The food in the army is actually quite good. Although the taste may be far worse than that in restaurants, there is no shortage of meat and vegetables, and it is definitely filling.
Everything else is easy to say. After being in the army for so long, Shen Hao still can't get used to the soup cakes here. The taste of the soup is very strange. It's okay to fill his stomach, but he won't eat the soup if he has a choice. Pie.
Three pancakes and a large pot of boiled ham meat in salted water. The bread is relatively dry, which tests your teeth. Chop the hind leg meat into fist-sized pieces and eat it with a fork. Then paired with a large pot of tea, it was a meal for Shen Hao, the supervisory officer in charge.
Of course, Shen Hao had something to eat, but Zhang Ye and Li Jiang, who were sitting across from him, did not. They just stood there with their hands tied and took the time to tell what happened in the ten days that Shen Hao had been in seclusion.
That's right, something big is happening.
On December 20, Cheng Jinhou's troops engaged in a field battle with a main mixed force of barbarians thirty miles east of the newly established "Menqian" military stronghold. The fight lasted from morning to afternoon, with both sides throwing weapons. After laying down thousands of corpses, they retreated. But that night the barbarians launched a surprise attack, and the "Shimen" military camp closest to the "Menqian" military camp was also besieged by a large-scale main force of barbarians.
The battle lasted for three full days, and the siege of Shimen was finally solved when 20,000 reinforcements from Jianchuan arrived.
Then the newly reinforced army pressed forward again, preparing to take advantage of the situation to relieve the tough offensive and defensive battle at the "front door" military camp. However, they were ambushed forty miles between Shimen and the gate. Twenty thousand soldiers lost more than 6,000 before they retreated to Shimen again.
However, the difficulty of the military camp in front of the gate was delayed for two more days. After that, the military camp in the middle of Jianchuan launched its force and pushed forward, forcing the barbarians to help defend. Due to the strength of the troops, the siege in front of the gate was resolved.
On December 25, the two military strongholds in Jianchuan Middle and Lower Jianchuan began to send out troops to launch a massive counterattack, pushing the front line forward by fifty and forty miles. However, due to the interference of the barbarian cavalry and the supply constraints, they did not stay in the stronghold. Instead, they chose to retreat after a fight outside the barbarian military stronghold.
"So the counterattack has begun?"
"Yes, sir. The Baekdu Gorge and Huzhuyuan front lines have also launched an active offensive against the barbarians for the first time, but the intensity is not as high as that of Jianchuan."
Shen Hao finished chewing a bone, threw it away, picked up the tea cup and took a big sip before saying, "Where are the barbarians? How to deal with them?"
"The fighting is going on over there in Jianchuan. According to the news from the inspectors in the two military villages in Shimen and in front of the gate, the barbarians are fighting very fiercely. They dare to kill three or four of us even if one of us is killed." Keep filling it up. Bodies are everywhere and people are not cleaning them up. It’s like crazy.”
"Are they the same ethnic groups from before?" Shen Hao was used to talking about dead people and corpses while eating.
"Yes, mainly the red-eyed wolf tribe, three-eyed wolf tribe, long-tusked elephant tribe and snake tribe, as well as some pig tribe and rat tribe."
The wolf tribe and rat tribe account for a large part of the complex ethnic distribution of the barbarians, and they are also the largest in number. They have strong survivability and fertility, and they like to live in large groups. However, the wolf tribe and the rat tribe are also subdivided into many small tribes. For example, the three-eyed and red-eyed wolf tribes are two of them. In addition to subdivided clans, there are also clan divisions. A clan may belong to several or even dozens of clans.
The red-eyed wolf clan that previously raised the Frost Moon flag in Sangbichu was the Frost Moon clan, and it was also the most powerful clan among the wolf clan. According to the records in the Xuanqing Guards, the Shuangyue Clan has produced two barbarian kings. This is the third time that they want to establish a royal court and claim the title of king.
However, the Wolf Clan alone includes more than just the Three-Eyed Clan and the Red-Eyed Clan, as well as the Shuangyue Clan. Even the wolf tribe is not the only powerful race among the barbarians.
So Shen Hao was very curious about what was going on inside the barbarians when the Jing Dynasty began to tighten money and food across the country to cope with the possibility of a long war.
He has captured many prisoners of war, and there are also experts in torture in the army. But unfortunately, no big shot with a high enough level was caught, and the soldiers didn’t know much. One thing that can be confirmed is that the barbarian tribe has not yet reached the situation of “quickly unifying opinions and establishing a royal court” as they expected. , but still wrangling.
"Where is Huzhuyuan? Have you found the red-eyed wolf tribe or the long-tusked elephant tribe?"
"No. The situation is almost the same as before. The red-eyed wolf tribe is mainly in Baekdu Gorge and Jianchuan, and the gray-skinned monkey tribe and bear tribe are mainly involved in the Hojuhara area."
"It seems like the differences on their side are much bigger than on our side."
"Yes, sir. The current strategy of Commander Zuo seems to be mainly targeting Jianchuan and Baekdu Gorge. The intensity of the battle on the front line of Hjuwon is actually the lowest. I heard the supervisor over there reported that the current battle damage in Hjuwon The total number of soldiers is less than 4,000."
Although he was just observing the military strategy meeting, the benefits were obvious. Shen Hao could now obtain all the military strategies in the army from the supervisory envoys in each army. Of course, this information is top secret. Even within the supervisory envoy, apart from the person who handled it, there will be no more than four people who know the full story of the reported information.
"In other words, Commander Zuo deliberately put pressure on the Shuangyue Clan and maintained a tacit understanding with the Red Earth Clan?"
Shuangyue refers to the group of barbarians headed by the red-eyed wolf tribe. The people currently fighting in Jianchuan and Baitou Gorge in the Jingjiu Dynasty are members of the Shuangyue clan. The Bear Clan and Monkey Clan in Huzhuyuan both belong to another huge clan, the Red Earth Clan. The Red Earth Clan is headed by the Bear Clan, with the Monkey Clan attached to it. At the same time, they have never dealt with Shuangyue, and now they are the ones resisting Shuangyue clan's establishment of a royal court.
"My subordinates think that it may not only be a tacit understanding, but also helping the people of the Hongtu clan to preserve their strength." Li Jiang is knowledgeable about military affairs, and he understands it very well. In his eyes, the situation in Huzhuyuan is much more interesting than it seems on the surface. .
"Oh? Are you saying that Commander Zuo is planning something outside the battlefield?"
"Yes, sir. According to the habits of the barbarians and what they heard from the prisoners of war, they have always had the final say who has the bigger fist. The Shuangyue clan is the most powerful among the barbarians, and Hongtu is the second. But Shuangyue cannot. Completely suppressing Hongtu, that's why they have been holding back the establishment of the royal court. If the Shuangyue clan is consumed a lot of power, but Hongtu remains almost motionless, then the strength of both of them may be reversed, and then there will be a good outcome Watched the show."
When Shen Hao saw the sinister smile on Li Jiang's face, he also laughed unconsciously. He often saw this kind of smile on the faces of the killers under his command when he was in Fengri City, and he seemed to like to smile like this too.
Is there anything funnier than causing chaos among the enemy and even fighting among themselves?
"That's right. This information must be kept confidential. In addition, I asked you to write down the military strategy mistakes and omissions of each army and the performance of the military supervision, but have you laid it out?"
