Yunzhou County, Prince Yun's Mansion.
"Report! Emergency military report from Nanli County!"
In the palace, Zhao Jun, who had just finished breakfast, was preparing to go out for some activities. When he suddenly received an urgent military report, he stopped and asked Wang Huaien to take him to the study.
The messenger from Nanli quickly handed over the military report from Nanli County.
Zhao Jun watched carefully and then slammed the table!
"How dare they!"
It turned out that this poisonous Central Army counterattack was described in detail in the military newspaper.
Due to the small number of troops, most of the troops were dispersed and stationed in various cities in order to defend the entire territory.
However, the other side relied on their large number of people and launched an siege on various cities of the escort army with an absolutely superior force.
It's okay to have a large city with a large garrison. With the advantages of advanced weapons and city defense, you can still fight the opponent back and forth, and even inflict heavy losses on the enemy.
But the small towns along the border were in dire straits. Most of them only had a few hundred people stationed in each city.
However, the other side sent ten times more troops to each city. Although the soldiers of the expeditionary force had the advantage of weapons, the gap in numbers was too great. If the enemy was willing to pay a heavy price, they could defeat them with a pile of human lives. They pile up to death!
This resulted in heavy losses in various small cities on the line. Each city lost about 200 people, and the total number of people lost together was as high as 5,000!
Five thousand! Since its establishment, when has the Guards suffered such heavy losses!
This is simply a painful blow to the Guards!
The second batch of soldiers stationed in Nanli County are now only more than 12,000 soldiers. Now, except for the remaining 6,000 people in the big cities, the rest of the small towns have been almost completely wiped out!
boom!
Throwing the battle report heavily on the table, Zhao Jun wanted to get angry, but didn't know how. With such a huge loss, you could say that the soldiers were not brave in fighting, and neither was he.
On the contrary, among the cities that were nearly wiped out in this battle, which one did not fight until the last minute?
It can be said that all members are glorious and there is no coward!
Zhao Jun was very pleased at this, at least his money was not wasted!
But in this battle, our side suffered huge losses!
Zhao Jun believed that if his own army gathered together, even if the army of Shendu King's capital attacked with ten times the strength, the escort army would be able to defeat it without such heavy losses. However, after dividing the troops, the advantage would no longer exist. resulted in the current results.
But the city is there, and the number of people is there. If you don't divide the troops, you can only abandon the city. Abandoning the city means losing land, which is absolutely impossible!
After all, there are still too few people and the weapons are not advanced enough.
Due to the population problem of Yunzhou County, Yunzhou County has always pursued a strategy of elite troops. This is true. Although there are few escorts, they have never lost in large-scale battles against enemies that are much more numerous than them since its establishment.
But in the current situation, it is very difficult. The enemy cannot always gather a large army to fight with you.
You also have so many cities to defend, it's impossible not to send people out.
At this time, the disadvantage of the elite strategy is revealed, manpower!
Serious shortage of manpower!
With fewer people divided, they can use their superior force to eliminate each of your strongholds bit by bit, which cumulatively can cause you huge casualties.
There are many people but you don’t have that many people!
As for weapons, it's not that Zhao Jun doesn't remember the gunpowder formula, but he is hesitating!
Hesitant to invent gunpowder in this era.
Gunpowder is a monster. It is completely different from the existing cold weapon system. The initial power of gunpowder was very small. It can be said that at most it only exploded.
Only in the middle and late stages can gunpowder gradually show its power.
At this time, the gunpowder from the previous life gradually appeared on the battlefields of various countries.
The powerful armor-breaking ability far exceeds that of arrows. It is much easier and cheaper to train a musketeer quickly and cheaply than to train a soldier. In addition to the big logistical problems, it can be said that in the middle and late stages of the development of gunpowder, cold weapon weapons have gradually withdrawn from the battlefield after the emergence of gunpowder.
Today, Yunzhou County has a huge iron smelting output under its own development.
Yunzhou County was able to quickly form an all-iron armored army much faster than anyone else, and the equipment was far superior to that of others, and the cost was not high.
Enough to make the combat effectiveness of his army superior to anyone in this era.
This is his own advantage. Even if others later learn to smelt iron like him, he can still maintain his lead because of his first-mover advantage.
It can be said that as long as he continues this way, sooner or later his troops will be able to directly sweep the world!
But if gunpowder appears and is quickly pushed to the mid-to-late stage by yourself.
To be honest, the population of Yunzhou County is still at a disadvantage. Compared with other forces, Yunzhou County is short of people! It's also time. After cheap musketeers are rapidly popularized, those forces with a huge population advantage can really crush themselves.
You can think about it. Now you have a lead. All your soldiers are wearing armor. If you fight against an army that doesn't wear armor or only wears half armor, you dare to fight with ten times less soldiers than the opponent because you wear armor. , as long as the opposite formation is broken, most of the army will collapse.
It’s useless no matter how many people there are.
But in the era of hot weapons, queuing up to be shot is like, you only have 500 people here, and 50,000 people from the opposite side are queuing up with you every minute to be shot. Your iron armor will no longer work in front of the muskets at this time. After solving you, it’s still a slap in the face!
Unless your anger can advance to another era and allow machine guns to appear, then you no longer have to worry about numerical superiority.
But that is destined to be impossible. Zhao Jun is now developing firearms, and he may not be able to see that day until he dies. There are too many hurdles that need to be overcome.
When it comes to machine guns, numbers are the last word!
Therefore, firearms cannot appear yet, at least not while the population of Yunzhou County is still at a disadvantage!
But research can be on the agenda.
Large-scale equipment cannot be hidden, but if you do not equip it and only study it privately, you can keep the secret well and prevent other forces from knowing.
After thinking about this clearly, Zhao Jun called Wang Huaien and asked: "Wang Banban, how are the recruits doing now?"
Wang Huaien immediately replied: "Back to my lord, the original plan was to recruit 75,000 new recruits. As of the day before yesterday, all recruitment had been completed. Recruit training is now underway."
Zhao Jun nodded and asked again: "I remember that this recruitment is staged. Training does not start when the recruitment is full. How many of them can be directly recruited to the battlefield now?"
When asked here, Wang Huaien was a little unable to answer. Even if he didn't know the soldiers, he knew that these recruits had only been trained for less than three months. Even the earliest recruits had only been trained for more than a month. In such a short period of time, It is really difficult to drag people to the battlefield.
Zhao Jun saw his hesitation and directly limited the range.
"Just tell me directly, how many of you have more than a month of training time?
Now is a special period. If the frontline battle is heavy, there is an urgent need to replenish troops. Otherwise, Nanli County may fall. There is no time to slowly train them.
One month is enough time for them to master various weapons in the army. The rest is left to them to learn on the battlefield. "
After hearing what his prince said, Wang Huai'en sighed and could only reply: "Your Majesty, currently the only soldiers in the military camp who have been trained for one month are the first and second batches of soldiers recruited. The number of refugees during the recruitment of these two groups is It’s not too many, the number is only about 30,000.”
"Thirty thousand."
Zhao Jun nodded and began to think, and then gave a decisive order: "Thirty thousand is thirty thousand, the Wheel Protection Guards will send 6,000 people this time, and let them continue to train new recruits with the rest.
And these 30,000 recruits were all recruited into the army, forming a new unit with veterans leading new recruits, and immediately rushed to the front line! "
Let one veteran take charge of every five new recruits. Even if the combat effectiveness drops, it will not drop too much. This is the best way Zhao Jun can think of at the moment.
"Yes, slave, go now!"
Wang Huaien nodded in agreement and immediately rushed to the military camp and the county governor's mansion to convey the prince's order.
When the army goes on an expedition, the logistics, food, weapons and equipment supplies must be coordinated by the county governor's office, and it cannot be done just by setting off.
Soon, the county governor's office and the military camp received the vassal order from King Yun, and they began to prepare.
On the third day after the feudal king's order was issued, everything was ready. A new army of 36,000 people led by 6,000 veterans immediately rushed to the front line of Nanli County!
At this moment, at the border of Nanli County, the war has begun to spread into the territory.
Although several important cities were not lost, the small towns on the border were almost destroyed.
The Shendu Central Army directly followed these small towns and launched an attack deeper into Nanli County.
Most of those counties were only guarded by these servant troops, and they were no match for them. Soon, except for the cities behind a few large cities, most of the cities in the western part of Nanli County were caught in the flames of war.
The defenders stationed in several large cities wanted to stop it, but they couldn't find the manpower. They could only try their best to hold back the enemy's large forces and guard important passages to prevent the enemy's large forces from entering Nanli County unscrupulously.
Otherwise, if they go out to support, these big cities will fall, and hundreds of thousands of troops from the other side will invade, Nanli County will suffer even greater losses!
Now the guardsmen stationed in Nanli County are no longer able to take care of other places. Their numerical disadvantage means that they are suppressed everywhere. They may only be able to launch a counterattack after the fresh troops from Yunzhou County join.
Now we just have to wait and see when the support will arrive. Until then, the Guards can only continue to support it.
At this time, the new army is on its way...
(End of chapter)
