Yun Chao brought all two regular divisions with him.
Fortunately, a militia was formed, otherwise it would be impossible to maintain law and order in Dongping Mansion.
Yunchao stipulated that each county must have a militia group.
The militia is composed of farmers, who farm during busy farming periods and train during slack periods.
Dongping Prefecture has a total of six counties, that is, six militia regiments, with a total of fifteen thousand people.
Together with a militia group from Fucheng, the total number is 17,500.
The militiamen trained by Yun Chao were not ordinary country warriors from the Dawu Dynasty.
The Xiangyong of the Dawu Dynasty were, to put it bluntly, temporary corvee conscripts. They were similar to civilian men, and their combat effectiveness was almost negligible.
Yunchao's militia could compete with some powerful bandits and was basically equivalent to the ordinary army of the Great Wu Dynasty.
In addition to two regular divisions and seven militia regiments, there is also a new division being trained.
The recruit division was just established and was a recruit training base specially established by Yun Chao.
In the future, when recruiting troops, the new divisions must first train the soldiers and then assign them to various units.
Each unit is not allowed to recruit its own troops in order to avoid creating cliques and cliques.
It's not that Yunchao is always wary of his subordinates, but that the system should be perfected as much as possible in the early stages. When the scale becomes large in the future, it will be difficult to reform the system.
20,000 regular troops, plus 20,000 civilian men temporarily recruited by Yun Chao, headed straight for Ohnoze.
According to the news sent back by the scouts ahead, Yun Chao carefully controlled the speed of his march.
He is here to be a fisherman and cannot get himself into it.
"Brother Chao, it's exactly what you said. The bandits in Onezawa did not defend the mountain stronghold and are preparing to meet the army halfway!"
"Brother Chao, what are the bandits in Onezawa doing here? Anyway, the court doesn't have that many naval forces. Do you believe they can break through the stronghold?"
"..."
Facing the many problems of his men, Yun Chao was very pleased.
These guys finally stopped being afraid of asking questions and started asking questions on their own initiative.
"You all already know the topography of Onozawa. Although the bandits mainly gather in the water, there are also a small number of roads connected to the land. It is not a completely isolated island in the water..."
Having captured so many Onozawa bandits, Yun Chao knew the situation of Onozawa very well.
Yun Chao had someone hang up the map of Ohnozawa he drew.
"You see, there is a road here leading to the mountain stronghold. It seems that the terrain is complex and easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as a small number of troops are sent, it can be defended without losing. However, as soon as the imperial army arrives, the supplies of the Onezawa bandits are completely exhausted. Discontinued..."
Yun Chao used a sword as a pointer, pointed at Ohnozawa's map and began to criticize.
There are many issues to consider in a war, not only how to win, but also good logistics is very important.
Yun Chao talked about several examples, all of which were fought between the two sides for several years.
If the bandits do not come out of Onozawa, they will be blocked in the water by the imperial officers and soldiers.
Who can feed the little land in the water that produces enough food?
Tens of thousands of people, plus the bandits' families, at least hundreds of thousands of people, can't all make a living by eating fish and shrimps, right?
The Onozawa bandits will definitely die if their food route is cut off by the army!
As soon as the imperial officers and soldiers arrive, they will definitely take action against the villages and towns around Onozawa.
These places are the base of the Onezawa bandits, and many people are related to the Onezawa bandits. Once they are wiped out by the government troops, the Onezawa bandits will truly be left alone.
Moreover, if you defend for a long time, you will lose. No matter how strong the stronghold is, loopholes will appear if you defend it for a long time.
They are just a group of bandits. How strong their will can be. Once the war situation is unfavorable, their morale will soon collapse.
"Brother Chao, since Ohnozawa is so big, wouldn't bandits take boats to go around, such as buying food?"
"Idiot, didn't Brother Chao say that as soon as the imperial troops arrive, they will definitely clean up the surrounding towns and villages? There will be no one around, so what's the use of the Onoza bandits coming out by boat!"
"..."
After some discussion, almost all the backbones reached a consensus. Brother Chao is worthy of being the reincarnation of a god in the sky. His great thoughts are unfathomable and he has been thinking ahead of everyone for a long time!
Yun Chao was speechless. I asked you to discuss military issues, not for you to wonder where I came from. Even if you try hard, you can't think of my true origin, okay?
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Three days later.
The Onezawa bandits really started fighting with the imperial officers and soldiers on land.
Fifty miles away from the battlefield.
Yun Chao set up camp and sent a large number of scouts to cover the battlefield, and would never allow the army's whereabouts to be exposed.
The Yun Family Army has telescopes, a weapon of war. It is difficult for the imperial officers and soldiers, or the Onezawa bandits, to detect the Yun Family Army's scouts.
Even if you find it, you can still escape in time.
If the opponent is chasing after you, then you're sorry. Scouts with telescopes will soon gather together, using more to defeat fewer, taking advantage of the field of vision to lure the enemy or lay an ambush, and try every means to kill the chasing enemy.
The official army and the Onezawa bandits had been fighting for more than half a month, and neither side had discovered the existence of the Yun family army. They only knew that there were some spies who were frequently active in the direction of Dongping Mansion.
As for where these spies came from?
The imperial officers and soldiers thought they were Onezawa bandits entrenched in Dongping Mansion.
The Onezawa bandits thought they were the bastards from Dongping Prefecture who were pretending to be themselves.
Until now, the bandits in Ohnozawa believed that Dongping Mansion was occupied by another group of bandits, and they never expected that it would be the same group of dog officers and soldiers who had defeated them.
There was no way around it, the Yun Family Army was so well disguised that they had put on a show for the spies sent by the Onezawa bandits several times, making them mistakenly think that the controller of Dongping Mansion was one of their own kind.
As for where are the officers and soldiers who once blocked them in Dongping City?
Who knows, maybe they have been destroyed by those bandits long ago.
It's not that Ohnozawa is a bandit fool, it's mainly that the Yun Family Army is too deceptive.
There had been so much movement by the officers and soldiers from several surrounding prefectures to recapture Dongping Prefecture that it was impossible for the bandits in Ohnozawa not to know about it.
The officers and soldiers were defeated one after another. Such huge losses meant that it was not the officers and soldiers who occupied Dongping Mansion now. Why were the officers and soldiers beating the officers and soldiers?
It must be a group of bandits, and a powerful group of bandits!
In a war involving hundreds of thousands of people, the winner cannot be determined by just one face-to-face encounter.
Without repeated reconnaissance and repeated testing, a large-scale decisive battle will generally not be launched.
One hundred thousand officers and soldiers, with companies and camps standing next to each other, occupying a radius of more than ten miles.
Not to be outdone, the Onezawa bandits mobilized almost 50,000 troops. The two sides fought one war after another in an area of dozens of miles!
On such a large battlefield, even if the Yun family army had telescopes, it would be impossible to know the specific situation of each battle.
The scouts of the official army and the Onezawa bandits fought each other within ten miles of the battlefield, fighting to the death. It was difficult for the scouts of the Yun Family Army to get close.
A real large-scale war is many times more complicated and cruel than imagined!
