Chapter 157: Crossing the River

"Report to the Duke of the Kingdom, Guangwu Mountain has been taken." The front-line personnel who reported the news knelt in front of Ye Shen covered in blood.

This sentence spread. didn't wait for Ye Shen to react. The people around Ye Shen were already excited.

Can't blame them.

As the absolute main force of the Beijing Imperial Court. There are more than six military forbidden army numbers directly controlled by Ye Shen. As for the second-line armies such as the Weisho Militia Group, there are even more. As for the military and civilian husbands, and even the personnel of the construction company. On the whole, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are millions of people.

In addition, there are armies in other directions, although they are not directly controlled by Ye Shen, but there are more troops who have to listen to Ye Shen's greetings.

And in the northwest direction, in fact, there are only three armies. No, the four armies, plus, the so-called thirteenth army that has just been trained. But the northwest has won as many places as it has done and how much credit it has made. This worries them.

After all, that's all the credit for fighting the world. The Western Route Army ran out of food. What do they eat?

From this point of view. He Xi's plan is to succeed.

At least for a long time in the future, the new faction of the Ming military is the current South Route Army, the West Route Army, and the East Route Army plus the navy.

They don't have to pee in a pot.

What He Xi did was the same as what Zhu Yuanzhang did at the beginning. Whatever the situation, the army will never allow monolithic work. Be sure to break it down. Several factions check and balance each other, plus logistical constraints. The existence of a staff system. The probability of the yellow robe being added is very low.

It's just that it's not that these people don't want to win. It's not that they don't work hard. In fact, this is the main battlefield of the north-south showdown. Neither Nanjing nor Beijing actually transferred the real elite soldiers from the frontal battlefield.

Just a Guangwu Mountain.

I can't put many people away. But more than a hundred artillery pieces were shaken. That's just a little bit of a hundred doors in this direction. And not the limit of their use. And six or seven regiments of fresh troops have already crossed the river.

In order to keep the energy up, keep the sharpness.

Every regimental commander wants to make meritorious contributions. But they all hit their heads and bled out. There was even a charge in front of him, which was beaten into a hornet's nest by the tiger squat cannon from the opposite side.

Each regiment was forcibly withdrawn after more than 1,000 casualties.

It can be said that most of the soldiers who withdrew were quite unconvinced. Waiting for the next attack.

But the situation of the Northern Army is much better than that of the Southern Army.

Hundreds of thousands of troops waited in the back for rotation.

Moreover, Ye Shenke has not been idle in the past few years, and he has been working hard. Everyone is waiting for the war. In order to gain fame and wealth, and to seal his wife and son, as for the casualties, most people don't care about them. Because the court gave too much.

In fact, even in the future, as long as the money is in place. No matter how dangerous things are, there will be people who are willing to do them.

And this is even more true in this era.

For Guangwu Mountain, these people are like a fish in the throat. At this moment, I am naturally very happy.

It's just that Ye Shen frowned slightly.

Ye Shen said, "How many are captured, how many are decapitated?"

The man below said, "More than 1,000 were captured, and nearly 5,000 were beheaded."

Ye Shen pondered for a moment and said secretly, "It's not right."

Guangwu Mountain is actually not precipitous, which also shows one thing, that is, the camp can be placed on Guangwu Mountain. Although the scale of the military camps on Guangwu Mountain is limited, several military camps combined can also garrison 10,000 or 20,000 people.

A place like Guangwu Mountain.

The opponent is Sheng Yong again, and he doesn't believe that Sheng Yong will retreat.

Then the number of captures is too small.

After all, it was a civil war. Although there are many people who will fight to the death and not retreat. But more often than not, these people prefer to surrender, after all, their lives are their own.

The number of captives should be higher than the number of beheadings, even if Sheng Yong's retreat organization is good. This number should also be quite right.

There's something wrong with that.

However, this is just Ye Shen's speculation. It doesn't mean anything. Perhaps an isolated case.

It's not that Sheng Yong is not careful.

And he was really reluctant. In order to make this play, he actually deliberately allowed the attack of the Northern Army, and sent thousands of elites in his hands to the mouth of the Northern Army, although the Northern Army also had a considerable number of casualties, but this loss has already made Sheng Yong's toothache.

Thousands of prisoners were taken, and the loss of more than 10,000 elites was a great loss to Sheng Yong's headquarters.

He didn't have a lot of people in total.

Of course, this is also a matter of thinking.

In fact, in the whole process, Sheng Yong did his best, and there were almost no flaws. Let the front-line generals of the Northern Army feel that this is the place where they fought hard. It was not at all that the Yugoslav army gave up.

But sensitivity to numbers. But it was cultivated by Ye Shen by He Xi's side.

After each battle, Ye Shen knew all the data in this battle. How many casualties, how many of them were killed in battle, how many were wounded. How many were seriously injured and could not return to the team, and how many were slightly injured. How many captured, how many decapitated.

Although Ye Shen did not calculate a coefficient. But there are certain characteristics of each other, he still understands.

will keenly feel that something is wrong.

And this kind of ability is not possessed by many generals in ancient times. Although the Southern Army followed He Xi's reform and did a lot of things, their emphasis on mathematics was still inferior to that of the Northern Army. Mathematics has been integrated into every corner of the military.

No matter how well Sheng Yong does a good job. But the numbers don't lie.

Ye Shen pondered for a while, then raised his head and looked at the soldiers around him. All of them were full of longing eyes. He said, "Prepare to cross the river. Immediately choose a place to build a pontoon bridge. Guangwushan sent people to deal with the aftermath."

Ye Shen didn't know what Sheng Yong was doing.

But Ye Shen has his own calculations, you beat yours. I hit mine. He didn't know if there was a problem with Guangwu Mountain. Or maybe he's too careful. However, he decided to abandon the ready-made camps of the Southern army. The reason is the pontoon.

Actually, it's just about building a pontoon bridge. Due north of Guangwu Mountain. Not the most suitable place.

However, if Guangwu Mountain does not fall, it is almost impossible to land on the south bank, and even if it does, it will not be tenable. Now Guangwu Mountain is in hand. You can have a new plan. Of course, the most important plan is to extend to the south bank along the pontoon bridge that originally led to the sandbar. Then the node on the south bank is Guangwu Mountain.

Ye Shen's suspicion made him a little more defensive.

Of course, this is also a steady supply of materials built in the rear, so that Ye Shen has enough materials to waste. If you build an iron bridge, it will be extremely difficult, but if it is just a pontoon bridge, there is not much of a problem.

After all, the technology of pontoon bridges has been in existence since the Warring States period. When the Song Dynasty attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty, there was no problem in building a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River. Not to mention the current Northern Army. Don't say that one, even several is not a problem.

Of course, the only problem is the flood season.

What will the Yellow River look like when it floods? Whether it can hold on or not, I don't know.

Immediately, Ye Shen gave another order and said, "Pass the order Jin Shengyu, he can do it."

"Yes." Someone immediately agreed to come down.

The initiative of the war has always been in Ye Shen's hands. Although Ye Shen has been attacking Guangwu Mountain, he is not without second, third, and even fourth preparations. He felt that there was something wrong with Guangwu Mountain, so he naturally wanted to test it.

How to tempt? Maybe it's a stress test. Let the southern army take care of one thing and lose the other, and have to expose all the hole cards in their hands.

Ye Shen secretly thought about the possible hole cards in the south in his heart, and he carefully looked at a map, which spanned the entire Central Plains, and his gaze followed the Yellow River to the east little by little. Seeing Jinan, he suddenly asked, "Is there any news from Shandong, is Fu Youde still in Shandong?"

Immediately, a staff officer began to rummage through the documents, and finally found and said, "The latest news is ten days ago. Fu Youde is still in Shandong, and even the spies saw Fu Youde coming out to inspect. It is worth noting that a large number of materials from the Xuzhou Iron Works are transported west along the Jialu River, and my lord, we have taken Guangwu Mountain, do you want to fight it."

Ye Shen didn't know,

The intelligence of several intelligence agencies in Beijing in Shandong was cleaned up by Fu Youde.

The so-called intelligence war is not that the two sides send spies to each other, although they have a lofty name, but they are not new at all, Fu Youde has been prepared before. So now the news they got was all given by Fu Youde.