281 Smell of Blood
The Red Turban Army still has many shortcomings, of course, they also have their own advantages, but what they need to see is that if the Red Turban Army wants to be strong and develop, it must accept some things that they do not have and correct their shortcomings, so that they can progress. There are still a lot of things for the Red Turban Army to learn from the officers and soldiers, although the Red Turban Army is not weaker than the other party in terms of organization. However, the organization of the official army has strict cooperation, which is enough for them to learn, if they learn such a tightly organized cooperation, this is martial arts, and Jia Xu must teach the Red Turban Army a lesson.
"Yes, the military academy has been reacting, saying, there are no very good instructors to teach them, these people of ours are all big and coarse, to be honest, our officers, in terms of the level of literacy, are not enough to see at all, let them lecture, junior officers are okay, as soon as they reach the middle officers, they are all messed up. There is no one to teach senior officers, and if this continues, our officers will not be able to shoulder great responsibilities. Shang Wu said worriedly.
"That's what I'm worried about, if I continue to let them go on like this, something will definitely go wrong." Jia Xu said.
"In my opinion, we can look at it this way, and moreover, we must also pay attention to the collection of talents in this area, as long as the officers with some combat experience and those who can read and write can be read and hyphenated, they must be well protected, and these people are all talents. Our Red Turban Army is to attract such talents to join, so that many things will become favorable. Shang Wu said.
"I have drafted the order. You can do that. Jia Xu put the order in Shangwu's hands as he spoke, and many orders were drafted by Jia Xu. Shangwu just signed it.
"That's right. You say that military talents can be solved in this way, but how can we solve the problem in terms of enterprise management and the governance of the county? Shang Wu asked Jia Xu.
"The business school has already started training. However, it is difficult to have such a large number of talents to fill in all at once. Jia Xu shook his head and said.
"You don't know those scholars, they are very arrogant, no matter if the court recognizes you as a rebel, but they think that you are a thief army, that is, a thief army, no matter how you invite you, you can't invite them. For a while, the gap in our management talents and officials is very large, and in my opinion, we can only mobilize some officials from the business to enter it. There is no way. We don't have talent to manage these places. Jia Xu said. This is a very strange era, reading is monopolized by the scholars, and they have formed a special group, it seems that the officials of this world can only let them do it themselves, and Shangwu accepted a lot of cities at once, how to manage these cities, can not be abandoned, commercial taxes, and other aspects of financial revenue are still pinned on them.
"Well, that's all it takes, but I think this management is just a road, but all roads lead to Rome." Shang Wu said.
"What? What kind of horses do all roads lead? Jia Xu asked curiously. When Shang Wu heard this, he knew that he had accidentally slipped his mouth.
"Oh. This is a proverb that says that in the West, there is a country called Rome, and Rome is a country that likes to build roads, and his country is big, big, but no matter how you build roads, you can go to Rome in the end. Shang Wu explained.
"Oh. I didn't expect that there would be such a country. Jia Xu said.
"Hmm. We'll get there sometime. When the time comes, I'll take you to see it. Shang Wu said.
However, the meaning of this sentence is that this management is like Rome, but management is involved in many fields. For example, the military, business, this official is actually to manage the society, we can mobilize such people from other fields into it, should not necessarily have to hang on a tree, since those scholars do not cooperate, why don't we recruit so many management talents from other places to come in, many military generals are still the same as management and fighting. Commerce, taxation, justice, it's just some small traders and hawkers, they also have their own reasons, and I think they can attract them. Shang Wu said.
"However, I'm worried, I'm worried that so many people come in, how can this matter?" Jia Xu asked worriedly.
"Actually, we don't have to worry about it, just remember one sentence, and we can know what kind of point such things will come to, such as. Responsibility, remember responsibility, so many things are done. Shang Wu said.
"Hmm. I think it can be done like this. Jia Xu nodded in agreement. Regarding some strange views put forward by Shang Wu, Jia Xu still agreed. After all, the current situation is like this, don't look at the Red Turbans have won a great victory, but the problem is that such a victory still does not bring them a great effect, and this situation will make their situation extremely unfavorable. The introduction of talents is the key to solving all problems, but talents are monopolized by the scholars. In this case, Shang Wu can only be eclectic and mobilize such talents from other places to solve the problem. In the end, everything is forced.
Inside the encirclement. Cao Cao took the binoculars and looked at the situation of the Red Turban Army opposite.
The Red Turban Army changed its tactics at once, obviously, the cavalry attack gave the Red Turban Army a great blow, they began to open the passage of the second defense, the troops were continuously transported, the wounded were transported, and after the ammunition supply was in place, the Red Turban Army immediately launched an attack along the trench.
They obviously learned a lot of useful tactics.
'Look at their offense, it's going well. We will also learn such tactics in the future. Cao Cao said that he handed the telescope to Sima, and let them see the tactical progress of the Red Turban Army, which was beneficial.
The Red Turbans' tactics improved very quickly, and they quickly learned how to attack in the trenches. They will continue to advance along the trenches.
The first is the bag, or the thrower.
After the explosion, they would rush into the musketeers, usually in groups of three, and they would shoot at everything they saw, so that the dense firearms were usually very difficult for the Northern Army to resist, and after the strafing, they quickly got closer, and then the same tactics played again. This tactic seems to be simple to match, but these are all figured out by the Red Turban Army themselves. The 2nd Brigade is usually cunning, they know where their advantage is, they want a cunning way of fighting, if the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade are allowed to fight, they will inevitably have a bloody battle to seize the position, at that time, the whole trench must be full of corpses.
But the 2nd Brigade will not do this. They would carefully study the tactics that would be beneficial to their own operations, such as trench clearing tactics, especially if their commanders asked to use their firepower superiority, and so there was such a scene.
"General, the Red Turban Army is progressing very fast, this kind of tactics, even if we want to fight, it is unlikely to fight with the other party, because the first is *** isolation, and then there is the indiscriminate shooting of muskets, and when you react to charge, it is such a process, not only that, we are using shield hands to block, and there is no such thing at all, it is ** bag, no one can withstand the attack of that thing." Sima said with a telescope, for such a tactic, he said, there is no solution. There is no way to cope with such tactics. The opponent's tactics are too shrewd.
"Withdraw." Cao Cao gave the order in this way. Obviously, the speed of the Red Turban Army's offensive has increased a lot. This was beyond Cao Cao's control rhythm. Cao Cao could no longer see that the northern army had such an advantage, so choosing to retreat was the wisest decision.
"Yes, General." Sima conveyed the order to.
However, all this is just the beginning, and the Red Turban Army, which is actively retaliating, will obviously not let go of such an opportunity.
"General, look there." Sima said and handed the telescope to Cao Cao, who took the telescope and saw the situation he was least willing to see.
"It's a cannon." Cao Cao broke out in a cold sweat. What he feared most was that the Red Turbans would give full play to their firepower superiority, and if they did, their situation would be in an extremely unfavorable state, and they could only be beaten passively because the combat distance was too far. They simply couldn't do that. After all, the arms gap between the two sides is more than a generation. It's just unbeatable.
"General, we must stop them." Sima was also aware of this. Obviously, they saw the tactics of the Red Turban Army, they had to carry out constant bombardment with artillery, and once they were suppressed, the attack would become extremely calm.
"There's no way around it. There's no way around it. Cao Cao shook his head and said. They can't help it.
Inside the forward command of the 2nd Brigade.
"Damn it. You turtle grandsons also know how to retreat and fight with Lao Tzu's second brigade, so you just wait to be beaten. Zhang Li seemed to let out a bad breath and said this.
"General, put the cannon on the shoulder of the infantry to shoot, it's not good, the infantry still has to attack, once it hits its own people, what should I do?" A staff officer said worriedly.
"That's also a lot of opportunities seized by the other party, let them attack us again, in that case, what face do we have to do such a thing, it's simply impossible, this kind of thing must not be done." Zhang Li put down the telescope in his hand and said.
"It's better to hit than to be defeated, and if you are defeated, you will lose the second brigade. It's the face of the entire 2nd Brigade. The Second Brigade is gone. What's the use of Lao Tzu still wanting this broken face? Beat. Just hit it like that. Zhang Li ordered. They have indeed reached their final moments. If you don't fight like this, there is simply no way to hit such a high ground.
They would rather be hit by their own shells than attack. This was probably the earliest example of infantry artillery working together.
"Yes, sir." The staff officer said. This will cause some casualties, but it is better than not being able to fight it.
After clearing the second line of defense, it was already dark. The attack had to wait until the next day to take place again, while preparations were being made on the side of the Red Turbans, and at the same time they were on guard, and both sides knew that the battle at night would be more intense.
Sure enough, that night, the Northern Army sent a night raid team to attack, and there was no way. The threat to them from artillery attacks was too great. If the artillery had been erected and the artillery had been successfully bombarded their positions, they would have lost the entire war, and the battle would have been impossible.
And the Red Turban Army desperately protects their artillery, they all know that artillery is the key to their victory, without artillery, they will lose the war.
"Bang. Bang. Rumble. Bang. "Kill. Bang. Bang. "Muskets, artillery, shouts of killing, metal crashing. The battle went on all night, and both sides were desperately trying to suppress each other.
When the sun gradually rose in the early morning, the sun was much late, and the whole battlefield was still very cold. The body was still steaming, and it seemed that it had just been killed in battle. The smell of blood was strong with the heat, which showed that the battle had become extremely fierce.
"Sir, the battle here. It was tragic. The little fart said with a musket on his back. The little fart grows up very fast, and although he is not very old, he is considered a veteran. As long as they can survive the bloody battle, regardless of age, they are all veterans.
"Hmm. It was tragic. Chen Dajia said. He knew what the little fart wanted to say, and all of this was not what they wanted to say.
It was the second regiment and three battalions that participated in the battle, and because it was critical, their commander placed the third battalion here. Two companies of the fifteenth regiment were also sent to garrison, and the number of people added up was less than a thousand, but in the whole position, very few living people had been seen, they were lying with the corpses, and if it were not for the exhaled heat, they thought that there were no living people in the whole position.
"Arise, brethren, you have worked hard. Over here. We'll leave it to you here. One soldier said.
"Nope. In this place, a lot of brothers have died, and we will not go down, we will watch and take that high ground. One soldier refused.
Chen Dajia looked at the wheat pile highland, yes, that's right, that highland. Because of this height, too many people have died. A battalion was crippled. The third battalion is also dying. The second battalion still has a little foundation, and that's why they also want to take this wheat heap heights.
"To take the wheat pile is to fight hard. Also to fight down. Chen Dajia shouted loudly.
"Take the high ground!"
"Take the high ground!" The soldiers of the second battalion raised their arms and shouted loudly, they will not give up until they take the high ground.
A bloody battle is inevitable. Cao Cao closed his eyes and hid inside the forward headquarters. He could ask about the strong smell of blood in the air. It was a smell he would never forget.
"Boom. Rumble. Rumble. "The cannon began to rattle violently.
"Whoosh." The cannonballs whistled, and the cannonballs were all big rocks, or big iron balls, and then they hit the ground so hard that no one dared to raise their heads, and if they looked up, they would be knocked away.