"When meeting the generals, lead the chariot to avoid them. The soldiers will not be able to claim credit. There will be flags on both advance and exit, and the name will be strict..." [Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu's Sixth Anniversary]
Water birds hovered high in the sky for a long time, and there were streaks of squid on the ponds. The yellow and decaying grass fell low in the wind, revealing horses grazing with their heads down, and soldiers squatting on the ground.
Seeing his opponent getting closer and closer, Pang De jumped up excitedly, and smoothly turned on his horse. After getting up, the Long Water Knight followed him on the horse, revealing his figure. Pang De did not wait for the auxiliary soldiers who were carrying the baggage below.
How panicked, he raised the riding crop in his hand high and shouted: "Charge!"
There are about a thousand auxiliary soldiers down the slope, led by Wu Kuang, the auxiliary captain, as the main general escorting the "grain and grass".
When encountering an ambush, Wu Kuang panicked for a while, but then quickly calmed down. He is a veteran who has been in the army for many years. Although his record in his early years was mediocre, he has been following the joint drills of the Northern and Southern armies over the years, accompanied by many good generals, and has been influenced by his ears and eyes.
There has been a lot of progress.
Wu Kuang made a move with his hand and ordered his subordinates to gather around him and connect the baggage vehicles end to end to form a wall, trying to block the menacing Changshui Camp Cavalry.
Of course, this was not a real war, and Pound would not really let his men rush into the car wall and fight to the death. They surrounded the auxiliary soldiers tightly, bent their bows and arrows to their heart's content, and made those cork poles.
OK, there was no arrow cluster, only a small cloth-wrapped feathered arrow flew out.
Inside the arrowhead of the cloth bag is a large ball of cotton bundled with red powder. As soon as the cotton ball is hit, the red powder will shake out from the cloth bag and scatter on the person's body. Not only the arrows, but also the red powder in the hands of both parties.
The spears and swords they were holding also had their spear heads removed and replaced with cloth bags, and the swords were changed into wooden sticks wrapped in cloth bags. The enemy and we were also very measured when we were fighting, and we had a tacit understanding to only attack the opponent's torso, thus
Avoid vulnerable parts such as the eyes, nose, and head.
As long as they are hit by arrows or weapons wrapped in this cloth, whether they are defensive auxiliaries or attacking cavalry, they will consciously stop and retreat to no one else. Others who have not been hit by the cloth will
Turn a blind eye to these things, as if these people were already dead.
This kind of tacit understanding and strict compliance with the rules were not implemented from the beginning. At the beginning, both parties were "cheating", and there were often "dead people" covered in pink who were still fighting with each other.
Some of them got too involved in the fight and used all their strength to attack the opponent without hesitation. The emperor gave several strict orders and ordered the Northern Army Lieutenant Commander Gao Shun, Yu Lin Lieutenant General Zhang Meng, and Hu Ben Lieutenant General Ju Jun to correct them repeatedly.
Drill and gradually explore, let the soldiers of the North and South armies struggle all the way, and truly regard the rules of the exercise as military discipline.
That’s why we have the North and South Army, which now has strict orders and is proficient in participating in various exercises. But this is only limited to the North and South Army. Only the North and South Army, which has many famous generals and is as elite as rain, has such a high combat quality. He does not just rely on a few
A good general can be trained day and night, but it requires the unremitting literacy of enough "night school" personnel, sufficient meat and food supply, and was developed by the emperor using his vision beyond the times and the veteran Huangfu Song who has been on the battlefield for a long time.
This system created the North-South Army that cannot be replicated today.
Although the auxiliary battalions of the Northern Army were also elite, they could not compare with the real "six schools" such as Changshui Camp. Soon, more and more auxiliary soldiers were stained with red powder, the defense line continued to shrink, and Wu Kuang gradually
Unable to resist, he suddenly pulled out a flag from the baggage cart and shook it vigorously. The three-foot-long flag looked like a streamer, with a long-tailed beast with a tiger body and a head drawn on it.
This beast floated in the air for a few times, and the bustling battlefield suddenly became eerily quiet. The two sides, who were well-trained, familiar with all kinds of flags and rules, reached a tacit truce. Pound clapped his horse and stepped forward, frowning.
"Captain Pang!" After Wu Kuang stopped, an unarmed soldier wearing white clothes and armor raised his hand to Pang De. After saluting, he strode over and introduced himself: "I am the exercise supervisor of the auxiliary barracks.
In front of the palace, Yu Lin Lang Zhang Heng, who is here to watch the battle on the orders of General Wei, has something to tell me."
Pang De recognized the other party's attire. The exercise supervisor was a post held by the Imperial Majesty Habayashiro or the Tiger Benro during the exercise. He followed the generals of each battalion and observed the generals' every move at close range. He made careful decisions about actions and made mistakes.
Evaluate the merits and demerits in your mind and report the truth afterwards. Although you do not participate in the war, you play a decisive role in the exercise process, and sometimes even convey the missions and military orders of the army during the exercise.
"Is it the prince or the high school commander who has an order to issue?" Pound asked. This was not surprising. The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. In order to better simulate the battlefield, as the rehearsal coach of the exercise, he would often issue various new military orders.
Zhang Heng nodded and said calmly: "General Wei has an order to send 'reinforcements' this time. If Colonel Pang is ambushed and has a chance of winning, the auxiliary troops can choose the opportunity to surrender."
"Surrender at the right opportunity?" Pang De was stunned for a moment, then realized and said: "You want me to say surrender to the auxiliary barracks? Then can't I use this to deceive Zhao Yun and Yan Yan's camp?"
"Since the captain has understood it first, I have no more words to say." Zhang Heng lowered his head and replied.
Pang De laughed, then raised his eyes to look at the military general in his forties or fifties in front of him, and said: "Colonel Wu! I have always respected you, and the auxiliary barracks have always stayed at the tail end of the army and made plans for others. But there will be a hero."
The heart of flying? If so, please surrender, deceive the infantry for me, and shoot the sound of the camp. After the war, I will show that you are the first to contribute!"
Wu Kuang has been silent since he joined the Northern Army. His outstanding counterinsurgency in Hongnong as a captain of Diannong seemed to be the last gleam of his life. This brilliance was soon followed by his loss of body in front of the emperor.
It was bleak, even if his son and nephew made meritorious service in Yizhou one after another, they could not change a thing or two. In these dozens of exercises, he and the auxiliary army camp were the foils. Now that Pang De took the initiative to give him a chance to perform, what could he do?
Will it be easily missed?
At that moment, Wu Kuang took the surviving 300 to 400 auxiliary soldiers, and together with Pang De, they were transporting grain trucks in front, trying to defraud the camp where Zhao Yun and Yan Yan were stationed as "reinforcements". As long as this
When the camp was opened, Pound rode in with his light cavalry and fired a few symbolic arrows without arrows. The drill supervisors from all sides would then determine the winner on the spot.
The conditions for the temporary extra troops to surrender and deceive were naturally the work of Xun You who was far away in the Zhongba camp. However, before he could express it clearly through Zhang Heng's mouth, Pang De drew inferences and took the initiative to find out. This was an unexpected surprise.
Under the emperor's deliberate arrangement, Fazheng and Zhou Yu began to stand on Zhao Yun's side, commanding and making suggestions for them from a distance.
Not long after Wu Kuang 'surrendered', Zhao Yun and Yan Yan, who were more than ten miles away, began to be unwilling to hold on to the camp and made other moves.