"Stop the hell, even if you peed your crotch, I'll flatten the mace - such a long bamboo pole, the lance is half shorter than it, it can't poke you at all, you're afraid
A ball, is it possible that you still want to shrink it back into your mother’s ball?”
Diao Xiazi was holding a long-edged spear. When he saw the new recruits being attacked by the Chuzhou Army cavalry, he was so frightened that his face turned pale, his hands and feet were trembling, and he yelled hoarsely at the top of his lungs.
scold.
His left eye was blown out while guarding Xichuan, leaving him blind in one eye. Over the years, everyone called him Blind Diao. Even though he was promoted to team leader, no one thought about his real name, and he himself ignored it.
He originally had a wife and daughter, but his wife and daughter lived in the countryside and contracted the Shuigu epidemic. After being incorporated into the Taowu Army Mansion, they died of illness one after another within a few days.
Blind Diao said that if his wife and daughter could eat hot soup and rice for a while before they died, it would be worth his remaining life to fight for the Longque Army. He achieved military merit, was promoted to a junior high school, and had no intention of marrying another wife and starting a family.
He had military pay or reward money in his hand, and he either distributed it to his poor soldiers, drank wine, or went to a prostitute's village. However, he had a black hole missing from his left eye socket, and there were several scars on his face. He was so ugly that every time he looked for it,
Almost all the girls had to close their eyes and look sad to complete the good deeds with him.
This time, he was originally in the Tanzhou Army and became a deserter with two fellow Tongyang people who had a family in Jinling. Ten days ago, he rushed to Maoshan to join the Chishan Army and was incorporated into the Third Capital as a deputy leader to assist the Han family.
Luo Yunhao, who was born as a soldier, commanded a sentry team of eighty people.
In addition to two military attaches from Xuzhou and Diao Xiazi, a low-level military attaché with practical experience in leading troops, their sentry team only had twenty veterans, and the other sixty were slaves who had recently joined Maoshan.
Blind Diao used to use an iron gun that weighed thirty kilograms. If he hadn't had a bad temper and a bad habit of drinking, he might have been promoted to deputy battalion commander, and his honorary officer would have to be a seventh-rank officer, but he himself didn't have much
pity.
He just regretted that he fled to Maoshan and could not bring back his iron spear. The broken-edged spear commonly used in the army was already quite sophisticated, but it only weighed 13 or 4 pounds. He was really not good at using it, and there was no way to kill him.
The power of the ancestral Tongyang Diao family gun came into play.
However, as an old soldier who had served in the army of King Dong Chang of Yue for ten years before he became a hungry citizen, he could see that while others still looked down upon the spike as just a long and broken bamboo pole, he could see that he had to make do with shabby things and wear a headband.
The long bamboo pole with broken branches is perfect for new recruits.
Those who fight with cold weapons and dare to use the sword to kill the enemy head-on can be said to be elite soldiers.
The vast majority of soldiers cannot do this even after long-term training. Most of them are organized into military formations, holding spears, and the spears advance and retreat with the military formations.
These slaves who have not been trained and have just completed their formation are naturally even more unbearable. When the enemy attacks them with swords or spears, most of them can't hold the weapons in their hands steadily, and they can't even talk about taking advantage of the formation.
Fighting?
The wolf tooth bamboo is made by cutting down the long purple-spotted bamboo that grows in Maoshan. This kind of bamboo is quite tough and can be cut down to a length of one foot and five feet, which is about five meters.
Such a length, with a flat end in the hand, is normally enough to block any enemy's weapons, making it difficult for them to attack suddenly.
In addition, the long and short bamboo branches retained on the head of the Langya Zhen spread out like an umbrella, making it difficult for enemies with short-handed spears to get closer through the gaps.
These will greatly enhance the recruits' sense of security in battle, so that they will not have the urge to turn around and run away when they see the enemy cavalry charging towards them with great momentum.
At that time, the military establishment of the army was based on the sentry team. Each sentry team was divided into four to six squads, or squads of pikemen, squads of spearmen, squads of swordsmen and shields, or squads of archers and crossbowmen.
Each formation or charge has its own rules.
This method of formation is obviously not suitable for the second and third capitals of the Chishan Army, where most of the new soldiers have to go directly into actual combat against the enemy without training.
Diao Xiazi's sentry unit has 80 people, which is nearly twice the size of an ordinary sentry unit. It is divided into eight teams, each with ten people. Among them, four recruits hold wolf fangs and are responsible for blocking the enemy.
On the periphery, three new soldiers hold wooden shields or rattan shields, responsible for resisting the enemy's arrows from a distance. Only three veterans serve as commanders and corps commanders, holding swords, shields, spears and spears for close combat, or holding crossbows for long distances.
shoot.
As a veteran soldier, Diao Xiazi felt that a long bamboo pole was the most suitable for new recruits to use. However, the nearly sixty soldiers under his command had only been in the army for about ten days, and they had only been trained for seven or eight days or even less.
He was wondering whether his new recruits could withstand the impact of the Chuzhou Army's elite cavalry.
Even after every three teams of new soldiers formed, there was still a team of elite veterans guarding the bottom of the Z-shaped formation.
At this moment, Diao Blind Man loudly scolded the new recruits Dan|zi who were obviously frightened by the Chuzhou Army cavalry attack. His face was full of scars, which made him even more ferocious.
Seeing that it was useless to hang in the distance and shoot arrows, the two hundred Chuzhou Army cavalry tried to gather and charge over.
The two hundred war horses increased their speed to the extreme. The horses' hooves trampled and the earth trembled. The sound was so dense that it was as terrifying as a violent storm in the ears of the recruits.
The three sentinels lay in front of the Chuzhou Army's cavalry, with a total of less than thirty longbows or crossbows. The arrows were shot out sparsely, making it difficult to achieve a large scale.
The enemy cavalry were extremely elite. In addition to wearing leather armor that was difficult for arrows to penetrate, the cavalrymen who were leaning on their horses and driving forward were constantly brandishing their swords and guns to knock down the arrows. Only one of them would be unlucky when they got close.
The arrows penetrated the leather armor, and the arrow clusters were deeply pierced into the shoulder sockets, but they could still hang on the horse without falling off. They turned around and galloped back to the main formation, which was far away!
However, the elite cavalry of the Chuzhou Army did not come to compete with the Chishan Army.
Jianghuai, Jingxiang and other places do not produce war horses, and there are few elite soldiers who are good at riding. The Chu army is mainly based on infantry and water camps, and the number of elite cavalry is extremely limited.
The Chuzhou Army rushed to Huainan and had a large number of cavalry, but it had more than 50,000 elite soldiers crossing the river, and the cavalry strength was only about 10,000.
When Danyang City was attacked before, they lost nearly a thousand cavalry and 1,400 to 500 horses, which already made the Chuzhou army heartbroken.
Facing the five-meter-long wolf-toothed sword with an umbrella-shaped bamboo branch on its head, if the cavalry wanted to rush over and directly kill the generals of the Chishan Army, the chest and abdomen of the war horse would be stabbed by the sharp point of the wolf-toothed sword immediately.
It is very likely that the cavalryman himself will be swept off his horse by a bamboo branch.
Unless there is a decisive battle, will they go crazy and directly trample the Chishan Army's new infantry formation at the cost of heavy casualties?
The leading cavalry general turned pale with fear even when he saw the generals of the Chishan Army, but seeing that there was no good chance to tear the Chishan Army apart, he could only turn his horse's head and lead the team back.
At this time, their backs will still have to be shot by a wave of arrows, but as long as they are fast enough and a few arrows hit their backs, as long as they are not shot too far, they can only be regarded as ordinary arrow wounds.
The cavalry was waiting to form a single line, almost passing by at high speed from the side. Suddenly, a figure threw down the wolf fang in his hand and rushed out, swooping up like a vicious tiger and hugging the tail of the cavalry.
A cavalryman's waist brought him down to the ground from the other side, and he fell hard into the mud that was filled with flying dust.
"What a bastard!" Blind Diao saw that he was a slave from Shangjiabao. He looked brave, but was actually extremely reckless. He rushed out and knocked down an enemy rider. He yelled and cursed, but he also ran forward like a tiger.
go out.
The generals at the rear of the enemy cavalry were all elite soldiers. When they saw someone being thrown off their horses, two horses turned around and two lances pierced the back of the reckless general like lightning.
Blind Man Diao reacted faster, and before he could stop cursing, he saw that he was still a few steps away when he took off the long-edged spear in his hand and swiped it across.
The two cavalrymen were also very skilled in waist kung fu. They leaned back to get out of the way of their sharp-edged spears, rotated their spears in their hands, and then swung out their spears and stabbed them at them.
Blind Diao pulled out the saber from his waist, drew an arc of light in front of him, and swung away a spear that was thrust towards his face. The reckless recruit was also extremely agile, and he leaned down, allowing a lance to hit him.
He thrust forward with his back, then grasped the barrel of the gun with his backhand, trying to snatch the spear back.
The cavalryman put the spear under his arm, clenched it with his left hand, and pulled out the saber from his waist with his right hand. The reckless recruit swung at his head, and Blind Diao stepped over and slashed across, swinging the cavalryman's saber away from the side.
The reckless recruit pressed hard, and the cavalryman did not want to be dragged off his horse, so he had no choice but to let go. Several more cavalrymen gathered around him, raising their guns and stabbing Blind Diao in the chest.
Fortunately, three or four old soldiers rushed out of the formation and blocked the two snake-like spears for Blind Diao, preventing Blind Diao's chest and abdomen from being pierced by the two spears.
Seeing the Chishan Army and two groups of cavalry stepping out from behind the military formation, the Chuzhou Army's cavalry did not dare to fight. They picked up the colleague who fell down first and retreated.
Panting heavily, Blind Diao saw that the downed cavalryman had a rusty knife stuck in his neck, and blood was pouring out.
However, Blind Man Diao didn't have a good temper. He grabbed the reckless recruit by his tattered collar and slapped his ears twice. A stream of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and he cursed: "Disregarding military discipline, killing without reward, this is
These are the rules set by the adults, there are just a few of them, your head is full of dog piss and you can’t even remember them? You’re so fucking tired of living, I’m going to keep these bitches alive for many more days!”
The recruit also had a stubborn temper. His cheeks suddenly became red and swollen from being scratched by his two big ears, but he did not say anything.
"Get the fuck out of the back!" Blind Diao was so angry that he was trembling all over. He was afraid that this new recruit named Shang Hu would get into something again, so he kicked and beat him and told him to get to the back. He would rather the team in front of him was short of one person.
It is better than leaving hidden dangers, causing the Chuzhou Army to tear open the hole, and causing the entire array to be overwhelmed.
Shang Hu was driven out of the formation by Blind Diao. He was a little confused and didn't know where he could go. He even threw the mace into the formation.
After a while, a horseman came from behind, threw a pair of scale armor and a straight-ridged sword on the ground in front of Shang Hu, and said: "Put on the armor and take the sword. Your Excellency and Gaodu will grant you permission to serve in the army."
Free hunting between formations! But you'd better open your eyes and take a good look at how others kill the enemy with your colleagues in the military formations, and don't involve others in losing their lives for you..."
Shang Hu is too reckless and brave, and no one will like him.
Shang Hu picked up his scale armor and sword, and turned around to see Han Qian and Gao Shaole standing behind the formation on the mountain crest in the distance, watching the enemy and our attempts here.
"That guy is too reckless, but I like him. It's rare to see a good young man with such strength and agility in the army," Gao Shao said to Han Qian with a smile, "He should learn to be more obedient and less stubborn in this battle.
I then took him to my side as a guard."
Han Qian still has an impression of Shang Hu, a fugitive slave who escaped from the Shang family.
The total number of slaves and young men who have surrendered is nearly 8,000. Most of them will inevitably turn pale and have trembling hands and feet after going to the battlefield. There are also a few who are extremely courageous and naturally brave, such as Shang Hu.
The kind of person who gets too excited when he first enters the battle formation, and rushes forward to kill the enemy as soon as his mind goes blank and he can't control himself.
Gao Shao sent someone to send him scale armor and a straight-spine sword, and allowed him to roam freely among the military formations, which was equivalent to acting as an elite scout. The responsibility of scouting the horse in this formation was actually to make him adapt to a more intense and cruel battlefield.
, and finally able to retract and release it freely, he will become a good seedling of a brave general.
However, Han Qian's current attention is still on the entire battlefield.
It takes at least three or four months of training for the rabble to be ready into an army. But currently, even if they continue to conquer nearby fortresses and continue to raise grain, there are more and more old, weak, women and children in Maoshan.
, in addition to the more than 10,000 Chishan troops, there are also more than 80,000 old, weak, women and children, and the daily food consumption has doubled compared to before.
In other words, they always only have less than a month's food reserves, and as new slaves continue to come in, their daily food consumption is constantly rising.
Han Qian didn't have three or four months to train these new recruits.
What Han Qian wants to do now, or perhaps look forward to these new recruits, is to hope that they can stick to the place where they are standing at this time.
The so-called spike with a long bamboo pole is a very well-known simple Cold War weapon in later generations. It was originally produced by the miners' uprising in western Zhejiang, and was later used in the Yuanyang Formation by a generation of outstanding generals in later generations.
Of course, the Langya Zhan is not omnipotent, but there is one advantage that Han Qian is most interested in at this time, and that is that the Langya Zhan is long enough, five meters long, which can give new soldiers who have to face ferocious and powerful enemies when they enter the battlefield
With a strong sense of security.
Moreover, he disrupted the original sentry formation and imitated the Yuanyang Formation, mixing archers, sword and shield soldiers, wolf fang soldiers, and shield soldiers. However, he did not see that the Yuanyang Formation had a miraculous effect in restraining elite weapons.
The new recruits have not undergone long-term training, and can only be allowed to perform some of the simplest actions in a mixed team. One is to use a wolf fang to block the enemy soldiers at the periphery, and the other is to use a large shield to block the bow and arrow, and the real close combat
Fighting and shooting from a distance are left to the old pawn.
Of course, he was mainly betting that Zhao Zhen would not lose too many elite cavalry on the southeast flank of Maoshan.
In the land of Jianghuai where there is a shortage of cavalry, it is unacceptable for any elite cavalry to suffer heavy casualties.
Before the Chuzhou Army transferred a large number of elite infantry soldiers to the front line of Baihu Ridge, Han Qian dared to transfer the troops of the Second Capital and the Third Capital, which were mostly new soldiers, to the northeastern foot of Donglu Mountain in turn to suppress Chu.
A flank attack by the state army's cavalry.
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In order to harass the Chishan Army on the southeast flank of Maoshan, the elite cavalry of the Chuzhou Army frequently dispatched, but with little success.
On the entire flank, Han Qian's requirement for all the new sentries sent to the front line from the Second and Third Capitals was to be nailed in place like nails, motionless.
Zhao Zhen did not dare to send all his cavalry forward for a decisive battle. He only dared to send two to three hundred cavalry in formation to attack the flanks each time.
Although the elite cavalry of the Chuzhou Army trained hard on horseback and archery, they were often able to catch the panic of the Chishan Army's new recruits. Many of their soldiers were wounded and shot to death, and they even dispersed one or two sentries of the Chishan Army's new recruits.
When it is necessary to expand the chaos and tear apart more military formations formed by sentries as units of the Chishan Army, the Chishan Army's elite combat forces deployed later will quickly penetrate through the gaps in the front formation without fear.
, with more sophisticated armor and weapons, the Chuzhou Army's cavalry was forced to retreat, making it difficult to expand the results.
In three or four days, the Chuzhou Army suffered more than 50 cavalry casualties, and nearly 400 new Chishan Army soldiers were wounded and killed. Just comparing the number of casualties on both sides, it seems that the record is more impressive, but in a battle of this scale
The harassment campaign had no practical significance, and it could not even shake the morale of the Chishan Army.
Because in these three or four days, at least three to four thousand slaves and their families entered Maoshan from the west to replenish the Chishan Army with thousands of young and strong new soldiers.
At present, the Chishan Army has almost 13,000 to 4,000 people. At the valley entrances of the northern and middle hills, and at the mountain col, there are also bamboo spear formations of this kind. Due to the terrain, it is more difficult for their cavalry to rush in and harass them.
Zhao Zhen also noticed that the new soldiers of the Chishan Army adapted to the shock caused by the cavalry charge in a very short period of time, and the flank formation became more and more stable.
In comparison, their generals became impatient and made two rash advances, resulting in more than ten casualties.
During this period, the Chishan Army used four thousand soldiers and horses to surround Shangjia Fort at the northern foot of Donglu Mountain. They were not in a hurry to launch a siege. They were obviously waiting to see whether their east wing could suppress the disturbance of the Chuzhou Army's cavalry.
Attack.
And because the Chuzhou Army had never been able to effectively break through the Chishan Army's defense formation on the flanks, the defenders in Shangjiabao did not dare to come out of the stronghold to fight back.
In fact, this has a very subtle impact on the mentality of the generals of the three parties.
"How dare Han Qian use our cavalry to train his new recruits! Could it be that they have no intention of attacking Shangjiabao at all?" Yin Peng stood beside Wang Wenqian and asked with a wry smile.
Wang Wenqian frowned, shook his head, and said: "Han Qian still wants to attack Shangjiabao, but before that, he wants to test our determination to attack his flank..."
Accompanied by Yin Peng, he once personally rushed to the front line to see the contact between the two sides at close range. He did not expect that a small long bamboo pole would cause them such a big trouble.
Wang Wenqian was not willing to send his elite cavalry to fight for their losses. After all, the Chishan Army was not their primary target.
Of course, it is not difficult to suppress the weird weapons made of long bamboo poles. For example, if you concentrate two to three rows of heavy shields, or concentrate two or three rows of heavy armored infantry to attack, you can suppress this kind of long bamboo poles, but
The problem is that Han Qian placed more than a thousand elite and veteran soldiers at a later position to hold down the formation. How many elite heavy-armored infantry did they need to mobilize from the southeastern foothills of Baohua Mountain or even Dantu City?
And when Han Qian gave up the storming of Shangjiapu and transferred all his troops to the east of Maoshan Mountain to fight them decisively, how many troops would they need to ensure a sure victory?
Once they draw too many troops from the northern front and Han Qian gives up fighting with them in the Pingkuo area and retreats to Maoshan, how will they respond? Will they lose sight of one and end up being taken advantage of by the Peace Palace?
Wang Wenqian suddenly discovered that apart from ineffectively harassing the Chishan Army's flanks at a set pace, there was actually no more effective way to restrain the Chishan Army from attacking Shangjia Fort; they seemed to have no choice but to rely on the danger.
The Shangjia Fort that was defended could hold on for a longer time and inflicted heavy losses on the Chishan Army.
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"The next step is to gnaw at Shangjiabao. Gaodu will ask me to go over and ask you, do you want to be the first to kill and save your mother's brothers and sisters?"
Shang Hu was asking two old scouts for advice on how to control the horse without letting go, so that when the two horses crossed each other, he could free his hands to do more things. The messenger cavalry came over, reined in the horse and stopped in front of Shang Hu, and asked him:
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"Who should I report to?" Shang Hu quickly packed up his sword and spear, thinking about tying him to the horse and leading the horse to the new camp to report.
"Fuck you," an old scout knocked Shang Hu's hand away with the handle of his knife, and took back the war horse. "You have to secretly thank God for taking away this broken-edged spear, and you still dare to think about it in your heart.
You are greedy for our horses, you are not as honest as you seem! You capture Shangjiabao, take two more heads, and then ask the high general to transfer him to our Jinyun Tower to scout horses. Then you can choose two
Get a good war horse and ride it in turns."
"Now it's time to recruit people from the guard camp. Does Guo Nuer have the guts to take advantage of our Master Kong?" The visitor was not polite to the two old men and directly brought up Kong Xirong's name to prevent them from defrauding Shang Hu in the future.
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"The guard battalion is going to attack Shangjia Fort in person?" the old scout asked.
"Otherwise?" the visitor asked scornfully, "are you tickling the enemy like you are doing?"
"The bird's feathers are not all green..." The old scout smiled disdainfully and drove Shang Hu and the visitor away.
