Turbulent Times Chapter 1506: Night attack and Xu Shiji’s speculation

Wang Junlin had military experience in later generations. Although he later became a mercenary, he was still a professional soldier.

He has become accustomed to a professional army with clear division of labor and clear responsibilities, so deep down in his heart, he has always longed for the army under his command to become a real professional army.

Wang Junlin is very aware of the difference between professional soldiers, professional troops and the military of this era, and he is even more aware of the combat effectiveness and efficient action of the former under orderly mobilization.

Just like this, the 10,000-strong Bear Battalion was able to hold back the 50,000 Wagang Army's elite onslaught. Of course, Li Jing, who is proficient in commanding and dispatching the defense, is credited with this, but there is also the newly established engineer and supply battalion. , strong crossbowmen, and medical soldiers have made great contributions, and even the latter's contribution is even greater.

And this is the main reason why Wang Junlin came quietly from Fengyang City, bypassed Xu Shiji's 50,000 troops ahead, took the mountain path, rushed to the front line of Shandaokou, and carefully inspected every detail of the battlefield in person.

"This is to bring out everyone's best ability to the greatest extent, and then use it where or when it is most needed in the most scientific and reasonable way, and carry out the most reasonable division of labor and cooperation." Wang Junlin murmured in his heart. Talking to himself, while feeling emotional in his heart, he, Li Jing and Shen Guo'er quickly walked up to the wall of the western military camp along the **** steps made of cement bricks.

Because of the explosion of gunpowder packs and grenades, gunpowder and grenades filled the air, but you can still see the vast Wagang army formation in the distance. There are hundreds of shield vehicles in front of the earth wall, and many shield vehicles have been beaten to pieces , The ground is full of wood and corpses, countless Wagang Army soldiers in the shield workshop are filling the potholes, and many people even ran to the front of the shield vehicle.

"Let the Dongshan garrison send out two thousand-man teams to move to the foot of the mountain to contain the Wagang Army's left wing. After this wave of attacks, replace all the giant crossbows and replace them with new ones..." While accompanying Wang Junlin to inspect, Li Jing also paid attention to the situation on the battlefield, and quickly issued orders one by one, appearing to be able to do a job with ease.

Wang Junlin casually ordered: "Let the people in the engineering and supply battalion record the number of times each giant crossbow and trebuchet was fired before it was scrapped, and then hand over the data to the Yancheng equipment production base."

Li Jing quickly sent someone to arrange Wang Junlin's order.

At this time, there was a loud noise from the front side, and Li Jing raised his binoculars, and in his field of vision, four shield vehicles, and more than twenty Wagang troops were blown to pieces.

Wang Junlin took the binoculars handed over by Shen Guoer next to him, saw this scene, and smiled slightly, remembering the last time Nie Xiaoyu said that if necessary, she could get the cannon out, Wang Junlin hesitated at that time Suddenly, out of worry about some things, he rejected Nie Xiaoyu's proposal.

The ants-like Wagang army pushed the shield car forward, and more soldiers behind filled the small potholes. They had already filled up the potholes dozens of steps ahead, but the signal to withdraw troops had not yet sounded.

The catapults of both sides bombarded each other, and the stones smashed down some fortifications of the Far Eastern Army with a roar, and the shield vehicles of the Wagang Army were also smashed to pieces.

But what made Wang Junlin look a little dignified was that soldiers of the Wagang Army continued to be **** and **** in the explosion of gunpowder bags, but they still failed to stop the remaining soldiers of the Wagang Army from approaching step by step.

The battle has been fought to such an extent that it is enough to see that Xu Shiji is leading

Leading the elite of the Wagang Inner Battalion is indeed well-deserved.

Of course, on the one hand, this is the display of the brave and elite of the Wagang Army's inner battalion, and on the other hand, it is also because Xu Shiji sent his personal soldiers to supervise the battle.

These days, Xu Shiji's personal soldiers who supervised the battle forced some soldiers forward, and mercilessly shot and killed some soldiers who turned around and fled or retreated.

The formation of Wagang Army shield vehicles is fragmented, and behind those crooked and tattered shield vehicles are countless soldiers who are still busy. took their young lives.

For the Wagang Army, it is already filling the hole with one life.

Li Jing issued an order on the earthen wall, ordering the soldiers of the Stormy Bear Battalion to speed up their rate of fire to attack the Wagang Army archers and soldiers behind the shield vehicles. The Wagang Army paid a heavy price, especially the morale of the Wagang Army.

Every order of Li Jing was targeted. The dense bows and crossbows made the soldiers of the Wagang Army no longer have time to fill in the pits. They hid behind the remaining shield vehicles. Soldiers from the Storm Bear Battalion with only their heads exposed shot at each other.

A team of Wagang Army soldiers on the far right survived by chance. Under the leadership of an officer, they rushed forward with all their might. With one order, a hundred Soldiers of the Stormy Bear Battalion fired a volley, and the densely packed Wagang Army soldiers howled miserably. The three giant crossbows closest to them also shot there. The giant gun more than ten feet long shot through the crowd. It stopped after shooting five soldiers at once, and none of the five soldiers had a complete body.

The remaining soldiers of the Wagang Army suddenly lost their courage, turned around and fled in all directions, and were shot to death by soldiers of the Stormy Bear Battalion.

A soldier's life is so cheap in the firepower of both sides, so humble that it is only worth an arrow, or even a piece of sawdust from the collapsed shield car.

Because of Wang Junlin's arrival, Li Jing intends to show off his abilities, and puts all his energy into commanding troops to fully display his abilities. The archers and crossbowmen quickened their rate of fire, the engineer and supply battalion threw a few more gunpowder packs, and the trebuchet did not stop.

In the rear of the Wagang Army, Xu Shiji's expression seemed to remain unchanged, as if the Mount Tai collapsed in front of his eyes without changing his color, but if you look carefully, you will find that the gloomy look in his eyes is getting heavier and heavier.

At a certain moment, Xu Shiji finally couldn't bear the casualties of his troops and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

As the horn of retreat sounded, Xu Shiji's personal soldiers retreated, and the Wagang Army soldiers on the front line retreated happily like a tide.

Without Li Jing's order, a horn sounded on the dirt wall, and several Storm Bear Battalion officers commanded loudly, and the soldiers under his command jumped out of the dirt wall and the horse-blocking ditch, passed through the remaining potholes, and rushed to the shield car line shouting position, chased the retreating Wagang army with bows and arrows and shot them, and then killed the wounded soldiers on the ground with knives.

Li Jing's flag moved again, and then hundreds of soldiers from the engineer and supply battalion who had just rested poured out of the passage. They carried shovels and hoes on their backs, and held waist knives in their hands. , No matter the living or the dead, they were all cut with one knife.

Some sentries ran out of the passage on the two wings, fighting in the middle

Swimming around on the field, take a look along the way to see if there are any wounded soldiers from the Wagang Army.

Although Wang Junlin intends to reform the method of calculating military merit in this era, so far he has not come up with a method that is more satisfying to the soldiers below than recording beheading. Therefore, the current main method of recording military merit in the Far Eastern Army is similar to that of previous dynasties. Focus on beheading, capturing the flag, siege, etc., plus factors such as the importance of strategic and tactical goals and personal casualties.

"My lord is wise and mighty, set up such a battlefield, let the Wagang army attack, and we defend, and mainly focus on long-range attacks. The Wagang army can't beat us in this position and in this kind of battle. " Li Jing flattered Wang Junlin, but in his heart and expression, there was a look of admiration and sincerity.

Wang Junlin felt very comfortable being flattered by the military gods in Chinese history. He nodded slightly and said with a smile, "This is actually not the main battlefield. Next, Li Shanfei and Zhang Tiangang in Fengyang City will face Li Mi. Leading 150,000 horses, that is the main battlefield."

What Wang Junlin said was not difficult to judge, so Li Jing was not surprised at all. Shen Guo'er had also told Li Jing the latest military situation just now, and the latter only looked lifted when he heard it, and was not surprised.

Wang Junlin paused for a moment, then continued: "Li Mi will not be able to defeat Fengyang City, and after a long period of time, there will be too many losses. At that time, there will be a major change within the Wagang Army, and Xu Shiji will definitely be forced to withdraw. , but the later we withdraw our troops, the more certain we will be able to catch them all. And you here, also have to be prepared to hunt and kill them at any time!"

Li Jing's heart was shocked, and while carefully pondering what Wang Junlin said would be a major change within the Wagang Army, he respectfully said yes.

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Night.

With a loud bang, a mass of red exploded from the foot of the mountain, a mine was stepped on, and two figures were thrown into the air amidst the sparkling fireworks. Then someone threw a torch out of the Lanma ditch, and the Wagang Army reflected in the figure was shot dead by the soldiers of the Far East Army hiding in the Lanma ditch.

Zhou Daya was one of the 15,000 death-defying warriors personally selected by Xu Shiji. But at this time he was lying on the ground and did not dare to move a bit. There was a shout from the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army on the mountain. Several torches were raised, somersaulted in the air and fell to the mountainside. More than a thousand Wagang Army death squad soldiers quietly hid In the darkness, no one dared to make the slightest sound.

This is the Western Mountain. In fact, Xu Shiji has been paying attention to this place, but he deliberately let it go after probing, hoping to let the Far Eastern Army on this mountain relax their vigilance.

Nearly a hundred trebuchets on the west mountain shoot at the foot of the mountain every day, and each of them shoots nearly a hundred stones every day. In addition, the trebuchet on the top of the mountain can be thrown nearly half a mile away, causing great casualties to the Wagang Army.

This directly caused the Wagang Army to extend the camp to the east. If the Western Mountain could be conquered, Xu Shiji would be able to observe the defense and mobilization of the Far Eastern Army from the top of the mountain, and then commandeer and attack the army camp from the side.

It is almost impossible to seize this mountain during the day, and Xu Shiji faintly feels that Li Mi's situation with an army of 150,000 in Fengyang City is no better than here. If it goes on, very bad results are likely to appear.