Since the stay time had been extended to two weeks, there were still six full days of Dongzhou time before the second night of the East Sea team's departure, which would be enough for them to pass through the entire territory of Wei County and enter the neutral zone of Xin County to the north. However, the plan of the three stinkers is not to train in the field, but to achieve the purpose of training the Eastern Navy through actual combat.

As the first battle after the formation of the East China Sea army, the first target selected by the three of them was a small stronghold set up by the rebels about 100 miles south-northwest of Weidong Pass, which happened to be not in the direction of the advance of the state army, so the probability of encountering a large group of rebels or the state army was very low.

This stronghold has an official name called Weinancang, which was actually set up by the Dongzhou Imperial Court back then, responsible for supplying several surrounding checkpoints and cities, and was later captured by the rebels. The rebels stationed a force of about 500 men here to guard the grain and grass, which is equivalent to the Eastern Navy that attacked this time.

Sima Fuqiang believed that judging by the quality of the soldiers of the two sides, the Eastern Navy, which had won several battles recently, would certainly be a cut above the other side. If you add the dream people with good combat power, it will definitely not be a problem to take down the tail Nancang. The question is how to minimize the casualties of the Eastern Navy, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve the goal of using war to feed the war.

Although there is such a goddess doctor as Li Sha in the Donghai team, the injuries she can treat every day are always limited, and exceeding a certain load will lead to physical exhaustion. Being able to reduce the number of wounded can reduce the pressure on Li Sha's treatment on the one hand, and maintain the continuous combat capability of this unit on the other hand. Sima Fuqiang didn't want to have to rest for half a month before he could continue, but he planned to make good use of Li Wei's army to fight a few more battles at the good opportunity to contain the main force of the rebels, and train more high-quality middle and senior officers for the Eastern Navy.

Li Sha's exclusive skill "Healing" seems to be extremely mysterious on the surface, but after such a period of observation, Huang Zhi and them already have a spectrum in their hearts. To treat multiple injuries, Li Sha has to pay a lot of physical strength accordingly, and the "healing" skill is a process of physical energy transfer and transformation, following the basic law of energy conservation. Once Lisha's physical strength reaches its limit, she will fall into a state of fainting, which is actually her physical energy transferred to the injured person's body to speed up the usually relatively slow recovery process.

Sima Fuqiang was not surprised by this conclusion, he and Huang Zhi had long realized that the dream world was not a world indulged by ethereal "gods", but a world that completely followed scientific theories. It's just that what kind of existence the indulgent behind the dream world is, and what level of its technology has reached, it is currently unknown.

Let's go back to Weinancang, in fact, this is also a small city, similar to the Xingluocang attacked by the Wagang army, but the scale is far inferior, only surrounded by a low city wall, and the current height of the city wall in Donghai Town is three meters, which is the lowest standard on the Dongzhou continent. With a city wall of this height, as long as no one interferes, Zhang Wei can climb it with his bare hands without the help of any tools. And in addition to the two female surnames of the East China Sea team, the other male surnames of the dream people can easily go up as long as they cooperate in pairs.

The wall of this height only gave the defenders a certain degree of advantage, and as long as they encountered an enemy with the quality of the Tokai team attacking the city, it was basically impossible to hold it.

The detailed information about the geographical location, the number of garrisons, and the height of the city wall were all obtained by Huang Zhi through exchanges with the refugees in Weixian County a few days ago. In order to avoid falling for the rebels' tricks to lure the enemy, Huang Zhi also used random sampling to verify this information with a number of refugees, and after repeatedly confirming that there was no conspiracy in it, he positioned Nancang as the target of the first battle of the Eastern Navy.

The distance of a hundred miles can be reached in about two hours if you are fast, and about eight hours for a hurried march of foot soldiers, and about ten hours after considering the need to recover your strength before the battle. Therefore, the departure time chosen by the three stinkers is night, and they are expected to arrive near the Nancang in the early morning, lurk in the nearby forest to rest for a day, and then estimate that there will be another night attack after nightfall.

If you don't attack a small city like Nancang at night, you don't need any eight-ox crossbows and pedal arrows, and some elite soldiers led by the Donghai team can climb and grab the city gate with their bare hands. Its difficulty is not the same as that of Weidongguan.

Although there were only 500 people in the Eastern Navy on this trip, people still divided them into two parts. The front part was cavalry, about fifty cavalry, led by Zhang Wei and Xiao Qi, who performed scout duties and went to the vicinity of Weinancang to explore the terrain in order to evaluate and revise the battle plan. The rear is a cavalry army of 450 people, led by the rest of the Dream Man of the East China Sea Team and Chen Chuang, and then followed.

If the cavalry in the front team finds that the situation is not right, they can also return in time to inform the infantry army in order to implement the second plan. This fear was obviously unnecessary, and when the infantry had advanced more than half of the distance, the front team still did not retreat, which indicated that the cavalry had entered the preparatory position, and the rebels in Weinancang had not discovered their whereabouts.

Speaking of which, it was also a knock-on effect after the victory at Weidongguan, and the rebels in Weixian were shocked by the fact that the Xiongguan that they thought was impregnable had fallen overnight, and even lost confidence in their own defenses. When the defeated army of Weidongguan, which numbered less than 100 men, fled and scattered to the surrounding strongholds, they exaggerated the bravery of their opponents to cover up the fact that they were of low quality.

Through their propaganda, the rebel soldiers who did not know the truth thought that there was a force of up to hundreds of people on the side of the East China Sea who could fly the eaves and walk the wall, and all of them were strong in martial arts, and it was easy to take the six-meter-high wall of Weidongguan, and it was even easier to deal with the three-meter wall of other small cities.

In addition, the news that the army from the state capital has come to the border, and the strongholds are even more restricted, and even the scouts dare not go out, which shows the low overall quality of the rebels in Wei County. Therefore, when Zhang Wei led the front cavalry to quietly approach the Nancang of Weinancang, he did not find any of the scouts of the other side patrolling outside, so that they could easily sneak into a small forest two miles south of the Nancang and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

Zhang Wei pulled Xiao Qi to hide on the edge of the grove and peeked out, only to see that the tail south warehouse was loose outside and tight inside, although there were no scouts outside the city, the city was brightly lit, two steps, one post, three steps and one sentry, and there were more people patrolling the night than at the beginning of the tail Dongguan.

When the advance team led by Zhang Wei arrived at the grove, it was already about one o'clock in the morning, and the defenders of Weinancang had obviously learned the lesson of Weidongguan and strengthened their defense at night. However, this is not a fortified town after all, not only are the walls not high, but there are no horses and torches outside the city gates. It was far easier for the Donghai team to touch under the walls of Weinancang than it was at Weidongguan. And once they are allowed to go up the city wall, the fate of Weinancang may not be much better than that of Weidongguan.

According to Li Wei, who is familiar with the situation of the rebels in Wei County, there will be no generals in rebel strongholds with less than 1,000 people, and the so-called generals in his mouth are B-rank generals. In other words, in terms of the size of the garrison in Nancang, the commander sitting here will only be a C+ rank Zhaowu captain at most, plus four to six captains of each rank.

With their limited high-end combat power, this battle will not be as tragic as the one in Dongguan, and the dream of the Donghai team will be easier. The only thing to worry about is that the commander here may not blindly rely on personal martial arts like the main general of the Dongguan rebels, if this Captain Zhaowu is a little more shrewd and fights as a whole against the strong individual combat power of the East China Sea team, then I am afraid that the losses of the East China Sea will be slightly more than expected.

While sending a few scouts to guide the follow-up infantry, Zhang Wei asked Xiao Qi to sneak closer to the city wall, and he was responsible for finding out how many sentry posts there were on the city wall, so that he could act tomorrow night.

At present, although Xiao Qi's "stealth" skill can only take effect in a stationary state, with some of the scout's professional stealing and marching skills taught by Zhang Wei, he will enter the "stealth" state and stop for a while every time he travels quickly. In this way, even if a sharp-eyed sentry occasionally notices a shadow flashing, when he looks seriously, he sees nothing, and can only think that he is mistaken by the eyes. So Xiao Qi touched the bottom of the city wall of Weinancang, and no one could find him.

Seeing that things were much smoother than expected, Xiao Qi took a good time to investigate slowly, and it took a whole hour to go around the city wall. By the time he returned to the grove, it was already past two o'clock in the middle of the night, and except for Zhang Wei and a few grassroots cavalry officers who were still on duty, the rest of them had already been arranged to sleep.

"Master." This is Xiao Qi's honorific title for Zhang Wei, "I walked around the city wall and found a major negligence on the part of the rebels. ”

"Oh, let's hear it." The negligence of the rebels is an opportunity for the Eastern Navy, and Zhang Wei is very happy that Xiao Qi can make such an important discovery this time.

"There are about fifty people on duty on the four walls of Weinancang, which is more than the number of people in Tianwei Dongguan. However, because there are four city walls, the overall length is nearly twice as long as that of Weidongguan, so the actual average density of the outposts at the head of the city is not as good as that of Weidongguan. ”

Zhang Wei didn't think what Xiao Qi said had any meaning for tomorrow night's battle, "This is not important, judging from their serious attitude now, except for you being able to get close to the city wall without anyone noticing, everyone else can only rely on strong attacks." ”

"Master, things are not what you see." Xiao Qi hurriedly explained, "Outside our grove is the official road of Wei County, and across the official road is Wei Nancang, so what you see from Master happens to be their most heavily defended side." In fact, when I went around to the side of the mountain behind the Onankura, there were almost no sentinels there, and we could easily break through from there. ”

Zhang Wei immediately became interested when he heard this, "Tell me what the terrain on the other side looks like, is there any terrain that can allow five hundred people to lurk?" ”

As soon as Zhang Wei said this, Xiao Qi's originally smug expression suddenly became a lot more depressed, "Master, that ...... I don't know ......"

Zhang Wei was angry, but he couldn't complain about this young man, after all, he was not a professional military personnel, and he did not have the captain's skills of "sand table deduction", so it was really unrealistic for him to be a rookie newcomer with the kind of military literacy of a professional soldier.

patted the young man on the shoulder, Zhang Wei comforted, "Okay, your discovery is still very valuable." Let's wait for the captain to come and let him take a look. ”

Xiao Qi smiled when he heard this, and the master praised him rarely, which showed that this discovery was of great significance, "Master, then what should I do next?" ”

Zhang Wei looked up at the stars in the sky, and then found that the starry sky in the Dongzhou world was completely different from the real world, and he wanted to use the set of methods he had learned in the army to judge the direction and time through the stars, which was completely unworkable in the dream world. sighed helplessly, and then said to Xiao Qi, "It's not too early, you go to sleep first, and you will be on duty during the day tomorrow." ”

The young man nodded, and asked for a blanket to sleep on.

Zhang Wei stared at the wall of the tail south warehouse and observed again, trying to find out the law of the other party's changing of the guard and other loopholes, so that he could choose the best time to attack tomorrow night. After the Battle of Weidongguan, he also found that he had more and more experience in ancient warfare, unlike in the previous war dreams, he was all acting in a daze following the instructions of Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi. If he used to be more like a thug or a fierce general, then now he is finally slowly transforming into a decision-maker.

It's not that he suddenly got his senses, but because of the immutability of history, the dream of war is basically pursuing an established routine, and there is no opportunity for him to play freely. Rather than doing something contrary to history on his own initiative and incurring the accident of being "hunted down" by a cannonball like Xiaofeng, it is better to follow the arrangements of the captain who is an expert in the history of war.

However, after coming to the dream of the Dongzhou forces, there was no historical fact to guide him, and the performance of the captain of the East China Sea in the face of the blank future was far inferior to Zhang Wei's flashes of inspiration from time to time. Sima Fuqiang's role in several battles against the rebels was far less important than Zhang Wei's, and the command of the Eastern Navy was faintly transferred to Zhang Wei's side.

However, these are only changes at the tactical level, and if you look at the problem at the strategic level, Zhang Wei is far less powerful than Sima Fuqiang, who is familiar with the history of human wars for thousands of years. Captain Tokai still firmly holds the lead in strategic thinking. Huang Zhi's role has not changed much, and he has basically secured the position of staff officer, but now he is better at using his "social" skills to boost morale, coordinate friendly forces and all aspects of forces.

The three stinkers each have their own advantages and roles, and it can be said that they are indispensable, and no matter who is missing, the command ability of the Eastern Navy will drop by more than one step, and even fall to the point of mediocrity. However, when the three are combined, it is far beyond the point of a Zhuge Liang or Sima Yi, and the two military strategists of the Three Kingdoms period look at the problem more comprehensively, more far-reaching, and more ever-changing, which really responds to the famous saying that "three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang".

At about five o'clock in the morning, before the dawn, Sima Fuqiang and Huang Zhi led the infantry army to finally arrive at this grove. The defenders on the wall of Weinancang were also sleepy at this time, and the night's duty made them physically and mentally exhausted, and they couldn't stop complaining in their hearts about Captain Zhaowu who was in charge of Weinancang, complaining that he was overreacting.

In the eyes of these ordinary soldiers, the strange soldiers in the East China Sea who are good at flying eaves and walking on walls are too lazy to deal with such a small warehouse city as them, and they can't defend it if they really come. In the past 20 days, they have also been tortured enough, there are only 500 defenders in the city of Weinancang, of which 200 are the old, weak, sick and disabled of the grain transportation team, and the remaining 300 are really combat-effective soldiers.

After Sima Fuqiang arrived, Zhang Wei didn't let him rest, quickly told Xiao Qi's discovery, and personally accompanied the captain on a trip, taking advantage of the last darkness before dawn, and at the same time when the rebels were the most lax, to explore the terrain on the other side of Weinancang to see if it could be used as the direction of the main attack.

Sima Fuqiang is not Xiao Qi, he has "ascending high and overlooking" and "night vision", he doesn't need to get close to Weinancang at all, he just found a suitable angle to launch his skills, and he figured out the terrain in that area from a distance.

Nodding at Zhang Wei, who was traveling with him, Sima Fuqiang said, "No problem, although you can't lurk five hundred people in, it's absolutely no problem to arrange dozens of elite personnel to ambush in that direction." When I go back to the grove, I will immediately make a sand table for your reference, and the specific details of the battle will be planned by you. ”

By the time Sima Fuqiang finished making the sand table, the sky was already bright, and he was really tired after marching overnight and bothering to make the sand table, so he left the rest of the matter to Zhang Wei to think about, and he hurried to sleep for a while.

Zhang Wei glanced at the overall sand table of the tail Nancang that the captain had worked so hard to make, and a draft battle plan was quickly formed in his heart, just wait for everyone to rest enough at night, and then put it forward to discuss together. After all, Weinancang is not a strong city, if it can't be done with such rich combat experience of the East China Sea team, then the dozens of war dreams that have been experienced before are not in vain. Even a heartless person like Wanyue can tell a battle theory with all his might, not to mention the three stinkers of the East China Sea team.

Looking at the bright sun hanging on the branches on the three poles, Zhang Wei finally felt a little tired. I think that when he was still in the army at the age of 10, he participated in the group army's simulated confrontation exercises, but he insisted on three days and three nights without closing his eyes. Although there is still no problem now, after all, tonight is going to face a real war, it is still necessary to take a good rest, with the best mental state to devote yourself to the first battle after the establishment of the Eastern Navy, and strive to win a beautiful battle, so as to see if your command ability is enough to control this army that belongs to the dream man himself.

Walking under a tree, he kicked Xiao Qi, who was sleeping soundly.

Xiao Qi opened his eyes, and his eyes were stung by the sun hanging high on the branches, and he had to reach out to block the sun.

"Wake up, stinky boy, it's your turn to be on duty, I'm going to get some sleep." Zhang Wei pulled up the blanket covered by Xiao Qi, pulled him up with his hand, and took his place and lay down.

(To be continued)