[Chapter 424] Kill Xu Xingxia and upgraded to three levels in a row!

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【Today's second update is delivered!】

Before the war broke out, it was always particularly quiet. There was almost no sound around the White Tiger Scenery. The birds in the sky disappeared, and the reptiles on the ground disappeared. Even the sound of the wind disappeared. In the past, the wind blew across the lake and caused layers of ripples. Now, the lake surface was as smooth as a mirror, and there was no ripples. There was no sound in the sky and the earth, so silence allowed everyone to clearly hear their heartbeat.

In the White Tiger Ze, it is said that there is a white tiger bathing here, and the pit left behind it turns into a lake. After that, fairies continue to descend from the sky and take a bath in the lake. For many grassland people, this is a very touching legend. However, at this time, what everyone thinks of is not the beautiful and moving legend of the White Tiger Ze, nor the admirable fairy, but about the ferocity of the tiger. No matter which side of the confrontation, they hope that they are like a tiger going down the mountain, pounce on them all at once and eat them completely.

In fact, in the battle of the cold weapon era, you can indeed rush up directly and fight with the opponent without any formation. You just need to rush forward and kill all the enemies you encounter. At that time, there was no cooperation from many troops, at most, there were swords, guns, swords and halberds in front, archers in the back, etc. If there were crossbows, the crossbows would be arranged to shoot first to shock the enemy.

However, in the age of firearms, this was changed. The emergence of firearms brought more troops and more combat methods. Musketeers and cannons were all new. Their appearance caused great changes in the composition of the army. There were also huge changes in the recruitment of troops and personnel structure. In the end, it was the country's national defense power that underwent fundamental changes.

In the past, it might take three years to train an archer. When recruiting soldiers, you must also choose those with good physical fitness, slandering, etc., and you cannot even get ones that are not strong enough. Otherwise, even if you go to the battlefield, it will be a death. Now, it only takes three months to train a musketeer. Moreover, in recruiting soldiers, as long as you can afford musketeers and do not have major diseases, you are a qualified candidate.

The emergence of cannons made the battle more bloody and more dangerous. In the past, the Song Dynasty's divine arm bows, crossbow chariots, and the Hui cannons of the Mongolian and Yuan army were all powerful weapons. However, these weapons could no longer be on the surface in front of cannons. Whether in terms of range, power, or operability, or practicality, cannons completely surpass other various weapons. With the development of the times, the role of cannons has become more and more important. Many combat methods revolve around cannons.

Starting from the time of Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, the mainstream combat method was to concentrate artillery first to attack, explode a bloody road, open a breakthrough, and then the main cavalry rushed forward, breaking the enemy's formation, disrupting the enemy's deployment, and even dividing and surrounding the enemy. Then the brigade of infantry followed, expanding the results to the two wings, and finally achieving a battle victory. Two hundred years later, Napoleon took this method to the extreme.

The tactics of the nomadic people are actually similar. Since there are no cannons, they will use bows and arrows to shoot continuously, causing huge casualties to the enemy until a gap is opened, and then a large number of cavalry rushes up, expanding the gap, disrupting the enemy's deployment, and at the same time dividing and surrounding the enemy, and finally completely defeating the enemy. Genghis Khan's western expedition used this tactic to continuously defeat the enemy's heavy cavalry. Otherwise, with the strength of the *** archer, it is impossible to confront the heavy cavalry of Western countries.

It can be seen that the key to both tactics is to open the breakthrough. As long as you open the breakthrough, you can divide and surround the enemy, put the enemy into a state of chaos, make the enemy lose organized resistance, and make the enemy have no ability to counterattack. If the breakthrough cannot be opened, the two sides will fall into a long confrontation. This confrontation is absolutely painful. Apart from constantly consuming both sides' manpower, material resources and financial resources, there is no other effect.

Therefore, for a wise commander, when deploying troops, the first thing to consider is how to avoid being broken through by the enemy, how to avoid being broken into and being broken into and surrounded by the enemy. If an enemy really breaks in, how to annihilate them or expel them. This makes the arrangement of the military camp very complicated. Xu Xingxia believes that he doesn't understand this. However, he has an expert to assist.

This expert is Lin Shenhe, the former general of Ningxia Town. Lin Shenhe has been a military household in Ningxia Town since childhood. Like Xu Xingxia's background, he is a kind of muddy person in the foot. He is diligent and studious, good at summarizing experience, and has made great contributions to the position of general in charge. It can be said that his combat experience is quite rich. He also has a full understanding of all the details of the army. For example, setting up camps and other things, he is very familiar with them.

With his assistance, Xu Xingxia could let go and do something else. He had sufficient reason to rest assured that even if Lin Shenhe was bad, it was not so bad that he would betray him to the *** people. Xu Xingxia went around the inside of the military camp and came out of the door. At this time, the *** people were still gathering in the distance and had no plans to launch an attack. It is estimated that Lin Danhan's intention was to wait until all the troops were assembled before launching an attack in one breath.

The camp led by the White Army is very close to the White Tiger Sect. This is to facilitate water withdrawal. Not all places have water sources on the grassland. In fact, each cavalry will carry a large water bag to store clean water. If there is a water source near the battlefield, it must be controlled tightly. Otherwise, if the water source is lost, the consequences will be very serious. People can control a certain amount of water, but war horses cannot. The drinking water consumed by war horses every day is thirty times that of humans. If they do not drink enough, they cannot go to the battlefield at all.

Similarly, in terms of cavalry, they also controlled the north of the White Tiger Ze. The people had more war horses and needed to consume more drinking water every day. If there was no lake to support it, it would be very dangerous. Lin Danhan also knew this very well. No one knew when the battle with the White Army would last!

"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"

In front of the white-clothed army's barracks, someone was urging loudly.

Xu Xingxia himself was also standing near the military camp and carefully looked at the movements of the people in front of him.

Over there, the engineers of the White-Clothed Army were burying horse-stopping piles. Due to the tight time and heavy tasks, the soldiers of the Engineering Battalion were busy. If it weren't for their military uniforms, they would have thought this was a construction site in the Heishan Camp. Originally, the side van was the best obstacle to dealing with the cavalry. However, the movement speed of the side van was too slow, so Xu Xingxia did not carry it this time. However, facing the fierce cavalry of the nomadic people, the White-Clothed Army had to set up certain obstacles. If there were no obstacles, it would be too dangerous to let the *** cavalry rushed up directly.

After everyone's brainstorming, the problem was finally solved effectively. These inclined wooden stakes are masterpieces of the Engineer's Battalion. They are actually dry wooden stakes, with one end being sharpened. Each stake is about five inches in diameter and about one twelve feet in length. When used, one-third of the wooden stakes are buried in the soil, and the remaining two-thirds are tilted forward obliquely. The height of the pointed tip of the wooden stake is exactly at the horse's belly.

It is conceivable that if there is a war horse racing at a high speed and hits a pointed wooden stake, it will have the consequences. The tilted wooden stake can effectively block the impact of the war horses and easily stab them to death. If someone falls down and hangs it on the wooden stake, the final result will definitely be a death. The stabbed person or the corpse of the war horse can form an effective obstacle to prevent the cavalry from continuing to attack.

To be honest, in the early stages of firearms, the cavalry could still win the battle against musketeers, or even to the opponent. A simple musketeer could not block the impact of the cavalry, even if the musketeer was bayonet. A certain number of spearmen must be equipped with a certain number of spearmen and use spears to block the cavalry's assault. The white-clothed army does not have spearmen, and these pointed wooden stakes play the role of spearmen. Of course, they are not as flexible as spearmen. However, the cost of wooden stakes is low! Using horse-turned stakes can save a lot of manpower.

The weight of a dry wooden stake is about fifty or sixty kilograms, and an ordinary war horse can bear about five camels. A stronger one can bear six camels. There are 500 war horses in the engineering battalion, and 2,500 camels. If the number of war horses in the engineering battalion continues to increase, there will be more horse stakes that can carry. Thousands of horses are equivalent to spearmen of thousands of people. Cooperating with the musketeers of thousands of people, they can basically block the attack of the cavalry.

Of course, in terms of absolute number, such a number is not enough. There are so many cavalrymen, and 2,500 horse-stolen stakes cannot completely stop their attack. However, just by staggering these wooden stakes, they can effectively block their attack speed. What Xu Xingxia needs is to reduce the enemy's charge speed and gain more time for musketeers and trespassers. The slower the attack speed of the *** people, the greater the casualties they will suffer.

It should be noted that the cavalry's running speed is very fast. Just like a speeding car, it also requires a minimum turning radius when turning. A general war horse needs at least ten feet to completely turn. Therefore, you only need to stagger the straight position of the wooden stake at a distance of five feet in front and back to effectively block the cavalry's assault. If the *** man is within five feet and cannot turn effectively, he will hit the wooden stake.

In fact, the best way to deal with cavalry is the cavalry itself. Any other military branch has inherent shortcomings when dealing with cavalry. Only cavalry itself is the nemesis of cavalry. The main force of the Yue family army is cavalry. When the Ming army rose, the main force was also cavalry. Famous generals such as Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, and Fu Youde were all masters who used cavalry. If Xu Xingxia had 30,000 cavalry, he would definitely fight against the *** people. Unfortunately, he did not have 30,000 people. There was no way, so he had to defend for the time being.

"Sir, the horse-stopping piles have been arranged." The commander of the engineering battalion came up to report.

"Okay! You're doing a good job!" Xu Xingxia's heart fell to the ground, and she subconsciously looked at the tent of the *** tent in the distance. There were constant sounds of horse hooves coming from over there, probably still being assembled. In fact, the white-clothed cavalry were also constantly assembled. The white-clothed army scattered soldiers around the White-clothed army were all concentrating in the direction of the White-clothed army.

As long as the horse-reversing pile is placed, Xu Xingxia will not be afraid of Lin Danhan going crazy. On the contrary, the more crazy Lin Danhan goes, the happier he will be. The cooperation of the catapult, musket, and horse-reversing pile will cause the *** cavalry to bleed a lot and suffer a lot of casualties. It is estimated that in the next few days, the water of the White Tiger Ze may turn red!

"Liu Chuang, notify others and reserve more water!" Xu Xingxia said.

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At this moment, there was a slaughtering atmosphere in Lin Danhan's Golden Khan's tent. The golden sword passed down from the Genghis Khan's era was hanging in the most conspicuous position behind Lin Danhan, and everyone could see it at first sight. All the nobles above thousands of commanders gathered around Lin Danhan, waiting for the order to launch an attack.

In the official position of the *** people, there is also the existence of the ten thousand men. However, this position will generally be replaced by other positions. Because those who can sit on the throne of the ten thousand men are very amazing. It seems that Gui Yingcha himself is the ten thousand men. However, he has other positions. Most people call him other positions, and they will not call him the ten thousand men.

After the efforts of the scouts, the basic situation of the troops on both sides was basically clear. The total strength of the White-Clothed Army was about 10,000 people. On the side of the **** people, there were about 24,000 people. When they set out from Guihua City, there were 30,000 people, and they were constantly entangled with the White-Clothed Army on the road. As a result, more than 5,000 people were lost without realizing it. This is indeed a relatively powerful number. What's more, this number also contains a considerable number of iron-splitting cavalry. Fortunately, Lin Danhan had ordered the continued dispatch of troops from Guihua City, and I believe that reinforcements would arrive soon.

"At the centurion, kill Xu Xingxia and get promoted to third level!"

"A thousand men below the commander killed Xu Xingxia and promoted two levels!"

"After the commander of ten thousand men, kill Xu Xingxia and upgrade to another level!"

In order to defeat Xu Xingxia, Lin Danhan was not stingy with his reward. He waved his hands and sent huge temptations to each subordinate. Sure enough, each tempting reward made the officers at all levels below so excited that they screamed. They couldn't wait to launch an attack. Only the fierce general Tai Chiwu was a little hesitant.
Chapter completed!