Chapter 195: The army begins
Yang Ming is the prince, and the title has been raised to one level.
Today's Great Sui Dynasty has only three of them, Yang Su, Gao Gong, and Yang Ming.
Yang Guang deliberately called his son back to his dormitory, and asked him to explain.
It probably means that you have to listen to Yang Su's opinions more, it is a matter of national affairs, and don't be stubborn.
Yang Guang is hinting to him, you, the marching marshal, are a false name, marching and fighting, you have to rely on the following people, if you win, the credit is yours, and if you lose, they will take the blame.
Of course, you can't lose!
Yang Ming nodded repeatedly, in short, whatever the father said, he said that what the grandfather said was right, and the son must be obedient.
Next, it's time to prepare for the expedition.
The three marching chiefs, Shi Wansui, Guo Yan, and Changsun Cheng, are all capable of fighting, not to mention Yang Su, Yang Su's staff, they are all very good, they have been with Yang Su for half their lives, and they have seen any scene.
In the evening of the same day, the four of them discussed the major matters of the expedition at the yamen of the military headquarters.
Grain, don't worry, Yang Ming will pass through the Guangtong warehouse on the way out, and the people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs have already rushed to the granary to mobilize grain and grass.
The grain in the Guangtong warehouse is more than enough to supply 100,000 troops, because this warehouse is for the Beijing division.
However, when the army goes out, it also needs to recruit people, build bridges and pave roads, and transport grain and grass, all of which have to be done by them, but this kind of thing needs to be handled by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Officials.
So far, the military department has not gathered 100,000 troops, and only 70,000 people have been gathered, of course, the Guanzhong region is all elite.
Guanzhong is the important place of Jingzhao, and Pei Ju, as the secretary of the military department, does not dare to let Yang Ming take away all the soldiers around Jingzhao, otherwise Yang Ming will be defeated, and the Beijing division will be empty immediately, which is not a joke.
After Yang Su heard this, he waved his big hand and said, "Seventy thousand is enough, but you have to match me with enough war horses and iron armor, and the armor and bow are lost."
Pei Ju nodded and said, "The inventory of Weiwei Temple and Taifu Temple will be allocated half of it to you, and the military department will give you a total of 30,000 pairs of iron armor, 50,000 leather armor, and 30,000 horses from Taifu Temple.
30,000 iron armor, 50,000 leather armor, and 30,000 war horses, this is definitely elite.
Yang Ming has been listening to the side, and many times he can't interject, after all, he really doesn't understand, and no one has taught him.
[In view of the general environment,
However, the discussion between everyone will take into account Yang Ming's face, and after discussing the big and small matters, Yang Ming will nod.
As long as Yang Su said something, Yang Ming nodded very neatly, and when Shi Wansui said it, Yang Ming would pretend to frown.
As for Guo Yan's eldest grandson, Yang Ming would hiss, think for a while, and then nod.
Although he doesn't understand, he can't let others think he doesn't understand, even if they know that they really don't understand, let them feel that they understand a little.
He came with an attitude of learning, and when discussing with everyone, the shelf was very low, modest and polite, and for this alone, Yang Su decided that this battle would be won.
As long as Yang Ming doesn't break his elbow, he can't lose, he looks down on Yang Liang, the king of Han, and he can't defeat Goguryeo, and he can be defeated by that hanging, and he is also convinced.
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If he could live until the day when Yang Guangsan conquered Goguryeo, he was afraid that he would vomit blood and die.
That night, everyone returned to the yamen of the headquarters to rest, and sent their cronies and staff to the conscription camp to reorganize the men.
These people are qualified to open a mansion, and there are many staff members under them, and Yang Ming's royal officials are all in Jingzhou, and now he is alone, except for Li Jing, Xiao Maha, and Fang Xuanling.
The next day, Pei Shuying, who received the news, hurriedly ordered Pang Niu and the others to prepare that the royal palace was bound to go with the army.
"If Your Highness makes a mistake, your wife and children will not be protected," Yang Yinjiang held her big belly and chattered to warn Pang Niu.
The Qin Wangfu is all from Guanzhong, and the family scrolls are all in Guanzhong, they are dead, it doesn't matter, the Qin Wangfu will be responsible for taking care of the aftermath, but if Yang Ming has an accident, then the Qin Wangfu will send them home
West.
The reason why it is said that wives and children are not harmed is precisely because wives and children are always harmed.
Pang Niu naturally didn't dare to be careless, knowing that this expedition would hang up on his own, and he couldn't let Yang Ming have an accident, otherwise the princess would not trouble his family, and His Majesty would not let their family go.
In the eyes of Yang Su and others, this battle is not allowed to be defeated, in Pang Niu's view, Yang Ming is not allowed to die if he is injured, as for victory or defeat, it is not his business.
The palace department, which is the same configuration as Yu Linwei, is a stomach filled with iron, the best weapon.
Yang Yinjiang and Pei Shuying urgently requisitioned a group of people from their respective mother's homes to enrich Yang Ming's pro-army, so that Yang Ming's guard level has reached the scale of 5,000 people.
Yang Ming didn't have time to return home at all, so at noon that day, Yu Linwei escorted him, Yang Su and others to the conscription camp.
The conscription camp was built on the outskirts of Daxing City in two days and two nights by temporarily recruited people.
Great Sui infrastructure, the light of China.
This thing is temporary, and when the battle is over, it must be dismantled quickly, otherwise there is a big camp outside the Beijing Division, what is the matter.
The counterinsurgency army, with a total of 74,000 people, plus Yang Ming's pro-army, and Yang Su and others' troops, has exceeded 80,000.
However, when fighting, they are generally not counted as pro-armies, and they will only appear in special circumstances.
The battle plan that Yang Ming and the others negotiated was to directly cross the river from Dali County to Pujin Pass and fight a decisive battle with Pei Wen'an.
After crossing the river, the troops will be divided, after all, 80,000 people are mixed together, and it is very chaotic.
Don't talk about military discipline, military discipline is to whip with a whip, and military law is to cut off the head.
The common people don't even know the big characters, and they know what military discipline is.
On the side of Dali County, the water level of the Yellow River is not high, and the Taishou of Fengyi County has requisitioned local people and temporarily built dozens of pontoon bridges.
Hedong County has military intelligence delivered to the big camp,
Not to mention that Pujin is closed, Pei Wenan's 80,000 people have not even been defeated in Hedong County at the moment.
Li Jing stubbornly defended Hedong, and the grain and grass and military salaries were continuously sent from the rear of Pujin Pass, and the morale did not fall, but the city wall in the east was about to be broken, and it would not be long before Hedong County was bound to lose.
Pei Wen'an's place, no matter what, is also a regular army, there are catapults and crashes, but there will not be many of them.
Because the soldiers of the state were mainly fighting with the Turks, the Turks did not have cities to use catapults.
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According to Yang Su, he never used this thing to attack the city, because the catapult was very troublesome to transport, delaying the speed of the march, and it needed to be assembled outside the city, which was quite time-consuming.
Yang Su's siege of the city is to take human lives, dozens of people carry a log, hit the city gate with shields, drag the body away when they die, replace it, and similar to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series, climb the city wall with a high ladder.
The city walls of the Great Sui are not high, and it is actually more convenient to use ladders.
Catapults are a more frustrating option, because after you knock down the bricks of the outer city walls, the inner layer of rammed earth is the most difficult to hit.
But it can be made into a slope, which is conducive to the soldiers to climb up, which is a matter of skill.
So the slinger, similar to a football goalkeeper, basically does not change, and can also pass on the skills to his son.
The best choice for siege is to dig tunnels and find a suitable location to dig into the city, basically few people will use it, because it is too difficult to dig and need to avoid underground boulders, so it often digs and digs and deviates from the direction.
Early the next morning, the army marched.
On Pei Ju's side, although Zhang collected 30,000 horses, in fact, 10,000 were mules, which could not be used as cavalry, and these mules were requisitioned from the government soldiers.
Under the Great Sui system, in addition to military supplies, clothing, light weapons, and food, the government soldiers also had to provide mules and donkeys.
In fact, the scale of the cavalry should not be too large, 20,000, it can be said to be a golden configuration, more or less is not suitable, this is when Yang Ming was on the road, he asked Yang Su for advice.
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Long live and the others, each leading the soldiers and horses, were not by Yang Ming's side, so Yang Ming had doubts and could only ask Yang Su.
And Yang Su doesn't hide his selfishness, he knows everything, after all, Yang Ming is his grandson-in-law.
Cavalry combat, there are three advantages,
First, mobility,
2. Long-range mounted archery,
Third, impact.
On the battlefield, the main role of cavalry is to storm the enemy's military formation, so as to tear apart the defensive line and disrupt the deployment, and long-range cavalry shooting the enemy is only secondary.
Then there is the rout of the enemy, and the cavalry must be used for the pursuit.
Of course, these are the words of Yang Su's family, and his military habit can be used as a reference by Yang Ming, but he can't accept it all.
There was already an emergency on the Hedong side of the county, so they had to speed up their march.
No matter how fast you spend, you still use a whip, and the non-commissioned officers who are not fast enough will inevitably be whipped by those captains and brigade commanders.
The military government of the Great Sui is called the Hussar Mansion, with a hussar general, a chariot general, and another general, a long history, and a soldier Cao to join the army.
Three hundred people are a regiment, the commander is a captain, one hundred people are a brigade, the commander is the brigade commander, a team of fifty people is the team leader, and ten people are the fire commander.
The hussar mansions in the Jingzhao region basically occupied three-tenths of the entire Great Sui, and all the hussar generals were all held by the descendants of second- to fifth-rank officials.
These descendants, needless to say, are definitely not the eldest sons, and there are not many sons-in-law, most of them are concubines.
The children of Guanzhong are all the same, and the strength of the troops can be imagined.
Yang Liang's side is more miscellaneous, and there are many Guanzhong disciples under him, so Yang Liang's banner must not be a rebellion, otherwise he will not be able to call these people.
Because their family is involved in Guanzhong, if they become thieves, they will implicate their families.
The entire grassroots soldiers of the rebel army are only thinking about killing Yang Su as soon as possible to end this war.
After two days and two nights of rapid marching, one-third of the fire oil was consumed, and the fire oil was oil, which was called stone paint in the Great Sui.
This thing is very expensive, there is a saying: the stone paint into the vessel, the beginning of yellow and then black, such as condensation paste, burning extremely bright, and the paste is no different, so it is also called black grease or black paste.
Yang Ming and the others marched at night, in order to save a little bit of stone paint, they also used a torch of thirty meters to illuminate the road ahead, and those who couldn't see clearly behind them grabbed the clothes of the people in front of them and ran to the front one by one.
At noon that day, the vanguard finally arrived in Dali County.
Thirty miles to the east, there is the Yellow River, there are pontoon bridges on the river, how to cross the river, there are also particulars.
The disc boss is thick