Chapter 0040 - Scary 'Elite'
If the human factor is excluded, the greatest technical difficulties in warfare in ancient times were reconnaissance and communications. In the era when there were no megaphones, a person could only hear a sound within twenty or thirty meters. If it is in the noisy environment of the battlefield, this distance will be reduced to about ten meters.
And when the weather is fine and unobstructed, a person's vision range is only a few kilometers. But it is almost impossible to have a sunny and unobstructed battlefield. This means that grassroots commanders must keep their soldiers within hearing and sight, often within 50 meters.
Therefore, the grassroots leaders of the ancient army were Wu Changshichang, and by looking at the name, you can see that there are not many people under their management. And the general has more than 100 subordinates, and it is often difficult to control the troops when they are dispersed. Even if he could see a soldier, he would not be able to command, let alone spot the enemy. The higher-ranking generals are even more miserable, because they often don't know where their men are.
This is fundamentally different from the modern military.
In order to solve the problem of uploading and issuing orders, the herald is a simple and effective option. But to expand your horizons, you need a telescope. The world's first telescope was invented in 1608 by a Dutch spectacle maker, while the first telescope in China was made 22 years later by Xu Guangqi, a scientist in the late Ming Dynasty.
When He Zhuo grabbed Zhou Qingfeng's bronze telescope and looked at the battlefield not far away, she inadvertently saw a completely new world - hundreds of meters away were crowded with people, covered by smoke and dust, and the specific situation often depended on the judgment of the grassroots officers on the battlefield. But now, as long as He Zhuo moves the camera slightly, the whole situation is under control.
It's like a little girl who has not yet opened her love and suddenly comes into contact with a large number of pornographic videos, which are wonderful and exciting and dizzying. He Zhuo, who was riding on the horse, couldn't even control her body, she staggered for a while, stopped for a while, and let out exclamations from time to time.
"You Han people ......, you Han people are really amazing!" He Zhuo felt his mouth dry and couldn't describe what he felt in any words. In ancient times, when the weak defeated the strong on the battlefield, it was necessary to form a local advantage and obtain some kind of unilateral information transparency for micro-manipulation.
He Zhuo knew that the monks of the Ming Kingdom often came up with all kinds of strange things, and these things were often what kind of talisman magic weapons, puppet mechanisms, and pill formations. But this small bronze telescope still broke any of her imaginations in the past. After she determined the function of the telescope, she grabbed it in her hand and asked Zhou Qingfeng: "How much does this artifact actually make the distant scene closer?" β
Zhou Qingfeng just saw Mang Gurdai split a human body like a pig, and felt extremely uncomfortable nausea in his chest and abdomen. He finally calmed down, stretched out his hand and said to He Zhuo: "Give me back the telescope first, I don't command the Mongols, but I have to command two or three hundred convoys." β
The telescope was taken by Zhou Qingfeng from the isolated island of time and space by consuming spiritual power. It's not a high-end product, it's a plastic children's toy from a small store. After getting it at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it underwent a space-time transformation and became a monocular bronze telescope. Its magnification is as high as 3, and it can't actually see much distance, and the field of view is very narrow.
It's just that this thing fell into the hands of He Zhuo but was evaluated as a 'militaristic heavy weapon', Zhou Qingfeng asked her for it, but she kept shaking her head, and continued to ask: "I'll give you a Zhuangzi, the best Zhuangzi in my hand, and the two hundred slaves in it belong to you." What is it called in your ......? β
"What do I want your Zhuangzi to do? You give me the binoculars first, and the idiots of the transport team will be out of the way less than a hundred meters away. I need to know that it's the bastard's team, and I'm going to have to correct the formation. Zhou Qingfeng stretched out his hand and shouted.
"Add another thousand taels, and not ......, two thousand taels of silver. It's a big deal, my dowry is all for you. He Zhuo eagerly bargained with Zhou Qingfeng, and for this reason, she even bent down to Zhou Qingfeng rarely, and her tone was sincere. This thing is so useful, it just so happens that this time Nurhachi's soldiers are stationed in Nanguan. The terrain near Nanguan is flat, and I can take this thing to clean him up myself. β
Zhou Qingfeng asked for it several times, but He Zhuo just didn't give it. He had to retract his hand with a wry smile and said, "When I run out, I'll give you this telescope, okay?!" β
He Zhuo was immediately stunned, "Give it to me...... you really gave it to me?" You little slippery head don't give it to me if you want to take it back, right? β
"Well..... there's nothing to be reluctant about such a thing. You have a grudge against Nurhachi, so what about sending you? Zhou Qingfeng sighed, and had to point to the advancing transport team and asked, "Tell me, the one on the left is the one from the Red Company?" I drew a color on the captain's body to distinguish it, and found the color behind the captain to tell me. β
He Zhuo was skeptical, she raised her binoculars and looked a hundred meters away, found the team that had gone astray from a pile of people, and then found the guy with paint on the back of the team, "It's red and blue." You smear on them just to recognize people? β
Zhou Qingfeng immediately shouted to the herald behind him: "Go find the captain of the red company and the blue team, and let him go to the right." The idiot walked out less than a hundred meters before he deviated more than thirty meters to the left, and he was simply sleepwalking. β
The team composed of villagers is all illiterate, and they can't even understand A, B, C, D, 1234. Zhou Qingfeng had no choice but to use colors to distinguish different teams for ease of command. But in this way, I almost made a mistake, and when I chose the herald, I found color blindness. The quality of this soldier is really poor.
The entire convoy was armed with a wooden spear, and when they walked in a neat ......, they actually entered the battlefield in scattered steps, and their power was not much worse than that of the Mongol horse team. The people of the horse market had just experienced a cavalry raid, and many of them had the courage to watch from afar after running away, but when they saw the spear convoy appear, the slowly advancing spear array frightened many people into fleeing for their lives.
The herald rode forward to give the order, and Zhuo kept staring with binoculars, and when the team that had shifted the formation returned to the original position of the spear formation, she cheered loudly and was excited. "Little slippery, you did it, you did it. Do you know how hard it is to maintain a formation on a regular basis? Those soldiers will be chaotic when they go out, and they can't manage it if they want to.
I remembered that I used color to distinguish different teams, and I had to paint all my minions in different colors. It's much easier than teaching those lowly minions to read. The next time those cheap minions say they don't understand how to learn, I'll beat them to death. β
He Zhuole kept shaking Zhou Qingfeng's shoulder, and Zhou Qingfeng was also infected by her laughter. He stretched out his hand to push away He Zhuo and said, "Okay, okay, give me the telescope, I want to command it myself." This is the first time I've organized a few hundred people, don't mess me up. β
Zhou Qingfeng stretched out his hand to push away He Zhuo's arm, but what he could touch was a bulging, soft and bouncy hemisphere. He Zhuo was shaking Zhou Qingfeng happily, and as soon as he looked down, he saw this kid grabbing his chest and pinching it.
"You're ....., little slippery." Northland women are enthusiastic and generous, and they have a bold personality, but it is impossible to let a man touch her chest casually. He Zhuo shrank back, protected his chest and scolded with a smile: "You don't look very big, but you like to take advantage of women." Otherwise, ......, I'll give you one of my maids." β
"Don't, don't, I ......, I just ran into it unintentionally." Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly defended, but he couldn't help but think back to the feeling just now, and regretted a little that Mao didn't find a way to catch it for a while.
You must know that women nowadays don't have bras or anything like that, and most of the top of their coats are a chest wrap, and women of different races don't even have chest wraps. A perfect breast shape means natural erection and fullness, and there is absolutely no pretense.
"You don't want to forget it, but I'll command this battle." He Zhuo didn't care too much about Zhou Qingfeng's grasp, her excitement was all on the battlefield at the moment. After continuing to observe the battlefield with a telescope, she took over from Zhou Qingfeng and continued to give orders.
"Let the yellow team of the blue company move forward quickly, they are dragging their formation."
"Let all of them stop the whole line, it's getting more and more chaotic."
The whole team listened to the order, lowered their spears and assaulted, and the target was ......, and the target was to choose those who were watching the excitement on the hillside. Try our formation. β
"Hurry up and tell Mang Guldai that the men of Machengta have fled from the east, and tell him to stop cutting down those routs, and immediately take some of them and chase them."
"Tell Batu that there are soldiers coming out of Fushun Pass. Let him take advantage of the low-lying terrain on the right side to go around and hit them in the back to crush them. Don't let those Ming troops get out of the way. β
On the battlefield of Mashi, except for Zhou Qingfeng and He Zhuo, the clearest thing to see is undoubtedly the Ming army on the wall. Today, I want to trade with Ma Chengta, and Li Yongfang, a guerrilla in Fushun, came to the town in person. Before Mang Gurdai launched the assault, Lord Li was watching from the enemy tower that closed the wall.
Seeing that the Mongolian barbarians actually stabbed out to stir up their own business, and even wanted to rob their own silver, Li Yongfang's heart was really angry, and he was angry. He leaned against the wall and scolded: "This group of barbarians is impatient, immediately send my whole team to troops, today I will destroy this group of thieves who dare to attack my Daming border pass." β
There are more than 100 soldiers from Fushun Thousand Households in the wall, which is all the people that Fushun Pass can gather. When these beggar-like soldiers learned that Mashi had been raided by a group of Mongolian thieves, they immediately dragged their feet and refused to leave the customs.
Li Yongfang has a thousand households, and theoretically should have an army of more than 1,500. But now, no matter how he scolded and became angry, he at most organized a dozen or so family members around him to go out of the customs to save Ma Chengta.
Under the official authority and bounty promise of the Thousand Households, more than a dozen well-equipped family members rode out of the customs with more than 100 infantry soldiers. Li Yongfang went up to the enemy tower again and looked into the distance, but a heart almost jumped out of his throat - a puff of smoke and dust rose from behind a forest in the distance, spears broke through the sky, and then a gun array of about 300 people slowly advanced.
Master Li didn't have a telescope, so he could only stare at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation, "A strong army, it turned out to be a brave soldier!" Advancing in formation, not scattered or chaotic, relaxed and well-founded, who sent this elite division? β
In ancient times, the requirements for the elite were ultra-low, 'one drill every three days, one drill every five days', this is the standard for a strong army. In ancient times, the formation of primary school students was a manifestation of strong discipline, which is the difference between having culture and not being educated.
In Zhou Qingfeng's opinion, the transport team he organized was to walk slowly in a formation, and the twists and turns made people really unbearable. In Li Yongfang's opinion, it is a miracle that so many people have walked two or three hundred meters and still maintained their basic formation. And he also saw that from time to time there were heralds on horseback who came to correct the formation and give orders, which showed that the commander was ...... and had the talent of a general.
On the other side, Ma Chengta was originally relying on several warehouses built in Mashi to fight against Mang Gurdai. Although there are fewer and fewer people under him, he swears not to retreat, but he refuses to leave. Because if he retreats, he will have his head cut off when he goes back to Nurhachi, and it is better to die in battle.
Just when he was killing Red Eye, one of his subordinates suddenly exclaimed: "Master, there is another group of enemy troops." β
The convoy with spears held high was slowly advancing from two or three hundred meters away, and although it was not yet in front of them, the momentum of the approaching step by step was already manifested. Ma Chengta only glanced at it, and a word popped up in his heart - strong army.
"How did the Khalkha Ministry get these hundreds of people out? Something is wrong, I have to report to the Great Khan, there is an enemy sneaking in close to our state-building department. It was likely to be an unexpected sneak attack. "Ma Chengta is also a knowledgeable person, and when he saw the spear and spear forest of the transport team, he decided that this was not an ordinary team, but must be the elite of the enemy.
The ants are still stealing their lives, and Ma Chengta doesn't want to die outside this Fushun Pass. Once he decided that he had a reason to escape, he stopped thinking about what the truth really wasβthe Khan was the most important of all that was to have a major military briefing. Presumably, the Great Khan not only did not think that he had escaped, but would have given him a credit.
Ma Chengta looked back when he fled on horseback, and it happened that the convoy was holding a spear to drive away a group of idlers watching the battle. Seeing that this infantry team was able to recover its formation again after launching an attack, he affirmed the judgment in his heart - something is not good, there is a strong army, and it is right for me to endure humiliation and secretly go back to report it.
In the corner of the battlefield, Yuan Qingying and Ye Na were also looking at the convoy advancing with a spear with horrified eyes. They followed Zhou Qingfeng's team all the way over the side wall and sneaked out, and the battlefield of the horse market was in full view. The surprise attack of the Mongol horse team can only be described as a normal performance, and the formation of the spear transport team can be seen. Yuan Qingying couldn't help but exclaim urgently: "How did this little earth dog make such a big battle? Will he scatter beans and become a soldier? Otherwise, where would a sharp pawn come from on the battlefield? β