Chapter 1092 Meeting Hunting
On the tenth day of August, as soon as the wake-up horn sounded, Kang Luo quickly turned over and began to pack blankets and dress. This is a change developed through two months of intensive training. At the beginning of training, the drums to get up sounded for a long time, and they didn't care.
Then the captain of the Tang Dynasty showed them what it means to be powerful. A ladle of cold water was poured directly on the head.
After doing this several times, all the Qiang soldiers rose up upon hearing the sound, not daring to delay for a moment, and gradually became a habit.
After packing up quickly, they lined up to have breakfast. Every day, five people were assigned to cook in the team. They had to get up very early to carry water, chop firewood, light a fire and cook, and everyone took turns to be on duty. The breakfast is also very simple, mutton soup or yak meat soup, served with barley tsampa, less meat and more soup, the conditions in the army are just like this, after all, so many people gather here, the daily consumption is also huge, and it can last until now, Also, all the ministries brought a lot of cattle and sheep when they came, but they were still eating.
When Kang Luo used to run the transport team in the mine, he was used to eating fast, but here, after two months of training, he ate faster. I poured it all into my mouth, and then simply cleaned up the tableware.
Although today's yak meat soup is full of water and there are not many pieces of meat, it finally fills up the stomach that has been hungry all night.
The team leader of the same clan of the Sangli tribe came to pass an order, saying that they were assigned the task of digging trenches today, but everyone did not have tools such as hoes and shovels for digging. The team leader said that everyone should find a way.
Just when Kang Luo was in great difficulty to think of a solution, the team leader came again and said that the order had been changed and they were asked to pack up their things immediately and prepare to go.
"Where to?"
"Forty miles east."
"Why go east?"
The leader of the team was a man in his fifties. His son was supposed to come, but he came instead of his son and let his son stay with his newly married wife. According to his clan's seniority, the head of the team with a sad face was Kang Luo's grandfather. He was carrying a long gun, "I heard that Qin Taiwei sent some generals to our camp and gave us an order. I have issued a new order, and I am not satisfied with the original battle plan. So now let's rush to the east to rearrange!"
"Why?"
Kang Luo looked around. This is the first bend of the Yellow River, with mountains on one side and river on the other. The terrain is narrow, which is suitable for blocking roads.
"The new general said that this place is too narrow, we can't line up 100,000 people, and we won't be able to play well in a fight, so we moved forty miles eastward, where the terrain is flat and open, at least ten miles wide, exactly ten miles wide. Thousands of people lined up."
Kang Luo was puzzled. It wasn't that the narrower the terrain, the easier it was to defend. Why did he have to defend in a wider place.
The leader of the team didn't understand, but he is a man who obeys orders very much. He was chosen as the leader of the team first because he was the oldest and most senior soldier in the Sangwa army, and secondly because he was originally Be more honest and obedient.
In fact, the leader of the team is an expert in shearing sheep and slaughtering cattle in the tribe, but he is not so good in riding, shooting and hunting.
It doesn’t matter if the leader of the team doesn’t understand, we just do what the above says.
The pioneering horn sounded, so everyone quickly packed up the tents in the team, packed their own blankets and equipment, took their own mounts, and began to gather and set off.
Not far away, on a hilly hillside, in the tent of the Chinese army of the Qiang allied forces, a large group of Qiang generals, including Tuoba Chici, Xifengbulai, Balibuli, Biecongwoshi, etc. Liu Lancheng, who came here, was puzzled by the Qin Taiwei's military orders, especially the tactic of moving 40 miles eastward to re-arrange the formation was still made by the Taiwei himself.
"Why?"
Facing the questioning by the oldest Tuoba Chici, General Zuo Lingjun, Governor of Fuzhou, and envoy of Jingbian Army Liu Lancheng smiled and said, "Giving the country a surname, the Taiwei has made great achievements in battle, and he is the God of War in the Tang Dynasty. Are you right?" Is there any doubt about his strategic plan?"
"I don't dare to doubt, I'm just wondering. We have to let us understand before we can cooperate." Tuoba Chici, who was given the name Li Sigong, dared not say this to Qin Lang face to face, but when facing Liu Lancheng, he still had to put on airs, Besides, he really didn't understand that if he didn't keep guard here, he had to run forty miles east to guard it.
"Because it is open and flat, the terrain is suitable for large armies to fight. Our current position is only two or three miles wide. It is too narrow. Let alone 300,000 horses, it is 30,000 to 50,000 horses. , is also too narrow, such a terrain, there is no room for a few soldiers, and then thousands of people in the front will fight, and tens of thousands of people behind will watch the show?"
And forty miles to the east, it is about ten miles wide.
In fact, this width is still too narrow for the upcoming battle of 300,000 people, not to mention that there are 80,000 Tang troops coming. This will be a super big battle with as many as 400,000 people. The Baili Great Plain is not too big.
For Qin Lang, if one hundred thousand Qiang soldiers were congested in a river mouth two or three miles wide, there would be no room for manipulation at all, and it would just be hacking.
And Qin Lang thought that to use 100,000 Qiang soldiers to block 200,000 Tubo soldiers, it would not work just to block them like this, and it must be operated and dispatched.
It is necessary to set up legion battle formations on the battlefield, and there must be space between the army formations to facilitate maneuvering, and we cannot blindly seek deep space.
The deployment of super large depth space is actually more suitable for the offensive side, so that they can ensure greater offensive impact and continuous ability in the follow-up.
Especially for the Shiwan Qiang tribe, they are mostly cavalry with horses, and they need space to maneuver. Otherwise, they are not even as good as light infantry.
Before Liu Lancheng and the others arrived, although Tuoba Chici and the others had followed the orders of the soldiers sent by Qin Lang before, they organized 100,000 horses into ten legions, and each legion had 10,000 horses, divided into three groups from the left, middle and right. Ministry, each with three thousand-man battalions.
But in terms of blocking deployment, there is really no decent plan. They just plan to crowd the river mouth and block it layer by layer.
They even planned to abandon their horses and fight on foot, dig trenches, and tree fences to fight positional warfare.
But for Liu Lancheng and the others who have fought battles for most of their lives, especially for the outstanding generals who have fought too many big army battles, this kind of deployment is simply too fucked.
Wars are not tribal gang fights, you must have layers and tactics.
In a big battle with hundreds of thousands of people, you can't just let a few thousand people fight it. If tens of thousands of people watch it, you have to use all your soldiers.
"Let me explain the Taiwei's tactical deployment."
Liu Lancheng looked at the bewildered eyes of the leaders of the Qiang tribe, and knew that if they didn't speak clearly, they would probably be even more confused when they waited for the decisive battle.
He took a pair of big sheepskin maps, on which the topography of the river bend in front of him was drawn.
"We face the Tubo army with our backs west and east. The mountains are on the left, the Baihe River is on the right, and the Yellow River is behind. The battlefield chosen by the Taiwei is about ten miles wide. We have 100,000 Qiang cavalry here. Still too narrow."
"The Tibetans are superior in numbers, twice as many as us, but our 100,000 Qiang cavalry are all young and strong, there are no women, children, old or weak, and there are 80,000 Tang elites coming to the east for reinforcements, so we are not afraid of the Tibetans. "
He took out a handful of beef jerky and began to lay out on the map.
"The deployment of the Taiwei is like this. Of our 100,000 horses, we will first take out 60,000 horses and arrange them in a crescent shape, with the middle sticking out to face the Tubo army."
The 60,000 men were divided into three fronts, each line was 20,000 men, and each line had two legions. In addition to the general's 1,000-man army, each legion had nine thousand-man battalions, eighteen thousand-man battalions plus two chief generals. The 1,000-man battalion of the Chinese Army was further divided into three layers of deep military formations.
Liu Lancheng moved the beef jerky around on the map, but it was straightforward and clear at a glance, and Tuoba and others also understood it.
Qin Lang wanted to arrange the 60,000 people into three large depths, and each army formation had three small depths. In fact, there were nine depths in total, and one depth was about 6,000 people.
Basic army formation with a team of 100 people, that is, a line of defense is 60 teams, and 60 teams guard the width of ten miles, except the two wings are reserved for other troops, then they are ten teams guarding a width of one mile.
When each team fights, it has to be divided into five to seven rows. The horizontal row can have at most ten or so soldiers, and one team can defend dozens of steps wide. The battlefield is full.
Leave a width of about two miles on each of the two wings to accommodate the remaining 40,000 horses.
Compared to the party members' own arrangements before, where 100,000 people crowded into a narrow space two or three miles wide, the deployment here is immediately much smarter.
60,000 troops defending the six-mile-wide battlefield, but there are nine front and rear military formations deployed in depth, and one is broken and another is broken. If the Tubo people want to penetrate the defense, they have to tear apart the entire nine defensive formations.
"Choose 40,000 of the most elite of our 100,000 Qiang soldiers, gather those who are best at cavalry and archery on the two wings, each with 20,000 elite cavalry, and the 60,000 in the middle will all abandon their horses and form infantry with spears and bows. Gun array defense."
"Dismount and fight?"
"That's right, the 60,000 weaker Qiang soldiers dismounted and fought on foot, guarding the center, and they were arranged in a crescent formation to charge towards the enemy. The Taiwei meant that 20,000 of the 60,000 strong soldiers should be selected. Warriors who dare to fight gather their armors, shields, and long spears and deploy them on both sides of the front row, then place the weakest 20,000 soldiers in the middle, and then use 20,000 horses to gather bows, crossbows and Udo, and deploy them in the front row. Last."
The 60,000 people are not only divided into three major formations and nine deep formations, but also not simply placed there, but the weakest are located directly in front, the most elite are located on both sides of the front, and those who are good at shooting are located at the back.
Such a deployment surprised the Qiang people again.
"What's the reason for this? Isn't it a crescent formation? Since it is a crescent formation that protrudes towards the enemy, then the most protruding part in the middle should be the most elite and brave in the whole army. Why? Putting the weakest troops instead, isn’t this sending them up to be defeated? If they are directly defeated by the Tubo army, will it cause the entire army to be defeated? Will the entire army be implicated?”
"Haven't you figured out where the most powerful killing move of Taiwei's tactic is?"
Xifeng Bulai stared at the pieces of jerky yak meat and looked left and right, but he didn't think where the ultimate move of this formation was. It's too dry, and the piece is a little moldy...
"The 40,000 strongest cavalry of the whole army are concentrated on the two wings, and then the 20,000 strongest of the Chinese army are deployed on the two sides of the Chinese army, but the weakest 20,000 are deployed in the middle, and they must stand out to face the enemy. No matter how you look at it, why do you feel that something is wrong, won't this Tubo be broken in a single charge?"
(end of this chapter)