Wei Daya glanced down the ditch. There were two groups of people who followed Xu Huai to Yelang ditch:
A dozen of the bodyguards, under the leadership of Shi Hu, have climbed onto the Yelang Valley to take charge of security, while more bodyguards are on standby at the bottom of the ravine.
There are also some soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the warrior's house, and they are all soldiers who fled back to Chushan after the Xuanwei army was defeated in Jiaopi; they only climbed up from the bottom of the mountain to the gap.
All of these military officials are strong and brave, but they have only been practicing in the warrior's house for more than a month. Of course, we cannot expect them to change their appearance in such a short period of time.
Judging from the way they scrambled and scattered from the rocks to the gap, it was known that they did not really form a mutually dependent cooperation. They even intended to show off their nimbleness and agility in front of Xu Huai, and they seemed to be scrambling to be the first.
Back when Wei Daya was in the Xiema Mountain, when he saw these strong men, his eyes would light up and his heart would itch. However, in the past few years when he returned to Chushan, his horizons have broadened a lot.
It's somewhat disdainful.
In terms of fighting alone, Wei Daya probably didn't have a single soldier who could be the opponent of these strong men, but if he gathered thirty or fifty formations to fight, Wei Daya was confident that he would be able to defeat these soldiers and send them home to their mothers.
Although Wei Daya was determined to stay in the army, his naughty temper would not change easily. He grinned and complained:
"Jie Shuai, if you feel that Old Wei is short of manpower, give me more honest and obedient farm boys so that I can control them. If anyone dares to escape from the battle, Old Wei will just break their legs. These uncles will ride at the first sight.
If you poop or pee on Old Wei's head, I will be strict and slap them with military sticks. If someone gets angry and takes out a knife and stabs me twice, who will I cry to? Commander-in-Chief, hurry up and kill them.
These uncles have been arranged to go elsewhere, and I can’t take care of them!"
"Don't bargain with me. More than 400 people have sacrificed their lives in this period. They will be put directly into the front line and flanks to participate in the battle. They are not just on your side. And among the generals in the second wing, who can control these things?"
I can see people more clearly than you!" Xu Huai interrupted Wei Daya's complaint and said, "If you are worried that these people are not under control and military discipline is strict, who will stab you in the dark? I will take care of it for you in the future.
Know this account clearly!"
"These sacrificed lives are the seedlings of the future military officials. I can't explain how many more casualties there are. The new shield vehicles are quite useful. Commander, you can transfer a few to Old Wei!" Wei Da Ya grinned and bargained.
road.
Even if the refined iron chariot is initially improved, it will be much easier to use than the old one. However, the current casting scale is limited. Even if they are all added to Huangyangzhai, they can only be integrated into the formations that need to be fought in the open areas of the valley.
Soldiers and horses.
Wei Daya led his troops in a dangerous position to cover the flanks, but they have not yet obtained a refined iron shield vehicle.
The old-style light carriages all had wooden wheels and wooden frames. After being towed a few times through ravines full of rocks, they would fall apart. How could there be a shield carriage made of fine iron or an iron pulley that looks like a rush car?
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"The next batch of ordnance will be replenished, and I'll tell Tang Qing to leave two for you!" Xu Huai said.
While I was talking, the battle in the valley on the north side came to an end due to the ineffective attack of the puppet Chu army and their retreat.
Wei Daya glanced twice, grinned and said: "These dogs' feet are not attacking hard enough, and they are all over the place so quickly? Zhou Lao Deer didn't even have enough to relieve the itching! Hey, why did Tang Junhou order to withdraw his troops? He was not called Zhou
The old roe deer and the others went out and stabbed them hard in the butt!"
"It's not that Yue Hailou's troops are not strong enough, it's because Yue Hailou thought Chushan was bluffing them by building a weir west of Huangyangzhai. He wanted to use his tactics to deceive us in turn!" Xu Huai said, "This
When the time comes, no one can keep his composure, so there is no need to worry about how many enemies you can kill!"
Yuehai Tower and Mo Lihu gathered nearly 30,000 troops on both sides of the Mingxi River. Xu Huai was also confident that he could win in the field. However, Chushan's casualties would not be light, and he would lose the ability to continue to attack difficulties in a short period of time.
Nowadays, in all battlefields in Dai Viet, the enemy is strong and we are weak. It is not clear which battlefield will have another big mistake like the Xuanwei Army. Chushan can only adopt the most conservative combat strategy at present, preserving its strength as much as possible in case of emergency.
Suffer.
At the same time, delaying the war on both sides of the Mingxi River for another month or two, allowing more soldiers and officers from Anzhou, Suizhou and other places to rotate over to participate in the war and gain experience points will only be beneficial to the future situation, but will not
There are disadvantages...
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Chushan was carrying out large-scale construction projects in the upper reaches of Mingxi River, and Yuehailou had to respond, but as Xu Huai expected
Deep down in his heart, Yue Hailou suspected that all this was Xu Huai's bluff.
Of course Yue Hailou has his reasons for being so suspicious.
At present, Chushan's supply camp to the west of Huangyangzhai, in addition to filling in the valleys and rivers to build dams and digging diversion channels, is also cleaning up on a large scale to level the miscellaneous trees, shrubs and floating soil where the low weir site is located;
The young and strong civilian men who gathered over the mountains and ridges, and the size of the army was indeed huge, and they looked like they were ready for a big fight.
However, if you really want to build a weir and lake in the upper reaches of the Mingxi River, threatening the open Pingchuan area of 60 to 70 miles in the middle and lower reaches, it is an extremely huge project.
At the same time, it is also full of great uncertainties.
It may not be rainy after spring, and the dammed lake cannot store enough rainwater, so it is certainly not a threat; and if there is torrential rain for several days in a row after summer, the cofferdam that is too fragile will burst somewhere, which may not be the case in Chushan.
Can you decide?
Yue Hailou also knew very well that although Xu Huai helped Jing Wang Zhao Tuan ascend the throne in Xiangyang, it could not change the situation in which the political situation of the Southern Dynasty was controlled by the officials. Through careful work, he also knew how pitiful the money and food that Xiangyang gave to Chushan every year was.
Is Xu Huaizhen willing to invest such a huge price (almost enough to build another Chushan City) to build cofferdams and lakes just to force them to withdraw?
Who can conclude that Xu Huai's bluffing intention was not to lure their main force out, and then use the terrain occupied by Chushan in the upper reaches of the Mingxi River to try to defeat them in front of Huangyangzhai?
Xu Huai was accustomed to using tricks and schemes, so Yue Hailou was more likely to lean toward the latter.
Therefore, Yue Hailou was also targeted. He deployed his troops with weak combat effectiveness in the front line and took turns to launch attacks in front of Huangyangzhai, hoping to use this as bait to lure Chushan's elite troops and horses out of Huangyangzhai.
In the open area to the south and east of Heilanggou, real elite armored soldiers and elite cavalry from Molihu's army were used to flank the attack.
Although there were battles every day for the next ten days, Yue Hailou had no intention of forcing a breakthrough from the narrow terrain on the right side of Heilanggou to Huangyangzhai. He even wanted to "use the trick" to defeat Chushan in Huangshanzhai.
The main force was lured to the open area to fight, and the intensity of the battle was naturally much lower than imagined.
But Chushan always sticks to the front line of Heilanggou.
If the puppet Chu army attempts to seize Heilanggou, they will send out elite troops to seize Heilanggou. They may repel the puppet Chu army that reaches Heilanggou first, but they will also stop at the valley on the northeast side of Heilanggou.
Even if the puppet Chu army's offensive array was defeated several times, Chushan's soldiers and horses would never advance even half a step eastward, as steady as an old tortoise.
During this period, the upper reaches of the Mingxi River were officially cut off, and a larger area of cofferdam sites was cleared.
Chushan was mainly built with city walls, and the multi-wall and multi-hao defense system was basically completed. More than 20,000 young and strong civilians were able to escape, carrying various tools, and entered the upper reaches of the Mingxi River from the inner mountain road to officially start building cofferdams.
Yue Hailou's plan failed, and now they had to bite the bullet and attack from Heilanggou. At this time, the situation was even more unfavorable for them.
At this time, more than 400 warriors in the fourth phase of the warrior training camp had sacrificed their lives. After being deployed to the front line to participate in more than ten days of formation combat, this round of short-term training was officially over.
More than fifty military officials under the supervision of the Army and Horses Department in Anzhou returned to Anzhou, and the second batch of military officials came to Chu Mountain to watch the enemy in Chushan. The military officials recommended by other ministries to study in the warriors' houses were also returned to each ministry.
, but the original Xuanwei army fled back to the military officials, and there were about 250 people. In addition to 100 people who were added to the guard camp, about 150 people were incorporated into the second compartment on the spot.
In the second wing of the Tianxiong Army, since Tang Qing and below, in addition to battalion commanders and generals, there are only 156 people at the grassroots level. Now it has doubled, which makes the army with generals and generals as the core
Horses become more resilient.
At the same time, Xu Huai also directly organized the two battalions of the state army that participated in the battle in Huangyangzhai into the second compartment.
The second compartment was the first to complete five battalions with 2,500 regular soldiers.
The main force of the second compartment always insisted on fighting in formation near Heilanggou. They were more familiar with the terrain. They even took advantage of the rudimentary operations to smooth out the rugged terrain on the inside as much as possible, so that the infantry and cavalry and vehicle formations could cooperate more closely.
However, Yue Hailou has always been more looking forward to luring the Chushan elite out. The general does not have the will and determination to defeat the elite. How can the former army have such strong combat effectiveness?
For more than ten days, the puppet Chu army's front line not only failed to achieve any results, but also suffered casualties of one to two hundred to two to three hundred people every day. The cumulative number was quite terrifying.
Although Yue Hailou assembled 20,000 troops east of Yelanggou, and the various tribes took turns to go into battle, these casualties were evenly distributed to
The troops are not exhausted, but the battle has not made any progress for more than ten days. How can the morale of the army not be depressed and low?
Yue Hailou could only swallow the bitter consequences of hesitation and losing ground, and transferred all the 6,000 elite soldiers and horses under Feng Shizhao's command to Yelanggou, which he had saved up with great difficulty.
Join the war.
Mo Lihu never wanted to see the cofferdam built in Chu Mountain. They were forced to abandon the company camp that they had spent so much effort to build on both sides of the Mingxi River and retreat to Zhenyang, Queshan and other cities. This also caused the two thousand elite Red Guards to retreat.
Dismounted and donned armor to participate in the battle against Yelanggou and Huangyangzhai.
The extremely precise archery skills of the Chi Hu elites indeed caused many casualties to Chushan Jianrui, but under the protection of strict shields and vehicle formations, the effect they exerted was far less than what Yue Hailou, Mo Lihu and the others had imagined.
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Yue Hailou's elite troops, based on the Han army in Yingzhou, may have experienced many bloody battles and have rich combat experience. However, under Yue Hailou's deliberate indulgence, these soldiers were brutal and brutal, and they were not ruthless.
He is afraid of death and has extremely strong personal fighting ability.
However, whether it is the will to fight or the weapons and armor, they are far behind the elites of Chushan. How can they shake the rock-solid battle formation formed by the elites of Chushan?
The puppet Chu army also built a large number of sidecars and shield cars and put them into the battlefield.
However, if a wooden chariot is to be light, its structural strength is weak. Heavy chariots weighing more than 800 kilograms or more than a thousand kilograms cannot be pulled directly to the front of the formation by mules and horses in advance. Several or even a dozen strong auxiliary soldiers are needed.
How can you not be clumsy when pushing forward and changing formations on a battlefield with soft soil?
What's more critical is that Chushan's elite array is as solid as a rock, so it can drag catapults onto the battlefield and deploy them in the rear array to smash the enemy's front array.
At that time, sling crossbows were still very clumsy. A large sling crossbow usually required hundreds of young people to operate it at the same time to throw the stone projectiles far enough into the enemy array.
This kind of large sling crossbow requires a large deployment space, and the Chushan armored soldiers can only deploy two or three in the rear formation. However, thirty or forty scattered stone bombs are thrown at a time, three to four hundred steps apart, like a goddess falling from the sky.
Among the array of puppet Chu troops, the lethality cannot be underestimated.
The distance of a walking bow projectile is usually only 120 to 150 steps, and it can be blocked by raising a shield. However, stone projectiles weighing several kilograms or even ten kilograms are thrown from three to four hundred steps away.
How many people can easily resist with a shield?
The city walls were built to protect against trebuchets. They used double-layer logs to build strong tents to resist them. How could ordinary shields resist them?
Although the Puppet Chu Army had heavy shield vehicles and burrow vehicles in the front line, their strength was much worse than the war tents with double-layered log roofs, and they could not withstand the impact of 30 to 50 kilograms of stone bullets.
However, if the front line of the puppet Chu army cannot be as stable as a rock, there will be no way to deploy stone-throwing weapons on the battlefield to fight on an equal footing.
After attacking for several days, the so-called elite suffered heavy losses but achieved little success. Yue Hailou had to temporarily give up his plan to storm Huangyangzhai and withdraw his troops to the camp to rest.
By now it was February and the earth was starting to warm up.
The Huai River has been frozen for less than one and a half months this year, and the time it can actually be used by people and horses is less than half of the time.
On Chihudong Road, Pingyan's army crossed the Huainan and went south. They were not fully prepared to attack Shouxian, Gushi, Huoqiu and other cities. They also plundered hastily and hurriedly returned to the north bank of the Huai River.
With the Huaihe River blocking the way, there was no doubt that the enemy would be able to cross the Huaihe River after spring. Chushan reserved troops and horses on the south bank, and most of them were able to cross the Huaihei and enter Chushan. Chen Zixiao led the troops in Shimenling Village and Qingyiling Camp.
Liuxiang soldiers and horses also re-stationed in Huangchuan, Guangshan and other walled cities.
Even so, Xu Huaiyu did not think about raising his troops to counterattack the puppet Chu army who retreated to the fortified camp, but continued to build a cofferdam west of Huangyangzhai.
Building a weir and enclosing the lake will not only force the puppet Chu army to abandon the camps on both sides of the Mingxi River and withdraw, but will also prevent the enemy from entering the areas on both sides of the Mingxi River on a large scale, let alone besieging Chushan City on a large scale.
Of course, the defense system of Huangyangzhai also needs to be greatly strengthened. After all, it is necessary to prevent the enemy from attacking Huangyangzhai again before attacking Chushan City; a road needs to be opened between Huangyangzhai and Qingyi Ridge, running through Qingyi Ridge and the Iron Curtain.
The passage between mountains and ridges makes Qingyiling Yingcheng and Huangyangzhai, which are closer, become horns with each other.
Building weirs to enclose the lake can also reduce flood disasters on both sides of the Mingxi River.
Of course, in such a bad situation, this can only be regarded as a small profit...
