sweeping the world

Chapter 590 Is there a fraud?

It was the darkest hour before dawn, but today the water vapor was more severe than usual. The thick fog that rolled in from the north drifted across the Yellow River, slowly invaded the south bank of the Yellow River, covering the whole land. In the mist.

Under the cover of thick fog at night, even if the two of them were holding torches, they could only see blurry lights and shadows four or five meters apart.Such an environment caused the Han army to stop bombarding the Jincheng defenses for the first time, which brought rare silence to the battlefield.

The Han army was the invading party and had limited knowledge of the climate around Jincheng. They could only guess what kind of weather it would be like based on limited judgment.

Encountered in dense fog suddenly, Xie An was woken up in his sleep, and when he learned what happened, he immediately ordered: "Strengthen your guard."

The generals and schools at all levels were quickly gathered in the main camp of the Chinese army. Everyone's face was full of confusion after waking up, and a few of them were full of eagerness to try.

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

The main generals of the Jincheng defenders are locals. The weather in various places has changed a lot in recent years, but the locals must still be the most familiar with the local climate.When the two armies are at war, the defenders themselves have a good location, and their knowledge of the weather will also take advantage of the time. As long as they know how to use it, they will definitely take advantage of it.

"Hmm!" Xie An affirmed Yuan Qiao's words: "It's not surprising, there are already enemy troops approaching from outside the camp."

In fact, the Han army already had its own actions. While strengthening its guard, the crossbowmen were awakened to form an array. After the arrow array was organized, it would cover blindly outside the camp.

During the Second World War, as long as it encountered foggy weather, the machine guns of various sentries would conduct blind fire.Of course, this kind of behavior is not to panic, it is nothing more than to shoot at the area where the enemy may escape and sneak attack. Of course, it is best to shoot people to death. The main thing is to intimidate, and also to scare the enemy.

In the era of cold weapons, blind firing was also carried out in foggy weather. In short, it was for the purpose of intimidation. This intention was to make the enemy think that the sneak attack had been discovered.

The arrows of the Han army are very abundant, and there is no worry about running out of arrows. When encountering dense fog and weather, they will not be stingy with arrows. Yalai vented, and she could really hear the screams in the thick fog.

It is normal to carry out sneak attacks through thick fog. Any commander who encounters such weather will try it, but generally they send a large number of teams with a small number of teams. Ying Xiao is the biggest gain. If it doesn't work, just set fire to whatever you can get into.

In this kind of dense fog environment where you can't see your fingers, you don't even think about giving the next order when you send out the troops. Basically, whichever order you get before departure, you can only keep working towards the established goal. .After all, in the dense fog, it was impossible to find anyone, and it was impossible to talk about changing military orders.

Even if the sun is rising and you are in the thick fog, you can only see the people closest to you, and the place farther away is foggy. People in this environment are actually extremely tense and tense in their hearts. A little stimulation will subconsciously swing the weapon.

"Over there..." Li Mi tried his best to see farther, but the problem was that no matter how wide his eyes were, he could only see so far, and put on a listening posture: "Listen carefully..."

What is the composition of the cold weapon army camp?Formal camps will have layers, and there must be enough open space on the periphery, and the next layer is a buffer zone composed of many obstacles, and there are multiple barriers of fences, wooden fences, and wooden fences behind.

The open space is to completely clean up the weeds, trees, bushes and other things that can obstruct the line of sight. There will also be dark and bright sentries. Eyes on the outskirts of the camp.

The buffer zone will be very complicated, with many repelling horses, sharp wooden rafts, or sundries, and barbed wire will be sprinkled when necessary, and there are no fixed areas where pedestrians are safe.

The first "circle" is generally a fence wall. This kind of wall is not too high, basically reaching the waist of an adult, and can be used as an arrow stack when necessary; Lines of wooden fences, they are not in a sealed form, each stake will leave a gap; the wooden fence behind is a sealed side-by-side mode, this kind of wooden fence is modeled on a city wall, with a height of at least three meters and a width of usually two meters Above, an arrow tower will be built every other section, and it will be arranged in multiple levels.

In addition to the necessary camp fortifications, where is the rest area for soldiers and soldiers in the camp, where will the school yard be left, where should the food storage point be, where is the armory, and even where the toilet is located? It is full of attention, the only constant is that the chief general's tent is definitely in the core area.

Whether he is a qualified general or not, he can see more than just commanding troops to fight. Many times, he can tell by looking at the layout of the camp. Generals who don't know how to arrange camps will not have the opportunity to lead troops independently.

Simply put where the toilet area should be placed. If the location is wrong, the entire camp will be filled with stench. Even ignoring the toilet area will make the entire camp full of cakes. Let the germs run rampant.

During the Second World War, the total casualties were officially close to 500 million, and then the death toll was somewhere between 6000 and [-] million, but the actual deaths from bullets, shells...etc. Among them, [-] to [-]% died of other causes, the most serious being disease.

Take the battlefields of 1 country in World War II as an example. According to the official statistics of the 90s, the total death toll of the soldiers and civilians of 1 country in China was 800 million, and the death toll of soldiers was 140 million, of which 1 million were killed by the 130st Chinese army Fifty thousand, a certain party (including guerrillas whose affiliation is unknown) killed about 12 to 1942.It must be said that it is an absolute fact that the devils were brutal, but it was starvation and disease that caused such massive deaths. (The Great North China Famine in 300 alone caused more than [-] million deaths)
The army is a collective, and any collective lacks medical treatment. Once any infectious disease breaks out, it will inevitably cause terrible consequences. There are many large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases in the history of China, such as the outbreak at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty There were two large-scale plagues, the most serious of which swept across the Central Plains and spread to the south of the Yangtze River, killing millions of people.

Preventing the outbreak of infectious diseases has always been the most important thing for the army. In addition to the proper disposal of corpses, human excretion is also the top priority. Therefore, it is true that there is no general who can't even choose the position of the camp to go to the toilet. Qualified to lead the army independently.

Li Mi's position is the secret sentry on the periphery. The area they are in has been covered by the rear crossbow troops just now. Before shooting the arrows, they have been notified to avoid the arrows, but no one knows whether the blind shooting of the arrow array has caused accidental injuries. .

During the coverage of several blind shots, Li Mi didn't hear the screams, but the sound after the arrow hit some objects. He even lifted the wooden board on the top of his head behind him, and he didn't actually see anything under the darkness. .

The things that can be cleared around have been cleaned up, and the sound of rustling is not unfamiliar to soldiers. It sounds like the sound of many people lying on the ground and crawling forward.

"Captain, what should we do?"

"What nonsense, ring the clapper for me!"

There was a sound of clappers being knocked, and there was the sound of someone talking in the distance, followed by shouts and hurried footsteps.

Hiding in the potholes can hear the sound of people trampling in more detail, so that you can tell that there are really many people without looking at them with your eyes, not to mention the deafening shouts and the muffled sound of frequent trampling on the wooden boards above your head. The sound made Li Mi's face turn green.

In the distance, I didn't know who yelled what, and then the huge bowstring booming once covered the shouts from people's mouths. After a while, Li Mi could hear the screams continuously, as if the wooden board above his head was also smashed by something. Smashed it.

If there is enough light, if you ignore the thick fog, you can see hundreds of thousands of Zhang's Liang troops, they are rushing in the chaos, the direction of the charge may not be the right direction, running and bumping into each other. It was a common occurrence, wave after wave of arrow rain fell from the sky, the arrows tore through the shirt, penetrated into the skin, penetrated into the muscles, and then caused screams or groans.

The arrow array lasted for a full quarter of an hour before it stopped. Every breath was a torment for Li Mi who was hiding under the pothole. His head without a helmet was even wet with blood. Crackling and sticky, the hole was filled with a strong smell of blood.

The pothole of Anshao is not too big, and it can accommodate five people at most. Li Mi communicated with Pao Ze first, and was waiting to lift the partition board on the top of the head, but found that it could not be lifted.

"There must be a corpse pressing down on it, and the big guys pushed hard together."

More than one corpse pressed the board, and Li Mi and others took a lot of effort to lift it, and two corpses fell into the pothole and hit their companions.

Moans from more than one person could be heard in their area, and an unknown number of people were shouting and roaring farther away. It looked like Zhang Liang's army, who was touching the camp, had already launched a charge when they got close enough. camp.

Under this kind of dense fog weather, the responsibility of the dark sentry is to guide the shooting area for the rear arrow array, and the bright sentry should either be eliminated by the enemy or withdraw to the camp.

"Hurry up, hurry up... go in and cover it again!"

Waves of shouts came from right in front of Li Mi and the others, and the momentum must not be less than a thousand people. They first hurriedly lifted the corpses of the enemy soldiers and pushed them out of the hole, and then re-covered the wooden boards in a hurry On the ground, there is no light and I don't know if it is covered tightly.

The sound of clappers was knocked again, but it wasn't the actions of Li Mi's pothole. It was heard that they were in front, and it didn't take long for the crossbowmen behind to start covering blindly again.

From dawn to the fish-white light in the eastern sky, the visual distance is not much different after the light is on, it is still the kind of vision that can see clearly within one or two steps at most.

From the first blind shooting of the arrow array to the whitening of the east, it must have been an hour without stopping the noise. The Zhang Liang army's stealing camp was obviously unsuccessful, but it didn't stop because of this, it started a continuous charge.

"Most of the enemy troops can only touch the buffer zone and cannot cross the fence area." Zhong Xing looked a little wet, and some metal armor was covered with water droplets, which means he had been standing in a certain position for a long time , the phenomenon of getting too much fog, shaking the untied cloak, continued: "The enemy army has not been able to cause any actual damage to us, why are they constantly attacking?"

Xie An was woken up in the early hours of last night, he only gave the necessary arrangements, and then went to sleep with peace of mind. When Zhong Xing came over, he was freshening up.

"For the enemy army, this kind of weather is the only chance for them to counterattack." Xie An wiped his face with a towel, walked to the shelf supporting the armor, and his own soldiers helped him put on the armor. When he saw Yuan Qiao coming in, he asked : "Chang Shi, how much did the arrow consume?"

Yuan Qiao is not a general. He doesn't need to wear armor. After touching the fur on his body, he untied it and handed it to his attendant to bake for a while, before answering: "The total consumption of all kinds of arrows is more than [-] yuan." .”

"Less than an hour..." Xie An felt a little bit emotional: "Only a big man can withstand such consumption. In the previous Battle of Chibi, the total consumption of arrows by the coalition forces was only 14."

The number of arrows consumed by the Han army in each battle is indeed terrifying. The most exaggerated is the siege of Dingxiang, which consumed an astonishing 14 arrows, and the total consumption of arrows against Bingzhou and Shuozhou exceeded 30.

Of course, the arrows shot will actually be recycled after the war. Some of them can be reused after cleaning, and some of the arrow shafts are broken to recover the arrows and tail feathers.

"The enemy army doesn't seem to be planning to stop the attack. Except for the east side that stopped, the rest of the direction is still charging. The west side has already had hand-to-hand combat. It can be seen that the west side is the main direction of the enemy's attack." Yuan Qiao was marching. Chang Shi, who has the right to intervene in anything that happens, also shoulders the heavy responsibility of giving advice to the general, said: "I have estimated that the enemy's losses will not be small. With such casualties, it will not be too late in a short period of time if the thick fog is foggy." It will disperse, the enemy general's determination is great, but... it is a bit confusing."

"That's right. The enemy army has Jincheng, a fortified city. They can rely on it to hold on. There is no need to ignore the casualties and rush to the camp." Xie An had thought about this for a long time, and he couldn't think of a reasonable explanation at all. , said: "Even if you have to take advantage of the weather, it is really unreasonable to pay so many casualties and not be able to get close to the camp but still charge..."

Someone outside was yelling to see him, and he was allowed to enter the big account, and reported that someone from the inside should bring news.

The so-called internal response is of course Yi Chuai and other people. They reported to Xie An that Zhang Chong had left the city in person, and even a large number of troops were not in the city. They are fully sure to seize control of the city today and invited Xie An to send Army entry control.

"This……"

Xie An and the others who heard the news were a little dazed, and looked at each other for a while, unable to react.

(End of this chapter)