Turbulent Times Chapter 1505: Here comes Li Shimin

Li Jing stood on the east side of the military walled city and watched through binoculars.

The military flags of the Stormy Bear Battalion on the east and west mountains on both sides of the mountain pass were flying, indicating that they were still firmly under their own control. Shouts of killing and screams came from the front of the two military villages, which could be clearly heard, and the Wagang Army led by Xu Shiji was launching a new round of attacks.

There are more than a hundred carts entering the village at the rear of the army village, which are a large amount of food and grass that the supply battalion has just brought in. It includes a large number of gunpowder packs, mines, grenades, and city defense crossbows sent from Fanyang County through various channels.

In the grand plan of the Far Eastern Army to conspire against Wagang, the Xiaohedao base area is a very important link, so the Far Eastern Army is well aware of the consequences of losing these two military strongholds, not to mention that Wang Junlin is also here, so all aspects They all tried their best to mobilize equipment and materials, and continuously transport them to the front-line army village.

The Far Eastern Army has done a good job in matters other than the battlefield, and now only the war itself is left. For Li Jing, he likes this kind of battle very much.

Because when he led troops to fight in Mayi County of the Great Sui Dynasty and led troops to fight for Li Yuan, more than half of his energy was devoted to food and clothing for the soldiers under his command, he had to ask for food, grass and supplies from the civil officials in the rear, and he had to be on guard from the back all the time. I don't know when my own people will release an arrow in the back. Now he doesn't have to worry about these things, as long as he fights a good fight with all his heart and soul.

"Military division, the black cavalry led by the prince." A soldier suddenly pointed to the rear of the army stronghold, and hundreds of black cavalrymen rushed towards the army stronghold from afar.

Li Jing fixed his gaze first, picked up the binoculars to look at it, then smiled wryly, and said, "Wagang Army all thought that our prince is in Fengyang City, but unexpectedly, the prince has already arrived here without anyone noticing." /

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After less than half a stick of incense time, before Wang Junlin came to the eastern military stronghold, Li Jing, who had been waiting here, came up to greet him and saluted, saying: "My lord is here, I have lost my humble position, please forgive me."

Not waiting for Li Jing to bring people down, Wang Junlin helped him up and said: "Mr. Li firmly guarded the mountain pass with an army of 10,000, which played a vital role in helping our Far Eastern Army plot Wagang. I am very grateful for the great work you have done."

Finally getting the affirmation of Wang Junlin's words, even with Li Jing's city and mind, he couldn't help but feel a little excited, but he also knew that Wang Junlin would not care about these face-saving efforts, so he stood up and greeted Shen Guoer on the right , Said: "My lord, you are being polite, this is the duty of a humble job."

Wang Junlin nodded and asked directly: "How is the situation now?"

Li Jing looked serious, and said: "Since the Wagang Army began to attack five days ago, the Wagang Army has attacked eleven times with all its strength, and one of the two lines of defense deployed by the humble officer has been broken by the Wagang Army. It is indeed not to be underestimated."

Wang Junlin walked towards the army stronghold and said, "How about the enemy's losses?"

Li Jing was one step behind, following Wang Junlin's right hand, and said as he walked, "I lost three hundred and seventy-four cavalry in the Storm Bear Battalion, and forty-one engineers. The Wagang Army lost about seven thousand people. Hmm In fact, the first line of defense can still hold for two days, but in order to prevent our army from losing too much, I retreated to the second line of defense in advance."

"You are right. The most precious thing in our Far Eastern Army is the lives of our soldiers. As long as the overall situation can be guaranteed, don't mind these few days."

"Well! Since Zhang Tiangang and Li Shanfei occupied Fengyang City, and forced Li Mi to lead an army of 150,000 to besiege Fengyang City in advance, we set the two military strongholds to ten days, but in fact The purpose is to frustrate the enemy, and the cavalry of the Violent Bear Battalion must preserve their strength. When Xu Shiji withdraws his troops, we will tear off a piece of his flesh. Hmph! The places that our Far East Army has already occupied are not just to attack, but to come .”

After Wang Junlin finished speaking, he turned his head and followed Shen Guoer: "Guoer! What information do you have from Li Yuan and the court recently?"

"My lord, according to the latest information, Li Yuan sent his second son, Li Shimin, to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to provoke us at the eastern pass between us and the river. The eldest grandson of the emperor also ordered Wang Shichong to lead an army of 50,000 to our border with the same purpose, but his subordinates guessed that they were just pretending and did not dare to take action." Shen Guoer reported back.

Wang Junlin thought for a while, and said: "Wang Shichong doesn't need to worry, but Li Shimin has to guard against it. He ordered Yuchi Jingde to lead the troops from the Tiger Camp to fight Li Shimin."

Shen Guoer quickly wrote down the order.

Wang Junlin asked again: "What's the situation in our Far East Army?"

"Yesterday, we dug up a secret stronghold of the Li Yuan Group in Fanyang County, and we captured one of the main figures in charge of intelligence. However, this guy is a tough guy, and our Military Intelligence Office failed to get him to speak up."

Wang Junlin paused for a moment. He was a little surprised and curious. He had seen the torture methods of the Military Intelligence Office before. It was hard for him to imagine how few people in this world could survive under the torture of the Military Intelligence Office. After thinking for a while, he said, "Send this person to Snake Island and let Xiao Yu deal with it."

Shen Guoer said yes respectfully.

Wang Junlin continued to walk in silence, surrounded by groups of heavy soldiers and engineers passing by, they were full of energy, carrying food, grass, and equipment to the army camp.

Wang Junlin has always wanted to turn the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army into the professional soldiers of later generations. Although there is still a long way to go to achieve this goal, he was early in the formation of the Far Eastern Army, especially when he completely controlled Fan Yang. After the county, he and Nie Xiaoyu studied and formulated various regulations—in general, there are three major regulations: discipline regulations, combat regulations, and training regulations, except that there are no queue regulations for later generations.

And under these three major regulations, there are some small regulations, such as marching regulations, battlefield discipline regulations, battlefield etiquette regulations and so on. Among them, the battlefield etiquette regulations clearly stipulate that in the army, subordinates do not need to kneel and salute when facing their superiors, and during combat exercises, subordinates do not need to salute when they see their superiors. These two included meeting Wang Junlin himself. This is also the reason why Li Jing and others did not bow down when they saw Wang Jun.

In fact, Wang Junlin still wants to promote the military salute of the later generations in the army, but there have been too many things, and this matter is dispensable in the current situation.

Especially over the past year, the territory and population of the Far Eastern Army have increased several times. How the nobles made them submit without killing people, the organization of schools in various places, the expansion of Fanyang College, and so on. In Wang Junlin's view, there are too many things that are extremely important, so the promotion of raising hands in the army has never been taken care of.

Led by Li Jing, Wang Junlin walked westward along the moats of the eastern military stronghold. The protruding horse faces made him feel more pleasing to the eye. The dead angle of the city is greatly reduced. This improvement relies on the walls of the four military villages, which are generally convex defenses.

Wang Junlin remembers that the bastions built by Japan during the Anti-Japanese War were concave in shape with almost no dead ends, which cost our great people's army a huge price. Looking at it now, although Li Jing's convex defense is not as good as the concave shape of the bastion, it is actually the same principle.

In fact, what Wang Junlin didn't know was that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the method of building the bastion was spread to China. It was once suggested to build a triangular three-story hollow enemy tower in the capital and Jizhen. For the first time, the concept of an acute-angled defense line came into being. Later, Yuan Chonghuan built this kind of bastion when he resisted the Liao Dynasty in the northeast.

Wang Junlin walked past the military stronghold in the east, regardless of the fierce and brutal offensive and defensive battle outside the first line of defense at this time, and went directly to the first earthen wall defense line. Between the earthen wall and the city wall is a flat ground of fifty paces, and a moat two feet wide. Behind the earthen wall sits a thousand-man team from the Violent Bear Battalion. They are always on standby here, and they can exchange with a thousand-man team that is guarding this line of defense at any time to ensure that everyone has a certain time to rest.

Every section of the earth wall has an acute-angled bulge, and there is a two-foot-wide ditch in front of it. In this era, any attack will eventually face this ditch, and the second earth wall is different from the first. One, there is no low parapet at the back of the trench, but directly facing a one-foot-two-foot-high earthen wall.

Wang Junlin walked through the planks erected on the ditch, and looked into the ditch on both sides. The inside was full of sharp wooden piles. According to Li Jing, according to the original plan, they would temporarily sprinkle a piece of of barbed wire.

Passing through this trench, the first earthen wall is in front of you. The smell of gunpowder smoke fills the air, and the thunderous explosions seem to explode around you occasionally. Wang Junlin knew that it was launched by a special catapult machine The sound of gunpowder packs exploding.

According to what Li Jing said, they were able to firmly defend the two military villages and the mountain pass with 10,000 people, and caused heavy casualties every time the Wagang Army attacked. The gunpowder packs played a great role.

The catapults are specially used to launch gunpowder packs from the newly established heavy engineering battalion. How to launch, how to give the password, how to ignite the fire, the time difference and the distance between them are all controlled by the Snake Island training camp. Professionally trained.

There is dozens of steps of flat ground between the two earth walls. The reserve team of the Storm Bear Battalion and the personnel of the engineer battalion sent to strengthen them can move quickly behind the earth wall. The inside of the earth wall is at a gentle angle, and the soldiers It is easy to mount the wall to fight from anywhere.

At this time, most of the soldiers on the top of the wall were crossbowmen and archers, and the spearmen and broadsword soldiers were sitting in the open space at the root of the earthen wall, waiting for orders. Three years ago, Wang Junlin had added medical staff to each battalion. The same is true for the team's medical soldiers.

Everything is in order. The Turkic Wolf Cavalry, who only knew cavalry charge, became a soldier of the Storm Bear Battalion. Now, after just over a year of training and war baptism, he already has some professional army style. Wang Junlin at this time Feel a thrill.

This kind of excitement is because he comes from the later generations, and comes from the expectation of the professional army of the later generations.