Chapter 203: The most common thing in cold weapon warfare
"I was a noble in the Spring and Autumn Period"
The last step is of course the march!
Is it just right? Zhiyao is going to be busy again, and he doesn’t know how many brain cells he has to die to formulate tactics.
Only after you actually command an army will you know how laborious it will be, and the psychological pressure will be beyond imagination.
A wrong instruction may cost the lives of hundreds, thousands or even more people. How can there be no pressure?
Zhiyao initially played war as a real-time strategy game. As she learned more about the cruelty of war, her mentality gradually changed.
"Uncle leads the army through here to get water supplies, don't forget not to drink raw water." Zhiyao glanced at Zhixuwu who was listening carefully, and continued: "This place is still fifty miles away from the enemy.
The smoke makes it invisible.”
Zhi Xuwu already knows the importance of drinking boiled water, but he still doesn't understand bacteria and the like.
After this experience of going deep into the Zhongshan Kingdom, most people in the Zhi family had already secretly sworn that from now on they would only drink boiled water and would never drink water in sight.
That is the warning brought by the tens of thousands of lives lost in this overseas war. To cherish your own little life, you should know how to do good or bad.
The Zhi family prepares water sources with great fanfare every time, and people from each family also communicate with each other. The other families can't understand why the Zhi family has such a strict rule. If they have a normal IQ, they will think it is beneficial and should follow it.
If this continues, maybe Jin will become the first country where most people do not drink raw water? After drinking more water and drinking boiled water becomes a habit of Jin people, maybe other countries will follow suit.
In any case, as long as this living habit can spread and people stick to this habit, Zhiyao can be considered to be alive in a certain sense, right?
Zhiyao has brought a lot of new things to this era. The big weapon of paper has not really appeared for the time being due to the influence of self-control. He has recruited medical soldiers and can treat the wounds of wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Suddenly,
This gave Zhu Xia the category of "surgery"; innovation and improvements in tools would affect more than just one family or generation.
Zhiyao did not promote many things. This is also a characteristic of the times. Who made him grow up in an era where he had a family first and then a country?
Some matters have already shown results, such as Zhiyao's training of new troops, and other families have decided to follow suit. However, everything requires preparation time in advance. Without the Northern Expedition to Zhongshan Kingdom, they are probably already doing it.
Zhiyao was listening to Zhixuwu repeating her instructions, and asked Zhixuwu if he had any other questions. If not, let Zhixuwu go down and prepare, and don't waste time listening to things that have nothing to do with him.
Naturally, there were other people in the military tent, such as Cheng Xiao, Cheng Shuo, Cheng Wu, Zi Lu, and Ran You, who each led more or less troops to form the first army on the offensive route.
What Zhiyao is responsible for is taking the trouble to tell them what they should pay attention to and answer their questions.
Speaking of which, why is Cheng Xiao here too?
Don't think it's strange, Cheng Xiao is Zhishen's son after all, and he is also the head of the Cheng family. He enjoys the privilege of sitting in a fiefdom, and can get all kinds of enjoyment in life. He must play when it is time to contribute.
This is what the aristocrats of the current era are like. To obtain a high position, you also have to pay the price that comes with it. It is really not just enjoyment without paying.
After Zhiyao became the eldest son, he no longer had any fear of Cheng Xiaozao. He could do some things that should be closely controlled, and excessive restrictions were unnecessary.
In fact, Zhiyao has made too many achievements and his status has long been unshakable. To some extent, giving Cheng Xiao preferential treatment is not compensation. Seriously speaking, he is just acting according to contemporary rules.
"The journey of Xiaozhi is after Shuo?" Cheng Xiao was confirming with the mentality of a lower-ranking person.
According to Zhiyao's arrangement, the troops of the Zhi family and the Zhao family advanced from the west, while the Wei family and other families advanced from the north.
The terrain to the west is still mountainous. In order to arrive at about the same time, the troops must be split up.
In the north, there are relatively few mountains. Even if there are a lot of forests, it is always more suitable for large corps to advance than mountainous areas.
Wei Chi successfully secured a position as the main force for himself, otherwise the Zhi family and the Zhao family should have advanced from the north.
This time the Jin army went north. Instead of distinguishing between the middle army, the upper army, and the lower army as usual, they were divided into family units. Whoever sent the most troops among the Qing family was of course the main force in a certain direction, their family head.
He became the commander-in-chief of that army.
The reason why Wei Chi correctly acted as the main force is very practical. They suffered a lot of losses. If they don't work hard to perform well, after the war, military achievements will only be evaluated based on merit and the spoils will be distributed. Whoever suffered more losses will get more benefits in the distribution of spoils.
More shares.
Another point is that the Wei family is too greedy for "original" and "warm"!
Judging from the current accumulation of achievements, the Wei family is not enough to obtain one of the "Yuan" or "Wen" pieces. If they don't take risks and fight hard, they will most likely suffer heavy losses, but they will not be able to obtain any of the subsequent pieces.
Zhiyao was controlling the possible military achievements of each family and could not make things too obvious. With Wei Chi's efforts, the Wei family also expressed great determination. If they refused again, the traces of manipulation would be more obvious.
There was a sudden strange sound outside the tent.
It’s not that anyone is messing around without opening their eyes, it’s the sound of raindrops falling.
In autumn, it's normal for it to rain from time to time, as long as it doesn't rain all at once and lasts for ten days and a half months or even longer.
If Zhiyao remembered correctly, it was still sunny in the morning, but it started to rain near noon.
When he came outside the tent and looked up, he saw no clouds in the sky, but gray-looking clouds drifting by at an extremely fast speed.
The Jin people were not that familiar with the climate of the Zhongshan Kingdom, but they captured many prisoners of war, including some "witches" from the Zhongshan Kingdom.
Zhiyao had already asked those "witches" in advance and knew that it was normal for clouds and rain to occur in Zhongshan Kingdom in early autumn, but in mid-autumn there would be a rainy season that lasted for half a month to a month.
Therefore, the Jin army only has about one and a half months. After that, they will be troubled by the continuous rainy season.
It's the rainy season, and we're in a mountainous area. People who haven't experienced it can hardly understand the hardships in that situation.
Landslides and the like may not be common, but it's just that it's wet everywhere, there's no dry wood to make a fire, there's no hot food to eat, and there's stagnant water everywhere, it's actually enough for people to endure.
Of course, we already know roughly when the rainy season will be, and dry wood can be stored in advance. It will still be uncomfortable if it should be uncomfortable.
As expected, the clouds and rain stopped falling after a while, but the ground became soft after being moistened by the rain.
"The vanguard can cut down branches and leaves and lay them on the road. It needs to be thick to reduce the muddy road caused by repeated trampling." Zhiyao gave a new explanation.
That's basic common sense.
When modern people encounter this kind of weather in the mountains, they generally know that they should step on areas with haystacks and use grass clippings and a large pile of grass roots to wrap their feet in the soil instead of stepping on soft soil.
They took action and encountered many situations during their journey.
"How lucky I am to have Yao in my family!" Cheng Xiao stood on the side of the road and looked at the soldiers passing by, his face full of joy.
As the age increases, mainly because Zhiyao has achieved more and more achievements, and Zhiyao's impeccable abilities and worldly sophistication have long made Cheng Xiao lose his ambition to be the best.
The soldiers who kept moving forward just stepped on them to look at the branches and leaves. In some places, they even lined up wooden sticks side by side and tied them with ropes to form a wooden raft. Although it was a bit troublesome, at least the army did not have to walk hard in the mud.
Marching in the mountains is already extremely difficult, and if it rains from time to time, people who are physically weak can easily get sick, or even suffer mental collapse.
Cheng Xiao thought to herself: "My family has so many preparations and is like this, how difficult must it be for the other families?"
In fact, it is not difficult to complete it in the face of military orders, but the mud during the march is not too difficult. The real difficulty is to repeatedly cross mountains and ridges.
Under such circumstances, Cheng Xiao set out with two "brigades" of combat soldiers and about 2,000 auxiliary troops. Only a total of about 3,800 people were left to reach the final location.
Among those who didn't follow, some were sick and stayed somewhere, while others fell behind or disappeared and will be followed one after another.
"The war has begun!" Cheng Xiao looked ahead and recalled the instructions he had received.
Their route was not overdue, and the one ahead of them that was already in a state of war was Cheng Shuo's route.
Judging from the situation, not only Cheng Shuo's group has arrived and entered a state of war, but wars have broken out in several areas.
When several armies of the Zhi family came from the west, the foreign coalition forces seemed extremely lax and they easily entered the camp of the foreign coalition forces.
What's more, because the foreign coalition forces have been letting loose for a long time, there is no strict military discipline to restrain them. After the carnival, the organization became even worse. The Zhi family's army suddenly appeared and launched an attack suddenly, and the outer camps were very difficult.
He was quickly killed and his armor was thrown off, but he still relied on strategic depth and terrain advantages to stabilize the battle line.
At this time, Zhiyao was already in the occupied alien coalition camp, interrogating some of the other party's leaders in person.
Zhiyao learned one thing from the mouths of these leaders. The Jin army in the south stayed in place and did not move, which was why the foreign coalition forces did not take precautions at all.
At the same time, the Wei family and other families cannot be seen in the north for the time being.
"The Wei family is overdue." Zhi Yao was not sure whether Wei Chi was delayed by something or whether they were deliberately waiting for the Zhi family to attack first.
Zhi, who had made a lot of preparations, arrived at the deadline, but Wei, who had no experience in mountain warfare and lacked advance preparations, seemed to understand that he was overdue?
However, if it is overdue, it is overdue, and the culpability may be large or small.
Wei Chi should be lucky that he was in the Spring and Autumn Period. In any other era, he would have been taken out and beheaded just for being overdue.
Zhishi has started fighting, and the war is progressing extremely smoothly.
Of course, there are thrills in this, such as when the alien coalition reacts and uses the complex terrain to penetrate and cut off Zhi's side of the retreat.
In this extremely complex terrain, no matter how careful Zhiyao is, it is extremely difficult to completely defend against it.
"Wei wants 'Yuan' and 'Wen'? Now you want to eat the peach."
To be honest, Zhiyao was a little angry at Wei Chi for being overdue!
