Chapter 533 Blood stains the earth

When the sound of the trumpet of clearance sounded in the early morning, the soldiers of the baggage battalion who worked all night retreated into the camp, and another baggage battalion took over their work. After working all night, they had eliminated the unfavorable terrain factors on the battlefield. The big trees that hindered their sight were uprooted, and then the deep tree holes were filled. The huge rocks were moved away, and the ground covered with gravel was flattened back and forth with huge stone rollers, so as to prevent the soldiers from running due to ground factors.

Fighting reduction. At the same time, telephone lines were set up at the scheduled combat positions of each battalion and the command tent was set up. The lines were undergoing intense tests. Behind the command tent were rescue centers, a large number of medicinal materials, bandages and other instruments were moved in, and doctors and medical soldiers had already begun to become familiar with the environment. Especially those medical soldiers, they also needed to follow the detailed deployment map and open up stretcher routes to prepare for sending the severely damaged soldiers back to the camp.

The soldiers of the Heavy Equipment Battalion later came to this seemingly busy land and began to mark their fronts. The coordinate points were determined so that they could convert the shooting targets faster, which was conducive to killing the enemy faster. This work would last for a whole day, and in the afternoon, some of the crossbows would have to be fired according to these coordinates.

When the Dongping Army began preparations at night, Xie Bo'an received a report, but he ordered that he only remained alert and never left the camp to fight. During the day, Xie Bo'an stayed on the command tower for almost the whole morning, watching the Dongping Army prepare seriously. The telescope in his hand was also produced by Ye's Workshop, and there was no doubt that except Ye's Workshop, no other organization in the world could produce binoculars that suppress dispersion and edge deformation to such a level. In the telescope, Xie Bo'an could clearly see how luxurious the other party's heavy equipment was drawing the battlefield. The stations had complex scales and stable measurement of three-legged brackets.

Painting arts, Ye's workshop does not offer takeout at all. Xie Bo'an knew that they had obtained a mapper operation manual through Kong Xinhua, which was as thick as 700 pages. Not to mention the rough men in the army, even the officials of the Ministry of Works, there were not many soldiers who could fully understand it. But Dongping's heavy equipment camp was conducting battlefield surveys and mapping, and there were more than 200 people... Of course, this was not all the people who could use mappers. Thinking of this, Xie Bo'an felt a little suffocated. As a senior, he naturally would not think that combat is strength and courage. Now, it is no longer the case. The combat power of the Beiliao airship team has been unfast, largely because of the cultural qualities of the soldiers.

The quality is too poor, so it takes a long time for them to learn the flag and light transmission. The airship crew members can see clearly the tactics of Dongping's multi-aircraft cooperating in clustered upward shooting to deal with the Beiliao airship that fly higher, but it is really a waste of time to make them do it. The more serious problem is that Dongping has been mastering the airship for a long time and has many opportunities to use airships for various combat, and has developed a group of professional flight officers, but Beiliao is almost blank in this regard. The newly built airship teams in Yanjing have no officers to be responsible for the establishment of troops and training, so they have to temporarily draw several officials from the Ministry of Works to join the army... As for the heavy equipment camp, thank you

Bo'an also has three battalions of troops. I won't mention how much difference the equipment they use is compared to the things produced by the Ye's Workshop. Except for some officers equipped with telescopes, they don't mention any surveying and mapping equipment. The soldiers of those battalions have a certain professional foundation, so they naturally understand what the heavy equipment battalion in Dongping is doing, but they don't even have the conditions to learn and imitate. After several battalions' battalions were discussing, they reported that they would start simple mapping operations in the afternoon...at least, they can make their shooting accuracy better than rough shooting. In response, except for sighing and nodding in agreement, Xie Bo'an had nothing to say.

After a whole day of suffering, the war finally came.

At four o'clock in the morning, a Dongping airship appeared above Chuixiang Forest. An airship equipped with twelve sets of signal boxes and equipped with enough batteries and fuel dropped a thick cable and moored over Chuixiang Forest. Command the airship... Of course, this was a thorn in Xie Bo'an's eyes, but he did not think about killing this thing first. The four airships, including Yunzhou No. 1, were already on guard over the air. Whether it was sneak attack or strong attack, the success rate would not be very high. An hour later, the Dongping army began to enter the position one after another.

Three battalions in a row sat down to rest after entering the position, and the baggage battalion sent the equipment of other troops to the position. Then the soldiers of each battalion entered the position with bare hands and then put on armor. The bright metal reflections made the Northern Liao army very shocked. The Northern Liao army had no more than 30,000 soldiers in armor... Moreover, their armor was not on the same level as the heavy armor of Dongping. These elite soldiers from Dongping were even stingy with the little physical strength from the battalion to the battlefield...

"The whole army goes out to the camp and prepare for battle!" Xie Bo'an slapped his palm on the table and issued an order. The pressure on the other party was so great that he could understand. Is Ye Tao not just a carpenter? Although the Northern Liao army always had an understanding of Ye Tao's past experience, and although he also knew that Ye Tao had fought and won many victories, he always felt that a carpenter and a prince-in-law from a poor family could understand how to fight? But Ye Tao came to the front of him

The rhythm of the entire tribal army immediately changed. Although there was no formal takeover, Ye Tao prepared step by step, his calm and confident attitude, and his unquestionable determination to win at his own pace all made Xie Boan feel huge pressure. I am afraid that only the tension and fanaticism after the war can dilute this pressure. Xie Boan still felt that the victory was on his side, after all, his troops had an absolute advantage.

"Master Ye, the Northern Liao army has begun to enter the position." The messenger reported to Ye Taohui.

"It's okay, let everyone continue to rest. They will take a while." At this time, Ye Tao was on the command tower, enjoying a rich breakfast quietly like countless mornings in the past. The soft and rich fried eggs, bread slices, cheese, ham slices combined with the aromatic coffee... It seems that this is not in the battlefield where blood and fire are about to collide, but in a cafe with a peaceful atmosphere. When in Yejiabao, there are always fruits such as oranges for breakfast. Here, although the berries collected from the mountains are rich in juice, the taste is somewhat sour, which is considered a lack of beauty.

"The baggage camp is not idle, right?" Ye Tao asked casually.

"No, the baggage battalion has begun to confirm the medical route. Some of the meals and drinks that will be prepared after the preparation." Liu Yong replied with a smile.

"Oh, now when fighting such a battle, everything needs to be considered is getting more and more complicated. Fortunately, the staff team is very serious now. Although they are not as good as the people in the Central Military Camp, they are finally basically qualified. However, after this battle, I think there should not be many opportunities to train their joint combat coordination skills." Ye Tao said lightly.

Liu Yong shrugged and agreed with Ye Tao's judgment. However, he still asked: "Use infantry against cavalry... Sometimes I really feel that your courage is really terrible."

"This is not a matter of courage, it's just calculations." Ye Tao explained with a smile: "The advantage of cavalry over infantry is only relative. However, the height and speed of cavalry have no room for performance when encountering heavy infantry. Once the cavalry cannot rush up, what else is there to be afraid of. The opponent is just a calculating force, and it is easier to fall into our rhythm. In my opinion, relying on infantry to withstand attacks, delay the combat rhythm, and relying on heavy equipment battalions to perform damage output... This is a very normal idea."

Liu Yong sighed: "Is this the t and dps theory you discussed with us before? If you didn't see it now, I really can't believe that you really dare to use this kind of tactic."

"There is nothing I dare not use. I believe my soldiers. I now have almost the best infantry in the world. The enemies they face are just slightly stronger than second-rate cavalry and worse than first-class cavalry and worse infantry. When it comes to equipment, our side is more than one level ahead of the other side, and if it comes to command and coordination, it is not of the same era at all. What should I be afraid of? Those who learn from me live, and those who die like me... I said this many years ago when I established the Blood Qi Army. Now, the only ones who learn from the Blood Qi Army are the only ones in front of us. After all, the backbone of them are still the people who came out of the Blood Qi Army back then."

It is not unreasonable that Ye Tao can be able to use so many troops sent one after another. It is these officers who have successively "graduated" from the Blood Qi Army and then taken on important tasks by various major family committees. They have deep respect and trust in Ye Tao. There are several battalion commanders and captain-level figures, and even comrades who experienced the garrison battles of Baishi City with Ye Tao back then. This deep sense of charisma made these troops quickly condense. The tradition of the Blood Qi Army has always allowed Ye Tao to rest assured to put the right troops in the right position.

"Xie Bo'an's treasures are coming out..." Seeing rows of heavy crossbows being pushed to the position, gradually bigger black spots appeared in the sky in the distance, and the Beiliao airship team also appeared at about the same time.

"Catch!" Ye Tao ordered lightly. He only needed to say two words, so naturally his staff members would pass on his orders. After a while of turning the handle of the hand-cranked telephone, the staff members quickly sent orders to the mooring ground behind.

However, the two sides fought later than Ye Tao expected. The Bei Liao side was too slow in preparing for the Heavy Equipment Battalion. Xie Boan hesitated and placed the Heavy Equipment Battalion quite in front. There were only more than 10,000 infantry lined up in front of the Heavy Equipment Battalion to protect these expensive war machines. There were still passages in the middle and the two wings, allowing cavalry and infantry troops to pass through the array to the front of the battle formation and continue to launch an integrated impact on the Dongping Army.

"Xie Boan is very determined. This situation is clearly not about the losses at all and is ready to fight to the death." Tan Weiran said lightly.

"Wait a minute, I'll leave it to you to save the scene in several directions." Ye Tao said.

"Okay, but... that's at least an hour later. I don't think that those guys who finally got a fight are willing to give me such a chance. Or, at least, give me this opportunity so soon..." Tan Weiran said self-deprecatingly. Dongping and the whole country regard the war to attack Bei Liao and the war to attack Xiling and Chunnan as the best opportunity to gain military merits, and they are worried that they will not have the chance to go to the battlefield. Now, these soldiers who used to protect each family not only stood on the battlefield, but also stood in front of Ye Tao, standing in front of one of the most important people who decided to belong to the war. If they don't perform well and show their misfortune, let alone losing the family, they can't pass this level.

After the Northern Liao army set out from the camp and entered the position one after another, Ye Tao stood on the high command tower and watched the two armies colliding violently.

Xie Boan was a little paranoid and even a little crazy. He betted 30,000 cavalry on the first assault, and all three 10,000 teams rushed up. The Northern Liao army, which had the advantage of military strength, was under the command of Xie Boan, a famous general who greatly improved the combat situation with the tribal army. The morale was like rainbows, and the 30,000 cavalry were like three rushing waves, rushing towards the Chuxiang Forest. But seeing this scene, Ye Tao just frowned and didn't even struggle to give any more orders.

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"One-third high explosive bomb, go and prepare. Concentrate firepower around twenty-six, three coordinate grids. After two rounds, it starts to conduct intensive shooting, pay attention to communicating with the front battalions." The person who is in charge of the instrument camp is Ye Hongjiang from the experimental camp of Ye's Workshop Research Institute. This guy was originally surnamed Gu, but after Ye Tao opened his palace in Yunzhou, he became one of the first group of Ye's family's generals. Ye Tao does not like to drive others and has always lacked interest in the storage generals, but Gu Hongjiang is the first person.

Already enjoying high technical dividends, the guy who has followed the Ye family since Yicheng, but Ye Tao agreed with a stern face. In his opinion, everything he has comes from the Ye family, and it is his honor to be able to serve the Ye family. And his family, and even everyone around him, supported him in doing this. He even became a general of the Ye family, and many colleagues around him were envious of him. After all, the general is not a servant. Since he is a general, he must know how to fight. Gu Hongjiang, a first-class technician, works in the research institute.

Many years, from the first generation of crossbow gun tests to the present, generations of crossbow guns and other long-range weapons have passed by his hands, and his importance is even higher than that of some battalion-level officers. With the help of rich financial resources, the Ye Family Workshop Research Institute not only studied the crossbow technology, but also studied a series of long-range attack tactics under Gu Hongjiang's inspiration. The Ye Family Workshop Research Institute's experimental battalion, under his management, trained and worked completely according to military standards and even higher standards. The test battalion was facing crossbows at the top and bottom of the test battalion.

The familiarity and mastery of artillery made the soldiers of the heavy equipment camp amazed. Although it was a long-range attack, Ye Hongjiang, a fire-fire supreme guru, could make the heavy equipment camp hiding behind the infantry become fanatical and bloodthirsty. The camp was full of strong men with naked upper body, heavy ammunition, and rolling huge ratchets. Small observation decks not only shouldered the responsibility of coordination and command, but also loud sergeants kept shouting the results of the artillery bombardment to their comrades, and there were endless laughter and scolding on the position.

"The Third Team, you knocked down the one who led the troops!"

"Captain Jiang, correct a coordinate forward, your barrage retreats too quickly!"

"Five teams add a base high-explosive bomb."

However, what surprised the soldiers who were stationed and waiting in the front and rear were that no matter how fanatic the atmosphere was, the positions of the heavy equipment camp were kept at a high level. Boxes of turbulent oil bombs and high-explosive bombs would never be piled at will on the edge of the crossbow to save time and physical strength, and would always be quietly piled in the explosion-proof ditch beside them. The cooperation between the ammunition hands, gunners, observation hands and the strong men who restored the crossbow cannons was as accurate as a clock, and each movement was accurate and unambiguous... What kind of training can integrate this sense of order and this fanaticism?

Compared with the heavy equipment battalion that has been tempered for thousands of times, the three battalions at the forefront that were waiting for the enemy to attack seemed a little depressed and nervous. Although the battalion was a little more depressed and nervous than many of the non-commissioned officers at all levels, they not only moved closer to the Blood Qi Army in terms of weapon equipment, but also worked towards such standards in all aspects. Purely speaking, some indicators even exceeded the Blood Qi Army. However, without the test of actual combat, no one would think that it was a strong army.

The three heavy infantry battalions all had a strong spirit and wanted to defend themselves in this battle. They all knew very well that they would be happy when they fought on behalf of their families, but if they couldn't fight well, they would rather die on the position than return to their families alive. The suspicion, sympathy and accusations of their families would become something they would bear for the rest of their lives. Compared with the fully professional army in Dongping, the fighting spirit of the family army was even higher.

The sound of horse hooves had been connected into a thunder-rolling sound, and the earth was trembling slightly. No one knew whether it was because of the orange-red explosion fire in front of him or the power of the enemy cavalry's impact. The soldiers were unwilling to be nervous, and the officers were also nervous. But seeing the enemy cavalry rushing out of the rolling smoke of the explosion, only three hundred feet away from him, the officers almost subconsciously shouted in unison: "Set up the shield! Defend the impact!"

The tower shields, which were more than one person tall, stood on the outer circle of the heavy infantry battalion, and spears, twenty-foot-long, stretched out from the hole window in the middle of the shield. The slots on the gun only stuck the spring on the shield. The three well-trained soldiers completed a series of devices, which only took one breath. The heavy infantry phalanx quickly turned into a small metal city. The soldiers held machetes in their hands and stood in the gap between the tower shields. Behind them were crossbowmen who were ready to shoot at any time, comrades who were ready to drag them down the injured, and another two-handed machete who was ready to fill the position at any time... As the enemy got closer, the ferocious faces became clearer and clearer, and the soldiers' breathing became heavy, excited or fear? Or both?

Even though it was so difficult to say a heavy infantry formation in front of him, the Northern Liao cavalry generals who rushed in front still raised their spears, machetes or sledgehammers in their hands without hesitation, and shouted in unison: "Kill!"

"Jaberlin, hurry!" "I'm invincible!" "Dongping boys, grandpa, I'm here!" Various shouts suddenly started to rush, and short military orders and quick handling methods were used to test the abilities of each general. As the people of Dongping thought, just hitting the heavy infantry phalanx without any reaction was definitely not a satisfactory result for them. Compared to being unable to resist under the attack of artillery fire, the attack targets in front of them can always make people see some hope.

The strong fighting spirit and the spirit of dying will never be lacking in this land. Moreover, these experienced cavalry generals know very well that the cluster impact of 30,000 cavalry can only advance but not retreat. Once the people at the front stop and do not rush into the opponent's formation, there will be a situation of congestion and squeezing each other. In order to break through the iron barrel formation in Dongping, they need such troops, and because of such troops, they finally hit the defense line made of a large amount of metal... Only at the first moment when the two sides handed over, a large amount of blood was sprinkled on the land. Then, they were quickly absorbed by the ground made of gravel and fine sand, leaving only a bright spot... The battle, from the first moment, was in full swing.

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In preparation for the new book, I once said to the editor and my friends that the book will be opened on July 1st... I still have the idea of ​​what to do and can come at this time.

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