"Well, if this is the method, is there enough food and grass in the camp?"
"There is indeed not much food in the camp, and the food sent from the rear has been insufficient for many days. But please rest assured, Your Highness. We can start the battle first, and then let these people eat after the battle. I believe that by then there will not be so many mouths to feed."
Chen Yu nodded and said, "Good."
This is the origin of the new combat laborers deployed today.
However, according to the rules of the Chen Dynasty army, after these combat laborers put down the wooden boards or gauze bags they were carrying at the front line, they could go to the supervisory team to get a wooden stick with the bottom painted red. With this wooden stick, the combat laborer would not have to fight again that day, and could also get half a dry biscuit from the fireman. Therefore, privately, the Chen Dynasty soldiers gave up the literary name "combat laborers" and simply called them "one-stick men."
The attention of both sides of the war was focused on the group of men with sticks.
As this type of military force was put into use for the first time, due to its extremely low cost, Chen Yu waved his hand and threw in a full 20,000 people at once.
Under the stunned gaze of the Qinghe soldiers, a large group of ragged, staggering, and obviously malnourished civilians rushed up shouting and carrying all kinds of belongings.
Some people were carrying what looked like wooden boards made from tree trunks and branches, some were simply carrying their own door panels, some people's sand bags looked like the standard sacks of the Chen Dynasty, and some people simply tied up the legs of their pants and filled them with sand. From a distance, it looked like a four-legged monster rushing towards them, which scared the defending Qinghe soldiers.
The frontline officers did not dare to delay. While ordering to shoot as many of Chen Jun's swordsmen and shieldmen as possible, they quickly reported to their superiors. After all, if a large-scale massacre of civilians was carried out, it might affect the morale of the army. If they did not order to shoot, the frontline defense line might not be able to hold on for long.
The messengers from the front line surrounded Huang Zong tightly.
Huang Zong couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, Chen Yu, he used his own people to fill the hole, and he still wants me to bear the sin of murder. I don't know if my son will have an anus after I do this."
However, having said that, Huang Zong knew very well that nothing was more important than holding the defense line. If the frontline positions were so easily broken through by the Chen Dynasty people, then the Chen Dynasty army would probably deploy a larger number of Yibanghan in the future. How could they break through then?
"Pass on my military order. The crossbow formations will fire in a blanket manner. We must prevent them from destroying our fortifications. The crossbowmen in the trenches must cooperate in attacking the approaching Chen Dynasty civilians. No mercy should be shown. Tell them, I gave the order, and I will take responsibility for any problems. But if they disobey the order, I will have them court-martialed!"
As the messengers returned to their respective positions, the attack intensity of the Qinghe side increased. The stick-wielding men who had no idea how to protect themselves fell in large numbers under the coverage of Qinghe's powerful crossbows.
"Huang Zong is still very courageous."
In the rear, after receiving Huang Zong's report, Lin Hai saw the changes on the position through a high-powered telescope.
"Come, tell the frontline that I support Huang Zong's order. Intensifying the attack is both a military order and an imperial decree. They must obey it.
By the way, someone went to tell Huang Zong that it didn't matter whether his son had an asshole or not. As a man, it didn't matter what son he had. As long as his wife gave birth to a son with an asshole, it would be fine. He could rest assured.
Although everyone was trying to dissuade him, Lin Hai still took the responsibility for shooting civilians.
Nonsense, Lin Hai is a time traveler, what is there to be afraid of? Not to mention that the high-level people in this world at least don’t believe in gods. Even if there are gods, they can’t control Lin Hai. To put it more bluntly, Lin Hai’s household registration is not in this world. If you have the guts, go to his hometown and sue him.
But anyway, the One-Stick Man's offensive was contained—only partially.
As the sword and shield soldiers arrived in front of the first barbed wire, the Chen Dynasty archers began to exert their strength, and finally provided some decent fire support to the stick soldiers. In addition, many sword and shield soldiers could not bear it and put the stick soldiers under the protection of their own large shields. Therefore, although the damage to the Qinghe defense line by the stick soldiers was slowed down, it was still ongoing.
But the order to shoot the enemy civilians was also carried out unexpectedly smoothly.
This was probably because this world had the custom of cleansing the enemy's population during war and after victory. In addition, it was controversial whether the man holding simple weapons and wooden sandbags was considered a civilian or a soldier at this time. Therefore, no matter whether it was Qinghe's grassroots officers or soldiers, not many people questioned this order.
Of course, after Chen Yu discovered that the one-stick man was really useful and ordered another 20,000 people to be deployed, many people were shocked by the heroism and courage of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the momentum of tens of thousands of people rushing forward to risk their lives. However, they were only slightly shocked and did not feel anything strange.
This is because anyone with some military common sense and intelligence knows that the so-called "one-stick men" or "armed civilians", no matter whether they are used on the people of their own country or prisoners of other countries, are essentially cannon fodder, consumables, and to put it bluntly, they are used to die.
In general, the role of the Yigunhan is threefold. One is to destroy the fortifications used to fill up the Qinghe River. Another is to rush into the rear of the Qinghe River after destroying the fortifications, forcing the Qinghe Army to mobilize, preferably continuously sending reinforcements forward to form a typical refueling tactic. The last one is a universal use that works at any time, which is to consume Qinghe's crossbow arrows, damage swords and weapons, and consume the physical strength of the soldiers.
After all, no matter how powerful a crossbow is, the arrows shot out cannot be retrieved on the battlefield. Even if a few are retrieved from the corpse, they are already worn out and cannot be used again. And no matter how sharp a sword is, it will become dull after chopping human bones a few times.
Fortunately, Qinghe had already planned to abandon its front-line positions, so they would naturally not be deployed. Such an untrained and unorganized army would collapse on its own if it suffered enough casualties.
I don’t know if it was because Crown Prince Chen Yu was personally supervising the battle today, or because there were too many supervisors mixed in with the spearmen in the rear, but in any case, the Chen Dynasty’s stick men were particularly tenacious in their first charge, and they continued to charge forward despite suffering heavy casualties.
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