A full moon in the sky illuminated the earth, and several knights held torches. They galloped quickly on the loess road and soon arrived at Puyang City!
As soon as Huang Long fell asleep, his bodyguard woke him up and said: "General, General Duan Peng's messenger has arrived, saying that he has something urgent to ask for!"
Huang Long woke up immediately and said: "Please!"
After the messenger came in, he immediately took out a letter and said: "Lu Bu led an army of 50,000 to attack our army. Now we are facing a confrontation with Lihu. My commander is worried that the Han army is too powerful to defeat, so I want to ask the general for support!"
Huang Long quickly read the letter from Duan Peng, and also explained the situation of the battle with Zhang Liao!
Huang Long immediately summoned officers above his lieutenant colonel level to discuss the matter.
When all the officers above the rank of captain came to the Chinese army's tent, Huang Long handed Duan Peng's letter to them for reading!
Colonel Fuyun said: "Lu Bu is a difficult guy. The equipment and quantity of the Bingzhou Army at the beginning were not as good as mine, but the traps under his command brought us a lot of trouble! Now it seems that the Han Army has made great progress in the past few years.
In addition to the artillery and weapons and equipment, they have already caught up with us, but the gunpowder in Duan Peng's hands has been used up, no wonder they can't take down Lu Bu's 50,000 army for a while!"
Yu Digen said: "This is a huge opportunity for us. All the cavalry of the Han coalition are in Lu Bu's hands. As long as we annihilate Lu Bu, the only mobility of the Han army will be gone. They will have to be passive in the following wars."
He was beaten. Now Lu Bu should not know that Gao Lan has been captured by us and Puyang City has been captured by us. Our army should quickly join Duan Peng, concentrate our superior forces, and completely annihilate Lu Bu!"
The other generals also meant the same thing. It would be the best thing for the Han company to take the initiative to attack. This attack and defense of Puyang City consumed a lot of their time and gunpowder. If the Han company's 800,000 troops were like this,
If we continue to fight city by city, we really don’t know when the fight will last.
Field battles can maximize the power of their artillery, and can annihilate a large number of the effective forces of the Han coalition forces, reducing their consumption. Everyone is more willing to fight in the field than in siege warfare.
Huang Long said: "Since everyone agrees, let's go support Duan Peng now!"
After all the generals had a unified understanding, Huang Long called his messengers and said: "Send the order, the whole army must gather urgently!"
The messenger immediately blew the whistle for an emergency assembly.
The quiet camp suddenly became noisy. Soldiers were everywhere arranging their clothes and equipment. Soldiers who had arranged their clothes and equipment quickly came to the camp assembly point.
A quarter of an hour later, the 50,000-strong army was ready to go!
"The entire army marches towards Lihu!" Huang Long ordered.
Fifty thousand soldiers were divided into battalions. Taking advantage of the darkness, he walked out of Puyang City in neat steps.
The night is like water, shining on the earth, and a fire dragon is moving quickly on the earth!
Ma Li closed his eyes, half asleep, and followed the soldiers in front, walking slowly on the cool and windy land of Yanzhou.
"Captain, why are we traveling in the middle of the night?"
Ma Yu opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Isn't this better? It's so cool now. If we march during the day, we will have to go half a life before we reach the battlefield!"
The climate in Yanzhou in July is hot, not to mention that it is still a year of severe drought. The current daytime temperature is comparable to the summer in Xu Wei's previous life, maybe 37 or 8 degrees.
And under such climate conditions, wearing iron armor and an iron helmet, fighting under the scorching sun, the sour feeling can be imagined. The number of people who died in Huanglong's army was not as many as those who suffered from heatstroke. This was Xu Wei's preparation in advance.
I bought mung bean herbal tea and other summer cooling products.
The soldier was a little worried and asked: "Captain, how long will this battle last? The autumn harvest is coming soon, and the wheat at home is still waiting for me to harvest!"
The two harvests a year are not good at all. There are not only summer harvests but also autumn harvests, and the interval between them is very short. Most of the soldiers recruited by Xu Wei are rural soldiers. With the fields, although they have a powerful burst of
of combat effectiveness.
But it also makes soldiers worry about their own fields. There are no harvesting machines these days, and harvesting is all done by hand. Jizhou now lacks millions of young and strong laborers. If the war lasts until September, it will definitely affect Jizhou's autumn harvest.
In fact, Xu Wei also knew this, but he was also helpless. These days, he could choose the time of war, which was only in the months of summer harvest and autumn harvest. Xu Wei wanted to fight after the autumn harvest, but after the autumn harvest, the north would quickly enter the war.
In winter, if the army does not fight in the summer, it must find a way to fight in the winter when it is more than ten degrees below zero.
If a war is fought in the winter in this era, there may not be as many people killed in battle as there will be freezing to death. If the war is fought like the original Battle of Youzhou, it may not end until the spring of the second year, which will affect spring plowing.
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It can be said that as long as a war is launched in this era, it will definitely affect agricultural production, and Xu Wei can only choose a time period with a small impact.
This is also the reason why it took three or four years to recover from a war in ancient times. Of course, there are no exceptions. Feudal dynasties like Bao Qin, which were organized and violent, completely violated this rule. Since Qin Shihuang
After the unification war was launched, the war to destroy the country almost continued year after year, which completely violated the rule of only fighting one war after three years of accumulation.
Ma Yu said: "Don't worry about fighting, but the people in the ruling council will help your family harvest wheat. Moreover, this battle will not last long. The Han army is just our defeated general. The battle in Jizhou lasted only four months, and
Now that we still have artillery, the strong Puyang City could only hold for half a month. Puyang is already one of the largest cities in Yanzhou, but it was still defeated by us, let alone Yuan Shao in Yanzhou. However, our generals were defeated. According to our army
At the current speed, Yanzhou can be conquered in three or four months at most! If we fight faster, maybe we can catch up with the autumn harvest!"
Although the organization of Xu Wei and Da Gan was not up to the level of the violent Qin Dynasty, it was far superior to that of the Han Dynasty! Da Gan's production group is the organization that is most closely related to the productivity of the world. He organized the farmers.
The soldier then nodded with sincerity!
Then the soldier said angrily: "I really don't understand why those Han soldiers want to help their officials to resist us. Don't they know that we are here to help them? We are all poor. Don't they know that the poor should help the poor?" , why should you help that wealthy noble family?"
Ma Yu said helplessly: "Because everyone is afraid of them, and they don't think that far ahead. Not to mention that they have fields now. Maybe they think we are here to steal their fields!"
Ma Yu was also a veteran of many battles in the Daqian Army. From this battle, he clearly found that the strength of the Han army had increased a lot, and there was no such situation as a defeat in one battle.