Chapter 159 Wu Li
Wu Li is in his fifties and dressed in armor. There are still white hairs sneaking out from under the helmet.
He sat on the horse and looked far into the distance.
But he saw that there was no cover for more than ten miles in front of him.
This is the Hebei Plain. The ground has very small undulations. You can see very far away at a glance, and you can almost see the complete horizon clearly.
At this moment, tens of thousands of troops and more than a dozen guards marched forward one after another under the command of.
All the garrison troops advanced in three rows and columns, with more than a hundred steps between each column. These more than a hundred steps were not completely empty. There were many carriages moving in the space between columns.
Each column is actually a battalion. Each battalion has more than a thousand men, each column is many miles long, and the entire team stretches for several miles. And this kind of marching procession is not limited to here.
There are other places too. However, you need a telescope to see it.
Wu Li thought in his heart: "This method doesn't seem to work well. There is still room for improvement."
Wu Li also had a profound meaning in arranging the march in this way.
When marching in columns, there is more than a hundred spaces around them, which means that once they encounter a cavalry attack, they can immediately switch to a square formation. After each column was converted into a square formation at a distance of more than a hundred steps, it was a distance that could support each other.
The horse-drawn carriages and baggage trains in the columns can also be covered by the phalanx.
There were just tens of thousands of people marching, and the team was a little too crowded. Wu Li had to divide the entire First Army into three parts: the front army, the middle army, and the rear army. Only then did the entire army get settled. No, the army stretched for miles.
The ends cannot be connected.
In fact, this is also an important change after the army became weaponized. In the past, hundreds of thousands of people fought with cold weapons. All they had to do was arrange the roads and avoid crowding on the roads, and arrange food and lodging.
Now we have to consider the firepower space.
They do not affect each other's shooting range. Otherwise, once encountering an enemy attack, it is very likely that you will be mixed with the enemy, and the fire gun in your hand will not be able to fire at all.
Create a chaotic situation. Let people catch the flaw.
However, these things. This period of time has been too hasty in organizing the army. There are no rules for many things. How to march can only be left up to the people below.
The reason why Wu Li was selected was that as a veteran, he assumed the important task of the First Army. Even though Wu Li is older. Comprehension is reduced. But he has always thought about it and likes to learn.
He was originally from a rough place and relied on his bravery to fight. Later, he joined the spear army and was defeated by the Xie family. Although he followed the Ming army and fought the whole game. But they don’t have any main tasks, they are more about helping others. Only then did he become interested in learning, and he just started learning the art of war. Later, when he fought with Naha.
Wu Li was building a city in Liaodong at the time, but before his footing was stable, Naha sent out cavalry to attack. The city is not finished. Wu Li ordered his men to line up at the gap in the city wall. When Naha came out to attack, he suddenly gave way to the gap. Archers rained down arrows from the top of the city. Naha was shocked when he sent out his cavalry, so he acted as the spearhead and took the lead in the counterattack. Defeated Naha in one fell swoop. Then reinforcements gathered, and Naha had no choice but to withdraw from Liaodong.
I already feel wise and courageous.
Later, when He Xi came to Liaodong, Wu Li was ordered to farm. Liu Jing valued him very much because Wu Li worked hard on farming and achieved better results than others.
Liu Jing even once wanted Wu Li to turn martial arts into literature and help him.
But Wu Licai didn't do it.
It's not that Wu Li looked down on civil servants. After all, the world was at peace. Wu Li didn't think there would be any wars in the future. He was also old. He probably won't be able to go to the battlefield in the future. There is no difference between civil and military service to him.
However, Wu Li was a soldier for half his life, and he still had a hereditary family, which was a wealth that could be passed down to his descendants. How could he give up?
And He Xi later organized and trained the new army, selected suitable generals among the original generals, and made a test question for the people below to take. Most are math problems. There is no other way than military modernization or modernization. In essence, it is a process of replacing experience with mathematics.
As long as you have a foundation in mathematics, many tactics will be easy to understand. The frequency of artillery firing range determines how artillery positions should be constructed. The range and frequency lethality of fire cannons is the foundation of all fire cannon formations.
If you don’t understand these things, there are many things that you can’t communicate at all.
And Wu Li is the one with the best foundation in mathematics.
After all, if He Xi's organization wants to do a good job in farming, it needs to understand He Xi's thinking. There was a lot of this content in He Xi's thoughts. .
With these preparations, Wu Li now stands out.
"Report." A scout rushed to Wu Li and said, "The Third Army Wang Tong reported that the trip was safe."
Wu Li said, "I understand. Return to him too. Have a safe journey."
This is also the rule established by Wu Li. The third army is more than thirty miles west of Wu Li. In order to prevent being defeated one by one. Every hour, he would come back and report to the horse.
Determine the other party’s situation.
This kind of contact is interrupted once, maybe because something happened on the road. Interrupt twice and it's dangerous. After three interruptions, it is almost certain that the other party has met the enemy. It's time for targeted investigation.
"Report. The former army has arrived at Fuhe." Another scout rushed over.
Wu Li said: "Instruct the front army to camp on the spot and build a pontoon bridge. And build a camp to wait for the middle army and the rear army to join them. We will cross the river tomorrow."
In fact, it is just after noon.
There is still plenty of time in the afternoon. It's just that Wu Li was too cautious.
Although the Floating River is not a very wide river. But he was still worried about being hit halfway across the river by the enemy. I would rather spend a day building the floating bridge. So that tomorrow, the army can cross the river together.
The floating bridges mentioned here are not two at a time, but at least three or five, so that the army can pass as quickly as possible.
It will not be divided into two groups by the floating river.
"Yes." The scout beside him said.
Wu Li looked at the flat land in Hebei and sighed secretly: "This year's harvest is over."
It was late spring, and the army was marching like this. Naturally, it was impossible to just walk on the road. It had to make its way through the fields. But as a result, these wheat fields are almost finished.
But what can we do?
He can't change anything.
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"Is this a tortoise?" Sheng Yong cursed secretly.
Sheng Yong made many conquests against the First Army. At this moment, he was hiding on the south bank of Fuhe River with three or five guards. He used a telescope to peek at the north bank of Fuhe River, but he saw countless people setting up camp on the other side of Fuhe River.
If there were trees nearby, they would be cut down to make walls.
If there are not enough trees, a large number of baggage trains will be lined up in a row to form a line of defense, and trenches, low walls, etc. will be dug outside. In this way, the camp took shape.
Wu Li has been fighting for half his life, and he is the most experienced person. The basic skills of setting up a camp are even more difficult to find fault with.
That’s all. Sheng Yong himself had never thought about attacking the camp.
However, the big wooden piles on the edge of the river caught his idea. He could tell at a glance that they were used to build a pontoon bridge. There were ten floating bridges that he could see alone.
In other words, Wu Li would let the army pass through this river as quickly as possible.
Sheng Yong's idea of attacking the enemy halfway was almost impossible.
Of course. The reason why Wu Li did this. It is also because the Floating River is not a big river and it is easy to build a floating bridge.
Just when Sheng Yong wanted to look again, the person next to him suddenly said: "Sir, there are a lot of people coming over from the opposite side. If you don't leave, I'm afraid you will be discovered."
Naturally, there must be cavalry on guard outside the camp. But there were only a few cavalrymen who could cross the river. The omission is huge. But things are different now. Now that we have set up camp, our hands are free. Naturally, more energy is devoted to vigilance on the other side.
Sheng Yong sighed, knowing that his idea of ambushing the opponent was no longer possible.
He also cannot put his own safety under the control of others, said
: "Withdraw."
Therefore, Sheng Yong could only get on his horse and leave with a few guards. Even though Sheng Yong was so careful, he still allowed the Northern Army to detect what was going on here. It's just that there is a large army on the opposite side to support them. A few scouts only dared to watch from a distance and did not dare to rush over.
However, even so, Sheng Yong was exposed.
The presence of a large group of cavalry here is suspicious.
