Chapter 159: Wu Li

Wu Li is in his fifties and is dressed in armor. There were still gray hairs sneaking out from under the helmet.

He sat on his horse and looked far away.

But he saw that more than ten miles were unconcealed in front of him.

This is the Hebei Plain, the ground is very undulating, and you can see the complete horizon far, far away at a glance, almost clearly.

At this moment, tens of thousands of troops, under the command of more than a dozen guards, marched one after another.

All the guards marched in three columns, each column separated by more than a hundred paces. These hundred or so steps are not completely empty, and there are many carriages that move in the space between columns and columns.

Every column, in fact, is a battalion. There were more than 1,000 people in each battalion, and every column had a length of miles, and the whole team stretched for several miles. And this is not the only procession.

There are also in other places. However, it will not be seen until a telescope.

Wu Li thought secretly in his heart: "This method doesn't seem to work. There's room for improvement."

Wu Li's arrangement of the march in this way also has a deep meaning.

The column marches, and there is more than a hundred spaces around it, that is, once it encounters a cavalry attack, it can be immediately converted into a phalanx. And the distance of more than 100 paces, after each column is converted into a phalanx, it is a distance that can support each other.

And the horse convoy in the column, the baggage team, can also be under the cover of the phalanx.

It's just tens of thousands of people marching, and the ranks are a little too crowded. Wu Li had to divide the entire First Army into three parts: the front army, the middle army, and the rear army. Only then did the whole army settle down. No, the army stretches for miles.

The end cannot be connected.

In fact, this is also an important change after the army's firearms, before the cold weapons battle, hundreds of thousands of battles, as long as the road is arranged, not crowded on the road, just arrange the accommodation.

Now we have to think about the firepower space.

They do not affect each other's shooting boundaries. Otherwise, once you encounter an enemy attack, it is very likely that you will mix with the enemy, and the fire gun in your hand will not be able to fire at all.

A chaotic situation is formed. Let people catch the flaws.

Still, these things. This period of time was too hasty to reorganize the army. A lot of things are not regulated. The matter of how to march can only be left to the discretion of those below.

The reason why Wu Li was selected as a veteran to take on the important role of the first army. It's Wu Li, although he is old. Comprehension is reduced. But he has always pondered and likes to learn.

He was originally a reckless man who fought all by bravery, and later followed the pikemen to defeat the Xie family. Although he followed the Ming army to fight the whole game. But none of them have any main tasks, more to help others. That's when I started to learn, and I just started to learn the art of war. Later, when he was at war with Naha.

Wu Li was building a city in Liaodong at that time, and his foothold was not stable, and Naha sent cavalry to attack. The city is not finished. When Wu Li asked people to line up for a gap in the city wall, and when Naha came out to attack, he suddenly gave way to the gap, and the crossbowmen rained arrows from the city, so that Naha's cavalry was shocked, so he personally acted as a sharp arrow and took the lead in counterattacking. Defeat Naha in one fell swoop. Then reinforcements gathered, and Nahachu could only withdraw from Liaodong.

There is already a feeling of wisdom and bravery.

Later, He Xi came to Liaodong, and Wu Li was ordered to Tuntian, which was very valued by Liu Jing, because Wu Li worked very hard in Tuntian, and the results he obtained were better than others.

Even Liu Jing once wanted Wu Li to turn martial arts into literature and give him a hand.

But Wu Licai didn't do it.

Wu Li doesn't look down on civil officials, after all, the world is peaceful, Wu Li doesn't feel that there will be any battles in the future, and he is also old. It is estimated that he will not be able to go to the battlefield in the future, and there is no difference between civil and military affairs for him.

However, Wu Lirong has been a horse for half his life, and there is a hereditary thousand households on his body, which is a wealth that can be passed on to his descendants. How could he give up?

And He Xi later organized and trained the new army, selected suitable generals among the original generals, made a point of examination questions, and let the people below do it. Most of them are math problems. Without him, the army will be modernized, or modernized. Essentially, it is the process of substituting mathematics for experience.

Only with a mathematical foundation, many tactics are well understood. The frequency of artillery firing range determines how artillery positions should be constructed. The range, frequency, and lethality of the firebolt are the foundation of all firebolt formations.

Not understanding these things, many things, simply can't communicate.

And Wu Li is the one with the best mathematical foundation among them.

After all, if He Xi's Tuntian wants to do a good job, he needs to understand He Xi's thinking. And in He Xi's thinking, there is already a lot of such content.

With these preparations, Wu Li has stood out today.

"Newspaper." A scout rushed up to Wu Li and said, "The Third Army King will report that the road is safe."

Wu Li said, "Got it. Return to him, and have a safe journey."

This is also a rule established by Wu Li. The Third Army was more than thirty miles west of Wuli. In order to prevent being broken one by one. Every hour, he had to go back and forth to report back and forth.

Determine the other party's situation.

This kind of contact was interrupted once, maybe something happened on the road. Interrupt it twice, and it's dangerous. With three interruptions, it is almost certain that the other side has met the enemy. It's time for targeted investigations.

"Newspaper. The former army has reached the floating river." Another scout came galloping in.

Wu Li said: "Order the former army to camp on the spot and build a pontoon bridge. And build a camp, wait for the middle army, and the rear army will join it. Tomorrow we will cross the river again."

In fact, it's just after noon.

There's still plenty of time in the afternoon. It's just that Wu Li is too cautious.

Although the floating river is not a very wide river. However, he was still worried about being hit by the enemy. I'd rather spend a day building a pontoon bridge. For tomorrow, the army crossed the river together.

The pontoon bridges mentioned here are not two, but at least three or five, so that the army can pass as quickly as possible.

It will not be divided into two groups by the floating river.

"Yes." The scout beside him.

Wu Li looked at the flat land in Hebei again, and sighed secretly in his heart: "This year's harvest is over."

Now that it is the end of spring, the army marches like this, and naturally it is impossible to just take the road, but must make a way out of the fields. It's just that in this way, these wheat fields are almost finished.

But so what?

He couldn't change anything.

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"Is this a tortoise?" Sheng Yong scolded secretly.

Sheng Yong did a lot to conquer the First Army. At this moment, he took three or five guards to hide on the south bank of the Fuhe River, and peeped into the north bank of the Fuhe River with a clairvoyant mirror, but saw that on the other side of the Fuhe River, countless people were camping.

If there are trees nearby, cut them down and make them into walls.

If there are not enough trees, a large number of baggage wagons are lined up to form a defensive line, and trenches, low walls, and the like are dug outside. In this way, the camp took shape.

Wu Li has fought for half his life, and he is the most sophisticated. The basic skills of resettlement and settling down are even more problematic at all.

That's it. Sheng Yong himself did not think about attacking the camp.

However, the big wooden stakes on the side of the river aroused his idea, and he could see at a glance that it was used to build a pontoon bridge. There were ten pontoon bridges he could see alone.

That is, Wu Li will let the army pass through this river as quickly as possible.

Sheng Yong's idea of wanting to defeat the enemy Bandu is almost impossible.

Of course. The reason why Wu Li did this. It is also because the floating river is not a big river, and it is easy to build a pontoon bridge.

Just when Sheng Yong wanted to look at it again, suddenly the person next to him said, "My lord, there are a lot of nights on the other side. If I don't leave, I'm afraid I'll be discovered."

Naturally, there should be cavalry guards on the periphery of the camp. It's just that there are very few cavalrymen who can only cross the river. The omission is huge. But now it's different, now that I've set up camp and freed up. Naturally, more energy was devoted to the vigilance on the other side.

Sheng Yong sighed, knowing that his idea of ambushing the other party was no longer possible.

He couldn't put his own safety under the control of others,said

"Withdraw."

So, Sheng Yong could only take a few guards to turn over and retreat. Even if Sheng Yong was so careful, he still let the Northern Army detect the movements here. It's just that there is a large army on the opposite side. A few scouts only dared to watch from afar, not daring to rush over.

However, even so, Sheng Yong can be regarded as exposed.

The presence of a large force of cavalry here is suspicious in itself.