Chapter Twenty-Three: Rearmament for Battle

Under the conscription of the Snow Wolf Mercenaries, the temptation of money, and the threat of the massacre of the Great Harvey Army, except for 90% of the people who left Fangneng City to run to the land of chaos, now the rest, except for the old people waiting for death, are all the people of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army. And in the past few days, Snow Wolf has recruited a total of 30,000 mercenaries, including a thousand magicians, of course, many of them are first-level and second-level magicians, for Kong Ming, magicians are not the same as other professions, because even a magic apprentice can kill a sixth-level powerhouse with a seventh-level scroll, so Kongming's level of recruitment for magicians has been reduced to first-level magicians, and regardless of age, it is because of the unequal attack of magicians. Snow Wolf recruited more than 10,000 horses from the nobles, and these horses made the mercenary army's maneuver a little faster after joining the infantry. In order to master these 30,000 mercenaries, Kong Ming had to once again transfer many of the adjutants in the original Snow Wolf Army to the ranks of the infantry and step up time training. At this time, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army began its second reorganization, with four divisions and one special division. Among them, there are two snow wolf demon jockey divisions, each division is nearly 10,000 people, most of them are people from the original snow wolf mercenary army, a small number of soldiers who have surrendered, and the total number is still close to 20,000, because Kong Ming let all the snow wolves stay, a cavalry division, mainly composed of 15,000 war horses with 15,000 newly recruited soldiers, an infantry division, with about 12,000 people, mainly composed of new soldiers, a special division, and a special division with more than 3,000 magician regiments. Two thousand guards, a thousand scouts. There are about 53,000 people in total. The commander of the First Demon Cavalry Division is Lu Hai. The commander of the Second Demon Cavalry Division was Deng Si, and the commander of the Third Cavalry Division was Wei Qian. The commander of the 4th Infantry Division was Li Yao, and the commander of the 5th Division was Che Qi.

In order to make the best of the army, Kong Ming let these more than 50,000 people start different training courses, because only by matching the characteristics of the arms can the characteristics of an army be effectively played, just like siege warfare, if the cavalry is used to attack, it is tantamount to a suicidal act, and in the street battles in the city, the use of cavalry is also overkill, and the cavalry should be used in a relatively flat terrain in a large space. In this way, the characteristics of the speed and impact of the cavalry can be brought into play, and the infantry, as a versatile class, they can naturally adapt to various terrains, but because of this, they are relatively average in all aspects, but they are also the most important combat power, because as long as a soldier holds a sword, he can become an infantryman, but the cavalry cannot, he must let people and mounts together. Therefore, it takes a long time for a cavalry to be formed, but now Kong Ming does not have time to give them so much time, they only need to know a few things, the first is to ride a snow wolf or a horse. The second knows how to follow a team, and the third knows how to swing a sword, these three things are done. They became cavalrymen, and the words of the infantry made them understand all kinds of offensive and defensive battle formations. And the training of special divisions is even more different. The magician group wants to make a half-day scroll and cooperate with half-day training. Scouting is about mastering different scouting skills. And all this training is only for the old to lead the new soldiers, and the old to the new.

War is not child's play, for everyone, there is only one life, once you die in battle, there will be nothing, and for recruits, how to survive in the first battle, that is the problem they must face, once they get through this battle, then every subsequent battle, their chances of survival will be much greater, and the mortality rate of recruits in the first battle can account for more than two-thirds of the entire death. And now Kong Ming wants these recruits to survive this battle, so he must find a suitable place, the right time, and have a head-to-head confrontation with the Harvey army, this confrontation is not only to make these recruits mature as much as possible, but also to let them master the essence of the battle. For these, Kong Ming not only let these recruits repeatedly practice the formation of the battle, but also required that every night, the veteran must explain the skills of survival in the battle to the recruits, and these things even if others talk more, but once they arrive at the battlefield, many recruits will still forget it, so some things are not simply taught, but they must be repeatedly spoken, and only by repeating can they enter the heart and brain, and finally, only by surviving the war, they will be truly clear. This is the so-called enlightenment, in fact, it is not complicated, the complicated thing is that it has not been experienced, once it has been experienced, it will have a deeper understanding of many things, otherwise no matter how many times it is said, no one will remember it, this is also a way to distinguish between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers, elite soldiers can turn other people's things into use, while ordinary soldiers need to experience it to know, this is the difference.

In the past few days, the scouts of the special division have been constantly reconnoitring the military situation around them, in order to make the information more rapid transmission, Kong Ming also added magicians to the scouts, although they are some magicians who are not of high level, but the unique transmission method of magicians makes other troops out of reach, they only need a magic letterboard, you can pass the information over from time to time, although there are only simple words in it, but this is enough to let the rear know more about the situation. In order to better command, Kong Ming also equipped every person above the captain level with a magician, specially used for magic communication, these people themselves are just a first-level and second-level magician, but they can make the entire mercenary army come alive. More than 50,000 people in the palm of his hand, in order to better command the whole army to fight, Kong Ming set up a command headquarters, responsible for all matters of the entire battle, which is a kind of progress for the whole era, although there were similar practices before, but more of a commander is the command of one person, this kind of command has too much arbitrariness and uncertainty, can not give full play to the commander's real sense of command ability, but will be the commander to deal with many things that do not have to be on, making the battle more difficult. Therefore, Kong Ming set up a command headquarters to deal with everything, and let Kong Ming himself only need to focus on commanding, which is an innovation and progress in itself. In short, in order to cope with the battle that will come. Kong Ming tried his best to make the best use of the existing resources.

Early in the morning, stand above the city gates. Kong Ming, Yi Yiyi, and Che Yi were watching the infantry phalanx training. It's been three days, and I didn't understand it from the beginning. So far, there is a little look, which makes Li Yao also think hard, looking at those still some clumsy movements, Kong Ming sighed.

"What's wrong?" asked Yiyi.

"If there were three more months, I could turn them all into elite soldiers, but now it really won't work, only through guò fighting can they grow up quickly, but this method is too bloody and too cruel. Kong Ming couldn't help but sigh.

"That's all there is to it!" Yiyi sighed as well. Kong Ming looked at her strangely.

"What are you looking at?" Yi Yiyi gave him a blank look. Kong Ming touched his nose helplessly, and said: "Although everyone has their own secrets, and I am not the kind of person who likes to listen to other people's secrets, but, you seem to know how to war, but you pretend to be in front of me with a face that you don't know anything, I really don't know what you are for?"

"Even if I didn't understand it before, I haven't understood it after following you for so long?

For this explanation, Kong Ming is really helpless. In fact, Kong Ming knew very well that the entire Snow Wolf Mercenary Army was almost composed of the team brought by others, and most of the money was also from others, no matter what secrets she had. After all, it was a private matter, and he had nothing to pursue.

"How long is it before the enemy arrives?" Kong Ming turned around and asked the car.

"Judging by the latest intelligence, there should be three more days to go. However, intelligence shows. They seemed to be waiting for someone, and they didn't move for the past two days. Che replied.

"And what are they doing where they are?"

"It's like training. And nothing else. ”

"It's just training?"

"Only training!"

"It's strange that an army of 100,000 people, after being concentrated in one place, does nothing but train? ”

"What's so strange about people training people?" Yi Yiyi muttered on the side.

"Che Yu, order all divisions, from today onwards, don't train out of the city, stay in the city to train, and let the special division prepare the magic array to open at any time. The other divisions doubled their personnel in the city wall defense area, and prepared all kinds of city defense matters to prevent the enemy's attack. Scouts are to be monitored 24 hours a day, not just in one direction, but in all directions. Kong Ming pondered for a while and said.

"Is there going to be something going on?" said Yiyi. Che Yu also looked at Kong Ming suspiciously. Kong Ming shook his head and replied, "Maybe it's because I'm too careful, but, judging from my experience in fighting the Harvey Army in the past two years, this doesn't look like their style. Every time I fought them, they were the first to attack the enemy when they had the upper hand, rather than waiting. Also, we haven't seen their empty horsemen in the past few days, which is the main thing, either they're using magic to scout us so we don't know, or they don't care about our occupation of Fangneng City. In terms of their abilities, I am more inclined to be the first, and besides, the fact that Fang Neng City was taken down by us is a very shocking thing in itself, and it is impossible for them not to ask. So they may be staying there and numbing our nerves, while the underworld sends an elite army to attack, and this elite army must have a way to evade our reconnaissance, and if my guess is true, then the personnel of our reconnaissance side may have fallen into their hands, and we are still in the dark. ”

Kong Ming's words made the two of them break out in a cold sweat, and Kong Ming was also taken aback by his analysis, if what Kong Ming said was true, then now the Harvey army may appear around Fang Neng City at any time, and most of the troops in the city are still outside the city, isn't this putting the sheep in the wolf's mouth and letting it eat.

"Give the order that the divisions gradually withdraw to the city, and be prepared for the battle at any time. ”

"Yes!"

With Kong Ming's order, each division gradually withdrew to the city according to Kong Ming's order, and then several division commanders also came to Kong Ming's side to see what was going on. Several people came to the city gate together, and saw Kong Ming looking into the distance, and several people also went to the side to watch, but more than an hour passed, and still did not see any movement, Duns asked angrily: "Commander, what are you looking at? It's been more than an hour." I don't see you say a word, really!"

As soon as the words fell. I saw a row of black pressed things coming over on the distant horizon. The flags were unfurled, the armor was shining, the lineup was neat, and the sound of marching in unison still felt the vibration in Kongming, and above the team, a layer of low-pressure dust flew up. There were 10,000 people, densely packed, standing in this position of Kong Ming and looking over, I really couldn't see how many people they had come in total. An hour later, they came to a kilometer in front of Fangneng City.

Kong Ming and a few others couldn't help but take a deep breath, even for people like Kong Ming who had seen a big scene. The enemy looked really strong, at least at first glance, and the mercenaries on both sides of Kongming were even more frightened and pale, and some even went incontinent. Seeing this, Sora knew that he couldn't wait like this, and if he continued like this, those who had just joined the mercenary army would soon lose the courage to fight. And their combat effectiveness will be considered good if they can exert a layer at that time. Kong Ming beckoned, and a magician came over and cast a amplified magic in front of Kong Ming, Kong Ming stepped forward and said through the magic: "In front of you is the general who is coming to the city, and you are far away!" Kong Ming's voice spread to all directions. The vibrating sound ensured that all sergeants on both sides could hear it.

"Don't be ashamed, this city belongs to my Harvey, and you're just a robber. What kind of master do you think you are, after Ben will catch you? See what else you say. A feminine voice came from the other side, and then the center of the army was seen to get out of the way. A man wearing a beautiful gold-colored magic light armor looked unusually spiritual, and some of the spiritual magic on the armor made people involuntarily look a head shorter. Seeing this, Kong Ming, who had been in the Harvey Emperor for a while, didn't know who it was.

"Haha, the third prince is too metaphorical, if I am a robber, then you are the king of thieves in the family, you must know that in order to have one more magic code on the way to seize the throne, you actually devised a conspiracy, five times and three times in exchange for the lives of our mercenaries in exchange for your military exploits, you can imagine what kind of yin person you are. Kong Ming sneered, you must know that the person opposite almost took his own life, where would he be polite to him.

"Yin man, haha!"

"Yin man, haha!"

"Yin man, haha!"

"Yin man, haha!"

"Yin man, haha!"

Kong Ming's voice continued to echo in the sky above the two sides, and the other party obviously didn't expect Kong Ming to come to this move, and suddenly let Kong Ming's voice spread throughout the positions of the two armies. And in these sentences of Kong Ming, he constantly emphasized that the third prince was just an unsightly yin person, and in this way, the prestige that the third prince had finally established in the army was much less.

"Haha, Commander Kong Ming, you are really a commanding commander, you fell from Kali to Chu State, and fled from Chu State to here, why do you still want to escape to somewhere, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be able to sit in this position, and you wouldn't thank me?" The voice of the third prince also floated in the air.

"Then do I thank you for not killing, or do I thank you for giving me another chance to be hostile to the Harvey Army?"

"Then no thanks, if you surrender today, we can sit down and have a good talk, how about it?"

"Three devils, are you saying that you sit in the car and I sit in the prisoner car and have a good talk? This kind of treatment is still forgotten, why don't I sit here today, you go to the prisoner car, and the two of us have a good talk, how about it?"

Kong Ming's three devils have long wanted to scold in front of this hypocritical guy, it's rare to have this opportunity, how could Kong Ming miss it.

"Baron Kongming, we are all nobles, and there are some etiquettes that we still have to observe. "As a prince, the idea of being brainwashed since childhood is that he is a nobleman, even if you want to kill each other, but don't lose your etiquette, as some people say, the head can be broken, and the hair can't be messy.

"Haha, bullshit aristocracy, Lao Tzu is not uncommon with that thing, how did that thing come about, I still don't know. Kong Ming said, indeed, he didn't know how the baron fell on his head, you must know that if every drinking champion can get the title, then Emperor Huayuan doesn't know how many nobles there are, where is it Kong Ming's turn to be a few of them? Kong Ming continued: "Three devils, you came really fast, but you can walk hundreds of kilometers in a few days, I really don't know how your cavalry can transport so many people?"

"Hehe, no matter how tired I am, I'm going to catch you alive, and then hehe!. "I think laughter represents the words that follow. But what he hadn't reacted to was that he was now carrying a group of infantry, and the cavalry and demon cavalry didn't show up at all. Hearing Kong Ming's conversation with the third prince, several people around Kong Ming finally reacted. Li Yao asked in a low voice, "Are you saying that there is a problem with his cavalry?"

"Hehe, there are always problems, but I just don't know if they want to cut us off or if they want to keep us from escaping. ”

"Is there a difference between the two?"

"Cutting us off is not to let us go back, but to prevent us from escaping is to force us to fight them. If it was the former, their cavalry would have been concentrated in our rear, and if it was the latter, their cavalry would be difficult to judge. ”

"What do we do now?" Yiyi asked calmly.

"That's what was planned, fight them here, and then break out. Or according to the predetermined schedule. ”

"But there are so many of them that I'm afraid we won't be able to handle them. ”

"I won't let more than 150,000 people come when they come, just rest assured, don't see their situation and mess up. What's more, there are quite a few of us, and they always have to pay the price. Kong Ming comforted.

"Then when will we break through?" Lu Hai asked from the side.

"When their cavalry joins the siege, that's when we break through. ”

"Why?"

"Once the cavalry is put into battle, then it turns out that they are no longer enough. That's when we fight back. The method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and the multiple is divided, the enemy can fight, and if it is less, it can escape, if not, it can be avoided, the small enemy is strong, and the big enemy is captured. Kong Ming read silently.

"What are you muttering about?" Yi Yiyi asked, this person really has a problem, what kind of book do you have to memorize at such a time.

"Hehe, it's just a theory of the art of war. Kong Ming said with a smile.

"Can you tell us about it?" Yiyi asked everyone's thoughts. Several people looked at Kong Ming, and even some of the mercenaries next to Kong Ming were listening with their ears outstretched.

"Hehe, just talk about it. Kong Ming knew that if he wanted to keep the soldiers from being nervous at this time, he must first make the generals not nervous.

"The method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and the multiple is divided, the enemy can fight, and if it is less, it can escape, if it is not, it can be avoided, the small enemy is strong, and the big enemy is captured. That is to say, if it is ten times the strength of the enemy, remember that it is strength and not just strength, because strength does not necessarily represent strength, only strength, that is, what we call the comprehensive combat power is strength. If it is ten times as strong as the enemy, then it is necessary to besiege the enemy so that the enemy can be completely destroyed, five times as many as the enemy, then to attack the enemy, twice as many as the enemy, then we should find a way to separate the enemy, so that we can defeat the enemy with absolute strength, and if we are equal to the enemy's strength, we can fight with the enemy, if we are too much less than the enemy, we can escape from the enemy's attack, if we are not as good as the enemy, then we should avoid them, and this is the correct way to fight. Kong Ming explained in detail.

"Commander, you see that they have so many soldiers, I think that if everyone spits on it, they can drown all of us. Duns asked strangely. Everyone looked at Duns with a smile.

"Why are we only more than 50,000 people, and there are so many of them, and we are still here to fight against them, so that we will not be captured by them?" Wei Qian asked on the side. (To be continued......)

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