Chapter 604 Garrison
After leaving the Yushi Military Station and continuing eastward, it took only one and a half days to reach the front line of the garrison.
Because of the terrain, although the name of Jianchuan sounds like a dangerous place, it is actually the opposite. There is no dangerous terrain to defend here, so we can only set up military strongholds and scattered fortifications on the main routes suitable for large-scale marches. Strengthen the round-the-clock parade to prevent the barbarian army from rushing over.
This is very passive. In addition to the need to compete with the barbarians in the field battles they are best at, they often miss some relatively scattered small groups of barbarians because of one thing and the other.
The more than 7,000 barbarians who raided the Yushi military station before took advantage of the opportunity of the battle between the front line and the barbarians to take a long way and pass through in batches.
This situation is unique to Jianchuan. Because they joined forces with Jianchuan to become the first line to stop the barbarians, Baitou Gorge and Huzhuyuan have prominent and dangerous places to defend. As long as heavy troops guard those passes that are still in the hands of the Jingjiu Dynasty, the barbarians want to fight through It is still difficult to come.
This is also the reason why Jianchuan is in emergency frequently, while Huzhuyuan and Baitou Gorge are as stable as Mount Tai. The barbarians also knew that Jianchuan was the key point for them to break through the blockade, and it was also the easiest point, so they kept attacking.
As the former left winger of the mixed army, Wu Kai arrived at the front-line checkpoint earlier than the main formation of the Chinese army, and chatted with a school lieutenant at the checkpoint while waiting for repairs.
But the captain was from Jingdong, with a strong accent, even though he was speaking in the official dialect of the imperial city, Wu Kai still frowned. Moreover, the school captain brought people from his hometown, and they had no problem communicating with each other, so Wu Kai could only listen to the general idea.
What the captain meant was that Jianchuan fought very hard, almost every day. A small fight a day, a big fight every three days, even people like them guarding the checkpoints are often slaughtered by the barbarians who sneaked through the border. He also said that there are many people coming in Jianchuan now, but few people leaving.
Strictly pursuing these words is a bit depressing. If the recruits hear it, they may feel afraid of fighting. But Wu Kai is also a veteran, he is very familiar with the expression of the other party's old fritters, and he also knows that this is the lieutenant's teasing, so he didn't take the other party seriously.
"Have you ever seen a big man who can fight?"
"Of course I have. That guy is like a wall, and his arms are thicker than my thighs. But I have seen dead ones, dragged and burned like a dead dog."
"Elephants?"
"Well, the one with long teeth!"
"Where did you meet?"
"At the gate of the military village, I dragged it back."
The tusked elephant family has always been an important object of concern in Wu Kai's heart. These guys with huge size and inherently terrifying strength are really too threatening on the battlefield. Especially for the tusked elephant clan after reloading, it is not too much to say that one is equal to ten, and it is even modest.
What's more, the barbarian race mainly focused on cultivating the body, and the Tusked Elephant Race, a race with an innate physical body, is naturally the best in physical training. At least the initial effect of cultivation is 40 to 50% higher than other races.
When several things are superimposed, it is quite difficult to deal with them. Because of its huge size and weight, it brings super strong resistance to blows. Others with the same injury may die, but the Tusked Elephants may just need to be bandaged, and they can even maintain a certain level of combat effectiveness.
In addition, the running speed of the long-tusked elephants is still very fast. Once they rush up
Wu Kai has been thinking about how to deal with the Tusked Elephants, and he has no idea until he accidentally received an inspiration from an auxiliary soldier who paved the road when he was helping to clean the Yushi soldier station, but he still has to verify whether it is useful . And when he left from Yushi Military Station, he took hundreds of one-handed shovels.
Here, when the main formation of the Chinese army came up from behind, Wu Kai dropped off his temporary errand to scout the left forward and returned to General Li's battalion. Then move forward with the army, and then wait outside a huge military stronghold to enter.
This time Wu Kai's mixed army was replaced by a reorganized army, which was driven by soldiers from the Jingbei Army after entering the border. The number is also 20,000.
Wu Kai is an old man in the army, and he has experienced such things as rotation and repair many times. Generally speaking, the first-line soldiers have been stationed for too long or are tired for a long time, or they have suffered too much damage and need to be rotated. But how long has it been since the military incident in the south? So the former one can be ruled out, and the remaining two are not good news, but Wu Kai has been somewhat mentally prepared along the way.
Sure enough, the procedures were checked and handed over after they were correct. Wu Kai followed the army into the army village, and carefully observed the reorganized army that was replaced by them. Apart from a large number of wounded, Wu Kai felt that the number of people who left the village might be less than 10,000.
On the same day, after the rotation was completed, the military commander Yao Tianning once again called the senior generals to discuss matters.
Yao Tianning asked someone to pull out an enlarged topographic map of the Jianchuan area in the big tent, on which all the terrain and important points were marked in detail. Pointing at the map, he said to all the generals in the big tent: "From now on, the area from No. C 4 to No. 7 D will be our defense zone. The first batch of garrisons will be stationed after the luggage is finished." You have to drive there. Let me tell you the specific strategy.”
Because Yao Tianning referred to the area from "C No. 4 to D No. 7" is almost full of messy rocky beaches and small streams of water, accompanied by some low hills. The terrain is very complicated and does not belong to the "main "Defense zone" belongs to the coordinated defense zone.
But Wu Kai swallowed subconsciously after seeing the map, and thought to himself: Isn't this too big? Can you keep it?
Defending the wilderness is not like fortifications. Even though the mixed army has a total of 20,000 people, the distance from "C No. 4 to D No. 7" spans a full fifty-five miles! Moreover, it is difficult to use the advantage of cavalry to cruise quickly in complex terrain. What should we do if there is an enemy situation?
According to Yao Tianning's arrangement, the 20,000 people will be divided into three batches for rotation. That is to say, the actual deployment of troops in the defense zone from "C No. 4 to D No. 7" is only 12,000 troops. The number of people is less than ten thousand.
Wu Kai's eyes were amazed by the deployment strategy adopted: fixed several points to be resident, and then the rest of the staff formed a cruising patrol, moved laterally to the next resident point and replaced the resident manpower, and the replaced people relocated. Form a cruising patrol to go to the next point, and repeat in a circle.
This can free up some time for the cruising staff to recuperate, and at the same time achieve the purpose of uninterrupted patrolling and cruising.
But Wu Kai knew that once he really encountered the barbarians, this defense strategy would be easily interrupted, and then people would be missed to the rear. It is estimated that this is what happened to Yushi Military Station.
Yao Tianning was divided into three rotations. The first batch was the headquarters of General Li, the second batch was Yao Tianning's headquarters, and the last batch was the headquarters of the remaining general. There are three batches of rotation. The first time is to use two batches of manpower at the same time, and then change them one by one. At the same time, one of the two batches of people on the first board needs to be rotated one more time. And General Li Shen's department is the batch that needs to be rotated one more time.