0358 Mirage

The mountainous Beirong Mountain is behind, and a little decaying grass is exposed under the snow in the vast wilderness, shaking in the cold wind.

A towering castle stands miraculously on the snowfield that everyone originally thought was a wilderness. The city wall is high, and many gate towers, corner towers, watchtowers, arrow towers and women's walls stand on it. The trenches outside the city are complete and concrete, which is comparable to the strong city of the big city.

On the side of the city, less than two miles away is a regular army field defense camp, with trenches, deer forts, horses, walls, car arrays, etc., deep ditches and high bases are deeply defended. If tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are heavily guarded in the camp, they must be like mountains and difficult to shake.

Major General Li Nu, who was on the horse, rubbed his eyes and said doubtfully, "Good boy! Isn't it the legendary mirage?"

The "mirage" in the eyes of the Black Hawk generals, who do not know the inside story, is the fourth brother An Zixuan, the commander of the North Road of the Imperial Wolf Group, to dispatch a large number of desert northern infantry to try to make use of the remnants of the remnants of the tribe on the desert. Under the on-site guidance of the civil officers and craftsmen of the "engineering battalion", the materials are The sand is poured with snow water, and with the help of the severe cold of winter, the sand and water are frozen layer by layer into solid ice and sand. The wall of the camp also adopts a similar method, but there is no board construction method, but grass bags and sacks are used to fill the sand. Each stack of bags full of sand is drenched with snow water, layer by layer by layer. Stacked and watered to the required height, the wall is ready. The large amount of sand needed to build cities and barracks is convenient to use the earthwork dug out by digging trenches, which is not a waste at all. Because building sand does not require the most time-consuming, labor-consuming and costly processes of "consolidation" and "building walls and bricks", the labor and time required to build huge and solid city walls and barracks is so low that it is unbelievable.

The sand camel in charge of this task has a very excellent talent for comprehensive planning and unified operation. He was born in a famous civil family in Mobei. Another sand water scorpion is also a well-known young warrior in the Mobei area. He is a rookie in the empire recruited by the fourth brother An Zixuan with great painstaking efforts.

The sand water scorpion and the sand camel were ordered by the ninth princess An Xiaoyao, who stayed in the north of the desert, and led two marching division to reinforce the north line. As soon as they arrived in the north, they were assigned to the task of building a camel city. As expected, they did not disappoint their boss. It took a month to command the Mobei foot army to build this strength made of ice, snow and sand. Solid city base.

It is no wonder that the visitors who witnessed the huge and strong city barracks were surprised and couldn't believe that the scene they saw in their sight was real.

There are dozens of miles of camp outside the camel city, and the tents are scattered.

In the camp, the imperial wolf flag and the magic dragon army flag representing the Fifth Army are flying high. Other army flags such as the Nine Thunder Flag, the Five-Ging Flag, the Skull Flag and other wolf army flags have also been set up on both sides, and many generals of the legions have arrived.

Looking up at the rising Black Eagle Legion flag, Li Nu knew that it was not simple. He tightened his feet, followed a second lieutenant staff officer, and strode to the central army tent.

There were frequent attacks, and the sentry in the camp was on high alert; with the sound of the command, the atmosphere was as tense as before a battle.

Li Nu entered the big account and saw that most of the senior generals under the northern camp of the empire gathered in the warm tent, including Lei Hei, the commander of the 53rd Army of the First Earl, the deputy commander of the northern camp, and Huo Zhanfei, the commander of the 512th Division, and Chang'an Jiuzhong, the 513th Division. , General, Major General Changsha Jinshe of the 541st Division, Major General Changsha Muying of the 542 Division, Major General Lei Yunlong, the commander of the 513th Division, Major General Lei Feihu of the 512th Division, and Major General Changsha Zhuang of the 124th Division are already present.

Three literati talk about poetry and books, and three butchers talk about killing pigs. As the saying goes, three sentences are inseparable from this industry. At present, Jiji is full of generals leading troops in the northern battalion of the empire. They are gossiping about how to attack and kill and lead troops to fight. At this time, they are talking about the advantages and disadvantages of cold weapons and firearms.

"At present, the mainland countries still use bows, knives, spears and crossbows as weapons, but when it comes to the attack and defense of cities, or the confrontation between the two armies, today's sharp weapons are the most powerful than knives and axes. The advantage of firearms lies in their ability to hit from a long distance, break through solids, and kill many people with one bullet, but the bow and crossbow are not as good as them. There are some pedantic ministers in the court who still have their heads in the era of Jinge spear in ancient times. They oppose the opening of military factories and buying ships and cannons. It is necessary to trouble the Fourth Princess to give these old antiques a few injections to make them more awake. Lei Hei's words made even laugh at Major General Li Nu, who had just entered the big account. In the eyes of these practical generals, it is a good thing to be able to kill the enemy and win. How can there be any cold weapons*?

"These nerdy ministers are unaware, but those who keep pace with the times will rise, and those who abide by the rules will die. If we don't use firearms, we still have to fight in a military cart as in ancient times, and don't even ride a horse. Lei Hei must laugh and said, "The way of fighting is strange, virtual, straightforward and beneficial. Others must be changed according to the times and local conditions. How can we abide by the old rules?

The 513th division, Chang'an No. 9 Middle School, said with some questions and said, "General Lei, you are an old man in the army. The younger generation has something unclear, and I would like to ask you."

"I don't dare to say the word 'consult', but it doesn't matter if General An says it. Let's discuss it together." In the northern camp, Leihei is far superior to his colleagues in the northern camp, regardless of military rank, official title, age, prestige and experience. However, Anjiu was born in the "Wolf Group Youth Camp" and was a direct line of 800 wolves. The generals present were also division commanders, and only he and Huo Zhanfei, the commander of the 512th Division, who was born in the four main divisions of the wolves. With the rank of middle and general, several other division commanders are major generals. Even if Lei Hei is a military commander, he is just a lieutenant and general, which shows the unique honor capital of the direct line of the wolves. Therefore, Lei Hei's attitude is also quite courteous.

According to the old general, guns and firearms are far more powerful than knives, axes and bows and crossbows. Why doesn't the empire replace all the wolves' ordnance with new ones and equip them with bows and crossbows? So far, he hasn't eliminated riding and shooting bows?" Chang'an No. 9 Middle School and General, the white-skinned 513 division, politely asked for advice.

Lei Hei smiled and replied, "In the field, * does not have much advantage over cold weapons. In the face of cavalry maneuvers such as Slinsai's maneuvers and hard bows, there are even disadvantages; I think that although this gun gun is not small, the gun * produced at present still has many defects. In comparison, the crossbow still has a great advantage, so at present, it can only go hand in hand with riding and shooting the crossbow, learn from each other's strengths and use each other.

An Jiu and other generals couldn't help saying, "The younger generation has been taught."

Lei Hei has been in the army for a long time and has been fighting on the battlefield for more than 30 years. His proficiency in military affairs is not comparable to these young people in the big account. His judgment is based on decades of experience, which makes the young generals in the big account feel that it makes sense after chewing it carefully. Sure enough, Jiang still It's old and spicy.