Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shaobu crossed the Hutuo River and saw that the barracks fences, arrow towers, latrines, and trenches had been built, and a large amount of firewood and coal (coal) were also hoarded outside each large camp. [This book was first published] He praised the Qizhou Governor right now, not to mention the fact that he could not enter the city.

After entering October, the weather became colder as soon as the north wind blows. Fortunately, there is plenty of fuel. The generals provided firewood and coal to the ministries, and the felt-top tents burned charcoal day and night, and everyone did not want to go out. Before he went to bed, Guo Shao filled his iron cup with water and put it out of the tent. When he got up early the next morning, he had frozen on a thick layer of ice overnight.

Hebei is so cold, but the imperial court transferred the army here to spend the winter. Within two days, Guo Shao summoned several generals to discuss: "The intention of the Privy Council to deploy troops may be to start deploying troops ahead of schedule, or to prepare us to attack the city early. We must send some scouts to Waqiao Pass to investigate fortifications. "

The left car was stationed in this place now, and it was dominated by infantry. Guo Shao wondered that as soon as the battle started, it might be to hit the Waqiao Pass just north, and he remembered hitting the wall with gunpowder. He first asked the generals how to prepare, and wanted to hear opinions first.

"There is no need to tackle the problem." Li Chuyun said directly, unexpectedly.

Guo Shao hurriedly asked why.

Li Chuyun looked back on his surroundings and said, "Zhou Duan is not here today. A few days ago, he talked about Liao. I noticed that his words were fierce, so I didn't start arguing, but I really didn't agree with him."

As soon as the generals heard it, they agreed and scolded again. Seeing this, Zhou Duan is really unpleasant, and it is normal for the generals to look down upon them. Zhou Duan's words are indeed often exaggerated and unreliable. For example, if you want to say that the color of a thing is white, you will definitely try to say it is whiter than snow. But Guo Shao didn't care about it. Zhou Duan said that he just picked it up and listened to it.

Li Chuyun said again: "From my point of view, so many tribes in Liao are squeezed together, and the lord is unpopular. The weakness is that it is scattered inside. Especially in the land of the clouds, most of them are Han'er. Persuading surrender is better than attacking the city. It’s not very long. Youzhou has not been cut out for a long time. The Khitan people don’t trust Han'er, and Han'er in the land of the clouds is more thinking about returning. The guards of Waqiaoguan and other places are all Han generals, and they will not want to stick to it. Once it starts The Northern Expedition, when the lord played forward to persuade surrender."

"Something makes sense." Guo Shao nodded, "but you have to prepare with both hands and write some raw materials to reserve; once the enemy does not descend, you can use gunpowder to blow up the city. Even if you can't use places such as Waqiao Pass, if you can Under Lin Youzhou City, I used gunpowder to blast the city wall to siege the city, also doing my best to recover Youyun."

Li Chuyun said: "The lord's words are extremely true, and preparations are indeed okay. But I put my words on the few brothers here. When the court army arrives, there will be no fierce battles in Youzhou, and it is enough to recruit and accept rebels along the way; The victory or defeat depends on the reinforcements of the Liao Kingdom. The current situation of the Liao Kingdom depends on whether they can send a large army to rescue them, and whether the reinforcements can work together to protect Youzhou... Otherwise, most of the clouds are Han'er, Wang Shiyi Recovering is easy.

Li Chuyun looked back and said: "Come and see tomorrow in spring. If I am not right, you can ridicule me in person, I will definitely stand the ridicule!"

At this time, Zuo You said: "I also agree with General Li's words. In a word, if the lord is surrendered, he should treat Youzhou Han'er with the same treatment. It is said that this place has strong folk customs and Yanzhao has been a tragic and heroic person since ancient times. If the lord wins the hearts of the people of Youzhou, the power will last forever."

...Guo Shao turned over the previous command system assumptions. In Tokyo, he was restrained and unable to play tricks. As long as the troops came out without leaving the station too far, why didn't he want to say something?

At the moment, regardless of the cold weather, we can't wait to start putting it into practice.

(There are a total of thirty-nine commanders of six armies in the left side (including the cavalry directly under Dong Zunxun's department). Guo Shao ordered a total of forty-five military commanders of the Sixth Army and thirty-nine commanders, and each general selected six familiar soldiers to form A messenger of about two hundred and seventy men is in command; under the command, there are three heads, twelve ten generals, and forty-five fire officers.

Luo Mengzi also led the commander of the army, and transferred fifteen members of the guard to more than ten generals. In this way, Luo Mengzi and Zhujiang can gradually recognize these messengers. In the future, there will not be so many procedures for sending orders, just recognize people; simple military orders are generally dictated, and important military orders are in written form.

These two hundred and seventy people were divided into two after entering the battlefield. Half of them stayed in the Chinese army, and the other half was scattered around their respective main generals to communicate with each other.

Guo Shao added another measure to this system. He and Zuo You and Zhou Duan issued the signature handwriting to each general. The written military order must be signed by one of the three to count. There are also multiple anti-counterfeiting such as the flags and the master stamped letters. These things are not complicated as long as they are stamped. )

Zuo You and Zhou Duan were not as leisurely as they used to be. The two of them formed an office of staff and selected literate soldiers as helpers in the army. First set up the staff's shelf similar to the staff.

After Guo Shao set up the staff and messenger organization, he couldn't wait to start the drill.

He felt that the operation of the confrontation exercise was too complicated and the conditions were insufficient. At the moment, only the various ministries were allowed to carry out simulated transfers and marches. It was agreed to start the drill around November 1. Beforehand, he and the generals made some military adjustments and preparations.

Then Zhao Kuangyin implemented the elimination system in the selection of soldiers at the front of the palace, and Guo Shao was also working on it, but he did not eliminate the soldiers, but only conducted organized exercises.

The snow was heavy on November 1st, but it was fine and the wind was small on the 2nd. According to the order, the various ministries assembled some soldiers in the open area by the river.

The sky and the earth are vast, and the river has frozen. When Guo Shao got out of the tent, all he breathed was white vapor, and the weather was very cold. A crowd of people shouted and hugged to the front of the formation, only to see that nearly 20,000 people had gathered in an array. The white snowy ground made people look black and black. The left and right wings were more than one mile apart, and the array was still relatively dense.

Each department ordered their troops, and then the generals came up to report it, as usual. Then Guo Shao only said: "According to the order."

At the moment when the Chinese military camp was beating the drums in the village, Guo Shao took out a messy booklet and ordered: "The horsemen of the Third Army Dong Zunxun Department will be approached northward. The grass man target is the enemy army. Search for the enemy. Army combat!"

The messenger quickly took the military order and carried the flag and rode up. Not long after, I saw the horse army on the left wing start to move, and the horses hoof roared and Qianqi sent out. Guo Shao was very happy when he saw this, and soon ordered the five commanders of Yang Biao's department to follow up with the "reinforcement" of the horse soldiers; Deng Fei's horse team turned around from the right flank to "join together".

After the tribes arrived on the battlefield, they sent a messenger to report the situation.

Guo Shao then began to issue one or two fake military orders. The soldiers were not sent out, and they were not stamped with the Chinese military seal and signature.

Later, the order became more and more complicated; the military order expounded the "intent" of the Chinese army in a large amount, and ordered the ministries to make temporary judgments of the situation and move on their own... However, the situation was not optimistic. The ministries began to run around before noon because some ambiguous military orders made the generals. We are very confused; there are other reasons, such as simple conditions and poor preparations for drills, and the generals can't imagine the situation.

However, the overall effect is still good. The message system is very fast, but everyone is not very comfortable.

Next, Guo Shao gathered the army for drills every three to five, and often summoned the fifty or sixty generals to discuss and summarize the "combat intent." For each imaginary battle, familiar battles were selected, such as the several wars against Shu and the battles in Huainan, and simulated mobilization.

Guo Shao said when the Chinese army gathered the generals: "The future military order may only describe the intent, because the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and the Chinese shogunate cannot understand the situation in time... For example, we are going to ambush the enemy somewhere, I call you , Luo Yanhuan went to an ambush on the road; as a result, you found that the enemy didn't follow that road, do you want to lie there and wait?"

The generals should understand when they heard it, and there was a burst of laughter.

Guo Shao said: "So I will only send someone to send orders, Luo Yanhuan, you send someone to ambush somewhere. Our intention is to ambush, and how to ambush is to rely on General Luo to make a temporary decision according to the form. Then you send scouts to discover the enemy's movements, as long as Finding a way to achieve the intention of the ambush, then it is considered to have performed meritorious service in compliance with the military order."

Guo Shao added: "In the future, we will reward the soldiers on the left side. In addition to gains, it will mainly depend on whether the combat intent is fulfilled. All the ministries are integrated and the purpose is to win a battle; otherwise, no matter how many gains a certain part wins, the whole army will be defeated. What's the use?"

The Tiger Jie Army was stationed outside Qizhou City. In a short period of time, Guo Shao did a lot of things and changed the military rules and regulations on the left side.

He extended the original rules in some small circles to six armies. After the war was awarded by the court, he divided the benefits and money to cover the dead and wounded soldiers. UU read www.uukanshu.com and calculated a part of the family members from the army’s military payment. Compensation... According to the original rules of the Forbidden Army, the Shroud of Ma Ge would die. Unless those who did meritorious deeds, the emperor and the Privy Council would provide additional compensation.

Guo Shao's approach dilutes the benefits everyone can get, but no one opposes it. After all, if you go to battle, everyone can die. He feels that doing so can humanize and strengthen the centripetal force of the organization. Everything is groping and discussing changes with everyone. Guo Shao feels that there is no need to stick to the rules. There is a better way to just change the rules.

There is also a Hakka ambassador in the army, Zan Jurun, who presumably gave a small report on the situation, but the court did not pay attention to Guo Shao... Guo Shao wrote a letter for raw materials, saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, to prepare.

He actually didn't want to attack the city, especially the city like Youzhou, but when he couldn't attack it for a long time, he might not be able to escape; besides, if he could regain Youzhou, he also wanted to help Chai Rong.

When Guo Shao was free, he wrote to Ermei Fu, and wrote three letters in a row, telling her about the situation in Qizhou, the cold weather, the heavy military affairs, etc., and then he had to tell her some thoughts; and said some private words, No woman in the military would occasionally dream of being with her or something. It was just a personal letter anyway, and Guo Shao didn't pay much attention.