Fighting against the Jiuhu people, the Zuowuguan defenders were under great pressure. The Jiuhu people were very skilled in shooting. They relied on their numerical advantage to press under the city wall and shoot at the defenders.
Although it had the advantage of terrain, it suffered a hidden loss in the exchange of fire.
Tricky and vicious, these are Jiuhu's arrows.
"Order, all the troops shrink their defenses and do not engage in shooting with the enemy. The archers in the city are moving to launch missiles!" The wall of fire can only block the enemy for a while.
While the sergeants on the city wall were resting, in the war hall, Su Ce had just summarized today's battle situation with the six captains.
The special terrain advantage made the war equipment of the Jiuhu people useless, which was also the reason for abandoning the outpost city wall.
Seeing the war equipment in the Jiuhu camp increasing little by little, why would Su Ce stupidly let his subordinates in the outpost fight to the death with the Jiuhu people?
Now there are 8,000 people in the pass and more than 2,000 injured. Su Ce knows that the real hard battle is coming.
The so-called shrinking of defense does not mean that there is no defense, but that it no longer blocks the enemy's approach to the city. The walls on the left and right are blocked at the left and right, and the front and rear gates are taller than the outpost city walls. At the same time, there are also means of close combat defense.
If nothing else, the city corridor with masonry structure is much more useful than the wooden corridor at the outpost.
Jiuhu has a curved bow, and Daqian has a powerful crossbow.
The Anbei lineage is skilled with bows and horses, and has fought against Jiuhu for hundreds of years. With such a great reputation, people forget that every frontier soldier is an elite who has been polished for two years in Zhechong Mansion.
When Zhechong Prefecture selects soldiers, priority is given to selecting soldiers from the households of the Prefectural Army. The descendants of the Prefectural Soldiers, who have been influenced by their elders, all have land in their families and have not been engaged in production since they were young. Even the elders only taught the army how to kill and kill, and they have suffered ten years of hard work. After practicing, all the skills in your hands are killing skills.
Melee!
After a military order, the auxiliary soldiers sent three thousand pieces of armor from the arsenal to the city wall overnight. The armor of the frontier army was famous for its lightness, but the Ministry of War did not forget to strengthen the protection of the frontier army. It was just for the sake of lightness and maneuverability. The frontier army generally Wearing armor.
The so-called armor parts are actually the addition of iron armor on the basis of the armor. The front and back of the chest, neck, and head are completely new. Parts made of large pieces of iron armor are added to the city top on the basis of the original armor. Three thousand heavy armored soldiers are sufficient defense.
As for the remaining people, 1,500 people served as crossbowmen within the city wall and fired arrows according to the command of the city colonel, 1,000 people acted as auxiliary troops and maneuvered, and 500 people controlled the crossbows.
Prepare overnight.
The next day, the Jiuhu people arrived as promised, but they only asked 50,000 people to fight today. Once the number exceeded 10,000, the crowds of people were like dark clouds approaching Zuowuguan.
But compared with yesterday, Zuo Wuguan was particularly silent today.
By the time the Jiuhu people touched the stone veins under the Zuowuguan city wall, there was no counterattack from the Zuowuguan defenders on the city wall.
But in this silence, three thousand heavily armored soldiers looked through the hollow behind the female wall at the crowded Jiuhu army with murderous intent in their eyes.
Due to the limitations of the terrain, although the stone veins are not high, they are mostly steep cliffs. The Jiuhu people can only start to climb up along the relatively gentle parts of the stone veins, and the Zuowuguan defenders have long been familiar with these places.
"throw!"
Su Ce sat firmly in the captain's palace, without any overstepping of command, and the six captains did not take personal command. Instead, they chose their older brigade commanders to direct their mobile troops to serve as crossbowmen and shoot in the general direction from the city.
The concentrated projection of arrows became a nightmare for the Jiuhu forwards.
When the Zuowuguan garrison huddled behind the city wall, and the city was protected by a wall corridor, the Jiuhu people could not find a target even if they wanted to fight back.
At noon, the auxiliary soldiers carried buckets of cooked corn porridge to various places, and the pickles were mixed with the corn porridge in the bowl with chopsticks. It was very hungry, and it was not lacking in nutrients. Corn nourishes people, but the taste is not as good as rice, but the military does not say that. Whether it tastes good or not, if you are loyal to your country, there is no time to talk about your appetite.
Speaking of which, we have to talk about the benefits of corn. First of all, corn can be stored much longer than other grains. Secondly, it has high calories and is easy to eat. It can be used for cooking porridge and baking... Various advantages make corn always occupy a leading position in military rations. first place.
The people in Daqian rely on rice and wheat as their staple food. Every year, the Ministry of Household Affairs will exchange more than half of the harvested rice and wheat for millet and store them in various places as storage grains. On the one hand, it is allocated to the military, and on the other hand, it is used for emergency relief in disasters.
Eating corn alone does not provide a balanced nutrition, so the army also supplements rice and wheat with meat, sauce, vegetables, and vegetables. Although the days of Daqian sergeants were bitter, there was no problem in eating them. Since ancient times, For a long time, the general drank the blood of the soldiers, which meant that he manipulated the food of the army. But with the royal family's children as the supervisors, there was no general in Daqian who had such a bad idea.
The children of the royal family who can leave their ancestral land are all leaders of their generation. In this world, the surname is Zhao. How can they destroy it before they can protect it in time?
However, there will always be black sheep, so don’t underestimate the Peony Guards installed by the Saint in the army. Since ancient times, there have been many types of supervision, including generals’ personal guards, royal supervisors, Peony Guards, and civil servants from the Ministry of War. This is what Su Ce thought of himself. The Peony Guards have many rules. There are usually more than one Peony Guards in an army. No one knows how many there are. The most terrifying thing is that these Peony Guards do not know each other and do not disturb each other.
Therefore, if there is a black sheep in the army who drinks the blood of soldiers, he will often be hung up in the camp within ten months.
Food is the bottom line and red line in any era. Didn't you see that the Crown Prince of the East Palace and his concubine are still under house arrest? Back then, the Zheng family had tampered with food.
It was rare for Su Ce not to write a death certificate today. The Jiuhu people did not attack the city in the afternoon, so Su Ce took some time off from his busy schedule and took his guards to the wounded barracks.
The wounded camp with more than 2,000 wounded soldiers occupies a quarter of the area in the pass. Among them, more than 1,000 people were slightly injured and 600 to 700 were seriously injured.
Those who were slightly injured were scratched by arrows. These injuries can be big or small. If they are small, they may scab for half a month. If they are big, the wounds will become inflamed and turn into abscesses, which can be life-threatening.
Those who were seriously injured were those who were hit by arrows. Those who can still breathe now are not seriously injured. It's just that a piece of rotten flesh was dug out of the wound, so it will take a longer time to recover.
As soon as he entered the wounded barracks, he was hit by the smell of alcohol. This was something Su Ce asked Li Chang to send from Chang'an before the war. This was already out of the category of wine. Seventy-five degrees of alcohol was not the upper limit for the Su family winery. But disinfection at 75 degrees is the best. The military doctors in the wounded barracks used to clean the wounds with clean water, then suture them with catgut, apply gold sore medicine, and then wrap the wounds with gauze. As for whether they will become inflamed or not, they can only leave it to fate and sew the wounds. This method has been popularized in the military decades ago, but the use of catgut was only decided on more than ten years ago.
Although it is now just a step of debriding and applying alcohol to the wound, which is painful, the inflammation of the wound is not even one-tenth of what it was before.
The military doctor in the wounded barracks had already written the paperwork and was just waiting for it to be handed over to the Ministry of War after the war, so that the Ministry of War could purchase alcohol as armaments.
Su Ce walked around the wounded barracks. The wounded soldiers didn't have much anger. After all, they were injured now. Even if the wound was inflamed, they only needed to debridement with alcohol and smear the wound every day to reduce the inflammation.
Although there are times when alcohol doesn't work, the wounded soldiers who used to be regarded as the palace of the king of hell have spread the word of mouth, so the wounded soldiers are not afraid anymore.
Su Ce turned around in a circle. Su Ce, who was out of breath under the pressure of thousands of general cans, breathed a sigh of relief. The military doctors had very good medical skills and were able to disinfect with alcohol. They were not afraid of large-scale wound infection. This allowed Su Ce to guard Zuowuguan. More confidence.
After visiting the wounded barracks, Su Ce went to the general camp again. All the damaged weapons that could be repaired were repaired. With the previous reserves, Su Ce didn't need to worry about weapons.
After all, Zuowuguan is the first link in the northern plan of the Anbei line. How can the old commander allow errors in details when he is singing his last song in the army?
The old coach’s last song, the new coach’s first cry!
When it comes to the change of power in the military, it is very likely that some people will cause trouble, but more people still hope for a smooth change of power.
Since ancient times, the change of power has often caused turmoil, but after a hundred years of military campaigns, there has been no domestic chaos. This is inseparable from the abdication of Taizu Qian. The old commander Li Sizhe is only fifty-five years old. According to the old commander's body, then It is not difficult to fight for ten years, but as a military leader, you have to set a good example for the boys below. Even the saint Zhao Yumin has to abdicate when he reaches his age and has to give way to the prince Zhao Zaicheng.
A new generation replaces the old, and the smooth transition of power at the top is undoubtedly a blessing for Daqian.
Even if there are some dirty things, there are always wise men who can turn the tide. The civil servants in the court will advise the saints to abdicate, and the military leaders will use practical actions to maintain the unity of the generals.