Outside the tent, light and shadow flickered.
Zhao Jue, who was on duty outside, heard the noise in the tent and looked around.
"fine."
Guo Ning just waved his hand, and the desk tilted with a crash, and the written documents on it rolled to the ground.
Zhao Jue wanted to help clean it up, but Guo Ning strode out: "Throw it away and ignore it. Let's walk around the military fort and get some fresh air."
"yes."
The two of them, one behind the other, circled down the road in Tunpu.
This fort is located on the hills south of the port. Tunpu is quite large, with an irregular hexagonal appearance, long from north to south and narrow from east to west. Although the stone walls of Tunpu are not high, they are very thick.
Guo Ning's troops invaded Tunbu that day, as easily as smashing a crispy walnut with a hammer. That's because the fort has not been repaired for decades, and the Jurchens stationed inside are not prepared for battle. For more than ten days after that, Guo Ning himself stayed here, supervising the soldiers every day to take more rocks from the coast and tidy them up. The entire fort soon took on a new look.
After repairing several gaps and building a new fort wall of more than ten feet, the fort became stronger. The stone wall is also the outer wall of the residence in the fort. The roof of the residence is covered with thick wooden boards, and the place for the defenders to stand is spacious.
Because the edge of the hill is curved, the wall is also concave and convex, forming several corners. Originally there were watchtowers on the north and south sides, but now one is built on each corner. The only door on the stone wall opens on the west side, and the road in front of the door is just within the overlooking range of the three watchtowers.
Guo Ning's Chinese military tent was at the foot of one of the watchtowers, close to the military camp. When he walked through the military camp, many soldiers were gathering together, slowly preparing for battle.
Seeing Guo Ning's figure, the soldiers stood up and saluted one after another. Some said they were meeting the commander, some were saying they were meeting Guo Langjun, and some senior officers called out Liulang.
A soldier who joined the army in Zhongdu City was imprudent and called Liulang. His general was busy mending leather boots, and quickly hit the soldier's helmet with his leather boots, making a clanging sound: "You can call Liu Lang too!"
Guo Ning heard the sound, turned to General Shi with a smile and waved, then put his finger in front of his lips, making a silent gesture. The soldiers quickly lowered their voices and stopped shouting greetings.
They had already received orders from the leading generals and knew that they would have to lurk in the military fort for several days and not reveal their whereabouts easily.
To them, this is nothing. I spent my whole day and night crouching in the deep grass of the wilderness, feeding the mosquitoes. Now I have food and drink in my own military camp, and all I have to do is whisper... isn't that so comfortable?
Just now they all heard the cheers of the people outside the military fort, and knew that Guo Zhongyuan's troops had won the battle. But unlike the common people, they do not think that victory is everything.
These soldiers have too much experience in fighting, and they know that once the Mongolian army is launched, a series of fierce battles will inevitably follow. Guo Zhongyuan led some miscellaneous soldiers to win a battle. There is nothing to be proud of. That's just the beginning. To decide the outcome, we must rely on the true elites under the commander-in-chief.
He will definitely fight, and he will fight big and bad battles!
In the past few days, Commander-in-Chief has exempted everyone from military training and literacy classes, and the food they eat has meat every meal, which is great. Some junior officers were even more relieved because they finally escaped the nightly discussion and analysis of battle cases. Take the opportunity to have a good rest and make more preparations.
Soldiers who have just been signed into the army will think that fighting in battle means charging forward with a sword and a gun, and the sword and gun can be taken advantage of. As they become more and more experienced, they will find that preparation before war is very important. A little more negligence will kill you, but a little more preparation will save your life.
If a soldier had a few scraps of armor leaves on hand, he would seize the time to make use of them. The simplest way is to sew the nail leaves on the inside of the leather armor or leather waist. Some armor or weapons had been damaged in previous battles and had not been repaired, so they quickly went to the military officials in charge of logistics to see if they could be replaced. Naturally, the military officials had already received instructions to open up the inventory of weapons for supply.
A soldier gathered a few companions and went to apply for a whole bolt of linen. They cut the linen into large and small strips, some of which were tied to gun shafts, knife handles and other handshake places, and some of which were folded repeatedly to make them thicker and sewed horizontally on the back of the armor at vital points on the chest and abdomen as linings. When being hit by a heavy weapon, an extra layer of linen may be used to absorb the force, and the bones may not break.
Some soldiers were particularly cautious and went to the military doctor in advance to ask for medicine to stop bleeding and prevent wind. The prescription is very simple. Sichuan pepper, velvet antler and other substances cannot be used in the army. It is nothing more than crushed and fried Angelicae, Alisma, Ligusticum, Aconite, Cinnamomum camphora root, dried Rehmannia glutinosa and Tujue Bai. When the time comes, the first four are mixed and swallowed, and the last three are applied externally. Some old soldiers often keep some medicinal materials around them, and at this time they pound them with a wooden pestle for later use.
More soldiers were sitting scattered, chatting softly with each other, or listening to their own generals talking about precautions during battle.
This kind of talk is different from pre-war mobilization.
Mobilization before the war must be impassioned to inspire the soldiers' determination to fight. But for these veterans, the vocabulary of pre-war mobilization has been heard over and over again, and each of them can speak one thing or another, leaving the new recruits stunned.
What the veterans need is to repeatedly confirm their respective strengths, confirm the cooperation between each person and each unit, and agree on some gestures and codes that are useful on the battlefield, and even the command sequence within the group in emergencies.
It is said that these things are very important to Guo Jieshuai. When he was at the Junhe camp, he specially asked Mr. Jinzhi to compile them into a book. However, I heard that Mr. Jinzhi has been busy in Zhongdu recently, so he probably can't take care of this matter.
Everyone followed their own habits, slowly discussing each decision one by one.
Guo Ning walked past them, sometimes saying hello, sometimes laughing and scolding a certain officer for always being stupid.
He saw a soldier named Zhang Shao and waved him over, reminding him not to bruise his arm when he drew his bow.
Zhang Shao was also a member of Yehuling's defeated army. Because his old injuries to his muscles and bones had not healed yet, which was not conducive to fighting, he was still just a pawn until this point.
Although Guo Ning's words sounded like a mockery, they also confirmed his familiarity with Zhang Shao.
Zhang Shao was a little ashamed, but more of a proud person.
His face turned red, and he patted his chest to ensure that nothing would go wrong this time, and he would try his best to kill a few Mongolian officers to show Rokuro. Someone nearby suddenly started shouting, "What officer should we kill?" Hundreds of households or thousands of households? Can the Great Khan of Black Tartar kill him himself?
As a result, many people couldn't help but laugh, and then fell silent under the pressure of the officers.
Guo Ning continued walking to the lower part of Tunpu. After half a circle, we arrived at the stables.
War horses crossing the sea by boat are probably a little uncomfortable and acclimated to the environment. Therefore, it was very hard for the people who served the horses these days. Fortunately, Wang Kou'er, the officer in charge of lifting the military horses, was very good at it, so the horses gradually became energetic.
Wang Kou'er is Li Ting's old acquaintance in Baodi, Zhongdu. He was originally a horse dealer from Linhuang Prefecture. He had sold horses to Zhongdu before. Because he offended Hu Shahu, the good horses he sold were robbed by Hu Shahu's subordinate Xie Lie Beg'er, and he and his companions also died.
Wang Kou'er and his only daughter managed to escape. But he never thought that Hu Shahu would be killed by Guo Ning within a few days of shaking.
Wang Kou'er then followed Guo Ning and collected many troops and horses for Guo Ning Zhangluo in Zhigu Village.
At this time, Wang Kou'er replaced all the war horses with fine materials. Some good horses and big horses eat raw eggs mixed with their feed.
The horses ate the bran, swung their heads and tails, and snorted air from their nostrils. It was obvious that they were very satisfied, but they rarely neighed.
War horses are like people. After being on the battlefield for a long time, they can feel the atmosphere of the battle. Perhaps they are also looking forward to following their masters in galloping across vast battlefields, biting and trampling with enemy cavalry, and knocking over crowds of people. Or maybe they also anticipate that their companions will die in large numbers, so they are mourning?
Guo Ning grabbed a handful of horse feed and was about to feed the yellow gelding himself. Several guards around him saluted. It turned out that Lu Han was here.
Lu Han held the food box and asked angrily: "What's the point of not eating? Huh?"
"I took the time to go shopping and forgot about it for a moment." Guo Ning laughed.
He took the food box from Lu Han's hand, opened it, took a look, took out a steaming steamed cake and stuffed it into his mouth, saying repeatedly: "It's delicious!"
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The prescription is recorded in the "Tiger Ring Sutra" and omits some more expensive medicinal materials such as deer antler... Do not take it seriously...
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