Chapter 3344 Whose Resentment Is This Resentment?

Chapter 3343 Whose resentment is the resentment in the resentment

The land of Hedong has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

Everyone knows this, but who can win is the most critical question.

Fei Qian personally led the army all the way down from Linfen and headed straight for Anyi.

The military flags fluttered, the soldiers and horses were in a hurry, the iron hooves crushed the morning dew, and also startled the birds and beasts living in the forest. The team moved forward slowly with solemn steps. The soldiers' eyes were firm, their armor was bright, and their swords and spears were like forests, showing the majesty and strictness of the cavalry.

This is what some "cultured people" think of the scene...

But in fact, the marching road is not that beautiful.

Although Fei Qian is also an old soldier, every marching process is a torture.

The first is that there is no hand...

Well, in fact, there are no electronic products, Fei Qian has been used to it, and the most painful thing during the march is no water.

In other words, there is no bottled water that can be drunk anytime and anywhere like in later generations.

Physalis water is the basic standard.

After drinking it for many days, Fei Qian doubted whether his teeth could last until he was 40 or 50 years old.

Like in TV movies, when you raise your head and drink from a cowhide bag, you will definitely choke and vomit. Because physalis water is actually slightly fermented rice soup or bean juice.

This fermented taste is mixed with the aged cowhide water bag to form a smell similar to that of a sewer.

Just don't breathe when drinking...

Don't smack your lips, otherwise you will definitely regret it.

And you can't drink too much, otherwise it will be very difficult to urinate on horseback.

You can't let the army march and then run out to urinate first?

That's right, when the entire army is marching, it is not allowed to report to urinate. If you really can't help it, you can urinate in your crotch. Only when you have diarrhea will you be allowed to leave the queue. Because diarrhea often represents disease and epidemics, you can't stay in the queue to spread.

Since the departure from Emei Mountain, not only Fei Qian personally discovered the pollution source left by Cao's army, but also the scouts patrolling outside found many suspicious water sources. Therefore, Fei Qian emphasized again that it was strictly forbidden for soldiers to drink raw water at will along the way. Soldiers could only drink water after cooking and disinfection after setting up camp.

As a commander, Fei Qian had to set an example, especially to maintain the dignity of the general of the cavalry. He couldn't be called the general of the cavalry by his soldiers, right?

Therefore, during the march, Fei Qian always controlled the amount of water he drank. He would only drink a little sour water when he was very thirsty, so that he would not need to urinate on the way.

Although most bacteria and parasites will be killed and inactivated under high temperature, some toxic components will not be decomposed by high temperature. In order to ensure safety, Fei Qian could only march along the road with flowing water.

The flowing river water was also manipulated by Cao's army.

Those wooden boards and wood chips found by scouts on the river and floating in the river are actually wooden boxes containing rotting corpses, which were buried or sunk in the river. It's just that these things were brought out because of the flow of the river.

Of course, even if there are viruses, bacteria, botulism, etc. in the flowing river water, they will be diluted by the flow of water, so as long as they are cooked at high temperature, they can still be drunk in general...

A small number of soldiers will have some adverse reactions after drinking, such as vomiting and diarrhea, but they are relatively mild and can be recovered after a little rest and control.

So Fei Qian is unlikely to go fast all the way south, unless he wants to be like Xu Chu, mainly cavalry, infantry on the car, and directly transform into a semi-mechanical, um, no, semi-livestock unit...

Well, it seems even weirder.

Forget it, it's all about water anyway.

After setting up camp, Fei Qian drank a bag of water happily, then peed a puddle of smelly and smelly urine with a grin, took off his helmet, let his scalp breathe, and sat down at the table with a little comfort, and looked through the latest battle report sent from the front line again.

Regarding the assessment of Xu Chu's front army's battle, Fei Qian concluded that although there were some minor mistakes, there were no major mistakes, and the pre-war goals were initially achieved.

Then Xun Chen gave a relatively comprehensive explanation of the situation in the early stage of the war.

In the early battle with Cao Jun's camp, there were several key factors for the Hussars to take the initiative.

The most important thing was the new tactics developed by Li Li. When the battle report was delivered to Fei Qian, Fei Qian thought that Li Li was the reincarnation of a Qing soldier, because this tactic was very similar to the tactics of the early days of the braid.

Long braids... Well, actually they should be small braids, because in the early Qing Dynasty, due to extremely poor sanitary conditions and the need to fight in the deep mountains and forests, no Manchu would have long braids, all of them were small and short braids. Otherwise, in the middle of a fight, you would suddenly call a technical timeout, "Get out of the way! You're pressing on my braid!"

The shooting tactics of the Qing soldiers were practiced in the deep mountains and forests. They rode their horses to scare away birds and beasts, and then quickly shot through bushes and trees. Those who could practice this were all great warriors, and this cannot be denied.

So in the early Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty infantry line often could not withstand the impact of the Qing army.

However, the biggest problem of the Braid Dynasty was the small population and poor culture. Even if they united the Chinese traitors, they could not change the nature of their nomadic slave system. Therefore, they could destroy a country by force, but they could not build a country.

After the death and corruption of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. The reason why Kang Mazi could survive and Qian Niupi could stamp everywhere was to sincerely thank the sweet potato for its life-saving grace.

Of course, the sweet potato saving the braid here is just a joke. After all, historical events are often determined by many factors, but the Chinese people at that time could be stable as long as they had a bite to eat...

In fact, during Kang Mazi's time, there was still a batch of elite seeds left, and then, Qian Niupi gave them all away.

Anyway, it's not painful to sell the field son.

After carefully studying Li Li's tactics, Fei Qian found that it was actually quite different from the Qing bow cavalry.

One is that Li Li was originally a lancer who was transferred to a bow cavalry, so Li Li and others' melee ability is obviously stronger than that of the Qing bow cavalry, and they can change weapons at any time to become a melee lancer, but the melee ability of the Qing bow cavalry... is not bad, but to say how strong it is, it is an insult to the soldiers who fought bravely in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the rural training organized by the gentry in Jiangnan could beat the Qing army to a pulp, and of course the rural training itself was also greatly damaged.

Another aspect is that Li Li also deliberately carried grenades. This weapon, at least at this stage, and even for a long time in the future, makes up for the shortcomings of the bow cavalry and strengthens its power. Grenades can be used for attack or defense in battle. Offense can be used to shake open the tortoise shell of the chariot array that is difficult for bows to penetrate, and defense can be used to intercept the assault of the opponent's lancers during the weak period of the bow cavalry's rapid shooting.

Very strong, very good.

But Fei Qian rejected Li Li's request to expand the number of bow cavalry in this tactic.

It's very simple. Fei Qian is not like Qing Chui, who only has so much to brag about.

Although Fei Qian attaches great importance to cavalry, it is because under the current scientific and technological production level, cavalry is undoubtedly a type of soldier that an empire must focus on and meet military needs.

If Fei Qian only wants to conquer the Central Plains and unify the Three Kingdoms, then infantry and gunpowder are enough, and there is no need to develop cavalry.

Now Fei Qian has bow cavalry like Li Li, who is a lancer who has been transferred to the cavalry, and there are also roving cavalry who are responsible for ultra-long-range detection and infiltration, and heavy melee lance cavalry similar to the Feixiong Army in the past, with heavy armor on both men and horses...

But now some changes are taking place.

It's good to have one more type of cavalry, but there is no need to focus on developing and supporting it.

After all, Fei Qian doesn't need to be like the pigtailed dynasty, focusing on dealing with Ming infantry.

Therefore, Li Li deserves to be rewarded, and Fei Qian immediately issued a promotion order for Li Li, but it is not appropriate to blindly expand the number of archers. Fei Qian still thinks that those with this talent are encouraged to change their jobs, but other people who do not have shooting talents can also try other arms, and they do not need to hang on a tree.

In addition, in the process of this front army battle, the long-range strike force has become more and more important.

Both Fei Qian and Cao Cao are obviously aware of this problem.

In the early days of the Three Kingdoms, bows and crossbows were still king, such as Ju Yi's strong crossbows and halberd soldiers, but soon bows and crossbows became younger brothers in front of longer-range strike weapons. And the human body is undoubtedly fragile in front of these long-range weapons, and the main casualties of the front cavalry army also prove this.

At the beginning, when competing with Cao Jun's scouts and suppressing Cao Jun's outer troops, the casualties were not large, but under Cao Hong's catapult tactics, there were heavy casualties of people and horses. Nearly a thousand were slightly injured, six hundred were seriously injured, and nearly a thousand died directly, which is not to be said to be tragic.

"The power of the equipment is so great!" Xun Chen sighed, "I have heard that Cao's army is good at equipment, and there are craftsmen who make stone trebuchets that can shake the city and break the stronghold. Today is indeed the case. Although Zhongkang was defeated, he did not cause chaos to make up for his mistakes, so he should not be severely punished. "

Fei Qian hummed, and did not say anything about Xu Chu's guilt, but said that he would discuss it after the war. Fei Qian was more interested in the fact that Cao Cao obviously did not have a craftsman inheritance system similar to the one Fei Qian established in Guanzhong and Hedong, but he still had so many craftsmen under his command, and he rushed to make so many catapults in Hedong, which was indeed a very touching thing.

First of all, it must be pointed out that China's current military level, at least in the construction of the city's defense system, is currently ahead of the world.

Because China has been fighting wars in the Central Plains since ancient times, the ancient Chinese invested a lot of technology in the defense system of the city wall, and it was also very powerful.

The Shimao ruins, which were earlier than the Xia Dynasty, had a triple gate structure, as well as defense measures such as barrier walls, piers, and double urn cities.

In terms of the thickness of the city walls, China was far ahead of other countries of the same period, so Fei Qian could easily destroy the capital of the Western Regions with artillery, but he might not be able to use artillery to destroy the state capital of a county in the Central Plains.

Because China began to use "three-in-one soil" to build walls, lay foundations, and seal tombs very early, and also added glutinous rice, egg white, brown sugar, animal blood, tung oil, plant juice, minerals, etc. to mix and cook... well, the rammed earth walls built were like iron and steel.

In other words, the lime and clay city wall structures used in ancient China are at least a thousand years older than the volcanic ash primary cement and concrete of ancient Rome. Traditional Chinese rammed earth walls are extremely thick, with thicknesses exceeding ten meters abound. Some are as thick as twenty meters. The famous Constantinople city wall is only six meters thick, and it successfully resisted the full siege of the Roman Empire three times. The walls of the Parthian fortress of Hatra were only three meters long.

As for those medieval fortress walls in England and France, which are famous for their fortresses and are full of fortresses, the thickness is generally no more than two meters.

It is precisely because the Chinese city wall defense system is so strong that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was knowledge specifically focused on city siege, as well as a group of masters such as Gongshu Ban and Mozi who combined the theory of city attack and defense with practice. Even so, ordinary siege methods could not meet the needs of war, so unconventional methods emerged as the times require.

Such as flooding.

After all, for rammed earth city walls, water is naturally an important nemesis, but it may not necessarily succeed. Some succeed and some fail.

Therefore, siege equipment such as trebuchets are very important...

This is a question that almost everyone understands. However, in China's feudal dynasties from the Han Dynasty onwards, the city walls were still sharp and getting thicker, but the siege technology such as catapults could almost be said to have stagnated.

Later, various fancy names in the feudal dynasty seemed to be constantly updated and iterated, such as three tips, five tips, seven tips, etc., but in fact there were no major breakthroughs or changes.

In particular, Fei Qian discovered that Cao Cao did not have a decent craftsman system, but he could make large-scale catapult arrays. In comparison, the feudal dynasties that followed were simply...

However, after thinking about it carefully, Fei Qian could understand the reason.

The technology of catapult is actually not too advanced.

Leverage principle.

But it is a super long-range strike...

If ordinary people could master this, would it be a big deal? !

Crossbows are already banned, let alone catapults?

In this matter, sensible "cultural people" are strongly supportive.

After all, "literary people", no matter what era they are in, they always like to give some advice from above, "Ah, the world is not good these days, the people are very violent...hehe, hehehe..."

In fact, is this really an expression of concern for the world or the people, and laments that harsh government is stronger than a tiger?

Not really.

These "cultural people" are just mocking the monkeys squeaking in the trees, saying that I am like this, what can you do? I don’t even have a long-range weapon, and I’m still afraid of you. If you dare, come and scratch me!

Fei Qian couldn't help but wonder, if we continue to develop and promote long-range weapons from now on, and spread and spread among the people, although it will indeed bring great difficulties to the rule, will there be less comments from future generations? What about the "literary people" who are very angry?

The hostility of the people?

Whose anger is this?

But Fei Qian never expected that he would soon meet a person full of "violent energy"...

A man named Cao.

Cao Zhao.

Cao Zhao's hands were tied and he was dragging his feet, stumbling step by step on the plateau. He was breathing heavily, and the blue veins on his neck were like blood-sucking worms, burrowing from his skin to his heart.

Behind him were Cao's defeated troops.

The defeated troops in Gufeng Mountain.

Like a knight charging at a windmill, Cao Zhao "bravely" raided Fei Qian's rear transportation road. As a result, he was discovered by roving scouts as soon as he came out of the mountain. He was immediately defeated on the charging road and captured.

Some soldiers of Cao's army fell on the road of charge, while Cao Zhao and others were caught and could not escape because they did not have enough horses.

In the queue, a soldier of Cao's army looked very angry. Although his arms were tied, it could be seen that he was still struggling and trying hard to get out of the restraints. Because he was not used to being treated like an animal. After all, he and they had treated other people like animals before.

Shandong has a strict hierarchy, and the level you are in means the treatment you will receive. As the core bodyguards of the Cao family, their monthly rations are basically three times that of other ordinary soldiers, and they also receive some welfare benefits from time to time. Therefore, these people have nothing to be dissatisfied with the Cao family's political group, and naturally they are Cao will be more loyal.

Of course people will die if he comes to participate in the war. Everyone knows this, but since he is not dead now, he should enjoy the same class treatment as Shandong. How can he be bundled with ordinary Cao Jun soldiers?

And let him and Shao Langjun be so separated? !

How is this possible?

But no one paid attention to his "legitimate request".

Once caught, they were tied up on the spot. Do they still need to be classified?

But Cao Zhao's personal soldier felt that this matter was meaningful. He felt that if he could not figure out this matter and could not follow Cao Zhao, then he would have no value.

For many, many years, his family has had no land. As long as he can remember, their family has been farming other people's land. He is a person who likes farming. His father and grandfather are all good at growing crops. ...It’s just that their family has no land.

Later, when the Cao family became prosperous, his family suddenly had land.

So what's the problem with him fighting for the treatment he deserves for Cao Zhao?

But in the eyes of the hussar soldiers, his behavior seemed like provocation.

So soon, a hussar soldier came over, and after shouting to stop him to no avail, he beheaded him with a single blow.

This scene happened right in front of Cao Zhao.

Cao Zhao said nothing, but gritted his teeth.

If Cao Zhao didn't speak, then the other Cao soldiers would not speak either.

The queue quickly regained its calm.

But in Cao Zhao's eyes, it seemed that there was the "violent spirit" that those "cultured people" talked about, churning...

The death on the battlefield did not teach these Cao soldiers the rules, but the single blow now made these Cao soldiers thoroughly understand the environment they were in and the new rules they needed to face and abide by.