Chapter 397 Missing Infantry

It takes three generations to produce a noble. If the Bian family wants to become a true noble, they must start working hard from Bian Bing's generation.

Fortunately, this generation already has good connections and a rich family education.

What Bian Bing needs is to have a few more children and then train them well.

If there are two or three children serving as officials, and Bian Bing is sent to Chang'an to serve, it will immediately become a noble family. If you are lucky, it will not be surprising.

Within two generations, don't expect the Three Gongs and Nine Qings. The third generation can work for a while, and at least get along with the Nine Qings.

There are fewer positions as you go up, but as time goes by, there are more and more aristocratic families, large and small, and competition becomes more and more fierce.

"Work hard on the ground and do your own thing well. Don't worry too much about promotion. Instead, focus more on the training of the next generation." Zhang He warned.

Bian Bing is already married. It would be outrageous to say that he is not yet married at this age.

You don’t even need to go on a blind date or arrange it with your parents.

Because of his status and relationship with Zhang He, countless people took the initiative to marry him.

Just say that now, Bian Bing's wife is Jushou's niece and Juzong's daughter. By the way, she is only 16 years old this year.

"Wei!" Bian Bing listened to Zhang He's brother-in-law, mainly because of his parents' advice.

To put it bluntly, even if Bian Linglong has been taken as a concubine by Zhang He, their family was still Zhang He's domestic slave.

In fact, even now, although he is free, Bian Yuan has written to Bian Bing more than once that the Bian family will always be Zhang He's vassal.

Now that we have this status and such treatment, how can we do without Zhang He's support?
Bian Bing is a very pragmatic child and listens to his parents very much. Mainly because he knows how to be grateful.

Unlike some people who become more rebellious the more they are persuaded by their families, insisting on proving how useless they are...

Zhang He knew that Bian Bing really listened, so he left with peace of mind.

This kid is not very talented, but we still need to help him. If things go well next year, we will mention his position.

As a prefect for three years, I can accumulate some experience in governance, mainly in managing people, and then recommend him to Chang'an.

It turned out that Luoyang was more spacious, especially since it had been almost restored, but Liu Bei had no intention of going there.

Originally, Chang'an was also the old capital of the Western Han Dynasty. Since it was the Sanxing Yanhan, there was nothing wrong with Chang'an being the old capital.

But as a result, the entire Chang'an will need to be further expanded. The current scale of Chang'an is obviously not enough.

With these thoughts, Zhang He left the Great Wall and headed north with the tens of thousands of soldiers who had already assembled.

The Great Wall of Han Dynasty was built along the mountains, but many of them have been abandoned in later generations.

Thirty miles to the north is a basin terrain, surrounded by mountains.

There is more than ten miles between the two mountains, and the widest place is more than 20 miles.

Xianbei camped here, guarding the center of the widest basin. He usually sent soldiers to walk several miles to the outside of the Great Wall to provoke.

I tried to attack twice, but was beaten back both times.

In terms of siege methods and experience, Xianbei is still too young after all.

There was just one thing that worried Qianzhao. Every time the opponent attacked the city, his weakness was getting closer and closer.

They are summarizing their experiences and growing up little by little.

In the final analysis, people have never been exposed to this stuff before, which does not mean that they have no brains.

But compared to the barbarians of the Southern Xiongnu, Xianbei knew how to rely on his own wisdom.

"Strange, why didn't we see the infantry?" Zhang He led his army over and saw the Xianbei cavalry waiting in formation from a distance.

I'm just a little confused. Qianzhao said before that the opponent had thousands of infantry, but now it seems that the opponent only has cavalry.

"It's indeed a bit strange. Could it be that all the infantry are riding horses?" Qianzhao was also a little confused.

They came from the grasslands and had many horses. They might have disliked the slow pace of the infantry, so they asked them to ride horses instead.

If it weren't for the horses and infantry on Liu Bei's side, Zhang He would have wanted to do the same.Directly arrange two thousand or even four thousand ordinary war horses to travel for the two thousand personal guards under his command.

When moving around, ride a horse, and when you need to fight, come down to ensure you have enough energy.

Until marching becomes a game, the mounted infantry becomes dispensable.

After all, the physical consumption of walking is reduced, and the marching speed of the cart cannot be increased, so it doesn't mean much whether the infantry rides a horse or not.

"Do you think Xianbei will allow his auxiliary troops to ride horses?" Zhang He asked.

This is equivalent to slave soldiers, excluding the traitors who sincerely intend to join Xianbei and perform well on the battlefield.

Most of the infantry themselves were probably thinking of escaping from Xianbei.

Besides, they are just a group of cannon fodder. If they die, another group will be captured. If all the men are dead, the old and weak can be captured. Finally, the women and children will also be captured.

Since it is a consumable, there is no concept of pity.

Instead, by consuming these auxiliary troops, they continue to accumulate experience in sieges and commanding sieges.

So the question arises, where are the opponent’s thousands of infantry? !
Or is it that seeing them come out to fight, in Xianbei's eyes, it is more appropriate to use cavalry to fight at this time?
This is true. They have no experience in commanding infantry battles. Given the surrounding terrain, if thousands of infantry are not commanded properly, they will become a burden.

"I don't think it's that simple..." Zhang He muttered and started to turn the war into a game.

The problem is that in this game of war, although you can enter the God's perspective, it is actually within a one kilometer radius.

The distance between the peaks on both sides is more than five kilometers, and Zhang He can only see these enemies in front of him.

One thing is certain, in the opponent's position, there are all Xianbei cavalry, many of them are armored, and almost everyone is equipped with bows and arrows.

What makes people uncomfortable is that there are hundreds of people armed with crossbows.

If you look closely, you will find that the strong crossbows are all old crossbows, obviously trophies from the past.

The crossbow body itself is old, but the crossbow string is new. Naturally, they specially replaced it before going into battle.

They may be limited by material issues and cannot exert their original power.After all, those they held were big yellow crossbows.

If the craftsmanship was really so easy to be cracked by Xianbei, then the big man wouldn't be able to just throw away the territory of the Great Wall, he might have to throw away the whole of Hebei.

There were no infantry in sight at all, something was wrong.

The other party will set up a formation here because their scouts have detected that they are heading north.

But it was several miles away from their camp.

Encountering them here means that they will lead their troops to attack the problem normally today.

Just looking at the back of the team, there are some siege equipment, it is not difficult to see the clues.

In this case, it is impossible for them not to bring the infantry, but where are the infantry?
Suddenly, Zhang He noticed that there seemed to be two messengers on the other side, running towards the left and right sides.

Unfortunately, they soon left the one kilometer radius.

This is enough, which means that there should be problems on the left and right sides, mainly in the mountains and forests on both sides!
"Be careful, the other side may ambush infantry in the mountains and forests on both sides." Zhang He signaled.

Xun You opened his mouth. He was just about to say this possibility, but he didn't expect Zhang He to speak first.

But I was just guessing. If Zhang He said that, the enemy's infantry might really be ambushing in the mountains and forests on both sides.

It only takes about a quarter of an hour to confront them head-on, and the opponent's army can quickly attack them.

Apart from anything else, whether it is to entangle them or target their luggage, once successful, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Here!" all the generals responded.Pang De quickly led his troops to retreat and guarded both sides of the baggage train.

"Zijing, these cavalrymen in front of me, disperse them!" Zhang He immediately ordered to ensure that the rear army was on heightened alert.

 The Datong area is indeed a basin terrain, called Datong Basin.

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