Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 584 New style of play
At the northern foot of the Yanshan Mountains, a team that is more than [-] miles long is winding along the valley path.

This team is really long, its forwards are almost rushing out of the valley in front of them, but their rearwards are still deep in the mountains.

If ordinary scouts detected such a long team, they would probably think that it was at least a hundred thousand troops.

Because even if the general team is lined up in a single row, three to four hundred people can be lined up within a mile length, and it is at least 400 horses if it is nearly 10 miles long.

In fact, this team has a total of 2 horses, but because there is a large group of cavalry in front, it seems that the number of people is relatively dense.

As for the back of the cavalry, they were all chariots, chariots that could not be seen at a glance, there were huge infantry chariots and ordinary wooden chariots.

On the top of the front infantry fighting vehicle, Luo Weilin, the guerrilla general of the Shenwu Battalion, was scanning the surrounding terrain with his binoculars.

He glanced around for a while, then looked at the map pasted on the wooden board in front of him, and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Comparing the terrain here with the map shows that they have reached the northern edge of Yanshan Mountain. The forward should have run out of the valley and reached the Gobi desert in the north of the foothills. Why hasn't the forward returned?

To be honest, leading an army forward in the valley is the most frightening, especially when his team is so long.

It winds for nearly thirty miles, even if he has a telescope, he can't see the end!

If there was any accident, he would probably have at least a quarter of an hour to get there.

This situation really made people feel uneasy. He really wanted to leave this narrow valley path as soon as possible and gather the team together.

Although the Gobi desert in front was desolate, there were more flat lands anyway, so he was able to shrink his troops to a range of a few miles and march forward in groups. That way, it would be much safer.

The widest part of Yanshan Mountain from north to south is only [-] miles, and they traveled on the mountain trails in chariots and horse-drawn carriages. They can drive at least [-] miles a day. They have been walking through the valley for almost two days. , according to the time, it should be out of the boundary of Yanshan soon!

He was frowning and thinking, when finally a semaphore came from the front, and the striker had already started to leave the valley.

Now it's all right, I don't have to hold back in this narrow valley at last.

He immediately issued an order: "Heading, the vanguard will send out a thousand riders to investigate the area with a radius of a hundred miles. As long as there are Mongolian and Yuan herdsmen, regardless of men, women, old or young, all should be arrested. Remember, try not to hurt anyone."

This time they implemented a new tactic. They not only had to clean up the Jiannu and the cavalry of the Mongolian and Yuan tribes, but also arrested all the herdsmen of the nomadic tribes on the grassland and moved them away.

Of course, it was unlikely that there would be any herdsmen in the Gobi desert ahead, so he just let his men familiarize themselves with the new tactics in advance.

After the army left the valley, it was almost dusk, so he found an open space on the Gobi stall, and ordered his chariots to spread out to form a square city.

This is also a brand-new method of camping. Because there are chariots, they don't need to set up a barrier to reject horses on the periphery of the camp. They can directly line up the chariots on all sides, and it will be like a city wall, which is better than the recession and horse rejection. But much stronger.

Naturally, they have practiced this method of camping countless times. They have carefully practiced how to line up infantry chariots and how to line up horse-drawn chariots.

However, it was the first time that they actually camped like this during the march.

After a wave of command flags, the infantry chariots and carriages spread out quickly. In less than a quarter of an hour, the chariots and carriages formed a square formation nearly three miles long and wide.

Luo Weilin stood on the top of the chariot and glanced around carefully, then nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered loudly: "Set up camp."

Soon, the doors of the chariot and carriage opened, and the soldiers skillfully removed the tents above, and set up camp right next to the chariot and carriage.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a circle of tents was set up.

The distance between these camps and the chariots and carriages was about one zhang, which was also in a square circle. In the middle of the camp, there was an open space with a radius of about two miles.

There was no way, the area circled by their tanks in a single-layer defensive formation was so large, and for tight defense, the tents could not be too far away from the tanks, so there would be a huge open space in the middle.

Of course, this open space is not useless. It can be used as a training ground at ordinary times, and when ordinary herdsmen are caught, they can also be surrounded and guarded.

Luo Weilin scanned the circle carefully again, and then ordered loudly: "Put the horse stake."

Soon the rows of horse posts were nailed up, and the war horses were lined up neatly around the tent.

Luo Weilin scanned the circle carefully again, and then ordered loudly: "Okay, let's bury the pot and cook."

This is even faster. These veterans have practiced the job of burying pots and cooking for several years, and they are not too proficient at all. In less than half an hour, a little smoke rose from the camp.

Camping like this is simply too convenient, not only uniform, but also extremely safe, as long as a few sentries are left to scan the surrounding infantry fighting vehicles with binoculars, there is really no danger at all.

The enemy can't do a sneak attack even if they want to, because there is no door in such a square city. Even if the scouts who scattered to investigate the situation come back, they have to find their own team according to the markings, and then call out an order outside to let them The comrade moved the carriage away to come in.

This camp is as safe as a city.

Moreover, the speed of camping is also very fast. As long as you are skilled enough, it doesn't take two quarters of an hour to set up such a siege with a radius of nearly three miles!

Now marching and fighting is really completely different from before.

Their weapons and equipment are simply too good!

Luo Weilin sighed secretly, and arranged the surrounding lookout posts, then climbed down from the roof of the car, ready to eat and rest.

Early the next morning, at midnight, he climbed onto the roof of the command vehicle and ordered in a loud voice, "Get out of the camp and get ready to go."

"Clatter", there was a sound of tidying up, and in less than a quarter of an hour, all the tents were taken into the chariots and carriages next to them.

Luo Weilin glanced through the binoculars again, and then said loudly: "Infantry chariots line up on both sides, carriages are in the middle, cavalry is in the front, shrink the formation, the target is the west, a thousand scouts spread out within a radius of a hundred miles, The army departs."

Now he can finally shrink the team to about five miles long, and the wings with infantry fighting vehicles on both sides are much safer.

And their goal is not the true north direction, because this time the 20 Shenwu Battalion will form a long snake array with a width of nearly a thousand miles, and then push it from south to north to comb the entire Chahar grassland.

They were the first group, and nine more groups would come out of the valley one after another and spread out to the two wings. They would not turn to the north until they spread out for about a thousand miles horizontally.

Therefore, their goal at this moment is not due north, but about [-] miles due west, and they have to travel about [-] miles west to turn north.

In the Gobi desert to the north of Yanshan Mountain, groups of chariots and cavalry slowly spread out to the east and west, and a huge net more than a thousand miles long was slowly spreading. The formation was really amazing.

At this time, the Mongolian and Yuan tribes on the Chahar Grassland probably didn't know that they were vaguely surrounded by the Ming army!

Who would have imagined an encirclement with a radius of nearly a thousand miles!

(End of this chapter)