Chapter 157 Crossing the River
"Reporting to the Duke, Guangwu Mountain has been captured." The person who reported the news on the front line was kneeling in front of Ye Chen covered in blood.
The word spread. He didn't wait for Ye Chen's reaction. The people around Ye Chen were already so excited that they couldn't help themselves.
Can't blame them.
As the absolute main force of the Beijing court. There are more than six military forbidden army numbers directly controlled by Ye Chen. As for the second-line troops such as the Guards Militia, there are even more. As for the military and civilian servants, and even the personnel of the construction company. Generally speaking, it is definitely not an exaggeration to say that there are millions of people.
In addition, there are armies in other directions. Although they are not directly controlled by Ye Chen, there are more armies that must listen to Ye Chen's call.
In the northwest direction, there are actually only three armies. No, four armies, plus the so-called Thirteenth Army that was just trained. But Northwest has won so many places and made so many contributions. This worried them a lot.
After all, he only has so much credit for conquering the world. The West Route Army finished eating. What do they eat?
From this point of view. He Xi's plan was successful.
At least for a long time to come, the new factions of the Ming Dynasty's military will be the current South Route Army, West Route Army, and East Route Army plus the Navy.
They were determined not to pee in a pot.
What He Xi did was the same as what Zhu Yuanzhang had done. No matter what the circumstances, the military will never be monolithic. It must be broken up. Several factions check and balance each other, coupled with logistical constraints. The existence of a staff system. The probability of the yellow robe happening is very low.
It's just that it's not that these people don't want to win the battle. It’s not that they don’t work hard. In fact, this is the main battlefield of the North-South showdown. Neither Nanjing nor Beijing actually transferred the real elite troops and generals away from the frontal battlefield.
A mere place on Guangwu Mountain.
There are not many people to keep away. But there were more than a hundred artillery pieces. That is, only more than a hundred doors can be placed in this direction. Rather than the limits of their use. Six or seven regiments of fresh troops had already crossed the river.
To keep your energy up, stay sharp.
Every regiment commander wants to make meritorious deeds. But they all suffered a bloody blow. There was even one who charged forward, but was beaten into a hornet's nest by the opponent's Crouching Tiger Cannon.
Each regiment was forced to withdraw after suffering over a thousand casualties.
It can be said that most of the soldiers who withdrew were quite unconvinced. Waiting for the next attack.
But the situation of the Northern Army is much better than that of the Southern Army.
Hundreds of thousands of troops were waiting behind for rotation.
Moreover, Ye Chen has not been idle in the past few years, he has been working hard. Everyone is waiting for a fight. They want fame, wealth, and a wife, but most people don't care about casualties. Because the court gave too much.
In fact, even in future generations, as long as the money is in place. No matter how dangerous something is, there will be people willing to do it.
And this is even more true in this era.
For Guangwu Mountain, these people feel like they have a problem in their throats. Now that I have won it, I am naturally very happy.
But Ye Chen frowned slightly.
Ye Chen said: "How many are captured and how many are beheaded?"
The person below said: "More than a thousand were captured and nearly five thousand were beheaded."
Ye Chen pondered for a moment and said secretly: "That's not right."
Guangwu Mountain is actually not steep, which also shows one thing, that is, the camp can be placed on Guangwu Mountain. Although the size of the military camp on Guangwu Mountain is limited, several military camps combined can garrison 10,000 or 20,000 people.
Places like Guangwu Mountain.
The opponent was Sheng Yong again, and he did not believe that Sheng Yong would retreat.
Then the number of captures is a little too small.
It was a civil war after all. Although there are many people who will fight to the death and refuse to retreat. But more often than not, these people are more willing to surrender, after all, their lives are their own.
The number of prisoners should be greater than the number of beheadings, even if Sheng Yong organized the retreat well. This number should be quite large.
Something is wrong here.
However, this is just Ye Chen's guess. It doesn't mean anything. Maybe it's an isolated case.
This is not because Sheng Yong is not careful in his work.
And he really couldn't bear it. In order to make this show, he actually deliberately allowed the Northern Army to attack and delivered thousands of elite troops to the Northern Army. Although the Northern Army also suffered a considerable number of casualties, this loss already gave Sheng Yong a toothache.
With the addition of thousands of prisoners, the loss of more than 10,000 elite troops was a huge loss to Sheng Yong's headquarters.
He doesn't have many thousands of people in total.
Of course, this is also a matter of thinking.
In fact, throughout the entire process, Sheng Yong did his best, with almost no flaws. The frontline generals of the Northern Army felt that this was the place where they had fought hard to win. The Confederate Army did not give up at all.
But sensitivity to numbers. But it was Ye Chen who cultivated him by being around He Xi.
After every battle, Ye Chen knew all the data about the battle. How many casualties were there, including how many were killed and how many were injured. How many are seriously injured and cannot return to the team, and how many are slightly injured. Capture as many as you want and behead as many as you want.
Although Ye Chen didn't calculate a coefficient. But he still understood some of the characteristics between them.
Only then will you feel something is wrong keenly.
And this ability was something that many generals in ancient times did not possess. Although the Southern Army followed He Xi's reforms and did many things, they still did not pay as much attention to mathematics as the Northern Army. Mathematics has been integrated into every corner of the military.
No matter how good Sheng Yong is at acting. But numbers don't lie.
Ye Chen pondered for a while, then raised his head and looked at the soldiers around him. Every one of them had eyes full of longing. Said: "Get ready to cross the river. Immediately choose a place to build a pontoon bridge. Guangwu Mountain will send people to deal with the aftermath."
Ye Chen didn't know what Sheng Yong was doing.
But Ye Chen has his own plans, and you can beat him. I hit mine. He didn't know if there was any problem in Guangwu Mountain. Or maybe he's just being too preoccupied. However, he decided to abandon the Confederate camp. The reason is the floating bridge.
In fact, it is just about building a floating bridge. Directly north of Guangwu Mountain. Not the most suitable place.
However, without descending Guangwu Mountain, it would be almost impossible to land on the south bank, and even if they landed, they would still be untenable. Now Guangwu Mountain is in hand. There will be new plans. Of course, the most comprehensive plan is to extend to the south bank along the pontoon that originally led to the sandbank. Then the node on the south bank is Guangwu Mountain.
Ye Chen's suspicion made him a little more defensive.
Of course, this is also based on the continuous supply of materials from the rear, allowing Ye Chen to have enough materials to waste. If you build an iron bridge, it will naturally be extremely difficult, but if it is just a floating bridge, there won't be much of a problem.
After all, the technology of floating bridges already existed during the Warring States Period. When the Song Dynasty invaded the Southern Tang Dynasty, there was no problem in building floating bridges on the Yangtze River. Not to mention the current Northern Army. Don't say, one, even several is not a problem.
Of course, the only problem is the flood season.
What will it look like when the Yellow River floods? I don’t know if I can hold on.
Then Ye Chen gave another order, saying: "Send the order to Jin Shengyu, he can take action."
"Yes." Someone immediately agreed.
The initiative in the war has always been in Ye Chen's hands. Although Ye Chen has been attacking Guangwu Mountain, he is not without preparations for the second, third, and even fourth moves. He felt that there was something wrong with Guangwu Mountain, so he naturally wanted to test it out.
How to test? Maybe it's a stress test. The Confederate army was forced to reveal all their trump cards.
Ye Chen secretly thought about the possible trump cards in the south. He looked carefully at a map that spanned the entire Central Plains region. His eyes followed the Yellow River to the east little by little. Seeing Jinan, he suddenly asked: "Is there any news from Shandong? Is Fu Youde still in Shandong?"
Immediately, a staff officer began to search for documents, and finally found it and said: "The latest news is from ten days ago. Fu Youde is still in Shandong, and the spies even saw Fu Youde coming out for inspection. What is worth noting is that a large amount of materials from the Xuzhou Iron Works were transported by Jia Jia. The Lu River is transported to the west, Sir, we have captured Guangwu Mountain, do you want to give it a try?"
Ye Chen didn't know,
The intelligence on Shandong from several intelligence agencies in Beijing was cleaned up by Fu Youde.
The so-called intelligence war does not mean that both sides send spies to each other. Although it has a noble name, it is not new at all. Fu Youde has already prepared it before. So the information they got now was all given by Fu Youde.
