For a long time after Wei Yan spoke, no one spoke, which made Wei Yan's eyebrows frown even tighter!
"A few days ago, everyone said that the rebel army was nothing more than this. If they dared to come, they would kill them all. Now that the rebel army is here, why don't any of them speak?" Wei Yan's expression became more and more serious.
Seriously: "Have you forgotten what you told me at the beginning?"
The more this is said, the more serious Wei Yan's expression becomes, which means the angrier he becomes!
Those who came from Wuzhou were full of confidence. Even when they came to Xiangzhou, they did not lose confidence.
But since a forward division of 500 men sent two days ago to monitor the movements of the puppet Tang rebel army was defeated by the puppet Tang rebel army, these generals who were full of confidence before have all become timid.
stand up.
They just killed and injured more than 300 people. This is nothing to their 8,000-strong army!
However, these damn generals all have sad faces!
At this moment, the Ming army generals below were also helpless!
Are they cowardly? No!
Are they stupid? Not at all!
If more than 300 ordinary people were annihilated by the puppet Tang rebel army, they would not think much about it. But the key point is that the 500 partial troops sent out before were not ordinary guard soldiers, but shackles.
Soldiers!
More than half of their 8,000-strong army are soldiers recruited from various chieftains, and the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is not comparable to that of ordinary guardsmen. With four thousand soldiers, they are confident
It is quite sufficient, and I think it is enough to compete with the army of the puppet Tang Dynasty going south.
However, the 500 soldiers sent out the day before yesterday faced the vanguard of the Puppet Tang thief army, which also had only 500 people. Moreover, they were fighting defensively. As a result, they were only supported by the 500 Puppet Tang thief army for less than half a quarter of an hour before they were all defeated!
What's even more terrifying is that because the martyrdom soldiers highly value offense and disdain retreat, their tactics only give out the option of retreat. Therefore, these martyrdom soldiers suffered heavy casualties, with 500 people dead and injured, and more than 300 people injured.
In the end, less than 200 people escaped.
This battle took place just the day before yesterday, outside the Ming Army’s camp!
It happened under the noses of many Ming army generals!
However, it was such a tentative confrontation that allowed these Ming army generals to see the terror of the puppet Tang rebel army!
Its field combat ability is indeed extremely powerful!
They thought that the already extremely elite soldiers were no match for them in a head-to-head confrontation in the field. The battle at that time was a complete one-sided massacre!
They didn't know that the people they fought against these five hundred soldiers before were the most famous elites in the entire Datang Army. The 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Datang Army belonged to the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Brigade!
Its equipment level is similar to that of the First Infantry Battalion, and the quality of its officers and soldiers is only slightly worse than that of the First Infantry Battalion!
If the opponent were an ordinary Ming army, Hao Bainian would dare to use such an infantry battalion to fight against an enemy several times larger!
But the Second Infantry Battalion was the elite of the Tang Army. There were only two or three such infantry battalions in the entire Datang Army. However, the Ming army generals on the opposite side didn't know that.
In their opinion, this is just an ordinary pseudo-Tang bandit army!
And when they thought that there were nearly ten thousand people in the pseudo-Tang bandit army, they felt their scalps go numb!
Under such circumstances, how can you ask them to come up with an effective strategy to retreat from the enemy!
After being silent for a long time, someone finally spoke: "Based on the past battles between our official army and the rebel army, the puppet Tang rebel army has good field combat ability. If we go out to fight, I am afraid that we will play into the enemy's hands. However,
Although the bandit army has strong field capabilities, its ability to attack fortresses is insufficient. They besieged Liuzhou City for more than half a month and still failed to capture it, which shows that their ability to attack fortresses is average!"
Speaking of this, the middle-aged general said: "I believe that in this battle, the priority is to stick to the camp. If the bandit army cannot attack for a long time, it will inevitably run out of food and grass. At that time, it will inevitably retreat without fighting. At that time, our army will take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill.
, we will definitely be able to severely damage the bandit army!”
After this person said it, many other Ming army generals nodded in unison!
At this time, we must not leave the camp and take the initiative to fight. The three thousand soldiers in Rong County and the probing attack of 500 soldiers two days ago are a lesson from the past.
After so many times, if there are still people who want to go out to fight and fight in a one-on-one decisive battle, they must be crazy. You know clearly that the puppet Tang rebel army has strong field combat ability, but you still go out to fight.
This is nothing but stupidity.
When fighting a war, you must make use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses!
They still don't know what their own strengths are, but they have seen the strengths of the Puppet Tang rebel army, which is the ability to fight in the frontal field.
Whether it is strong in other aspects will only be known after playing it!
I heard that a group of generals believed that they should not take the initiative to go out to fight, but should stick to the camp, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the rear, and waiting for the puppet Tang rebel army to retreat on its own without enough food and grass, and then pursue them.
Wei Yan actually despised these warriors. He had no fighting spirit at all and was frightened by the puppet Tang rebels!
Although he despises him, he still respects the opinions of these generals. He knows his own abilities very well. If he studied in the imperial examination? Then he is definitely a genius!
Officialdom struggle is also his strength!
He can even handle local governance, people's livelihood affairs, etc.!
But leading troops to fight is really not his strong point. Although he has been an official for many years and has led troops to fight in battles, he has never commanded them by himself because he knows that he is not the material.
Therefore, in the end, Wei Yan still listened to the opinions of the generals: stick to the camp!
The Ming army was hiding in the camp and could not come out, so the Tang Dynasty King's Division from the north came slowly and unhurriedly!
Naturally, the army cannot move in a hurry. Even if it is only more than four miles away from the enemy, Hao Bainian and the others still are not in a hurry, but lead the troops forward in a leisurely manner!
The army of nearly ten thousand people walked for most of the day before stopping a mile away from the Ming army camp.
At this time, they were already at the final preparation distance for fighting with each other. If they were any closer, it would be a formal duel. The Tang Army also needed some rest after a relatively long march.
This break is naturally not a rest, but a reorganization of the formation and arrangement of the attack sequence.
In fact, they camped five miles away last night and only walked a distance of three miles in the morning. The physical exertion of the soldiers was not great.
While subordinate officers at all levels were busy reorganizing the troops, senior officers such as Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing and six or seven combat staff climbed up a small slope to overlook the Ming army camp directly ahead.
At this time, Hao Bainian said: "Bring the telescope?"
Immediately, the soldier beside him took down a small wooden box he was carrying, opened the wooden box, lifted off the brocade cloth covering it, and then carefully took out a metal pipe pile. He removed the wooden lid from the bottle and carefully handed it to Hao Bainian.
After Hao Bainian took it, he first looked at the thing in his hand carefully, then he rotated it slightly, and finally pulled it. The metal tube turned into several extended sections, with one end larger and the other smaller, with lenses at both ends.
Hao Bainian pulled it more carefully. After pulling it completely open, he took it with both hands, put the small one in front of his left eye, and looked at the Ming army camp in the distance.
At this time, Hao Bainian felt as if he was very close to the Ming army camp. The scene he saw was so clean. From such a distance, he could even clearly see the movements of the Ming army on the wooden railings of the Ming army camp. One move.
After looking at it for a moment, he put down what he was holding, and then sighed loudly: "The telescope your Majesty sent is really a sharp weapon in the military formation. The distance is hundreds of feet, but the enemy troops are like this in front of you. A sharp weapon, the enemy troops in the distance have nowhere to hide!"
At this time, several other people also showed a hint of curiosity. Hao Bainian smiled and then handed the binoculars to Li Chunjing: "You guys also take a look and mark it!"
At this time, Li Chunjing couldn't wait to take the telescope and start looking at it. He had long wanted to try out the telescope that had just been delivered the day before yesterday. Unfortunately, it was said that such items were worth thousands of gold. Hao Bainian had been treating this telescope as his own for the past two days. Just like a baby, let the soldiers specially carry it.
Now, he finally had the chance to try it for himself!
I picked it up and took a look, and it turned out that it was just as rumored that I could see things in the distance as if they were up close!
After reading it, he couldn't help but said loudly: "If there were more of these treasures and distributed more to the officers in the army, it would be more convenient to fight in the future!"
Hao Bainian chuckled and said: "How can such a treasure be obtained so easily? The people who sent it to me have already said that His Majesty has already kept the craftsmen busy for more than half a year. Even if he can still get it in the future, Once it’s made, I’m afraid the quantity won’t be large!”
Hao Bainian was right. Li Xuan spent a lot of effort to make this telescope. No, it should be said that it took a lot of effort from the craftsmen.
In fact, Li Xuan never thought about building a telescope at first. At first, he wanted to make transparent glass like many of his time-traveling predecessors.
That thing is a great weapon for making money. Once it is made, the money will not flow into his pocket. So he specially found a few craftsmen who originally made colored glaze to start making transparent glass, and used his limited resources to make transparent glass. Knowledge guides.
However, it was quite difficult to make this transparent glass, and it took more than half a year to make it, which made Li Xuan regret that he didn't study chemistry in the past, and why he didn't remember to bake it after reading a lot of ancient time-travel novels. Glass recipe.
Transparent glass was hard to come by for a while. Later, Li Xuan changed his direction from fired glass because he happened to see someone wearing crystal glasses.