NovelsAlex Chapter 2636 Four battles begin
Chapter 2636 Four battles begin
Chapter 2636: Battle Together
Wen Rensheng quickly loaded another flintlock rifle.
The flintlock rifle he used was a hand-made smoothbore rifle with a range of more than 200 meters and could ensure accuracy within 80 meters.
Of course, this is only suitable for him. For others, the accuracy can only be maintained within 20 meters at most.
In fact, if there are a large number of smoothbore rifles, they can kill people from more than 100 meters away.
It just requires a lot of them.
If it's a single gun, there's basically no accuracy.
Wen Rensheng was shot again while running.
This is much more difficult than archery while riding.
So the shot killed another person.
That man almost ran around the horse before he died.
But at this moment, he fell down, with one hand still holding the reins.
He should feel lucky that at least his body was intact.
If there are a lot of people, Wen Rensheng will just throw out a homemade grenade.
He could easily throw it more than 180 meters away and directly blow down five people, including their horses.
But he didn't plan to do that.
After all, doing so would result in a huge loss of spoils.
It’s good like now.
None of the remaining horses got away.
Five men and five similar horses.
In this round, Wen Rensheng and others naturally gained a lot.
If these five horses were transported back to the Northern Song Dynasty, they would be worth at least 200 strings of cash.
Unfortunately, I am not lucky.
At this time, the other two felt very sorry.
"We've tried so hard, but it's a pity that these horses are hard to sell, and we can't keep them in the mountains."
"Yes, this horse is Song Chao's favorite."
The three men then cleaned up the battlefield and began to lead the horses.
In the end, one horse was still frightened.
After all, the two novices had never taken care of horses, unlike Wen Rensheng, who was proficient in everything.
When the horse was running, it accidentally fell into a pit and broke one of its legs.
"It's over. I saw someone on the forum saying that because the horse sleeps standing up and is too heavy, it's not used to lying down. If a leg is broken, it's the end of it." The novice girl said regretfully.
Wen Rensheng smiled and said, "That's not the case. As long as it is given some treatment, a three-legged horse can still live and walk."
"That's right. I've seen a three-legged horse being used to pull bricks with my own eyes." The novice man agreed.
"Yes, even if a horse is injured, it still wants to live. The one you said was killed because of a broken leg is a racehorse."
"If a leg is broken, even if it is treated well, the horse will not be able to achieve the same results as before. Treatment is a waste. Some people, in order to feel at ease and not to bear the reputation of being ruthless, make up the saying that horses with broken legs must be killed, and say that the horse is suffering." Wen Rensheng laughed.
Then they took the horse with a broken leg out of the trap.
Sure enough, it could still walk on three legs, with its injured leg bent and half hanging in the air.
Keep going like this.
Because of the horse, they did not go deep into the mountains, but took a temporary rest at a rest point not far from the entrance of the mountain.
After returning to the resting point, Wen Rensheng hung up the injured horse.
He then treated the injured horse himself.
The other two didn't understand why Wen Rensheng did this.
"Isn't this a waste of time?"
Wen Rensheng shook his head and said, "We are doing this for ourselves."
"Let's see if some of the herbs we find locally are any good."
"This is a great opportunity. Wound medicine is very important in combat."
"Many herbal barks have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. You should take this opportunity to learn which ones are useful."
Hearing this, the novice men and women did not object.
They also saw that this main god world was a long-term flow.
Unlike the main god in my impression, the mission will be completed in a few months at most, or often even a week.
And it would take several years to master this skill.
These basic common sense are very important.
Medicines that are useful for horse injuries are basically also useful for humans.
After hearing this, they finally understood why Wen Rensheng had gone through so much trouble to bring this horse.
It’s actually just doing experiments.
Of course they don't know that this is only a small part of the reason.
There are deeper reasons, too.
That is, Wen Rensheng wanted to test the secrets hidden by this Lord God.
Another thing was that he had previously formed Xiao Huan into a golden finger spirit and threw it in.
Not found yet.
But he knew Xiao Huan's characteristics, he loved to play.
He planned to train this three-legged horse and make it into a circus star.
Of course, this is just an experiment now. Whether it will work or not depends on what happens later.
Then Wen Rensheng began to train the IQ of these five horses and then began to cultivate them.
Try to make them versatile.
From dancing, jumping through fire hoops, to beating the drums...
In short, the two novice men and women made them all dumbfounded.
"Aren't we going to continue to kill those Jin soldiers?"
Wen Rensheng said casually: "The Jin soldiers need to be killed, and the horse needs to be trained. I have my own arrangements."
"You will know then."
Although the two didn't know why Wen Rensheng said that, they still believed in Wen Rensheng in their hearts.
The more they looked, the more confused they became, but they still listened to Wen Rensheng's words.
After all, everything Wen Rensheng had done before proved that he was right.
Even if you don't understand it, you still have to execute it.
I have to say that these two people have come a long way.
I am not afraid of people being stupid, but I am afraid of people who are too smart and don't listen to others. That is courting death.
Later, they learned a lot of circus under Wen Rensheng's training.
This made them speculate.
"It looks like they want us to dress up as a circus and perform a high-level assassination."
"Yes, killing small soldiers is inefficient and dangerous. It's better to go big and kill high-ranking Jin soldiers and generals."
With this idea in mind, novice men and women will be more motivated.
Just when they were busy, they suddenly received a message.
A great war is about to break out between the Jin soldiers and the Liao people.
The Liao emperor and his clan ministers were all very concerned about this war.
And many powerful people no longer have the confidence they had when the war started.
After several battles in the field, the Liao people were thrown into panic.
If they fail again this time, they will have to prepare to move the capital from the North Courtyard to the South Courtyard.
The Liao Dynasty was a dualistic system, with the Northern Court ruling nomadic people and the Southern Court ruling agricultural people.
After the second team of main gods arrived here, they also made gunpowder.
They also knew that if they wanted to make a comeback, they had to use gunpowder.
After all, the Liao Kingdom still had many big cities.
Wherever there are cities, there are handicrafts.
The production of gunpowder by hand is more efficient.
Most of the Jin people were still a group of relatively primitive barbarians who survived on a mixture of fishing, hunting and nomadic life.
The combat capability is high, but the knowledge on technical work is not much.
They didn't know anything about gunpowder.
And it will be the same in a few hundred years.
So the second team used the previous period of time to also produce granular gunpowder with enhanced power, an upgraded version of black gunpowder with an improved formula, granularization, and greater safety.
They wasted no time in making guns and cannons.
Instead, focus on making Iron Grenade.
Or clay grenades.
To be honest, their current situation is much better than during the most difficult war years.
After all, they had no worries about the supply of iron ore and gunpowder.
And there are still many blacksmiths and craftsmen.
At this time, the Liao Dynasty was on the brink of collapse.
Historically, starting from 1114, the last emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Emperor Tianzuo, discovered the threat posed by Wanyan Aguda and began to suppress him.
However, the enemy fought back all the way, and only ten years later, in 1125, the huge Liao Kingdom was completely destroyed...
The second team was in a situation where the Liao Kingdom was being defeated repeatedly.
But now there is still some logistical support.
Now that the news has come, facing the eagerness of the novice men and women, Wen Rensheng also said: "Well, let's go and see the battle scene."
"It also lays the foundation for how you command large-scale operations."
In fact, he was thinking of such a grand scene, and Xiao Huan might be very interested in it.
In order to prevent scaring away the main god, Wen Rensheng did not use the mysterious seed to search for Xiao Huan's existence.
And the two nodded, they were very happy.
Soon they were ready to watch the great battle between Liao and Jin.
On the surface, it was the Liao people who sent troops to suppress the Jin people.
In fact, the Liao Dynasty was already extremely fragile.
And the five horses have been raised.
They took exactly three horses, and took two others with them, including the wounded one.
The leg injury has basically no impact.
But it is still not suitable for riding and can only be used for light work.
For example, carrying simple luggage.
They inquired for information and finally arrived at a plain area in the north.
At this time, they saw from afar that the two armies were confronting each other.
They looked like they had been at each other's throat for a long time.
It took more than a month for news to reach us again through the second team.
The Liao army was now in a passive position and had failed in several small-scale battles.
They had to set up camp on the road to block the advance of the Jin soldiers.
The Jin soldiers were not in a hurry either.
They have already sent people to contact the Song people, and they are waiting for the Song army to launch an attack from the south and then attract the attention of the Liao people.
At this time, they didn't know that it was the corruption of the Song army, and they still thought that the Song army was quite capable of fighting.
After all, it was one country against two, and they thought the Song army was very powerful.
They didn't know that even the remnants of the Liao army could defeat the Song army's imperial guards.
Only the border troops in the Song army fought relatively well and could achieve half of their combat effectiveness.
If you want to defend a city, you can do it, but not in a field battle.
This was a joint war in which the Song army wanted to show its face but ended up exposing its butt.
When Wen Rensheng and his companions arrived here, they began to watch the confrontation between the two sides.
They noticed that the two sides were going back and forth, and the logistics road was full of people delivering food, fodder, and medicinal herbs.
Of course, medicinal materials can only be provided to a small number of people.
The main things are food, arrows, swords, spears, and repaired armor.
A large number of swords, guns and armor will be lost in one battle.
Reality is not a game, even in games there is weapon durability.
After seeing these logistics, the novice men and women realized how boring real war is.
Most of the time is spent on maintaining the existence of the team.
The actual combat only lasts one or two days.
The novice man sighed: "No wonder the Liao Kingdom was destroyed so quickly."
"Once they lose the main cities and important places, their logistics will not be able to keep up, and the enemy can replenish their resources through plundering, so they will naturally be defeated."
"Yes, when they really fight each other, just a few hours of fighting may decide the fate of tens of millions of people in the future." The novice girl also sighed.
War is not just about killing people, it is actually about fighting organization.
Whoever's organization fails first and loses the ability to coordinate will fail first.
The strength of the Jin soldiers at this time lies in their ability to give and take.
At this time, the two people only knew it in theory, but had not actually experienced it and had no real feelings.
But they will soon find out.
They only know this in words now.
It's impossible to describe it in movies and TV shows.
Because the cost is too high.
So I can only briefly describe the logistical aspects.
For example, cutting off the food supply and defeating the enemy's follow-up support.
Because logistical battles are so dull and tedious, it would be too dry to describe them.
The battle scenes between the two sides are more interesting, so the movie can only focus on shooting the battle scenes.
In fact, the battle scenes are also very fake.
Few directors can film realistic battle scenes.
In actual wars, the actual fighting time is very short.
It often involves an advance, a confrontation, and takes a long time.
The Jin army waited for a few more days, but received no news from the Song army.
Then they received news that the Song army had encountered heavy rain and it was no longer possible to launch an attack in the south.
"Hahaha, the Song army is just a bunch of rabble, nothing more than that."
"We had set a time to attack each other, but we couldn't do it."
When the Jin army generals heard the news, instead of being disappointed, they began to despise the Song people.
You must know that the Jin soldiers have strict military discipline. If you fail to do the designated tasks, you will be beheaded.
Unless you suffer a serious blow or have a serious reason, you may be able to escape death.
But the people of Song Dynasty were so lame.
Even after being given so much time, we still can’t launch an attack.
Or maybe it could be said that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between two tigers.
However, if someone is not a tiger himself and sits on the mountain to watch tigers fight, then he is waiting to die.
Then the Jin people decided to launch an attack immediately.
They chose to send out a part of light cavalry to attack the Liao people's food routes by taking a detour.
The Liao people also sent troops to protect their food supply.
Then the novice men and women saw the problem.
This is where the problem arises.
The Liao soldiers had low combat effectiveness and weak field combat capabilities.
So they could not protect their own food supply.
As a result, food was scarce on the front line.
They had no choice but to retreat early and choose to retreat to a city for defense.
In this way, you can get food nearby.
This is what often happens in the match between Jin and Liao.
Unable to win the field battle, they had to retreat, and as they retreated, they left the fields and villages to the Jin army.
The Jin people plundered and replenished their logistics.
Their retreat gave the Jin army the opportunity to attack.
Just as they began to retreat, the Jin army immediately seized the opportunity, sending cavalry to charge straight ahead and infantry to outflank them from both wings.
This is the ferocity of the Jin people.
Strong offensiveness and high initiative.
Because the distribution is relatively fair, the spoils can be given to the warriors, and the warriors can also get promotions for their meritorious service.
There are fewer cases of people stealing credit for other people's work.
Logically, the infantry should charge straight ahead, while the cavalry should guard from both flanks.
But the Jin army had relatively more cavalry, so they did just that.
The Liao people were actually able to hold out for a while at the beginning.
But as they were outflanked on both wings, they soon could not hold on.
They were afraid of being surrounded and that their friendly forces would escape first.
In fact, it was the right wing that escaped first.
This then led to a major defeat for the Liao people.
This is like many major wars.
It's all about some people getting scared and running away, which then leads to a total collapse.
The Jin people pursued and killed them almost one-sidedly.
After seeing this, the novice man and the novice woman were shocked.
The reason they could see so clearly was that they were on a nearby hill, using a telescope that Wen Rensheng had polished himself.
It is three kilometers away from the battlefield.
They had been looking at a huge force, with both sides having tens of thousands of troops, and they had just been in a standoff.
However, the winner was decided in less than half an hour.
The Liao army ran around everywhere, and the Jin army chased them directly.
"Damn it, why don't they just keep going?" the new guy said angrily.
In fact, in his opinion, the Liao people are still capable of fighting.
The equipment is not bad either, in fact much better.
"If you don't have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear, and your military pay is withheld, you will think of slacking off to save your life when you arrive on the battlefield." Wen Rensheng shook his head.
"If one person thinks this way, two people think this way, and more than one-third of the people think this way, the war will be lost."
"The Jin people are on the rise, and as long as they win, they can share the spoils fairly. They will naturally be motivated."
After hearing this, the novice man no longer had any questions.