Jianchuan, Yushi Military Station.
The originally gray-white stone wall is now black and smoky and dilapidated, and has collapsed in many places. It can only be roughly estimated that the wall must have been nearly four feet high before.
It is said to be a military station, but in fact it is a large fortification that forms a stone fort.
According to Wu Kai's many years of experience in Tanshi and Haixiatun Army, it usually takes half a year to complete this kind of fortification, and it also requires a lot of labor and enough high-quality stone materials. Obviously, Yushi Military Station did not have the foundation to build a fortification of this scale, but it was built successfully. This was due to the help of magic.
Although he had not seen it with his own eyes, Wu Kai was sure that if the Yushi Military Station could be built in a short period of time, there must be help from monks with advanced cultivation and who are good at the five elements of earth magic, and there may even be several such masters.
But now the Yushi Military Station is definitely going to be overhauled.
Wu Kai arrived at the military station yesterday. The previous encounter was the day before yesterday. After joining forces and outflanking General Li Shen's men to annihilate the barbarians trapped in the encounter, Wu Kai repaired on the spot as ordered. Later, I witnessed the offensive and defensive counterattack at the Yushi Soldier Station from a distance.
It was not until dawn that the battlefield entered the formal cleaning stage. Buried and cleared.
Wu Kai left a total of eight alive. After handing them over to General Li, he has been working with the adjutant to deal with the follow-up of the casualties, as well as recording and reporting the merits of everyone in the camp.
The previous diamond formation was a relatively compact offensive and defensive battle formation. The advantage was that it could use point-to-point contact to replace the chaotic contact of the entire army. This leads to huge differences in the intensity experienced by soldiers in different positions experiencing the same battle formation.
Let's say the innermost crossbowman. They only fired their bows three times before and after. Not to mention the danger, even the encounters with the barbarians were only seen when they were clearing the battlefield. The same is true for the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers in the back row, and they are even worse than the long-hand crossbowmen.
The gunmen in the front row experienced the intensity of the war. That's really risking your life. The casualties were basically the people in the first three or four rows.
This will make a difference when calculating credit. According to the rules, those who died in battle will be awarded two levels of merit, and it will be included in the previous merit certificates, and will be converted to family members when the time comes. The rest will be calculated based on killing the enemy. Killing one person will result in one turn. The rest who did not kill the enemy can only get the collective credit of the entire battalion, which is usually a reward but no merit.
Therefore, when it comes to killing enemies, any soldier in the frontline army who has some level of cultivation can theoretically accumulate merits quickly, because firstly, their strength is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and secondly, they often appear in the battle formation in the form of "blade" The key position allows frequent contact with the enemy.
But theory is theory. In fact, the casualty rate of soldiers with advanced training is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers. After all, there are only a few people who earn enough merit and pay it back.
After all, benefits and risks are directly proportional, and this also works in the military.
After Wu Kai had finished everything, he waited until yesterday afternoon to receive the order allowing him to enter the military station for repairs. Others under General Li had already entered the military station before Wu Kai.
This was not because General Li was deliberately alienating Wu Kai, but because the previous offensive and defensive battles at Yushi Military Station had been quite brutal, and there was not enough free space in the military station to accommodate the newly arrived soldiers. The rest of General Li's troops entered the military station in advance because they participated in the offensive and defensive battles to help clean up after the war.
Recalling that Wu Kai couldn't fully participate in the offensive and defensive battle of Yushi Military Station, Wu Kai couldn't help but feel a little regretful. Because the encounters he experienced were only a small part of this battle.
When Wu Kai went to General Li's camp to discuss matters this morning, he listened to a brief summary of the entire battle.
Those who attacked the military station were a barbarian army that broke through the front line defenses of Jianchuan, numbering approximately 7,000 people. At that time, there were only less than 2,000 soldiers stationed in Yushi Military Station, half of whom were still auxiliary soldiers who stayed at the military station to be responsible for loading, unloading and transporting baggage. The remaining half are also wounded soldiers who have just retreated from the front line. As well as more than ten monks from Jingying Mansion who have just arrived here to prepare for reinforcements on the front line.
Excluding those who were seriously injured and unable to move, there were only more than 1,400 manpower available in the Yushi Military Station at that time, and they had to face an enemy seven times their own.
When Wu Kai first heard about the garrison strength at the time of the attack on Yushi Military Station, he was a little unbelievable. He walked around the station yesterday and today. The broken walls, the bloodstains everywhere, and even the stumps that had not been cleaned up all showed how tragic the fighting situation here was at that time.
It is hard to imagine that such a tragic scene would be left behind by a group of auxiliary soldiers and the wounded. They were facing barbarians! And it’s still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. Even the only protective wall that he could rely on collapsed badly... This... Wu Kai tightened his fists at that time. He somewhat understood why he didn't see it after entering the military station. How many auxiliaries and wounded were there.
In the words of General Li, "the garrison held on to the enemy and fought to the last moment. They even set fire to the surrounding houses and spread kerosene on the ground to prepare to burn them with the enemy. Fortunately, our troops arrived and only a few remained." "
Wu Kai didn't see any of the dozen or so monks from Jingying Mansion. Later, out of curiosity, he asked the master who had been guarding him in the battle formation and had not been transferred out for the time being, and he got three words: They are all dead.
"The new order is for us to temporarily stay at Yushi Military Station to be responsible for the temporary reconstruction tasks here, mainly some basic arrangement and cleaning. In three days, auxiliary troops will come to replace us. After that, the army will continue to move east to replace an integrated army on the front line. Come down and fix it.
Wu Kai. "
"My subordinate is here!"
"You performed well in the previous encounter in front of the Yushi Soldier Station. The military commander is very satisfied with you. The rest of the journey is also dominated by rocky beaches and it is inconvenient to ride horses, so your unit will still act as the left forward. In addition, give You fill the vacancies of a hundred people, fifty of whom are monks. Remember not to make any mistakes."
Wu Kai responded with his hands raised, a fire in his heart making his chest hot. The opportunity he has been waiting for for many years has finally appeared, and it seems that he has caught the tail of this opportunity. As long as he climbs up, he will hopefully give himself a "handsome" character in his career. on the flag. Of course, this is Wu Kai’s dream and ambition.
"My subordinates will definitely not embarrass you!"
In the next three days, Wu Kai followed the arrangements and helped clean the Yushi Soldier Station. The corpses of the barbarians were burned clean. Those who belong to one's own family will be put together if they can, and those who cannot be put together will be buried together in a big pit. The people of the old Jing Dynasty still have to go to their graves.
The tomb is not small, and there is a large one on the left side of the road to the military station, which can be seen by everyone entering and leaving Yushi Military Station.
Before Wu Kai left, he came to pay homage. In addition to the adjutant, he was accompanied by the familiar Jingying Mansion master. And now Wu Kai also knows the other party's name, Dingshan.
It is said that among the more than ten Jingying Mansion monks who died at Yushi Military Station, Dingshan's junior brother is also in this grave.
