Chapter 110, Liu Bei, who brought disaster to Chiyu
In addition to training the Modao heavy infantry, Xu Wei also attached great importance to the manufacture of sand tables. He used his spare time in training to find several senior carpenters and asked them to help him make proportional models. As soon as Xu Wei said it, these carpenters understood immediately
Xu Wei started making small models one by one. Then Xu Wei found several craftsmen who made pottery.
Xu Wei directed them himself and asked them to use clay to roughly shape the terrain, mountains, and rivers around Mayi. The carpenter then placed models representing military camps, warehouses, fortresses, and county towns on the sand table. It took a long time.
In a few days, the sand table centered on Mayi was roughly completed.
This sand table is very simple. The place with the highest accuracy is Mayi. Every street in Mayi is included on the sand table. However, the farther away you go, the worse the accuracy becomes. When we reach Qiangyin County, we can only use a model of the county seat to represent it.
It's up.
From Xu Weilai's perspective, the accuracy of the sand table is almost the same as the map in "The Legend of Cao Cao". It is a little better than the simple map of this world. At least you can see the terrain here and know where there are mountains, where are plains, rivers, and cities.
The location is also more conspicuous.
But with such a simple model, Wang Lei and the others were dumbfounded when they saw it. This is simply a small world. For new military personnel like Wang Lei and others, they cannot understand the map at all. They can only rely on guessing or on-the-spot inspections.
.After having this sand table, they finally understood what the surrounding area of Mayi looked like.
Zhang Baiqi and the others were even more shocked. How many people could have been saved with this sandbox when they started the uprising!
Xu Wei looked at their shocked expressions and smiled and said: "With this sand table, we can use spies to understand every move of the enemy, and we can better understand the enemy's intentions."
Wang Ke said excitedly: "With such a treasure, when marching and fighting, you can know yourself and the enemy, and you will have a 30% chance of winning!"
Xu Wei said with a smile: "Battles still have to be fought by people. The sand table can only allow everyone to calculate more and avoid detours. It can also cultivate the general's overall view. In the future, everyone can use this sand table to deduce military operations. More
After all, everyone must put themselves in the enemy’s position and practice all their ideas on this sandbox, so that we can have a preparedness plan for the enemy’s actions!”
Just kidding! Xu Wei’s favorite sandbox games are “Red Alert”, “Three Kingdoms” and “Hearts of Iron”.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei found that the sandbox is still the best tool for training officers. Who wouldn't like this kind of sandbox game? It's just that playing such a game requires many people to assist, especially talents who are proficient in arithmetic.
Xu Wei remembered that he had written a novel a long time ago where the protagonist created a sandbox game league in ancient times. The country where the protagonist was located even relied on this method to select generals. He seemed to be able to learn this method, and I think Wang Lei and the others would also like it very much.
This kind of teaching method!
Thinking of this, Xu Wei felt that he should make some models to represent various arms such as cavalry and infantry! This world is so boring, and he can play with it when he has nothing to do.
No! It’s to train Wang Lei and others’ commanding abilities!
"But this sand table is still very crude. You can take a look and see what is different from what you see. Let's continue to modify this sand table."
Wang Lei immediately pointed to a place and said: "I have been to Wuzhou, and the mountains here are not like this. We need to change it here."
After speaking, he carefully modified the mountains near Wuzhou!
"Qiangyin is not right here either. The Salt Lake is too big, and the fortress we built in Qiangyin has not been built, nor has the Great Wall here!"
"There are several tribes here to show on the sand table!"
"Where's Khantan Mountain? Why isn't Khantan Mountain shown? The sandbox was created just to deal with the Xianbei people. What's the point of not adding them to the sandbox?
In this way, with everyone's little corrections, everyone modified the sand table with great interest, as if watching a small world slowly taking shape in their hands. The sand table was modified and perfected little by little, and the accuracy became higher and higher.
July, the third year of Zhongping (186).
Youzhou, Daijun, Tuntian Xiaowei Mansion!
Xu Wei knew that the Xianbei people were gathering, and Liu Bei and the others naturally knew it soon. He was even more nervous than Xu Wei.
After all, Mayi is more than 400 miles away from Hantan Mountain, but Daijun is within the scope of Hantan Mountain's influence beyond the Great Wall.
I don’t know what Tan Shihuai was thinking at the time. The Khan Court was placed at the gate of the Han Dynasty. It was face to face with the Han Dynasty’s Huwuwan Xiaowei Mansion. There was no fear of being stolen by the Han Dynasty.
So the pressure on Liu Bei is even greater now. Hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people are just outside his territory, gathering with ill intentions. Why isn't he worried?
So he summoned the senior officials of the Tuntian Academy to discuss how to deal with the Xianbei people's actions!
Jian Yong was the first to speak: "Helian is unlikely to come to deal with us. We don't need so many cavalry to rob Dai County. Only by robbing Lei Gong's Mayi can we feed the Xianbei people!"
Liu Bei said seriously: "But even if there is a one in 10,000 possibility, we must be careful!"
Guan Yu also followed up and said: "Even if Helian really wants to deal with Lei Gong, he may not be able to detach a partial division to defeat us and then enter Mayi! My eldest brother must find a way to inform Liu Shijun that we will arm troops to defend the border of Youzhou.
At the very least, we need to summon more than 30,000 field troops to be able to protect ourselves."
The field soldiers in Daijun only had their own farm tools and no weapons at all. Of course, Liu Bei did not dare to give them weapons.
Of course, Liu Bei's men were not completely without armed forces. When he first established the army, Liu Yu gave him 5,000 county soldiers to guard the prisoners in the 10 villages. After Liu Bei came to Daijun, he even recruited 3,000 Karasuma cavalry.
This is already the strongest military force in Youzhou. Unfortunately, facing the hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry who are about to go south, it is still a drop in the bucket, so they have to recruit soldiers to strengthen the defense.
It's just that people are easy to recruit, but weapons are difficult to solve. If Liu Bei wants to arm them, weapons can only rely on the help of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou.
Because in current Youzhou, only the arsenals of each county have weapons and ammunition that can equip 100,000 people, and Liu Bei is just a field captain with 2,000 shi, and it is impossible to command the prefects of each county to give him weapons and equipment.
He could only rely on the help of Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, otherwise even if he summoned 100,000 field soldiers, he would only be able to deal with He Company's hundreds of thousands of cavalry with his bare hands.
Zhang Fei said loudly: "Brother, instead of sitting back and waiting to be killed, we should take the initiative to attack and use the 3,000 cavalry in our hands to rush to Khantan Mountain. If we kill Helian, there won't be so many things!"