"Huo Luochi is not stupid." Zhang Han expressed his sincere emotion when he saw the huge defensive position in front of him that was invisible. Zhang Han and the staff officers rode their horses in the military formation, and there were towering iron spears and spears as tall as a forest, which were the array of lancers.

There are also more sabers, more muskets, and more dazzling breastplate.

Hunter, lancer, and dragon cavalry. Looking around, there are beating armor and sharp weapons everywhere.

Ten thousand iron cavalry, boundless, seemed to fill the entire grassland.

There are strong war horses and stronger knights everywhere. Strong individuals merge into a stronger whole. Every man is full of strength and masculine beauty. They have a firm face. Many people's faces are blocked by iron masks, showing only murderous eyes.

The rustling sound of armored clothes and the dull sound of armored horses walking together. In Zhang Han's ears, it is the best symphony music in the world.

It took a long time since he went out with the army. Zhang Han had almost forgotten the feeling of the battlefield. At this moment, he still felt that he was already a warrior. He liked to stay in the army and to make a living from the same pot as a group of muscle men. What he liked more was that the military camp was consistent, orderly and in a well-organized manner, and everything was operated according to the instructions. Of course, what he liked the most was that he could be in such a battle formation, watching the army he built won one victory after another.

Sun Yao frowned and looked at everything in front of him, without saying a word for a while.

This time, the Mongolians were unprecedentedly cowardly, and they showed their incompetence and timidity before the world.

Before this, both the three Khans of Mobei who surrendered easily and the Tumoth tribe had at least confronted the Merchant Army head-on, especially the Tumoth tribe, whose strength was far higher than that of the Merchant Army when the Merchant Army was first formed, and both sides were always fighting against each other.

No, to be precise, the Mongols were attacking all the time. At that time, the merchant army could only defend in the fort and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

When they arrived at Xiaoheihe Fort, the offense and defense were easy to attack and defend, but the Tumotes still concentrated all their Dingkou and fought a colorful field battle with the merchant army on the grassland.

At the mouth of Xiaoheihe River, Li Gongye made a key leap and directly obtained a refreshing victory, while the Lancers locked in Qingcheng early and locked the victory early.

All the wars in recent years, including the war with the Quetu Khan tribe, have been fought on the grasslands, and they are quite happy regardless of winning or losing.

The position in front of him told all the staff officers that when making plans, they should consider the possible changes that anyone could make, including the Mongols, who said they could not act as a defensive posture?

"This time it's a lesson for everyone." Zhang Han saw the silence of the staff officers. He smiled and said, "Don't think of the opponent as a group of pigs. If our victory is built on the stupidity of the enemy, then our glory will be weakened a lot. To defeat powerful opponents, we must also defeat powerful and cunning opponents. Compared to powerful opponents, opponents who think they are weak and dare to fight tenaciously are much more difficult to deal with, or even more terrible."

Sun Yao said in contemplation: "Sir, it seems that Huo Luochi and the others have changed their tricks this time. From the formation, it is a defensive approach. There are geographical advantages everywhere. With the advantage of the location and the bows and arrows, their soft bows can be used this time. But I am very surprised that they set up such a formation, and the military and manpower are so concentrated. It seems that they will not be able to protect the West Road. If we had known this, we should have brought the artillery and the main force and come directly from the desert. The West Road only puts a small number of erect cavalry and their escape cavalry."

Zhang Han shook his head slightly. Although the staff officer in front of him did his best, he made no mistakes in the plan. He also did his best to sort out the entire military system and foreign enemies. This officer was mature, mature, steady, and could fully adapt to the stereotyped staff work. This was a well-behaved and very outstanding staff officer, but he lacked the spark of wisdom in his mind.

Yes, it is not just conventional wisdom, but the imagination and even fantasy after the violent collision of the brain.

However, judging from the current situation of Hutchison, a qualified and meticulous head of the staff department, who is as smart as a screw, is still quite qualified. Hutchison now has an extremely vast territory, and the staff officers need to constantly modify their maps. Every day, they have to stare at the small red dots on the territory to determine the position of the troops, and pay attention to those blank areas and black blocks to adjust the position of the garrison troops, discuss and decide the training plan with the Military Training Department, and dispatch the main force to guard places where wars may occur, and at the same time deduce the overall situation in the next year or even several years later.

The staff officer needs a flash of inspiration, but more of them still have to be trapped in complex and specific things. This is why Zhang Han has been thinking for a long time and has not used Xia Xiping to replace Sun Yao.

"Don't limit your thinking." Zhang Han was very patient and pointed at his loyal, diligent and meticulous subordinate who was just a little rigid at times.

Sun Yao showed a thoughtful look on his face, looking at the battlefield, and constantly looking into the distance with his telescope.

"I understand." Sun Yao's face showed a look of shock, and he said, "Huo Luo Chi fought with the idea of ​​taking a detour from the entrance of the side wall and running from the Ming Dynasty."

"Yes." Zhang Han was not disappointed. He said happily: "I'm very happy that you can think of it."

"But they are not afraid of the pursuit and interception of the Ming officers and soldiers?"

Zhang Han asked back: "If it were you, are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid of his mother..." Sun Yao swears violently and said anxiously: "Sir, I'll be quick to send an order to the Western Route Army to come as soon as possible, otherwise I'll really let this big fish run away. There is a scattered sand on the Ming side, and the Northern Barbarians have never suffered any loss, let alone the return troops who fled from their clans, and we can't chase them. Once our army enters the Ming side wall in large numbers, the tacit understanding with the Ming court over the past few years will be completed."

"Don't worry." Zhang Han smiled and made a hand gesture, saying: "This time we want to end the war as soon as possible, so I used some unconventional methods, which were not expensive, and even Tian Jitang felt it was worth it. It was not intentionally concealing the General Staff Department, but such methods were not conventional methods of war after all."

Sun Yao was confused when he heard this, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

He Zhengzheng said, "Then are we still fighting?"

"Of course we have to fight." Zhang Han said: "This kind of attack and the war to use blood and fire to eliminate will is also a rare test for the soldiers. We have fought too smoothly for wars all the time, so it is also good to give the soldiers a chance to exercise."

Sun Yao wanted to speak but stopped. Such training opportunities were destined to cost the blood and flesh of the soldiers. After all, only small cannons followed. The power of these small cannons did not have much effect on the Mongolians' geographical location in front of him. After all, being too close would hurt one's own people, and being far away, through the trenches and rivers, the use of small cannons was almost only to boost morale.

"Don't worry, I'm a good deal." Zhang Han stopped Sun Yao who wanted to speak and said, "Besides, don't underestimate our soldiers."

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"boom……"

The artillery not far from Lu Si opened fire again, and the red flames squirted out, and the shells flew forward, but like the previous shells, the cannon fell down at a distance of five or six hundred steps and did not fly too far.

The cannon shells fell on the dead grass and the white snow, splashing a piece of yellow sand. This is a scene that is unpleasant.

In addition to some tiger squat cannons and small-sized folang aircraft being sent forward, there was also a four-pound cannon that could not be connected to travel across the desert. As the Mongolians dug a large number of trenches and the cooperation of the terrain of rivers and sand, they hid cunningly behind these favorable terrains and spyed on the movements of the merchant army. They pushed the cannon forward and retreated a little. The effective shooting distance of the four-pound cannon was only a few hundred steps. This distance was of no use for rivers and large trenches. It took time for combat engineers to deal with these complex defensive terrains, but there was already a clear banner on the central army. Zhang Han personally ordered that all units, regiments, battalions, and companies should enter the attack positions respectively, and before tonight, they would advance at least five kilometers forward.

On a five-kilometer road, if Lu Si leads his subordinates to run in the morning, the standard pass time is twenty-five minutes.

It is easy for ordinary young men to do it. Training with slightly worse physical fitness can definitely increase nutrition in half a month. In fact, the results of five kilometers are usually 20 to 22 minutes, and those who pass the qualification will be ridiculed if they run until twenty-five minutes.

Armed cross-country for five kilometers is a test of a person's physical fitness. He carries sixty or seventy kilograms of equipment and moves forward in a trot posture. Sometimes he has to cross the river or climb high mountains, but some training subjects must be completed.

Sleeping in the open and armed off-road are both normal training courses, and five-kilometer running is also the most familiar to people.

But the five kilometers in front of me are really not an ordinary five kilometers. There are sand and yellow grasslands filled with residual snow. The Black Water River has melted early. The biting cold river water is in the rising period after the snow melts. The river water is extremely surging and biting cold at the same time.

In addition, those uneven quicksand fields may only be over the ankle, and the next step is to sink deep into the waist.

There were those long curved trenches. There were more than 100,000 Mongolians on the battlefields of dozens of miles. A few days ago, they did nothing but digging trenches. Fortunately, their engineer equipment was not large, small in number and poor in quality. Otherwise, along the Heishui River to the areas of Baichengzi and Huichengzi, they would have been dug into a huge spider web-like shape.

It is impossible to go south to encircle. There is the Hongliu River to the south, and there is also the turbulent and cold river water.

There is no firearm to rely on, so you can only use strong attack methods to push hard.

The engineers prepared a large number of ladders, and at the same time, they prepared sandbags behind them to fill the trench with the baggage, but the soldiers also had to open the gap first. The tools for crossing the trench and crossing the river were ladders and small sheepskin valves.

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Everyone, please be more at ease.
Chapter completed!