Chapter 56

Is it a kind of afterlife after death? Well, No. However, the Han Dynasty pulled out its own stronghold, and then nearly 7000 troops moved with their luggage, which really made a large group of people completely dumbfounded.

"Nearly 800 warriors!" Lian Chengbo stared: "there are so many warriors!?"

The so-called warriors are swordsmen wearing light armor and carrying shields. If they are counted in a strict sense, they really can't be called warriors. However, 800 swordsmen in armor lined up in a square array, which was really frightening.

Liu Yan adopted a relatively simple method for the arrangement of Jin soldiers, that is, to allocate as many spears as possible to make them spearmen, and a few talents with martial arts will arrange short soldiers.

In fact, as long as the spearmen can ensure the integrity of the military array and do not need to teach too much martial arts, they can fight in the battle, which is most suitable for the Jin people who lack training.

In terms of remote output, Liu Yan thought it would be relatively simple, but the fact once again caught him a little unprepared. The Jin soldiers with a total of nearly 4000 only selected less than 500 archers.

However, the real situation is really like that. Archery is really far from as simple as it looks. Just how to shoot the arrow well is a knowledge. Moreover, an archer is not just an archer who can shoot one kind of arrow. At least he needs to master three skills: saving, diffusing and throwing. An elite Archer needs a certain degree of accuracy.

With nearly five thousand soldiers, about two thousand five civilian men, foot infantry and carriages loaded with luggage, the team set out in a mighty manner.

"Sir, we only have five days to win Jijin city." Ji Chang looked still haggard, but after two days of full sleep, he didn't look like he was dying. "Five days later, there is likely to be a new rainy season," he said

Liu Yan nodded gently, but his attention was on the other side.

The Han Dynasty sent out such a large-scale army for the first time. How to maintain the march of the team is a great knowledge. Xu Zheng and LV Tai need to take a small number of elite soldiers to constantly swim around the whole team, restrain soldiers, and constantly correct the march speed of some parts.

Xu kept shouting while patrolling. He told the soldiers what the war meant to them.

In fact, he did not say too profound thoughts, nor too profound truth. Xu Zheng only asked the soldiers to ask themselves how they were doing in the Han Dynasty and how Liu Yan treated them.

Then, Xu Zheng would give some guiding shouts, but he didn't say "after this war, go home and marry a wife (a stem)", but simply told the soldiers "if this war is lost, think about whether there is such a day? Would you like to go back to the precarious life before".

Liu Yan is very pleased to see Xu Zheng's behavior. It's not easy to lead the troops, it's not easy to make the soldiers obey orders and prohibitions, and it's even more difficult to make the team have centripetal force.

The rise of the Han Dynasty was too short, and there was no commendable "historical heritage". How to make the soldiers have the sense of war is a big problem.

[if you want to have your own "historical details", unless you publicize the identity of the Han people, there will be at least the heroic style of the two Han Dynasties; in addition, let them create the history of the Han Dynasty by themselves.]

LV Tai led the troops in another way. He was straight faced from beginning to end. He could hardly say a word, but what he did was to set an example and eat and sleep with his soldiers.

The different subordinates of the two unified armies let Liu Yan see their own flash points, and also see that many grass-roots Sergeants are relatively active.

The combat effectiveness of an army depends not only on the supreme military commander, but also on the officers who can carry out orders layer by layer. Liu Yan wants to train grass-roots officers. Unfortunately, something will happen when he wants to do it again and again.

Liu Yan planned to let them build barracks, shooting ranges and blacksmith shops after setting up the camp.

Barracks and shooting ranges naturally consider the need for replenishment. After all, the enemy has more than 10000 people. If the plan is wrong, it can be predicted that it will be a positional battle.

The reason for the construction of the blacksmith's shop is even simpler. During combat, weapons will certainly be damaged or even destroyed. The destruction is naturally supplemented with baggage, but the destruction needs to be repaired. In addition, Liu Yan has communicated with Ji Chang. In the future, Jijin city will be the bridgehead to defend Gaomi County. It also needs to be prepared to attract the enemy there and fight a long positional war. There will be no mistake in making some logistical preparations early.

"The plan may... Change." Ji Chang said with a melancholy, "there are too many snooping people around. He tried to drive them away several times and drove them away again and again. Waiting for our scouts to return, those people stick to us again."

The original plan was to divide the march into three parts. The elite of the first part, as the leader, arrived at Jijin city with the momentum of lightning and launched an attack on the core forces of the Hu people; The second part of the force followed closely, or as a reserve, perhaps as a later deterrent; The third part is the logistics of the rear team.

Liu Yan sent scouts around and knew what was going on around him.

Within twenty miles around the Han Dynasty, there were many red dots, but there were so many scattered red dots that Liu Yan frowned deeply. Twenty miles away, Liu Yan found no fewer than five enemy forces, three of which were definitely more than 5000, and the other two were more than 1000.

"Those people..." Ji Chang said about the nomadic herders. He was worried: "I don't know if I will attack when I see the imperial court (flag) erected again in the West Qianbai Liao."

It's about the city full of defense loopholes in cabinet county. Liu Yan's instruction to Xi Qian Bai Liao was so simple that he asked Xi Qian Bai Liao to set up the banner of Hou Zhao the day after he sent troops to the Han Dynasty, indicating that cabinet county has returned to the system of Hou Zhao again.

Originally, Liu Yan thought that after the flag of the late Zhao Dynasty was erected, the cabinet county would be judged as lost by the system, but because more than half of the green and blue dots in the cabinet county were still found, the system judged that the cabinet county was not lost. This relieved Liu Yan. He was deeply afraid of being judged to be lost. As a result, the town center on Lingshan Island disappeared.

These days, some Hu people are deeply sinicized, while some Jin people... Han people are sinicized, and Jichang is obviously the latter.

Ji Chang is really worried about whether the Hu people will ignore the banner hung by the Western Qianbai Liao. After all, cabinet county is the first county occupied by the Han Dynasty. Although it does not produce much benefits, it seems very meaningful. It is also a morale encouragement to the Han Dynasty. If it is lost, it will inevitably have some side effects.

To say, Liu Yan's worry is definitely deeper than Ji Chang, but he didn't show it. That's because... Liu Yan knows that worry alone can't solve some problems. What he can solve now is to capture Jijin city and attract the enemy's attention!