"Is it 500 riders or 800 riders?"
"Eight...eight hundred. My team let them take turns to rest in different villages. The most we have dispatched is five hundred, so we falsely call it five hundred...actually there are eight hundred, just in case."
"No wonder Zhang Sanlang said you are a delicate person."
"Everywhere...everywhere...it's all about living."
"Not to mention this... what's the armor coverage? How much iron armor? How much leather armor? What kind of armor is the iron armor? How many pairs of Mingguang armor?"
"Iron armor and leather armor are probably half and half, but they are all rags bought from those who escaped from the Dengzhou camp... I can also mend the leather armor myself, but the iron armor cannot be repaired properly, so I can only blend it with leather. However, the real full armor is only seventy or eighty... Among them, there are only seven or eight pairs of Mingguang armor... and only half a pair of horse armor."
"I will complete the iron armor accessories for you, but there is no need for full iron armor... It is appropriate to keep three to five hundred light cavalry... As for horse armor, why do you still count on horse armor? If it cannot be established, what is the use? Soldiers and horses are It should be adapted to local conditions, and it’s not like the two countries are at war...and you can’t afford it.”
"Yes Yes Yes."
"What are the weapons used for?"
"We have everything, including crossbows, swords, spears, spears and shields, and a few spear throwers...but the dozens of cavalry led by me were all selected by me, and most of them are well-trained. They all have long steel spears and hard bows. "
"It's interesting."
"It took away all the money..."
"Put those with long weapons and iron armor together as much as possible, at least in the front, and use them with your point steel training cavalry. Don't ask for anything else, just charge hard at the critical moment... As for those with short weapons and leather armor, It can be placed at the back or used separately... In fact, it can also be used in the short-weapons team. For every twenty people, add a pocket of fishing nets, two steel crossbows, and a steel fork... If there is no steel fork, a wooden fork can also be used. OK."
"It makes sense. It's convenient for random battles, and you're not afraid of fighting on foot."
"Mainly because it has miraculous effects on cultivators..."
"I see!"
"How is the food on weekdays? Can I take a foot bath once every three days and brush my horse once every five days?"
"..."
"What kind of horses are they? What kind of feed do they use?"
"..."
In the lobby of the permanent camp where the brazier was lit, Li Ding and Cheng Zhili, as well as several local officials and military officers from Pu Tai who were temporarily promoted by Li Ding, were discussing. Zhang Xing could force himself to understand at first, but then he It sounded a bit specious, and coupled with the fact that he was so weak from being roasted by the brazier, he looked a little tired.
On the other hand, Xiao Zhou could still interject a few words from time to time.
However, no matter how confused Zhang Laosan is, he still knows that this kind of thing is the most important thing before the war... In fact, in his early years, he was a big V, not to mention, he just read some high-end online articles Everyone said that an army that could soak its feet once a night was almost invincible in the feudal era... Zhang Xing was skeptical at first, but when he participated in a westward journey and an eastward expedition, he immediately woke up. is extremely accurate.
There is no other reason. In this era and system where personal dependence is the mainstay, wanting to fairly provide adequate logistics to the entire army, especially the most basic level, means too many things in itself.
If you can do this, whether you are a practitioner, a professional technocrat, or a grassroots soldier, they will all unite to you... To put it bluntly, this kind of team was defeated in a surprise attack because of foot washing. how? It will definitely make a comeback.
That really feels like the benevolent is invincible.
In fact, Zhang Xing could still work hard to make the Fulong Guards feel good in the first half of the Western Tour, but not in the second half. By the time of the third expedition to Dongyi, it was even more of a mess.
Therefore, he has always known the difficulties and the pros and cons.
Of course, under the light, we chatted back and forth, and finally we talked about something that Zhang Xing could understand.
"How will this battle be fought?" Xiao Zhou suddenly asked. "Does Fourth Master Li have any decision?"
"The art of war is about adapting measures to local conditions and making decisions on the fly, but broadly speaking, it is naturally to lure the enemy deep and then ambush from all sides." Li Ding, who was wearing a samurai crown but a commoner, blurted out.
Several people around him, including Li Ding's own subordinates, were all silent for a moment. This is not to say that there are no allusions to Ambush from Flying Daggers in this world that are difficult to understand. In fact, Yu Xian, the Eight Great Masters of Jiangnan, had similar allusions before.
only……
"We have 5,000 infantry and 800 cavalry. Although we don't know the exact number of the opponent's troops, they are seven or eight times, or even ten times, ours. They just ambush us from all sides. How can we do it?" Ambush them?" Cheng Dalang asked seriously. "Does Fourth Master Li have other plans?"
"It depends on your cavalry." Li Ding answered calmly. "The so-called ambush from all sides does not mean to be surrounded from all sides. It does not need to be surrounded. Instead, it needs to use terrain and fortifications to continuously divide and expel the enemy troops through ambushes and raids... Switch to Zhang Jinscale, In fact, it is to lure the enemy deeper or while he is moving or fleeing, constantly reducing the effective forces around him, eventually causing the troops around him to collapse, and then killing him with one blow."
Everyone was stunned.
Cheng Dalang also raised his palms in response: "That's it, it's just what it should be! From Qinghe to here, there are many rivers along the way. If they have many people, their formation will inevitably be irregular. We concentrated our elites and prepared things to cross the river. We used cavalry and mounted infantry to continuously attack them along the way. Reducing his troops is also a way to lure them to continue attacking. When he reacts, he will not be able to speak."
"Of course." Li Ding continued to speak under the lamp. "There is also a backup plan. If his soldiers and horses are really powerful, or our soldiers are just show-offs, we can lure him to Pu Tai, force him to besiege the Pu Tai camp, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack... Moreover, these are just general guidelines. Reconnaissance, intercession, and harassment of the camp are all indispensable... Since Cheng Dalang is here and determined to fight, a comprehensive response will be made against Zhang Jinscale starting tomorrow."
Cheng Dalang hesitated for a moment, and looked past Li Ding's silent subordinates and glanced at Zhang Xing.
"What?" Zhang Xing, who was about to yawn, noticed this and asked coldly.
"Actually, Mr. Zhang, how about you let me try to surrender first?" Cheng Dalang asked seriously. "I am also a well-known person in the local area. He just doesn't know that we are in the same group... If we can take his life by surprise... wouldn't we save a lot of things?"
"What's the difference between that and assassination?" Zhang Xing asked coldly. "Cheng Dalang, why do you think we are fighting this battle?"
Cheng Dalang solemnly raised his hands: "I would like to hear the details."
"First, we must defeat Zhang Jinscale in a legitimate and legitimate manner, and annex his people as a warning for the Qinghe massacre." Zhang Xing held the table and spoke clearly, without any signs of fatigue before. "Second, Li Silang is about to leave, but he has benevolent intentions. Before leaving, he must make the thousands of soldiers here in Po Tai strong and powerful, so that the common people here can protect themselves; third, it is for you, Cheng Dalang, to take over We have soldiers, a territory, a voice, and we can protect ourselves; fourthly, we want the Dragon Gang to be deposed here... Tell us who is the master of the Central Plains of Hebei, who is the tycoon of the Eastern Qi, who is the hero of this place!"
"And these four clauses are not groundless, but are clauses established by Zhang Xing in order to cut off the violent Wei and stabilize the world." After saying this, Zhang Xing stared at Cheng Zhili and asked seriously. "Cheng Dalang, do you think that if you go for the assassination, you will be able to achieve, how many of these four things can be achieved? To put it bluntly, if you go for the assassination and still achieve it, then I am afraid that Li Silang and I will have to think about what to do. I am ambushing you from all sides."
For a moment, an inexplicable cold air filled the hall, and many people couldn't help but shiver.
Cheng Dalang was also stunned, and then he could only bow his hands and apologize seriously: "I was in a hurry. I, Cheng Dalang, am willing to do the reconnaissance myself. I must fight this battle beautifully and finish it all."
Several of Li Ding's subordinates all looked at Li Ding, but they only saw the latter slightly nodding: "That's it, I'd like to trouble Dalang Cheng."
Several local subordinates bowed their heads or took the opportunity to echo.
Cheng Zhili took the opportunity to leave, and several other subordinates also took the initiative to leave, including Xiao Zhou.
After a while, only Zhang and Li were left in the hall.
"Cheng Dalang is dishonest." Li Ding held the table and analyzed it carefully. "My subordinates should take their time. What he said just now seems to be to help you talk and win people's hearts. In fact, it feels like he can't wait. He is using your and my power to convince those people... There is going to be a battle soon, and with fewer strikes and more strikes, it is unlikely that some of those people will feel uneasy."
"That's what happened." Zhang Xing held his forehead and sat on a chair nearby. "But it will come sooner or later...Besides, it's not just Cheng Dalang? Xu Dalang, Shan Dalang, and Wei Gong and Li Gong? Which one is easy to get along with? Are you, Mr. Li, the most economical person? Are you going to do it today?" What are the subordinates doing here?"
"Shouldn't I give them some explanation?" Li Ding was silent for a moment and asked on the spot.
"Of course you can." Zhang Xing answered with a yawn. "I have no objection... It's just that everyone regards other people's pursuit of utilitarianism and mountaineering as a bad idea. Doing it yourself is a good idea, and it's easy to fall into it... Among these people, which one do you like the most?"
"That Fangxian Lieutenant...what do you think?"
"A descendant of the Qinghe Fang clan?"
"right."
"What should I say?" Zhang Xing cheered up slightly. "Logically speaking, he is the person you, Li Silang, like, so there is no reason to object. Even the Qinghe Fang clan has extensive influence in the Bohai Sea and the plains. Choosing him to match Cheng Dalang is the best way to contain him. Cheng Dalang is determined not to break up. …”
"That's what I mean." Li Ding nodded quickly.
"But he happens to be from the Qinghe Fang clan." Zhang Xingfu turned around again.
"What do you mean?" Li Ding was speechless for a moment.
"Without him, he is also a remnant of the Eastern Qi Dynasty, and he is also unable to serve as an official in the Wei Dynasty. However, after the military honors of Cheng Dalang and Xu Dalang, they are not the same as these Shandong and Hebei aristocratic families... When they were in the Eastern Qi Dynasty, they were sworn enemies. , when I was in Dong Qi, it was the noble family and the martial arts of the poor family."
"Of course I know." Li Ding was a little helpless. "To put it bluntly, you just can't trust these high-ranking disciples?"
"The martial arts of a humble family are at most a tyrannical style and cunning to protect themselves." Zhang Xingyi said. "As for these high-ranking disciples, it's not that they have no ability, nor do they hate the Wei Dynasty, but their belief in rebellion and doing things is not stable, and they are arrogant. They have always looked down on us low-income families... Then their knees may go weak, and at any time Those who surrender to the enemy...just like you, Li Silang. At this point, you still blame me for not going to Wu'an to be the governor, and you still want to go back to Dongdu to see your future!"
"You just still hold grudges about this!" Li Ding was angry for a moment. "Then what if your Miss Bai goes back directly?"
"She promised me that she would come back to me." Zhang Xing answered calmly. "She has her own thing to do."
"Is it this far?" Li Ding was startled, and then immediately came back to his senses. "In that case, why aren't you allowed to go to Dongdu to gain some power and wait and see?"
"Just you?" Zhang Xing spoke from the bottom of his heart and almost sneered.
"I..." Li Ding hesitated, and finally asked bluntly. "Then tell me, who do you like?"
"When I came here before, there was a civil servant at the first pass in the west. Later I asked Xiao Zhou to find out. His surname was Cheng, but he had nothing to do with Cheng Dalang, and he was not a local... What was his name? Up?"
"Cheng's name." Li Ding sighed quietly. "A humble official... you want to promote him just because you bumped into him?"
"Isn't it possible?" Zhang Xing asked proudly in the audience. "As soon as I saw this person, Zhang Sanlang felt that he had the qualifications to be a general or prime minister. What's wrong with promoting him? I can't promote him?! Or who is going to say that I have no vision?"
Li Ding still wants to talk.
Zhang Xing finally became impatient: "Li Silang, if you stay, how can you have so much to do? Of course you will be my master of the Eastern Territory, and I can rest assured. But now that you want to go to the Eastern Capital, here Shouldn’t I be the main one when it comes to matters?! You are just a lamp that doesn’t save oil, and I, Zhang Xing, am a candle that lights in vain?!”
Li Ding finally stopped refuting. After being silent for half a day, he finally nodded: "You're right, you're right...I am...I don't know what's going on..."
"You are about to leave, but you are worried that you don't have a clue, so you want to keep the buttons. You are utilitarian, but you don't dare to gamble, and you are unwilling to admit it." Zhang Xing sneered, but he felt comfortable. "But to be honest, I can't really trust the descendants of the Fang family in Qinghe. Even if you are here and I let you go, I will tell you to be careful... As I said, who makes me a low-born person? What about?"
Li Ding could only nod perfunctorily.
In this way, that night, a conference participant tried to cross the river to make a report in Putai County. He was stopped by Zhou Xingfan, who was well prepared, and easily killed the demonstrator. For this reason, Cheng Mingqi, a minor official in Ping'en County, Wei County, who was living in the Putai camp because he was escorting grain and grass, was promoted by the front line to be Li Ding's deputy and participated in the management of the Putai camp. The next day, he participated in the military meeting.
As for the fact that when Zhang Sanlang recommended this person to Li Silang, not only did he say in the Putai camp that this person had the qualities to become a general or a prime minister, it also spread like a joke throughout the entire camp's senior management.
And on the afternoon of this day, Cheng Dalang also left the Putai Camp, and then the twenty or thirty cavalry who secretly met in Pingyuan County went straight to Qinghe County further west.
Over there, Qinghe tycoon Zhang Jinsheng has swept through seven or eight counties and gathered 40,000 to 50,000 young people. Even Qinghe's Fang family and Cui family took the initiative to escape from the country manor and enter the country because of his wanton robbery and massacre. The county and city were hiding... For a time, half of Qinghe seemed to belong to Zhang Dahao.
It was at this time that Zhang Dahao fell into a food crisis.
This is of course. Starting from the late Wei Dynasty, it was customary to hide grain and silk in warehouses around the capital. In times of disaster, troops were directly sent to surround the situation. How could the people in the core hometown of Eastern Qi have so much surplus grain?
What's more, the autumn crops are not yet mature.
Even Zhang Dahao's initial robbery and massacre seemed to be unreasonable. Without robbery, where would the money and food come from? If we don’t kill them, who will feed these people?
Zhang Dahao is not a government official.
Besides, if the government doesn’t support it, why should he support it?
"Hit Li Yang?"
Zhang Jinsheng, a tall man in his forties, sat proudly in the lobby of Gaotang County and expressed his disdain for the scribe who had just come to seek refuge. "Are you trying to harm me? Of course I know that Liyang has money and food. As for Liyangcang, all the money and food in Hebei are there, but that place is in Jijun, and there is only Xingyang County across from Dongdu... The great master was furious , What should I do if I abandon Dongdu and kill me? What if the elite troops of the Wei army in Yedu rush out from behind? And if I want to go there, is it that simple? What does Wuyang County say?"
"Yes...it was my lack of consideration." The scribe quickly admitted his mistake.
"You know you're wrong?" Zhang Jinscale asked coldly.
"I understand." The scribe nodded again and again.
"Cut it down." Zhang Jinscale casually looked at a warrior beside him, then raised his hand and pointed down, then pointed at the scribe. "Since you are the lord of half the county, you must clearly distinguish rewards and punishments!"
Before the scribe could react, several armored warriors rushed down, and several of them were practitioners. The leader among them was a master of Qi Sutra who showed his true energy. He easily captured this man in the hall, using random swords. After chopping it up...then he dragged the body down into pieces and brought people up to wash the floor.
"This guy has bad intentions and just wants to take my life, but there's nothing we can do about it. There are fewer and fewer good people these days..." In the bloody atmosphere, Zhang Jinscale sighed, pinched his beard and sighed, realizing again What, just wave your hand down the hall. "However, you don't have to worry. You are all brothers. If you are a brother, I, Zhang Jinscale, will listen to you... Tell me, where should we go to get food?"
Sitting below were twenty or thirty heroes, with different backgrounds from north to south. They all smiled a little when they heard this, but no one dared to take the initiative to stand out.
"You have to speak!" Zhang Jinscale became impatient when he saw this, and directly ordered someone. "Guo Jingke, Xiao Guo! Although we are old friends, you have just joined the team. Anyone who has just joined the team has to make a recommendation... Tell me, where should we get food?"
Guo Jingke had long thought that Zhang Longtou, the Third Master Zhang who wanted to be his internal correspondent, had scolded his ancestors for eighteen generations. But at this time, he could only stand up and be careful:
"Leader Zhang Da wants food. In addition to Li Yang, there is also food in the village of Xu Dalang and Shan Dalang on the other side of the river..."
Zhang Jinscale frowned when he heard this.
"But crossing the river is a bit troublesome, and Xu Dalang and Shan Dalang are not easy to get along with." Upon seeing this, Guo Jingke quickly shook his head and denied his opinion. "In this case, downstream of the river, across the plains, it is said that there are some people who are storing grain at Po Tai, Bohai Sea. They were placed there during the Three Expeditions... It is said that there are also ordnance and armor... maybe you can get them!"
"The Bohai Sea is the territory of Gao Shitong and Sun Xunzhi..." Someone carefully interrupted.
"So it's too late, maybe these two will take it away." Guo Jingke was so confused that he could only think of one sentence after another.
"There's a problem." Zhang Jinscale said irritably as he patted the chopping board. "Why don't these two people go get these grains? Is there any explanation?"
"All I can think of..." Guo Jingke tried his best to reply, but he couldn't remember those words.
"It's Cheng Dalang, it's Wang Hou, the wise man!" Zhang Jinscale suddenly started to take action in his own house. "Putai is next to the river, and the county seat is in Henan. It should be Cheng Dalang who is vacillating, and the other three families are afraid of each other... The three families have to contact each other before they can eat this piece of meat in one bite! They are restraining each other!"
"The big leader is wise." What else could Guo Jingke say.
"If that's the case, it's not impossible for me to take advantage of the constraints of the three of them and just lead the men to raid and carry the food back." Zhang Jinscale walked around behind the case. "But who is the guard? Does he have some skills? This battle cannot be delayed."
"There is no guard. He is a messenger from the capital. It is said that he is from a famous family in Guanxi... but he is not a general, just like the Fang family. The origin of the Li family in Longxi... was originally in charge of road construction, and later in charge of river transportation." Guo Jingke saw When things got back on track, I finally managed to suppress my uneasiness and said those words. "Big boss, think about it, if he knew how to fight, he could still build roads?!"
Zhang Jinscale finally took action again, then looked at the warrior leader beside him, whose smell of blood was still lingering, and pointed his finger at Guo Jingke below: "Xiao Guo said well, let's go and beat the podium! Take the gold that was captured last time. Share some of the silver with him! Since we are the lord of half the county, we must clearly distinguish rewards and punishments!"
In early autumn, Guo Jingke, who received the reward, was actually frightened on the spot, and then he couldn't help but scolded someone in his heart... What is this?
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