Three Kingdoms.

Chapter 3343: Whose anger is the anger among the anger?

 The land east of the river has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

Everyone knows this, but who can win is the most critical issue.

Fei Qian personally led the army all the way down from Linfen and approached Anyi.

The military flags were hunting, the soldiers and horses were fierce, the iron hooves crushed the morning dew, and also alarmed the birds and beasts living in the forest. The team marched forward slowly with a solemn pace. The soldiers' eyes were firm, their armor was bright, and their swords and guns were like a forest, showing the majesty and orderliness of the hussars.

This is what some "cultural people" think...

But in fact, the marching road is not that beautiful.

Although Fei Qian is also a veteran of the army, every march is a kind of torture.

First of all, I have no hands...

Well, in fact, Fei Qian was used to the lack of electronic products, and the most painful thing during the march was the lack of water.

In other words, there is no bottled water that can be drunk anytime and anywhere in later generations.

Physalis water is the basic standard.

After drinking for many days, Fei Qian doubted whether his teeth could last until he was forty or fifty years old.

Just like in TV movies, if you raise your head and drink from the cowhide bag happily, you will definitely choke and cause vomiting. Because physalis water is actually slightly fermented rice soup or bean juice.

This fermented flavor combines with aged cowhide water bladders to create a sewer-like aroma.

Just don't breathe when you drink...

Don't smack your lips, otherwise you will definitely regret it.

And don’t drink too much, otherwise it will be very difficult to urinate on horseback.

You can't just let the army march and then run out to pee yourself?

That's right, when the entire army is marching, they are not allowed to make any reports and pee. If they really can't help it, they pee in their crotch. Only those with diarrhea will be allowed to leave the queue. Because sparseness often represents an epidemic, one cannot stay in the queue to spread the infection.

Since setting off from Emei Mountains, not only Fei Qian personally discovered the sources of pollution left by Cao Jun, but the scouts patrolling outside also discovered many questionable water sources. Therefore, Fei Qian once again emphasized that soldiers were strictly prohibited from drinking raw water along the way. The soldiers could drink water only after it had been cooked and disinfected after setting up camp.

As the commander-in-chief, Fei Qian must set an example, especially to maintain the majesty of the Hussars General. He can't be called a general who is running thin by his soldiers, and he is in a hurry, right?

Therefore, during the march, Fei Qian always had to control the amount of water he drank. He would only drink a little physalis water when he was very thirsty, so that he would not need to urinate on the way.

Although most bacteria and parasites will be killed and inactivated under high temperatures, some toxic components will not decompose due to high temperatures. To ensure safety, Feidu can only dive along the path with flowing water. Road travel.

The flowing river also has Cao Jun's hands and feet.

The wooden pieces of wood found by the scouts on the river and floating in the river were actually wooden boxes containing rotting corpses, which were buried or sunk into the river. It's just that these things were brought out because of the flow of the river.

Of course, even if the flowing river water contains viruses, bacteria, botulinum toxin, etc., it will be diluted by the flow of water, so as long as it is cooked at high temperature, it is generally still drinkable...

A small number of soldiers will have some adverse reactions after drinking it, such as vomiting and diarrhea, but they are relatively mild and can be recovered after a little rest and control.

Therefore, Fei Qian is unlikely to go fast on his way south, unless he is like Xu Chu, who mainly uses cavalry, and the infantry is directly transformed into a semi-mechanical, um, no, semi-animal force...

Well, it seems to be weirder.

Forget it, it’s all about water anyway.

After setting up camp, Fei Qian drank a bag of water happily, then grinned and peeed a smelly and disgusting urine. He took off his clothes and let his scalp breathe, and then he sat down at the table with a little more comfort. After the case, I once again looked at the latest battle reports sent from the front line.

Regarding Xu Chu's assessment of the war before the army, Fei Qian concluded that although there were minor mistakes, there were no major mistakes, and the pre-war goals were initially achieved.

Xun Chen then gave a relatively comprehensive explanation of the situation in the early stages of the war.

In the early stage of the battle with Cao's camp, the Hussars were able to take the initiative because of several key factors.

The most important thing is the new tactics Li Li came up with. When the battle report was delivered to Fei Qian, Fei Qian thought Li Li was the reincarnation of some Qing soldier, because this tactic was very similar to the tactics used in the early days of Big Braid.

Big braids...well, actually they should be small braids, because in the early Qing Dynasty, due to the extremely low sanitary conditions and the need to fight in deep mountains and old forests, no Manchus would have big braids, they were all small and short. braid. Otherwise, in the middle of the fight, a technical timeout will suddenly be called, "Start!" You're pressing on my braid! 』

The shooting tactics of the Qing soldiers were practiced in the deep mountains and old forests. They used their horses to frighten the birds and beasts, and then fired rapidly through shrubs and trees. Those who can practice this and become famous are all great warriors. This cannot be denied.

Therefore, in the early Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's infantry line was often unable to withstand the impact of the Qing army.

It’s just that the biggest problem of the Braided Dynasty is that there are few people and poor culture. Even if they unite the Chinese traitors, they cannot change the nature of the low-level slave system formed by nomadic herding, fishing and hunting. Therefore, a country can be destroyed by force, but it cannot Build a nation.

After the death and corruption of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse. The reason why Kang Mazi could survive and the dry cowhide could be stamped everywhere was because of my sincere gratitude to Fanshu for his continued life.

Of course, the sweet potato saving braids here is just a joke. After all, historical events are often determined by many factors. However, the Chinese people at that time were indeed able to survive as long as they had one bite to eat...

In fact, when we were in Kang Mazi, there was still a batch of elite seeds left, and then all the dried cowhide was given away.

Anyway, it’s Ye Tianzai who doesn’t feel bad about selling.

After carefully studying Li Li's tactics, Fei Qian found that they were actually quite different from those of the Qing archers.

One is that Li Li was originally a Lancer who became a Cavalry Archer, so Li Li and others' close combat capabilities are obviously stronger than those of the Qing Archers, and they can change weapons at any time to become a Lancer in melee form, but the Qing Bow Cavalry The cavalry's hand-to-hand combat ability... isn't bad, but to say how strong it is is to insult the soldiers who fought bravely in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the rural training formed by the Jiangnan gentry could beat the Qing army and make them scream. Of course, the rural training itself suffered a lot.

Another aspect is that Li Li also specially carried grenades. This weapon, at least at this stage, and even for a long time to come, can make up for the shortcomings of the cavalry while strengthening its power. Grenades can be used both offensively and defensively in combat. The offense can be used to shake off the turtle shells of the car formation that are difficult for bows and arrows to penetrate, while the defense can be used to intercept the opponent's lancer assault during the weak period of the rapid shooting of the archers.

Very strong, very good.

However, Fei Qian rejected Li Li's request to expand the number of horse archers using this tactic.

It's very simple. Feiqian is not like Qingqiu, which only has so much to blow.

Although Feiqian focuses on cavalry, it is because under the current level of science and technology and production, cavalry is undoubtedly an arm that an empire must focus on and meet military needs.

If Fei Qian only wanted to conquer the Central Plains and unify the Three Kingdoms, then infantry and gunpowder would be enough, and there was no need to develop cavalry at all.

Now, under Fei Qian's command, there are archers like Li Li who have been converted from lances, roving cavalry who are responsible for ultra-long-distance detection and penetration, and soldiers with eight feet and eight horses, all of whom are heavily armored, similar to the Flying Bear Army. The heavily armored melee lancer…

But things are changing now.

Fei Qian thinks it's good to have another type of cavalry, but there is no need to focus on developing and supporting them.

After all, Fei Qian doesn't need to be like Braid Chao, focusing on dealing with Ming Bu soldiers.

Therefore, Li Li deserves to be commended. Fei Qian immediately issued a promotion order for Li Li, but it would be inappropriate to blindly expand the number of cavalry. Fei Qian still feels that it is encouraged for those with this talent to change jobs, but there is no other People with shooting talent can also try other arms without hanging from a tree. In addition, during this front-line battle, long-range strike forces became increasingly important.

Both Fei Qian and Cao Cao were obviously aware of this problem.

In the early days of the Three Kingdoms, the bow and crossbow were still the king, such as Ju Yi's powerful crossbow halberd soldiers, but soon the bow and crossbow became the younger brother in the face of farther strike weapons. The human body is undoubtedly fragile in the face of these long-range weapons, and the main casualty figures of the Hussars Army also prove this.

At the beginning, when they competed with Cao Jun's scouts to suppress Cao Jun's peripheral troops, the casualties were not large. However, due to Cao Hong's catapult tactics, heavy casualties occurred. Nearly a thousand were slightly injured, 600 were seriously injured, and nearly a thousand were directly killed. It was not a tragedy.

"The power of the equipment is so great!" ” Although Zhongkang was defeated, he did not cause chaos to make up for his mistakes and should not be severely punished. 』

Fei Qian hummed and didn't say anything about Xu Chu's guilt. He just said that we would discuss it after the war. What is more interesting to Fei Qian is that Cao Cao obviously does not have a craftsman inheritance system similar to the one established by Fei Qian in Hedong, Guanzhong, but he still has so many craftsmen under him, and they rush to make so many catapults in Hedong. A very touching thing.

First of all, it must be pointed out that China's current military level, at least in terms of the construction of the city's defense system, is currently ahead of the world.

Because China has been constantly fighting wars in the Central Plains since ancient times, China in ancient times invested a lot of technology in the defense system of city walls, and it was also very powerful.

Among the Shimao ruins, which are earlier than the Xia Dynasty, there is a triple gate structure, as well as defensive means such as barrier walls, piers, and double urns.

In terms of the thickness of the city wall, China was far ahead of other countries at the same time. Therefore, Fei Qian could easily use artillery to destroy the capital of the Western Regions, but he may not be able to use artillery to destroy the state government of a county in the Central Plains.

Because China began to use "sanhe soil" to build walls, lay foundations, and seal tombs very early on, and also added glutinous rice, egg whites, brown sugar, animal blood, tung oil, plant juices, minerals, etc. to prepare it. After cooking... well, the rammed earth city wall built is like iron and steel.

In other words, the lime and clay city wall structures used in ancient China are at least a thousand years older than the volcanic ash primary cement and concrete of ancient Rome. Traditional Chinese rammed earth walls are extremely thick, with thicknesses exceeding ten meters abound. Some are as thick as twenty meters. The famous Constantinople city wall is only six meters thick, and it successfully resisted the full siege of the Roman Empire three times. The walls of the Parthian fortress of Hatra were only three meters long.

As for those medieval fortress walls in England and France, which are famous for their fortresses and are full of fortresses, the thickness is generally no more than two meters.

It is precisely because the Chinese city wall defense system is so strong that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was knowledge specifically focused on city siege, as well as a group of masters such as Gongshu Ban and Mozi who combined the theory of city attack and defense with practice. Even so, ordinary siege methods could not meet the needs of war, so unconventional methods emerged as the times require.

Such as flooding.

After all, for rammed earth city walls, water is naturally an important nemesis, but it may not necessarily succeed. Some succeed and some fail.

Therefore, siege equipment such as trebuchets are very important...

This is a question that almost everyone understands. However, in China's feudal dynasties from the Han Dynasty onwards, the city walls were still sharp and getting thicker, but siege technology such as catapults could almost be said to have stagnated.

Later, various fancy names in the feudal dynasty seemed to be constantly updated and iterated, such as three tips, five tips, seven tips, etc., but in fact there were no major breakthroughs or changes.

In particular, Fei Qian discovered that Cao Cao did not have a decent craftsman system, but he could make large-scale catapult arrays. In comparison, the feudal dynasties that followed were simply...

However, after Fei Qian thought about it carefully, he could understand the reason.

The technology of catapult is actually not too advanced.

Leverage principle.

But it is a super long-range strike...

If ordinary people could master this, would it be a big deal? !

Crossbows are already banned, let alone catapults?

In this matter, sensible "cultural people" are strongly supportive.

After all, "literary people", no matter what era they are in, they always like to give some advice from above, "Ah, the world is not good these days, the people are very violent...hehe, hehehe..."

In fact, is this really an expression of concern for the world or the people, lamenting that harsh government is stronger than a tiger?

Not really.

These "cultural people" are just mocking the monkeys squeaking in the trees, saying that I am like this, what can you do? I don’t even have a long-range weapon, and I’m still afraid of you. If you dare, come and scratch me!

Fei Qian couldn't help but wonder, if we continue to develop and promote long-range weapons from now on, and spread and spread among the people, although it will indeed bring great difficulties to the rule, will there be less comments from future generations? What about the "literary people" who are very angry?

The hostility of the people?

This hostility, whose hostility is it?

But Fei Qian never expected that he would soon meet a person full of "violent energy"...

A man named Cao.

Cao Zhao.

Cao Zhao's hands were tied and he was dragging his feet, stumbling step by step on the plateau. He was breathing heavily, and the blue veins on his neck were like blood-sucking worms, burrowing from his skin to his heart.

Behind him were Cao's defeated troops.

The defeated troops in Gufeng Mountain.

Like a knight charging at a windmill, Cao Zhao "bravely" raided Fei Qian's rear transportation road. As a result, he was discovered by roving scouts as soon as he came out of the mountain. He was immediately defeated on the charging road and captured.

Some soldiers of Cao's army fell on the road of charge, while Cao Zhao and others were caught and could not escape because they did not have enough horses.

In the queue, a soldier of Cao's army looked very angry. Although his arms were tied, it could be seen that he was still struggling and trying hard to get out of the restraints. Because he was not used to being treated like an animal. After all, he and they had treated other people like animals before.

Shandong has a strict hierarchy, and the level you are in means the treatment you will receive. As the core bodyguards of the Cao family, their monthly salary is basically three times that of other ordinary soldiers, and they also receive some welfare benefits from time to time. Therefore, these people have nothing to be dissatisfied with the Cao family's political group, and naturally they are Cao will be more loyal.

Of course people will die if he comes to participate in the war. Everyone knows this, but since he is not dead now, he should enjoy the same class treatment as Shandong. How can he be bundled with ordinary Cao Jun soldiers?

And let him and Shao Langjun be so separated? !

How can this be done?

But no one paid attention to his "legitimate request".

Once caught, they were **** on the spot. Do they still need to be classified?

But Cao Zhao's personal soldier felt that this matter was meaningful. He felt that if he could not figure out this matter and could not follow Cao Zhao, then he would have no value.

For many, many years, his family has had no land. As long as he can remember, their family has been farming other people's land. He is a person who likes farming. His father and grandfather are all good at growing crops. …It’s just that their family has no land.

Later, when the Cao family became prosperous, his family suddenly had land.

So what's the problem with him fighting for the treatment he deserves for Cao Zhao?

But in the eyes of the hussar soldiers, his behavior seemed like provocation.

So soon some hussar soldiers came over. After giving orders to stop him but to no avail, they killed him with a knife.

This scene happened in front of Cao Zhao.

Cao Zhao didn't say anything, just gritted his teeth.

Cao Zhao didn't speak, so the other soldiers of Cao's army were even less able to speak.

The queue quickly regained its calm.

It's just that in Cao Zhao's eyes, there seems to be what those "cultured people" call "violent energy", which is boiling...

Death on the battlefield did not teach these soldiers of Cao's army the rules, but the current sword made these soldiers of Cao's army completely understand the environment they were in now and the new rules they needed to abide by.

(End of chapter)