Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 321 Shi Congyun's Artillery Tactics ([-])

Gaoping, the grass grows and the warblers fly to the sky, the spring breeze blows, and there is no cloud in the sky. The valleys and mountains that look like rivers and mountains on the outside and inside are majestic and majestic. vertical and horizontal.

It is not the first time I have seen the mountain history of Shanxi Congyun. The mountains here have a kind of majesty and desolation. Whether it is the Taihang Mountain in the east, the Zhongtiao Mountain in the middle, or the Luliang Mountain in the west, there have been civil wars between the North and the South since ancient times. The forefront of the invasion.

And the troops going south and north will inevitably meet again near Changping.

Shi Congyun sighed endlessly, geography determines history, and he can think of some things without looking at history, such as where the cities with the most frequent wars in ancient China would be.

Excluding a few capital cities, such as Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Beijing, etc., the most important towns along the Huaihe River must be the most important towns, such as Xuzhou, Hefei, Shouchun, etc., because there is a war between the north and the south, no matter what people think, there is a high probability that in the end it will definitely be in Well, it is determined by geography.

If we talk about Shu, Chengdu is definitely not the one with the most wars, because the enemy will not be saved if they hit Chengdu. To the north are Xixian and other passes in the west of Hanzhong, as well as the important town of Lizhou (Guangyuan), and to the south are Chongqing and Kuimen.The Jianmen Pass cannot even be ranked. If the enemy hits the Jianmen Pass, it means that Hanzhong is lost, and the land of Hanzhong and Shu will not last long.

But the area of ​​Hedong is quite special. It is condescending, connecting the grassland nomads to the north through Yanmen Pass, overlooking the Hebei Plain to the east, crossing Henan to the south and directly reaching Luoyang, crossing the Yellow River in the southwest to Chang'an in Guanzhong, and going west to Hetao in Shaanxi. .

Except for Taiyuan, there are wars everywhere in Shanxi, whether it is in the east or west, the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping, Han Xin's expelling from the north in the early Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty sent troops to the Huns, the Tang Dynasty started, Li Shimin seized Hedong, the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, etc. , All the big and small battles are all over Shanxi.

Because Shanxi's plate is naturally higher overlooking Hebei, Central Plains, and Hezhong.Controlling Shanxi is like a sword hanging over the Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Hebei, ready to condescend to attack at any time.

And because of its geographical location, the northern part of Shanxi has been the frontier of resisting foreign wars for a long time since the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

It is often said that in order to defend against foreign enemies, Na Na threw his head and shed blood, and he also fought to the end, killing many people, so much integrity
If these words are said in the north of Taiyuan, in the north of Shaanxi, the common people will probably be at a loss and do not know what to express, because for the common people in this area, what others think is a bloody battle, a bloody battle once encountered in several generations, Most likely, it's just routine for them.

According to historical records, this area started from the Qin and Han Dynasties. The most common description is that women and children can pull strong bows to fight the enemy.

Because of these, Shi Congyun has always been wary of the small country of the Northern Han Dynasty. If the people in the border areas support Liu Jun, the battle will not be so easy. If it is the best to be separated from Germany, the army of centrifugal Germany will not have much combat effectiveness.

This time around, I returned to Gaoping, which is near Changping in ancient times, and I wanted to gamble on the national fortune here. This is exactly the same as when the officials first ascended the throne seven or eight years ago, and even the same as the Qin-Zhao war more than 1000 years ago.

Or in other words, it is exactly the same as many times in history.

They all just got together here again under the arrangement of Mother Earth.

Of course, Shi Congyun knew very well in his heart that this was not fate, nor was it some mysterious destiny, but the result of geography shaping history.

Shi Congyun looked to the north from a distance, with flags flying around him, gold and iron horses, and a large army surrounded him. Countless people and horses spread out on both sides.

The army on the field covered the ground, which was completely different from the last time he came to Gaozhou.

In the distance, Zezhou City behind the Baishui River can already be seen faintly. The undulating hills block some views, but they can still be seen.

"How far?" Shi Congyun asked.

"Fourteen miles!" Guo Jin, who was accompanying him, agreed swiftly.

Shi Congyun nodded. A few low mountains ahead blocked his view. The reason why he stopped here was because yesterday Shao Ji led a striker with more than [-] riders to explore north. hundreds.

Then he pursued all the way north, crossing the Baishui River, crossing Zezhou City to the north.

Afterwards, the army in Zezhou City was dispatched, and they immediately made a detour to the east, making a big circle to the east, before getting rid of the large army in Zezhou City and returning to the central army.

Now that Li Junjun has discovered that they are near Zezhou, it is impossible to sit idly by.

At the same time, Shao Ji also detected an important piece of information. Li Yun's army had already moved south to Zezhou, so Shi Congyun didn't dare to rush forward.

Shi Congyun pointed with his horsewhip to the valley between the two hillsides several hundred meters high, five or six miles apart, and said, "There may be ambushes in the mountains."

The generals looked at the place he pointed. The position of the army was in front of a small village. There was a large open space in front of it. To the north was a large flat field with a lot of wheat stalks left over from the winter. Fresh green, but most of them are not early seedlings, but weeds, and the people around here have long since avoided disaster.

To the north, the empty flat land stretches for several miles. After crossing a stream less than knee deep, there are two hills in the north. The mountains are densely forested, and there is a road in the middle, which leads directly to Zezhou in the north.

Dang Jin said impatiently while riding a horse, "Officials, let someone be the vanguard, go test it out."

He shook his head and said: "No, wait a minute, what if you go in and they block the mountain pass, the army of Li Chuyun and others in the north should be approaching Luzhou soon, don't worry."

The two generals Wang Shenqi and Wang Quanbin clasped their hands at the same time and said, "Officials, do you want to go down here?"

"Wait and see, Li Yun can't come over." After speaking, he looked at Shao Ji, Wang Quanbin, Dang Jin, Guo Jin and other generals beside him, and said with a smile: "Our Chinese army only has [-]. If Li Yun brings The Zhaoyi army and the Northern Han army came, let alone twice as many of us."

"Marshal, no matter how many he comes, there will be no one there, so why should you be afraid of mere thieves!" Dang Jin was very brave, and everyone laughed, everyone knew he was brave.

"That's for sure. General Dang dared to climb the Jianmen Pass with his bare arms. There must be no such warrior in the bandit army!" Wang Quanbin stroked his beard.

Everyone also recalled what happened last year. Speaking of this feat, Dang Jin was quite proud.

But Guo Jin's complexion was not very good, he said seriously: "Officials, fighting is not a joke, if the opponent is twice as much as us, you must be careful, I suggest that you should set up camps first, dig trenches and set up deer villages.

If the army of thieves comes, first avoid the battle and defend, wait for the army in the rear to move, and then advance north and south, pinching the thieves is the way to win. "

Before Shi Congyun opened his mouth, Liu Qingchuan and other generals over there said with displeasure: "Bold! Where is it your turn to teach the officials to fight? You know how many victories the officials have won. It's your turn to teach warfare!"

"Hmph, a certain one only said what he thought was right, but it had nothing to do with those!" Unexpectedly, Guo Jin, a defensive envoy, had a very hard temper.

The generals were upset and wanted to quarrel with him, but Shi Congyun stopped him by raising his hand.

After all, in their hearts, Shi Congyun's prestige in the army has already reached the peak of the sky after so many years of fighting. Now that Guo Jin dares to question it, everyone is of course not happy.

But Shi Congyun is not stupid, although he feels comfortable in his heart, he also understands that Guo Jin is rational.

Fighting a war is very risky, it's not a joke, and the number of enemies on the frontal battlefield may be more than them. At this time, it is the practice of an experienced general to establish an invincible position, find out the enemy's reality, and then launch an attack. It also proves that Guo Jin's war memorials are probably true.

Shi Congyun looked at the front of the position below, and many soldiers of the Shenhuo Army were shouting "one, two, three" in unison, pulling 66 cannons into the gun pits dug outside the frontier village. The scene was very busy and full of enthusiasm.

"General Guo's words are very reasonable and insightful, he is a man who has fought in war." He didn't care about Guo Jin's contradictory, "But I have my own way, if the bandits come today, you see I will defeat the enemy for you that is."

Guo Jin glanced at him, with obvious disbelief in his eyes, but he still said: "The minister will live and die with the officials here."

"Don't worry, you won't die!" Shi Congyun laughed.

He dared to do this, knowing that the frontal enemy might be more than them, and he still put on a stance in the south of Zezhou City that he wanted a decisive battle instead of sticking to it, so he naturally had the confidence.

His confidence lies in his artillery, but this kind of stone-shooting cannon actually has a short range and impressive accuracy. Although it is powerful, it is impossible to defeat tens of thousands of troops with these sixty cannons.

But the main thing he relies on is not the cannon. These days, the tactics used by the Shenhuo Army and the Crane Control Army in the camp near the Bian River for several months are the famous "bayonet on the cannon".

This tactic made Napoleon a success, and it was the tactic of Napoleon's top general. In this tactic, the guns were not aimed at continuously outputting firepower, nor were they aimed at rear fire support or continuous long-distance killing of the enemy.

Instead, they directly pushed the cannons to the front, used them intensively, and fired shotgun shells.

The purpose is not continuous killing, not fire support, but to open a channel for the follow-up infantry and cavalry in a short period of time, so that infantry and cavalry can break through the tight formation, divide the enemy, let them be attacked on both sides, and disrupt the formation.

This novel use of artillery caught the numerically superior enemy off guard and was routed.

Obviously, the Qin Army's stone-shooting cannons cannot provide long-range support due to their range, and because of the accuracy of metaphysics, they cannot achieve continuous output. It is definitely possible for brave soldiers to enter the formation and attack the enemy from the side.

The tactics of the line array era are also useful today, because their tactical principles are universal, and they all sacrifice the continuous firepower of the artillery in exchange for an instant burst, which suddenly opens the gap in front of the enemy's formation and opens the way for the follow-up cavalry.

Soldiers who lose their formation are vulnerable, disrupt the enemy's front, or form an "L"-shaped encirclement, allowing the enemy to attack on both sides.

This is Shi Congyun's hole card, and this is also the reason why he chose to seek a decisive battle with the enemy here.

In the field in front of the avenue at the entrance of the village in the distance, more than 60 cannons are gradually being placed in place amidst the busy soldiers, divided into five dense positions, and the well-equipped Qin army infantry in the rear is entering the position according to the beginning of the training.

Ballistics are piled up behind the cannon. The two wings are elite iron cavalry and infantry. The front is a tight line of infantry, which is about ten steps beyond the artillery position. The outermost two wings are covering light cavalry. Most of them are looking for their own in the fields. Location.

Shi Congyun looked into the distance. The reason why he stopped here was that it was only about ten miles away from Zezhou, and Li Yun would soon know their movements and news.

If he knew that there were not many of them, and they had already arrived outside Zezhou City, Li Yun would probably take the initiative to come out for a decisive battle if they were so provocative. This opportunity is rare.

Second, here is the backing of the mountain, and there is a flat open land in front of it, which is conducive to the implementation of the new tactics of the Qin army.

So in fact, he hoped that Li Yun would come out for a decisive battle, which was better than them chasing after the enemy, as it would be difficult to exert the power of the stone-shooting cannon.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and there was no movement in the north.

Shi Congyun rested for a while in a farmer's household in the village, and Xiao Huanghua was left by him at the supply camp in the rear, five miles away.

After a while, a soldier rushed to report: "Officer, there is movement in the north!"

Shi Congyun immediately got up and went out among the crowd. The earthen wall of the small courtyard was not as high as him. Shi Congyun was wearing a suit of armor and walked out of the crumbling wooden courtyard gate with his head bowed. The guards outside were already waiting with horses.

He got on his horse and rushed to the forward position outside the village, and soon he arrived under an old persimmon tree behind the position. In front of him was a densely packed and well-organized formation of the Qin army, and many soldiers who were resting also began to get up one after another.

He raised his hand in front of his eyebrows and looked into the distance. At the pass in the distance, several horses galloped out from behind the woods under the shadow of mountains and trees, waving different colored flags, and then separated towards the east and west, and slowly pulled into a long line. In a long straight line, there are more than a hundred steps between each horse.

Different flags, with different characters written on them, stood indistinctly on the field beyond the distant stream, and then stood still, never moving again.

We are all war men and know what it is.

After a while, a neat team of horses hurried out of the valley, and the rumbling sound echoed in the valley.

After leaving the valley, one team went east, one team went west, one team after another, accompanied by more flags, and with the sound of desolate horns, they were lined up behind the flags on the two wings.

More and more cavalry came out of the valley, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes could still be heard from far away.

Then came the infantry, and they all quickly gathered behind each flag in the order of one east and one west.

Shi Congyun and the surrounding generals all understood that each flag represented the troops of an army, and the commanders of each army. Generally speaking, an army of cavalry has about 2000 people, and an army of infantry has about [-] people.

The opposite side entered the battlefield in an orderly manner, with strict discipline and no chaos at all, which made people's heart beat wildly at first sight.

However, those who came out from the back began to stretch their hips, their movements were slow, the queue was loose, and they lined up slowly behind.

Shi Congyun looked at the formation on the opposite side, separated by a distance of four or five miles, and calculated their numbers in his mind. He soon realized that the enemy must have exceeded 3 of them. The dust and movement seemed to show signs of enemy soldiers entering the battlefield.

"How much?" Shi Congyun asked.

Wang Shenqi directly agreed: "It's more than [-]."

Guo Jin's face was very ugly, and all the generals also looked serious, even Dang Jin was no exception. It's a joke, but fighting is not cheap. People will die, and it will be even more serious if they lose.
"According to the previous training, let's lead the army." Shi Congyun said.

"Promise!" The generals bowed their hands, and then rode their horses across the road and rushed to the Qin army's position in the field in front of the village, while Wang Shenqi and Guo Jin stayed by Shi Congyun's side.

(The outbreak stays at NO.15, the editor said that NO.14 is a big push, and NO.15 breaks out)

(End of this chapter)