Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

In the south of Haozhou City, dust was flying for several miles.

"Hey! Hey..." Not far away, there were two big men in bunts carrying a thick|strong wooden hammer, tamping the earth rhythmically while shouting. The burly man carrying the burden walked quickly with bare feet, gritting his teeth and wiping his sweat with a dirty cloth wrapped around his neck.

With the tent open, the Haozhou city tower looms in the distance filled with yellow dust. Guo Shao is standing in front of a wooden frame, drawing with a brush! The drawing is really ugly, but he seems to be very serious, asking the scouts in detail while adding lines on the paper. He is drawing a very rough sketch map of the city.

At this time, several generals came in again, and he finally threw the brush into the inkstone, turned around and said, "Build six camps, each of which must be double-layered for defense, with secret sentries and outriggers dispatched for fifty miles around."

"Here."

Guo Shao said again: "We have just arrived in Shouzhou, and our strength is only 20,000. We will neither besiege nor attack the city. We will occupy the place first, and be careful of the enemy's sneak attack."

A general reported: "There is a beach in the northwest of the city. Thousands of Tang soldiers refused to defend it. They not only built fences, but also dug the Huai River and built a moat! There is a water village in the north of the city, and more than 200 warships gathered."

Another general reported: "Hundreds of Tang army warships were found in Sizhou downstream."

"Send people to monitor around, ignore it for now." Guo Shao ordered immediately.

After a while, a military general was brought into the tent by several personal soldiers. The military general clasped his fists in salute and said, "The last general, Qi Guan, from the military academy in the right wing, was ordered by the commander of the military academy, Gao Huaide, to come to see Marshal Guo."

Guo Shao suddenly smiled kindly, and first asked about Gao Huaide's situation, and even asked him if he was in good health, as if he cared about him like an old friend... It was all because of Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin! Guo Shao didn't get along with these two people much, but he learned a lot from their words and deeds; especially Zhao Kuangyin, who was considered by Guo Shao as an opponent in his heart, but it did not prevent him from learning from his opponent.

But Qi Guan, the capital school, did not come to contact the generals. He quickly got down to business: "When General Li Jixun was in the right wing, he was defeated in the southwest of Tushan Mountain. The last general personally led his troops to participate in the battle. First, General Li heard that Shouzhou City was broken, so he was eager to attack, and then he was caught in a trick to lure the enemy, and then laid an ambush.

Guo Shao nodded, picked up a pen from the inkstone, and wrote in a broken booklet: insight into the opponent's intentions, predict the enemy's opportunities, use tactics well, and grasp the opponent's general psychology.

"Go on."

Qi Guan said: "Our army was defeated, it was an ambush. At that time, all the troops were rushing forward, and they didn't check the traps under their feet and around them. Suddenly, the gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the soldiers were separated. In a panic, we met a few elite soldiers from Chai Kehong leading the battle, so we were defeated. Later, I saw that they were only a few elite troops.

Guo Shao wrote and drew in the booklet again, jotting down the outline of the matter and his own opinion. Then it was handed over to Zuo You, Yang Biao and other generals for inspection.

All the generals felt that Guo Shao's words were reasonable. Li Chuyun said: "Chai Kehong has a shrewd mind and is good at using ingenious tactics. He only relies on the wisdom of one person, but he is not good at controlling too many people."

Guo Shao waited for everyone to discuss, then asked with a smile: "What do you guys think are my strengths and weaknesses?"

Yang Biao said: "Brother is good at seizing opportunities, and hits him with one blow!"

Zuo You muttered, "Occupy righteousness and boost morale. I think it is very good that the Lord proposed to end the civil war and fight for the people of the world. The ancients said that this is the way to fight injustice with the king's way."

Wang Zhang laughed and said, "I'm not talking about Marshal Guo. Li Chongjin said everywhere that Marshal Guo is soft-hearted and can't lead troops. I really think that the lord is sometimes too kind...just like the battle that broke Shouzhou City. I'm afraid you are the only Marshal Guo who can keep the city from being slaughtered..."

Li Chuyun said: "The most important point is that my Great Zhou army is obviously more brave and skilled than the Southern Tang soldiers."

"Let me tell you about myself," Guo Shao said.

Everyone quieted down and listened attentively.

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao just said indifferently: "I am good at archery."

"Haha..." Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing.

Guo Shao did not leave Qi Guan, the general on the right side, and sent someone to send him away. All the generals also dispersed one after another, and each went to stare at the construction of their camp.

Haozhou City has not yet been surrounded, and there are a large number of Southern Tang troops outside the city and on the river, Guo Shao has not gone around to look around for the time being. He stayed in the Chinese army camp honestly, thinking about Zhai Kehong and other things.

He knocked lightly on the chopping board a few times unconsciously with his fingers, and thought to himself: Just now he said that Zhai Kehong was not good at controlling most people, and he seemed not very good at it either.

Although Guo Shao is currently the capital of the Infantry Division, he actually personally controls only the left wing of the Hujie Army, which has about 20,000 troops, but the scope of the spread is no longer in sight. How the generals of this era control their subordinates, Guo Shao said that he has no way of knowing... Maybe a general like Gao Huaide knows that his father will definitely teach his son various skills; but the general will definitely not have the leisure to teach outsiders.

To do well in all walks of life, there are some skills and insights, and you have to rely on the experience of predecessors, as well as your own experience. No matter how talented a person is, they cannot be born to do something.

After much deliberation, Guo Shao decided to find his own way to change the status quo. Establish a simple command system with messengers and military orders as an attempt.

... (Guo Shao asked someone to carve eighty-eight wooden seals, and then selected hundreds of "sub-soldiers" who were eliminated by the elite regular army from the sub-battalion to form order soldiers.

These soldiers are equivalent to the troops stationed in the field. They usually have no military pay. After being told that they become order soldiers, they will be in the regular establishment of the Hujie Army. However, Guo Shao personally led his generals to re-examine these soldiers. They don't need to be brave and strong, they just need to be smart, say a few paragraphs for them to repeat, and as long as they can explain the main idea clearly immediately, they are qualified.

Then each person issued three command flags and stuck them on their backs to distinguish soldiers in battle.

When the preparations were ready, Guo Shao summoned dozens of generals from the left wing to the central army to discuss matters. First take down the wooden seal and let them see it. There are two kinds of seals in total.

The first type is twelve pieces, six pieces each for military generals and six pieces for the Chinese army. Each piece has only one word, "loyalty, bravery, martial arts, faith, righteousness, and victory", and they are issued to the military capital school. The second type issued thirty-eight coins, which were for commanders, with two characters engraved on them, "loyalty A", "loyalty second", "loyalty third" and so on.

Guo Shaodao: "On the eve of every battle, we draw lots. Whichever one you catch is the one. You must not reveal your seal, and you must not ask others. If there is an emergency and it is too late to draw lots, the last time you caught the word will be used as evidence."

"When all the ministries report military information and the Chinese army issues military orders, they must affix their seals. If the words do not match, the military orders will be invalidated, so you can ignore them."

"Of course, the first character of the commander's envoy is Zhongyongwuxinyisheng. After the lottery, it may be different from the character of the military capital school. Remember how many times the military report was issued that day, and write the number every time to prevent the military order and military report from being lost halfway."

Guo Shao appointed Zuo You as the marching counselor on the spot, responsible for writing and dispatching military orders; he also appointed Tan Shitou as the commander of the messengers, responsible for commanding and dispatching the messengers, and organized the remaining dozens of his men into the messenger team to pay for the army;

Qin Shitou led his troops to flee when he attacked Shouzhou, and was almost ordered by Li Chongjin to be executed on the spot; later, Guo Shao interceded and was spared... He also made great contributions during the siege, and those who survived were exonerated after half of the people died. His son was originally the capital, but he was burned to death by fierce fire oil. Qin Shitou was directly appointed by Guo Shao as the capital of the next camp; he has been following Guo Shao and is loyal, so Guo Shao now trusts him very much.

It is said that the iron cavalry army has been screened and eliminated, and they are all brave men. However, some people Guo Shao wanted to eliminate were reorganized into the Forbidden Army system, and he didn't seem to care about who they were.

No matter what, even the soldiers who were eliminated by the imperial army were better than the group of old men in their seventies and eighties in Wuqi Town. Therefore, Guo Shao didn't dislike him at all, as long as it was a soldier, he took it. )

... Guo Shao took out a batch of flags embroidered with tiger patterns that he had brought for "show" last time, and asked people to embroider the numbers of each army, and then distributed them to everyone.

In the several camps that were built in a short period of time, tiger flags were flying everywhere. Although it was a bit nondescript, it was still domineering. It seemed that the tiger had become the symbol of the Tiger Jiejun... The Tiger Jiejun had nothing to do with the tiger at first, because it was not called the Tiger Jiejun before, and the name was changed after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty;

Soon after, Gao Huaide led the right wing to Haozhou.

Gao Huaide discovered that Guo Shao had repaired the camps and fortifications. He was very easy and directly stationed the troops in the built camp.

One after another, tens of thousands of civilians, town soldiers, and township soldiers transferred from Shouzhou arrived in Haozhou. For a while, there were more and more people outside the city of Haozhou. Guo Shao ordered the construction of two fortifications to besiege the city.

The Tang army stood still, and the Zhou army did not move. The soldiers were working all day, preparing various equipment.

In mid-October, the emperor led the Inner Hall Zhi, Dongxiban, and Crane Control Army elite troops to Haozhou. Discovering that there was a Tang army stationed on the northwest river beach, he immediately ordered Qi Tingyi, the commander of the East and West squadrons, to attack the Tang army.

Qi Tingyi, known as "Qi Tuo", actually led his soldiers across the moat outside the Southern Tang military fortifications on camels, and then all the troops covered up the fortifications, smashed the southern Tang military fortifications, and captured 3,000 people.

Chai Rong was overjoyed and promoted Qi Tuo to be the capital school of the left wing of the Hu Jie Army, filling the vacancy in the left wing school.

Guo Shao used to be the capital school of the left wing, and was later promoted to the commander of the infantry division in Jianjie. It turned out that the position had been vacant, but this time "Qi Tuo" sat on it. The emperor's own order, there is no way to disobey.