Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Sir, do we really want to surrender?"

"What else can we do if we don't surrender? Even an army of 70,000 is no match for him. I have less than 20,000 soldiers in Changzhou, and now 5,000 have surrendered. Can we hold the city with just these few people?"

"However, it's good to be cautious. So, don't reveal my identity first. Just say that there are people in the city who are willing to surrender. You must find out the other party's conditions and report back to me. Do you understand?"

"Reply to the master, I understand."

"Okay, go ahead."

Fifty miles outside the Great Wall of China, in a simple camp, Scarecrow is stationed with nearly a hundred Iron Blood units.

The location of the Tian Great Wall is very clever. It is like a protrusion that extends into the pockets of Yingtian, Yangzhou and Chuzhou. After passing this city, you can go directly to Yangzhou City along Shangguan Bridge, or go up along the Shiliang River and go straight to Baoying through the Yangzhou Neili Canal. It is a very critical pass, perfect for ambush.

"Soldier ants, quickly conduct reconnaissance. Scouts, control the airspace and quickly obtain battlefield information. By the way, send out three scouts to conduct patrol reconnaissance. I need the first information about the enemy after they enter this place."

There is a huge disparity in numbers between the two sides, so it is necessary to control the exchange of fire area and expand the attack surface in the enemy camp as much as possible.

The Scarecrow methodically assigned the division of labor to each Iron Blood unit. Nearly a hundred Iron Bloods were as easy to use as his arms. It was actually a waste of talent.

Scarecrow is extremely good at large-scale combat. Her combat capability is like Han Xin's selecting soldiers, the more the better. Your swarm is being consumed every second, while my fleet is endless. Her strong command and information processing capabilities enable her to accurately perform micro-manipulations on a battlefield of tens of thousands of units, and use fifty good brothers to paralyze the opponent's heads.

Now there are less than a hundred Iron-Blooded units, which are child's play for Scarecrow.

But Scarecrow did not show any sign of slacking off. On the contrary, she took this battle very seriously, so much so that she had as many as six small floating cannons around her.

Recalling what Jiang Han said when they set out, "I believe in your ability, and I believe you can do it, but promise me that protecting yourself is the most important thing, and don't do stupid things. You are not the same as before, if you need any support, tell me, and I will send it to you right away."

Yes, I am not the same as before. Now he is no longer the scarecrow standing alone in the wheat field looking at everyone in the iron-blooded world. He has someone to lean on, and she has a soft spot and armor.

Even more reason to fight for it.

This was her first battle, and she must not let the commander down, absolutely not.

"You backward, ignorant fools, please go to hell"

The scarecrow's eyes were fixed on the distant horizon, where a black line was faintly approaching this side.

There were people, densely packed with people.

Volume 278: Chapter Chapter : The Massacre is about to begin

"This is the current situation. Unknown people have contacted us in the city. They are likely to surrender. What should we do, Commander?"

Outside Changzhou City, the humanoids who had already contacted the steward of the Changzhou prefect asked Jiang Han for his opinion.

"Anyone else surrendered?"

Jiang Han was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, it made sense. After all, this kind of operation was quite common among the literati in the Ming Dynasty. If they couldn't beat the classics, they would just join. It didn't matter who they were fighting for, right?

However, we still have to be more careful. These scholars and officials all have countless ideas in their minds. Don't turn around and have people organize a surrender ceremony. As a result, the other side's 500 swordsmen and axemen arrive and catch us in the trap. That would be bad.

These guys who play tactics have very dirty hearts.

"Keep a tacit understanding with him for the time being. During this time, you just need to gather intelligence in the city and wait for reinforcements."

"M16 she...I mean when will the reinforcements arrive?"

M4 was no longer sleepy when she heard about the reinforcements. She had already lost interest in fighting and was eagerly waiting. Although she was now a mature commanding humanoid, that was M16!

M16, my M16 woooo ...

"Hahaha, why are you in such a hurry? Let me see, she has already arrived in Zhenjiang. She should be able to reach your location soon, don't worry."

"Look, if you really miss her that much, why don't you chat on the communication channel? The communication channels between you two should be open to each other, right?"

416 has never been interested in topics related to M16, but she also cannot understand M4's behavior.

"Although it is true.... but... it still feels unreal. I still think that I will feel more at ease if I can see her in person. Maybe M16 has the same idea?"

M4 felt a little embarrassed because of his own gaffe, so he changed the subject and said, "By the way, Commander, didn't you say before that there was an enemy in the north? What's the situation? If M16 comes over, will it have any impact?"

"It might have happened before, but I have already sent people to the north to deal with it. There shouldn't be any problems in the short term. You just need to focus on the battle at hand."

"Understood. We will resolve the issues here as soon as possible and speed up our support to the north."

Although Jiang Han said it lightly, several humanoids took it very seriously. After all, 300,000 people is not a small number. Even if you shoot such a large group of people with a gun barrel until they explode, it is difficult to move their bones. What does 300,000 people mean? That scale, you can see the horizon from your eyes, and this position is full of people.

It is so densely packed and pitch black that people with dense-phobia would call it heaven, and ants would shed tears of shame when seeing it.

When the Gezuo Fifth Battalion left Huoshan, it already had nearly 200,000 men. After taking Fengyang, they were not idle at all, wreaking havoc throughout Fengyang, hunting, killing, looting, and abducting people. While looting a large amount of property, they also took in many former Ming troops and abducted victims.

By now, the number of the Gezuo Five Battalions has approached the 300,000 mark. This is also the reason why these people are so inflated and feel that they can compete with Jiang Han.

Although we can only fight when the wind is in our favor, why not just keep fighting when the wind is in our favor? As long as we have enough people, what does it matter if our quality is poor?

They recruit soldiers under Dai Ying's command. As long as you can breathe and move, you can join our team. They use soldiers like Dai Ying. As long as they don't die, they will use them to death.

However, there is still a slight difference between them and Daiying, that is, Daiying recruits people based on voluntary participation, while they recruit people based on being required to do so.

In the absence of defensive fortifications, it is not easy to resist an enemy of such scale.

"You are thoughtful, but there is no need to rush. Just complete the task here step by step. If reinforcements are needed in the north, I will call you. By the way, you reminded me that I forgot one person here."

As he spoke, Jiang Han opened the sop's communication: "Doggo, is Doggo there?"

"Oh! Commander! I'm here!"

The energetic voice of the dog having fun in the jungle soon came through the communication channel.

"How are things going over there?"

Hearing the dog's happy voice, Jiang Han himself would involuntarily begin to speak in a relaxed tone, just like when he saw a cat he would involuntarily start to repeat words.

"Operation Hide and Seek is going well, Commander! I've already caught quite a few bad guys!"

Sop excitedly began to take credit, and it turned out that one could see a lot of interesting things when going out to play!

"Really? That's great! You're worthy of being called SOP. You're amazing. However, we have a new combat mission now and we need SOP's help!"

"Oh! A new combat mission! What is that?!"

"In the northwest, there is a group of enemies who want to invade us. They are numerous. I have sent a group of units to stop them, but I am still worried that we don't have enough manpower. I hope SOP can go and provide some support. Is that okay?"

"Leave it to me! I will make sure the task is completed!"

When he heard that there was a war, SOP was no longer sleepy. He immediately left the group of bandits he was tracking and turned around to rush towards the target location given by Jiang Han without any hesitation.

"Well, please."

At this time, Scarecrow was about to start her battle.

"It's really, disgustingly ugly..."

Looking at the dark crowd in the distance, Scarecrow frowned. She was a combat unit, and her mission targets were enemy combatants and soldiers. Massacre of civilians was generally not within the scope of her mission targets, but these people in front of her could basically be counted as civilians.

With ragged clothes and hunched bodies, they looked more like ghosts than human beings. The better ones held pitchforks, hoes and other weapons in their hands, while most of them were bare-handed and could only hold a stone in their hands, which could be considered a weapon.

To be honest, when Scarecrow saw the appearance of the enemy, she knew that this would not be a battle but a massacre. But even so, Scarecrow was still waiting. She was waiting for dark. As a strategic humanoid, she would not be like the other iron-blooded sisters who just wanted to do a waghhhhh and be done with it. She would keep adding chips to the battle scale. Only when dark comes, the gap between this unfair battle can be widened to the maximum.

I can only say that she is really very stable.

Because she is not confident enough in her combat ability, Scarecrow's tactics are to win by playing it safe and without omission, or in other words, extreme operations. She uses data to show all possibilities, and then tries to increase her own winning rate. This kind of personality allows her to stop losses in time when she is at a disadvantage, and to order dishes in an advantageous situation with ease. As long as the ordering starts, the opponent will have no power to fight back, unless the opponent has something beyond calculation, such as the individual combat ability of the deus ex machina level like Sixteenth Brother. Otherwise, it is really despairing to face her.

But now it is the other side that is desperate, alas.

As the sky gradually darkened, the army of hungry people stopped advancing and began to make fires and set up camp on the spot. They said they were setting up camp, but in fact they just lay down on the spot. These people had been trekking for several hours without eating a grain of rice or drinking a drop of water. They were tired, hungry, thirsty, and had many negative states. Fortunately, this place is in the south of the Yangtze River, with rich plant coverage and water systems. They had water to drink and grass roots and tree barks to eat. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people were like locusts passing through, eating up all the plants on the ground.

The soldiers in the old camp of bandits are riding on horses and they won't care whether you are a starving person or not. If you can leave, leave. If you can't leave, they will kill you on the spot. Anyway, starving people have their own problems, and you are no different.

It is precisely because of this that the poor combat state of these hungry people, who are in extremely bad conditions, full of fatigue, and fall asleep after chewing some boiled grass roots, has become the last weight on the scarecrow's asymmetric combat scale.

"Based on the types of food these people are eating, they can be completely digested in half an hour. Given their living conditions, they probably won't be able to find food again at night, so they start to endure hunger. When the core soldiers are full and lazy, it will be the best time to take action."

Every good hunter must have great patience.

The camp of the Gezuo Fifth Battalion is messy, but only on the periphery. The interior is still in good order. Their management of these hungry people is basically just to make sure they don't run away. They don't care about your life or death. When the hungry people scatter around looking for food, they can also do the work of scouts. Isn't it wonderful to have one thing for multiple uses?

But can so many starving people be managed by just a few old soldiers?

Of course not. However, these bandits are very experienced in behaving inhumane ways, and they have their own special management methods.

They let the hungry people manage the hungry people themselves.

These bandits issued an order that anyone who could report other hungry people who escaped would be rewarded with a small bag of rice once they were caught. This was nothing to the bandits because these things were originally looted, but to these hungry people who had been starving for many days, it was simply a treasure!

In the face of survival, they abandoned the remaining trace of kindness. You said you were miserable and wanted to escape, but am I not miserable too? Sorry, I really need this bag of rice.

In this way, we not only solved the problem of deserters, but also saved a large number of manpower to manage these refugees. They will have to thank us.

Outside the old camp, there were starving people everywhere, wearing only tattered clothes and without even a straw mat. They had to be vigilant all the time to make sure their tools wouldn't be stolen, as they were their lives-saving tools. Inside the old camp, the bandits were reveling every night, drinking wine in big bowls, eating meat with big mouthfuls, and dividing gold and silver with big scales. They were having a great time.

They held the captured good women in their arms, their eyes blurred with drunkenness, as if their life goals had been achieved here.

When I first read Water Margin, the heroes in the mountains had to surrender when they lost. Now they have learned that as long as I don’t surrender, I will always be a hero.

“It’s…disgusting.”

The scarecrow frowned as she watched all this. What was happening before her eyes gave her a new reason to hate humans. However, she did not show any emotional fluctuations and did not want to disrupt the plan or attack in advance. After all, what did the life and death of you humans have to do with me?

Compassion and the like are human things. I, the Iron-Blooded Humanoid, do not have such emotions. We are two completely different species.

As time went by, the camp gradually became quiet. Everyone was seizing this hard-earned opportunity to rest and recuperate. They knew that they still had a long way to go.

But soon, they no longer had the right to rest.

The cannons roared, the drums of attack beat, and the massacre began.

Volume 279: Chapter Chapter : The Battle of the Scarecrows

The attack began with a mortar barrage from the heavy support team.

The PP-93 60mm long-range mortar is the new fire suppression unit that Jiang Han has just recruited. The word "long-range" is in its name, so how far is it?

The maximum range of the PP-93 mortar can reach about 5.5 kilometers. This distance is beyond the coverage range of most weapons, and the enemy will not even know where they are being attacked from.

Because its range is long enough, it is the only one that can accurately hit the enemy's center even when surrounded by an extremely large number of people. No other weapon has this effect.

Different commanders will bring different combat styles to the team. Scarecrow is different from Griffin, she has an autonomous command module, which means she has the decision-making power.

After getting the specific information about the battle, she knew what she should do and what decisions she needed to make if she wanted to achieve her goal, such as covering the center of the enemy camp with heavy firepower.

“It’s just like a big dartboard”

The camp formation of the Gezuo Fifth Battalion is a standard bandit camp, that is, the hungry people are at the outermost, followed by the hungry soldiers, ordinary soldiers, old camp soldiers, and cadres, one ring inside another, like a Russian nesting doll, protecting the old camp soldiers and cadres tightly. How difficult is it to break through these hundreds of thousands of hungry people and hungry soldiers to hit the old camp soldiers? The other side has plenty of opportunities to escape, so if you can't hit them, it means you are doomed.

Such a camp was like an iron barrel to the Ming army in the cold weapon era. Although the camp composed of countless hungry people was loose, the huge number of them would give any army a headache.

However, what they faced was an iron-blooded force full of black technology. This camp was just like what the scarecrow said, like a large dartboard, with a clear number of points for hitting the rings, very conscientious. The old camp in the center seemed to be shouting: Hit me! Hit me quickly!

Since the other party has a demand, of course we have to meet it. From any perspective, bombing the center of the camp would be the most effective measure to strike the local area, so why not do it? And if we are going to do it, we must do it thoroughly!

"Steel Lion, cover fire! Fill this area with shells!"

"Jaguar, northeast area, projectile! I want to completely stop them from escaping from this direction!"

Sixteen Steel Lions and eight Jaguars, combined with the previous mortar shells, at that moment in the night, just as the poem said, the east wind blows thousands of flowers in the night, and blows down stars like rain.

"Dad, what do you think that is?"

The father and son, who had not yet fallen asleep, saw the twinkling stars in the sky, crossing the night sky and falling behind them.

In his dream, violent grenades exploded in the old camp camp, and a large area of ​​fire began to spread. In order to achieve strong killing, the mortar shells used incendiary bombs. In fact, according to Scarecrow's idea, he was going to use white phosphorus bombs directly, but Jiang Han said that this was a bit... so he had to settle for the second best and used incendiary bombs instead. Anyway, it was burning anyway, and it was just a matter of dying faster, so where was this more humane?

Human thoughts are indeed incomprehensible.

Large balls of flame rose in the old camp. These incendiary bombs with solid fuel as the base were like maggots on the tarsal bone. Once you got stuck with them, you would never be able to get rid of them. Even if you jumped into a pool of water, they would continue to burn. And this stuff could really burn people to death, don’t you think, Amaterasu?

"Enemy attack!!! Someone is attacking the camp!!! There's a fire!! Hurry up and put out the fire!!!"

The camp was in chaos. The sudden explosion and fire caused everyone who was still asleep to suddenly reach another emotional extreme. A large number of old soldiers had just stood up and their brains were still numb when they were caught in the raging flames. They turned into fireballs and rushed around the camp, expanding the fire again.

"Put out the fire! Put out the fire!!"

"what happened!"

Ma Huihui and others were awakened by the violent explosions and screams. Their camp was located in the center and fortunately was not covered by artillery fire, so he could still speak now.

"General Ledger Plate, someone attacked the camp! They have artillery!! Someone even set fire to the camp!"

The frightened subordinates were not very clear about the specific situation and could only speculate and report to her based on the existing circumstances.

"Damn it! Retreat! Retreat quickly! All the soldiers of the old camp, get on your horses and evacuate!"

Ma Huihui's eyes were red with anger. These old soldiers were his assets over the years. He couldn't afford to lose them here! "Jiang Han!!! It must be him!!"