Section 42 Assessment

Zhang Jian is thinking too much about his own affairs now, because it is useless to think about it, the law of war will naturally strangle all people and things that should not appear, such as He Ji.

The horn sounded at the head of the city, and the soldiers habitually straightened the banner at the head of the city, sorted out their armor, and prepared for a new day.

Zhang Jian squinted his eyes and looked at the quiet enemy camp opposite, looked at it for a long time, and saw a group of birds and sparrows fall into the military camp to forage for food, and then asked Wang Junke: "Have you ever sent scouts to investigate the military situation on the other side?" “

Wang Junke said: "No, since yesterday the Silla people have been crazy to hunt down our scouts, so I have not sent scouts since yesterday. ”

Zhang Jian shook his head and said: "Forget it, there must be danger outside at this time, and the Silla people must not want us to know that they have left, and our troops are not enough to pursue, so it is better to defend our own city." ”

"Gone?" Wang Jun looked at the enemy camp in disbelief, there was still a fierce battle yesterday, and the corpses under the city had not yet been gathered, how could it be that they had disappeared now.

"If the birds fall into the camp, it means that there are not many people in the camp, and the Silla people are gone, so I think the Baekje people in the north should also go, right?" Zhang Tai ghostly appeared behind Zhang Jian again.

"Gone?" The king can carry the horizontal knife in his hand, ready to chase and kill the enemy at any time.

"It's true that it's gone, Jun Shi is right, we don't have the strength to pursue. Nowadays, holding Pyongyang and putting down roots here is the first priority, but in this case, the pressure on Niu Jinda is too great! ”

Zhang Jian couldn't help but look west, Niu Jinda must have come here, and Queen Seondeok's assault in the past half a month was to do her best to weaken the Pyongyang defenders at the last moment and trap Zhang Jian's troops in the city. cut off the connection between Zhang Jian and Niu Jinda, and then led the army to deal with Niu Jinda who came to help in a hurry from the front.

Lao Niu's army had no strong walls to rely on, and there was no dangerous terrain to take advantage of, so Queen Seondeok thought that as long as her army rushed to Niu Jinda, she could drown Niu Jinda's 30,000 army with just one round of attack.

The siege of the city and reinforcement was originally an ancient war example, but Queen Seondeok is familiar with history books, can she not know this truth?

Zhang Tai smiled and said, "Niu Jinda doesn't need us to save him." His army is different from ours, from equipment to combat methods, we are actually very lost, came out of the Tang Dynasty early brothers did not have time to change their clothes, tell you, we have lost at least seventy percent of our combat power, gunpowder bullets are such a good thing, your Majesty pity us only gave us five hundred, but everyone in Niu Jinda's troops is equipped with five, as for gunpowder crossbows. Fire oil crossbows, it is said that their one-armed trebuchets can even throw large gunpowder projectiles up to 500 paces away, and they have even formed a complete set of military regulations.

Datang's current new-style army pays attention to destroying the enemy on the road of charging at them, so large-scale battles are their favorite way of fighting, Yun Ye has successfully experimented in the Western Regions, and his camel city has exerted the power of this tactic to the extreme, and can be as majestic as a mountain in the encirclement of 400,000 troops. Indestructible, killing the enemy is like mowing grass. Relying on his own strong combat power to force Tushi to death under the city, when we finish changing clothes, Lao Tzu must ask Silla, Baekje, and Goryeo people to know how powerful Grandpa is. “

Wang Jun shook his head approvingly and said: "In the final analysis, the battle is fought with the spirit of the people, and the war knife is sharper. It's just a matter of making the armor stronger, and now it's like this, where it's still called war? “

Zhang Jian said hatefully: "No matter what means Lao Tzu uses, even if he poisons these opponents, the old man will still use it." Junshi, more than 20,000 receipts from fallen soldiers are enough for you to write for a year. “

When Zhang Tai heard this, the smile on his face disappeared all of a sudden, and he couldn't even raise the interest in speaking, so he picked up his blanket from the ground and draped it on his body, arched his hand towards Zhang Jian and Wang Junke, and quickly walked down the city wall.

Not only did Zhang Tai lose the interest in talking, but even Zhang Jian and Wang Junke had no interest in talking, and when they looked up, the light of the morning sun covered the earth, and the whole world was bright, even those black corpses under the city walls were still stubbornly showing the darkness in the world.

Just when Zhang Jian felt sad, Niu Jinda's bearded face was covered with a hideous smile, great, this is really an excellent battlefield, empty on all sides, the land is flat, it is most suitable for large-scale charges, especially for cavalry charges, it won't be long before there will be corpses lying here.

Even in the most cruel days of the war, the road of elite soldiers is still walking, eliminating the weak and retaining the strong, crazy strengthening of armaments, the government military system has been slowly withdrawing from people's field of vision, the purpose of establishing the national policy of government soldiers is to hide soldiers in the people, the common people are half peasants and half soldiers, into the peasants, out of the soldiers, this can effectively reduce the financial burden of the country, but now there is no need, the pace of the professionalization of the military has been constantly accelerating, the crazy emperor with his own courtiers, The professional soldiers of the Datang are being armed to the teeth.

Eliminate the enemy on the way to attack, this is the emperor's request to the generals, try to reduce the physical contact between the sergeant and the enemy, weaken the role of the famous general, and begin to worship absolute force, in the face of absolute power, a qiē conspiracy is a ridiculous existence, since the Tang Dynasty's force can maintain an absolute advantage, what to do now is to expand this advantage to the extreme.

Niu Jinda really wanted to make an attempt, in the absence of a strong city to rely on, in the field battle whether the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could rely on weapons to gain an advantage, he wanted to know.

Thirteen barbed wire fences were pulled up, the ground was sprinkled with triangular thorns, the small holes that hindered the galloping of war horses were also densely dug along their trenches, and a large pile of gunpowder had also been buried.

This is a new invention by the students of the academy, and Niu Jinda finally realized the benefits of bringing well-educated people into the army, at least such a vicious method that ordinary sergeants can't think of.

When the enemy has experienced the bombardment of trebuchet gunpowder shells, and then receives a round of intensive attacks from eight-ox crossbows, and finally has to face the baptism of strong crossbows and thrown gunpowder bullets from the soldiers, if after such rounds of blows, the enemy can still charge to the front of the military formation, there is nothing to say at this time, just use the knife.

It's easy to say, in actual operation, there are strict rules for this order, Niu Jinda looked at the dense colorful flags on the battlefield, and had to lament, these bastards have turned murder into a project, a rigorous project, and there is no confusion in the slightest.

Complex warfare becomes extremely simple, only one principle is required, that is, not to fight unprepared battles with the enemy, scouts sometimes miss, but there will be no mistakes in the hot air balloon floating overhead, the field of vision can be expanded to the end of the field of vision under the clear sky, and a new killing position can be arranged by giving the army an hour of preparation time.

It's just that the supply is troublesome, and there are too many materials to carry, but this is not too strict in Niu Jinda's opinion, and the soldiers must be controlled by the state, otherwise, such a large army will cause great trouble.

There was no such equipment in normal times, and only in wartime would the general be equipped with all the equipment needed by the army according to the needs of the army, especially gunpowder and oil, which were strictly controlled.

Niu Jinda has three officials under his command who are supervising, one is the envoy of the capital water supervisor, the other is Wuli Sima, and the other is the official who will be the supervisor.

The water supervisor can ignore it, and the Wuli Sima needs to be used to appease the soldiers, and the right to reward and punish them, and the officials who will be the supervisors will generally become logistics officers, and their main responsibility is to ensure that the weapons transported to the barracks can be completely consumed on the battlefield, and not sold or hidden by the commander.

There was a hurried whistle from the hot air balloon, two short and one long.

Seeing that the young lieutenants were starting to get busy, Niu Jinda became very happy, very good, the enemy had reached ten miles away, and none of his young subordinates were afraid, on the contrary, they saw a look of eagerness to fight from their faces.

Queen Seondeok is lost, the siege is like smashing a walnut, you can't smash it with a hammer, then you can continue to smash it, until it is smashed, Zhang Jian can't please her, is it easier to smash your own walnut?

A hammer in the east and a stick in the west are a fart battle, besieging the city to send reinforcements, and before they can figure out whether this reinforcement can be eaten, they plan to end it in a pot, and give the exhausted Zhang Jian a chance to breathe in vain, I heard that such a thing has happened more than once, fighting is a kind of competition in which anyone resists, there is no staying power at all, so they run to the battlefield and are embarrassed, women are not naturally suitable to be coaches.

Seeing Xiaoli forgetting his life, doing big things and sparing his life, attacking everywhere like luck, it is estimated that there will be nothing left in the end, and in the future, he will only pick up the embroidery needle and embroider a confession picture with tears and send it to His Majesty Xià to sympathize, hoping not to hack her to death.

Niu Jinda pursed his lips, saw the dust raised, and began to charge ten miles away, what a stupid person it takes to make such a move, when he arrives at the battlefield, he should keep all the strength of his soldiers and horses, and make an all-out blow, now he has run ten miles to the front of the army to persuade him to surrender, and the spirit that has just been abolished will be discharged at once, this is still a fart battle, is the old man the puss that you say two cruel words and surrender immediately? "If the Silla people send someone to persuade them to surrender, they will be killed with an eight-ox crossbow!" Niu Jinda gave an order to the young lieutenant next to him, and returned to the Chinese army, intending to assess the combat strength of the Silla people. (To be continued......)

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