A group of cavalry galloped on the vast plains of Guanzhong. In the queue, in addition to the three-color flag indicating their affiliation, there was also a general's flag with the characters "Dang Kou Xiaowei Zhang" floating in the queue. It was precisely
Zhang Ji.
After a day of repairing in Diaoyin, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu went separate ways at Guanxia.
Although Zhang Xiu knew that this trip was dangerous, he still led 500 people to set off first, taking the atlas given by Fei Qian, to walk on the mountain road that Zhao Yun had walked.
Let's not talk about other things. First, Zhang Xiu needs to find the mountain road between the mountain roads. Secondly, on the mountain road, if the opponent is prepared, he only needs two to three hundred troops to fight a decent ambush.
Once they are ambushed, it means a complete failure, and there is even the risk of the entire army being annihilated.
So Zhang Xiu acted very calmly, but Zhang Ji was still very worried, but Zhang Ji still endured it and said nothing. Zhang Xiu is a descendant of Zhang Ji, and strictly speaking he is not a direct relative, but for such a long time
As time passed, Zhang Ji began to treat Zhang Xiu as his own child. Seeing his child go solo, the older generation felt somewhat unspeakable in their hearts.
He was galloping on the flat ground with his cavalry, watching the earth retreat quickly. This was Zhang Ji's favorite state, but he didn't understand why Fei Qian had given him a strange task. However, no matter how strange the task was, it was still necessary.
To complete...
On the top of Diaoyin City, Fei Qian looked at Guanzhong from a distance, thinking constantly in his mind. The flag was fluttering above his head, beeping in the cold wind.
The weather is getting colder and colder. This year's winter came earlier and was colder than last year.
The biting north wind seemed to be able to blow through iron armor and seep into the body. Even a layer of fine velvet sweater could not withstand the cold wind.
If only there was cotton...
The denitrification process of chicken and duck feathers is not up to standard. Wearing chicken and duck down is not impossible, but it must be turned over frequently, and it is easy to get insects. For people like Feiqian who need to be outside for a long time and are inconvenient to wash and change, it is better to use more mature wool products.
More appropriate.
Everything has value, and Guanzhong is no exception.
The greatest value of this piece of land is the entire canal irrigation system built since the pre-Qin Dynasty. After hundreds of years, it is still very useful, providing a continuous supply of water to the land in Guanzhong and making the entire
Guanzhong has a lot of fertile farmland.
It's just a pity that now is not the time for me to come forward and completely occupy Guanzhong...
However, it is still necessary to take this opportunity to isolate Guanzhong and Hongnong by taking Zuo Fengyi. Otherwise, waiting for Yang Biao and Zhao Wen to join forces and resume their cultivation for a few years, they will inevitably become Fei Qian.
great threat.
As for Jing Zhaoyin and You Fufeng, the best situation is to let Zhong Shao and Zhao Wen occupy one, and then the two people fight each other to buy time for Fei Qian to firmly digest Yinshan.
So after Xu Shu learned that Fei Qian had made such a decision, he did not wait for Fei Qian's arrival, but took the lead and led more than 3,000 people to directly attack Tongguan...
Three thousand to five thousand is almost the maximum number of troops that a good general can directly command. If it increases further, the troops must be divided, and deputy generals will be needed to assist in leadership and command.
Many people have no idea about tens of thousands of people, they just exist in their minds, just like farmers and women plowing the fields discussing how the emperor will live, they just speculate based on their own experience.
In fact, in ancient wars, the various rules and regulations were extremely cumbersome...
Why in ancient wars, especially in the Three Kingdoms, were there always situations where food routes were cut off? In fact, the simplest reason is that there are only a few routes that can be supplied by baggage trucks. Either this one or that one. Anyway, the baggage trucks
A car only has four wheels, so there is no way it can fly directly to the sky with two more wings.
Moreover, in order to reserve grain and grass, the army usually builds a special transshipment base behind the forward position. Even though it knows that this is a huge weakness, it still has to continue to do this. The most fundamental reason is that if the grain and grass are not
If you transport a large amount of food and grass at one time and do not build such a transfer camp at the front, the army may starve before the next batch of food and grass arrives...
It's easy to say that a thousand-man-level army is an army. Once it exceeds ten thousand people, during the battle, the food and grass alone will consume 18,000 dan per month. This is still infantry. If it is a cavalry like Fei Qian, it will also need to add fodder and
Bean feed, then ten thousand cavalry means that a month will consume at least 60,000 shi of food and grass!
Fei Qian also wants to directly recruit a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand troops, and then push it all the way from north to south, without considering the supply of food and grass, without considering the loss of equipment...
But it's obviously impossible.
This is the case on the battlefield. The so-called large army suppresses the situation. In fact, it is a small battle that makes up the entire huge structural system. The so-called big scene that costs one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand is actually a joke in most cases.
In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu's tens of thousands of people destroyed Zhang Han Wangli's 400,000 troops.
In the Battle of Chibi, the camp in front of Cao's army caught fire, and the more than 200,000 to 300,000 troops behind him collapsed.
Liu Bei's Yiling, too.
Northern Wei Er Zhu Rong destroyed Ge Rong's army of hundreds of thousands with tens of thousands, also relying on sneak attacks.
During the Tumubao Incident, more than 200,000 Ming troops were mobilized by tens of thousands of cavalry...
Having more soldiers is sometimes not a good thing.
Fei Qian doesn't have many troops now, but as long as these soldiers appear at the most critical position on the battlefield, compared with Guanzhong, which is mainly composed of Chang'an Forbidden Army and ordinary infantry recruited temporarily, they are like a steel knife and a slap.
The difference is, although it may hurt, and the slap will turn red at most, but the steel knife will kill someone!
Fei Qian stood silently on the city wall, looking into the distance, as if looking at the land in Guanzhong, wondering where exactly his steel knife would be pierced.
Now we are waiting for the news ahead.
It's like two people fighting. Only when the opponent starts to fight, more flaws are exposed, and only then do you know which ones are real and which ones were pretended before...
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Suyi County.
Zhao Wen, who was also standing on the city wall inspecting the city defenses, frowned and felt a little worried.
There is almost no stock of rolling stone wood in Suyi. Although Zhao Wen has sent a large number of soldiers and mobilized the people in the city to cut down and dig around, the accumulation of these materials is still very large without many handy tools.
slow.
But no matter what, after all, Su Yi was obtained, which made Zhao Wen feel somewhat relieved.
At least if he is stationed at Suyi, it will be difficult for General Zhengxi to march into Chang'an. When the army advances, the most important thing is the safety of the supply line. Suyi is stuck on the official supply line from Diaoyin to Chang'an...
As for Guanzhong, Zhao Wen was more worried about the intervention of Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west.
Zhao Wen still didn't take seriously the old and frail guy Zhong Shao. If Zhao Wen hadn't first established a tacit understanding with several Guanzhong nobles, he would have found an opportunity to take action.
The money and food for sending troops this time were naturally provided by these noble clans. Otherwise, what would it be like to get three melons and two dates from the cultivated land near Chang'an?
With support, there will naturally be rewards. Zhao Wen promised these nobles that after he takes control of Guanzhong in the future, he will sell some land to these nobles. Of course, at this price, it is naturally half-sale and half-free...
Anyway, these are also the lands of those who escaped from Guanzhong, and they can be regarded as ownerless lands. If they are given to these nobles, Zhao Wen does not have to pay for them himself, so why not?
The premise is that Fei Qian will not interfere.
Zhao Wen still remembers that when Xiliang Li and Guo occupied Chaogang, it was because Fei Qian's cavalry suddenly appeared in Guanzhong, which instantly changed the entire situation...
Zhao Wen was really envious, jealous, and full of everything for Fei Qian's cavalry.
As soon as the Xiliang soldiers left, Guanzhong's legs became shorter.
no way.
Cavalry is too difficult to raise.
Even if Zhao Wen is willing, the source of war horses is a huge problem. The surrounding nobles have contributed to some extent, and Zhao Wen can collect more than a thousand, but these riders...
Just make do with it.
In the past two days, Zhao Wen sent the only cavalry scouts he had on hand all the way out in order to detect Fei Qian's movements this morning.
Therefore, at this time, Zhao Wen was not only looking forward to knowing the movements of Fei Qian's army as soon as possible, but at the same time he was worried that if Fei Qian's troops were too large, he would not be able to hold on until Xia Mou or
Yang Biao’s support...
While Zhao Wen was thinking, suddenly several horses came rushing from the north!
Zhao Wen took a closer look, and his heart jumped suddenly, because he saw a white feather arrow stuck tremblingly on the left shoulder of one of them, and the blood was already dyed red!
"...Coming! Coming!" Several scouts who rushed to the city rolled off their horses and shouted in embarrassment, "Baili, about a hundred miles to the north, we met the cavalry from Zhengxi! When they met, Xiao Hei
The boy is dead! The little Heizi is dead..."
"How many troops are there when Zhengxi comes?" Zhao Wen frowned, suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice. What the hell, I don't care whether your little black guy dies or not, the most important thing is to bring me the news.
.
"...Many, many! Much more than us!" This guy, who was originally an expert horseman in Wubao and has just been transferred to a cavalry scout, shouted incoherently.
Zhao Wen had a sullen face. If he hadn't been worried about damaging morale, he would have even considered dragging these useless guys down and chopping them up.
Fortunately, not long after, other cavalry scouts from the Chang'an Forbidden Army arrived and brought the latest news. General Zhengxi's troops had left Diaoyin, and about eight hundred cavalry were heading towards Suyi!
"But General Zhengxi is in command?" Zhao Wen asked urgently, "Have you seen the flag of General Zhengxi?"
"Reporting to the envoy, I saw no flag for the expedition to the west, only a flag for 'Dang Bandit Colonel Zhang'..." the scout replied.
Hearing this, Zhao Wen breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief: "Come here, please quickly send an order to have all surrounding soldiers return to the city! Pull the suspension bridge and close the city gate!"
The distance of a hundred miles is only about an hour for the cavalry, and they came behind Zhao Wen's scout. Therefore, it didn't take long for Zhao Wen to see a high cloud of dust rising from the north, like a huge stick.
Like a plume of smoke, billowing in.
"Everyone is on alert! Archers line up!" Zhao Wen shouted loudly, then looked left and right, and couldn't help shouting, "Where are the arrows? Why are they just brought up? Aren't there more than ten thousand in the city's warehouses? Hurry up.
Move here quickly!"
Thousands of arrows may sound like a lot, but in reality, when divided among people, there are only twenty or thirty arrows per person, and they can shoot them all in less than an hour!
But you can only pay attention to its use. After all, although arrows are powerful weapons for defending the city, these things, whether they are arrowheads or arrow shafts, are more troublesome to make and have some special requirements. Therefore, unless the general is leading the army, it is really difficult to make them.
If it is rough to a certain extent, or if it is forced into a desperate situation, generally speaking, it is not possible to cut down a piece of wood or cut off a piece of bamboo and then cut it into pieces and use it as an arrow shaft.
Archers have been trained to shoot arrows with a fixed weight. If the center of gravity of a crudely made arrow is not closer to the front, it will float randomly after being shot. If you want to hit someone, you really have to rely on luck...
Insufficient lethality is one aspect, and it also wastes many attack opportunities. After all, human physical strength is limited. Every time you fire a bow, you need to spend physical strength. If it cannot kill, it is wasted in vain.
value.
"Report to the envoy! All the arrows in the city are here!" A military lord reported, "Among the warehouses, only the upper layers are newly made arrows, the rest are old and rotten items from earlier years and cannot be used.
"If the arrows are not used, they will gradually rot. Even if they are painted, they will not last for a few years. After all, the arrows are made of iron and will rust. There are gaps in the arrow shafts, moisture and insects."
, are fatal to the storage of arrows.
"...I know, let's be on guard first..." Zhao Wen was angry, but he had no choice. Seeing the cavalry coming from the north getting closer and closer, he couldn't think of anything else to say, so he could only think about what was in front of him first.
In this era, the cavalry has always been the king on the battlefield. When the cavalry gather together and roll in, it is a great shock and deterrence to anyone.
Horse hooves trampled the ground, and hundreds of cavalry spread out under the tricolor flag and the banner of "Dang Kou Xiaowei Zhang" and came slowly. When they got closer, they could see the tattoos on the spears of these cavalry.
The red cherry blossoms are fluttering, the iron armor is sparkling, and the men and horses are breathing white air, like a huge monster, spreading its teeth and claws to bring the breath of death.
At the top of Suyi City, Zhao Wen's soldiers couldn't help but start a commotion when they saw this scene. They gradually became quiet after the military commander, Qu Chang, ran back and forth.
"...the cavalry of General Zhengxi..." Zhao Wen stared closely and murmured softly, not sure whether he was really thinking this or trying to comfort himself, "...it is indeed extraordinary...
...but, are you going to attack the city...hehe...I wonder if you can still fly up?"
