said: "What Doctor Fei Zhong means is that when they are not participating in the battle, the rations of each soldier will be halved, and once the Qiang people attack, let them have a full meal and immediately join the battle!" As for the slaves, they were not afraid that they would run away anyway, even if they were only given a quarter of their rations, and they would not starve to death. With this 'clever plan' alone, we can save 200,000 catties of grain every day. In addition, when those recruits first came to the barracks, they could starve them for three days, and when they came to home, they would be well fed and warm, and they would not die of hunger for three days, and they could also suppress their anger a little, so that they could save a lot of food, and they could also give them a good lesson, so that they could understand that they were already soldiers! ”

A group of commanders who had just been promoted to captain looked at each other, and after a long time, someone shouted: "Even if we don't get support, we won't be able to support us for three months if we exhaust all the grain reserves in the city under Uncle's jurisdiction!" Once the rations are exhausted, our 500,000-strong army will be self-defeating! ”

"How could Lord Fei Zhong ignore such a serious problem?"

Li Shi put on a flat plate and said in a voice without any emotion: "According to our Lord Fei Zhong's calculations, our uncle's grain storage can support at least six months, maybe it can support more than nine months!" Lord Fei Zhong has a sentence that is really very subtle, 'If you fight a battle, you will die thousands of soldiers, and you will save a considerable part of the rations, and if you die so many soldiers, you will have to kill hundreds of Qiang cavalry, right?' The horses they ride weigh five or six hundred pounds each, so that you can get tens of thousands of pounds of meat', I thought about it carefully, and what Lord Fei Zhong said is indeed reasonable! ”

Li Shi stretched out a second finger and said, "Regarding the shortage of weapons, Lord Fei Zhong made a pertinent suggestion to me, which really made the lower official's mood cheerful. In terms of logistics and supply, Dr. Fei Zhong is really the first of a generation, and he is really inspiring and unthinkable! ”

"What Dr. Fei Zhong means is that the miscellaneous army that has been temporarily recruited will first practice with wooden sticks instead of spears. When you go to war......"

Li Shi dragged out his voice and said word by word: "The soldier standing at the front takes a real weapon, and the soldier at the back just holds a wooden stick!" ”

"Fart!"

One of the hottest tempered commanders jumped up suddenly and roared angrily: "The Qiang cavalry are all covered with light leather armor made of cowhide, and their most courageous warriors are even covered with heavy leather armor made of three layers of cowhide plus honey, egg whites and quicklime, and the defense is better than that of bronze armor. ”

"Alas!" Li Shi sighed lightly: "This general obviously hasn't understood the subtlety of Lord Fei Zhong's suggestion!" Think about it, the soldiers in the front row are dead, but the weapons in their hands will not die together, and the soldiers in the back row will pick up the weapons, won't they become an elite soldier of the Great Shang Dynasty who is fully armed and can pierce the leather armor of the Qiang cavalry with one shot? Our Lord Fei Zhong also considered that when using a spear to face the cavalry impact, it might cause the barrel of the gun to break. Those soldiers with wooden sticks in their hands took down the bronze spear head and put it on the wooden pole in their hands, isn't this another spear that can cross the battlefield! ”

All the commanders were stunned, when had their group of well-developed and simple-minded warriors ever heard such a subtle and impeccable tactical point of view?

Li Shi actually stretched out a third finger, and he said, "Lord Fei Zhong also gave me a small supplementary suggestion. The 230,000 slaves were all chained together in bronze, and Lord Fei Zhong said that if fifty slaves died, we could recover a copper chain sixty feet long! By recasting such a copper chain, we could make at least twenty bronze heads if we made the tip a little shorter and thinner. According to Fei Zhong's calculations, for this alone, we will eventually be able to obtain 92,000 bronze spearheads! Lord Fei Zhong has optimistically estimated for us the excellent situation on the battlefield in the end, even if we don't get any support from Chaoge, we can cultivate the war with war, tap the potential from ourselves, and plunder resources from the Qiang people, we will have at least half of the soldiers and get the 'suitable' weapons! ”

There was silence in the tent, and after a long time, someone struggled and asked, "Then how to solve the leather armor of our soldiers?" They can't use the wooden sticks in their hands to resist the most proficient cavalry and archery skills of the Qiang cavalry, right? ”

"I have also communicated with Lord Fei Zhong about this question."

Li Shi replied: "Lord Fei Zhong said, what we want to form is a pikeman unit, a light infantry, why do light infantry have to wear armor?" If you want to resist the cavalry of the Qiang people, it will be simpler, we don't have a lot of trees here, there must be many soldiers who can do carpentry work, plus 230,000 slaves who have to do everything honestly, and it is not too difficult to make hundreds of thousands of wooden shields with wooden planks, as long as the defense is strong enough, it should not be too difficult! ”

The handsome tent was even more lonely, and after a long time, someone whispered a word: "! ”

Everyone automatically removed this word from their ears, and when Jiang Hengchu announced the end of the meeting, fifty captains and Li Shi walked out of the tent together, and almost at the same time, fifty-two people spit out a word from their mouths together: "!! ”

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