Win the Ding 1617

In this way, the natural marching speed will not be fast.

However, Wu Liuqi, Ou Dapeng and the others didn't intend to play the game of fighting for speed. The battle at Shekeng had already caused the Taoyuan Grand Society's elite, morale, and courage to lose a lot.After returning to the lair, at most, they will take some measures to fortify the walls and clear the fields, process and repair fortifications for defense.

For a unit like the Nanzhong Army who is good at using its own firearms to attack fortifications, the most fearful thing is that the enemy uses fortifications for defense.

Moreover, clearing the field with empty rooms can only be used to deal with those troops who are short of food and weak in support.This is not a problem at all for the Nanzhong Army, which has to carry staple and non-staple food for about a month, and also carries money that can purchase staple and non-staple food for half a month.

Therefore, they only marched fifty miles a day to preserve and restore the physical strength of the soldiers.

However, those civilian men were transferred to the back of the scouts and forwards, and they had to complete the task of building the fort as required before the marching team arrived at the camp.

These peasants are organized into teams according to the same surname and the same village. This is a helpless move. The accents in this area are too complicated, and even in the same village, the entrance and the end of the village are different.Moreover, most civilian husbands are illiterate and unable to communicate through writing.They can only be organized into teams with ten people as a team and 50 people as a team according to the number of people of their same clan in the same village.

These people made a lot of noise all the way, and arrived at the camp amidst the threatening shouts of leaders at all levels.

The place to build the camp has been selected according to the topography and features.

"It's time to eat! Do something after eating!"

Outside the camp, the firemen had already prepared meals for these civilian men.

In the noisy discussion of various accents.Under the supervision of the Jingbian South Central Army's supply team and forward soldiers, the civilian husbands began to line up to receive their meals one by one with fresh and curious thoughts.

The chef swiped a spoonful of it, and a bowl of white rice immediately sprang to the top.The bowl in the right hand was stretched out, and a large spoonful of boiling broth was poured out, and immediately a large bowl was filled to the brim.In the thick broth, large chunks of meat that had been randomly cut a few times lay arrogantly in the broth, exuding bursts of seductive aroma into the air.This tempting taste whets the appetite, and everyone is very excited. This is a meal that many people may not be able to eat during the Chinese New Year!

A few young and Dangerous boys who are restless in the village relying on their family background on weekdays, want to jump in line or rob others for food.The Nanzhong Army who was supervised by the civilian husband team.They were mercilessly educated with leather whips and army sticks to let them know about rules and discipline. This education made them cry and beg for mercy.Others laughed.Everyone is gloating.At the same time also know.Here in the South China Army, the importance of rules.

Amidst the laughter and laughter, all the men and women are strong.According to the same township and team, one by one looked for a place to squat down, and gorged themselves.Many people admired while eating, but they didn't expect that in the twelfth lunar month, after being pulled out by the officers and soldiers, it would be good to be able to eat enough, and if they didn't want to eat such a good meal.

"Start work, start work, and work quickly when you are full."

"Work work."

Seeing that most of the folk husbands were already full, the team leaders and deputy officers of each team also yelled out one after another.

The camp site selected according to the terrain has already been sprinkled with lime by the officers of the supply team and the brigade according to the blueprint of the camp area.Divide labor and contract sections, carry out construction according to the reality of Baihui, and be responsible for doing your own things well.

These folk husbands are all young and middle-aged men, most of them have strength, and they all chanted in Chaoshan dialect.Wielding the hoe and pickaxe in his hand, he continued to dig trenches with great force.Someone was carrying bamboo baskets to pick the excavated soil aside to build an earth wall.The person in charge of building the wall erected planks, poured soil into the splints, and used a huge wooden pestle to tamp it with all their strength.

As for the captive group warriors of the Taoyuan Grand Society, each of them had a shovel, and swung the shovel and pick at the position where the white line was drawn to dig a trench. The stick was rewarded.

Others were sent to remote places to collect materials from the local area, and felled bamboo and trees for the construction of fortifications.

The earth walls built with the earth from the trenches soon began to take shape. The earth walls were not too high, and each wall was divided into two parts, the inner and outer walls.From the side of the outer wall, it is about six feet long, while the inner wall is widened at the corner, and a road can be built for people to stand on and walk on.From this foothold to the top of the wall is about the chest of an ordinary soldier, which is just right for those musketeers to aim and shoot at the incoming enemies. Of course, although the earth wall is not high, it is thick enough to block the Buddha The bombardment of Lang machine guns and the throwing of tin cans and torches are used for arson. .

Between the low walls, there are several passages for entry and exit, which can be used by the soldiers inside the walls to attack according to the situation.According to the situation, it can be defensive and offensive, and small-scale counterattacks are carried out from time to time during the defense.Of course, these low wall gaps are irregular. For example, if you enter the first low wall gap, you are facing a thick wall. You need to go left or right a few steps, more than ten steps, to continue to touch the gap road.

On both sides of these access passages, temporary artillery forts were built from felled trees. The fighting positions of those big Franglers are here, and the shotguns loaded in their guns will block these passages well.

Guarding these low walls, there are many protrusions, just like the horse-faced enemy towers of the city walls.Can shoot at enemies attacking low walls from the side.

Of course, if you want to attack the low wall, you must first pass the trench trap outside the wall.

Not far from the foot of the earth wall, there are deep trenches and traps everywhere. Under the trenches, there are sharp wooden thorns and bamboo sticks.

There are ditches built before and after the camp and a number of traps dug at random. If you don't know it, you will definitely fall into the trap if you rush into it.

Even if casualties are not counted, and those traps are filled with dead people, the attacking enemy will soon face new problems.

moat!

The trench, which is one foot wide and five feet deep, is also filled with wooden thorns and bamboo sticks.Occasionally some areas are not planted.It is definitely not the constructor's sloppy or conscience discovery, the bodhisattva's heart.Rather, it is intentional.The top of the reserved trench may be facing the muzzle of a cannon.

Do you think this kind of camp layout looks familiar?

good!This is exactly the method of camping that Shou Han formulated for the South China Army!It was absorbed from the camping practices of the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army, and it was modified over many years with the consideration of many aspects such as life and hygiene in the modern army.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom marched, they did not set up camps in the plains, but mostly relied on dangerous mountains, or built camps in large villages and giant towns.Earth walls were built around the camp, and guns were perforated on the walls.There is a ditch dug outside the wall.Bamboo sticks are densely inserted in Haozhong.There are wooden stakes nailed outside Hao, and it is surrounded by thorns.In addition to the wooden stakes, crossed bamboo sticks are nailed.Take extremely soft bamboo slices and cover them crosswise.Where there is fierce battle with the enemy.Then dig heavy moats and build heavy walls.The first way is to plant bamboo sticks densely.The first wall must be framed with double-layer planks, nailed with horizontal wood, and the void is like a double wall.Sand and gravel brick soil is filled in the middle.The second way of Hao also strives for breadth and depth.second wall.Or densely packed whole trees.Or pile earth bags, sand bags, and water-soaked cotton bags, depending on the situation.When in Yongan Prefecture.The walls were once made of living trees with roots, and cedars and pennies in between, which is especially unexpected.This variety of barriers makes it difficult for the enemy to overcome them in one way, and when the cannon hits the bamboo stick slightly, it has no power to fall to the ground. At the same time, it can buy time and attack the enemy calmly. to a significant effect.

The camps built by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have been carefully designed, and you can see the terrain by yourself. "General Essentials of the March" teaches generals that "everyone who builds a camp and a stronghold" must "predict the schedule and see the location clearly."In addition, the construction strives to be strong, and the project is completed within a limited time. Therefore, the camps built are very cleverly used for the situation of mountains and rivers, and the construction is so strong that even the enemy has to say that the Taiping Army "built walls like cities, dug rivers like rivers, and had no depths." "(Zeng Guofan's "Looking at the Army Situation and Thieves along the Way" on February 27, the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, on the camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, see "Zeng Wenzhenggong Memorial" Volume [-].).It is also said that the Taiping Army "does not learn from the ancient methods", but "must be strong and solid, and can rely on the crouching to rescue each other, and the voice and voice are connected, and the art of war is nothing more than this" (this is Zhang Dejian's "Thief Love Collection" Volume [-] "Puppet Army The words about the camp of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in "Yingbai" in Zhizhi).

It is precisely in view of the characteristics of the opponent's building camps to facilitate offense and defense that the Hunan Army created by Zeng Guofan is even more famous for "building a stronghold and fighting dull battles".

However, most of the labor tools used by the Taiping Army to build camps were traditional wooden tools, and the efficiency was naturally not comparable to that of the South China Army who used metal tools. After a short time, many completed sections appeared on the construction site of the camp.

Due to the large number of workers and the handy and sharp tools in their hands, in less than three hours, the layers of low walls and ditches around the entire camp had been dug and repaired.The officers and soldiers of the supply team began to urge the civilian men of each team to carry out refined renovations in the camp in order to achieve perfection.

In a small bamboo forest about two or three miles away from the camp, several people and horses were nervously spying here.

"Third Master, no matter how slowly these officers and soldiers walk, they will reach our Taoyuan Village almost tomorrow! When we come out this time, none of the shovels from the Waiqi family dare to come out to fight against our officers and soldiers at night. During the day Their firearms are sharp, and they are sharp in fighting. At night, can his firearms be used?! A bunch of cowards!"

"Let's break in and touch his camp! We'll kill and slash, and rescue our uncles and brothers along the way!"

Zhang Tingyu, the head of the three sessions of the Taoyuan Grand Shrine, had her face wrapped in gauze, and there were faint bloodstains on the gauze.He used the monocular to carefully observe the huge and constantly forming camp in the distance, his face twitched uncontrollably, probably because his muscles were pulled to the wound, and he couldn't help taking a breath of cold air.

"We can't blame them either. In the battle of Shekeng, they suffered heavy losses, and all the elite soldiers and horses of the clan were lost. At this time, self-protection is not enough, so how can we talk about attacking?"

Putting down the clairvoyance in his hand, Zhang Tingyu said these words after a long while, which was regarded as an answer to the leader of the family.

"Tell the brothers, quietly, the rear team has changed to the front team, withdraw! You lead someone to find a way to catch some civilians back and interrogate them!"

"Then, stop fighting?!"

"Fight!? Hit you big-headed ghost! These more than 1000 people are the capital we can finally mobilize! They are all thrown here. What is the big society doing to guard the stockade? What are we using to mess around in this area?!"

The leader of the servant agreed and took off his armor.He selected a few capable subordinates and quietly touched the woods where the sound of logging was heard not far away.

Farther away in the grassy bamboo forest, nearly a thousand brave men from the Taoyuan Big Community, each with their own name, turned lightly to the Taoyuan Village dozens of miles away.

Zhang Tingyu did not make up his mind to launch a night attack, which was a wise decision.

"Third Master!"

"Third Master!"

The leader of the servants went away for a while, tied up a few civilian men and hurriedly caught up with the brigade that had withdrawn more than a mile away and started marching in a hurry.

"These guys went to the woods to cut down trees! Lose your mother! Don't you know that all the trees here belong to our Taoyuan Shrine?!" The leader of the servants threatened with a sinister smile.

"What do you cut down trees for? Isn't your camp already finished?"

Zhang Tingyu stopped the servants from punching and kicking, trying to put on a kind expression.

"The camp is finished!" The man who was beaten up with a bruised nose and a swollen face replied with a mournful face.

"But the military masters said that there are not enough lampposts in the camp. They want us to cut down some trees and use them as lampposts. They said that in this way, the roads and roads in the camp will be illuminated by lights!"

"I see!"

Zhang Tingyu's heart shuddered!

Such tricky and weird fortifications are enough to cause headaches. If the lights in the camp are bright, your team will be blessed by ancestors, Bodhisattvas, and gods, and they will sneak into the camp.Night raids are also impossible.

since ancient times.night attack.It is a very technically rich tactic.

If the army is elite and orders are prohibited, night raids are a powerful means of attack.but.The requirements for the military are even higher.

First of all, when fighting at night, sergeants with night blindness must not participate!Secondly, and more importantly, at this time in the dark night, the signals and drums used by the army to communicate have lost their effect. How to effectively command operations is a huge problem. It is best not to play this for the elite troops whose troops are extremely solid, otherwise they will die in an ugly way.

If one intends to make great achievements in night battles, apart from the fact that one's own military technology, discipline, and organizational system are far stronger than the enemy's, it is best for the enemy to have weaknesses in these areas.For example, the army is huge and complex, the command system is chaotic, and the communication between the ministries is not smooth, which is easy to cause contradictions and confusion.

In history, Liu Xiu made great achievements in the Kunyang victory. In fact, apart from the bad weather, the bigger problem was that there were too many troops, which had exceeded the upper limit of the number that could be realistically controlled by the technical conditions at that time.That's why tens of thousands of people were defeated by Han Guangwu with thousands of people.

Zhang Tingyu is quite self-aware.In the past, successful night battles were all cases where the lights in the opponent's camp were dimly lit and the situation was unknown, causing confusion and panic, which in turn led to a collapsed situation. During the process of the enemy's collapse, the enemy was severely killed, or the enemy was captured. enemy positions.Originally thought that although Wu Liuqi's troops joined forces with the Nanzhong thieves, there must be a huge gap and contradiction between these new thieves and the old Nanzhong thieves, and they could create confusion between the two during the night attack and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

However, in addition to the deep trenches, high forts and traps, the camps are brightly lit.It's easy to know what's going on with each other.How to create chaos?

These brave regiments commanded by Zhang Tingyu were neither the "Night Tiger" regiment that was known for being good at field battles across the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, nor the volunteer army that created the myth that "the night belongs to Chinese soldiers" by relying on field battles on the Korean battlefield. There is neither a small horn for communicating with each other, nor a bamboo tube for distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy.In terms of nutritional supplements, sharp eyesight, discipline, and the organization of the army, there are few armies in this world that can compare with the South China Army. Playing night battles in front of such opponents, the team warriors of Taoyuan Taisha have excellent skills, organization, and strength. Discipline is far inferior, rushing forward is death!

"Then, third master, what should we do with these people?" The leader of the housekeeper pointed to a few civilian husbands who were arrested for questioning.

"Take them to the front for a careful interrogation. If there is nothing more to ask, you can send them back."

Sending him back is an idiom used by Zhang Tingyu, which means sending him back to his hometown.

The leader of the housekeeper immediately nodded in understanding, and after a while, he rushed up with a waist knife in his hand, and the blade was still dripping with blood.

"Third Master, the Nanzhong Bandit's brigade has arrived!"

Looking towards the east, with the afterglow of the setting sun, a large group of people marched into the completed camp.

Two handsome flags were raised in the middle of the camp.

"Brother District, is this too serious?"

Under the guidance of the officers, the two armies allocated barracks and lived in the barracks mixed with each other.But Wu Liuqi and the others looked around for access roads, fortifications, and arranged for troops on duty.

Although Wu Liuqi disapproved of Ou Dapeng's arrangement, he still agreed in his heart, "Be careful sailing for thousands of years!"

However, when he heard Ou Dapeng's answer, almost all the officers of the new brigade fainted.

"Boss Wu, it's nothing. We are going deep alone now, so we have to be more careful. After we have settled the artillery positions, we will distribute the patrol password tonight to each battalion. Boss Wu, you and me On duty, it's my turn tonight, so I'll overstep the matter of arranging the sentry position!"

At the moment, after making some arrangements, Wu Liuqi, Wu Biao and the others suddenly discovered that the A and Squads who had been transferred to serve as sentry troops outside the trenches outside the camp accounted for almost one-fifth of the entire army.

That's it!

Looking at the deep ditches and high fortresses all around, and listening to the numbers of the teams that were called out for the duty call and the watch call, Wu Liuqi was thoughtful. (To be continued..)