Chapter 293: Blow it up to Lao Tzu!
After a long run in the middle of the night, and a silent march for half an hour, the infantry regiment finally arrived at its predetermined position when the sky shone with a faint white light:
Located in the north of Jimo City, a large camp of the Jiaodong Army that can accommodate up to 8,000 people and at least 3,000 soldiers and horses in peacetime.
Arriving at the position and hearing the order to rest, Guo Rong sat directly on the ground, and there were not a few people around Guo Rong who looked similar to Guo Rong.
Everyone's reaction and action were similar, that is, to stroke the thighs that were ground to flesh and blood during the attack......
Seriously, this part of the heavy infantry should be considered the worst part of the entire Changying army, but this is not a helpless thing.
They themselves are tall and big, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and two hundred catties of ordinary people are already majestic, but two hundred catties can only be regarded as thin among these guys, and with a body of armor and equipment, three hundred catties are sparse and ordinary.
With the territory and national strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is not that they cannot find a war horse that can match them, but you must know that there is also a branch of the army called heavy cavalry.
The few high-headed horses with the blood of Dawan Liang and sweat and blood horses must first supply heavy cavalry such as mounted cavalry.
After all, to be honest, people only eat on horses, and the heavy infantry are still on the ground more often, and it is enough to maintain a level of riding skills.
Of course, although they have been tortured enough along the way, no matter how painful and painful it is, almost none of these tough guys have been left behind.
Compared with these guys who are too big and have suffered a lot, they are about six feet long, and the light infantry and crossbowmen are relatively normal.
For example, Zhi Muyu, who can eat and sleep on the horse by Guo Rong's side, and Lu Xiaobing, who acts as the head of the regiment as the company commander.
Just when Guo Rong touched his flesh and blood thighs and moaned softly, Lu Xiaobing quietly came to Guo Rong's side.
"Boss, isn't it time to get ready to attack?"
Guo Rong, who was taken aback, almost jumped up directly, but fortunately, Guo Rong reacted in time.
"Lao Lu, according to the plan you made, don't think about me, just treat me as an ordinary soldier."
"Yes!"
After finishing speaking, Lu Xiaobing turned around and began to give orders.
"All foot soldiers wear armor, archers and crossbowmen check their equipment......"
Lu Xiaobing's voice was not loud, but with the assistance of several military academies around, it soon spread throughout the entire infantry regiment.
Almost instantly, the surrounding pawns, who had seemed to have lost half their lives, immediately became busy.
Because it is a state of marching, whether it is heavy infantry, light infantry, crossbowmen or sappers, they are all equipped with light equipment, such as chain mail such as armor, and all heavy armor such as armor is carried by accompanying war horses and pack horses.
With the order of Lu Xiaobing, the heavy infantry began to take off the heavy armor and long soldiers tied to the war horses and pack horses, and quickly put on the armor with the help of other light infantry, crossbowmen, and engineer comrades around them.
After helping the heavy infantry to complete the march to the combat state, the archers also began to wear the equipment they needed for key parts such as cuirass, back armor, and mantle in addition to the chain mail they were wearing, and then checked the bowstring, arrows, quiver, and then equipped the horizontal knife, armor-piercing hammer, and sapper shovel used in melee combat.
The only thing more complicated than them was the small number of cavalry attached to the infantry regiment, and the light cavalry had to check all kinds of equipment, including the flying tiger claws used to break down the doors.
The only few dozen heavy cavalrymen needed not only to put on their own armor, but also to equip their horses with harnesses, and once they succeeded in breaking through, they would be the first to charge into the opponent's camp.
Of course, the most nervous thing in the entire infantry regiment was not them, but a dozen or so special sappers who were temporarily added to the regiment.
While the others were nervously and orderly making the final preparations, they hid in the shadows and began to mix with the materials each of them carried.
That's right, the Flying Tiger Claw can indeed pull out the pile and break the door, but Guo Rong, who is not sure if there will be an accident, also brought the big killer.
It's just that considering that the improved version of black powder is not so stable, each of these guys is carrying raw materials.
If the first round of cavalry can't break the door smoothly, then Guo Rong is ready to blow the door open directly with this thing.
Of course, the only people who have the right to use this thing are the three commanders assigned by Guo Rong, Mo Lingjun, Meng Qian, and Lu Xiaobing.
As time passed, the horizon had turned white from the hazy haze when Guo Rong arrived, and the time to start the attack was getting closer and closer.
However, at this time, Guo Rong was shocked to find that more than a dozen explosives experts in the name of special engineers appeared in front of him, and under the flickering of dozens of heavy infantry, they quietly touched the opponent's camp in this hazy early morning.
Lu Xiaobing, this old boy, didn't do it exactly according to his own arrangement!
It's just that at this time, Guo Rong just wanted to say that it was too late, after all, it was Lu Xiaobing who commanded the battle here, and more importantly, the battle was about to start.
As everyone knows, at this moment, by Lu Xiaobing's side, as the political commissar of the regiment, Huang Hankai, is anxiously looking at the veteran company commander in front of him who is old enough and has enough military achievements.
"Commander, can you use it directly like this......"
"How can there be so many things to fight a war, if I say use it, I can use it, but if there is the best thing to use in a war, why not use it?"
"The general said that if the first round of attack is unfavorable, the light cavalry will not be able to pull out the opponent's horse rejection stakes and obstacles, and they will not be able to break through the camp gate and wall before they can use a big killing weapon!"
Looking at the young political commissar who was righteous, Lu Xiaobing also looked helpless, to be honest, this little guy is really good.
The ancestor of this kid is Huang Junhan, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty who served as the governor of Luzhou and Kuizhou, and was named the Duke of the Kingdom, so this Huang Hankai can also be regarded as a wealthy family.
Although he was born in a wealthy family, this kid does not have the greed and hypocrisy of a traditional wealthy family, on the contrary, this kid is the same as most political commissars, instructors and other guys who have been trained by Han Yu's political instructors, and his mind is full of loyalty to Datang.
Not only is he loyal, Huang Hankai is both civil and military, his military literacy is quite good, and his skills in reading and composing maps are also very good, and he also belongs to a small number of young backbone officers who are very good in politics and military affairs in the entire Changying Army.
"Xiao Huang, you are still young, let me ask you, let's not talk about whether the cavalry can clear the obstacles in the first round, let me ask you, you are all regimental political commissars, you should have seen the power of that big killing weapon."
"Uh......" Huang Hankai nodded blankly.
"Those dozen guys are under your control, and each of them has at least twenty or thirty catties, adding up to three or four hundred catties and a hundred catties, and all the big killing weapons are enough to plow half of the opponent's small battalion."
"It is said that after returning to Chang'an, they should improve a round of power, and even if they can't plow the ground, at least it is no problem to remove all the obstacles of the other party."
“……”
"Besides, I know our leader better than you, and if the boss doesn't want us to use it, he won't let us take it with him from the beginning."
"I understand the character of the head, and the head also knows my character, the big killer is something that the boss can hide patiently, I can't hide it, since this thing is in my hands, how can I put it without it, don't worry."
"Regiment commander, the general said that this thing is ready to be a killer weapon at a critical time, and it will be of great use in the future when fighting against the rebels and the Tubo people, try not to use it if you can, and try not to expose it if you can......
The truth has been said, and the benefits have been said, but looking at Huang Hankai, who is still unrelenting, Lu Xiaobing is almost crazy.
"What the general said is what the general said, the battlefield is on the battlefield, since there is such a useful thing, why don't you use it? Are you willing to watch your soldiers die in vain? ”
"This ......" Speaking of this, Huang Hankai was stunned for a moment, "But, even if you want to use it, at least ask the general, it just so happens that he is ......"
Hearing Huang Hankai say this, Lu Xiaobing was also completely speechless, why are these guys so axial, if this TM asks Guo Rong, can he still use the opportunity of this thing?
"The general not only said how to use this big killing weapon, but also said that the generals will not be affected by the orders of the foreign army, and ......"
"The general said that the regiment commander is in charge of the military, the political commissar is in charge of the ideology, the military supervisor on the battlefield has the final decision, Lao Tzu is the regiment commander, and Lao Tzu has the final say on the battlefield!"
"This matter is so decided, even if something happens, the general will punish him, I will bear Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will go back to be the company commander."
Hearing Lu Xiaobing's last words, looking at Lu Xiaobing, who was already rolling around, he helplessly turned into Huang Hankai.
"Regiment commander, how do I think you did it on purpose, do you think it's too tiring to be the regiment commander, and you're going to go back to be the company commander after the fight."
"I think you used the general's killer weapon in advance this time, and I'm afraid that the company commander will withdraw for you, and you will probably go to the cooking class to carry the black pot."
I don't know if the thoughts in my heart were said by Huang Hankai, Lu Xiaobing's face began to darken.
"Carry the black pot, carry the black pot, I'm afraid that the black pot won't work, I don't seem to have carried the black pot, Lin Yu's kid was punished by the head when he was a big soldier, I was punished by the head to go to the cooking class, by the way, is the time up?"
"It's probably going to take a while, it's still a little dark! Commander, I really advise you to ......"
"Come on, tie up the commissar for me!"
“!
! I'll rub, old Lu, what are you going to do!
! ”
"The general said that in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, unless there are special circumstances, the political cadres of the forbidden army are prohibited from participating in the charge!"
"I'll rub, Lao Lu, you're tm ......"
"Plug the political commissar's mouth for me...... Wang Laoliu, go and give me an order immediately, let the sappers blow up Lao Tzu'......, don't think about saving money for the general, I will bear the general's blame!"
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves.
What Guo Rong didn't know was that since he showed the power of black powder to his subordinates, the "big killing weapon" that he had been working so hard to hide had been remembered by his subordinates.
Finally came a chance to fight, how could these guys give up such an opportunity.
At the same time as Huang Hankai was tied up, similar scenes were happening in different places, but Guo Rong, who was nervously preparing for the war, was unaware of it.
In fact, at the same time, Guo Rong was nervously preparing for the war.
It has been a long time since the last time he personally participated in the war, and even the last time he directly killed Ren Dijian with a Mo knife, now that he has a chance to fight on the battlefield in person, Guo Rong is still quite excited and serious.
However, just when Guo Rong was in high spirits, bursts of fire suddenly broke out at the gate of the Jiaodong Army camp where Guo Rong's eyes were.
Guo Rong's brain went blank the moment he saw the firelight, until a few breaths later......
"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”
The rumbling explosion reached Guo Rong's ears, and it also reached the ears of the soldiers of the Buyi Regiment who were preparing for battle.
The sudden firelight and the thunderous noise made the soldiers of the first group of soldiers directly stunned on the spot.
A large number of war horses were frightened, and dozens of cavalrymen were directly overturned to the ground by the frightened war horses, causing chaos in the cavalry group.
Most of the foot soldiers were just stunned, but there were not a few whose legs and even their bodies began to tremble, and it was not for nothing that a few timid people fell directly to the ground under fright.
Only the independent battalion directly under the Changying Army and the engineer battalion directly under the 1st Infantry Regiment around Guo Rong were relatively calm about this, after all, they had all seen the power of the big killing weapon.
"Boss, this is a direct explosion, not ......"
Guo Rong considered hiding black powder not only as a killer weapon, but also considered the impact of black powder on his own soldiers and war horses, after all, the premise of maximizing the effect is to let the soldiers understand, know, and be familiar with black powder, so as to better cooperate.
Moreover, Guo Rong knows better than others that gunpowder is a Pandora's box, which is easy to open but difficult to control.
Therefore, the moment he saw the explosion, Guo Rong was directly stunned, he never thought that what he had been guarding carefully, Lu Xiaobing, was useless without caring about it.
Hearing the blank inquiry of Zhi Muyu beside him, Guo Rong, who had returned from a stunned state, looked around, the chaos in the cavalry, the confusion of the foot soldiers, and the calmness of the independent battalion.
Looking at this scene that was not unexpected at all, Guo Rong was also helpless, but he used it all, and it was useless to get angry again.
"xxx Lu Xiaobing, Lao Tzu shouldn't give you the right, or Mo Lingjun and Meng Qian are reliable, and when I finish cleaning up the little man in the island country, I won't let you go to Aunt Yan to do chores, I won't be surnamed Guo!"
When Guo Rong was angry and cursed, the initiator Lu Xiaobing didn't know that Guo Rong was ready to clean him up.
Seeing the chaos in his own eyes, as for Guo Rong may be angry, he is not unprepared, but Lu Xiaobing obviously doesn't care, on the contrary, he is extremely excited to look at the huge firelight.
"Damn, damn nb! It's more enjoyable than when I tried it! ”
Just when Bu Yituan was confused, Guo Rong was on fire, Lu Xiaobing's eyes lit up, and he was extremely excited.
"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”
"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”
One after the other, the roar of two rounds of explosions came from a distance, and Guo Rong, Lu Xiaobing, and a considerable number of soldiers from the Buyi Regiment subconsciously turned their heads to look at the sound of the roar.
To the southwest and northwest, this is obviously the direction of the other two Jiaodong Army camps that surround Jimo City, that is, the other two offensive targets.
"! These two dogs say! ”
“nb! Attaboy! ”
The former is from Guo Rong, and the latter is from Lu Xiaobing.
Compared to Guo Rong, whose eyes were on fire, after understanding what was happening, Lu Xiaobing shouted to his side.
"Trumpeter, Stormtroopers! All the army is attacking! Rush to Lao Tzu! ”