The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 135: Fanyang County
With a crash, Wang Jun pushed away the debris on the table in front of him, stood up suddenly, and said to the scout who came to report:

"What did you say!"

"The red-blooded general Qi Hong lost to Liu Tai and has now led his remaining army to retreat to Fan Yang." The scout lowered his head and said.

The scout murmured in his mind, knowing that no one would be better off if he came to report bad news.

Not to mention that since Wang Jun defeated Liu Kun, he began to indulge in extravagance and kill innocent people indiscriminately. Even his former confidant Wang Ti didn't know why he was imprisoned.

As a result, he came to get into trouble, and the scout was still worried that Wang Jun would pull him down and chop him down in anger.

However, fortunately, although Wang Jun was quite unhappy, he did not intend to kill the scouts.

After all, he still knew clearly what his foundation was, and he would kill those celebrities who opposed his claim to be emperor.

But there is no need for the soldiers at the bottom. What if no one comes to report to me after killing him?

Wang Jun pressed his head down and said, "Where is Wang Changshi? Call Wang Changshi!"

The chamberlain beside him said to Wang Jun cautiously, "General Qi, Wang Changshi is in prison now, would you like to bring him here?"

When Wang Jun heard this, he said, "What are you waiting for? Why don't you invite Wang Ti over quickly!"

Wang Jun pressed his head and felt that taking some Wu Shi Powder could calm the headache a little.

Qi Hong, who had already evacuated all the way to Fan Yang, looked serious. He originally thought that he would be able to evacuate smoothly after getting rid of Liu Tai.

When he actually evacuated, Liu Xia followed him tightly like a dog-skin plaster.

This time, Liu Xia was decisively more than ten miles away. Anyway, when his Red Blood Cavalry tried to find him, he decisively ran far away.

But as long as he set up camp, he would appear on time, greatly delaying his march and disturbing the morale of the army.

And he didn't dare to turn around and ambush him. After all, if he was entangled by the cavalry and Liu Tai chased him, then these broken troops would be useless. Then his red-blooded cavalry would lose its speed, which would be too dangerous. .

Therefore, Qi Hong retreated all the way and did not stop until he reached Fan Yang.

Liu Tai originally intended to allow Qi Hong to escape. After all, he was able to hold Qi Hong back now because he still had to gather the remaining soldiers.

If it is true that Qi Hong forced these remaining soldiers to give up, then his Red Blood Cavalry can run really fast.

Of course, Liu Tai himself was also waiting for Zhao An to take over the counties and counties in Jizhou, clear out the defeated troops in Jizhou, and coordinate the people in Jizhou.

As for Youzhou, to be honest, when Liu Tai saw Rongcheng in Youzhou, Liu Tai gave up the attack.

Because the north has been fighting with nomads for many years, the cities here are relatively well-built.

Even in a small county like Rongcheng, the city wall should be built as high as possible, and the defense facilities should be as comprehensive as possible.

At least from the degree of renovation outside the city wall, it can be seen that this was definitely not rushed out immediately.

Liu Tai took a look and understood that there has never been peace in Youzhou since ancient times, and the people and ethnic minorities in the border areas have always been in conflict.

Under such circumstances, the defense facilities in the border areas are much better than those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, if Liu Tai attacks at all costs, he can capture Rongcheng, but in reality, it is really unnecessary.

Liu Tai asked his soldiers to cut down trees and make preparations to attack Rongcheng, and he truly felt the pain of attacking the city.

Yes, some smaller supporting tools can be carried by the army, but when construction is really needed, they need to find nearby trees and cut down these trees to build various siege tools before they can siege the city.

Therefore, when the general army needs to attack a city, it must be stationed for a period of time and build the siege equipment first.

Liu Tai said to Xi Jian, "Next, record it!"

Xi Jian didn't dare to be careless. Over time, he had become accustomed to Liu Tai's working style.

From time to time, some wonderful ideas come to mind, but they are quickly forgotten, so someone needs to remind Liu Tai.

Because of this, Xi Jian took out a pen and paper and was ready to record at any time.

Liu Tai looked at Rong Cheng and said, "Siege equipment is needed to attack the city. After we return, we need to get Jie Fei's agency team into action and dismantle each siege weapon for me so that the rear can produce siege equipment." arms!"

Xi Jian immediately recorded it, but still said to Liu Tai, "Jun Gong, if it is manufactured in the rear, it will save labor, but how can such a large instrument be sent to the front line? The farmers cannot carry it at all. !”

When Liu Tai heard this, he glanced at Xi Jian and began to think.

The navy's attack on Youzhou is the biggest secret. Even the entire fleet is in the somewhat desolate area of ​​Jiaozhou Bay.

To be honest, only I, Chu Hui, Tian Tian and Su Jun knew about this plan.

Among them, he was the proposer of the plan, Chu Hui was responsible for the dispatch of materials, Tian Tian was the original executor of the plan, and Su Jun provided technical support on behalf of the Su family. It can be said that these four people cannot be bypassed.

But among these four people, all of them in the entire plan were restricted to military administration in different counties and were not allowed to leave.

Although Xi Jian in front of him has gradually been trusted by him, Liu Tai is still afraid that he will leak the secret because of his low status!

In Liu Tai's vision, it is naturally unrealistic for these things to be transported by land under normal circumstances.

But since he was preparing for a war, he led Wang Jun's troops out of Youzhou and fought a war in Jizhou.

Then we can't let the navy of Tian Zhen and Su Jun rush all the way to Youzhou City, and then sigh when they look at Youzhou City.

Therefore, siege weapons must be prepared for them, otherwise they will just die.

At the same time, because the ship itself needs enough items to lower its center of gravity to avoid capsizing, it is just right to stuff more siege equipment, and then set off directly from Jiaozhou Bay and transport it to Bohai Bay.

It's a pity that there was no Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in this era, otherwise we would just drive a boat directly to Youzhou.

The next question is how to complete the land march from Tianjin to Beijing, which is only 120 kilometers.The only way is to unify and standardize the various structures of siege weapons, and then modularize them into parts.

It would be nice to dismantle various seemingly huge siege weapons into individual weapon parts that can be transported using land vehicles such as wheelbarrows and pallet trucks.

Even if the 120-mile journey took six days, it would be better than waiting for him and others to arrive at Youzhou City and end up spending half a month cutting down trees and building siege weapons.

As the saying goes, if you want to do your job well, you must first sharpen your tools. No matter what, you must prepare these things in advance.

Liu Tai looked at Xi Jian and said calmly, "Transportation is indeed a problem, but the problem can be overcome slowly. We will find a solution after we go back. But if we don't think about the solution, then it will just be repetitive work in the future." !”

Xi Jian couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Liu Tai's words. For a moment, he didn't react.

Liu Tai continued, "You will need to bring enough sacks when marching and fighting in the future. You have to remember this!"

"Our army doesn't have enough hemp?" Xi Jian was a little confused after hearing Liu Tai's words and writing them down.

Some people in the army still carry linen, because this kind of thing can be used whether it is cut to hold supplies or made into ropes.

Not to mention, the medicines brought by the medical camp were placed in the sacks.

Therefore, things like sacks are actually not uncommon in the military, and even the military needs to reserve supplies in normal times.

"What should I say..." Liu Tai looked at it and said, "I was just thinking, what would happen if the catapult invested was not stones, but sacks filled with soil."

"If the sacks are only filled with soil, they won't do any damage to the city wall at all. These sacks will have no effect at all if they are hit on the city wall." Xi Jian thought for a while and shook his head.

"This is indeed the normal situation, but the problem is that if there are more and more mounds of soil and slowly accumulate to the same height as the city wall, then it can form a mountain of soil, overcome the obstacles of the city wall, and even allow the cavalry to charge!" Liu Tai Said calmly.

"This, this, this..." Xi Jian heard Liu Tai's words, but at this moment he seemed to be able to see such a scene.

Just thinking of such a scene, Xi Jian was thinking about what kind of method to overcome, but after thinking about it, he still had to fight out and burn these catapults, otherwise no matter how dangerous the obstacle was, he would be overthrown. Fill in.

"Don't think too much. The material requirements are a bit high. If we really want to implement it like this, I'm afraid we have to attack an important hub that needs to be besieged for years!" Liu Tai thought for a while and felt that although this method was safe, it would not work. Still too slow.

"But if this method of using power to suppress others is carried out by those with an advantage, there will be no strong city in the world!" Xi Jian said.

"There are so many fortified cities in the world, but you have never seen them before!" When Liu Tai said this, he couldn't help but think of Diaoyu City. Not to mention, just in the mountain city area, if you want to use this kind of soil to build a mountain, If you try to attack in a different way, you might have nightmares.

In any case, Liu Tai somewhat thought of the siege method of building mountains of earth, and there would be nothing wrong with bringing more linen in the army.

However, what Liu Tai needs to do is to build a corresponding military supply system.

Qingzhou itself is a big state in the textile industry, so at least there should be no problem in producing hemp textiles.

To be honest, Liu Tai's idea of ​​​​producing enough supplies at the rear and then finding ways to distribute them to the front is, to a certain extent, Liu Tai's unique thinking mode.

After all, modern war tests the comprehensive strength of a political system and a country.

This feeling was far more obvious in ancient wars than in modern times, because in ancient wars, tactics often reversed strategy, especially when a military god appeared, who was even more capable of defeating a country.

But in modern warfare, the competition is about the overall national strength. It is not impossible to use tactics to reverse the national strength, but the problem is that the military gods who can do this are only teachers now.

This is also the difference between Liu Tai's thinking and that of other armed warlords of this era.

In Liu Tai's mind, whenever he confronts his opponent, the whole of Qingzhou is confronting his opponent.

Unlike other warlords, the army is their foundation in their thinking. They need to seize military power, and then rely on military power to settle everything.

But Liu Tai knew that the army was important, but the army was only part of the war system.

It's like Zhao An's army has gradually separated from frontal warfare to fighting behind enemy lines.

There are not many of them on the frontal battlefield, but their role on the battlefield behind enemy lines is becoming more and more important.

The frontal combat effectiveness of Zhao An's army is constantly being weakened, but they are responsible for communicating with the people at the grassroots level. As a benchmark among Liu Tai's army, they set their example among the people and reduce the resistance of the local people to Liu Tai's army. But very important.

To be honest, if all the armies were to be like Zhao An's army and come from the people and go to the people, this is something Liu Tai could not do.

After all, due to the influence of the times, it is not easy for all soldiers to accept this concept, and it takes time to cultivate it slowly.

But he can still select these soldiers who are willing to integrate with the people and build Zhao An's war department that specializes in dealing with the people.

At the same time, his main army emphasizes military discipline, so that his army and other warlord armies can gain some advantages in the competition with the people.

At this moment, Liu Tai was stationed in Fanyang County to buy Zhao An enough time to clear out some deserters in Jizhou.

"You, the defeated troops, also want to harm the people of Jizhou, right? You don't even know whose territory Jizhou belongs to!"

Zhao An led his troops to clear out one of the defeated troops, and then immediately headed towards the next destination.

Compared with Liu Tai who followed Qi Hong in the confrontation with Rongcheng, Zhao An, who was galloping across the land of Jizhou at the moment, was quite skillful in asking his soldiers to find the local people who were affected by the defeat.

The common people are the eyes, the common people are the ears, and there are even local people who actively join the army to deal with the defeated troops. When Zhao An's troops engage in this kind of security war, it is somewhat of a dimensionality reduction attack.

And Gao Zhan also discovered that according to Zhao An's pattern, almost all the local people took the initiative to reveal the direction of the retreating troops. In some deep mountains and old forests, there was really nothing he could do, but as long as he wanted to continue to plunder the local people, , were all consciously cleared out by the teams dispatched by Zhao An.

And the local people's acceptance of Zhao An is also very high.

There is no way, one is a defeated army that performs the lowest level of human beings, and the other is an army that saves the local people like a savior. It is naturally clear who the people are more willing to deal with.

Especially under the influence of the defeated army, the local people accepted very quickly the part of the soldiers left behind by Zhao An to teach them the ability to protect themselves.

When the local villagers became familiar with the military historians sent by Zhao An, the military historians began to encourage the local villagers to go south.

They were even told that if they continued to stay, this area would become a battlefield and it would be dangerous.

(End of this chapter)