Ninety-four difficult march
The plan is basically formed, and the details can be added later, and the specific plan will not be changed.
The shipwreck blocking area was set in a river channel west of the preset battlefield, about half a day away from the preset battlefield.
This section of the river is actually within the jurisdiction of Yanzhou, and is a distance from Tai'an Prefecture. The river is relatively narrow and the water flow is slow, making it a good place to set up blockage areas.
At Su Yonglin's order, the soldiers of Shengjie Army and the civilians worked together to start laying out big pits for the Jin army.
This project is quite time-consuming. Su Yonglin asked the sentry troops to report the whereabouts of the Jin army twice a day to judge whether the time is enough.
He was a little worried that if the Jin army was moving too fast, he would not have enough time to arrange the battlefield and practice tactics.
Fortunately, the Jin army's advancement speed is really not fast.
It rained heavily a few days in the middle of the journey. Su Yonglin personally took the battle and led the soldiers and the civilians to work together in the heavy rain. Everyone worked overtime, but the hot ginger soup never stopped, and there was no delay plan.
Based on subsequent information transmission, Su Yonglin learned that the Jin army had not marched much in those days.
The slow marching speed of the Jin army bought enough time for Su Yonglin, and even allowed Su Yonglin to rest for a few days to accumulate strength and formulate tactics calmly. He even pulled the soldiers out to preview tactics and took several rounds of simulation exercises.
This is so wonderful.
In fact, it’s not that Jiagu Asu is unwilling to march at high speed, but the army is really unable to speed up.
This army is a temporary army that is pieced together. It is not elite or not, nor does it have any cohesion or centripetal force.
Most of it were signed soldiers, and among the remaining female real soldiers, only a small number were regular soldiers, and most of them were temporary Jurchen strong men.
Jiagu Asu doesn't care about the life or death of the Han army signing and the slaves accompanying the army, and can let them rush on the road as soon as possible, but the marching speed of the female real soldiers is too bad.
One or two could still walk in the first few days, but then they started to complain, saying that their feet were covered with blood bubbles and they couldn't move at all, and they were chewing and shouting to slow down the marching speed.
Jiagu Asu was so angry that he planned to use the method of "Siji" to kill a group of people to establish his authority. But when he saw that, hey, the soles of those real female soldiers were really covered with blood bubbles.
Following the military doctor, he warned him not to force his way, otherwise the soles of his feet will be worn out, which will further aggravate the problem. In severe cases, his feet will even die of ulceration.
Now the atmosphere in the army is even more unfavorable to high-speed marching.
Jiagu Asu hated him, hated these young people for being pampered, one or two with fine skin and tender flesh, and blisters would burst out after walking a few steps.
He thought of his father and the veterans who followed Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong to destroy Liao and Song.
The hands and feet were covered with thick calluses, and the whole body was filled with glorious marks.
Even if you don’t wear shoes, a pair of big feet can walk smoothly on the gravel floor without frowning. A pair of big hands is as big as a palm fan. A slap can slap him half to death.
Now that there is a generation of people, it is so precious that they will be broken even if they walk a few more steps.
Have they conducted even a month of military training?
Jiagu Asu was angry, but he also knew that he could not force them to march, otherwise the morale of the army would be unstable and would easily cause mutiny.
Some armies cannot solve problems by killing people, that is, they cannot support the mud. Once there is a mutiny in the army and there is no war, the army will be the first to collapse.
So Jiagu Asu pinched his nose and made a compromise unwillingly.
Let these soldiers board the ship and follow the ship without having to walk.
Jiagu Asu thought that this would be fine, but something happened again.
Among those pampered veterans, a group of people became seasick.
After they got on the boat, they vomited so hard that they were so dark that they would get off the boat and never stay on the boat.
This is not a sea of strong winds and waves, and you are also seasick on the river with stable water flowing?
What body is this?
Jiagu Asu was so angry that he drew his knife on the spot that he was about to chop people, but in the end he took the overall situation into consideration and did not kill anyone. He gritted his teeth and let the soldiers with blood blisters on their feet ride forward to speed up the marching speed.
But this also caused some protests from the cavalry.
The cavalry said they were cavalry, so why should they give the horses to those trash?
The people who were called waste were naturally unhappy and pointed at the noses of the cavalry and started to curse.
Both sides were in a state of intense emotion, and their mouths were spitting and starry-like flying, so they almost didn't use weapons to get out of fire.
Seeing that the army was about to have internal strife, Jiagu Asu made a headache and asked the Han people to sign the army to pull the cart, and pulled the real female soldiers with blood blisters on their feet, and at the same time, they gave the cavalry a wave of money to resolve the conflicts within the army and calm the cavalry's dissatisfaction.
This way, I left, but the speed of the march dropped again.
He could not expect the Han people to sign the army and pull the cart to keep up with the pace of the cavalry.
What's more, the Han people signed the army and also had the task of transporting food and fodder and military supplies with the army, and had to deal with some chores. It was already difficult for a group of people to pull a cart to serve the masters and soldiers.
So the army's advancement speed was never up.
The more unlucky one is still to come.
During the march, the climate was hot, but it rained heavily for a few days, not all day long, but the kind of thunderstorm that had been thunderstorms any after another.
There were a few rains that were particularly heavy, just like pouring water on the ground with a basin. Not only was it heavy, but it also fell very quickly. It was just a rush. In a blink of an eye, the heavy rain poured down, almost blurring the vision and not giving people any time to be prepared.
When it rained heavily, the Jin army hurriedly prepared items to shelter from the rain, or hid in places where they could shelter from the rain.
But the heavy rain stopped shortly after a while - the shedding shelter was not yet set up, and the raincoat that blocked the rain had not taken out a box to put it on her body.
It’s a good thing that the food is stored properly on the ship, otherwise the food will suffer if it rains heavily.
The food is not affected now, but the shower has poured many people into a scattered chicken.
Jiagu Asu didn't feel anything at first, but early the next morning, he learned that the soldier was sick and fever on a large scale.
It’s not that the Han people signed the army. Most of the Han people signed the army without much trouble. At most, they sneeze a few times, so they will be fine. They will follow them honestly.
On the contrary, there were a large group of people among the real women who didn't get up in the morning, lying on the bed and humming, and their bodies were getting hot.
After seeing this, the military doctor said it was raining, and the cold air entered the body and failed to drive away the cold in time, which led to fever and cold, and needed medication to treat it, otherwise the consequences were quite serious.
Jiagu Asu covered his eyes.
It’s these pampering old soldiers again!
For a moment, Jiagu Asu really wanted to leave these old men behind and let them die on their own.
However, considering the need for stable morale between the army, he still bit the bullet and gave orders.
The army needs to arrive at the front line within a specified period of time to start war, and cannot stay too much. Sick soldiers cannot fight, so they can be transferred to nearby villages or counties on the spot for proper treatment.
For this reason, Jiagu Asu divided the transportation capacity to send the old soldiers away.
Now it is much more pure and you can marching.
Despite this, there were also real women who were abandoned and tried to escape during the march.
However, the plan was relatively rough and was discovered and caught. Jiagu Asu was furious and killed more than 30 people to face the scene and shock the morale of the army.
I thought this was the end, but there were still more than a dozen real female soldiers who fell into the water and drowned during the march. Jiagu Asu was so happy to mention non-combat reductions.
With this happening, rumors like "This is a bad luck in sending troops" even spread in the army, which made Jiagu Asu angry, but he could not find the source of the rumors even after multiple inspections.
The morale of the Jin army fell to the bottom before it even started.
If it weren't for a relatively elite cavalry unit who obeyed the orders and supervised the army's advance, and Jiagu Asu occasionally spent a wave of money to stimulate morale, he even suspected that he would have run away before he could arrive in Tai'an Prefecture.
He felt that it made sense that Yelu Chenghui had prepared hundreds of thousands of dollars for him before setting off...
Chapter completed!