It was the darkest hour of the day before dawn, but today the water vapor was worse than usual, and the thick fog that rolled from the north drifted across the surface of the Yellow River, slowly invading the south bank of the Yellow River, shrouding the whole land in fog.
Under the night of dense foggy weather, even if the two of them are holding torches, they can only see blurry light and shadow when they are four or five meters apart.
Such an environment allowed the Han army to stop bombarding the Jincheng fortifications for the first time, which made the battlefield rare quiet.
The Han army was on the invading side, and had limited knowledge of the climate around Jincheng, and when it would be and what kind of weather it would be, it was basically only possible to guess based on limited judgment.
Suddenly encountering dense foggy weather, Xie An was awakened in his sleep, learned what was happening, and immediately ordered: "Strengthen vigilance." ” The generals and colonels at all levels were soon gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army, and everyone had a half-daze on their faces that had just woken up, and a few people were full of eagerness to try.
"The fog is so thick that you can't see your fingers."
Yuan Qiao stretched out his hand as he spoke, looked at Xie An with a pensive face, and said, "I'm afraid that the enemy army will come to touch the camp." ” The main defenders of Jincheng are the locals, and the weather has changed greatly in recent years, but the locals are definitely still the most familiar with the local climate.
When the two armies are fighting, the defenders themselves have a geographical advantage, and their knowledge of the weather will also take advantage of the time, as long as they know how to use it, they will definitely take advantage of it.
"Hmm" Xie An affirmed Yuan Qiao's words: "Not surprisingly, there are already enemy troops outside the camp. ” In fact, the Han army already had its own actions, and while strengthening the vigilance, the crossbowmen were awakened to form a formation, and after the arrow array was organized, it was blindly covered outside the camp.
During the Second World War, whenever there was foggy weather, the machine guns at the various posts would fire blindly.
Of course, this kind of move is not idle and panicked, it is nothing more than strafing the area where it is possible to hide from the enemy army, and it is of course best to shoot people to death, mainly to intimidate, but also to startle the snake.
In the era of cold weapons, blind shooting was also carried out in foggy weather, but in general, it was for deterrence, and with such intentions, the enemy army thought that the sneak attack had been discovered.
The arrows of the Han army are very sufficient, there is no worry about running out of arrows, and they will not be stingy with arrows when encountering dense fog weather, and the crossbowmen who have been ordered to vent their anger when they are suddenly woken up in a sweet dream are to use the arrows they shoot to vent, and they can really hear the screams in the thick fog.
It is the norm to carry out a sneak attack through the thick fog, and any commander will try it when he encounters such weather, but generally it is to send a large number but the number of each team is small, mainly to touch the camp for destruction, which can cause the enemy to have a camp roar is the biggest gain, and if it doesn't work, it will be touched and burned what can be burned.
In this kind of dense fog environment, when the troops are sent out, they don't even think that they can give the next order, and basically which team gets what order before setting off can only keep working towards the set goal.
After all, in the dense foggy weather, if you want to find someone, you can't find it at all, and there is no way to talk about changing military orders or anything.
Even if the sun rises, in the dense fog, you can only see the nearest person around you, and then the distance is a foggy place, people in this environment are actually extremely tense and nervous in their hearts, and any little stimulation will subconsciously wave their weapons.
"Over there" Li Mi tried his best to see farther, but the problem was that no matter how wide his eyes were, he could only see so far, and put on a posture of listening: "Listen to Xi Xi Suosuo" What kind of composition is the cold weapon army camp The regular camp will have levels, and the periphery must be cleared out of a sufficient open space, and then the next layer is a buffer zone composed of many obstacles, and there are multiple barriers of fences, wooden fences, and wooden fences in the back.
The open space is to completely clean up the weeds, trees, bushes and other things that can obstruct the view, and there will also be a secret post and a bright post, the secret post is to dig a pit to hide people, and the open post is a pavilion made of wooden planks, they are the eyes of the outside of the military camp.
The buffer zone can be very complex, with a lot of horses, pointed wooden rafts, or sundries, and if necessary, it will also sprinkle thistle, and it is safe for pedestrians to be fixed in any area.
The first fenced "circle" is generally a fence wall, which is not too high, basically to the waist of an adult, and can be used as an arrow stack when necessary; The second will be a line of wooden fences, which are not sealed, and each stake will leave a gap; The wooden fence at the back is the sealed side-by-side mode, this kind of wooden fence is modeled after the city wall, the height is at least three meters, the width is usually more than two meters, and an arrow tower is built every other section, and it is arranged in multiple layers.
In addition to the necessary camp fortifications, where is the area where the soldiers rest in the camp, where will the school field be left, where the grain storage point should be, where the armory is located, and even where the toilet is, they are all very exquisite, and the only thing that remains unchanged is that the main general's tent is definitely in the core area.
Whether he is a qualified general or not, he can see not only that he commands the troops to fight, but also that many times he can see from the layout of the camp that a general who does not know how to arrange the camp will not have the opportunity to lead the troops independently.
If the location is wrong, the whole camp will be filled with a foul smell, or even ignoring the toilet area will make the whole camp full of poop, flies flying everywhere is secondary, and poor hygiene will inevitably cause germs to run rampant.
During the Second World War, the official number of casualties was close to 200 million, and then the death toll was between 55 million and 60 million, but only 40 or 50 percent of the people actually died from bullets, shells and other weapons, and the rest died from others, the most serious of which was disease.
Taking the battlefield of one country in World War II as an example, judging from the official statistics of the 90s, the total number of military and civilian deaths in one country was 18 million, the number of military deaths was 1.48 million, the number of casualties in the first army of China was 1.35 million, and the number of guerrillas of a certain party with unknown affiliation was about 100,000 to 120,000.
It must be said that the brutality of the devil is an absolute fact, but it is hunger and disease that caused such a large-scale death.
The Great Famine in North China in 1942 alone killed more than three million people The army is a collective, any collective in the absence of medical care under the premise, once any infectious disease breaks out, it will inevitably form a terrible consequence, there are many history of large-scale infectious diseases in the land of China, such as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty There were two large-scale plagues, the most serious one was to sweep the Central Plains and then spread to the south of the Yangtze River, causing millions of deaths.
Preventing the outbreak of infectious diseases has always been the most important thing for the army, and in addition to the proper disposal of corpses, human excretion is also the top priority.
Li Mi's position was in a dark post on the periphery, and the area where they were located had been covered by the archbow troops in the rear just now, and they had been notified to avoid the arrows before shooting the arrows, but no one knew whether the blind shooting of the arrow array had caused accidental injuries.
During the coverage of several blind shots, Li Mi did not hear the screams, some of them were the sound of the arrows after hitting certain objects, and he even lifted the wooden plank above his head, and he didn't see anything in the darkness.
The surrounding things that can be cleared have been cleared, and the sound of Suo Suo is actually not unfamiliar to the soldiers, listening to the movement of many people lying on the ground crawling forward.
"Captain, what are we going to do?"
"What nonsense, ring the bang for Lao Tzu" There was a bang, and the sound of someone talking in the distance was heard, followed by a shout, and the sound of hurried footsteps was also dense.
Hiding in the pit can hear the movement of people trampling in more detail, so that you can judge that there are really a lot of people without looking at it, not to mention the deafening shout, and the muffled sound of the wooden planks on the top of his head being trampled on frequently makes Li Mi's face green.
In the distance, I didn't know who shouted something, and then the loud sound of the bowstring clanged out the shouts of people with their mouths for a while, and after a while, Li Mi could hear the screams coming from all over his head, as if the wooden plank above his head had been slammed by something.
If there is enough light, and then ignore those dense fogs, you can see hundreds of Zhang's Liang army, they are rushing in the chaos, the direction of the charge is not necessarily the right, running and running into each other and falling down is also a common thing, wave after wave of arrows rain down from the sky, arrows break through the robes, burrow into the skin, deep into the muscles, and then bring a scream or muffled.
The cover of the arrow array lasted for half a quarter of an hour before it stopped, and every breath was a torment for Li Mi who was hiding under the pit, his unhelmeted head was even wet and slimy with blood, and the hole was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The pit of the dark whistle is not too big, and it can accommodate five people at most, Li Mi is communication with Pao Ze first, waiting to lift the partition board above his head but found that he couldn't lift it.
"There must be a corpse pressed on it, and the big guys push it hard."
More than one corpse pressed the plank, and Li Mi and the others took a lot of effort to lift it, and let the two corpses fall into the pit and hit their companions.
The moaning of more than one person could be heard in their area, and in the distance, I don't know how many people were shouting and roaring, and it seemed that the Zhang Liang army, who should have touched the camp, had already launched a charge to the camp when it was close enough.
In this dense foggy weather, the responsibility of the outpost is to guide the firing area for the rear arrow array, and the outpost should either be eliminated by the enemy or withdrawn to the camp.
"Hurry up and hurry in and put it back on" Bursts of shouts came from the front of Li Mi and the others, listening to the momentum will definitely not be less than a thousand people, they first hurriedly carried the corpses of the enemy out of the pit, and then hurriedly re-covered the compartment plank, there was no light and I don't know if it was tightly covered.
It was the sound of bangs again, but it was not Li Mi's action in this hole, the listening position was that they were in front, and it didn't take long for the crossbowmen in the rear to begin to cover blindly.
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From dawn to the eastern sky, there is a fish-white light, and the visual distance is not much different after the light, and it is still the kind of vision that can be seen clearly within a step or two at most.
From the blind shooting of the first arrow array to the whitening of the east, there should have been an hour without stopping the noise, and the stealing camp of Zhang's Liang army was obviously unsuccessful, but it did not stop because of this, and began a continuous charge.
"Most enemy forces can only touch the buffer strip and cannot cross the fence wall area."
Zhong Xing's body looked a little wet, and some metal armor pieces were covered with water droplets, which was the phenomenon of standing in a certain position for a long time, and the fog was too much, shaking the untied cloak, and continued: "The enemy army has not been able to inflict any actual damage on us, why is it still constantly impacting?"
Xie An was woken up in the early hours of last night, just to give the proper arrangement, and went to sleep with confidence, and he was grooming when Zhong Xing came over.
"For the enemy, this weather is the only chance they can counterattack."
Xie An wiped his face with a towel, walked to the shelf that supported the armor and put on the armor with the help of his own soldiers, and when he saw Yuan Qiao coming in, he asked, "Changshi, how many arrows have been consumed?"
Yuan Qiao is not a general, he doesn't need to wear armor, he touched the fur on his body, and then he took it off and handed it over to his relatives to bake it before he replied: "The total consumption of all kinds of arrows is more than 80,000." ” "In less than an hour," Xie An was somewhat impressed: "It's just that the Han can withstand such consumption, and in the Battle of Chibi in the past, the total consumption of arrows by the coalition army was only 140,000. ” The number of arrows consumed by the Han army in each battle is indeed very terrifying, the most exaggerated is the siege of Dingxiang, the consumption of arrows is as high as an astonishing 140,000, and the total number of arrows consumed against Bingzhou and Shuozhou is more than 300,000.
Of course, the arrows that are shot are still recycled after the war, some of them can be reused after cleaning, and some of the arrows are broken to recover the arrows and tail feathers.
"The enemy did not seem to have any intention of stopping the attack, except for a halt in the east, the rest of the direction was still charging.
There had already been hand-to-hand combat on the west side, which showed that the west side was the main direction of attack of the enemy army.
Yuan Qiao is the chief of the march, and he has the right to ask about what happens, and he also shoulders the heavy responsibility of giving advice to the commander, and said: "I have estimated that the enemy's losses will not be small, and under such casualties, and then see that the fog will not disperse in a short time, the enemy's commander is very determined, but it is a little confusing." ” "Yes, the enemy army has the fortified city of Jincheng, and it can be defended by relying on the fortified city, and there is no need to ignore the dead and wounded and rush to the camp."
Xie An has been thinking about this for a long time, and after thinking about it, he didn't come up with a reasonable explanation at all, so he said: "Even if you want to take advantage of the weather, you can't get close to the camp with so many casualties, but you are still rushing, it's really unreasonable."
Someone outside was yelling for a meeting, and he was allowed to enter the big tent, reporting that there was news that he should bring inside.
The so-called internal response is, of course, Yi Yi and some other people, who reported to Xie An, saying that Zhang Chong personally went out of the city, and even a large number of troops were not in the city, and they had full control of the city today, and invited Xie An to send troops into the city to control.
"This" Xie An and the others, who heard the news, were somewhat stunned, looked at each other and couldn't react for a while
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