Chapter 4 Breakthrough
Hold the line and wait for reinforcements!
After confirming that he was facing the enemy general's personal camp, Guan Shengyun immediately had a countermeasure.
As soon as he got started, he smashed out the personal barracks. It seemed that the enemy wanted to break through the siege in a desperate attempt.
Break the siege? hehe! Easier said than done!
Set up camp on the road!
How many lives were spent on these seemingly simple four words! If you want to break the siege, you have to capture the opponent's camp and then run along the official road - otherwise, you will run out of energy in less than half a day of climbing over the mountains and ridges, and after three or two days, you will starve to death in the barren mountains and wilderness. What's more, there are still pursuers!
And Daying - can't it be broken by just saying it?
Your own side has a strength advantage. As long as you control the rhythm of the battle, you are not afraid of greater losses - when friendly forces from other directions arrive, not only will you still have the initiative on the battlefield, but you may even be able to eat all the enemies in one bite!
By then, the city will be within reach. The enemy general has his own bodyguards and may be able to escape, but the prefect will certainly not be able to escape - where can he escape? Losing your land is a capital offense. If you run away, aren't you afraid that the court will kill your whole family? In an empty city without defenders, the prefect would definitely want to burn down the treasury before committing suicide, but no one would listen to him. He might even be kidnapped and sent here, and he wouldn't even have a chance to hang himself - who wouldn't be afraid of the occupying forces massacring the city to vent their anger after achieving nothing?
Guan Shengyun gave up the idea of counterattack and issued the order to hold on to the camp:
All the archers and crossbowmen of each battalion were on the wall, and the two battalions with slightly lower combat power were deployed to the inner trench to rely on horseback defense. Their own personal battalion and another main battalion were held in hand and were on standby for counterattack. Tangqi was detained behind, waiting for the attack. After the enemy formation collapsed, he was responsible for squeezing out the fleeing enemies...
Gangfeng Camp suffered heavy losses from the beginning and was suppressed near the camp gate, making it difficult to form a formation. But this is good: after all, it is the main camp. Under the leadership of experienced team officers, fruit leaders and veterans, there are small groups everywhere, blocking the camp gate tightly. , the enemy can't rush over in any case - but fighting like this will cost Gangfeng Battalion a lot - but, having said that, as long as Gu Baihua can withstand for an hour, being beaten is worth it: as long as he can If these enemies are eaten, the exchange ratio will not be a loss no matter how you calculate it!
While making calculations, I suddenly saw new movement in the direction of the enemy city. Leading the way were more than ten carriages, galloping all the way. Running behind them was a group of unarmored auxiliary soldiers.
The carriage came to an abrupt stop at the entrance of the tunnel behind the earthen barrier. Dozens of thieves accompanying the car jumped out. Under the command of a guy, they unloaded large and small sacks and threw them into the entrance of the cave. In less than half a stick of incense, they piled up knee-high. The leading guy had leather armor on his upper body and an iron helmet on his head - he seemed to be General Manager Qian from the auxiliary barracks. He took out his fire sickle, lit a torch, looked back at himself, let go of his hand, and the torch fell straight down. …
Red tongues of fire mixed with black smoke suddenly sprang up...
Guan Shengyun even felt that when the thief was holding the torch and throwing it away, he turned around and gave him a toothy smile!
Another group of unarmored auxiliary soldiers quickly dispersed while running. A group of three people: one person wields a knife and cuts off the ventilated moso bamboo close to the ground, one person quickly nails the wooden wedge into the bamboo joints, and the third person picks up a hammer and tamps it down... At the same time, the first bandit is already cutting down the bamboo. A piece of bamboo!
Almost not long after the flames started to break out, a passage about five feet wide appeared on the sparse bamboo ground from the earthen ramparts to the city wall. Next to the passage, there were occasionally three or five moso bamboo vent pipes emitting smoke. In the blink of an eye, another enemy rushed over...
It’s over!
Guan Shengyun looked at it with splitting eyes. In order to confuse the defenders, the tunnel did not go straight, but took a big turn and inserted bamboos all over the ground. However, the enemy general still clearly judged the general direction of the tunnel!
The lives of hundreds of people in the tunnel may not be saved.
Guo Qinglin on the camp wall beat the wooden railing and howled.
It has reached the final moment. The two hundred people who have just been rotated in are all veterans with rich experience in hole attack. The holes under the city foundation are their masterpieces: where water may seep, where it is easy to collapse, and where the wooden piles are burned and destroyed. The most powerful...all of them are experts. Although they are regarded as auxiliary soldiers, the generals are reluctant to send them to do life-threatening tasks such as filling ditches and digging piles. Training such a group of people again will take no more than a year and a half without even thinking about it.
It's not that Guan Shengyun didn't think about counterattack. Guan Jianlin, a guerrilla from the personal barracks, was already directing his men to counterattack. However, the Gangfeng Battalion was tightly pressed against the entrance of the camp, tightly blocking the only way out. The price for the enemy's inability to break in was that he himself could not break out!
The anxious Guan Shengyun finally saw a cloud of dust rising from both sides of the enemy city in the distance:
Reinforcements are coming!
Not caring much, Guan Shengyun gave the order to speed up: a cluster of red fireworks bloomed over the camp.
First rush to the vicinity, stop for a moment to recover your strength, and then encircle!
As long as you create a relatively large momentum, your own military morale will quickly stabilize and the enemy will be confused.
Stabilize your position and then fight back - hum, it's not yet known who will win!
Two fireworks were fired in the direction of friendly forces to indicate receipt of the order. Then, the speed obviously increased. Seeing that there are less than two miles left, the two supporting armies will arrive at the battlefield almost at the same time!
Although running long distances in armor is too wasteful of energy, and the troops will not be able to join the battle for a while, the large army close at hand will cause great psychological pressure on the enemy, and our own morale will quickly rise...
Boo!
Boo!
Two trumpet blasts were heard from the direction of the enemy city!
Um.
Enemies with vision advantages will definitely spot reinforcements earlier. After fighting in armor on the front line for so long, their physical strength has almost reached its limit. It's time to gather the troops and retreat.
There are about a thousand enemy soldiers in front of us. Needless to say, there are five hundred soldiers' camps. Looking at the combat strength, the other one should also be the main camp. They were all destroyed in one go. Do you dare to let the government officials defend the city? If that's the case, hey, I don't mind attacking immediately!
Suddenly, two plumes of smoke rose from under the enemy's city wall. Two teams suddenly emerged from the smoke and bumped into the reinforcement column without flank protection!
Burst door!
The enemy general actually secretly carved two protruding doors in the north and south city walls, just waiting for reinforcements!
!
Although it was difficult to see clearly from a distance, in the direction of the two supporting armies, the rising dust was no longer a straight line, but gradually spread outward in a slight fan shape, and the two general flags were no longer visible.
Guan Shengyun stumbled and almost fell off the Diao Dou.
Lost!
The friendly troops, exhausted by the rapid march and unsuspecting, received a fatal blow in the middle and were fleeing in all directions. Once the flag is knocked down, the troops completely lose command and it is impossible to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
"Ming Jin." Guan Shengyun sighed and said helplessly.
Hearing the long sound of cymbals, the armored men of the Gangfeng Battalion who were fighting each other gradually gathered together, from groups of three to five, and then merged into small teams, and the small teams moved closer to each other to form a line. Although defeated, Gu Baihua must be rewarded: From rushing to meet the enemy to fighting to the death without chaos, the performance of Gangfeng Battalion is remarkable! This barbarian really worked hard.
A trumpet sounded, and green and white flags were erected next to the commander's flag in the camp, and then the two flags tilted forward. The two general flags on the left and right inner trenches point forward. This is the response flag, indicating that they have received the command from the coach. Then, to the sound of drums, the two skirmisher lines began to gather together and formed two square formations behind the camp gate suspension bridge.
The enemy's physical strength was also greatly reduced. They did not take advantage of the situation to press forward, and also slowed down the pace of the attack. The armored soldiers in the back row came forward to replace their companions in the front row. The latter was holding a bloody weapon and bending over to take a big mouthful. Panting heavily.
Almost at the same moment, there was another cannon shot from the direction of the city tower, and then a burst of fireworks went up: it seemed that the enemy general had also decided to withdraw his troops.
The two strange soldiers who came out of the sudden gate had already understood the combat mission and did not pursue the defeated soldiers. They immediately stopped when they saw the fireworks signal and quickly moved closer to the headquarters flag. As soon as the troops were gathered together, the two general flags each lowered their flags deeply towards the earthen base. The soldiers stepped forward resolutely with heavy steps.
The enemy's main attacking force also changed its formation. Due to the potential energy of the attack, the front line continued to press forward, and the wounded soldiers on both sides were trapped behind the attacking front line - needless to say, all of your own wounded soldiers would become the enemy's heads.
Two fireworks burst out again over the enemy city.
The enemy's attacking phalanx began to retreat slowly, passing through the covering formation of the two surprise troops. The unarmored auxiliary soldiers who had just blocked the ventilation holes and filled the tunnels with fire all gathered behind the formation. At this time, they stepped forward to pick up the wounded, either supporting them or carrying them on their backs. The seriously injured and dead were placed on empty carriages and retreated quickly towards the city.
The three warrior formations alternately covered them and gradually disappeared into the camp in front of the city.
What a powerful enemy general!
What courage!
What a spirit!
Guan Shengyun couldn't help but cheer for his opponent in his heart!
Two thousand soldiers came out in full force, and at least a thousand auxiliary soldiers were mobilized. Surrounded by enemies on all sides, you actually dare to leave an empty city that is almost undefended! And we will never advance rashly because of greed for merit, and retreat immediately after achieving the tactical goal!
Such an opponent must be dealt with carefully in the following days.
Two green fireworks shot up in the distance, which was the reinforcement general's signal to gather the retreating troops. Guan Shengyun had no intention of looking at this at all, and his eyes were fixed on the entrance of the cave. As soon as the enemy retreated, Guo Qinglin led the auxiliary soldiers who had just been rotated out of the camp gate without waiting for orders, and frantically tried to clear the filled holes.
That's too late!
Guan Shengyun thought to himself. Oil-soaked straw and horse manure—the smoke harvests life faster than the sword.
Guan Jianlin also led Poxiao Battalion out of the main camp, but did not pursue it. Surprisingly, the enemy did not kill his wounded soldiers who fell to the ground. Guan Shengyun's personal camp was attacked by Gang Feng who was wailing all over the ground. The wounded soldiers of the battalion are holding back!
That’s all.
Guan Jianlin and Gu Baihua were sworn brothers, and the Gangfeng Battalion had already been weakened by this battle. It would not be justified in any case to throw the wounded soldiers on the ground to bleed - even though Guan Shengyun knew the enemy general's sinister intentions very well: there were two to three hundred wounded, It will add a lot of extra burdens to yourself.
The enemy city suddenly burst into cheers. The soldiers forgot about their fatigue and struck their shields with their weapons.
These vulgar soldiers expressed their respect to their coach in the simplest way - shouting.
Demonstrate to the powerful enemy!
Tips.
In ancient wars, in addition to beating drums and singing gold, there were many complex tactical orders.
Beating drums and ringing gold is a unified action signal sent to all soldiers. In fact, it is not as simple as we usually imagine, "If you advance after hearing the drums and ring gold, you will retreat." There are more differences - for example: a drum often represents To prepare for battle, the two links represent advancement, and the three links represent charge (wearing armor weighs tens of kilograms of iron, and the ultimate sprint distance is only ten to twenty to thirty meters. Before reaching this distance, you can only walk quickly, otherwise running over will cost you your life). Continuous drumming means continuous attack, one pass of gold means stopping the attack and refusing to defend on the spot, two passes means slowly retreating...
The general will also convey separate orders to each battalion and team, such as battalion A to retreat, battalion B to rush forward, and finally complete the encirclement. So there are also ways to convey these types of personalized commands, usually with flags.
The ancient military system was often set according to the five elements. Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth corresponded to the five armies in the front, rear, left, right, and middle. The flags of each army were divided into five colors: blue, yellow, red, white, and black. The same goes for the battalions under each army, using borders to distinguish them. For example, if the central army has a yellow flag, then the five camp flags with yellow as the main color below the central army will use green, yellow, red, white and black edges to distinguish them. The general will climb up to watch the battle from behind, and issue orders to different battalion officers according to the battle situation, which will be conveyed through flags of the corresponding color of the team.
When fighting, everyone's attention is on the front, so they use signal cannons as a way to remind the generals in the front to turn back and observe to accept orders - when they hear a blast from behind, the generals in the front look back: they are the green flag, and if the green flag behind them moves, then Whether you advance or retreat, obey orders and red flags are raised. It has nothing to do with you. Keep fighting...
A similar method is fireworks, which can convey orders further, especially at dawn and dusk when the colors of the flags are difficult to distinguish.
Beacon fire and smoke are also a means of transmitting military information, and can also convey more complex information: the first note represents the enemy's trace, the second note represents the scale of thousands of people, and there are cavalry and three pillars representing a large-scale invasion... In addition, there will be soldiers holding blankets Masking, so that the smoke column observed in the distance will have discontinuities similar to Morse code, so that more complex information can be conveyed (some people may ask, why didn’t the few soldiers on the beacon tower hurry up when they saw the enemies all over the mountains and plains? Run away, or simply surrender, and you still have to spend precious escape time to report the news? It's very simple. The people guarding the beacon are all the people who have been selected to take care of their families - if you run away without reporting the enemy's situation, your whole family will be dead) .
Of course, particularly complex tactical orders can only be conveyed directly to front-line generals by messengers running into the battlefield.
