stubborn thief

Chapter 304 River Valley
In the evening of Wudaohe, the evening wind blows green grass mixed with the smell of wild flowers, and sweeps across the Lion Army camp in the river valley.

Fan Sanlang tied a small jacket around the waist of the half-sleeve mail armor, and walked in the camp of Zuoying with his waist knife on his waist, looking over the resting soldiers one after another, searching for Bu Chi's figure.

As the only female general in the Marshal's Mansion, Bu Chi is easy to find, because Basang's battalion is very special.

In a normal army, when there are no combat missions, the officers will arrange tasks for each unit in an orderly manner. Even if there are no missions, the soldiers will do their own things, and few people are idle.

But in Basang’s Zuoying camp, most of the soldiers had very low initiative. They would do whatever the commander told them to do. When the commander did not arrange for them, they would do nothing but squat down.

It is possible to chat in a low voice, and a few familiar soldiers gather together, secretly, to talk about the mothers-in-law and children left behind in the bag, talk about the cattle, sheep and land bestowed by the great marshal, and talk about finding ways to survive on the battlefield. It's a matter of meritorious service.

It took them a long time to get used to being farmers, and they hadn't recognized all the various iron farm tools. The Kangning government government recruited them with a piece of paper, and they gave up their wives and aunts to become soldiers, but people were willing.

In the past, they also had a home, whether it was under the stairs or a dark multi-person hut, or a sheepfold, they had a home, and some even had wives and children, but those things did not belong to them .

The Marshal's Mansion brought the biggest change and the most stable move to Kang Ning. In fact, it was not the confiscation of noble land, but the establishment of a government office to promulgate decrees.

Liu Chengzong allowed people to legally own their own property.

Soon, Fan Sanlang found Bu Chi's location, the crazy woman in the army was teaching the soldiers.

In the eyes of the generals of the Lion Army, Buchi was a crazy woman who was frightened by torture, but in the eyes of most soldiers in the Zuoying Army, Buchi was a witch who could communicate with ghosts.

Bu Chi babbled to the soldiers about the experience of some slaves being tortured to death by the nobles, and from time to time he mixed in a few Chinese words and taught them to the soldiers around him. .

Fan Sanlang stood with his arms folded and watched everything from a distance, his face neither seemed to be listening as seriously as others, nor did he show a hint of ridicule.

Because she knew that this was part of Qian Zongbu Chi's job.

When Liu Chengzong arranged this work for Bu Chi in Nangqian, Fan Sanlang was in the tent.

Communicating with ghosts is not only a sequelae of being frightened, but also Bu Chi's protective color in the army. It is not easy for a woman to protect herself in the army, let alone control a large group of men.

Liu Chengzong himself is a person who dislikes pretending to be gods and ghosts, but under the circumstances that a large number of soldiers have no military literacy, and Han officers and Fan soldiers still have difficulties in communicating, he needs a wizard to help him guide the soldiers.

In fact, after Butch killed the officer who led them, the chattering auditory hallucinations in his ears stopped, and what he said later were basically the atrocities experienced by other slaves.

People listened to this crazy woman, on the one hand because Bu Chi was trusted by the Marshal's Mansion, and on the other hand because she had the ability to call the wind and rain.

Her professional skill came from Liu Chengzong. Some of the generals who led the army did not know astronomy and geography, but in the eyes of the slaves, this ability was only possessed by wizards who could communicate with the gods of heaven and earth.

Seeing Fan Sanlang standing in the distance, Bu Chi ended today's superstitious time ahead of time, and walked quickly to ask Fan Sanlang's purpose.

Bu Chi has almost all the advantages of a Western woman. She works hard, works hard, and is very diligent in learning Chinese. Now she can not only communicate easily, but also serve as a half-teacher in the army.

Fan Sanlang took out a pair of iron claws tied to the soles of his shoes and handed them to Bu Chi: "You have a husband who is a blacksmith, and there is no iron in the camp, so he makes a lot of horse bones, which are used for climbing mountains."

Bu Chi took the iron claw, lowered his head to look carefully, and then asked, "Commander... has an attack been proposed?"

This pair of iron claws for mountain climbing was born in the battle of Huanglong Mountain in northern Shaanxi, but the Lion Army has never fought on the mountain since then. It is really not easy to find this thing in the army.

Fan Sanlang was used to the lack of words in Bu Chi's speech, he smiled after a little understanding, shook his head and said: "It's still under discussion, but it's already decided, the commander said that there has been rain recently, maybe it's snow."

The generals in the Chinese army commander's tent are discussing matters. Originally, according to his official position, Bu Chi should also be in the account to discuss matters, but Liu Chengzong thinks that Bu Chi is doing more important things than military discussions, so there is no need to go.

Seeing that the war was about to start, it was much more important to ask Bu Chi to tell ghost stories to his subordinates to boost morale than military discussions.

The Mongolian nobles in Khalkha are also nobles, and this class hatred is the same.

Liu Chengzong likes to listen to the opinions of his subordinates, but he only likes to listen, because listening to the opinions of his subordinates can open up his ideas, but whether to take them or not is another matter.

The generals of the Marshal's Mansion are gathering in Liu Chengzong's tent to discuss where to build the camp.

At this time, they were in two parallel river valleys, fifty miles long from north to south, and two miles wide, blocked by a mountain range in the middle.

They are in Shanxi, and Khalkha's army is in Shandong.

Due to the dangerous terrain of the [-]-mile-long mountain road, it is difficult to deploy the army, and Liu Chengzong's artillery is also worried that Liu Chengzong's artillery will set up an ambush on the mountain road, so Khalkha's rangers have been blocked by Tangqi for a day and a night, unable to advance an inch.

The Rangers failed to ascertain the situation, so the main force did not dare to enter the valley rashly.

The news from Dai Daozi said that the Mongolian soldiers seemed to be deterred by the previous fierce artillery fire, and they were very cautious in their investigations. Tang Qi could block them for at least three more days.

Although Dai Daozi was in the northern mountain pass, his opinion had been clearly conveyed to Liu Chengzong. He believed that the commander-in-chief should occupy the mountain pass first to gain an advantage in the confrontation.

Gao Yingdeng advocated rushing directly across the mountain pass, with his [-] cavalry lightly armed, and launched a surprise attack on the tent of the enemy general on the other side of the mountain, defeating the enemy in one fell swoop.

A very ferocious ancient tactic that takes neither the enemy nor yourself seriously.

Huang Shengxiao's plan is much safer, to build fortifications in the valley and wait for work. In fact, he is more inclined to Dai Daozi's plan, but the mountain pass is too narrow, two small cannons can block the entire road with four or five shots, and can't kill many people. Unable to take advantage of firepower.

Zhang Tianlin himself summarized these suggestions, and he thinks they are not bad.

Because in this battle, Zhang Tianlin's headquarters has more than a thousand cavalry soldiers, which are the elite force in the hands of Liu Chengzong to suppress the nobles. As long as the nobles under Youying Ah Liu do not move, his cavalry soldiers cannot move, so there is no choice in tactics. Say more.

Ah Liu is more supportive of going out, and confrontation is fine, but he is opposed to building camps. This is not due to tactical considerations, but to avoid intensification of conflicts.

Because the situation in Youying is more complicated and different from others.

On the one hand, there are a lot of people in the Youying camp, among them there are thousands of people from the Ahliu Headquarters, all of whom were rebels from the Liang Kingdom in Chongming Dynasty.

But the remaining half are the old nobles of the seven counties, and the other half are the servants and veterans of the old nobles.

They are freaks.

In terms of the military system of ancient China, the military structure of European classical, feudal, and modern times cannot be copied. Although it is easy to understand, there are big problems in it, and the social structure is different.

Social structure and ruling structure are the most critical factors affecting the military system, while weapons, equipment and supplies are foreign objects.

For example, what qualitative changes have there been in the system, tactics, military law, and weapons and equipment of the Qi Family Army and other Ming armies?No, Qi Shaobao only summed up the experience of previous regulations and implemented them.

If there is any great progress, it is Qi Jiguang's personal spiritual progress in adapting tactics to local conditions and seeking truth from facts in weapons and equipment.

The most important thing is that the social environment at that time was good, the country was strong, and the people in charge of the country gave strong support in terms of power and financial resources.

Regardless of the environment and ruler of Lord Chongzhen, what about Qi Jiguang? He just asked Tan Lun to help him fight Japanese pirates for two years. He hasn't tested the character of Yiwu soldiers yet.

Except for Huo Guang, nothing can save Daming.

The problem with the Right Camp is that its social structure neither serves the Qinghai Marshal's Mansion, which was born out of the Central Plains Dynasty, nor does it have the traditional feudal aristocratic army system in Kangning.

The complete feudal aristocratic army of the seven counties of Kangning Prefecture is an army composed of noble officers, tiger hero non-commissioned officers, and a large number of conscripts.

Because in a country ruled by feudal aristocrats, wars are just flowers, and common people can't be promoted... So Tiger Heroes is actually giving some benefits to outstanding common people and even slaves, so as to better display their talents as common people.

In this regard, the Kangzang aristocrats are actually very advanced compared to their peers in the world. To change the term, Tiger Heroes are non-commissioned officers.

From Lisbon to Nagasaki, as long as they are normal feudal lords, just pick out a few noble lords, no matter how weak and incompetent they are, and their blood status is there, there is no way to let them go to earthwork. It's something that only the lower order servants do.

This is not a problem in the feudal army, because the feudal army has enough conscripts to ensure that low-tech jobs can be completed, but the right battalion cannot.

The nobles in the right camp have no tiger heroes, no conscripts, and they are not even officers themselves. There is a very serious problem in building camps and digging trenches.

Only Ahliu Headquarters can do this work in the Youying, but those former Daliang soldiers who participated in the Shechongming rebellion cannot dig trenches by themselves.

If Ah Liu dared to let them dig the trenches by themselves, while the Kangning nobles of the same establishment watched from the sidelines, they might have dug the trench halfway, then climbed up and raised the crossbow to kill the nobles.

And forcing the nobles to dig trenches is also very inappropriate in Ah Liu's view: "Marshal, they are well equipped and most of them are highly skilled. They defeated the enemy at Huangyuanyi earlier, so that they can use their military spirit at this time and get ready to put on armor Get on the horse and serve the Marshal's Mansion to death."

The implication of Ah Liu's words is that forcing them to dig trenches at such a time would probably backfire and make this elite army that could have been used by the Marshal's Mansion alienated.

Liu Chengzong frowned first when he heard the words, and then relaxed his brows after thinking for a while, but his eyes were full of ruthlessness and he said to Ah Liu: "If you want them to know, I can force them to do this. If you don't come, one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, When the trenches are dug, they will all be marched to the edge of the trenches and built walls, and military laws and orders will be executed as soon as they are issued... Nothing is impossible in this era."

Nothing is impossible in this world.

In fact, Han people have always been able to shave their heads, but they don't want to be shaved according to their heads.

But this is an era when tens of millions of Han people have their heads shaved, so there is no possibility in this era.

"But I am willing to accept them. This is the first time. I will not force them." Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said, "Tell them that the Generalissimo will dig trenches with the soldiers. They don't need to come this time, but they won't do it next time." Now, if anyone comes this time, I will remember them."

After all, Liu Chengzong turned his head and looked at the officers at all levels in the tent: "Except for those who are in charge of camp defense, all of us have to dig trenches and pile up soil. If we are united, we will surely win!"

Zhang Tianlin took the lead in cupping her fists and said, "Yes!"

Then the generals in the tent embraced their orders one by one, but after that, Gao Yingdeng asked: "Commander, do you really want to build a fort in the river valley according to Huang's novel, leaving the natural danger ahead to the enemy?"

When Liu Chengzong said this, it was basically tantamount to setting the major policy of the military discussion.

He nodded and said: "Yes, there are natural dangers ahead, it is easy to defend the mountain pass and repel the enemy army, but it cannot wipe out most of the enemy army, which will not help the battle situation... There are tens of thousands of enemy troops, even if we defeat several Thousands of people are far from being able to make the enemy surrender."

Khalkha's cavalry can still run after losing. The enemy army still has a lot of vitality on the Heka grassland, and he has very few elite forces that can be released to pursue it, so it is difficult to expand its advantage.

"If we build camps in the valley to attract the enemy's siege, and Lao Qijia leads some troops to climb the mountain, go around to the back of the Mongolian army, and guard the mountain pass from that direction, we will have a chance to destroy the Mongolian army."

Elimination does not mean killing them all, whether they are recruited or defeated, or even driven to the west to become savages in the snow-capped mountains, it doesn't matter how they are eliminated. In short, they can no longer fight for Chuoke Tutaiji, that is to say, they are eliminated.

Zhang Tianlin didn't continue to say more about this matter.

Anyway, when he was in Juerwan, he already knew that the military discussions of the Lion Army have always been like this. They are very democratic in small matters. As long as Liu Chengzong decides on major matters, it is difficult to change them.

In fact, Zhang Tianlin always felt that Liu Chengzong liked to preside over military discussions before the war, not because he wanted to ask the generals for advice, but to take the opportunity to observe the generals' fighting spirit and morale.

So he just added: "Commander, it is not easy for us to stop [-] Mongolian troops in the valley, and even if the Zuo Battalion crosses the snow-capped mountains, can they reach the mountain pass on time, and can they stop the enemy at the mountain pass?"

Liu Chengzong nodded: "I understand that if you are a little careless, if you are surrounded by enemy troops in the Shandong River Valley, the Zuo Battalion may be completely wiped out... But the advantages brought by successfully overcoming the encirclement are too great, and it is worth the risk."

Annihilating a quarter or even a third of the enemy's strength, the battle for the ownership of Qinghai has already been more than half won for Liu Chengzong.

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)