Chapter Thirty-Six: Crushing Across the Ages
After the Qin army retreated and gave up the two major advantages of the Huai River water system and the Yangtze River water system, the northern coalition army finally moved, but they were very careful.
How careful is it? They march only thirty miles a day, and then they will set up camp early, and the camp is very strong, and every night there is a corresponding army that specially embankments against the enemy's night attacks.
When crossing the Yangtze River, he was even more cautious, first sending 10,000 troops across the river, and after crossing the river, it was a very detailed inspection, tunnels, hidden caves, and traps, not a single one was missed.
Thirty miles a day, it took half a month to come to the Yangtze River.
Now it took another seven days to inspect the traps and tunnels, but this was not the end, and after seven days, after making sure that there were no traps on the other side, the army began to build a new camp.
This time the camp was particularly sturdy and semi-permanent. The construction alone took half a month, and it took half a month before the army began to cross the river in order, part of the river every day.
After the million-strong army crossed the Wanjiang River in turn, it had been two months since the Qin army retreated!
And in the past two months, millions of soldiers have eaten horses and chewed horses, and they have consumed a lot.
Just one eats at least two million stone of grain! This is not counting the resources consumed by a war horse, and the resources consumed to feed a war horse are ten infantrymen.
What's even worse is that the two million stone grain here was eaten by the soldiers, not counting the food consumed during transportation.
Thousands of miles of grain, one operation is not good, and in the end one hundred catties of grain is transported, and it is very likely that fifty catties are consumed on the road.
With such a huge consumption, the heads of the northern families and the presiding officers of the Buddhist sect have long felt impatient, what are you doing to eat? For two months, not a single piece of good news has come from me.
Even so far, the number of Qin troops has been fighting more and more, from the initial 200,000 to the later 400,000, and then to the current 600,000.
However, the number of million-strong coalition troops has changed from 1.1 million at the beginning to 800,000 today. 100,000 people were consumed in the war of attrition, and 200,000 were on the other side of the Yangtze River, in charge of food security, that is, in charge of transporting grain.
Before the decisive battle began, the format changed. The difference in strength between the two sides has changed from 1.1 million to 300,000 at the beginning to 800,000 to 600,000.
It looks like it's pretty much there!
And then the decisive battle begins!
The armies of both sides together are 1.4 million, so many troops, to tell the truth, ordinary people can't command them, and they don't even know how to command them.
This is the reason why the million-strong army crossed the Yangtze River, and there were no traps and no one interfered, but two months still passed.
Without a sufficient number of grassroots officers, the advance of the million-strong coalition army for thirty miles a day was already the result of the willingness of Yang Guang, Li Mi, Li Yuan, and others to cooperate.
There are not enough grass-roots officers, there are not enough advanced communications equipment, and orders are conveyed by shouting, and an order is conveyed from a large battalion of the Chinese army to the ears of a million-strong army, and the fastest is one day, and the slow is three days.
The total strength of the two sides was 1.4 million, but the width of the battlefield was more than 230 li, and the depth was more than 100 li.
In the Great Sui, where there were no railways or highways, it was inconvenient for the Northern Coalition to move, and the slightly more complicated tactics could not be used by the Northern Coalition Forces.
Now, Yang Guang and others have also discovered this problem, but there is no way, there is really no way, they are not like Qin Jun, there is a radio station between the ministries to contact, and all kinds of ways can be thought of, but there is really no way!
The war began anyway despite the reluctance of the Northern Coalition forces, because they couldn't afford it!
At an altitude of 1,000 meters, there are many more 'big birds' here today.
These 'big birds' are very strange, they are all very big, their wings are twenty feet long, and the most important thing is that there seems to be a person sitting on them.
Mo Ao sat on top of the Suzaku and looked down at the Northern Coalition army below with wide eyes. The 800,000-strong army, standing high in the sky, looked like a black oppressive phalanx, and unconsciously felt a sense of oppression.
However, when Mo Ao looked at Qin Jun, his mood was much better.
The armor of the Qin army is the same, and the whole army is black. In contrast, although the coalition forces are numerous, they are more like a rabble in terms of discipline and clothing.
In front of Mo Ao was a radio station two feet high, one foot long and one foot wide, and with his innate master's memory, he could even clearly translate it into Qin at the moment when the information was sent.
So although he had a pen and paper in front of him, he didn't mean to eat it at all.
Wearing a radio headset in one ear, he listened and translated the information: "Three thousand three hundred and twenty meters to the southeast. ”
Hearing this, the disciple of the Mo family, who was manipulating the Vermilion Bird in front, drove the Suzaku to the southeast and sprinted quickly, with a speed of 100 meters per second, and considering the acceleration time, it was expected to arrive in thirty-six to thirty-nine seconds.
"The scout team that discovered the enemy army was all cavalry moving extremely fast, numbering as many as 300 people, and it was expected that the Chinese army battalion sent a team to transmit information, and their speed was ...... The direction is ......"
At the moment when Mo Ao translated the information, the Mo family disciples on the side drew a topographic map in their hearts, going up and down to the south, left to west, right to east, establishing a coordinate system with the initial position of Suzaku as the origin, and the enemy's speed was ...... , Suzaku has a speed of 100 meters per second, and asked: How many degrees is the direction of departure to the south-north, which can be reached in the shortest possible time?
This question, the surrounding Taoist disciples counted it out in one breath, and then told the Mo disciples the answer, and Suzaku continued to adjust the angle and continue to move forward.
"Request bomb support, request Suzaku support, suspect that there is a grandmaster master accompanying you, ask for grandmaster master support!"
By the time the last sentence of information was translated, a full fifteen seconds had passed. The disciples of the Mo family on the side silently found three bombs weighing ten kilograms.
Although it may seem like there is not enough ammunition, only 10 kilograms each, this thing is the king of bombs, TNT, and anyone who dares to underestimate it will pay the price!
Forty seconds later, Suzaku came to an altitude of 800 meters, and fifty seconds later, Suzaku came to an altitude of 200 meters and watched the cavalry underground throw down three bombs that had been prepared a long time ago.
Bang!
The huge wave of air threw a large amount of earth into the sky, and many of the cavalrymen completely lost consciousness before they could react.
Only the innate masters with high vigilance, as well as the powerful grandmaster strongmen, and a very small number of lucky ones survived, but what awaited them was the siege of the Great Qin elite scouts!
A quarter of an hour later, the battlefield was over, Mo Ao blew the smoking firebolt, examined it carefully, and after putting it away, he began to send a message to the radio: to solve, ask for instructions!
After about eight breaths, a new order came through: five thousand meters to the southwest, there was an encounter between our army and the enemy, who numbered about three thousand......
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