Yunzhou County, Yunwang Mansion.

"Report! Nansato County Emergency Military Report! ”

In the palace, Zhao Jun, who had just finished breakfast, was about to go to the event, when he suddenly received the news of the emergency military report, so he stopped and asked Wang Huaien to take people to the study.

The messenger from Nanli quickly reported the army from Nanli County.

Zhao Jun slammed the table after watching it carefully!

"How dare they!"

It turned out that the military newspaper stated in detail the counteroffensive of the poisonous Central Army.

Due to the small number of troops, in order to defend the whole territory, most of the troops were scattered and stationed in various cities.

However, the other side relied on the large number of people and launched a siege and slaughter of the various cities of the escort army with an absolute superiority of troops.

It's okay to have a large garrison in a large city, with the advantage of advanced weapons and the advantage of defending the city, it can still fight back and forth with the opponent, and even make the enemy army miserable.

But the small towns on the border are miserable, and most of them have only a few hundred people stationed in each city.

The other side has sent ten times as many troops to each city, although the soldiers of the expeditionary force have the advantage of weapons, but the difference in numbers is too great, and in the case that the enemy is willing to pay a heavy price, they can be killed by piling up their lives!

This led to heavy losses in each small city on the line, each city lost more than 200 people, and the number of people lost together was as high as 5,000!

Five thousand! When has the Guardian suffered so much loss since its inception!

This is a painful blow to the convoy!

Now stationed in Nanli County is the second batch of soldiers who changed the guard, a total of more than 12,000 people, and now in addition to the remaining 6,000 people in those big cities, the rest of the small cities are almost wiped out!

Bang!

Throwing the battle report on the table, Zhao Jun wanted to get angry, but he didn't know how, such a big loss, if you want to say that the soldiers are not brave in battle, he is not.

On the contrary, which of the cities that were almost completely wiped out in this battle was not fought to the last moment?

It can be said that all the staff are glorious, and there is no one who is a bad seed!

Zhao Jun is very pleased with this, at least his money was not spent in vain!

But this battle has suffered huge losses on its own side!

Zhao Jun believed that if his own army gathered together, even if the army of the Poison King attacked it with ten times the strength, the escort army would be able to defeat it, and there would not be such a big loss, but after the division of troops, the advantage was not there, which caused the current result.

But the city is there, the number of people is there, if you don't divide the army, you can only give up the city, and giving up the city means losing the land, which is naturally absolutely impossible!

In the final analysis, there are still too few people, and the weapons are not advanced enough.

It is true that Yunzhou County has always pursued a strategy of elite soldiers due to the population of Yunzhou County, and although there are few guards, they have never lost large-scale battles against many more enemies than them since their establishment.

But in this situation, you will be numb, and the enemy will not be able to gather a large army to fight with you every time.

You also have so many cities to defend that it's impossible not to send people out.

At this time, the disadvantages of the elite strategy are revealed, manpower!

There is a serious shortage of manpower!

If there are fewer people, they can destroy each of your strongholds little by little with superior forces, which can cause you huge casualties cumulatively.

There are so many people that you don't have that many people!

As for weapons, it's not that Zhao Jun doesn't remember the formula of gunpowder, but that he is hesitating!

Hesitant to invent gunpowder in this era.

Gunpowder is a monster, it is completely different from the existing cold weapon system today, the initial gunpowder power is very small, it can be said that at most it is just an explosion.

It is only in the middle and late stages that gunpowder can gradually show its power.

And at this time, the gunpowder of the previous life gradually appeared on the battlefields of various countries.

Powerful armor-piercing power far exceeds that of arrows, and training a musketeer quickly and cheaply is far easier and cheaper than training a soldier. In addition to the fact that logistical problems were a big problem, it can be said that in the middle and late stages of the development of gunpowder, cold weapon weapons were already gradually withdrawing from the battlefield after the advent of gunpowder.

Today's Yunzhou County has a huge iron smelting output under its own development.

Yunzhou County was able to quickly build an all-ironclad army that had always been far superior to the equipment of others at a speed that far exceeded others, and the cost was not high.

Enough to make the army under his command more powerful than anyone else in this era.

This is his advantage, even if others learn to smelt iron like himself in the future, he can still maintain his lead with a first-mover advantage.

It can be said that as long as he continues to go like this, sooner or later the troops under his command will be able to directly sweep the world!

But if the gunpowder appears, and it is quickly pushed into the middle and late stages by itself.

To be honest, the population of Yunzhou County is still a disadvantage, compared to other forces, what Yunzhou County lacks is people! It was also time that after the rapid popularization of cheap musketeers, those forces with great population advantage were really able to crush themselves.

You can think about it, now you have a lead, your soldiers are all wearing iron armor, and you dare to use less than ten times the opponent's soldiers to fight with others, because you are armor-piercing, as long as you break the opposite formation, most of the army will collapse.

No matter how many people there are, it doesn't matter.

But in the era of thermal weapons, you only have 500 people here, and the opposite side pulls out 50,000 people to line up with you to shoot in minutes, and your iron armor will not work in front of the musket at this time, and people will solve you in a few rounds, which is still a fart!

Unless you can get ahead of the game and let the machine guns appear, then you don't have to worry about the numerical advantage again.

But that is destined to be impossible, Zhao Jun is now developing firearms, and he may not be able to see that day until he dies, and there are too many hurdles to cross in the middle.

In the machine gun out of the people, the number of people is the last word!

Therefore, firearms cannot appear now, at least not when the population of their own Yunzhou County is still at a disadvantage!

But research can be on the agenda.

Large-scale equipment cannot be hidden, but without equipment, only private research can be a good way to keep secrets and not let other forces know.

Thinking about these things clearly, Zhao Jun called Wang Huaien and asked, "Wang Banban, how are the recruits now?" ”

Wang Huaien immediately replied: "Back to the prince, the original plan was to envy 75,000 recruits, but as of the day before yesterday, all recruits have been recruited, and now recruit training is underway. ”

Zhao Jun nodded, and asked again: "I remember that this recruitment is phased, and it is not a one-time recruitment before training begins, how many can be directly pulled into the battlefield now?" ”

When asked this, Wang Huaien couldn't answer a little, even if he didn't know soldiers, he knew that these recruits had only been trained for less than three months, and even the earliest recruits had only been trained for more than a month, and it was really a bit difficult to pull people to the battlefield in such a short time.

Zhao Jun saw his hesitation and directly limited a range.

"You just tell the king, how much training time is more than a month?

Now is a special period, if the front-line combat is heavy, it is urgent to replenish the troops, otherwise Nanli County may be lost, and there is no time to train them slowly.

One month is enough time for them to master the weapons in the army, and let them go to the battlefield to learn the rest. ”

Hearing what his own prince said, Wang Huaien sighed, and could only reply: "Lord, at present, there are only the first and second batches of recruited soldiers in the military camp who have been trained for a month, and the number of displaced people in these two groups is not too much, and the number of people is around 30,000. ”

"Thirty thousand."

Zhao Jun nodded and thought about it, and then resolutely ordered: "Thirty thousand is thirty thousand, the wheel protection guard will send six thousand people this time, and the rest will continue to let them train recruits."

And all these 30,000 recruits let them fill the army, form a new unit in the way of veterans leading recruits, and immediately go to the front! ”

Let one veteran take every five recruits, even if the combat effectiveness drops, it will not drop too much, this is already the best way Zhao Jun can think of at present.

"Yes, slave and maid are going!"

Wang Huaien nodded in response, and immediately rushed to the military camp and the county guard to convey the prince's order.

When the army goes out, the supply of logistics, food, grass, weapons and equipment must be coordinated and arranged by the county guard yamen, not that it can be set off.

Soon, the county guard yamen and the military camp received the order of the vassal king of King Yun, and they began to prepare.

On the third day of the feudal king's order, everything was ready, and a new army of 36,000 people led by 6,000 veterans immediately rushed to the front line of Nanli County!

At this moment, on the border of Nanli County, the war has begun to spread to the territory.

Several important cities were not lost, but the small towns along the border were almost lost.

The poisonous Central Army directly followed these small cities and launched an attack deeper into Nanli County.

Most of those counties were guarded by these servant armies, and they were no match for them at all, and soon most of the cities in the western part of Nanli County were in flames, except for a few cities behind the large cities.

The defenders stationed in several large cities wanted to stop it, but they could not spare the manpower, so they could only try to drag the enemy's large army, hold important passages, and drag the enemy's large army, unable to enter the territory of Nanli County unscrupulously.

Otherwise, they went out to support, so that these big cities were lost, and the other party's army of more than 100,000 entered from here, and the loss of Nanli County would be even greater!

Now the guards stationed in Nanli County are no longer able to take care of other places, and the inferiority of numbers has made them pinned down everywhere, and they may only be able to launch a counterattack after the new force from Yunzhou County joins.

Now it's up to us to see when the support will arrive, and until then, the Guardians can only continue to work hard to support themselves.

At this time, the new army was on its way......

(End of chapter)