Steel Dynasty - Chapter 790

[Chapter 789: Under Pingzhou City]

City, Wu Shugu is listening to Best’s suggestion.

The one-hundred-mile journey took only two hours for the cavalry. Not long after the Chongqing army left the city, they received the news from the scouts.

“Now is not the time to harass the Chongqing army. For an army, the longer its supply line, the more dangerous it is. So we have to wait for the Chongqing army to come to Pingzhou City, and use the trenches to consume them here. , while waiting for an opportunity to use the cavalry to cut off their supply lines and trap them in Pingzhou City.”

Best placed a drawing he drew on the table and spoke to Wu Shugu and Bei Shan.

Wu Shu Gu and Bei Shan looked at each other, they really had no good solution now.

The cavalry of Dayu is very precious, and their cavalry is equally precious. No one can bear the responsibility of losing 120,000 cavalry.

And after several failed battles, they became more and more cautious, and they obviously had a greater advantage fighting near Pingzhou City.

Wu Shugu said: “Even so, we can also send a cavalry to test the strength of this army. If there are loopholes in their army, we can take the opportunity to attack.”

Best did not object to Wu Shugu’s words, because A small cavalry raid is also a good idea to slow down their march.

After deciding on the strategy of fighting, Wu Shugu and Bei Shan left, and soon a team of ten thousand people led by Gu Duo set off from Pingzhou City towards the army of Dayu.

At this time, the Chongqing army starting from Shanhaiguan had marched twenty miles.

Here, Lu Fei left 3,000 men to defend and established a supply point with the vehicle formation as a barrier. The twenty-mile road was very close to the cavalry.

In this way, once the barbarian cavalry surrounded this supply point, their cavalry could arrive within an hour for reinforcements.

After building a supply point, Lu Fei led the troops and continued to move forward. According to their march plan, they would arrive at Pingzhou City the next morning, so they did not walk very fast along the way.

During the march, their 1st Huben Division was at the front as the vanguard, the 3rd Huben Division led by Lei Ming was at the end, and Luo Xin’s army was in the middle.

As before, this time the chariots and cavalry also marched on both sides of the army, forming a chariot formation at any time to guard against barbarian cavalry attacks.

Starting from morning to evening, after marching eighty miles, Lu Fei ordered to set up camp, and the hunting cavalry passed news back and forth along the way.

When they were halfway through the journey, a barbarian cavalry team of ten thousand people appeared nearby. After receiving the news, Lu Fei did not stop but continued to move forward.

If it were the army of Dayu State before, he would be very worried that these ten thousand troops would suddenly attack, but now he is not afraid at all.

Because they can form a hollow square formation in the short period of time they launch a charge. This is the advantage brought by the military reform. Each unit can respond quickly when facing the enemy.

However, they seemed to be angered by his arrogant attitude. When they were less than a mile away again, the barbarian cavalry suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Yu army that was marching in a long snake shape.

The hunting cavalry first transmitted the movements of the barbarian cavalry to the marching infantry phalanx through semaphores.

At this time, the infantry phalanx that received the news began to rapidly change from a walking formation, and each company quickly found its position in the hollow phalanx.

The original long snake formation quickly turned into walking hollow square formations. If viewed from above, it looks like the characters “口” with green borders are constantly walking.

When Guduo rushed forward and found that the army of Dayu had completely changed its shape, he immediately turned his horse’s head.

If he continued to charge, it would mean death. After all, he only had 10,000 people, and his main purpose was to harass.

But now it seems that he is basically unable to carry out any harassment, because the military defense of the Chongqing Kingdom is too tight.

With a hint of worry in his eyes, Gu Duo and his cavalry suddenly bypassed the army and headed towards Shanhaiguan.

“General, that is the stronghold we established.” A cavalry division commander said urgently.

Lu Fei said: “Don’t worry, 10,000 people can’t break through the fortress composed of chariots. Keep moving forward. The real war has not yet begun.” The

march was delayed by the barbarian cavalry, and Lu Fei was twenty miles away from Pingzhou City. Settled down outside.

They continued their march the next day and arrived at Pingzhou City in the morning. At this time, he finally got to see the whole of Pingzhou City.

The army gathered one after another, Lei Ming, and Luo Xin also arrived in front of the formation. They observed Pingzhou City through telescopes.

At the same time, soldiers began to set up camp here, because the outcome of this war could not be decided in a few days.

Pingzhou City.

Best was observing the Chongqing army outside the city. At this moment, he was holding a monocular in his hand, but his face was getting more and more ugly.

“Damn it, when will the natives of Asia have such sophisticated equipment?” Best cursed: “This is already comparable to the European army.” Beishan heard this and

said: “In just six years, this The emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom named Xiao Ming had such an army.

“Six years, this is simply incredible.” Best put down the monocular.

Here, he saw flintlock muskets, field artillery, and even hot-air balloons taking off. This kind of scene can only be seen in Europe.

“Pray to God to bless us.” Best’s throat was a little dry. If this war was a large-scale battle in Europe, he could think of the cruelty of the war.

Beishan frowned. Although he didn’t understand what Best meant by God, he understood that it was definitely not a kind word.

When the Chongqing army was setting up camp, the artillery on the Pingzhou city wall also began to prepare, and the slave soldiers entered the trenches with weapons, ready for war at any time.

On the other side, the three of Lu Fei looked at the 200-meter-long trench with a frown. Field artillery posed no threat to the soldiers in these trenches. Only mortar cannons could kill the enemies in the trench.

But based on the standard of mortars, it would be lucky if one out of ten shells fell into the trench.

“Fortunately, the recruits recruited this time don’t have enough muskets, otherwise we would be in trouble this time.” Lu Fei looked at the recruits who were setting up camp.

These recruits wore plate armor and held swords in their hands.

Because the military workshops could not produce 90,000 muskets in such a short period of time, in fact, 40,000 of the new recruits who rushed to the battlefield were still wearing obsolete plate armor.

They were still surprised when these strange new recruits entered the city, but now they finally understand the genius of the Military Aircraft Department.

It turns out that these new soldiers have their own uses in dealing with the cold weapon troops of the barbarians.

“Let the new soldiers wearing plate armor fight for the trench.” Lu Fei pointed at Pingzhou. Once the trench is captured, the city of Pingzhou will be finished.

(End of chapter)