Chapter 2070 Occupying Black Mountain
After joining the army, training began.
One of the benefits is that there is a supply of food and grass.
The disadvantage is that there are many cases of Pythium in grains, and a lot of them are old grains.
The captain could not get much new food. He raised money from large households in the county and city, and naturally most of what he got was old food.
Some have been for five years, and some have been accumulated for ten years.
Some grains are moldy.
Zhang Fei was so angry that he wanted to kill the grain official several times.
They were all stopped by Wen Rensheng.
The soldiers under Wen Rensheng saw that the grain was only suitable for feeding horses, no, it could only be fed to mules, and the horses would not eat it.
Horses eat more delicately than humans.
Even qualified elites eat expensive eggs before feeding their horses into battle. Eggs are mixed with beans, so that they can have the horsepower to charge into battle.
If you don’t feed the horse, then you will be caught up and killed.
But the other village heroes were very satisfied with their food.
Because they came to serve as soldiers because they didn’t have enough to eat. Now that they have food to eat, what else do they ask for.
The training is one exercise every five days.
The training begins with how to obey the flag.
Retreat with the sound of gold and advance with the beat of drums. The leaders of each team must learn to read the flags to understand who is being asked to advance.
The second is some common martial arts methods.
That is, how to wield a spear, block, stab, and use a shield for protection...
These are all simple exercises.
But these trainings are not comparable to the peasant army that started the army at the beginning.
After all, although these trainings are simple, they are systematic and can be pulled out to complete a complete military operation.
From marching, to attacking, defending, chasing, encircling, and finally cleaning the battlefield and returning.
Such an ancient military operation was taught in this five-day drill.
Of course, only a few elites can learn it in such sparse training. Most soldiers obey the command of their corps commanders and chiefs, and do whatever they ask them to do.
And these low-level officers have more training times.
After all, they eat better and are valued more by Shangguan.
Until modern times, middle and lower-level officers played the most important command role and completed a complete set of tactical actions.
It was not until the establishment of the modern army that the enthusiasm of soldiers was greatly improved, and their cultural knowledge was also improved. They were able to actively understand tactical actions, and after the officers died and dispersed, they could actively gather again to complete tactical tasks. .
Compared to ancient and modern armies that had to rely on officers, this was crushing.
One month later.
Colonel Zou Jing relied more and more on Wen Rensheng.
Because there is no problem that the other party cannot solve.
Food, military pay, coordination, equipment...
He told people in private: "It is a pity that Zhao Shan, who is such a talented person, cannot be appointed by the imperial court."
He even had the idea of recommending Zhao Shan to the prefect.
It’s just that I don’t have any skills, so it’s hard to recommend.
After all, Wen Rensheng was just a commoner, and his family background was too poor.
He had no choice but to worship Zhao Shan as Army Sima. In addition to leading Yiqu's troops, he also participated in military aircraft matters.
Another half month later.
Zou Jing summoned the generals into the military tent.
"The spies came to report that the Yellow Turban bandit Cheng Yuanzhi led 50,000 troops and invaded Youzhou. The prefect ordered us to meet the enemy. What do you think?"
If the soldiers are all his, Naturally, he directly led his troops to meet the enemy.
However, most of the soldiers in his account are local warriors from various places, so he has to discuss things to prevent anyone from failing to contribute.
"It turned out to be an army of 50,000. We only have a few thousand soldiers. It is better to hold on to the city." A music leader whispered.
"Oh, He Quchang, hold on to the city, are we going to let the Yellow Turbans wreak havoc on our neighbors? How can we live up to the people?" another person retorted.
Everyone was talking about it, some talking about attacking and some talking about defending.
Some are waiting and watching.
Zou Jing was a little disappointed. These people really had no military talent.
He looked directly at Wen Rensheng and asked: "Mr. Zhao, in your opinion, what should we do?"
"Although there are many thieves, they do not know the art of war and are in chaos. The formation can be broken by itself, but after the incident, more defeated troops must be collected and settled to prevent the Yellow Turbans from causing trouble again. "
To eliminate the peasant uprising, it is never about how many people are killed, but to solve their food problem. .
After the problem of eating is solved, no one can stir up trouble again.
However, many dynasties suffered financial collapse and were unable to solve this problem at all.
On the contrary, I, the Qing Dynasty, have opened up a new path. If I cannot solve the problem of food, I can solve the problem of people who eat.
Just kill them, kill them completely, free up the land, and then resettle them.
They have really created the first avenue in history. If they keep doing this, if there is no external impact, I am afraid they can really become a five-hundred-year-old dynasty.
Anyway, there are too many people and there is not enough land to allocate, so we will kill them all.
Why couldn't the previous dynasty do this? Because the previous dynasties were so shameless, they were all from the same race, or they were Chineseized.
Our Qing Dynasty is a land in the center of foreign rule, so naturally we don't care about this.
Just kill.
"Where will it be placed?" Zou Jing was overjoyed at first, and then worried.
He understands that Youzhou is bitterly cold, and although there are still many wastelands, it is close to the grassland, and the Xiongnu and Wuhuan often invade.
Wen Rensheng was confident and said directly:
"The valleys of Changshan, Zhaojun, Zhongshan, Shangdang, and Hanoi are all connected and can be cultivated."
These places are also where one of the most legendary princes of the Three Kingdoms made his fortune.
This prince is Zhang Yan, the leader of the Black Mountain Army.
He started out as a bandit and took advantage of the Yellow Turban Uprising to coincide with it.
But he was very smart, avoiding the core areas ruled by the Han Dynasty and entrenched himself in the mountains and forests.
Relying on the mountains, he even competed with Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao destroyed the White Horse General Gongsun Zan, but was helpless with him.
And it was from a mere bandit leader that Zhang Yan was finally granted the title of marquis and general, creating a family that was still famous until the Jin Dynasty.
It can be said that it is more appropriate for the ordinary people who traveled through the Three Kingdoms to copy Zhang Yan's script.
Of course, the premise is that you are in good health. Living in the mountains and forests without a good body is not enough.
In fact, Zhang Yan's script is also the script of many small forces that rose up in the mountains and forests in later generations.
Even the mighty Yuan Shao can't impress him, and he is still active in Yuan Shao's Jizhou.
The key is that he occupies a dangerous position in the valley. Even if he only has hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of elites, he is strong enough to hold on.
Yes, Wen Rensheng wanted to take Zhang Yan's path at this time, leaving Zhang Yan with no way to go.
Think about it, Zhang Yan stayed in the valley and finally surrendered to Cao Cao after the Battle of Guandu.
In fact, if he had some more skills, he might be able to kill Yuan Shao and make a profit.
It is a pity that he is a bandit after all, and he does not have the help of a great talent like Zhuge Liang. He can hold on but cannot make progress.
But even so, Zhang Yan's strategic vision, to be honest, is infinitely better than Liu Bei's who was running around in the early stage.
But Liu Bei was running around, and his strategic vision was not sharp enough. As a result, even one base area could not be stabilized.
Finally stable, Jingzhou was lost again.
It's just a big pit...
If Liu Bei can regain Zhang Yan, stabilize his territory, and take advantage of Yuan and Cao's struggle for supremacy, he may not be able to seize Hebei and revive the Guangwu Zhongxing.
And now, Wen Rensheng directly copied Zhang Yan's homework.
It just so happens that he is different from Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan resisted the annihilation of the Han army after the Yellow Turbans subsided, and then surrendered voluntarily, and was finally named a general, still maintaining his independence.
It was not until Cao Cao finally unified the north that he gave up his independence and led his army to live in Yecheng.
As long as this valley area is occupied, and Wen Rensheng relies on so much knowledge in his mind, plus training his own students, there is no shortage of talents, and he has a solid base, he will have a smooth road to pacify the world in the future.
Of course he would not tell others these things. Zou Jing was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "I have a husband to help me, which is comparable to a hundred thousand troops."
At this time, Liu Bei, who was listening to the order under the tent, was filled with envy when he heard this.
What he envied was that Zou Jing could use Wen Rensheng, but not himself.
And he had no choice. After all, he only had an empty name. Wen Rensheng was not a knight like Guan Yu, who would join him because of his courage and boldness.
From the beginning, Liu Bei was too unattractive to various counselors.
In the final analysis, it was his own lack of strategic vision that made it difficult to develop a base area. Without a base area, it would be even more difficult to attract counselors. Without counselors, it would be even more difficult to find a base area. It was not until the last Zhuge Liang came on stage with his own dry food that he broke the deadlock. cycle.
Why Cao Cao can do it? Cao Cao himself has vision and money, and then he can occupy the territory, and then recruit counselors to form a positive cycle.
Why Cao Cao failed to unify in the end was because he lacked Liu Bei's patience and charm. He was often too suspicious and could not let talents be used safely. He was too suppressed internally, which led to repeated rebellions and delayed time.
Soon, the first battle came.
Zou Jing prepared his army and horses, and there were 8,000 people in total including state and county soldiers and brave soldiers from all walks of life.
5,000 civilians were also recruited to transport grain and grass.
It is known to the outside world as an army of thirty thousand.
It's not that he doesn't want to bring more people, it's just that the food and grass are limited.
Youzhou was not a grain-producing area at this time, but Jizhou in Hebei was.
These people still need to use grain and grass sparingly.
As for the 50,000-strong army on the opposite side, he didn’t even know how the other side was going to prepare food and fodder.
In fact, his opponent Cheng Yuanzhi didn't worry about this issue at all.
Only the core few thousand people have food and grass, and the others can just eat themselves.
There was "food" everywhere...
The two sides finally faced off on a plain.
Neither of the two sides was playing any tricks. One just didn’t want to waste time, and the other really didn’t know how to do it.
Wen Rensheng stood on a high platform built by several chariots and looked forward.
I saw a bunch of noisy soldiers in the distance, no, it should be said to be farmers, lining up there.
Carrying various farm tools, pitchforks, wooden sticks, and even stones.
It’s more of a big outing than they are here to fight.
Actually, many people come here just to make a living.
Those people all had hungry faces and were dressed in rags. They were just a bunch of hungry people.
Only where the central army is located, there are thousands of soldiers with swords, guns, bows, crossbows, and even armor.
Several generals in iron armor were organizing their troops.
Obviously, these are Cheng Yuanzhi’s core team.
As for the equipment, it must have been found from the arsenal of the county town that was captured.
Those generals were surrounded by a dark-faced man, who was obviously Cheng Yuanzhi.
A mini-BOSS used to gain fame in the early stage.
Wen Rensheng felt this way at this time.
Zhang Fei was killed with one spear.
It’s no wonder that there is such confusion.
The other party is so old that the queue has not even been organized for a long time.
As for how to move forward and backward, I don’t understand it at all.
Being able to attack a city and plunder territory depends entirely on the number of people and the momentum. A county town is defended by hundreds of people.
Faced with the clamor of tens of thousands of people, those officials who only wanted to make money and pay installments were frightened and ran away.
As long as they can organize hundreds of young men to hold on, they will not be able to attack it.
Besieging a city these days, as long as there is no internal response and the people in the city can persist, it usually takes months.
At this time, Zhang Fei was itching: "Master, I am willing to lead 200 people, charge directly into their central army, and behead the thief under the horse!"
At this time, Zou Jing was also confident.
It is impossible for these shabby armies to be his opponent.
"Zhang Zhang is indeed very ambitious. I wonder what Mr. Zhao thinks?"
Wen Rensheng smiled and said: "I have said before that it is easy to break thieves but difficult to catch them. The school captain should go first. Send people to make a detour and build a large encirclement, and then send out those with louder voices to shout that kneeling down will save you from death, and those who kneel down will be given food..."
"Okay, sir, it's better to be thoughtful," Zou Jing said. head.
Yes, with just one impact, the opponent will be defeated.
But tens of thousands of people are scattered, how do you catch them?
I am so tired.
And he knows very well that many people kill red eyes, and they must be aiming at the escaper's back with a knife.
There must be countless casualties.
Of the tens of thousands of bandits, only a few thousand may survive in the end.
He, Zou Jing, is not a butcher. After all, the people in front of him are not barbarians outside the Great Wall. They were also ordinary people before, and they just came here for a bite of food.
Since Mr. Zhao said that he could be led to the mountains for reclamation, that would naturally be the best.
Of course he couldn't imagine that Wen Rensheng was going to separatist power in the mountains.
Even if he thought about it, he didn't care. After all, when he ordered various regions to form their own township warriors, the situation of separatism in various regions was already destined.
"Okay, Wang Quchang, Liu Quchang..." He began to give orders one by one, ordering several groups of local warriors to start attacking in circuitous directions to the left and right.
"Zhao Sima, you command the troops yourself and attack from the middle. I will lead the troops behind to suppress the formation."
Wen Rensheng nodded, and then ordered Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu to attack each other. He led the car formation and slowly pressed away.
500 people plus some county soldiers assigned to him later, totaling 1,000 people.
Under the cover of the chariot, attack forward.
"This chariot is good, but it's too slow." Zhang Fei rode behind the chariot.
Wen Rensheng strictly ordered the commanders not to lead the team from the front, but to command from behind.
"This battle is mainly for our soldiers to familiarize themselves with the battlefield and train elites, not for you to behead people." Wen Rensheng said casually.
The chariot gradually approached the Land of Five Arrows, and 50 archers from the county army, under the order of Wen Rensheng, began to try to shoot arrows to determine the attack distance.
The first arrow fell softly in front of the Yellow Turban Army.
It elicited a roar of laughter.
“That’s it, it’s not enough to give you a bath!”
“Haha, it looks like a tiger, but it’s actually a mouse!”
“Haha, come again. ! ”
The chariot continued to move forward.
Cheng Yuanshi, on the other hand, encouraged the soldiers to swarm forward and swamp the chariot and more than a thousand people.
This is the human sea tactic.
There are many people, but few people are beaten. There are sticks, swords and guns in all directions, making it impossible for people to react.
However, Wen Rensheng immediately ordered the chariots to be arranged in a hexagonal array.
They have trained countless times.
A stone's throw away is about 202 meters.
The Land of Five Arrows is about 1,000 meters away.
Run here directly, it will take at least 5 minutes.
After all, they are not well-nourished students for future generations.
The few elites are also noisy and cannot run at high speed.
This time is enough for them to change their formation.
Soon one by one, the tanks began to be arranged in time, with two layers inside and outside, which were thick enough.
There are also sandbags for fire protection.
Within just a few hundred breaths, a strange formation appeared on the plain.
No one knows how ferocious it will be.
(End of this chapter)