Chapter 590

It was the darkest moment before dawn, but today the water vapor was more serious than usual. The thick fog rolling from the North floated across the Yellow River and slowly invaded the South Bank of the Yellow River, covering the whole land in fog.

Under the thick fog night, even if they hold torches, they can see only vague light and shadow four or five meters apart. Such an environment made the Han Army stop bombarding Jincheng fortifications for the first time, which gave the battlefield a rare quiet.

The Han army was the one who invaded. They had limited understanding of the climate around Jincheng. When and what kind of weather it would be can only be guessed based on limited judgment.

Suddenly encountered a dense fog, Xie an was awakened in her sleep. When she learned what had happened, she immediately ordered: "strengthen vigilance."

Generals and schools at all levels were soon gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army. Everyone's face was half ignorant with just waking up, and a few people were full of desire to try.

"The fog is so thick that you can't see your fingers." Yuan Qiao also stretched out his hand, looked at Xie an with a thoughtful face and said, "I'm afraid the enemy will come to touch the camp."

The main generals of Jincheng garrison are locals. The weather has changed greatly in recent years, but the locals are certainly the most familiar with the local climate. When the two armies fight, the garrison itself occupies a favorable place, and the understanding of the weather will also occupy the time. As long as we know how to use it, we will certainly take a lot of advantage.

"Oh!" Xie an affirmed yuan Qiao's words: "no accident, the enemy has touched outside the camp."

In fact, the Han Army had its own actions. While strengthening the alert, the bowmen and crossbows were awakened. After the arrow array was organized, it was blind coverage outside the camp.

During the Second World War, whenever there was fog, machine guns at various sentry posts would shoot blindly. Of course, this kind of action is not idle and flustered. It's nothing more than shooting at areas that may avoid sneaking attacks on the enemy. Of course, it's best to shoot dead people. The main thing is to intimidate and scare the snake.

In the age of cold weapons, blind shooting was also carried out in foggy weather. Generally speaking, it was to deter the enemy. With this intention, the enemy thought that the sneak attack had been found.

The arrows of the Han army were very abundant. There was no worry about running out of arrows. When encountering the thick fog, they would not be stingy with arrows. The Bowman who got the order used the arrows to vent his anger when he was suddenly awakened in his dream. He could really hear the scream in the thick fog.

It is normal for any commander to make a sneak attack through thick fog. However, generally, he will send a large number of troops, but the number of each team is small. It is mainly to touch the camp for damage, which can cause the enemy to roar. If not, he will set fire to what he can burn.

In this dense fog environment, when the troops are sent out, they don't want to give the next command at all. Basically, which team gets what command before departure can only make efforts towards the established goal all the time. After all, in foggy weather, you can't find anyone at all, and there's no way to change military orders.

Even when the sun rises and is in the thick fog, you can only see the nearest person around you. No matter how far away it is, it is foggy. People in this environment are actually extremely tense and nervous. Any little stimulation will subconsciously wield weapons.

"Over there..." Li mi tried his best to see farther. The problem was that no matter how wide his eyes were, he could only see so far. He put on a posture of listening: "listen and hear..."

What is the composition of cold weapon army barracks? Regular camps will have layers. The periphery must clear up enough open space. The next layer is the buffer belt composed of many obstacles, and there are multiple barrier belts of fences, wooden fences and wooden fences behind.

The open space is to completely clean up weeds, trees, shrubs and other things that can hinder the line of sight. It will also be equipped with hidden sentries and open sentries. The hidden sentries are pit digging Tibetans, and the open sentries are pavilions made of wood. They are the eyes outside the military camp.

The buffer belt will be very complex, with many horse rejections, sharp wooden rafts, or sundries. Iron thistles will be sprinkled when necessary. It is safe in any section, and pedestrians are not fixed.

The first "circle" is usually a fence wall, which is not too high. It basically reaches the waist of adults and can be used as an arrow stack when necessary; Second, this will be a wooden fence connected into a line. They are not sealed. There will be gaps in each wooden pile; The back wooden fence is sealed side by side. This kind of wooden fence is modeled on the city wall. It is at least three meters high and usually more than two meters wide. An arrow tower will be built every other section, and it is arranged in multiple levels.

In addition to the necessary camp fortifications, there is full attention to where the soldiers rest in the camp, where the school yard will be left, where the grain storage point should be, where the armory is, and even where the toilet is. The only constant is that the main general's account is definitely in the core area.

Whether he is a qualified general can be seen not only by directing the troops to fight, but also by looking at the layout of the barracks. A general who does not understand the layout of the barracks will not have the opportunity to lead the troops independently.

Simply take where the toilet area should be placed. If the location is wrong, the whole camp will be filled with stink. Even ignoring the toilet area will make the whole camp full of Baba and flies flying everywhere. Secondly, poor sanitation will inevitably lead to bacteria.

During the Second World War, the total number of casualties was close to 200 million according to the official statistics, and then the number of deaths was between 55 million and 60 million. However, only 45% of them actually died of bullets, shells and other weapons, and the rest died of others, the most serious of which was disease.

Take the battlefield of China in the Second World War as an example. According to the official statistics of the 1990s, the total number of military and civilian deaths in China was 18 million, the number of military deaths was 1.48 million, and the number of Chinese 1 Army died was 1.35 million, About 100000 to 120000 people were killed by a certain party (including unknown guerrillas). It must be said that the cruelty of Devils is an absolute fact, but it is hunger and disease that caused such a large-scale death. (the famine in Peking University in 1942 alone killed more than 3 million people)

The army is a collective. Any collective without medical treatment, once any infectious disease breaks out, it will inevitably lead to terrible consequences. There are many histories of large-scale infectious diseases in China. For example, two large-scale plagues broke out in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The most serious one swept the Central Plains and then spread to the south of the Yangtze River, Millions of people died.

Preventing the outbreak of infectious diseases has always been the most important thing for the army. In addition to the proper treatment of corpses, human excretion is also the top priority. Therefore, a general who will not even choose the position of entering the toilet in the camp is really not qualified to command the army independently.

Li Mi's position is a secret outpost on the periphery. Their area has just been covered by the rear bow and crossbow forces. They have been informed to avoid arrows before shooting, but no one knows whether the blind shooting coverage of the arrow array has caused accidental injury.

During several blind shots, Li mi didn't hear screams. Some of them were the sound after the arrow hit some objects. Behind him, he even lifted the wooden board on his head. In fact, he didn't see anything in the dark.

The things that can be cleared around have been cleared. The sound of the rope is actually not strange to the soldiers. It is the movement of many people crawling forward on the ground.

"Captain, what shall we do?"

"What nonsense, knock the bangs for me!"

A bang was sounded, and the voice of someone talking came from a distance, followed by a cry, and the sound of hurried footsteps.

Hiding in the pit can hear the trampling of people in more detail, so that you can judge that there are really many people without looking, not to mention the deafening cry. The dull sound of frequent trampling on the wooden board on his head makes Li Mi's face green.

At first, I didn't know who shouted something in the distance, and then the huge boom of bowstring once covered up the cry made by people with their mouth. In a moment, Li mi could hear screams, and it seemed that the board on his head was smashed by something.

If we had enough light and ignored the thick fog, we could see hundreds of thousands of Zhang's cool troops. They were heading in a mess, and the direction of the charge was not necessarily right. It was common to run and collide with each other and fall. Waves of arrow rain fell from the air, and the arrows broke their robes, drilled into their skin, went deep into their muscles, and then screamed or groaned.

The coverage of the arrow array lasted for half an hour before it stopped. Every breath was a kind of suffering for Li mi hiding under the pit. His head without helmet was even wet and sticky poured with blood. The hole was full of a strong smell of blood.

The pit of the secret Sentry is not too big, and it can accommodate five people at most. Li mi communicated with paoze first, waiting to lift the partition board above his head, but found it immovable.

"There must be a body pressing on it. The big guys push hard together."

More than one body pressed the board. Li Mi and others took the boss's effort to open it, and let the two bodies fall into the pit and hit their companions.

In their area, more than one person can be heard moaning. Further away, I don't know how many people are shouting and roaring. It seems that Zhang's Liang army who should touch the camp has started to rush the camp close enough.

In this dense fog weather, the responsibility of the secret Sentry is to guide the shooting area for the rear arrow array. The open sentry should be withdrawn from the camp instead of being excluded by the enemy.

"Hurry... Hurry in and cover it again!"

Bursts of shouts came from right in front of Li Mi and others. There were no less than a thousand people. First, they hurriedly picked up the enemy's body and pushed it out of the pit. Then they covered the partition board again in a hurry. There was no light and they didn't know whether it was covered tightly.

The bangs were sounded again, but it was not the work of Li Mi's pit. The listening position was that they were in front. Not long later, the crossbow men in the rear began to cover blindly.

From dawn to the eastern sky, there is a fish white light. With the light, the visual distance is not much different. It is still the vision that can see clearly within one or two steps at most.

From the blind shooting of the first arrow array to the eastern white, there should be an hour when there was no stopping noise. Zhang's Liang army's sneaking camp was obviously unsuccessful, but it didn't stop because of it. It was a continuous charge.

"Most of the enemy can only touch the buffer zone and can't cross the fence area." Zhong Xing looked a little wet, and some metal armor pieces were full of water droplets. It was a phenomenon that he had been standing in a certain position for a long time and had more fog. He shook his cloak and continued to say, "the enemy has not been able to cause any actual damage to us. Why have they been pounding?"

Xie an was woken up in the early morning of last night. He only issued the necessary arrangement and went to bed with confidence. When Zhong Xing came, he was grooming.

"For the enemy troops, this weather is their only chance to counter attack." Xie an wiped his face with a towel and went to the shelf supporting the armor. The soldiers helped to wear the armor. When they saw yuan Qiao coming in, they asked, "long history, how much did the arrows consume?"

Yuan Qiao was not a military general. He didn't need to wear armor. He touched his fur. Then he untied it and gave it to his relatives to bake it. Only then did he answer: "the consumption of all kinds of arrows combined exceeded 80000."

"In less than an hour..." xie'an was more or less aware: "it's just that the big man can withstand such consumption. In the battle of Chibi, the total consumption of allied arrows was only 140000."

The number of arrows consumed by the Han Army in each battle is really terrible. The most exaggerated thing is the siege of Dingxiang, which consumes an amazing 140000 arrows, and the total consumption of arrows for Bingzhou and Shuozhou exceeds 300000.

Of course, the arrows shot out will still be recycled after the war. Some can be reused after cleaning, and some broken arrows and tail feathers will be recycled.

"It seems that the enemy has no intention of stopping the attack. Except that it stops in the East, the other directions are still charging. There have been close combat on the west side, so it can be seen that the west side is the main attack direction of the enemy." Yuan Qiao is a long marching history. He has the right to intervene in everything that happens. He also shoulders the important task of giving advice to the chief General. He said: "after estimating the post, the enemy's loss will not be small. Under such death and injury, the dense fog will not disperse in a short time. The enemy's chief General has great determination, but... It's a little confusing."

"Yes, the enemy has the strong city of Jincheng, which can be defended by virtue of the strong city. There is no need to rush the camp regardless of casualties." Xie an thought about this for a long time. After thinking about it, she didn't come up with a reasonable explanation at all. She said: "even if she has to make use of the weather and pay so much death and injury, she can't get close to the camp, but she is still rushing. It's really unreasonable..."

Someone outside was yelling for an audience. He got permission and entered the account. He reported that an insider had brought news.

Of course, the so-called insiders are Yi Chuai and other people. They reported to Xie an that Zhang Chong went out of the city in person, and a large number of troops were not in the city. Today, they are fully sure to seize the control of the city and invite Xie an to send troops to control it.

"This..."

Xie an and others who heard the news were more or less stunned. They looked at each other and couldn't react for a while.