Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 338
The command of the battlefield in the era of cold weapons is far more difficult than in the era of hot weapons in later generations.

This kind of difficulty does not mean that it is complicated. In terms of complexity, with the continuous innovation of military technology, it must be that the arms and weapons are becoming more and more detailed and more complicated.

The difficulty mentioned here mainly refers to the difficulty in passing orders from senior military officers to specific combat units.

In this era when communications rely on shouting, most of the time it is still necessary to rely on orderlies to deliver orders.

And even if it is an army formation of ten thousand people, it is not so easy to accurately pass on orders in a short period of time.

This requires very efficient orderlies who can fully understand the commander's combat intentions.

Moreover, it is impossible to pass orders directly from the commander to the most basic combat units, they can only be passed down level by level, and a large number of high-quality mid-level and lower-level officers are needed to ensure that when the order is passed on, there will be no problems. Will be outdated and misunderstood.

But this has increased the difficulty of passing orders, because the execution of the feudal army is often very inadequate, and grassroots officers will be delayed due to fear and other reasons.

To put it bluntly, the biggest command problem in the ancient battlefield is the timeliness of the transmission of military orders and the execution of the grassroots.

Therefore, the military laws of the strong army in ancient times were always extremely strict, such as seven prohibitions, 54 beheadings, etc., all aspects were stipulated.

Some places are stricter than the regulations of later generations, and far exceed those of other countries and races in ancient times.

Of course, those who formulated the military law must know that the strict military law is difficult to implement among illiterate soldiers and low-level and middle-level officers. They can't remember it at all, or even understand it.

Therefore, these strict military laws are not mainly used for execution, but to let the military laws play a PUA role and conditioned reflex.

Let grassroots officers and soldiers fear military law more than fear death, so as to improve their execution ability on the battlefield, so that they can be as commanding as their arms.

Later generations often jokingly refer to countries in the Chinese cultural circle as monster houses in East Asia, and the military's combat effectiveness is overwhelming. There is a very important reason for this, which is the tradition of strict military discipline.

Even the Turks, Huns, and even the Mongols on the grassland paid great attention to military discipline through learning and communicating with the Central Plains Dynasty.

When these armies are strong, they can use military discipline to form an efficient combat system, which will naturally form a crushing blow to those scattered Central Asian and European armies.

This is also the reason why before the emergence of large-scale firearms, a small army led by the coach, or led by the coach's cronies, can often change the situation of the battle.

In addition to their good equipment and training, the bigger reason is their good execution ability, and they can find a breakthrough on the battlefield in the shortest time, so as to execute resolutely.

Generally speaking, except for a very small number, such as the iron army of Grandpa Yue’s Yue Family Army, in most battles in the cold weapon era, the core combat power will not exceed 100,000 people out of 20,000 people.

The rest can be regarded as being stronger than the cheerleaders. They are useful for improving morale, cleaning the battlefield, occupying territory, participating in pursuit, etc. They are not very useful in the core decisive battle.

And when the 20,000 people cores lose [-]% to [-]% to half of them and collapse, the battle will be over.

This is also the reason why in the era of cold weapons, the army can generally only bear about [-]% of losses.

Because the greatest benefits are obtained, there are only a few core troops who are willing to fight for these benefits, and you can't expand these elites just because you want to.

Elite soldiers need to be raised with a lot of resources. The productivity in the feudal era was like that. The wealth produced determined the upper limit of the number of core soldiers and generals.

Zhang Zhao's Guiyi Army, which grew up from the Fengtian Army, was very powerful in Hexi and Anxi.

Apart from Zhang Zhao's little golden fingers, the biggest reason is that these thousands of people were raised by Zhang Zhao with all his resources, and everything about them was deeply bound to Zhang Zhao.

During the Anxi and Hexi periods, they ate more than [-]% of the superficial interests of the Jin Kingdom in Khotan, and Li Shengtian's palace guards were all attacking the Fengtian army.

More than [-]% of Khotan's production was converted into grain, mules, horses and other materials, which were supplied to the Fengtian army.

It was the same after he came back. The property Zhang Zhao obtained from the monks in Hexi, the fertile land reclaimed in Liangzhou, and the property and land confiscated from the Shatuo Li tribe and the Jincheng Wang family in Lanzhou were all for supporting the rebels. These are thousands of people.

This is also the reason why he needs to fight non-stop. He needs to use more goods and land to expand the core number of Guiyi Army to support them.

So for this battle outside Mapaoquan Village, He Chuan had to wait for his tooth soldiers to finish putting on their armor.

Because they are the core combat power of the entire rebellious army, and at the same time when the tooth soldiers are wearing armor, the Wu defense envoy must also lead his personal guards to go up.

Otherwise, hehe!When looting the treasure girl, the tooth soldiers gave the other soldiers a little soup when they were full. This would be a fierce battle, and it would be a violation of the rules to let other soldiers go up to the top.

You are not benevolent and I am not righteous. These soldiers dare to directly put down the pick on the battlefield, and they do it as a matter of course.

So on He Chuan's side, despite the military orders being issued one after another, the soldiers at the front didn't move much at all.

The crossbowmen from the large formation on the right were still dawdling, and never launched an attack on the Guiyi army's whirlwind cannon.

Fortunately, at this time, the Guiyi Army's whirlwind cannon stopped firing.

One is that the polished stones are almost used up, and the other is that the key components of the trebuchet are too worn, and the kinetic energy has dropped considerably, so it must be overhauled.

However, the damage caused by the eighty camel whirlwind cannons was still horrific. They directly paralyzed two crossbowmen and four crossbowmen.

Although there are only more than a hundred people in the Central Plains, which is equivalent to a general of the Guiyi Army, it has caused huge psychological pressure on the rebellious army and greatly weakened the morale of the entire rebellious army.

'Boom boom boom boom! After about half a cup of tea, the central drum of the rebel army and the drums of the commanders began to beat, and the defense envoy of Wu led 500 people of his own guards and began to step forward.

With his command and support from the front, more than 6000 people in the front of the rebellious army, under the command of drums and flags, divided into three large formations and a dozen small formations to press towards the Guiyi Army.

The 500 people of Wu's defense envoy are in the middle, holding crossbows, and in front of them are guards with swords and shields, and lined up on both sides are also archers with long spears on their backs and strong bows.

On the left and right wings are crossbowmen with less powerful but more flexible wooden single crossbows.

At this moment, the wooden single crossbowmen on both wings spread out like crane wings, and their numbers were relatively scattered. They adopted a shooting strategy full of stars.

That is to say, the crossbowmen spread out and cover the entire enemy army with a small number of crossbow bolts, creating the illusion that there are crossbow bolts coming from everywhere, which mainly hits the morale of the enemy army.

Zhang Zhao waved his hand, and the big drums around him also started to beat. Hearing the sound of the commander's big drum, the commander's drums of the towns, battalions, and capitals also started to ring.

Every drumbeat is a step, and the officers control the pace of the soldiers through the drumbeat to ensure the integrity of the formation.

At the same time, the black-and-yellow recognition flag beside coach Zhang Zhao began to shake from side to side, and Bai Congxin, who was in the distance, got the news and immediately made arrangements.

Murong Xinchang on the left wing and Li Cunhui on the right wing each led two hundred cavalry to gallop out from the two wings. They were going to attack the starry crossbowmen on the left and right wings of the rebellious army.

These scattered crossbowmen saw the cavalry galloping towards them, and more than a dozen fire chiefs among them began to roar loudly. The crossbowmen who were scattered all over the sky began to gather around two firemen as the basic unit.

Like plum blossoms, they gathered on the left and right wings, and the twenty crossbowmen quickly became ten crossbowmen, four long spearmen, three sword and shield soldiers, two hook sickle gunners, and one big galleon (stick) ) A small semicircular array composed of hands.

Among them, the crossbowmen are responsible for long-range strikes.

The pikemen resisted the cavalry charge.

Sword and shield soldiers prevent enemy cavalry from shooting.

The hook gunner is responsible for using the hook of the hook gun to hook the charging cavalry from their horses.

Dashaoshou was the one responsible for hammering the cavalry to death.

They are scattered all over the ground like plum blossoms, 20 people form a small formation, they can attack and defend, and they can also support each other.

If the cavalry really rushed over and passed through these cooperating 'plum blossoms', then prepare to shed a layer of skin!
This way of fighting, those prairie cavalry have slightly worse armor, and often there will not be many people left after a few shocks.

It's a pity that the Hexi Army is not a grassland nation, and they are well aware of the power of this style of play.

So Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui saw that the rebellious army was changing quickly, they immediately circled around and stopped in the distance, and then dismounted directly.

These brave knights of the Guiyi Army are basically wearing cotton armor, and they have not only horned crossbows but also step bows on their horses, and they will not come to charge at all.

Murong Xinchang roared a few times, two hundred riders formed a small crane wing formation, and moved forward slowly under the command of a small drum.

The range of the horned crossbow is similar to that of the wooden single crossbow, and its power is a little higher, but the rate of fire is slower.

But at this time, Murong Nobunaga's 200 people were all heavily armored crossbowmen, who had advantages in armor and numbers. As soon as the two sides came into contact, the rebel army was shot and turned on their backs.

"Fuck your mother! Is this still a cavalry from Hexi? Armor is better than me, and there are strong bows and crossbows, and your mother can dismount and shoot with heavy armor!"

The rebellious army cursed at the head, and quickly asked their spearmen, hook gunners and big gunners to take up their crossbows again and start shooting at each other.

But what they originally formed was a plum blossom formation, but now they are going to become a crane wing formation that is good at shooting, which made the soldiers flustered for a while.

Sudden!At the moment when their plum blossom array spread out, there was a sound of horseshoes.

It turned out that Murong Nobunaga didn't let everyone get off their horses, and left thirty riders behind. Now that the chaos army changed, they rushed out from behind the unmanned horses.

"Thirty riders want to charge me 200 people, I will shoot you to death!" The rebel army sneered, and ordered the crossbowmen to shoot at the rushing Hexi cavalry.

Although these Hexi cavalry were scattered widely, they lost more than a dozen cavalry quickly after being shot by dozens of strong bows and crossbows.

The chaos army grinned with big yellow teeth, and was making complaints, but his face suddenly froze.

Because after this wave of more than thirty cavalry were killed and scattered, the remaining Hexi cavalry had seized this opportunity to mount their horses.

Here are one hundred and seventy armored knights, and 200 people formed a crane wing formation with only one row at him, and they just finished shooting the arrows in the crossbow, and they haven't reloaded yet.

"Fuck your mother! I'm going to confess!" A few drops of cold sweat rolled down Du's forehead, and he hurried to get the spear that he had just dropped at his feet.

But at this moment, the soldiers lined up around him collapsed suddenly, and many of them ran away, because they knew very well that it was too late and they would not be able to stop them.

Murong Xinchang hated that the crossbowmen of the rebellion army shot and killed more than a dozen of his brothers, relying on the extremely fast speed of the smoke in the snow under his crotch, he rushed into the rebellion army first.

He swung his long lance, and with one lance, he knocked back the heads of all the rebel soldiers who were running, and directly broke their neck bones. They killed most of them.

On the other side, like Li Cunhui, he dented the crossbowmen on both wings of the rebellious army in almost the same way, and then they rode their horses to constantly search for the weak points of the rebellious army to harass them.

At this time, the defense envoy Wu, who was in command at the front, finally couldn't bear it anymore. He issued a semaphore and ordered the cavalry on the two wings to attack, and must eat Murong Nobunaga and Li Cunhui who were harassing their two wings.

As soon as the hundreds of cavalry from the rebel army moved, Bai Congxin shouted loudly. He communicated with the king, divided his left and right sides, and led [-] cavalry to protrude from the two wings of the Guiyi army, and intercepted the cavalry of the rebel army.

At the same time, the main force of Sun Xiaoguo's rebel cavalry in Mapaoquan Village was supported by a group of horned crossbows. He gathered more than [-] cavalry and galloped towards Zhang Zhao's main formation.

But almost at the same time, a trumpet sounded, and Zhebu Jiashi, Du Lun Chixin, Wen Chongle, and the Gyeongju Dangxiang Li Yanli Department, Wonju Dangxiang Li Zhongchao and his son's department, who were ambushing in Mapaoquan Village, all rushed out from three sides.

Although the cavalry of the Guiyi Army was weaker, they had an advantage in numbers, with a total of 500 people. The two sides immediately entangled each other and started fighting outside Mapaoquan Village.

The battle on the two wings began, and the two main infantry forces in the middle also came within range of both sides.

The rain of arrows whimpered like a swarm of bees in the sky, shooting at each other, and the soldiers on both sides almost screamed and fell to the ground in pieces.

Especially the sword and shield soldiers in front of the formation lay down on the ground under the blow of the fierce bow and crossbow, and the officers on both sides urged the soldiers to come forward almost without squinting.

In the contact between the two armies, when they were not within the range of the bow and crossbow, they basically walked slowly, because the need to maintain formation was also the fear of death, which caused everyone to walk slowly.

But once within the range of the bow and crossbow, the brutal confrontation will make both sides speed up involuntarily.

Finally, after the brutal exchange of shots, the two sides collided with each other with a bang, the spears clashed at the top, and the jumping soldiers bent over and fought with rats at the bottom.

Not to mention the difference in armor rate between the two sides, the rebellious soldiers fighting now are not the elite of the entire rebellious soldiers.

So as soon as they came into contact, they were beaten back again and again, and the five hundred elites brought by the defense envoy Wu suffered the most damage, at least six to seventy people were lost.

The rebel army was beaten back and forth, and retreated again and again, but at this moment, Zhang Zhaoyu saw from a height that He Chuan's tooth soldiers had finished putting on their armor, and began to march down.

"Mingjin withdraws troops, the heat is in full swing, our army has been wearing armor for an hour and a half, fighting for a quarter of an hour, but the enemy army is finishing putting on armor, order everyone to retreat slowly, and fight again tomorrow!"

If you want to fight, I will not fight with you. Anyway, the morale of the rebel army has been severely frustrated today, at least six 700 people were injured and killed.

Moreover, Zhang Zhao sneered sinisterly, the infantry retreated, and the cavalry battle at Mapaoquan could still be fought, I killed your cavalry, let's see how you spend tomorrow?

"Order Bai Congxin to lead his troops to encircle and wipe out the rebel cavalry at Mapaoquan, and bring Sun Xiaoguo's head to me!"

　I'm not procrastinating!I really can't finish writing, even if I have written more than [-] words, I still can't, the next chapter is finished!
　　
　
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