Chapter 73: Strong Grass (2)
On the sixth day of November of the fourth year of Yongli, as the weather became closer and closer to the fifth year of Yongli, the weather began to become colder.
After learning that Chen Wen was about to lead Nantang Camp to the rear of the evacuation team, many people rushed to thank the soldiers who fought for their escape, and the relatives of these soldiers also rushed over to say their final farewell.
Thank you, weeping tears. For a moment, the soldiers were filled with eggs, fruits, bacon, copper coins or silver sent by the people to express their gratitude. Every soldier who received the gift said as much as possible that he would not let down the high expectations of his family and fellow villagers, and would fight bravely to fight the enemy, and would never let the Tartars break through this line of defense, then slaughter and harm the people.
Looking at the people who sincerely thanked them, the reluctant relatives, and the soldiers of Nantang Camp who were full of glory with gratitude for their mission, Chen Wen seemed to have seen the scenes that had appeared in the movie in a trance.
The red sun shines all over the East!
The God of Freedom is singing indulging in love!
Look!
Thousands of mountains and valleys, iron walls and bronze walls!
The anti-Japanese war was burning on the Taihang Mountains!
Awesome!
Listen!
The mother asked her son to fight against the East, and the wife sent her to the battlefield.
We are on Taihang Mountain, we are on Taihang Mountain;
The mountains are high and the forest is dense, and the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong!
Wherever the enemy attacks, we want it to perish!
Wherever the enemy attacks, we want it to perish!
Yes, art originates from life and is higher than life. Looking at the reluctant backs of the people who have left away and the passionate fighting spirit of the soldiers in Nantangying, Chen Wen firmly believes that the invincible hero he dreams of rebuilding has completely recovered its soul.
"General Chen, let us stay. We are willing to kill the thief with our fellow comrades in Nantang Camp!"
More than twenty men kneeling in front of Chen Wen looked at Chen Wen with a fiery gaze, hoping that the general in front of them could allow them to stay.
All of these people were defeated soldiers in the Battle of Siming Lake. Before that, most of them were sharp soldiers in their own camps. Otherwise, there would not have been nearly 300 defeated soldiers gathered by Chen Wen, but only these twenty or so insisted on staying. Chen Wen knew very well that the reason why these people wanted to stay was not just to kill the thieves together, but the purpose of their stay might be to wash away the previous shame.
"My Nantang Camp is full. If you are willing to redeem yourself, you will go back and help Wang Deputy Xian cover the retreat of the people."
Hearing this, most of the men kneeling on the ground showed a reluctant expression. Over the past few days, due to their bad deeds of fleeing in the Battle of Siming Lake, they were sneered by the people who were traveling with them and the soldiers of Nantang Camp. Every time they thought that they could not raise their heads in front of their families, they felt as if they were gnawed in their hearts.
You should know that they were mostly sharp men in their own camps, and were highly valued by their superiors and praised by their fellow men in the camps. They were praised by the people. Even if they were given their true colors on weekdays, they were not as good as those of their personal soldiers and servants, but very few of them were deducted.
However, since the defeat of that war army, they fled back to Dalan Mountain and gathered it up for Chen Wen, and they no longer had the glory of the past. They discriminated against, despised, disdained, and even spitted at them and threw things. However, on the one hand, the evacuated team was extremely strict, and on the other hand, they reflected on themselves that they were indeed ashamed of their behavior, so they did not make trouble like they were humiliated in the past.
But shame is shame, and it must be cleaned with the blood of the Tartars!
"Please, General Chen, I can do anything, as long as you allow us to kill the enemy again." The man in charge said that, and the others followed suit.
Forget it, make an exception.
"My Nantang Camp warships are fully organized. Since you are willing to stay and avenge yourself, then you can act as a temporary auxiliary soldier for the time being."
"Thank you General Chen for your great kindness, thank you General Chen for your great kindness."
The rebels in the army fell to the lowest auxiliary soldiers, or the temporary auxiliary soldiers. These men had no complaints at all. They thanked Chen Wen excitedly, then stood up and waited for the order, as if they had returned to what they had once been in the army.
At the same time, the old doctor Lu and some civil servants stayed. The civil servants would leave after setting up the battlefield and chase the people's team; while the old doctor Lu said that he would stay no matter what. In the words of this stubborn old man, Chen Wen was fulfilling the previous vow to rescue Simin, and Lu Henian was also fulfilling the promise he had made to Chen Wen.
Seeing that the people had gone far away, the team evacuated from Siming Mountain also began to move south again, Chen Wen ordered the deployment of the battlefield to prepare for the battle against the Lubiaoliu Camp.
From the perspective of "The Art of War", there are five aspects that have a greater impact on the outcome of a war:
First, from Chen Wen’s understanding, it is human harmony. His Nantang Camp has already existed, and the Qing army’s Balance Battalion will probably enhance its combat effectiveness with the purpose of looting the people, which is considered to be the best of four or six.
Second, the time and the two sides should be the same. There is a breeze and no rain or snow here. I stopped and waited for the Qing army. It would be less than two hours before I could meet, and it would not be until the evening, and it would be 550.
Third, the geographical advantage is that Chen Wen's Nantang Camp is lined up in the north, and there is a cliff on the left. Although it is only a few meters high, neither side cannot use it. The array is a highway, which has been blocked by the four sentries; the right is a stream, which is only two meters wide, and the deepest part can only cover the knee, which is obviously not enough to serve as a barrier. So Chen Wen arranged six teams of the Central Military Firearms Team to lurk in the bamboo forest behind the stream, providing long-range fire support on the flanks, and arranged two sentries to cover it.
Since there were no other roads around, if the Qing army wanted to pass, they had to break through the defense line of Nantangying. It was purely mutually strong and frontal, and it was also a five-five-five-foot road.
The fourth is the talent of a military general. This problem is something that Chen Wen cannot face but has to face. Although he has never heard of the name Li Rong in modern times, and he does not know that this person resisted the thunder attack of the third male Geng Jingzhong during the Three Feudal Rebellion, since this general was able to achieve the fourth year of Yongli to manage the guerrilla affairs of the Zuoying, he must have two tricks; but he himself should skip it first.
The last point is the system. Since the army was formed at the end of July, Nantang Camp has been going through more than three months. During this period, Chen Wen has always relied on military laws and systems to enhance the cohesion of this army, and has even suffered the punishment of himself.
At this time, the results were already shown. Along the way, no soldier dared to disobey military laws, and no soldier dared to plunder the people. Everyone under the command carried out military orders like puppets, and did not dare to disobey at all. However, it was hard to say how many points could be left on the battlefield. However, the Qing army was an old camp that had been in the army for more than ten years, and it must be nowhere near. Just open the 55th.
If you calculate this, due to the large gap in experience and ability between the commanders of the two sides, the Qing army has an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, and the Qing army's weapons, the armor is more sophisticated than the Ming army, no matter how you see that the Qing army's chances of victory are much higher than that of the Ming army.
However, Chen Wen felt that since he had entered the battlefield first, there was no reason not to smear the Qing army. It is necessary to know that the soldiers are the tricks. This is a famous saying that Sun Wuzi once said, so it is not an immoral thing to play tricks during wars.
After determining the precise position of the arrangement, Chen Wen asked the Chef and the civilians who were temporarily staying to start making fires to make rice, meat, vegetables, rice, and a soup. Before the war begins, the soldiers must always have a good meal.
At the same time, the Central Army Engineers and the temporary auxiliary soldiers who voluntarily stayed and fought side by side began to dig traps and arrange caltrops.
Since there are only forty cavalry in Nantang Camp and all of them have just been trained for a few months, he is planning to rely on the trapped horse pit to restrain the charge of opponents' cavalry on the battlefield. As for the caltrops, they are not only arranged in the main road, but also many of them will be placed near the flank streams. I think it should be enough for the Qing army to have a pot of food.
Just as the engineers were digging a hole, Chen Wen asked an archer to shoot an arrow, and then asked Zhang Jun to run over, and drew a straight line across the road with lime powder at the arrow, and inserted a wooden board with two lines of words on the side of the road near one side, as a warning sign.
Chen Wen began to chat with the soldiers who were having dinner, just like he was in the camp on weekdays. On the one hand, it was to relieve his tension, and on the other hand, it was to inspire morale.
The whistle cavalry kept passing the information back, and Chen Wen also rested for a while after dinner and ordered Yin Yue to lead the troops carrying out the side attack mission to roll up their legs and cross the stream, and go to the scheduled ambush site to standby.
After about half an hour, Li Ruixin also led the cavalry team back. Since the cavalry of the Ming and Qing armies had just fought in the valley before, the Qing army did not take any advantage and did not chase after him at this moment. However, when Li Ruixin was about to ride a horse back to the formation, the captain of the Central Army Engineer Team standing outside the online kept asking to stop.
Since the formation of this Chinese army engineer team, Li Ruixin felt that it was a waste. This kind of work was done by auxiliary soldiers in the Ming and Qing armies. Digging a pit and putting some caltrops should be as simple as plowing the land and sowing it? Is it worth setting up a special team to receive the salary of the soldiers?
However, as a subordinate, Li Ruixin chose to close his mouth and just think that it was Chen Wen's toy when he was bored. There was no need to go against the master's intention for such a trivial matter.
The captain of the "Toy Soldier" here actually dared to block the way Li Ruixin, the first cavalry general under General Chen Wen, was really unhappy. Just looking around at the road between the guy and the killer formation of the Yuanyang formation, which was dug like the surface of the moon, Li Ruixin hurriedly stopped.
"Dig so fast."
Looking at Li Ruixin's surprised expression, the captain of the "Toy Soldier" felt that he had released all the afflictions he had over the past few days in an instant.
When Nantangying was formed in July, he was a deputy captain of the Firearms Team. Later, after the school competition, he was expanded. He thought he could be promoted to captain, but Chen Wen was transferred to this new unit as captain because he was good at setting traps. Although there were twenty soldiers in the Central Engineers Team in Nantangying, which was nearly twice as many as a team of the Firearms Team, including only twelve teams, but this was considered by everyone as an auxiliary soldier, which still made him quite dissatisfied.
Seeing that there was no way to change his position, in order to get rid of the fate of this army being called auxiliary soldiers by his fellow comrades, the captain only thought about how to dig a pit every day to be quick and good, in order to reverse his impression through professionalism. For this reason, after trying various models of pits, he finally determined the current new type of pit trap. In his words, let alone horses, even cows can get in.
Recently, the captain of this "Toy Soldier" has heard Chen Wen mention that there are elephant soldiers in the southwest, and has been thinking about what kind of big pits can also be used to pit the elephant into it, and how many steps it takes to pit the elephant into it.
It was just because he had never seen a real elephant because he grew up so old, and there was no reference comparison, so the pit could never be designed with size, depth and shape. This new large horse trap was not released.
"Please please let Mr. Li Qian take the brothers of the cavalry team around the roadside. Bei Zhi and his brothers have just laid the hidden pit in front of him. There is only a layer of straw paper on it and some dust has been sprinkled. It is really difficult to move lightly."
Hearing this, Li Ruixin glanced carefully and found several hidden pits that were covered up, which were really insidiously arranged. He left his contempt for this guy with a slight thought, and had to lead the team to dismount and follow the command of the captain to pass through this "thunder" area.
"Captain Zhao, then I'll have you brought Mr. Ben Qian and these guys here."
"It's easy to say, I am here to take our brothers back to the formation." The words were filled with the arrogance of being a warrior.
However, the captain of this "Toy Soldier" did not know that Chen Wen chose the captain of this new army mainly because of his surname. Who said that Chen Wen had been dug up and had not filled the pit before? Such profound resentment that has traveled through hundreds of years is not a joke, and he must find a place to vent it.
As for him, if he wants to get out of this situation, the only way is to find someone who is better at digging pits. Moreover, this guy must have his surname Ao, otherwise it will be difficult for him to get out of this situation. But unfortunately, he doesn't know this trick at all, so he still has to continue to devote his life to this promising pit digging career.
Just as the cavalry team returned to the formation, the Qing army's horses also chased after them. The arrogant Qing army's horses noticed that the central cavalry team in Nantang Camp had returned to the formation, so they tried to rush to observe the military situation a little closer. However, although they did find the horse pits that were lying on the open in the distance, they did not notice the well-covered dark pits that were covered.
The two war horses who rushed in the front ran past the lime powder line, fell to the ground without running two steps, and threw the Qing army's probationer who was caught off guard.
Seeing that there was still a hidden pit behind the line, the remaining Qing army's explorers quickly grabbed the reins and tried to stop the war horse. However, due to the effect of inertia, a explorer was thrown out after the war horse fell.
After three of the Qing army's two horses, one behind, one behind, they made a difficult movement such as Mohs's somersault, Biss's body rotation and Thomas' spiral, they fell directly to the ground because there were no uneven bars to grab, and they also destroyed several hidden pits during the rolling forward, thus completing the perfect transformation of self-gynist athletes to engineers who were wading on landmines. It is definitely a monument in the history of layoffs and reemployment in the late Ming Dynasty.
Seeing the three Qing army's horses slumped on the ground and wailed, or simply lost their voices, the other Qing army's horses quickly dismounted and rescued, but the Ming army, who occupied the battlefield, was unmoved at all and did not take the opportunity to win three kills at the beginning seriously.
Just as these provocateurs dragged the injured back to the line, the main force of the Liebattalion also rushed up.
After learning that the commander of the Qing army was trying to block the flag of the Qing army. The news of the old camp guarding in Dalanshan was written on it, and after noticing that there were dense horse pits along the way, Li Rong sneered and began to command the army to line up, preparing to destroy the Ming army opposite in one fell swoop.
However, when he noticed the ink words written on the wooden sign standing by the roadside, Li Rong, who was still sneering in contempt, gave up his plan to wait for the tiger squat cannon arrangement to be completed and immediately ordered an attack.
On both ends of the battlefield, one side is a thousand soldiers and an auxiliary soldiers, and one thousand five soldiers has been in force for more than ten years. One part of the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion, which had just won the first battle, and the other side is less than five hundred soldiers, with only more than twenty auxiliary soldiers, and the remaining troops of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, which had only been in force for more than three months.
The two sides have a huge gap in terms of military strength, weapons, armor, etc., but as Chen Wen said, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, and only the real brave will win this battle.
PS: The game has finally started. Can any readers guess what Chen Wen wrote on that wooden sign? What you think of can be posted in the book review area.
Chapter completed!