Chapter 251: Ten Thousand Armies (4000)
Li Deming's sudden action outside Baokang Gate seemed unintentional, but in fact it had a profound meaning. A city gate was so important. Li Qiming and Li Deming and others had big plans, but Li Deming did not dare to show it at will, and did not dare to reveal such a big plan to a small officer guarding the city gate.
But we must also make sure that the city gate can be opened as Li Deming's instructions at any time. If it happens at night, it will be a big trouble. So Li Deming's approach is to find a clever soldier to give favors to him and let him be the head. Smart people generally won't violate the axes, which is easy to control. This will ensure that Li Deming can open the city gate at any time.
Li Deming is not really such a useless person. Such a small method also proves that he is really smart.
A team of cavalry went around from dozens of miles north of Bianjing City to the south of the city, galloping all the way, the horses began to float and their four hooves began to tremble. Although the strong horses were the fastest means of transportation in this era, the fastest and most top speed could even reach half an hour and one hundred and twenty miles.
But horses are animals, not machines, and they cannot truly maintain the highest speed all the time, nor can they run wildly without fatigue.
Most horses, if they maintain a certain high speed, run dozens of miles in one go, is already the limit. If they continue running, the horse will be ruined and even die suddenly.
"Commander, Baokang Sect, Li Deming must have left Baokang Sect, so it's so late." Zuo Ding followed Xu Jie and shouted.
This Bianjing City is too big and has too many city gates. There are twelve large water and land gates in the outer city, including four large city gates in each direction, between adjacent city gates, three or five miles apart and ten miles apart. So if the city gates are different from the city gates, it will be a big trouble, and today's matter will inevitably fail.
"Don't go to Baokang Gate, go straight to the camp of the Imperial Guards." Xu Jie shouted. Such an arrangement is the most appropriate. If you are blocked outside the city gate, you will be alert and leave without leaving the city. It is not realistic to chase people in the city. Li Deming will most likely be able to escape. However, there are risks when you go directly to wait outside the camp of the Imperial Guards, that is, the hundreds of thousands of Imperial Guards are in the camp, and the risks are huge.
Xu Jie didn't care so much, so he rushed straight to the imperial guard camp.
Xu Jie knew where the imperial guard camp was, and even knew which direction and which way to go, but Xu Jie really had never been to this camp.
The camp of more than 100,000 people also gained insight. From a distance, it looked like a city, stretching endlessly. Xu Jie even remembered Qingshan County. Such a military camp was far larger than Qingshan County.
Xu Jie, who was running wildly on the horse, couldn't help but think of many problems, such a large military camp, mobilization problems, command problems, logistics supply problems, management problems, and even the problem of everyone shit...
Xu Jie was reminded of the Battle of Datong that year. What was the scene of a 500,000 army stretching for dozens of miles. Han Xin ordered the troops, and the more it was better. Xu Jie suddenly had a new understanding of this sentence. How difficult it was to command hundreds of thousands of people?
With your mouth, you can command dozens of people, with your command flags, you can command thousands or tens of thousands of people, and with extremely elite messengers, you can command tens of thousands of people. But what method should you use to command hundreds of thousands of people? The command flags are far away and you can't see them. If you don't get away, you can easily be intercepted by the enemy if you don't get away.
An army of hundreds of thousands of people is too difficult to command in terms of communication in this era.
Xu Jie slowly thought about some answers, and at this time the importance of the planned plan was revealed. It was impossible to command the army of hundreds of thousands in detail, or even change the orders every day. Only after a detailed plan for strategic purposes and before the war began, everything was arranged, and the tasks of each general and each army were explained in detail in advance.
Only in this way can everything be orderly. When tasks are given, they cannot be changed at a large scale, but must be resolutely implemented. Once a large-scale temporary change occurs, chaos will occur and only subtle adjustments can be made.
Xu Jie has extraordinary understanding and thoughts in a short time and has a very good understanding. This comes from Xu Jie's influence on the battle formation since childhood, and also from Xu Jie's experience that he has a lot more knowledge than others.
Pre-detailed plans are the only way to effectively command large-scale troops. In the Battle of Datong, Li Qi obviously did not have a pre-detailed plan. He thought that when he arrived at the battlefield, hundreds of thousands of troops were crushing, and even the endless army could scare the Shiwei people to their legs so weak, like fighting on the street.
Speaking of this, when Li Qiming was young, he really fought and fought on the streets. Politics and military are not the same thing. Those who are good at politics are not a problem, but those who are good at military affairs must be good generals and commanders. If both military and political affairs are extremely good, then they are a great man of a generation. For thousands of years, there have been few such people, but such people are often famous for history.
Not far from the main gate of the camp, Xu Jie saw a team of cavalry running towards the camp from afar. Xu Jie hurriedly shouted: "Zuo Ding, is Li Deming there?"
Zuo Ding looked into the distance, but was not sure, and replied, "Maybe."
"Road over, rush over directly." Xu Jie couldn't care so much. Whether it was yes or not, rush over and talk about it.
Xu Jie came from the side and even stepped on the farm's ridges, and he could not care about this at this time.
The team of people was on the road, and some people also found more than 100 cavalry running from the side, like the cavalry of the imperial guards, or not the cavalry of the imperial guards. Dozens of people in front of the head were wearing strong uniforms, while hundreds of people behind were in regular uniforms of the imperial guards, blue and red, and felt hats.
"Master, the cavalry running over there doesn't look like they are from the camp?" a general said.
Li Deming turned his head to look, and didn't care much at first. There were hundreds of knights running in this imperial guard camp. It was normal. After a few more glances, the cavalry was really wrong. He had already arrived in front of the military camp gate. Even Li Deming slowed down. The team of people was still running, and the target was not the military camp gate, but rushed towards him from the side. Li Deming was shocked and shouted: "Hurry up, go and block them."
Li Deming had already roughly guessed who the person was. He never thought that Xu Jie was so bold that he would dare to do such a thing at the gate of the camp of more than 100,000 imperial guards.
The left and right generals were stunned when they heard this. Li Deming looked up and looked forward. The military camp was only one or two miles away, and shouted again: "You block the people coming, I will enter the military camp to transfer people."
"See the order!" The obedience seemed a little slow, but the hundreds of ten riders were also turning towards Xu Jie.
Xu Jie, who was not far away, saw this situation and became more convinced of his thoughts. He knew that most of the time ahead was his goal, and guessed Li Deming's plan. Xu Jie must not let Li Deming enter the military camp, otherwise things would not be successful. So he quickly ordered: "Uncle Eight, take the people up, I will go out of the formation and block the military camp gate. Zuo Ding, follow me!"
As soon as Xu Jie said, the horse was already turning, taking Zuo Ding, just because Xu Jie didn't know Li Deming.
There was already a shout from a distance: "Which movie is you? Why don't you stop the horse quickly?"
"Hurry up and stop the horse and hit Shangguan, can you afford it?"
"Stop, stop!"
Then someone immediately noticed Xu Jie who came out of the horse team, and someone shouted: "Hurry up, go and stop that person!"
Xu Jie left the horse team, his vision widened a lot. Sure enough, he saw several horses running towards the gate of the barracks. The horse whip in Xu Jie's hand kept waving on the horse's back. The horses, whose steps were already a little frivolous, galloped forward screaming.
Xu Jie was still very anxious because those people were on the avenue, less than a mile away from the military camp. Xu Jie was still two miles away.
Moreover, there were also a group of people coming towards Xu Jie, with more than a dozen people, including seven or eight iron armored people.
There were also shouting: "Stop, how dare you break into the important military camp? If you don't stop the horse, your head will fall to the ground!"
Xu Jie had already stood up on the stirrups and kept going to the riders running towards the barracks on the road. He was very anxious and the dozen people blocked in front of him were not far away.
Then he saw that the blood-drinking knife on Xu Jie's waist had been pulled out, and there was a sound of striking a horse from his mouth: "Go, go!"
"I'm really looking for death!" The person on the opposite side was only twenty or thirty steps. Seeing Xu Jie draw his sword, more than a dozen long swords in the army were raised high. These people have been in the army for quite a few years. Never have ever encountered such a scene today? Someone dared to draw his sword in front of more than 100,000 imperial guards.
The strong horses were crossing, and Xu Jie's sword became more and more mature on the horse's back. Xu Jie had a good master. Xu Laoba's elite army was so useful. Xu Laoba taught only a few of them at the battle that day. After that day, when Xu Laoba remembered anything, he would talk to Xu Jie separately. Xu Laoba kept recalling the various situations of the battle formation and talked about it in Xu Jie's ears for more than a month. Until now, when Xu Laoba remembered some trivial matters about the battle formation, he would immediately find Xu Jie to explain it.
Now Xu Jie, with one sword, his blood splashed! He did not drag on the mud, and he was never merciless.
On the contrary, these imperial guards seemed to be in iron armor, but they never thought that these people were newbies in the battle formation. Even Zuo Ding, who was fighting for the first time, could not stand the disadvantage and follow Xu Jie's horse hooves.
Wherever Xu Jie's horse passed, there was no enemy. The soldiers around Li Deming must be all confidant elites, and there should be many of them with high martial arts skills. Xu Jie didn't even have time to split up first-class and second-class people, and they all got up and fell.
People in the martial arts world often underestimate the skills of military and military killing enemies, because most military and military people are ordinary people, and their speed is not as fast as those of military and military people, and their strength is not as strong as those of military and military people, so they naturally cannot defeat those of military and military people. Therefore, many people in the martial arts world think that the swords and guns practiced by military and military people are all styles.
But the real method of fighting formation is not that simple? Just like Xu Laoba, who had not really fought with others for more than ten years, was able to defeat the innate Zhu Duantian in the martial arts competition, which shows how powerful the method of fighting formation is.
If we trace the roots, why did martial arts be born in the world? Why did some people start to study the method of killing people? It is because of war. Without war, how could there be martial arts? Martial arts were summarized and invented from war.
Just like Lu Ziyou's research, what is the two-finger sword technique in sword technique? It was developed from the method of using shields. The original sword technique was to hold a sword in one hand and pinch a sword technique in the other hand. The sword technique was a shield. The shield and sword cooperated with each other, which was a battle formation.
The fast horse did not slow down, and passed by more than a dozen people. Xu Jie slashed left and right with the knife in his hand, and Xu Jie did not turn back on the horse.
Only seven or eight empty horses remained behind him.
But Xu Jie looked up again and the few people on the avenue in the distance had already arrived at the gate of the military camp.
After the gate was opened, several people had already entered. At this time, the fence gate of the military camp was slowly closing.
I also heard someone shouting in the military camp: "Beat the drum, whistle, gather troops! Hurry!"
What do these words mean?
It represents a continuous stream of more than 100,000 troops, and represents all the military forces guarding the capital.
Xu Jie felt a sudden slap in his heart, and what he subconsciously thought about was to beat the horse and turn around and run away quickly. Even if Xu Jie had this innate martial arts, how could he still have a way out in the face of such a large army?
Xu Jie was already subconsciously preparing to pull the reins, but he had no reason to bite the teeth tightly. He waved the blade and slapped the horse's buttocks, and shouted: "Go!"
The gate of the military camp was closed, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, Xu Jie's strong horse seemed to be crazy, and his four hooves were still running wildly as Xu Jie kept slapping.
One hundred steps, fifty steps. In the military camp, the sound of drums at the gate rumbling, dong dong dong dong dong...
In this huge military camp, the drum sound at the gate could not be heard by everyone, but it was enough. At least tens of thousands of soldiers nearby could hear the fierce drum sound.
The horse's hooves under Xu Jie were still running wildly, and the gate of the military camp was right in front of him, twenty steps, ten steps...
Xu Jie jumped up from the horse's back, holding a long sword in his hand and flew into the air.
The horse no longer had its master's slap and shouting hard. It hurriedly closed its hooves and rolled on the ground for several times, but it still couldn't hold back its speed. It hit the gate and its brain splashed out. Such a horse in the army had a price of 100 taels of silver. After running dozens of miles, it hit the wooden door on the fence.
Xu Jie was so cruel and fierce. The door, which was more than three feet tall, just jumped past it, with a knife in his hand, and his face was ferocious.
Xu Jie still saw the horse-beating people running towards the central army tent among countless panicked soldiers.
Seeing the panicked soldiers, Xu Jie suddenly became less panicked, because some of them were wearing underwear, some were wearing armor, some were looking for their own weapons, some were unable to find a helmet, and they shouted and went around. After the random group, the running riders could not even get up even if they were not fast.
I don't know how long it took for this camp to gather so quickly.
The prosperous land of Bianjing, with more than 100,000 troops from the Han Dynasty, Datong in the past, was defeated in a great way, and it was not unfair to lose!
Xu Jie never thought about taking the heads of the enemy generals from the army.
Chapter completed!