In later generations, Wang Junlin had experience as a soldier. Although he later became a mercenary, he was still a professional soldier.
He has become accustomed to a professional army with clear division of labor and clear responsibilities, so deep down in his heart, he has always longed for his army to become a truly professional army.
Wang Junlin is very clear about professional soldiers, the difference between the professional army and the army of this era, and he is even more aware of the combat effectiveness and efficient action capabilities of the former under orderly mobilization.
Just like this, the Ten Thousand Violent Bear Battalion was able to hold off the fierce attack of the fifty thousand elite Wagang Army. Of course, the credit was due to Li Jing, who was good at commanding troops and dispatching defenses, but it was also due to the newly established engineering and supply battalion and the powerful crossbows.
Hands, the medical soldiers have a great contribution, and the latter's contribution is even greater.
And this was the main reason why Wang Junlin took the risk and quietly came from Fengyang City, bypassed Xu Shiji's 50,000 troops in front, took the mountain path, rushed to the front line of the mountain pass, and personally inspected every detail on the battlefield.
"This is to bring out everyone's best abilities to the greatest extent, and then use them in the most scientific and reasonable way where or when they are most needed, and to carry out the most reasonable division of labor." Wang Junlin murmured to himself,
While sighing in his heart, he, Li Jing, and Shen Guoer quickly walked up the slope steps made of cement masonry to the wall of the western military village.
Due to the explosion of gunpowder packets and grenades, the smoke filled the air in front of us, but we could still see the ocean-like Wagang Army formation in the distance. There were hundreds of shield vehicles in front of the earth wall. Many shield vehicles were beaten to pieces, and the ground was everywhere.
There were piles of wood and corpses scattered everywhere. Countless Wagang Army soldiers were filling the holes in the shield workshop, and many people even ran to the front of the shield vehicle.
"Let the Dongshan garrison send two thousand-man teams to move to the foot of the mountain to contain the left wing of the Wagang army. After this wave of attacks, all giant crossbows will be replaced and new crossbows will be replaced..." Li Jing accompanied him.
Wang Junlin inspected, while still paying attention to the battlefield situation, and quickly issued orders one after another, seemingly with ease.
Wang Junlin casually ordered: "Let the people in the engineering and troop camp record the number of times each giant crossbow and trebuchet was fired before it was scrapped, and then give the data to the Yancheng equipment production base."
Li Jing quickly sent someone to arrange Wang Junlin's instructions.
At this time, there was a loud noise from the side and in front. Li Jing raised his telescope and saw four shield carts in his field of vision. More than 20 Wagang soldiers were blown to pieces. This was the result of a gunpowder package just thrown by the trebuchet.
Wang Junlin took the telescope handed over by Shen Guoer next to him and saw this scene. He smiled slightly and remembered the last time Nie Xiaoyu said that she could take out the cannon if necessary. At that time, Wang Junlin hesitated and came out.
Due to worries about some things, he rejected Nie Xiaoyu's proposal.
The ant-like dense Wagang army pushed the shield car forward, and more soldiers behind filled the small holes. They had filled the holes dozens of steps ahead, but the signal to withdraw the troops had not yet sounded.
The stone trebuchets from both sides bombarded each other, and the stones smashed down some of the defenses on the Far East Army's side with a roar, and the shield vehicles of the Wagang Army were also smashed to pieces.
But what made Wang Junlin look a little solemn was that Wagang Army soldiers were constantly flying with flesh and blood in the explosion of gunpowder packets, but they still failed to stop the other Wagang Army soldiers from approaching step by step.
The battle has reached this level, which is enough to show that Xu Shiji led the elite of the Wagang inner camp and lived up to his reputation.
Of course, on the one hand, this was due to the emergence of the brave and elite troops in the Wagang Army, and on the other hand, it was also due to the fact that Xu Shiji sent his own soldiers to supervise the battle.
Xu Shiji's soldiers, who had been supervising the battle these days, forced some soldiers forward, and mercilessly shot and killed some soldiers who turned around and fled or retreated.
The Wagang Army's shield vehicle formation was in pieces. Behind those crooked and broken shield vehicles were countless soldiers who were still busy. The Far East Army used rapid-fire crossbows to sweep through the unprotected Wagang Army soldiers at high speeds. Arrows were easily taken.
their young lives.
For the Wagang Army, this is already filling a hole with every life.
Li Jing issued an order on the earth wall, asking the soldiers of the Storm Bear Battalion to speed up their firing rate to attack the archers and soldiers of the Wagang Army behind the shield vehicles. The explosions of gunpowder packs and grenades sounded loudly every once in a while, and every time they sounded, the Wagang Army
They paid a heavy price, especially the morale of the Wagang Army was severely damaged.
Every order of Li Jing was well-targeted. The dense bows, arrows and crossbows made the soldiers of the Wagang Army no longer have time to fill the holes. They all hid behind the remaining shield vehicles. The archers of the Wagang Army flashed in the shield workshop, competing with those who were only exposed
Soldiers of the Storm Bear Battalion shoot at the head.
A group of Wagang Army soldiers on the far right survived by chance. Under the leadership of an officer, they rushed forward with all their might. They attracted the attention of an officer from the Storm Bear Battalion who was responsible for the defense of this section, and gave an order.
, a hundred soldiers from the Storm Bear Battalion fired a volley, and the dense Wagang Army soldiers howled again and again. The three nearest giant crossbows also fired there, and the giant guns more than ten feet long shot through the crowd, shooting at once.
It stopped after breaking five soldiers. None of the five soldiers' limbs were intact.
The remaining soldiers of the Wagang Army suddenly lost their courage, turned around and fled, and many of them were shot to death by the soldiers of the Storm Bear Battalion.
The life of a soldier seemed so cheap in the fierce firepower from both sides, so lowly that it was only worth an arrow, or even a piece of wood splintered by a shield chariot.
Because of Wang Junlin's arrival, Li Jing deliberately showed off his abilities, mobilized his troops with great concentration, and gave full play to his abilities. The soldiers of the Far Eastern Army on the earth wall accelerated various attacks, including archers and crossbows.
He increased the rate of fire with his hands, threw a few more gunpowder packets from the engineer supply camp, and the trebuchet never stopped.
Behind the Wagang Army, Xu Shiji's expression seemed unchanged, as if he would not change color even if Mount Tai collapsed before his eyes. However, if you look carefully, you will find that the gloomy look in his eyes is getting heavier and heavier.
At a certain moment, Xu Shiji finally couldn't bear the casualties suffered by his troops and ordered the troops to retreat.
As the troop withdrawal horn sounded, Xu Shiji's soldiers who were holding the battle of the Wagang Army retreated, and the soldiers of the Wagang Army on the front line retreated like a tide with joy.
Without Li Jing's order, a trumpet sounded on the wall, and several officers of the Storm Bear Battalion gave loud instructions. The soldiers under their command jumped out of the wall and the ditch, passed through the remaining potholes, shouted and rushed to the position of the shield car line, using
They chased the retreating Wagang troops with bows and arrows and shot them, and then used knives to kill the wounded soldiers on the ground.
Li Jing's flag was raised again, and hundreds of engineers and soldiers from the transport camp who had just rested poured out of the passage. Carrying shovels and hoes on their backs, and holding waist knives in their hands, they walked directly through the passage and rushed to the position of the shield car. They used their waist knives to harvest the heads of those people, regardless of whether they were alive.
Those who died were all chopped off with one sword.
Some sentries ran out of the passages on both wings and wandered around the battlefield in the middle, checking along the way to see if there were any wounded soldiers from the Wagang Army.
Although Wang Junlin intends to reform the method of calculating military merit in this era, so far he has not come up with a method that is more satisfactory to the soldiers below than recording beheadings. Therefore, the Far Eastern Army's current main method of recording military merit is similar to that of previous dynasties. It still relies on beheadings.
The main ones are capturing the flag, siege, etc., plus factors such as the importance of strategic and tactical goals and own casualties are taken into consideration.
"Your Majesty is so wise and powerful that he decided to set up such a battlefield for the Wagang army to attack and we to defend, and mainly focus on long-range attacks. The Wagang army cannot defeat us in this position and in such a battle." Li Jing
He flattered Wang Junlin, but his heart and look showed admiration and sincerity.
Wang Junlin felt very comfortable being able to be flattered by the military god in Chinese history. He nodded slightly and said with a smile: "This is actually no longer the main battlefield. Next, Li Shanfei and Zhang Tiangang in Fengyang City have to face the ten soldiers led by Li Mi.
With 50,000 troops, that’s the main battlefield.”
What Wang Junlin said was not difficult to judge, so Li Jing was not surprised at all. Shen Guoer had already told Li Jing the latest military information just now, and the latter only looked refreshed after hearing this, not surprised.
Wang Junlin paused for a moment and continued: "Li Mi cannot capture Fengyang City, and over time, too many losses will occur. By then there will be a big change within the Wagang Army, and Xu Shiji will definitely be forced to withdraw, but Yue
The later we withdraw our troops, the more confident we will be in catching them all. And you here must also be prepared to chase and kill them at any time!"
Li Jing was shocked, and while carefully thinking about what Wang Junlin said about a big change within the Wagang Army, he respectfully said yes.
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night.
There was a loud bang, and a ball of red exploded from the bottom of the mountain. A landmine was stepped on, and two figures were thrown into the air in the shining fireworks. Then someone threw a torch from the dam ditch, and the figure of the Wagang Army was reflected.
The Far Eastern Army soldiers hiding in the ditch suddenly stood up and shot them with powerful crossbows and bows.
Zhou Daya was one of the 1,500 death warriors personally selected by Xu Shiji. But he was lying on the ground and did not dare to move. A cry from the Far Eastern Army soldiers came from the mountain, and several torches were raised and turned in the air.
Following the somersault down the mountainside, more than a thousand Wagang Army death squad soldiers were quietly hiding in the darkness, and no one dared to make the slightest sound.
This is Xishan. In fact, Xu Shiji has been paying attention to this place, but he let it go after deliberately testing it, hoping to make the Far Eastern Army on this mountain relax their vigilance.
Nearly a hundred trebuchets on the West Mountain shoot down the mountain every day, each firing nearly a hundred stones every day. The most important thing is that there are two special trebuchets specially used to throw gunpowder packets, plus
The trebuchet on the top of the mountain could throw stones nearly half a mile away, causing huge casualties to the Wagang Army.
This directly led to the Wagang Army having to extend its camp to the east. If the West Mountain could be captured, Xu Shiji could observe the Far East Army's defense and maneuvers from the top of the mountain, and then attack the military camp from the side from a high position.
It is almost impossible to seize this hilltop during the day. In addition, Xu Shiji vaguely felt that the situation faced by Li Mi with an army of 150,000 in Fengyang City was no better than here. With both sides being dragged down, and the soldiers were constantly depleted, it was very difficult.