Chapter 1036

Elbata's team was targeted by the Han cavalry. It was entangled again and again. It wasted a lot of time. After getting rid of the entanglement, it was hung behind its tail and had to make a detour. When they reached the third line of defense, the garrison on the line of defense fled almost.

Hard work is a defense line built with huge human and material resources. The enemy's large troops are still far away, but the defenders on the defense line run first? Such things are actually common in history.

No matter how strong the defense line is, people with courage need to garrison it in order to play the role of the defense line. Otherwise, it is actually a dead object.

Elbata felt that he didn't have the ability to use less than 3000 men and horses to resist the fierce Han Army on the defense line. After he found that the defenders on the defense line had basically fled, he wanted to set fire to it. The problem was that the Han Army cavalry came again. As a result, he looked at the defense line with tears and embarked on the escape journey again.

The defense line and camp built by the anti Han axis coalition forces took time and effort. It became the residence of the new master after the arrival of the Han army.

"This is already in hunit, far from the main residence of the capital guard, but it can be used as a material reserve base." Li Kuang has toured around and found that the camp is actually quite well built, but the built wall faces the East, and the necessary wall needs to be added in the West: "in fact, the city can be built on the basis of the camp."

After the phanchi River, there were only some small fortresses, military forts and beacon towers on this side of the Han Empire, and there were no other large YONGGU fortifications.

The hunit people are all nomadic tribes in the East, and there is no fixed settlement in the East. They are all groups living by grass.

The Han Empire needed a forward base in hunit. It had to be built from scratch and got a basic camp. Naturally, it was strengthened on this basis to save time and labor.

"Of course." Song Ping thought for a moment and continued, "it's just a big change."

There are some risks in using the camp built by the enemy as the forward base, including that the camp is built by the enemy, and the enemy must master the weakness of the camp.

It is not even ruled out that there are more dangerous hidden dangers, such as whether the enemy may have dug a tunnel. Once tunnels really exist, the enemy will definitely use them when they counterattack.

Li Kuang didn't ignore those risks. He nodded to Song Ping and said, "it's up to Chang Shi."

Once the camp really has the backhand left by the anti Han axis coalition forces, they will definitely not be willing to use it in some small fights, which will be used as a killer mace.

That's just a necessary safeguard measure. In fact, as long as the Han Army keeps moving forward and pushes the front all the way to the west, there are some tricks in this camp, and the enemy can only make full use of it when they are pressed close.

They "received" the camp that the anti Han axis coalition army finally built. When the war hit such a situation, it was tantamount to the disillusionment of the anti Han axis coalition army's attempt to attack the anxidu guard house.

The main force of the anti Han axis coalition collapsed, but the anti Han axis coalition in the region has more than one force, and there are more or less other anti Han axis coalition forces around the main battlefield.

Li Kuang faces two choices next.

The first is to continue to push westward with the main force, and how far we can fight is how far, forcing the anti Han axis to organize a large army to block again and keep the initiative of the war in hand.

Another option is to stabilize the front in its current position and break up the troops in hand to attack the enemy forces that have not been taken care of before, so as to maximize the results of this battle.

"I think expanding the results is the best choice." Song Ping gave his opinion: "we have too few troops. The longer the front is, the greater the danger will be."

This is why Li Kuang hesitated.

Although they seem to easily defeat the main force of the enemy, in fact, they are just an unbalanced embodiment of the use of firearms. The enemy collapses so easily, mostly because they are deterred by firearms.

If there were no normal war using firearms, the Han army could not directly shake up the wall fortifications built by the enemy like owning firearms. Detour attack would be the right choice.

Under the attack of the Han Army, the enemy's wall fortifications did not even support the first wave of attack, resulting in the psychological collapse of the anti Han axis coalition. The war situation is like this now.

The two armies give priority to the morale of the soldiers. They pay attention to striking first is to attack the morale of the other party. How much the effect of the first wave of attack is, how much the morale of both sides will change.

Now the morale of the anti Han axis coalition forces has completely collapsed, falling to the point where there is almost no lower limit, but in fact, this is only temporary and full of uncertainty.

"Good." Li Kuang accepted Song Ping's opinion and said the reasons why Song Ping didn't say: "it's really not advisable to force them too hard, so that they feel they have no way to live and have to work hard."

Song Ping responded with a smile.

The main reason is that the number of Han troops involved in the war is insufficient. The real regular army is 23000, which is divided into seven parts.

Li Kuang gathered 14000 regular troops into sharp knives, but just this point is not enough. Continue to push westward. The more westward you can predict that the enemy's determination to work hard will increase. At the same time, the enemy has always been in a quantitative advantage. If they really want to form a situation of going in depth alone, they don't have to worry about food shortage, However, the ammunition supply of firearms troops will become a big problem.

Song Ping needs to do a lot of things next, including verification and recording of war achievements, camp reconstruction, replenishment of logistics and quartermaster, and tackling the difficulties of diplomatic relations with small countries and tribes.

The long history of the army in the Han Empire is a big housekeeper. Basically, the guild leader will do chores. If the commander of the army was better at strategy, he would give his chores to the army.

Song Ping knows that he is not good at strategy, but at handling and coordinating chores.

The key is that there is no master of strategy in the Han Empire, which is mainly related to the combat style of the Han army. The Han Army usually fights with the enemy face to face. After a long habit has been formed, the Han army is gradually turning the habit into rigidity.

If an army wins in the same way again and again, they will firmly believe that such a way of play is most suitable for themselves, and as a result, the combat style will be fixed.

If such troops are suddenly brought under the command of commanders of different styles, and the combat style changes suddenly, only those really excellent generals can give full play to their combat effectiveness. Otherwise, it will usually reduce the combat effectiveness of such troops and even be annihilated.

It's a very simple truth. An army that can fight very strong in front of the enemy is split up and mobilized to the enemy's rear to fight guerrillas. It's really not so appropriate!

Next, the Han army of anxidu Prefecture guard left 6000 regular troops and 15000 Prefecture and county soldiers. The rest were split up and joined up with their own troops to clean up the enemy forces still behind the front.

Liu Shen's troops, who had only had a short rest for one night, were at the time of repairing the flint gun when they got the order to pull out.

"Fifty or sixty rounds of barrel firing have been worn out and no longer have any accuracy." Ji Hai was wiping the body of the gun and muttered, "we have fired more than 50 or 60 rounds, hundreds of rounds."

The twelve type flint gun currently used by the Han Army, after firing more than 130 times, the barrel will be in danger of cracking at any time. In fact, after a large-scale battle, the barrel should be replaced.

Naturally, firearm troops carry replacement barrels, and there must be flint guns in reserve.

However, the flint gun for the purpose of reserve can only be used in an emergency. Usually, it chooses to replace the barrel.

As riflemen, they must have training on changing the barrel and at least master the technology of changing the barrel. However, compared with professional maintenance logistics soldiers, the speed and perfection will be much worse.

Liu Shen is doing the work of changing the barrel of his gun. He is not his own gun, but helping his soldiers. He frowned when he heard Ji Hai's complaint. If Ji Hai hadn't kept complaining at the same time, he would have scolded.

As a "second generation" Ji Hai, he is too skilful in some aspects of behavior. He is a qualified soldier, but he is not a soldier who will be liked by officers. He himself knew this, but he really had no prospects for the development of the army and would not do anything that caused trouble. However, he did not intend to change his broken thoughts.

"Speed up!" Liu Shen looked around and shouted to a busy robe, "we only have half an hour."

After they came down from the battlefield, they were ordered to have a rest, mainly to recover as soon as possible and prepare for the possibility of fighting again at any time.

The order to pull out again was issued at 9 a.m. and the departure time was 1:30 noon after lunch.

"This one can't be repaired. Register it..." Liu Shen put the flint gun in his hand on the table to be repaired and said to the soldiers standing next to him, "go to the quartermaster to get a new one."

I don't know how the soldier used the gun. The front barrel was obviously bent. They can't repair such damage now. They have to send it to the logistics department.

"Tun Chang, i..." Zhao Xiuman said nervously, "when stabbing the enemy soldiers, I didn't find the bayonet falling off, so..."

After repeated shooting, the metal will soften and then stab it to the ground. The impact force will bend the barrel. It's really not funny.

Similar situations are not uncommon. Although Liu Shen is helpless, he is also difficult to be demanding. People really can't pay attention to too many details when they are trying hard. What guy in his hand is what to use. He also knows that it's good to poke a bayonet according to training.

Ten minutes before the deadline for starting, Liu Shen gave up on the hard to maintain flint guns and reported them directly to the Quartermaster's office.

There was no reduction in the number of soldiers in their village during the war. There were still many people when they came, but 37 guns need to be replaced.

"So much?" Qin song saw the data handed in by Liu Shen, frowned at Liu Shen, first a question, and then nodded: "yes."

Liu Shen turned away in shame. He just knew that his village didn't need to use the most guns, but they didn't participate in the most fierce war at the same time.

In another village, which has always been at the forefront of the front line, only 46 guns need to be stored. It is basically because the firing makes the barrel obsolete, but it is not some mistakes of soldiers that lead to the scrapping of guns.

"Our Highness has done very well." Zhao Ping smiled and stamped on the data sheet: "as a noble on the battlefield, he can obey orders and command the troops to give full play to effective combat effectiveness..."

Qin song glanced at Zhao Ping and knew that if he changed his face, Zhao Ping would have a different face. Even he couldn't get away with a reprimand just now, but this is the reality.

They must have some special care for Liu Shen, so they can't really ignore Liu Shen's identity. It would be foolish to ignore Liu Shen's special identity.

Of course, even if they take care of Liu Shen, they usually don't do it too obviously. They don't care about other people in the army. They don't want to hurt Liu Shen's self-esteem.

Liu Shen, who returned to the army, had a helpless and depressed expression on his face. Of course, he knew that he had been specially taken care of. He was really ashamed that he did not take being specially taken care of as something to be proud of.

"Tuen Chang?" Xu Guang saw Liu Shen's mood and said, "we should develop it soon and concentrate on the management of the army."

Liu Shen was too young to hide some things, so he told Xu Guang what he thought.

"Your Highness is a noble after all..." Xu Guang changed his title and said bluntly: "as a noble, you go to the battlefield, not as a supervisor, let alone stay in the absolutely safe rear. Your highness is the only one. It is some imperfections, but this is true. If everything is perfect, your highness should be disappointed?"

Liu Shen thought about it. If everything is perfect, doesn't it mean that everything has been deliberately arranged? He will become a big joke in the army. This life journey will not be a good story. On the contrary, it will become a "political achievement project" that will be laughed at by future generations.

"I probably can only take part in this war." Liu Shen is young, but what he should know is that he can understand: "my mother knows that when I go to the battlefield, I will cry and beg to my father. Even ministers will admonish my father. Then..."

Xu Guang lost his eyes. He didn't know what the emperor would think, and he couldn't even guess what the emperor would respond, but that would never be a good thing for Liu Shen.

"Tun Chang." Xu Guang changed his name again and said very seriously, "once your majesty asks you whether you want to go back, you may choose to stay and participate in the war at least the whole time."

They were sent by their respective fathers. The best way to establish friendship with Liu Shen is that they can't even get familiar with their faces. With their resume as soldiers under Liu Shen, they will definitely get a lot of help in the future.

Of course, Xu Guang can't guarantee that Liu Shen is not dangerous on the battlefield. It's selfish to suggest that Liu Shen stay, but he really hopes that Liu Shen has more experience. Fortunately, he may have a deeper and more practical understanding of the war after he boarded Dabao.