Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 128 Wang Meng's first battle

Chapter 132 Wang Meng's First Battle

Of course, Ran Ming is not planning to use his scout team of less than a thousand people to resist the Qin army's counterattack! , As a person of later generations, Ran Ming's thoughts and horizons are much wider than those of this era!

Ran Ming is going to turn these three thousand Luoyang young men into a machine troop!If there are enough crossbows, Ran Ming is confident that these three thousand young men can learn to operate the crossbows within one hour, and three hours of training can make them qualified crossbowmen!
However, Ran Ming didn't have many crossbows in Luoyang. If they were to be made on site, there would be neither materials nor skilled craftsmen.Of course, this did not bother Ran Ming.

Ran Ming is going to build a catapult troop.As long as there are enough catapults, these three thousand young men can be used as an elite army of ten thousand!
Ran Ming asked Chen Xun to recruit craftsmen in Luoyang City again with a lot of money.Relying on the catapult, of course Ran Ming would not let the craftsmen only build the kind of catapult with a range of only three or four hundred steps, but it would take hundreds or even two or three hundred people to launch the ancient Chinese catapult, but directly invent the super-era return cannon.

The return cannon is not a cannon in the true sense, but a relatively advanced and powerful catapult. The working principle of the return cannon and the traditional Chinese sling is the same, and the difference is limited. The main reason is that the long arm is added to pull the human force The launching method was changed to using heavy objects instead of manpower pulling. In this way, due to the lack of manpower, the problem of slower speed was solved, so the return gun was more powerful than the traditional trebuchet!
Ran Ming handed over the blueprint of the Huihui Cannon to Chen Xun, and asked Chen Xun to gather craftsmen to tear down houses in Luoyang City.The manufacture of trebuchets, like shipbuilding, must use shade-dried wood, otherwise it is easy to crack and deform.

Although trees can be cut down, naturally dried wood is more effective.Anyway, so many people died in Luoyang City, and most of the houses were destroyed by the war, so Ran Ming planned to rebuild Luoyang City in the future.

Ran Ming bought the beams of their houses from the common people by means of IOUs.A large number of people in Luoyang City were gathered to participate in the manufacture of the return cannon!
Manufacturing catapults is easy to say, but in fact it is very difficult. From the organization of craftsmen, to the deployment of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, things are very complicated. If Chen Xun is not here, I am afraid that Ran Ming himself will collapse.

At this time, Luoyang City looked like an empty city with its gates wide open and no defense at all. In fact, no matter if the Qin army attacked from any point of the twelve city gates, they would not be able to take advantage of it for the time being, because Ran Ming took advantage of the geographical advantage, Prepare a feast for them!
Just when Wei Jun was fighting wits and courage with Qin Jun on the two battlefields of Luoyang and Taolin.

Wang Meng of Qingzhou also set off with his army!
He only had [-] cavalry, and no auxiliary soldiers, all of them were soldiers, and he only carried half a month's worth of canned food and dried meat as military rations.

Because of this battle, Wei Guo is fighting with all his strength, and there will be no reinforcements along the way, so Wang Meng is also fully prepared.Fifteen thousand cavalry, all with one man and three horses, one to ride, one to store horsepower, and the other to be used as a poor horse to transport supplies!
In addition to the knives, guns, daggers, and spears for close combat, crossbows and arrows are simply desperate to carry.With six pots of crossbow arrows in hand, the inventory of Qingzhou Military Supervision was directly emptied!

After Wang Meng took the oath, he sacrificed three animals to the flag and led the army to set off.

The morale of the army is very high, and the slogan of the Huyan Group of the Canglang Camp is quite shocking: "Brothers, let's go, let's go to the grassland, grab money, grab food, grab women!"

The slogan of Jin Cuizeng, the speedy army, also made Wang Meng's face gloomy: "Brothers, let's set off, defeat Yan State, and restore our Goguryeo!"

Blast Camp is better: "Defeat the Murong Ministry, we will take back our pastures! Take back our cattle and horses!"

When they arrived at Hu Xiao Camp and Bei Cub Camp, they finally uttered a slogan that satisfied Wang Meng: "Big Wei Wansheng! A man, with a three-foot green blade, he has achieved invincible feats!"

In fact, Wang Meng also held his breath. Ran Ming trusted him so much that he almost handed over his wealth and life to him. As a lord, being able to do this made Wang Meng feel a kind of "death for those who know themselves" impulse.

However, Wang Meng didn't know that the two beauties that Ran Ming gave to Wang Meng, Lian Xing and Qiao Yue, were actually members of Tianyan. Don't look at them as two delicate beauties. They said they had ten thousand ways to kill Wang Meng. I don't know how he died!

As long as Wang Meng has a different heart, these two delicate beauties will turn into deadly Shuras.

When Wang Meng led the army for the first time, he showed his extraordinary ability. After entering Jizhou, he adopted the strategy of the later generations, using gold in one hand and a butcher knife in the other.

Those who descend will be saved from death, and their young and strong will be captured as an army to share the fruits of victory.

When Wang Meng led his army to Lingzhi, the army had grown to more than [-] people.In fact, more than half of them are affiliated armies of the Huns, Qiang, Xianbei, Wuheng and other tribes who migrated to the south.

Wang Meng did not directly attack the densely populated area of ​​the Yan army, but kept wandering in the area just occupied by the Yan State.

In Wuzhong (now Jizhou District), Yan State Palace, Murong Jun received attacks from various small tribes every day, or rebelled against Yan State, became the vanguard of Wei State, and led Wei State to sweep the surrounding areas.

Now those small tribes attached to the Murong tribe in Yan Kingdom are in danger. Murong Jun was originally used to dilute the Han people in the north, and the Hu tribes who moved to the south are in turmoil.

Seeing the situation Yan Guo was facing, Murong Jun's lungs exploded with anger, and he roared at the courtiers of Yan Guo: "Who of you can tell me what I should do?"

Murong Ping said: "There is nothing to say, beat his mother! The last general invites the fight, and the last general is willing to lead his own troops, Ma Weijun, and those cowards are slaughtered!"

At this time, Murong Ping alone controls nearly 10% of the Yan army's military strength, and has nearly [-] elite cavalry under his command!It's just that they are all light cavalry. , There is no way, the "armored cavalry equipment" that Murong Hao finally accumulated caused Murong Ke to lose in the battle of Liantai. Now all the heavy cavalry in Yan Kingdom add up to less than a thousand, which is useless at all!

Murong Ping personally led the battle, naturally no one objected.

But Wang Meng didn't want to fight him at this time. The main forces on both sides were cavalry, with the same four legs. Wang Meng avoided fighting, and Murong Ping couldn't fight the original Wei army.

At this time, Wang Meng was riding on the horse, holding the "36 Strategies" plagiarized by Ran Ming in his hand.He flipped through it from time to time, but what he was thinking about in his head was the true meaning of guerrilla warfare that Ran Ming told him, "The fat will drag you thin, and the skinny drag you to death!"

"Master Wang! The cavalry of the Yan army is thirty miles behind us. Counting the time, they will be able to catch up in at most two quarters of an hour!" The scout reported to Wang Menghui.

Wang Meng glanced at the soldiers who were sleeping soundly, and said with a smile on his face, "Boys, get up, and continue to let the Yan army eat ashes behind us!"

At this moment, Hu Yanqun angrily came to Wang Meng and said, "President Wang Guo, someone wants to fight the Yan army, and if he is chased away by the Yan army like this, he is not a hero!"

"The time has not come yet. It's not an opportunity for a decisive battle!" Wang Meng said, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu gave me an order to delay the Yan army for three months. Go down to Jizhou! To take Jizhou, you must defeat the Yan army."

"But..." Seeing Wang Meng's piercing eyes, Hu Yanqun quickly stopped complaining, and clasped his fists and said, "General Huyan, don't you want to go back to your fief?"

In the Battle of Liantai, Hu Yanqun was a first-class hero, and Ran Min named him the Marquis of Beiping.There are eight hundred households in Shiyi.

When Hu Yanqun heard this, he said with joy, "Qun, of course!"

"At the latest half a month, I will guarantee that you will drink in the endless city!" Wang Meng turned to the surrounding soldiers and said, "Now we are not only fighting for Wei, but for ourselves. In this battle, if we If you are victorious, you will also be rewarded and worshiped, and your wives and sons will be conferred. Soldiers, do you want to be conferred meritorious service? Glorious door lintel? Do you want to have a vast pasture with countless cattle and sheep?"

Wang Meng's words were like a fire, directly warming the hearts of these Hu soldiers. Usually they are the private property of the tribal leaders, without personal dignity, freedom, and property of their own. Now if they make meritorious service, they will Change your own destiny and become your own master!Excited and passionate, the soldiers on the field shouted: Great Wei Wansheng! "

Amid the deafening cheers, Wang Meng led an army of tens of thousands to leave the station and march forward!

Just over a quarter of an hour after Wang Meng led the army to leave, Murong Ping also arrived with his troops.

However, at this time, apart from the horse manure left all over the ground and countless pottery pots left over from eating, there was no half of the soldiers of the Wei army.

Murong Ping looked at the color of the horse dung left on the ground, and knew that Wei Jun should not be there soon, so he shouted: "Warriors of Dayan, Wei Jun has just left, if we catch up immediately, the enemy who will destroy our home and rob us of our cattle and sheep will definitely be destroyed." kill!"

Yan Jun had no choice but to follow Murong Ping and continue to pursue!
At this time, the general of the Yan army is better. Those soldiers are in great pain. Since chasing the Wei army, all of them can't eat well, sleep well, and are exhausted. In addition, the horses have not rested on time. Now most of the horses have also collapsed. the edge of!

That's why Wang Meng dared to go around with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and Murong Ping, as long as he had something to rely on.When he was in Jingxian County, Wang Meng met a Hun who was good at raising eagles, Chili Gutu, and he had a very spiritual black eagle in his hand.

Can understand the words of Gutu, and can also scout the enemy's movements.This black eagle standing alone can have a panoramic view of every move within a range of [-] miles!
This is like a live radar, allowing Wang Meng to predict the future like the legendary Zhuge Liang, and Wang Meng can know in advance through this black eagle that Murong Ping adopts any siege and interception.

(End of this chapter)