Most people spend the New Year watching Nuo dances, burning firecrackers, putting up peach charms, having a reunion dinner, wearing new clothes, etc. But this year's New Year is very different for Pang Hong.
He didn't expect that his father would take him to Tongguan to see the dead...
To be more precise, it was to watch the war.
During the war, there was no concept of having to rest during the New Year. Cao's army was still outside Tongguan, and from time to time some people would try to attack, constantly putting pressure on the Tongguan defenders and provoking them.
However, both Ma Yue and Zhu Ling could sense the fatigue of Cao's soldiers from their daily actions, but Pang Hong and others did not know this.
That's right, Pang Hong led a group of teenagers on a sightseeing tour.
In order to ensure the safety of the youth visiting group, Pang Tong did not make any special moves in advance when he brought people here this time. He just said hello to Ma Yue and Zhu Ling, and then brought the young visiting group.
A certain person was wearing a green suit and blended in very inconspicuously among them.
The young people's attention was all on the battlefield, and no one paid special attention to the people around them.
"Could this be the realm of Chu, He and Han?"
Someone in the youth group said.
Pang Hong looked back and found that it was Li Yuan's son.
Li Yuan can be considered one of the natives of Guanzhong who followed Fei Qian back then. Because he was not very capable, after risking his life to fight for a future, he did not continue the war and instead changed to a city in Chang'an Lingyi.
Chang, in total, is probably a small county magistrate, but it is directly under the jurisdiction of Chang'an, so it will naturally be better than ordinary county magistrates.
This is also a common choice for many gentry children.
Not all gentry children may be Gao Yanei type second generation ancestors. In many cases, some of the irrational behaviors of gentry children are mostly for the growth of themselves or their own families. From the perspective of the overall God, these behaviors are of course very stupid.
, but for the children of the gentry at that time, most of their choices were based on careful consideration. Just like Li Yuan immediately sent his children to Li Yuan after learning that there was such a young visiting group led by Pang Hong.
In this group...
And asked the children to stay with Pang Hong.
So Li Yuan's children asked stupid questions, but people are not stupid.
The moment Pang Hong turned around, Li Yuan's son immediately lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
In the entire youth group, Pang Hong's status is undoubtedly the highest on the surface, so...
This is a subconscious behavior that has nothing to do with productivity, but is related to authority. This is true even in the later generations. A naughty child may not care about what an adult says, but will obey another child who is obviously stronger.
This seems to be a biological instinct.
Pang Hong tried his best to imitate his father's appearance, with a sullen face, and nodded, "Say it again! I am here to observe. You are not allowed to make loud noises or leave without permission. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished by military law!"
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Li Yuan's son and others all responded in unison.
Their location is at the edge of a forest relatively far back from Linzhi Plateau. Because it is covered by tree trunks, branches and shrubs, nothing unusual can be seen from the Niutou Plateau opposite, just like people inside blinds.
You can see some scenery outside, but it is difficult for people in the distance to see what is behind the blinds.
Cao's army occupied almost the entire Niutou Plain.
Some of Cao's army's laborers also mined trees on Niutou Plateau...
A child timidly said to Pang Hong, "Excuse me, why didn't Cao Jun come around?"
Pang Hong glanced at Pang Yi, who was standing not far away.
Pang Tong seemed not to hear.
Pang Hong pondered for a moment, then turned around and said, "It's not impossible, it's impossible."
"I don't understand." The child said clearly.
Pang Hong glanced at Pang Tong again and suddenly felt something.
The way his father looked at him sometimes was probably similar to the way he was looking at the child right now.
After pondering for a while, Pang Hong said: "The detour will do more harm than good. The distance between the two plateaus is tens of feet, and the ravine exceeds hundreds of miles. Even if we can really detour, we will lose without water or food, even if we don't fight."
The larger the army, the more it needs to ensure water sources. Cao Cao and Fei Qian's troops are concentrated near Tongguan, not because Tongguan is really impossible to bypass, but only by taking the Tongguan route can the army's soldiers be guaranteed a place.
Supplement the necessary drinking water. If there is no water source during the detour, it is almost equivalent to seeking death.
In addition, during the cold weapon war, supplies, weapons, etc. all needed to be transported, so transportation was very important. If you took a detour through some rugged mountain roads, it would be difficult to get supplies.
The sky is even harder.
It should be noted that there is a difference between taking a detour to plunder and taking a detour. If it is just plundering, you can indeed take a detour. It only requires a small team of people, just like most nomadic peoples plundered the Chinese farming people.
, but plundering can only cause a certain amount of harassment at most, and is far from occupying the territory. At the same time, the most fearful thing about plundering by taking a detour is that it will be surrounded by the opponent, which is almost devastating.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the main problem was not the tactics of bypassing and looting, nor how strong the Qing army was, but the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's military system and politics, the mutual distrust between local warlords and the court, and many other issues.
factors leading to the results.
Someone asked the first question, and other children also asked some questions one after another.
Some of the questions were simple, and some were a little more complicated. Pang Hong explained them all in general, and he immediately received a lot of admiring looks. He couldn't help but feel a little carried away, and then Pang Tong glanced at the knife sideways and made a puff sound.
Falling to the ground again...
"Why……"
Pang Hong slightly sighed sadly and cast his gaze into the distance.
Cao's army's barracks stretched out for a long time, and their banners covered the sky and blocked out the sun.
Cao Jun's camp looks very strong.
A deep trench with a grain path was dug around the camp, which was filled with sharp wood. The excavated soil was used to build an earth wall behind the trench. Under the earth wall, deer antlers and horses were laid out, as well as strings of caltrops.
There is a sentry tower at regular intervals, with soldiers stationed on it day and night.
There are portals on all sides of the camp, and a wooden watchtower is also built on both sides of the camp gate. The watchtower and the gate are both made of tree trunks, with yellow mud smeared on them. A trench is also dug at the door, and wooden boards are built on it for passage, which can be removed at night.
To prevent sneak attacks.
At this time, the camp gate of Cao Jun's camp was opened wide, and a group of about a thousand people came out. There were also some sporadic scouts and rangers around, and they headed straight to the lower city of Tongguan amidst the sound of war drums.
Cao Jun's soldiers and horses slowly spread out, about five or six rows in front and back, with a roughly straight line, and pressed towards the lower city of Tongguan.
Behind the array, there were laborers pushing some siege equipment slowly forward.
On the city wall of Tongguan Lower City, the hussars were standing ready. They shouted loudly and adjusted their queues. Behind Tongguan Lower City, there were also cattle and horse vehicles transporting some arrows, crossbows, rolling stones and wood that needed to be supplemented to the first place.
Wire……
Is this war?
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Nowadays, Cao Jun's attack seems to be a daily task. Because people stay in one place for a long time, they will inevitably become inert. In order to maintain the vitality of the army, they must take turns to let these soldiers see some blood, so the attack queue under Tongguan City,
They are all uncertain. Of course, there may be some flavor of paralyzing the defenders.
Zhu Ling, who was in the lower city of Tongguan, glanced sideways at Linzhi Plateau. Although his sight was blocked by the plateau, he knew that some people were watching over there.
Zhu Ling didn't quite understand why Pang Tong would organize such a young tourist group. Could it be that the flesh and blood mill in Tongguan was not a beautiful scenery?
And if you really want to watch a war scene, why not watch a ball from such a distance?
Come to Tongguan Lower City and see with your own eyes the loess soaked in blood on this slope, the broken limbs, and the human tissues hanging on the discarded ordnance. Only then can your internal organs and intestines be considered a battlefield!
No matter what, why don't you go and walk around the barracks a few times?
What can you see on Linzhi Plateau?
However, Zhu Ling can understand to some extent, after all, they are all teenagers.
Not to mention young people, even adults may not face the brutality of the battlefield.
But Zhu Ling didn't understand why Pang Tong brought these young men here?
Zhu Ling couldn't understand it, but it didn't stop him from making defensive arrangements in an orderly manner. For him, some of the political content at the upper level was too far away, and his main battlefield was still in the area in front of him.
Cao's army's siege equipment began to protrude forward from the two wings of the array, the most common of which were still chariots and large wooden shields. Such things are simple to make and have a wide range of uses.
There are also ladders, but not many, more like embellishments.
Although it seemed like a routine daily attack, Zhu Ling still did not relax. Cao Jun needed to attack to maintain a relatively strong morale, and the defender also needed to use such confrontations to maintain his side's fighting spirit. Then Zhu Ling quickly
Then I noticed something unusual happening at the corner of Tongguan City.
Um?
Are you going to use that thing today?
Where Zhu Ling looked, on the corner platform of Tongguan City, craftsmen and grenadiers were making final adjustments to the bronze cannon before firing.
Because the artillery does not have a retraction mechanism, all the recoil force of the launch needs to be borne by the gun base and the gun pad below the gun base.
In addition to the inspection of the artillery itself, a series of approval calculations are also required for the direction of the artillery, the angle of the muzzle, etc. Otherwise, when the gun is fired and the shells are heard, the shells will not know where to fly, and the youth group will lose the opportunity to observe.
significance.
Before Zhu Ling could think of anything, he heard a loud bang, and a cannonball flashed through the air and hit the slope, splashing up a cloud of smoke and dust.
"What is this for?!" Zhu Ling was stunned.
Cao's army hasn't attacked yet, so what's the point of firing artillery so early?
With the sound of the cannon, Cao's army roared, and the entire array began to shake. As he was looking at the calamus carts and large wooden shields being pushed ahead, a few of them fell to the ground at the sight of them. Apparently, the laborers pushing the carts were frightened.
broken……
Zhu Ling looked at it and seemed to have some understanding in his heart.
Today is the youth group's inspection, and it's the New Year. It's really inappropriate to see corpses flying everywhere, bloody and bloody.
As a war drum roared in Tongguan City, the artillery at the corner made a deafening sound again, and thick gray smoke rose. The artillery shells drew a black line in the air, hit the loess surface of the slope, and hit the ground.
Countless pieces of broken earth and gravel immediately rushed into the river.
Cao's army in the distance once again let out uncontrollable shouts of panic, and the hussars who had been using fire energy for a long time also had some slight fluctuations.
Even though the God of War is still a little immature at the moment, the ferocious face revealed cannot be underestimated.
Then came the third bombardment.
The rising smoke of gunpowder fills the air, and the orange-red color exposed at the muzzle is like the bloody mouth of a devil.
The innocent Ban Dao withstood the third artillery shell, but the soldiers of Cao's army not far away realized the same conclusion: in front of the artillery, personal bravery was not worth mentioning, and the siege equipment was vulnerable.
After three rounds, the artillery went silent.
The smoke gradually dissipated.
Cao Jun's original overall formation was so twisted that it looked like legs that could barely hold back their urine.
The frightened laborers running away on both sides were like liquid leaking out of fear...
"It looks like we can't fight anymore! That's good, that's good!" Zhu Ling spit out a mouthful of phlegm, then laughed twice, "Send the order, the sentry will be doubled tonight!"
Above Tongguan, the smoke is like pillars.
Under Tongguan, Cao Jun retreated in embarrassment...
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"Master, do you understand today?"
Just as Zhu Ling expected, Cao Jun quickly lost his fighting spirit after seeing the roar of artillery for the first time. He didn't even pretend to be brave and simply retreated.
The one-day trip to Tongguan by the youth tour group was a successful conclusion without any surprises.
Others just light firecrackers during the New Year, but they watch big fireworks and firecrackers during the New Year. Naturally, the feeling is completely different.
On the way back, these young people were chirping and excited. They couldn't help but whisper to each other, comment on what they saw and heard today, and use this to show their courage and wisdom.
No one noticed that there was one person who remained silent from beginning to end.
Everyone thought that the core of the youth tour group this time was Pang Hong, but in fact it was not Fei Zhen who was wearing simple clothes and silently mingling among the queue.
After returning to Chang'an Hussar General's Mansion and washing up briefly, Pang Tong asked Feizhen what he had gained today.
All young people like to play, and Feizhen is no exception.
"Artillery!" Fei Zhen said, "Father said that artillery will change everything in war! It is a powerful offensive and defensive weapon, and thunder and lightning are nothing more than that!"
Pang Tong rolled his eyelids, "That's it?"
Feizhen chuckled and said, "Of course not. Why are artillery so strong? A strong people makes a country strong. Only when a country is strong can its weapons be strong. If you don't have soldiers, you don't know what you want. If you don't have farmers, you don't know where to live."
"If you don't have workers, you don't know what to use it for. If you don't have business, you don't know what to do with it. Artillery is a thing that affects all the people. Only when the people from top to bottom have their hearts and minds can they gain their benefit."
Pang Tong nodded, "Is there anything else?"
"There are still people."
Feizhen nodded and said, "This time we take a look at Tongguan, they are all the children of officials and nobles in Chang'an Pass. Firstly, we can see their reputation, and secondly, it can also stabilize people's hearts..."
Pang Tong showed a smile.
If nothing big happens, these children of officials and nobles in Guanzhong will become Feizhen's future talent pool. It is very important to have an impression first, so when Pang Tong revealed the meaning of this young tourist group, even if
The preparation time was very short, but almost all the officials and nobles sent their children to Pang Tong's mansion on time and on time, and they also repeatedly told them to make these children obedient.
Tongguan is a battlefield, but Pang Tong is not stupid and will not directly take his children to fight for their lives on the battlefield. So basically there is a risk, but the risk is not very big. Most officials and nobles with brains know this.
What does a group formation mean...
Originally, it might also mean that so and so is from Jingxiang, and so and so is from Longyou, or that so and so was in the North before, but now they all belong to the same team. Of course, it is just a youth league, and there cannot be any
What a decisive role, but it is the beginning of integration. With more similar activities in the future, whether active or passive, the original factions in Guanzhong will gradually change as these teenagers grow up.
disappear and merge into one.
In addition, as Feizhen said, although Cao Jun is not allowed to enter Tongguan, will the three assistants in Guanzhong not be affected at all?
Obviously it is impossible, but issuing an announcement or something seems a bit feeble. Let the children of the officials and nobles in Guanzhong go around Tongguan, and the news they bring back can make these officials and nobles in Guanzhong put their hearts back.
After three rounds of artillery, Cao's army collapsed.
There is no bloody scene to scare these young people who have not yet fully matured their minds, but it will increase the confidence of these young people to fight against Cao Jun. Although these young people may not have the right to make decisions now, the seeds they have planted will definitely be possible in the future.
One or two gorgeous flowers bloom...
"These are all good." Pang Tong affirmed, "So, do you have any other ideas?"
"Any other thoughts?" Fei Zhen repeated subconsciously, "Is there anything else I've overlooked?"
Pang Tong nodded, "In addition to what Young Master just said, there are at least three more points. However, as long as Young Master comes up with two more points, I will give you a good review on your plan today... How about it?"
"Cao's army's military strength?" Fei Zhen said tentatively, "Cao's army's morale has obviously declined, but it still persists...or is it because he doesn't know that his Hedong strategy has been defeated, and maybe he has other support? No, this is actually the same thing.
One question is, what are Cao Jun waiting for..."
Pang Tong smiled and said: "Yes. This is one point. What about the other two points?"
Fei Zhen felt that her head was a little big.
Is there anything else he's missing?
Tongguan, the battlefield, soldiers, flags, the transport convoy in the inner city of Tongguan, and then the Cao Jun camp on the Niutou Plateau opposite, as well as the Cao Jun soldiers working in panic and fleeing, and the destroyed and abandoned equipment soldiers scattered in the Tongguan Slope Road
First……
"Ah! Ha!" Fei Zhen clapped her hands, "I thought of it! Supplies! It's consumption and supplies, right?! The war needs are consumed every day! This is also a question that must be considered by the commander! How much is consumed and supplies
How come! Cao’s army’s supply line is longer than ours, so they are more likely to have problems, right? Is it Wei Wenchang?”
Pang Tong laughed, then stood up, "In today's discussion, Young Master is the winner... But there is one more thing, I hope Young Master can think of it..."
What else is there?
Feizhen looked at Pang Tong's smile, grinded her teeth, then held her head and thought hard...
