On June 24th of the first year of Gaia, the second bandit suppression operation in Shanhai County finally came to an end.
Compared with the first time, the area of the second bandit suppression was tripled, and the harvest was naturally more abundant. A total of 5,400 gold coins were seized, 5,500 people were captured, and a large amount of food, supplies, weapons and equipment were seized.
The most important thing is that I was lucky to get a technical manual for this bandit suppression.
["Ladder Manufacturing Technology Manual"]: After using it, you will automatically master the manufacturing technology of ladders.
The last time the rogues attacked the city, Ouyang Shuo could be considered to have seen the power of the ladders. This kind of siege weapon naturally made him covetous. "Ladder Manufacturing Technical Manual" was handed over by Ouyang Shuo to the Combat Preparedness Department. The Combat Preparedness Department was in charge of organizing craftsmen to study and try to manufacture a finished product as soon as possible.
Ouyang Shuo did not forget that there was still a group of bandits waiting for him to deal with at Zhennan Pass. The appearance of the ladder is undoubtedly a gift from God, otherwise, there is really no other good way to deal with that grand pass.
According to Shi Wansui, the suppression of bandits encountered a tough problem. It was a high-level rogue camp, with more than 3,000 rogues, including more than 500 elite rogues and 1,500 ordinary combat rogues.
Fortunately, the mixed brigade has been formed for more than a month. After many times of suppressing bandits, it can be regarded as a battle-hardened experience. The first battalion of the ace unit mixed brigade already had four squadrons equipped with infantry armor. The defense was astonishing, like an iron barrel, and finally took down this rogue battalion without any danger.
In this battle alone, the mixed brigade lost more than a hundred people. You must know that in the two large-scale bandit suppression operations before and after, the mixed brigade lost a total of more than 300 people, which shows the intensity of the battle at that time.
In fact, at the county level, the rogue bandits were basically unable to pose too much threat to the territory. Because the scale of rogues is limited, the high-level rogue camp is already the limit. In the wilderness, the objects that can be plundered are scarce, and there are too many monks and few meats. If a large number of rogues gather together, they can only starve.
Facing a well-equipped regular army like the Mixed Brigade, the Rogue Battalion had little power to fight back. Because of this, Ouyang Shuo didn't take part in the bandit suppression operation after being promoted to the county seat, and handed it over to Shi Wansui directly.
Of the 5,500 people captured by the bandits, in addition to selecting 1,000 people to join the reserve, the remaining 4,500 people were all sent to Youyi Town by Ouyang Shuo, helping Youyi Town to be promoted to a first-level county seat. Of the three subordinate territories, Friendship Town developed the slowest, Ouyang Shuo really couldn't bear it, and was unwilling to treat one more favorably than another.
Zhou Haichen was appointed magistrate of Friendship County. Zhou Haichen was naturally grateful for the trust of the adults. For the three subordinate territories, he did nothing, so he felt guilty and felt that he had failed the trust of the adults.
Ouyang Shuo didn't say anything, just asked him to continue to work diligently.
At the same time, Ouyang Shuo ordered Lei Xun, who was in charge of collecting information on nomadic tribes, to speed up the pace of information collection. At the same time, a letter was sent to Sun Tengjiao, who had just been promoted to the commander of the second battalion of the Pioneer Battalion, asking him to step up the training of recruits to ensure that the newly formed cavalry battalion could be used at any time.
In the just-concluded bandit suppression operation, Ouyang Shuo specially asked Sun Tengjiao to participate with the cavalry battalion, in order to consciously temper the team and strive to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
Generally speaking, the average rank of soldiers in a battalion must reach the fifth rank to be considered qualified. Otherwise, in Ouyang Shuo's eyes, anything below the fifth level is a new barracks.
At the same time, in order to enhance the strength of the second battalion of the Vanguard Battalion, after a month's investigation, Ouyang Shuo appointed Hei Qi, the second leader of the previous rogue attack, as the deputy commander of the second battalion.
Although it was said that when the rogues attacked the city, the black cavalry led a thousand cavalry, but now it is only a deputy battalion commander, and it seems that it has been demoted two levels in a row. But for a surrendered general, it was considered preferential treatment.
Of course, on the other hand, it is also because of Sun Tengjiao's ability that he is not much inferior to the black knight. Coupled with his qualifications, it is natural that Sun Tengjiao should be promoted first.
Furthermore, according to the pace of Shanhai County's army expansion, as long as the black cavalry performs well, is loyal, and at the same time makes military exploits for Shanhai County, it will only be a matter of time before they are promoted to the battalion.
The 5,400 gold coins seized by the bandits, plus the 7,600 gold coins handed over from the Langshan Mine and the Beimu Salt Field in the first half of June, totaled 13,000 gold coins. Among them, a total of 2,500 gold coins were allocated to the financial subsidies for the three subsidiary territories, 2,000 gold coins were spent to purchase the architectural drawings of the basic buildings of the second-level county town, 1,250 gold coins were spent on the third battalion of the Beihai Fleet and the second cavalry battalion of the North City Camp, and there was The replenishment of the lost soldiers of the mixed brigade cost 250 gold coins, and there were just 7000 gold coins left.
Ouyang Shuo did not deal with the remaining 7,000 gold coins immediately. Instead, he planned to wait until two days later, when the income for the second half of June was calculated, and then make unified arrangements.
In the afternoon, Shanhai County Council Hall.
After the bandits were suppressed, Ouyang Shuo officially began to attack the surrounding players' territories.
According to the deployment of the Military Affairs Administration, this operation is code-named "Lightning", and it is to quickly pull out a total of eight player territories on the east and west sides with lightning speed.
To this end, Shanhai County did not hesitate to use the army.
Lightning action is divided into east and west, go hand in hand, and act together.
On the East Road, there are only three player territories, which are in charge of the Shanhai County Defense Battalion, the Yushui County Defense Battalion, the Youyi County City Defense Battalion, and the Second Battalion of the Pioneer Battalion. The Director of Military Affairs Ge Hongliang is the commander of the East Route Army.
The four battalion officers of the East Route Army are not thorns, and Ge Hongliang will be handy in commanding them. In addition, Ouyang Shuo also wanted to take this opportunity to sharpen the ability of the city defense battalion to coordinate operations and long-distance marching.
With the development of Shanhai County, passive defense is not Ouyang Shuo's goal, active offense is his style. Therefore, Ouyang Shuo didn't want the city defense battalion to stay in the city and slowly deteriorate and lose its combat effectiveness. He had to pull it out from time to time and put it into actual combat in order to maintain morale and blood.
There are five player territories on the west road, which are fully in charge of the mixed brigade, and Shi Wansui is in command of the west road army.
Because according to the feedback from the Military Intelligence Department, the target territory did not have a decent city wall, so Ouyang Shuo did not dispatch the Shenji Battalion this time.
Shanhai County's entire army was mobilized this time, and the battle was even bigger than the bandit suppression. The target of the attack was a third-level village that was not even as good as a high-level bandit battalion. Naturally, there were other considerations.
Seeking speed is the core of this lightning operation.
Strive to capture eight territories at the same time, catching the opponent by surprise.
Before departure, Ouyang Shuo specially told that after the army arrives at the other side's village, don't get entangled, just rush in, take down the other side's lord's mansion, and complete the occupation task.
After the player's territory is occupied, all the players in the territory will be automatically teleported to the adjacent system king city, and the players in the Lianzhou Basin will naturally be teleported to Dali.
If the player dies during the capture, he will be resurrected in the reincarnation hall of the system city.
Therefore, in order to resolve the battle neatly, the East and West armies will set off early tomorrow morning, march to the edge of the territory, and set up camp. In the early morning of the next day, they broke into the opponent's territory in one fell swoop, catching them by surprise. At that time, many players were probably not online yet, and they didn't even know who the enemy was.
This is exactly the effect that Ouyang Shuo wanted to achieve.
If these eight territories all knew that Shanhai County had wiped them out, then their publicity on the forum would surely make the other lords of the Lianzhou Basin huddle together. This was not the result Ouyang Shuo wanted to see.
Only if they don't know who the enemy is, will the lords and players be suspicious of each other, and they won't point all their fingers at Shanhai County. Ouyang Shuo was raising Gu, but he didn't want the Gu insects to huddle together.
Raising Gu is to let the Gu insects fight each other, leaving the strongest in the end.
After deciding on the strategy, the battalions are returning to the barracks to prepare for tomorrow's supplies.
On June 25, the army set off.
The mixed brigade departed from the camp in the west of the city and headed for the westernmost part of the territory. The three city defense battalions and the second battalion of the Pioneer Battalion set off from their respective camps, first rushed to Yushui County to meet up, and then went to the easternmost part of the territory together.
June 26th, five o'clock in the morning.
For the East Route Army, Ge Hongliang's strategy is that the three city defense battalions are each responsible for capturing a third-level village, and the cavalry battalion acts as a mobile force to support them in the middle.
For the West Route Army, Shi Wansui did not assign tasks to battalions.
The battalions of the mixed brigade are all professional arms, and the archer battalion cannot be dispatched alone. For this reason, Shi Wansui dismantled the five battalions and reorganized them into squadrons to form five mixed battalions similar to city defense battalions, including two sword and shield squadrons, one cavalry squadron, one spearman squadron and one archer squadron. Team.
The defenders of the third-level villages are only more than one hundred people, at most two hundred people. Facing a battalion of troops without reliable fortifications, coupled with a surprise attack, there is really no reason for failure.
At 5:30 in the morning, east and west, eight battalions with a total of 4,000 soldiers, like eight sharp sabers, quickly penetrated into the enemy's hinterland like a precise scalpel under the guidance of the military intelligence department.
The third-level villages have arrow towers, and there are stone sentry towers around them. The attacking troops, although early in the morning, still had nowhere to hide. At this time, the battalions did not think about hiding their whereabouts.
The wooden gate of the village was directly smashed open by the mountain barbarian sword and shield soldiers who took the lead, and the follow-up troops followed closely, and went straight to the enemy's lord's mansion.
At this time, in the territory that reacted quickly enough, the defenders had rushed out of the barracks, ready to intercept. Meet on a narrow road, the strong wins. The sporadic defenders couldn't stop the march and were torn to pieces.
The startled villagers, seeing that their son Lang was defeated so quickly, did not dare to go forward. He could only watch helplessly as the other party rushed into the lord's mansion and completed the occupation of the territory.
After the territory was occupied, the NPC aborigines naturally became captives.