Chapter 485
Zou Shuangwen rode on the horse and looked at the detailed battle report that the airship had just come from Ye Tao's camp. The war horse was speeding and seeing the words on the battle report clearly in such bumps is a special skill. In fact, Ye Tao had long forbidden this kind of action. In the code of the Blood Qi Army, the prohibition on reading documents during the marching was very low, but it did exist. At that time, Ye Tao also spent a lot of effort to explain the importance of protecting his eyesight, and even promoted a set of things called "eye exercises" in the Blood Qi Army, but these regulations obviously did not attract everyone's attention.
"There is no problem with Marshal Ye." Zou Shuangwen said: "It is estimated that Marshal Ye will be able to break the floating bridge again in one morning. Now, this kind of stalemate is the strength of our Blood Qi Army."
The battalions around and Zou Shuangwen's own staff officers laughed out loud, feeling relaxed. The outside world had various comments about the Blood Qi Army, most of which were speculations that the Blood Qi Army was the number one army in the world, and this title was not from Bai Rao. Their entire army had more than 50,000 people, including auxiliary soldiers, reserves, engineering troops to maintain camps and build exercise sites, etc., a total of more than 74,000 people. In order to be able to assign this proud title to the Blood Qi Army forever, they were fighting their lives every day. Behind them, the most powerful financial and material resources in the world were gathered to support it.
However, the Blood Qi Army is not completely ahead in any aspect. When it comes to maneuver power and marching speed, the Blood Qi Army is not as good as the Jingyun Cavalry of Yunzhou. It is not a big deal for those soldiers from the grassland tribe to get off the horse for a few days, but they cannot do this. Speaking of well-equipped, Ye Tao's guard camp is far better than them. Although the scale is always only about 1,500 people, everyone is a master, and everyone's weapons and armor are customized, which also makes the guard camp always wear dark gray and cloaks with dark gold cloud tattoos inlaid with embroidered edges in the military occasions where dressing etiquette is required. Otherwise, they will look a little "miscellaneous"; if the explosive power of the battle is coming, they are out
Before the launch, Chi Yun was defeated in a short-term competition with the imperial guards. That guy Chi Yun was so unique. He had the base of the imperial guards, the Blood Qi Army and the full training plan of the Yunzhou army, and the financial support of the Dongping royal treasury. Based on the imperial guards and the tribes of the Tan family in the Jiangshan Fort, he built a more elite army with less than 15,000 people. These soldiers were loyal and fanatical. They actually suppressed the Blood Qi Army, which was not prepared in the drill. Compared with this unit, Chi Yun, who has always been calm and elegant, and is considered half a "Confucian general", actually trained such a "Berserker" unit, which is even more surprising.
What the Blood Qi Army is most proud of is their comprehensive strength. They may lose to some troops in several characteristics, but they are a comprehensive and powerful army. The more important thing is that the Blood Qi Army's soldiers are super high. Everyone knows why they fight, knows how to fight smartly, and how to make full use of all resources that can be used. Once the battle time is extended, their characteristics will become more and more obvious. The Blood Qi Army's combat persistence is so strong that it makes all opponents trouble, and what is even more unbearable is that they are always breaking through the rules and constantly emerging new tactics. Often in short meetings, various clever fighting methods are thought out, and the soldiers under their command will immediately put their ideas into reality, and even add their own reinforcements. From top to bottom, the army that everyone is fighting with their brains is how terrible it is.
Although Ye Tao caused the largest casualties since the founding of the Blood Qi Army in this unscrupulous blocking battle, he should know that he was facing twenty times the Northern Liao army, and in pure defense operations, he caused more than 50,000 casualties to the Northern Liao army in continuous combat for more than ten hours. This is a proud record. Ye Tao is indeed no longer as good as those of them professional officers who have been thinking about these things all day long, but Ye Tao is good at planning, organizing, and looking for opportunities for victory in desperate situations, but cherishing his own lives very much, and he still fully utilizes his full performance. Although there are many injured soldiers in the Blood Qi Army, the proportion of casualties is not high compared to this harsh battle, and the proportion of disability is much better than expected.
Although he was very interested in the staircase camp that Ye Tao prepared only suitable for that terrain, Zou Shuangwen decided to eliminate the enemy first and then visit the camp. After receiving a message from Ye Tao and learning that there was no problem with the camp in Ye Tao's army, he had ordered to slightly slow down the marching speed and allow the soldiers to save more physical strength. Of course, this preservation does not include scouts and airship units. These troops are reconnaissing suitable river crossing routes.
The weather was not good. At noon, Zou Shuangwen's troops had just arrived at a shallow more than 40 miles downstream of Ye Tao's camp. Another place suitable for crossing the river would have to be nearly twenty miles downstream. Zou Shuangwen decisively ordered the division of troops to cross the river. Today, the whole army must converge on the other side of the river. At this moment, it actually started drizzling. In this weather, crossing the river seemed more and more difficult.
But the officers came to report on various situations one by one, but no one said whether to slow down the situation. After careful preparation, at 2 pm, Zou Shuangwen's troops took the lead in crossing the river, while the downstream troops began to cross the river two hours later. Until around 7:30 pm, the entire army gathered on the other side and set up camp in a forest. In order not to alarm the enemy, the airship troops all went to assist Ye Tao at this time, and the scouts troops became Zou Shuangwen's only eyes.
After carefully studying the map in the camp, Zou Shuangwen focused on Qingya Town behind the Northern Liao army. Although senior officers such as Gaosen Banner are now commanding operations on the front line, the logistics operation center that provides 300,000 troops is in Qingya. A large army of this size is more troublesome than combat. Unlike the Dongping army, which has established full-time logistics officers at all levels, Gaosen Banner also thought about changing the logistics system in the army, but that is not something he could do alone. Now, Bei Liao University
The logistics supply of the army is still divided into two parts: the front battalion and the transfer warehouse. The warehouse and transportation departments are directly under Gao Senqi and others, and the materials are picked up by each army. This is the most basic data of the most basic data, such as what is needed, when to eat, and how much rest time can you have. Naturally, there is a dedicated person responsible for sorting out these things clearly. The probability of the Northern Liao officers having disputes with the logistics is much higher. When the Northern Liao army suffered major damage, it is conceivable how busy and chaotic Qingya would be.
"Supervisor, what should I do if Qingya is too anxious to attack?" An officer reminded: "The last general thought it would be better to attack Qingya and then..."
"Attack the support?" Zou Shuangwen asked with a smile. "This is a good idea. I also agree with attracting the opponent from the camp, but you have to figure out the way of playing, you have to be more careful. But the first wave of attack must be fierce enough, and you must completely attract the opponent so that the opponent cannot measure our strength and attract them. Our second wave of attacking the opponent must also have a very high efficiency, otherwise, if we do not cause enough damage, we will have to go in a dilemma."
The staff officer calmly added: "However, attracting the enemy out of the field is more cost-effective than attacking towns and camps?"
Zou Shuangwen thought for a while and said, "Just do it like this. We only have this little man in our hands. It is impossible to annihilate the 300,000 troops, but we cannot turn an annihilation into a defeat. We must be fast and ruthless enough to bite a piece of meat from this guy Gao Senqi. Otherwise, with this guy's temper, it may be wrong, and it will soon be more troublesome."
Everyone knows what Zou Shuangwen meant. Although the Blood Qi Army has opened up the situation and desperately captured Xiangning City and withstood the long-planned army assault of Gaosenqi, it has suffered a lot of losses. In addition, its troops are limited, and it has had to go into a short period of renovation and temporarily lose the ability to expand rapidly. Once Gaosenqi retreats, the Blood Qi Army will definitely not pursue it too deeply. The bigger problem now is to stabilize the occupied territory, meet with the army of the middle road, the north road, and the Zhenning Pass, connect the battlefield and stabilize the situation. What is the result of their attack? It depends on Gaosenqi's decision, which can allow them to fight for as long as they have enough time, no more than three days.
The orders were passed down one by one, and the soldiers were lying in the camp to rest, and the atmosphere was extremely quiet. Zou Shuangwen patrolled the camp with satisfaction, full of expectations for tomorrow's battle. In recent days, their No. 1 army in the world has been tortured. The Blood Qi Army has never been in such a situation. Tomorrow, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!