Chapter 176 Pioneer
Shao Xun has been stationed in Jijun these days.
Ever since he had a detailed conversation with Yu Chen on the day he first arrived and took the time to contact the officers of the Jijun army, he had a certain understanding of the Jisang tribe.
As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Shao Xun likes to analyze from two aspects: advantages and disadvantages.
What is the enemy's advantage?
He has rich combat experience and has been through blood and fire many times. After all, he has been fighting in the past few years and has seen dozens of battles a year. In terms of frequency, it far exceeds the Forbidden Army and the Silver Spear Army.
The disadvantage is that this is mostly a failure experience.
Once it fails, there will be too many casualties and too many people fleeing, and a large number of experienced combatants will be lost. Silla's young men are seriously lacking in combat effectiveness and must fight more to grow up, but most of them obviously won't survive long.
To put it bluntly, this is the routine used by bandits in ancient and modern times.
The elites who have survived hundreds of battles gather around them as the core force, and then use this core elite to drive a large number of cannon fodder into mobile operations. Those who are lucky enough to survive among the cannon fodder are considered to have passed the test and are admitted into the core camp. Those who die - are also dead.
What are the advantages of our army?
Well-equipped, training system, skilled skills - yes, skilled skills are a major advantage. The bandits don't have much time to teach you how to use various weapons. The strong men won't be able to eat many meals after they are brought here. About to go to the battlefield.
Another major advantage is that the troops have been training together for a long time and are relatively familiar with each other.
For the Silver Spear Army, it is even more special, because of the teacher-student friendship with Shao Xun, the officers' subjective initiative is high enough.
What are the disadvantages of our army?
The most important thing is that he has relatively little combat experience and has never experienced a bloody and cruel battlefield.
Doing well in daily practice does not mean that you will not lose your ability on the battlefield. This is something you need to pay attention to.
So, after understanding the advantages between ourselves and the enemy, the essence of the art of war is to exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses. At this time, targeted training can be done.
Shao Xun asked Jijun soldiers to join the training, and Yu Chen readily agreed.
As a result, a total of 7,700 soldiers from the Silver Spear Army (more than 2,400), Fu soldiers (300), Yamen Army (3,000), and Jijun soldiers (2,000) conducted high-intensity training for several days.
Fu Bing Buqu, Ji Jun Bing Bu Qu and Sizhou Ding Zhuang ten thousand people also conducted training. It’s just that the intensity is not that high. One is to practice every three days, and the other is to practice every ten days.
On the second day of July, when Liu Yu and his entourage of more than a hundred people arrived at the eastern suburbs of Ji County, they saw such a lively scene.
“I’m afraid it’s too late to train troops at this time?” someone said in a loud voice.
Liu Yu ignored him and just watched silently.
With nearly 20,000 people training, all military orders are in good order. The operation of the whole army may be a little sluggish, but it is already very good.
What we see these days are mostly weak soldiers who cannot be driven. Like the Xuchang soldiers and Yanzhou soldiers, there are not many that have been in battle for a long time and can operate freely.
The army in front of us, if we remove the part that is obviously Master Ding Zhuang, is actually quite passable.
Especially the more than three thousand soldiers, all wearing armor, are very familiar with military orders and execute them resolutely. Advance when you want, and retreat when you say retreat. Even if there is confusion, it is still within the average level.
After more than a year of hard training, after a few battles, we will definitely be a strong army.
"This style of play is really weird..." Shen Ling, the middle man in charge, squeezed to the front, raised his head and looked into the distance, muttering to himself.
Shen Ling, whose courtesy name was Jinggao, was from Wucheng, Wuxing. He had just been recruited into the government not long ago.
"It's just grandstanding." Wang Jun (the original list of people next to Jun + Jun, can't type it out) laughed and said: "I have never seen anyone arrange their troops in such a way. It's so surprising, it's good to win. , If defeated, I am afraid that the army will be destroyed. The poor princess of Chengdu will change hands again."
Liu Yu felt hot after hearing this.
He is also very beautiful. He had seen Princess Leshi of Chengdu, and she was indeed first-class in appearance, figure, talent, and awe-inspiring and inviolable.
Liu Yu had no idea before, but now that Leshi is committed to a rude soldier like Shao Xun, what else can he be proud of? It would be a lot more fun if it could be included in the house.
Wang Jun glanced at Liu Yu's face quietly and felt something bad.
Before Taifu conquered Liu Yu, someone in the shogunate said: "You are still tired of Yu, but if you get close, you will taint others."
Although this man is talented, he is dissolute and has average conduct. Like a ball of grease, it can also pollute and harm the people around you.
Liu Yu liked beauties very much. Hearing that Jing, the concubine of the emperor’s uncle Wang Yan, was good at music and very beautiful, he came to ask to meet him - but he was naturally rejected. How could Wang Yan agree? Show your treasure to outsiders?
Thinking of this, Wang Jun shook his head in annoyance. If he had known that Leshi would not be mentioned, wouldn't he have found an opportunity to bring it into his house? Now it is not good to face competition from Liu Yu.
"I don't understand the formation of troops, but Shao Xun can definitely win." The third Zhonglang appeared, and it turned out to be Hu Wufuzhi, the former prince's concubine. He just heard him say : "This man can work hard in the fields, he is an extraordinary person."
Everyone subconsciously ignored Hu Wufuzhi's words.
This man is not very cool. He is a heavy drinker. After drinking too much, he also likes to talk loudly. He talks about everything and cannot hold back.
And his ability is also somewhat poor. After joining the Taifu, he once supplemented Chenliu as the Grand Administrator. Because he knew nothing about military affairs and was not qualified, he was dismissed from office and returned to the shogunate again as a Zhonglang. This is actually It is a very important position, but now it is mostly used to arrange idle people. However, these idle people have fatal flaws in their ability, and I don’t know how many things have been delayed. I heard that Hu Wufuzhi will leave the shogunate next year at the latest and become the Grand Central Secretary of Yanzhou - this is quite suitable for him.
“Kill!”
“Kill! Kill!”
One after another, the squares roared in unison, the sound shook the sky, and at the same time, It means that today's training is over.
The sergeants left the arena one by one and headed to the barracks.
Shao Xun came on horseback with his own soldiers.
"Captain Liu." After approaching, Shao Xun jumped off his horse gracefully and bowed in salute.
"General Shao." Liu Yu returned the greeting and looked at Shao Xun at the same time.
So young!
The martial artist is exposed to the wind and sun, lying on the ice and eating snow. He looks older than his actual age, but looking at it this way, he is still young.
I heard that he is only twenty years old this year, the age where he has just been crowned.
I am forty-four years old. Compared with it, it is like the setting sun and the rising sun.
Shao Xun was also sizing up Liu Yu.
The elder brother of the famous Liu Kun, his younger sister was once a fake crown princess - unfortunately, he is thirty-seven or eighty years old, so he has no interest in collecting this post.
I heard that Liu Yu had an extraordinary memory. In order to win the favor of Taifu, he silently memorized information such as warehouses, cattle and horses, equipment, geography, and military books. When the Grand Tutor held a meeting, others didn't know much about it, but he answered questions fluently, and based on these, he could make suggestions. He was very scheming and powerful.
In addition, this person's temperament is different from that of ordinary scholars - well, at this time, scholars are all kinds of strange and have all kinds of temperaments. After all, there are people who perform dog holes and bark in the street, and there are not just one or two scholars running naked in the downtown area. I don't know if I was drunk on drugs or something.
Liu Yu has a bohemian temperament, and coupled with his pretty good looks, he will be a middle-aged prodigal and a handsome uncle in future generations, and he will be quite popular.
However, in the chaotic Hebei, this method does not work.
Here, swords and guns are used to speak, and lives are used as bets. The winner takes all, the weak lose everything, and the handsome uncle can only be reduced to food.
"I heard that after Shao Caiguan arrived at Ji, he trained his troops and horses all day long. I wonder if he can go to war?" Liu Yu smiled, pointed to the Silver Spear Army who was returning to camp, and asked.
"What does Chang Shi think of this soldier?" Shao Xun asked.
“It is a strong army with sophisticated equipment and rules.” Liu Yu said: “For example, Shao Caiguan’s personal soldiers are all wearing bright armor. Even Taifu’s personal soldiers are not so extravagant.”
"I have only a hundred personal troops, but the Grand Tutor has thousands of personal troops. How can we compare?" Shao Xun shook his head and laughed.
Sima Yue's so-called personal soldiers are the Kingdom's army that was rebuilt for the third time. There are currently three to four thousand people, most of whom are recruited from Qingxu Prefecture, and they are still expanding. It is estimated that they will eventually reach 5,000 infantry and cavalry. scale, its commander is an old acquaintance: Lieutenant Liu Qia of the East China Sea.
Liu Yu also smiled, then looked at the back of the Silver Spear Army and asked: "With such a strong army, the thieves will be frightened. I wonder if it is possible to advance troops eastward and think that they are the vanguard of the army?"
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"The troops haven't gathered together yet, so we're going to attack now?" Shao Xun asked curiously.
Feng Song, the prefect of Wei County, was defeated by Ji Sang and had only hundreds of defeated soldiers at hand. After Ji Sang left, he was unable to recapture the city of Ye. He only traveled in the countryside, using the reputation of the prefect to solicit sponsorship from various families and slowly expand his troops.
Sima Yue allowed him to perform meritorious service for his crimes, perhaps because this man had defeated Shi Le before and he still had expectations for him.
Pei, the prefect of Hanoi, dispatched his general Guo Mo to lead an army of three thousand to the east. There are still several days to go and they have not yet arrived.
Jijun soldiers are ready, led by Sima Yao Yuan of another department, with a total of three thousand people, half fighting soldiers and half men. To be honest, Yu Chen is pretty good to Yao Yuan, a foreigner with no background. The person (from Guanzhong) suddenly found a way to get him a ninth-grade official status. It was a huge favor, and it even meant a bit of personal dependence.
"With Shao Caiguan here, why do we need county soldiers to make up the numbers?" Wang Jun came up and said.
Shao Xunli ignored him. Do you have a say here?
Wang Jun felt bored and was secretly annoyed: I don’t know how many people in the shogunate were staring at Jingu Garden, and some even lamented that Shao Xun had changed it into farmland, orchards, and fish ponds, boiling cranes and burning musical instruments. , eager to try to take it, just wait, you will feel better!
"What do you mean, Governor?" Shao Xun asked in a deep voice, "If there is a military order, I can lead the troops first."
Liu Yu nodded and said, "The military situation is like a fire. , the troops are so fast, why wait for the army to arrive? Just let Shao Cai lead the army first, I will supervise the army as a backup, don't worry."
Shao Xun glanced at him and said: "No."
Liu Yu is the governor, so military orders must be obeyed. But he always felt that these people were not good birds, maybe they were trying to make him and Ji Sang consume each other.
There are only a few thousand people, but if they meet the main force of Ji Sang and are surrounded by tens of thousands of people, will Liu Yu rescue them then? not necessarily.
This is an open conspiracy, taking advantage of the general trend to squeeze and constantly consume Shao Xun's capital, but I don't know whose idea it is.
(End of this chapter)