In this way, the natural march will not be fast.

However, Wu Liuqi, Ou Dapeng and others didn't plan to play any expensive speed, and the battle of Shekeng had already caused Taoyuan Taisha to lose a lot of elite, morale, and courage. After returning to the lair, at most, it is necessary to make some fortifications and clear the wilderness, process and repair fortifications to prepare for defense.

For a unit like the South Central Army, which is good at using its firearms advantage to attack fortified positions, the last thing that is afraid is that the enemy will use fortifications for defense.

Moreover, the empty room clearing can only be used to deal with those armies that are short of food and lack of support. This is not a problem at all for the Nanzhong Army, which must carry about a month's staple and sideline food, and also carries silver coins that can purchase half a month's staple and sideline food.

As a result, they marched only fifty miles a day to preserve and restore the bodies of the warriors.

However, the men were transferred behind the scouts and forwards, and they were to complete the task of building the barracks as required before the marching group arrived at the camp.

These people are formed into a team according to the same surname and the same village, which is a helpless move, the accent in this area is too complicated, and even the same village, the entrance and the end of the village are different. Moreover, most of the people are illiterate and cannot communicate in writing. They can only be organized into teams according to the number of people in the same village and clan, with 10 people as a team and 50 people as a team.

The men made their way to the camp amid the menacing shouts of the leaders of all ranks.

The location of the camp has been selected according to the terrain and features.

"Eat! Do things after eating! ”

Outside the camp, the firemen had prepared a meal for the folks.

In the midst of the cacophony of arguments made by various accents. Under the supervision of the baggage team and the forward soldiers of the Jingbian Nanzhong Army, the people began to line up one by one with freshness and curiosity to receive their meals.

The man waved a spoonful, and the bowl of white rice immediately spiked. The bowl in his right hand stretched out, and a large spoonful of piping hot broth was poured out, and immediately a large bowl was full. In the thick broth, large pieces of meat that had been cut several times were lying in the broth, exuding an enticing aroma into the air. This tempting taste is appetizing and exciting, and this is a food that many people may not be able to eat during the Chinese New Year!

A few old boys who are very restless in the village on weekdays relying on their clan family members want to cut in line or rob others of food. The Nanchu Army which was put aside to supervise the Minfu team. ruthlessly educated them with leather whips and military sticks, so that they knew the rules and discipline, and this education made them cry and cry for mercy. Others laughed. All of them are in schadenfreude. At the same time, I know. Here in the South China Army, the importance of rules.

In the laughter, the people are strong. According to the same township and team, they found a place to squat one by one, and snorted and gobbled up. Many people admired while eating, but they didn't expect that in the tenth winter of the month, they were taken out by the officers and soldiers, and it was good to be full, and they didn't want to eat such a good meal.

"It's time to start work, and when you're full, hurry up and get to work."

"Work and work."

Seeing that most of the people had eaten enough, the leaders and vice-presidents of each team also shouted one after another, and the corners of the mouths of the people were full of greasy, and they were all satisfied, and they all stood up and started working energetically.

The campsite selected by the terrain has already been sprinkled with lime by the officers of the baggage team and the brigade headquarters according to the drawings of the camp, and the people of each team are under the leadership of their respective leaders. Division of labor, according to the virtual reality of white ash construction, responsible for their own things.

These people are all young and middle-aged men, most of them have a lot of strength, and everyone shouts trumpets in the Chaoshan dialect. Wielding the hoe and pickaxe in his hand, he kept digging the trench hard. Someone carrying a bamboo basket is responsible for carrying the excavated soil aside to build an earthen wall. The man in charge of building the wall erected the planks, threw the earth into the plywood, and used a huge wooden pestle to ram it with the joint efforts of several people, and the sound of the sacs and trumpets came and went.

And those who were captured by the Taoyuan Taisha were each with a shovel, and they struggled to swing their shovels and pickaxes at the position where the white lines were drawn and ready to be dug into a trench.

Others were sent to distant locations to gather local timber and harvest bamboo and trees for use in fortifications.

The earthen walls, built from the earth excavated from the trenches, soon began to take shape, and the earthen walls were not too high, and each wall was divided into two parts, the inner and outer walls. From the outer wall, it is about six feet long, while the inner wall is widened at the corners to create a pavement that people can stand on and walk on. From this place to the top of the wall, about the chest of an ordinary soldier, it is just right for the musketeers to aim and shoot at the attacking enemy, and of course, although the earthen wall is not high, but it is thick enough to block the bombardment of the Great Buddha cannon and throw fire canisters and torches and other arson objects inward......

Between the low walls, there are several passages for the soldiers inside the walls to attack according to the situation. Depending on the situation, there can be both defense and offense, and small-scale counterattacks can be carried out from time to time in the defense. Of course, these low wall vacancies are irregular, for example, the first low wall vacant is entered, but it is facing a thick wall, and you need to take a few steps to the left or right, a dozen steps, before you can continue to touch the empty road.

On both sides of these passages, makeshift forts have been erected from felled trees, and the battle positions of the big Buddha planes are here, and the shotguns loaded in their guns will block these passages well.

Guarding these low walls are as numerous protruding as the horse-faced enemy platforms of the city walls. From the side, you can shoot at enemies attacking low walls.

Of course, if you want to attack the low wall, you must first pass the level of the trench trap outside the wall.

Not far from the foot of the earthen wall, there are deep trench traps everywhere, and under the trenches, there are sharp wooden thorns and bamboo sticks.

There are trenches and traps dug at will before and after the camp, and if you don't know it, you will definitely fall into the trap.

Even if you fill in those traps with dead people, regardless of casualties, the attacking enemy will soon face new problems.

Trench!

The ditch, which was one foot wide and five feet deep, was also covered with wooden thorns and bamboo sticks. Occasionally, some lots are not planted. It is definitely not the sloppiness of the builder or the discovery of conscience, the bodhisattva's heart. It's intentional. Above the reserved trench communication path, perhaps directly opposite the muzzle of a gun.

Do you think this kind of camp layout is familiar?

Not bad! This is exactly the method of camping formulated by Shouhan for the Nanzhong Army! It was absorbed from the camp practices of the Taiping Army and the Hunan Army, and added the modern army's considerations for life, health and many other aspects after many years of modification.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom marched, they did not camp in the plains, but mostly relied on mountain dangers, or built camps in large villages and huge towns. An earthen wall was built around the camp, and guns and guns were drilled into the wall. There is a ditch dug outside the wall. Bamboo sticks are inserted in the middle of the house. There are wooden stakes nailed to the outside of the hao, and they are surrounded by thorns. In addition to the wooden stakes, cross bamboo sticks are nailed. Take very soft bamboo pieces and cross them densely. In the place of fierce battles with the enemy. Then dig heavy and build heavy walls. The first course must be densely planted with bamboo sticks. The first wall must be arranged with double-layer plates, nailed with horizontal wood, and the void is like a compound wall. Medium fill with sand, stone, bricks, and soil. The second Daohao also strives for breadth and depth. The second wall. or a close row of whole trees. or mound bags, sandbags, and soaked cotton bales, as the case may be. When in Yongan State. It used to be rooted in a living tree, and the wall was woven into a wall with cedar and penny, which was particularly unexpected. This variety of obstacles made it difficult for the enemy to overcome them in one way, and the cannon that hit the bamboo sticks and was no longer able to fall to the ground, and at the same time could buy time and calmly strike at the enemy, these fortification facilities have received remarkable results in warfare.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom built a camp, all of which were carefully designed to see the terrain. The "General Essentials of Marching" teaches the generals that "all those who build camps and villages" must "have set the degree of expectation and see the geographical advantages clearly". Moreover, the construction strives to be solid, and the project is completed within a limited time, so the camp built by the camp is very wonderfully used in the shape of mountains and rivers, and the construction is unusually strong, and even the enemy has to say that the Taiping army "builds a wall like a city, digs like a river, and is incomparably deep" (Zeng Guofan, February 27, 2nd year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, "Inspecting the Military Situation Along the Way", on the Taiping Heavenly State Fortress, see "Zeng Wenzheng Gong Manuscript", vol. 18). )。 He also said that the Taiping Army "is not an ancient law", but "it must be strong and solid, and it can rely on each other to save each other, and the sound and qi are connected, and the good law of the military book is just like that" (This is Zhang Dejian's "Thief Collection" volume 4 "Pseudo Military System" on the "barracks" on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom camp. )。

It is precisely in view of the characteristics of the opponent to build camps to facilitate attack and defense that the Hunan army created by Zeng Guofan is even more famous for "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle".

Most of the labor tools used by the Taiping army to build the camp are still traditional wooden tools, and the efficiency naturally cannot be compared with the use of metal tools by the Nanzhong Army.

Due to the large number of workers and the tools in their hands are very handy and sharp, in less than three hours, the layers of low walls and trenches around the entire camp have been dug and repaired. The officers and men of the baggage brigade began to urge the people of each team to carry out fine renovation in the camp in order to achieve perfection.

In a small bamboo forest about two or three miles away from Yingpan, several people and horses were nervously snooping here.

"Third master, no matter how slow these officers and soldiers go, they will be able to reach our Taoyuan Village almost tomorrow! Let's come out this time, none of the group of shovels from the outer seven families dared to come out and fight with us at night against the officers and soldiers. During the day, they have sharp firearms and sharp fighting, but at night, can they still use their firearms?! A bunch of cowards! ”

"Let's break in and touch his camp! Kill and slash, piggyback and rescue our uncles and brothers! ”

Taoyuan Taisha's Sanhui first Zhang Tingyu, his face was wrapped in gauze, and there were faint traces of blood on the gauze. He used his monocular to carefully observe the huge and constantly forming camp in the distance, and his face twitched, probably because the muscles had pulled the wound, and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

"You can't blame them, in the battle of Shekeng, they suffered heavy losses, and the elite soldiers and horses in the clan were lost, and self-protection was not enough at this time, so how could they attack?"

Putting down the clairvoyance in his hand, Zhang Tingyu said these words for a long time, which can be regarded as an answer to the head of the family.

"Sue sù brothers, quietly, the rear team becomes the front team, withdraw! You bring someone to arrest a few people and come back and interrogate them! ”

"So, don't fight?!"

"Hit!? Hit you big head! These more than 1,000 people are the last capital we can draw out! It's all lost here, what does the Taisha do to guard the stockade? What are you messing around with?! ”

The leader of the family agreed, and removed his armor. I selected a few capable subordinates and quietly touched the woods not far away where the sound of ding-dong logging was heard.

Farther away in the grassy bamboo forest, nearly 1,000 people of the Taoyuan community brave, everyone in their mouths, lightly turned to the Taoyuan village dozens of miles away.

Zhang Tingyu did not make up his mind to launch a night attack, which was a wise decision.

"Third Master!"

"Third Master!"

The leader of the family went for a while, tied up a few people, and hurriedly caught up with the brigade that had withdrawn more than a mile away and began to march in a hurry.

"These guys are going out into the woods to cut down trees! Shame on your mother! Don't you know that the trees here are all from our Taoyuan Taisha Society?! The leader of the family smirked and threatened.

"What do you do when you cut down trees? Isn't your camp finished? ”

Zhang Tingyu stopped the punches and kicks of the family members, and tried to make a kind expression.

"The camp is finished!" The man, who was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, replied with a sad face.

"But the soldiers said that there were not enough lampposts in the camp. We were asked to cut down some trees and go back to them to be lampposts. In this way, the roads in the camp will be lit up! ”

"I see!"

Zhang Tingyu's heart sank!

Such a tricky and strange fortification is enough to make people a headache, if the camp is brightly lit, their own team is blessed by the ancestors, bodhisattvas, and gods of the heavens, and blends into the camp. It is also impossible to carry out night raids.

Since ancient times. Night Raid. It's a very technical tactic.

If the army is elite and the order is forbidden, a night attack is a powerful means of attack. But. The requirements for the military are even higher.

First of all, fighting at night, sergeants with night blindness will definitely not be able to participate! Secondly, and more importantly, in the dark of night, the drum and trumpet orders used by the army for liaison have lost their effect, and how to effectively command operations is a great problem; if it is not for the elite troops whose command system is extremely smooth and the backbone officers at all levels have an unusually solid grasp of the troops, it is best not to play this, otherwise they will die an ugly death.

If you plan to build up miraculous feats in night battles, in addition to the fact that your own army is far stronger than the enemy army in terms of technology, discipline, and organizational system, it is better for the enemy army to have weaknesses in these aspects. For example, the troops are huge and complex, the command system is chaotic, and the communication between various departments is not smooth, which can easily cause contradictions and chaos.

In fact, in addition to bad weather, the bigger problem was that there were too many troops, which exceeded the upper limit of the number that could be effectively controlled by the technical conditions at that time. So hundreds of thousands of people will be defeated by Han Guangwu with a few thousand people.

Zhang Tingyu is also quite self-aware. In the past, successful night battles were all examples of creating confusion and panic when the lights were dim and the situation was unclear in the opponent's camp, which in turn caused a situation of rout, and in the process of the enemy's dispersal, inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy, or seized the enemy's position. Originally, it was thought that although Wu Liuqi's troops were in the same stream as the Nanzhong thieves, there would inevitably be a huge gap and contradiction between these new thieves and the old thieves in the south, and they could create chaos between the two in the night attack and break the enemy in one fell swoop.

However, now in addition to the deep ditches and high fortress traps, the camp is even brighter. It's easy to see what's going on with each other. How to create chaos?

These regiments commanded by Zhang Tingyu were neither the "Night Tigers" regiment that was famous for being good at field warfare in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, nor were they the volunteer troops who created the myth that "the night belongs to the Chinese soldiers" by relying on field battles on the Korean battlefield. When it comes to nutritional supplements, sharp eyes, discipline and the organization of the army, I am afraid that there are few armies in this world that can compare with the Nanzhong Army, playing night battles in front of such opponents, the regimental warriors of Taoyuan Taisha are far inferior in technology and organization and discipline, and rushing forward is to send them to death!

"Then, Third Master, what should I do with these people?" The leader of the family pointed to the people who had been arrested and interrogated.

"Take them to the front and interrogate them carefully, if there is nothing to ask, you will send them back."

Sending him back is a customary term of Zhang Tingyu, which means sending him back to his hometown.

The leader of the family immediately nodded in understanding, and after a while, he rushed up with a waist knife in his hand, and blood was dripping from the blade.

"Third master, the brigade of the southern thieves has arrived!"

Looking to the east, by the afterglow of the setting sun, a large group of people and horses drove into the completed campsite.

Two banners were raised in the middle of the camp.

"Brother Ou, this is too solemn, isn't it?"

Under the guidance of the officers, the two armies were assigned barracks and lived in the camps mixed with each other. Wu Liuqi and the others were looking around to check the access roads, fortifications, and arrange the troops on duty.

Regarding Ou Dapeng's arrangement, although Wu Liuqi was quite unimpressed, he still agreed with it in his heart, "Be careful to sail a 10,000-year-old ship!" ”

However, when he heard Ou Dapeng's answer, almost all the officers of the newly formed brigade were about to faint.

"Boss Wu, it's nothing, we are alone now, and we have to be more vigilant. Later, after we have settled the various artillery positions, we will distribute the order for tonight's patrol to the battalions and posts. Boss Wu, you and I are on duty, and tonight it will be my turn, and I will trespass on the matter of arranging the sentry post! ”

At that moment, after some arrangements, Wu Liuqi, Wu Biao and others suddenly discovered that the A and team members who were transferred to serve as sentry units outside the trench outside the camp occupied almost one-fifth of the entire unit.

I see!

Looking at the deep ditch and high bases outside, listening to the team numbers that were pointed out to put the sentry and the sentry, Wu Liuqi was thoughtful. (To be continued......)