Chapter 208: Preparing for Battle
Although Sukh Saha was angry, he couldn't really cut down all the officers, if he did this, he wouldn't want to lead the troops, and all the sheep would be herded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Moreover, soon, Sukh Saha reflected that at least half of the people in the hall were their own minions, and all this was his own imagination just now, and it was impossible for any ridicule or the like to happen to these people.
After comforting himself for a while, Sukh Saha turned his attention back to the current situation. "Okay, let's not talk about the previous things, and now in this situation, everyone will talk about what to do."
"Master, now, in the north is an army led by Chen Xin himself, they have occupied Anzhou City, and the slave thinks that with the state of our army at this time, it is not suitable to attack the city."
The words of this officer with the white flag were agreed by most of the people present, and after more than three months of siege, these Houjin officers had deeply realized that not to attack the fortified city occupied by the Xuan army was purely looking for death.
Although Sukh Saha was not convinced, he was really unwilling to attack the city occupied by Chen Xin if he was given the choice. I could only pinch my nose and signal everyone to continue.
"If you can't go to the north, then you can only go south now, but judging from the situation that Chen Xin dares to advance lightly and occupy Anzhou, the strength of the enemy in the south may not be as optimistic as we expected before."
"So what? What's your opinion? ”
"Master, the top priority is to find out the exact number of enemy troops, as well as the specific situation of the more than 30,000 people and horses in Shangjing.
"Master, Tara is right, this Chen Xin does have some Taoism, I originally thought that he was loyal to Amin, after all, the bird gun he sells every year, the quality is really nothing to say, there are many of my Jurchen warriors who are willing to use this bird gun, but judging from the battles in recent months, Chen Xin has hidden evil intentions in recent years, he has hidden a lot of things, and now what cards he has in his hand, no one knows, the slave feels that he can't make a rash move at this time."
"The minion seconded." Many officers with white flags nodded in agreement.
The Jurchen officers of the other banners did not disagree, "Dashuai, we also have this opinion." ”
"Okay, then send more sentry agents, and you must find out the enemy's situation for me."
The full hall agreed and was cautious, only Mr. Song stood aside, and after silently calculating the situation of grain and grass in the army, he frowned tightly, but he did not interfere here, in Houjin, as a Han Chinese, he must know how to protect himself, and it is not wise to point fingers on things that everyone agrees on.
"I hope it doesn't take too long."
In the days that followed, there was a constant confrontation between the Houjin army's sentinels and the Xuan's scouts.
A squad of the reconnaissance and search unit, all dressed in dry yellow gilly suits, crouched in a patch of dead grass, carefully observing the enemy troops in the distance.
Xiucai wrote down all the information in a small notebook and then carefully packed it. "Squad leader, there are too many enemies, let's withdraw."
The squad leader was still observing the enemy's situation, and the fourth man next to him whispered, "We can't withdraw now, this group of Jurchen cavalry is still on horseback, and our horse is in the col 200 meters away, at this distance, before we get to the horse, the enemy will catch up." ”
"Oh" Xiucai responded, and then realized that something was wrong, why didn't Gazi, who talks the most on weekdays, say a word today, and turned his head to look, Gazi was actually carefully maintaining his firearms in a hollow.
"Gazi, why are you still doing this at this time, just send the news back, we are not here to fight."
Gazi didn't look back, he cleaned up every disassembled mechanism little by little with a cotton cloth stained with gun oil, wiped the last part, and began to assemble it in earnest, and in a few breaths, a glittering revolver appeared in Gazi's hand although it was full of scratches. The hammer was wrenched, and the unloaded pistol made a crisp flint crash.
It was only at this time that Gazi spoke, "Judging from the map, the area of activity of the two armies is less than the size of a palm, even if only 1,000 cavalry are scattered in such a small place, it can be ploughed in a few days, how can you guarantee that you will not encounter enemies along the way?" ”
As he spoke, he took out a pistol paper shell egg from the ammunition box and began to load it, and while loading, he continued, "What's more, the total number of cavalry in Houjin is ten times that of our army, plus in the past few months, the Jurchens have not taken advantage of half a day, and now they must attach great importance to us, how can you be sure that they only sent 1,000 cavalry?" ”
Xiucai was shocked at this time, it was really such a reason, in the past, his own side could gallop vertically and horizontally, that is, there were eagle falcons in the air to reconnoitre, and he could look at the gap of the enemy army, but now the battlefield of the two sides is limited to such a small area, and there are many enemy cavalry, and they may not be able to dodge.
Thinking of this, Xiucai hurriedly pulled out his pistol and began to disassemble it.
The squad leader and the fourth child changed shifts, retreated and rested for a while, just saw Xiucai's somewhat hectic methods, and frowned, "Xiucai, how long have you not maintained your pistol?" ”
"Well, it's not like I haven't used a pistol other than training."
The squad leader's brows furrowed even tighter, "You've been on a mission for the last four months, that is, you haven't cleaned your pistol for four months?" ”
"Hmm."
"After I went back, Xiucai was punished for cleaning the toilet for a month."
"Squad leader, you"
"What are you, tell you, the gun is the life of a soldier, and if you don't cherish your life, then I will make you increase your memory. This time is just the lightest punishment, and next time, I will report it to the Department of Military Justice, and you can take care of it yourself. ”
Xiucai didn't dare to make the squad leader angry anymore, and immediately shut up.
At this moment, the fourth child said, "Squad leader, there is a situation," and everyone's attention was focused on him.
Xiucai worked for a long time, and he didn't unload the ammunition, he couldn't help but be a little irritable, and when he heard that there was a situation, he stopped fiddling with the pistol, inserted the gun into the holster, and slowly crawled towards the fourth.
"Squad leader, you see, in just a moment, a small group of cavalry of 10 people has passed more than a dozen units, and the number and density of the enemy's sentry are completely different from before."
The squad leader looked at a few marker numbers drawn by the fourth brother on the ground, and nodded after translating in his heart, "Indeed, compared with the configuration of the previous battle, the enemy's sentry has increased by at least 5 times, and the enemy is going to fight hard?" ”
"Probably not, I don't think these guys are so alert, they don't look like they're doing battlefield cover, they should just be ordinary sentinels."
"I'm second, there are a lot of cavalry, burn it, it's just a sentry, why do you get so many people, I've been nervous for a long time."
At this time, Gazi spoke again, "Squad leader, there is a team of cavalry heading towards the place where we hide our horses, did they find something?" ”
The squad leader hurriedly picked up the binoculars, looked at them for a while, and couldn't help but scold: "These boys want to be lazy." ”
The fourth child couldn't help but scold, "I'm the second Ao, why did I choose the place where we hide the horse if I was lazy, what should the squad leader do, do you want to fight or not?" ”
The squad leader sighed helplessly, "If you don't fight, you can't do it, without the war horse, how can we escape in this place full of cavalry, and more importantly, these Jurchens have found our war horse, so we have to sweep this piece through the net." ”
Speaking of this, the squad leader breathed a sigh of relief again and resolutely ordered: "Prepare for battle." ”