Li Jing stood at the head of Junzhai City in the east and watched with a telescope.
The military flags of the Bao Xiong camp on both sides of the mountain pass were flying, indicating that they were still firmly under our control. There were shouts of killing and screams from the front of the two military camps, which could be clearly heard.
, the Wagang Army led by Xu Shiji is launching a new round of attack.
At the rear of the military stronghold, more than a hundred carts were entering the stronghold. They were large quantities of food and grass that had just been transported by the baggage battalion. They included a large number of gunpowder packets, mines, grenades, and other materials sent from Fanyang County through various channels.
City-defending giant crossbows, etc.
In the Far Eastern Army's huge plan to plot Wagang, the Xiaohedao base area is a very important link, so the Far Eastern Army is very aware of the consequences of losing these two military strongholds. What's more, Wang Junlin is also here, so they are doing their best in all aspects.
Mobilize equipment and materials and continuously transport them to the frontline military base.
The Far Eastern Army has done a good job in matters other than the battlefield. Now all that is left is the war itself. For Li Jing, he likes this kind of war very much.
Because when he led troops to fight in Mayi County in the Sui Dynasty and led troops to fight for Li Yuan, most of his energy was focused on eating and dressing his soldiers. He had to ask for food, grass and baggage from the civilian officials in the rear, and he had to always be on guard against unknown people behind him.
When will the secret arrow be released? Now he doesn't have to worry about these things, he just needs to concentrate on fighting the good fight.
"Commander, the black cavalry soldiers led by the prince." A soldier suddenly pointed to the rear of the military stronghold, where hundreds of black cavalry were rushing towards the military stronghold from a distance.
Li Jing first focused his gaze, picked up the telescope and looked at it, then gave a wry smile and said: "Everyone in the Wagang Army thought that our prince was in Fengyang City, but unexpectedly, the prince had already arrived here without anyone noticing."
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After less than half a day of burning incense, before Wang Junlin arrived at the east military camp, Li Jing, who had been waiting for him, came up and saluted, saying: "Your Majesty has arrived. I am humbled by my duty and am not far away from you. Please forgive me."
Before Li Jing could bow down, Wang Junlin helped him up and said: "Mr. Li firmly guarded the mountain pass with 10,000 troops. He played a vital role in our Far East Army's plan of Wagang and made great contributions.
, I am very grateful."
Finally getting the affirmation from Wang Junlin's words, Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little excited even with his strength and intelligence, but he also knew that Wang Junlin wouldn't care about these face-saving efforts, so he stood up, greeted Shen Guo'er on his right, and said:
"Your Majesty, you're welcome. This is the duty of a humble official."
Wang Junlin nodded and asked directly: "What is the situation now?"
Li Jing looked solemn and said: "Since the Wagang Army started attacking five days ago, the Wagang Army has attacked with all its strength eleven times. One of the two lines of defense deployed by humble positions has been broken by the Wagang Army. Xu Shiji is indeed not to be underestimated.
watch for."
Wang Junlin walked towards the military camp and said, "What are the losses to the enemy and us?"
Li Jing was one step behind and followed Wang Junlin to his right, saying as he walked: "Our Baoxiong Battalion lost 374 cavalrymen and 41 engineers. The Wagang Army lost about 7,000 people. Well! In fact, the number of soldiers in the Baoxiong Battalion was about 7,000.
The first line of defense can still be held for two days, but in order to prevent our troops from suffering excessive losses, we withdrew into the second line of defense in advance."
"What you did is right. The most precious thing for our Far Eastern Army now is the lives of the soldiers. As long as the overall situation can be ensured, don't worry about these few days." "Well! Fengyang was occupied from Zhang Tiangang and Li Shanfei's side.
After forcing Li Mi to lead an army of 150,000 to besiege Fengyang City in advance, we set the time to hold the two military strongholds for ten days, but in fact the purpose was to weaken the enemy's spirit, and the cavalry of the Storm Bear Battalion had to conserve their strength.
, when Xu Shiji withdraws his troops, let’s tear off another piece of his flesh. Humph! The places our Far East Army has already occupied cannot be attacked just because they come here.”
After Wang Junlin finished speaking, Shen Guoer turned around and followed: "Guoer! What information has Li Yuan and the imperial court received recently?"
"Your Majesty, according to the latest intelligence, Li Yuan sent his second son Li Shimin to lead 50,000 elite troops to provoke us at the border with Hedong, with the intention of attracting our army to pass, in order to achieve the purpose of involving our military strength. The emperor's grandson who was left behind in Luoyang by the imperial court also Wang Shichong was ordered to lead an army of 50,000 to push towards our border with the same purpose, but his subordinates guessed that they were just showing off and did not dare to take real action." Shen Guoer reported back.
Wang Junlin thought for a moment and said: "Wang Shichong doesn't need to worry, but Li Shimin has to be on guard. He ordered Yuchi Jingde to lead the Tiger Camp troops to go over and fight with Li Shimin."
Shen Guoer quickly wrote down the order.
Wang Junlin asked again: "What is the situation inside our Far East Army?"
"Yesterday we dug up a secret stronghold of the Li Yuan Group in Fanyang County, and one of the main figures in charge of intelligence was captured alive by us. However, this guy is a tough guy, and with the methods of our Military Intelligence Agency, we were unable to get him to speak."
Wang Junlin paused for a moment. He was a little surprised and curious. He had seen the torture methods of the Military Intelligence Bureau. It was hard for him to imagine how many people in this world could survive the torture of the Military Intelligence Bureau. After a moment of reflection, he said : "Send this person to Snake Island and let Xiao Yu deal with it."
Shen Guoer respectfully said yes.
Wang Junlin continued to walk in silence, surrounded by groups of baggage soldiers and engineers passing by. They were in high spirits and were carrying grain, grass and equipment to the military stronghold.
Wang Junlin has always wanted to turn the soldiers of the Far East Army into professional soldiers for future generations. Although there is still a long way to go before this goal, as early as the beginning of the formation of the Far East Army, especially after he completely controlled Fanyang County, he He and Nie Xiaoyu studied and formulated various regulations - generally speaking, there are three major regulations: discipline regulations, combat regulations and training regulations, but there is no queue regulations for later generations.
Under these three major regulations, there are also some smaller regulations, such as marching regulations, battlefield discipline regulations, battlefield etiquette regulations, etc. Among them, the battlefield etiquette regulations clearly stipulate that in the military, subordinates do not need to kneel down when facing their superiors. During the exercise, subordinates do not need to bow when they see their superiors. These two items include meeting Wang Junlin himself. This is also the reason why Li Jing and others did not kneel down when they saw Wang Junlin before.
In fact, Wang Junlin also wanted to promote the raising of hands military salute in future generations in the military, but there have been too many things going on, and this matter is not necessary given the current situation.
Especially in the past year or so, the territory and population of the Far Eastern Army have increased several times. How to implement the system of Fanyang County in the newly occupied counties, the construction of water conservancy canals, the promotion of grain crops, and how local nobles and nobles will work in the newly occupied counties. Making them submit without killing people, the preparation of schools in various places, the expansion of Fanyang College, etc. There are too many things that are extremely important in Wang Junlin's view, so the promotion of raising hands in the military has not been taken into consideration. Under the leadership of Li Jing, Wang Junlin followed the trench of the eastern military village to the west. The protruding horse faces made him feel more pleasing to the eye. This kind of horse faces can increase the shooting surface of crossbows and archers on the side, making the city below The blind spots are greatly reduced. This improvement relies on the walls of the four military villages, which is generally a convex defense.
Wang Junlin remembered that the bastions built by Little Japan during the later Anti-Japanese War had a concave shape with almost no dead ends, which cost our great people's army a great price. Now it seems that although the convex defense built by Li Jing is smaller than the bastion
The concave shape is a bit worse, but it's actually the same principle.
In fact, what Wang Junlin didn't know was that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the method of building fortresses was spread to China. During the Chongzhen period, Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, a famous scientist and politician in the Ming Dynasty, once suggested that
The construction of triangular three-story hollow enemy towers in Jingshi and Jizhen introduced the concept of acute-angled defense lines for the first time. Later, Yuan Chonghuan built such bastions when resisting the Liao Dynasty in the Northeast.
Wang Junlin walked through the military stronghold in the east, ignoring the fierce and brutal offensive and defensive battles outside the first line of defense, and went directly to the first earth wall defense line. There were fifty steps of flat ground between the earth wall and the city wall, and two
Behind the moat, a thousand-man team from the Storm Bear Battalion sat behind the earthen wall. They were always on standby, exchanging with the thousand-man team guarding this line of defense at any time to ensure that everyone had a certain amount of time to rest.
There are sharp-angled protrusions at every other section of the earthen wall, and there is a trench two feet wide in front. In this era, any attack will eventually face this trench, and the second earthen wall is different from the first.
There is no low breast wall behind the trench, but directly faces an earth wall one to two feet high.
Wang Junlin walked across the thick wooden planks erected on the trench and looked into the trenches on both sides. They were filled with sharp wooden stakes. According to Li Jing, according to the original plan, they would also temporarily sprinkle pieces of caltrops.
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After walking through this trench, there was the first earthen wall in front of them. The smell of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and thunderous explosions were like occasional explosions around them. Wang Junlin knew that these were the explosions of gunpowder packets fired by a special trebuchet.
the sound of.
According to what Li Jing said, they were able to secure the two military strongholds and the mountain pass with 10,000 people, and inflict heavy casualties on every fierce attack by the Wagang Army. The gunpowder packs played a great role.
Those who use trebuchets to launch gunpowder packets are people from the recently established Transport and Heavy Industry Battalion. How to launch, how to give commands, how to ignite, and the control of the time difference and distance are all professionally trained by the Shedao Training Camp.
of.
There are dozens of steps of flat ground between the two earth walls. The reserves of the Storm Bear Battalion and the people from the heavy engineering battalion sent to strengthen can be quickly mobilized behind the earth wall. The inside of the earth wall has a gentle angle, and the soldiers can easily move.
of fighting on top of walls from anywhere.
At this time, most of the people on the top of the wall were crossbowmen and archers, fighting with spears, and broadsword soldiers sitting in the open space at the base of the earthen wall, waiting for orders. As early as three years ago, Wang Junlin asked each battalion to add medical personnel to the medical team.
The same goes for soldiers.
Everything was in order. The Turkic Wolf Cavalry, which originally only knew how to charge cavalry, became a soldier of the Storm Bear Battalion. Now, after just over a year of training and war baptism, it already has the style of a professional army. Wang Junlin felt a sense of excitement at this time.
kind of excitement.
This excitement is because he comes from later generations and comes from the expectations of future generations of professional armies.