Li Bing entered Shicheng calmly. It was already dawn and all the armies were taking charge. Li Bing listened to the reports of officers at all levels on the enemy's situation and our situation one by one, and also inquired about some details in more detail. Then he announced that Dr. Meng Ao would join the Northern Army and formally introduced Meng Ao to the generals.
Since the swordsmen were actively attacking at night, the Northland Army was responsible for today's exploratory attack on Zhao Camp. Meng Ao volunteered to join the army and took the initiative to go down to the camp to participate in offensive operations.
Beidi County is the original place of Yiqu. The Yiqu people are also an ethnic group of the Rong people, living in scattered areas in today's western Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia areas (the northern Shaanxi Plateau in the east belongs to Shangjun and is the former Wei territory). King Yiqu and the Queen Mother Xuan, the mother of the King of Qin, had been in a relationship for nearly thirty years. After the sudden death of King Yiqu, the former land of Yiqu, together with the lands previously conquered by the Qin kings, were merged into Beidi County, which was on the border of the Qin State. county. Although Beidi County is large in area, there are not many livable places and a small population. Life is very poor. The cultural traditions are also different from those of the Qin people. There are many people who commit crimes, so it is impossible to send 20,000 prisoners. Come, we have to recruit refugees to get the number of 20,000.
Shangjun and Hedong are the land of the old Wei, and the north is the land of the old Yiqu. As a county lieutenant in a border county for a long time, Li Bing had a lot of experience in dealing with foreigners. He knew that when dealing with foreigners, speaking their native accent came first. Meng Ao was from Qi, and the pronunciation of Qi was as different as that of Yiqu. But Meng Ao had a talent for languages. He only lived in Tao for a few days and he could speak Tao pronunciation. When he arrived in Hedong, he could speak Jin pronunciation. He learned Qin pronunciation by dealing with Qin people. Meng Ao only asked Li Bing to introduce him to that battalion, and he would handle everything else.
After meeting the official in charge, Meng Ao asked the official to send him to join the team sent out to fight the front line as a doctor. The people in the North are used to being idle, so they have no idea how to learn military formations. The doctor in charge is having a headache. I heard that the new doctor who was sent was happy and worried. Meng Ao quietly told him that he was a member of the Beidi Lieutenant's army, and here he was just a supervisor. He would help out and leave as soon as the matter was over. All the credit went to the doctor. This doctor was from Guanzhong and was sent to the north as an official. He still retained the uprightness of the people in Guanzhong. After hearing what Meng Ao said, he immediately quit his job and said: "Since we are colleagues, how can we compete for credit!"
Meng Ao reacted immediately and said immediately: "The king raised his army, repaired my spear, and shared the same enemy with me! Please don't refuse me."
The psychological distance between him and the doctor was shortened, and the doctor confessed his feelings to him: the people in Yiqu were too unorganized and could not form a line at all, so they could not fight!
Meng Ao thought for a while and said: "I would like to speak to the officials and postpone the war for a while. I will teach them. I hope you will gather them in the back mountain."
So Meng Ao went to see the official, who asked the troops to stand up and line up. When he was young, Meng Ao received the festival talisman and came over and said: "That's it!"
The doctor was a little worried, thinking that Meng Ao was going to imitate Sun Tzu's method of beheading a noble concubine and execute it with military orders. He whispered: "If you punish me more, it will not be what you want!"
Meng Ao said: "Doctor, please be at ease!"
The doctor and Meng Ao led the troops out of the camp and stopped in front of a hillside in front of the camp. Meng Ao asked the doctor to act as an interpreter, pointed to a big stone a hundred steps away and said to the crowd: "You guys, go to the front stone and come back!"
The Northern soldiers ran to the stone in a swarm and ran back in a hurry. After coming back, the doctor scolded: "The left and right are in harmony, what's the ambition?"
Everyone looked at each other and aligned themselves left and right. The doctor looked at Meng Ao speechlessly. Because Meng Ao spoke Qin Yin and knew that he was in the same robe as Zi, the doctor thought that he was from Guanzhong and was very particular about formations and strict orders.
Meng Ao said: "Look at me! I call 'Lie', and you all lie down; I call 'Get up', and you all get up. But if you get these two, don't be hurt by arrows! What's your ambition?" Doctor Translate past. Meng Ao demonstrated by himself: "Lie down, choose the one with a rough stone in front of you, curl up your hands and feet and lie on the ground!" He actually lay down on the ground and set an example. The funny look caused everyone to burst into laughter.
Meng Ao said: "Those who fight with others must be noble and light. I call 'Lie' and you all lie down. Do you agree?" As he said this, he walked to the front of the group of soldiers and shouted: "Get up!" with a wave of his hand. , ran forward. Although no one understood what "getting up" meant, the gesture and action were clear, and everyone followed quickly and hesitantly. After running a few steps forward, Meng Ao shouted "Lie down" and took the lead to grab a stone and lie down behind it. The group of Northland soldiers were in a chaotic mess. Some were lying down, some were standing, and some were still having fun.
Meng Ao stood up and said solemnly: "I call to lie down, but those who cannot lie down will be killed by the enemy! I am about to fight, and we must not take it lightly. It is a matter of life and death, and whoever ignores it is a fool! I call to lie down, Everyone is lying down!" He glanced at everyone and shouted: "Lying down!"
This time, thanks to Meng Ao's reminder and supervision, everyone got down in a mess despite their reluctance.
Meng Ao and the doctor corrected everyone's posture and movements, shouted "get up", and everyone got up. Meng Ao added the key points: "You must stand behind a stone or a ridge, as if you are facing a supreme being, with your hands and feet lying on the ground. Don't slow down. Slowing down will be dangerous. Keep your soldiers at your side."
Meng Ao led everyone to practice three or five times, and then ordered everyone to return to the camp to rest, adjust their weapons, and go out to fight in a short time. As soon as everyone heard that they were going to war, their mood immediately became bad, and they returned to the camp sadly to rectify their weapons.
Meng Ao and the doctor went to see the official doctor. The official doctor didn't know what the effect was. Seeing that Meng Ao was very sure, he could only believe him. Anyway, there was no good way. Meng Ao was sent by Beidi Lieutenant, or Joining the army, even though he is just a doctor, his position is high! According to Meng Ao's request, he gathered the entire battalion and prepared for battle.
Although it was mid-autumn, the northern soldiers were still wearing thin clothes. In order not to get in the way, I also tucked my lower garments into my belt, leaving my two hairy legs bare. There were only a hundred people, and there was no drum sound. They just listened to Meng Ao's command. Meng Ao let these people go in twos and threes, holding on to their halberds in a disorderly manner, and headed towards the Zhao camp a mile away.
This camp is located on a mountain ridge. It is obviously a temporary construction. The mountain ridge is only dug deeper than half a person's height. There are no obstacles on the slopes on both sides, but it is bumpy and difficult to walk. Meng Ao divided a hundred people into two formations, front and rear. He was in the center of the front formation and told everyone to just do what he wants. It's just that everyone else is holding a halberd, and he is the only one holding a spear.
At first, Meng Ao led everyone to walk slowly. When they reached about a hundred steps away from Zhao Ying, he shouted "stop". Pointing to a big stone thirty or fifty steps ahead, he said: "We will return there. But if you follow my orders, there will be no harm. Be careful, be careful!" After the instructions were clear, Meng Ao shouted: " Get up!" He rushed out first. It's very pitiful that most of the thirty or so people who dared to rush out with them stayed where they were. After more than thirty people rushed out, Meng Ao heard the sound of bowstrings. Meng Ao stepped on the rhythm and shouted: "Lie down!" He fell to the ground! Arrows rained down from the sky, but no one was hurt. After shooting three arrows, Meng Ao shouted: "Get up!" He jumped up and continued to rush forward. This time, several soldiers who were lying on the ground did not stand up. They just lay down. Only about twenty people could follow them.
The second charge was about to reach the target area when the second batch of arrows came over. Meng Ao shouted "Fuck" without any hesitation! The people who followed had gained experience from the previous time and seemed much more relaxed when lying down this time.
After shooting the second batch of three arrows, Meng Ao ordered "rise" again and finally rushed in front of the big stone. Twenty or so people leaned against the stone to catch their breath for a moment. Meng Ao looked around, but no Zhao Jun came out. Meng Ao waved his hand and ran back. When the Qin army retreated, Zhao Jun did not fire any more arrows.
Meng Ao led the twenty or so people back to the group, and those who did not follow felt a little ashamed.
Meng Ao returned to the camp and ordered: "Those who have not yet come out should run to the back of the mountain and lie down for fifty!" One person was assigned to shout the command, and the others followed.
Meng Ao took a breather, discussed with the officials for a while, and said: "Second team, get up!"
The second person is still a halberdier. The whole process is the same as before, designate the target a hundred steps away, then charge according to the command, lie down, and charge again! With the demonstration from the previous team, no one in this team shrank back, and they all followed Meng Ao's instructions honestly. No one was injured and escaped intact.
The third team was spearmen, and the fourth team was shield soldiers. They all practiced. During the process, Zhao Jun seemed to realize that they were not serious about fighting, but just playing games, and the arrows they shot were not as powerful as they were at the beginning.
The last group is the archers. Archers can be said to be the main force of the entire army. Those who hold bows and arrows are generally commanders, many of whom are from Guanzhong. Meng Ao seemed to think that this was the last charge, another charge of the most elite archers, so he decided to let all the soldiers watch closely. The entire battalion of 500 people was dispatched collectively. The dozens of punished soldiers had completed their corporal punishment and returned to the camp. Everyone stopped a hundred steps away. One hundred archers were still lined up in two rows. Under Meng Ao's command, they charged forward, lay down, and charged again. This time Zhao Jun did not launch a second wave of blocking shots, and all the archers rushed to the bottom of the boulder smoothly.
Meng Ao pointed to the vaguely visible flagpole above the stone and asked in a low voice: "Is it okay to shoot that flag?"
A soldier said: "It's far away, but we can't hit it!"
Meng Ao said: "But if you shoot it, you don't have to hit it." The soldiers in Guanzhong conveyed Meng Ao's words to those soldiers who did not understand Meng Ao's words. Everyone nodded in understanding, took out an arrow from each place, and put it on the bow. Meng Ao raised his hand to signal, then pressed it down suddenly. Everyone stood up, pointed their bows into the sky, and shot at the top of the flag. The arrow was shot, and everyone immediately crouched down to take cover.
The sound of whistling arrows shot out of the air, turned around at the end, and landed on the Zhao soldiers, letting out waves of exclamations and wails! Meng Ao extended his thumb to everyone in approval, and then looked out from the crack in the stone.
Zhao Jun's temporary camp fence is not high, and Zhao Jun's activities are vaguely visible. Meng Ao noticed that there was a period of chaos in Zhao's camp and no soldiers attacked. He seemed to be eager to treat the wounded, so he said to everyone: "Fire again!"
