Chapter 337

"Your name is mo Geng, isn't it?" Wei Ran touched his head and asked.

Mo Geng patted away Wei Ran's hand and avoided one side, "don't touch my head, the president is not high!"

"Ha ha, the little guy is very brave. He is indeed a good soldier. But if you just become a sergeant, you waste your real talent. "

Wei Ran said this and looked at Mo Heng. He saw that there was gratitude in Mo Heng's eyes. The two of them depend on each other for their lives. When their grandson joins the army, his life and death are unpredictable. How can he be reassured as a grandfather.

Mo Geng wondered, "what talent do I have?"

"You have a pair of skillful hands and instruments, but you can be a thousand troops and horses. This is the way you should go, rather than fighting with people with a knife."

"But craftsmen, in the end, haven't they been broken into the village and can't even protect their relatives?"

Wei Ran shook his head and said, "it's not your fault, but that the imperial court failed to fulfill their responsibility to protect the survival of the people in the country. In the future, under the flag of our Fenglin army, we will never let other nationalities kill the people of our prefecture and county! "

Then Wei Ran said with a smile: "as a sergeant, living in the front line and fighting with the enemy, as a craftsman, living in the city, you can also improve the strength of the front-line Sergeant by making weapons and armor and offensive and defensive equipment. You can also better protect your country. Why do you have to be a soldier?"

Moheng quickly nodded and said, "did you hear what general Wei said? Don't always think about joining the army at a young age. You are so strong. Today, Tubo people picked you up with one hand. How can you fight with people in the battlefield. It's better to be a craftsman in the rear to make equipment for general Wei and protect these sergeants, which can also effectively kill the Tibetans! "

Looking at the little guy, Wei Ran knew that he had planted the seeds of Fenglin army in his heart, and there would always be a lot of opportunities to attract them in the future.

The next day, after checking the siege crossbow made by the villagers of Mingyue Township, Zhao Xuanqing was very satisfied. He also saw several siege instrument models made by Mo Heng overnight, including two improved catapults proposed by Wei Ran.

Zhao Xuanqing was pleasantly surprised and informed the Hexi Festival envoy Zhao Hui of the matter. Zhao Hui immediately ordered to start making all kinds of siege equipment.

Shancheng is only more than 90 miles away from the area where the Tubo army is located. Even if we take a steady march, we can reach the enemy fortress cluster in three days.

As Shancheng was being rebuilt, the whole army of Wuwei army stationed in suirong city of Huangyuan, built suirong city and expanded it into a county.

In this way, suirong city is only 60 li away from the Tubo fortress group. In the middle of this 60 mile long corridor, it has become an area where cavalry and scouts from both sides compete.

In order to encourage the officers and soldiers to fight actively, Zhao Hui not only publicized the hatred of Tubo soldiers slaughtering the city, but also increased the reward to exchange the head of Tubo army for war merit and gold and silver.

In fact, these gold and silver did not come from Zhao Hui, but from local rich and powerful families. These rich families suffered great losses during the Tubo invasion, especially the two massacres, which made them hate deeply, so they were willing to pay for the head of the Tubo army.

The slaughter of Tubo made the people and advantages occupied by the Wuwei army infinitely enlarged. The local powerful gentry, merchants and people were strongly supported. They had money, grain and strong efforts. As a result, the Wuwei army has abundant logistical supplies and more sophisticated equipment.

Now Wei Ran's collateral troops are all equipped with iron armor, and every time Wei Ran sent troops to fight, he won great victories and made remarkable achievements. After defeating the Tubo cavalry, you can always bring back many heads and horses.

Part of the army and horses were used to form their own elite cavalry, and part was used by Wei Ran to exchange various equipment and supplies. This kind of private business is very popular in the Wuwei army.

Especially Zhao Xuanqing's confidants, although their combat effectiveness is good, they continue to fight with Tubo cavalry, and the loss of war horses is also quite serious.

However, because it is the direct line of Liangzhou, all kinds of supplies are very sufficient. In addition, the Lord general drinks soldiers' blood from time to time, and each one is rich.

Every time the war horses lose, they will exchange with Wei Ran. Even after losing the battle, he would trade the head of Tubo soldiers with Wei Ran. As for my jealousy and fear of Wei Ran, I have to give in a little in front of interests.

This also made Wei Ran's 6000 troops and horses not weaker than the Liangzhou lineage, and even expanded to 3000 cavalry, of which 2000 could be one person and two horses.

After a month of continuous fighting, the cavalry of the Wuwei army obviously gained the upper hand and pushed all the Tibetan troops and horses back to the foot of the mountain in the south of Chiling, that is, the Sancha intersection area where Shibao city is located. They dare not go north easily.

Later, the Wuwei army dispatched 70000 elite troops to set up a military stronghold 45 miles south of suirong city and confront the Tubo fortress cluster 15 miles ahead.

The next battle was a hard battle one after another, because the Tubo army occupied the right place. The road to the South was originally an uphill section of the first line, and the terrain of the Tubo people was high.

In addition, with the eyes of Shibao City, you can clearly see the whole force deployment and force mobilization process of Wuwei army.

The Wuwei army had almost no secrets for Tubo. For the Wuwei army, everything was covered with the fog of war.

Outside the Tubo army fort, a Li looked at the military stronghold set up by the Tubo army and the original stone fortress in front of him and shook his head.

"Even if I don't understand military affairs, I know that it will take unimaginable human lives to attack such fortress clusters. But the soul grabbing node is in these fortress groups. Alas, it's a pity that I don't know which one. "

Wei Ran rode on his horse, ignoring the Tubo Ranger who swaggered in front of him, but didn't dare to come over.

"So what? Can you sneak into the army and take the head? As you said before, his martial arts should be no less than that of Chang Xuanyi. Assassination is basically impossible. "

Then he pointed to the fortress group in front of him and shook his head.

"There is a front line. Even if there is a strong attack, there must be a primary and secondary. Generally, siege is to find ways to cover the real main attack direction with feint attack. But they have eyes, and we can't hide our troops from them. "

"Do you need me to disguise myself and explore?"

Wei Ran suddenly shot with a bow. The original Tibetan Rangers saw Wei Ran standing in place with a stupid bird, so they approached some provocations and checked the reality.

As a result, I didn't know that he had entered Wei Ran's range. He gave Wei ran a strong bow and shot them all on the spot.

Frightened, the Tibetan army in the fort shouted in surprise. Wei Ran ignored them and whistled a few times. Call the war horses wandering around their dead masters.

These horses were still hesitant, but Wei Ran's whistle was very special. It was taught by the veterans in charge of the horses in the Shence army. As long as they were domesticated by people, they could not be done without interference.

While feeding the horses beans, he said to Ali, "you don't need to enter. The Tubo people must rotate every day. The news detected near is easy to be out of date. At least I found it when I reconnoitred myself. Now our troop mobilization is transparent. Only by making the troop deployment of the Tubo army transparent can we break back a city a little. Actually, I already have an idea. "