Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1157

Although Luoyang New City has already been rebuilt at a selected location, the old city site has not been completely abandoned and abandoned. Instead, it has been cleaned up and repaired according to the original city foundation framework, and it has been used as the headquarters of Wang Shi in Heluo.The local guards in Luoyang, if they are not dispatched from abroad, as well as the troops transferred in from outside, all repair and drill here.

The old city of Luoyang has been operated by the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and its scale is also very large. Now it is used as a camp, and it has become a huge camp that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops.Since its completion, this military city has not been fully garrisoned and defended.

Half of the original old city was turned into a military camp and a school ground for daily drills.The other half is used as a storage armory, as well as a temporary residence for military members.

In addition, several large-scale reclamation areas have been developed around the old city, and the crops from farming, mulberry and hunting are all used for the daily consumption of the soldiers in the city.Heluo is located in the sky. After several years of operation and establishment, the various products around the old Luocheng alone are more than enough to support an army of [-].

In the middle of September, the transfer of soldiers from all sides reached a peak, and soldiers from Hanoi, Yuzhou and other groups also arrived in Luoyang one after another.When the army period approached, more than [-] soldiers from all parties gathered in the old city of Luoyang alone.

After each army entered Luoyang, they settled in the camps divided in the old Luoyang City. Such a large-scale mobilization, even many residents who had recently settled in Luoyang, rarely realized it.The military discipline is orderly, not at all like the riots of other forces that would jump around if there is an army.

After passing through Yique, Huan Xuan and his party did not stay any longer, they changed to good horses provided by the garrison along the way, and went straight into Luo.

They were escorted and escorted by Huan Cong, the second son of Huan Xuan who worked in the General's Mansion, and several Xingtai Ministers of Jingxiang's native place, Cao Cao. After moving to the military camp in the old city, Huan Xuan didn't waste any more time, and went west directly to meet him.

The officers and men of Xiangyang are quite distant from Xingtai, and there is no order to call them into Luo Gongwei in Xingtai in the past, so they rarely have the experience of traveling Heluo.This time when they went north to pray, when they saw the huge military city, everyone couldn't help but gasped.

This military city completely included the original old city of Luoyang, and its scale was simply breathtaking, even far surpassing their beautiful Xiangyang city.Especially after hearing Huan Cong's introduction that [-] soldiers had gathered in the military city, these people couldn't help but stare and were completely speechless.

Although they are also known for their prowess, such a powerful mobilization scale and strength have far exceeded their previous military strategy cognition, and they are not at the same level as their previous military operations!
"This military city is divided into four walls, and each of the four walls is lined with six cities. Each city can accommodate more than ten thousand soldiers..."

People are born with admiration for strength and strength. Huan Cong has only been in the General's Mansion for more than a year, but he is already deeply proud of being able to be part of it.While riding his horse to lead the way, he introduced the huge layout of this military city to everyone. After seeing the shock that could not be concealed on the faces of everyone, he felt deeply honored.

Although the entire military city was built on the basis of the old city, it was not as simple as just erecting a fence around the ruins.Nearly two miles away from Waiguo is the strong wall and clear field, separated from the countryside by several bottomless trenches, and soldiers can only pass through some pontoon bridges to get in and out of it.

At both ends of these passages, there is a large-scale military stronghold standing at each end. In the military stronghold, apart from the guards, there are also tall arrow towers, and smooth brick and stone tracks are laid under the arrow towers. , The three floors on the track are strictly set up to reject horses, and after the rejection of horses, heavy weapons such as thunderbolts and crossbows, which have long been famous all over the north and south, are erected.

Under such strict defenses, it can be seen that it is very difficult to attack the military city from the outside, and it must be filled with a lot of human lives, and there may be a slight possibility of success.

Within the trench defense line, there are areas of different sizes separated by fences. These areas are probably the areas where the troops in the city practice daily.When Huan Xuan and others arrived, there was still a light cavalry team of nearly a thousand people practicing in the area with drums and horns.

"In the daily exercise of the camp, there is a capture-the-flag contest every ten days, or polo and cuju competitions. The winners will be rewarded. The officials will count their merits, and the soldiers will be elected to the Fourth Army..."

Huan Cong had the consciousness of being a responsible guide, pointing to the school grounds outside the city, he introduced: "The general is sympathetic to the strength of the soldiers, because they practice every ten and a half days, and don't strictly order them to practice every day..."

This is called sympathy for Snickers?
The generals in Xiangyang couldn't help sighing again and again when they heard this. They are all in charge of military affairs, and they also understand that elite soldiers can only be cultivated through strong training and frequent battles.

But even so, when there is no war, being able to maintain the training intensity every three times is already the level of training that only the soldiers under the command can have. Once you understand the drum flags, you can already queue up for battle.

It's not that they are sympathetic to the hard work of the soldiers and caring for manpower, but because of the drills, Wu Fan has to double the consumption of various materials, such as the most basic consumption of food and grass, and he can be fed every other meal when he is idle and on standby.But if the training is too heavy, there must be no shortage of food and drink, otherwise the soldiers will collapse before the battle.

Huan Cong is also about to stand, and lived with his father in Xiangyang for a long time in his early years, so he naturally understands the disparity in treatment between these township tribes and Luoyang Wangshi, and now he has to speak out in such a normal way, mainly to give these people a blow.After all, their father and son also communicated frequently, and they had long complained about the arrogance of these titans, and were happy to suppress their arrogance by pretending to be powerful.

A group of people could not get off their horses, and they arrived at Sucheng in the south wall through the passage cut by the fence.The architectural pattern of Sucheng is much stricter than that of Xinchengfang City. From time to time, soldiers patrolled the two-foot-high city wall, and pedestrians felt oppressed in the corridors between the city walls and did not even dare to shout loudly.

Turning around a section of the city wall of Sucheng, the vision suddenly opened up, and what I saw was a camp with a radius of about [-] miles. In the camp, there were stacks of warehouses, storing a large number of armour, rods and ordnance.The soldiers living in Sucheng are not allocated ordnance, and they are all concentrated here.

The most eye-catching thing in the military camp is the row of armored chariots. This style of chariots is no stranger to those Xiangyang generals. They even bought a few privately earlier, and they also wanted to organize their subordinates into some chariots. Used in skirmishes.

However, the cost of forming a chariot is too high. The cost of a single chariot can arm hundreds of ordinary soldiers, plus the ration of guns, heavy crossbows and other weapons, it is not something they can play with their powerful background.

But now there are nearly a hundred chariots in the armor camp alone, and all kinds of ration weapons are also loaded on the frames in an orderly manner. What they see in front of them is enough to arm three to five thousand elite troops!
Especially what Huan Cong said was that there are more than a dozen similar military camps in the entire military city, and it was even more surprising that he stopped breathing.And although Huan Cong's words were not exaggerated, it was a bit like bullying these people who had never seen the market.

In fact, such heavy use of powerful weapons does not exist much in the current military city, but it can arm tens of thousands of people.Because a considerable part of the equipment has been transferred to Tongguan for use, and these powerful equipment have gathered manpower and resources from the north and the south, and the savings for several years of operation are naturally not comparable to Xiangyang.

Huan Cong led these people to detour around Nanyuansu city for more than half, and then led them to the general's camp.

And after seeing the powerful and rich background of Xingtai Wangshi, these people have no arrogance on their faces. Even if they haven't met the general, they have become extremely obedient. Fortunately, they are not standing on the opposite side of Xingtai .Leaving aside how fine and brave each other's soldiers are, if all the heavy weapons accumulated by the king's division were used on the battlefield, it would be enough to destroy them a dozen times.

In fact, these generals were not the only ones who were shocked, Huan Xuan was also deeply moved after seeing the background of many masters.Although he also came to worship at the beginning of Xingtai's establishment, he came and went in a hurry. Later, even if there was a letter from his son to introduce him, but what he heard was false after all. Only what he saw with his own eyes knew that Wang Shi had grown to such a great extent in the past few years. to what extent.

A group of people paid a lot of attention to the account, but in the end they were in vain, and were told by the soldiers under the account that the general had entered Sucheng to inspect the army.So they went to the city again under the guidance of their own soldiers, and finally caught up with the general in an open school field.

As soon as he entered the school grounds, Huan Xuan found General Shen in a bright silver armor surrounded by generals.However, the arrival of these people did not attract the attention of everyone in the school grounds, because there were rows of ordnance erected in the center of the school grounds where General Shen was standing, as if they were demonstrating the power of the ordnance.

So Huan Xuan and the others were no longer in a hurry to go forward to pay respects, but followed behind the team, looking forward to the central position.

The row of ordnance erected in the center of the field looks quite similar to ordinary trebuchets, but there are some differences under closer inspection.Ordinary trebuchets are loaded with stones at the tip, and the tail is tied with a rope, and the stones are thrown out by human dragging and guiding force of the tip arm.

However, although the tip of the trebuchet erected there is also tied with stones, there is no pulling rope at the tip and tail. Instead, it is equipped with a huge basket, which is filled with unknown objects, and is raised high.

Huan Xuan and the others looked at the back position, so they couldn't see clearly the specific structure of this ordnance, but they only heard a round of drum horns, and then heard the crackling sound in front, and then saw the tip arms flying, and the boulder had been swept away. Throwing it far away, it was still the size of a human head at first, but suddenly it turned into a little black light.

Almost within a breath, Huan Xuan and the others saw the butt butts of the wall built of bricks and stones in the far distance being hit by flying stones one after another, and thunder and tremors continued to ring in their ears.After a while, the high piles of targets were gone, and only large groups of smoke and dust rose up in place!
"This general cannon can shoot heavy arrows, has a longer range, and can reduce manpower. It will be used in siege battles in the future. The crossbow is not as strong as mine, but I have already surrounded by hundreds of cannons, and I am invincible!"

Cheers and admiration resounded from the school field, and the generals behind Huan Xuan saw the power of this powerful weapon for the first time, and their expressions turned even paler.

　I have been stuck writing for the past few days. The situation in the north is more complicated than that in the south. If the military line is pushed all the way, I can’t write the whole picture. Too many considerations will slow down the main line.The information is too complicated and scattered, and it takes a long time to choose and choose. Sometimes the update is not timely, please forgive me. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)