Chapter 128 Hybrid Grouping Function (4K)
After Liu Gui presented livestock to the troops, he led the team back to the Qihu tribe’s base, and told Su Ze that they would continue to bring livestock to entertain the troops when they returned triumphantly from the north.
After parting with Liu Gui, Li Chong changed his lax attitude in Jinyang and began to send military judges to supervise the camps. He also personally supervised the execution of several officers who delayed the march, and military discipline was tightened accordingly.
Under Li Chong's urging, the army sped up, quickly passed Yanmen Pass, and finally arrived in Hengzhou.
After entering Hengzhou, the entire map turned into a red area representing danger. Su Ze decided to send out a scout team to explore the surrounding situation.
After leaving Yanmen Pass, the atmosphere in the entire army became noticeably tense. Yu Jin, who was serving as a soldier beside Li Chong, became even busier, and even Su Ze came to the military camp less often.
Instead, Princess Shouyang often sent her maids to Su Ze's military camp to ask him some questions about Buddhism. Su Ze was annoyed by her questions, so he simply gave her the volume of "Records of Eminent Monks of the Liang Dynasty", which finally gave Princess Shouyang some peace for a few days.
Riding on a horse, Su Ze opened the system map, and the fog on the map of the nearby area gradually cleared up. It was the scouts sent by Su Ze who were carrying out a reconnaissance mission.
[Scout Team A is carrying out a reconnaissance mission. The mission is being carried out. 】
[Scout Team B is carrying out a reconnaissance mission. The mission is being carried out.]
All we saw was a curved line in front of the red dot representing Su Ze, which formed a fan-shaped area. This was the route that the scout team had explored today.
Su Ze discovered that since he had more followers, the system had upgraded from a role-playing adventure game in which followers were summoned to fight to a real-time strategy and tactical game.
The original function of organizing and entrusting squads to send out scout squads to perform reconnaissance missions has become the same as sending out reconnaissance troops to open the map in a real-time strategy game.
The system kept popping up prompts, and the map would also show the route the scouts had taken and the current location of the scout team. Su Ze, who was no longer a military novice, quickly realized how powerful this plug-in was!
No matter which military strategy book you read, "anticipating the enemy and winning" is regarded as the most important principle, and intelligence is always the most important task in the military.
When fighting in the north, intelligence is even more important.
Why is it said that "Li Guang is difficult to be granted a title"? It means that Li Guang, as a veteran general during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, was always difficult to be granted a title of nobility. This was certainly due to Li Guang's own personality problems, but it was also related to his luck.
Li Guang went out of the border to attack the Huns several times, but he either didn't even encounter the enemy or returned empty-handed after wandering around the grassland.
Or they would run into the main force of the Huns and be completely wiped out.
This is not because the Han army did not attach importance to intelligence work, but because intelligence work was too difficult to do during cavalry combat.
On the vast grassland, units with thousands of people scattered here are just like a drop of water in the ocean and a handful of sand in the desert.
This is not the Central Plains where the North and the South confront each other. Cities are scattered all over the place and villages are connected to each other. As long as the army is mobilized, the enemy will be able to quickly detect the intelligence. Even as long as the army begins to gather, merchants can notice changes in grain prices in nearby cities.
After entering Hengzhou, the number of villages became significantly smaller. On the vast grassland were nomadic Xianbei tribes. Some of them were former Xianbei people who were unwilling to follow Emperor Xiaowen in moving the capital to Luoyang. They could not even speak Chinese and could only live by following the grass.
Even if you inquired about the enemy's movements from these tribes, they would probably only point out a vague area, such as the shadow of a certain mountain or the north of a certain river. There was no way to locate the enemy's position based on this information. What's more, the grassland cavalry itself is very mobile and its position is constantly changing.
There were no mobile phones or satellites at that time. It was difficult to find the enemy or even friendly forces on the grassland.
But it’s different with a system. The system can clearly display the location of the followers. Once the scouts discover the enemy, the system log will mark the enemy’s location, and Su Ze only needs to rush over with the army.
Even better is that this is an almost real-time reconnaissance system, just like in real-time strategy games; as long as the enemy is detected, it will immediately appear on the map, without the need for scouts to pass intelligence back and forth.
This function is so powerful that Su Ze quickly thought of a way to use it. He tried to group the [Yulin scouts with excellent riding skills] and the ordinary scouts in the Yulin Army into a group. Unexpectedly, it actually worked!
This group was set up as Team A of the Scout Squad, and was sent to conduct reconnaissance along the fan-shaped area on the west flank of the Tunqi Battalion. Su Ze also formed a group with the [Yulin scouts who were proficient in the Hu language] and some of his subordinates' scouts, and conducted reconnaissance along the east flank of the advance direction.
However, after studying the system, Su Ze discovered that if the summoned followers and ordinary subordinates were grouped together, the team would have the so-called "arms" attribute and could only perform specific tasks.
For example, these two followers with the suffix [Yulin Scout] can only lead mixed teams to carry out scout reconnaissance commissions, and cannot carry out other types of commissions such as combat.
Moreover, once this kind of commission is executed, it must be completed, and the next round of commission can only be started after the team returns to you.
Previously, Su Ze used a "full-staffed follower" team composed of fully summoned followers to flexibly carry out various commissioned tasks, and even change the commission plan midway.
But Su Ze doesn’t have many followers now, so it is a bit too extravagant to form a full-strength team.
This function gave Su Ze a new idea. For example, if he mixed followers with the prefix [Reckless] and his more brave elite soldiers into a team, would he be able to carry out the commission of charging first?
But it was obvious that Su Ze thought too much. After he grouped the [Reckless Yulin Cavalry] and his Tunqiying Cavalry together and carried out the order of [Charge], only the [Reckless Yulin Cavalry] shouted "Charge" and then rushed out alone.
The cavalrymen in his Tunqi Battalion looked at each other in bewilderment, and no one followed him in the charge.
Su Ze opened the system puzzled and saw the system prompt.
[The "Reckless Yulin Cavalry" does not have enough prestige in the squad and cannot carry out the commission to lead the charge. ]
It seems that followers have a hidden attribute called [Prestige] when forming a team. It makes sense if you think about it. If there is no prestige, who will charge with you?
Then why can the scout team carry out the commission?
Su Ze thought about it and thought that it was probably because there were not many scouts in the army. [Yulin scout with superb riding skills] and [Yulin scout with proficiency in Hu language] were also in the army and had accumulated some prestige. Moreover, carrying out reconnaissance was originally the job of scouts. So after Su Ze publicly announced the two as team leaders and asked the scouts to carry out the reconnaissance mission, the commission was successfully executed.
This new discovery allowed Su Ze to discover new uses for the system.
One way is naturally to do it the same as before, to gather together and summon followers to form a personal guard composed entirely of followers, and just like the last hunting, to directly command this team composed entirely of summoned followers.
The advantage of this is that all followers are summoned with full loyalty and morale, and can be used to perform various commissioned tasks.
Another way to use it is to incorporate the summoned followers into the soldiers under your command, appoint them as officers, and then mix normal soldiers and summoned followers into a squad. Su Ze named this group "Corps", which is similar to the corps squad in real-time strategy games. As long as the [prestige] of the summoned followers is high enough, you can command these corps through entrustment.
Su Ze's thoughts gradually diverged. In addition to commanding the battle, if he placed some of his own followers among the friendly forces, would he be able to display the positions of the friendly forces on the map?
What if you place followers among the enemy army?
Or if the summoned followers placed in the enemy army have enough [prestige], can they directly lead their troops to surrender on the battlefield?
This system seems to have a lot of potential to be developed, beyond simply summoning followers.
This time, joining the army in the expedition is a good opportunity for testing.
After Su Ze understood this, he quickly gathered his men in his military tent, organized them into several small teams according to the types of soldiers under his command, and arranged these followers as team leaders.
[The Yulin Cavalryman who is good at shooting] Su Lin used to be a cavalry instructor in the Tunqi Camp. Everyone knew his ability, so it was only natural to arrange him to serve as the team leader.
[Calm Armored Cavalryman] He has a solemn personality. His armor and superb riding skills also convince ordinary soldiers.
However, there are some minor problems with the organization of the [Reckless Yulin Cavalry]. He has a reckless personality in the army and likes to show off his bravery and fight fiercely. Most soldiers do not like him. Su Ze only selected a few soldiers for him, and it will take more time for him to establish his [prestige] in the army.
It seems that the higher the quality of the followers, the easier it is to serve as officers. Those ordinary blue and green quality followers have very low prestige and can only serve as commanders of a team at most.
Just when Su Ze was re-appointing his officers based on the new discovery, a prompt suddenly popped up on the system.
[Scout Team B discovered the Hengzhou tribe being attacked by the Rouran cavalry. They found traces of the Rouran cavalry. Should we follow them?]
The attacked tribe?
Su Ze opened the map. The army had just passed Yanmen Pass and had not yet arrived in Pingcheng, but traces of Rouran cavalry were found here?
Didn’t the intelligence Li Chong obtained from the Taiwan expeditionary force in Pingcheng say that only a few Rouran cavalry were found near Pingcheng?
How come there are Rouran cavalry here?
Su Ze vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he immediately turned on the system and pressed the button.
[Tracking Rouran Cavalry]
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"Prepare to pursue."
[The Yulin scout who was fluent in the Hu language] touched the horse hoof prints on the ground, looked at the burnt tent not far away, and gave orders to his scouts.
"Captain, don't you need to send someone back to inform the captain?"
"No, I have left a trail. The captain can find this place. Let's catch up with the enemy."
The scouts mounted their horses somewhat reluctantly. Although they were somewhat dissatisfied with this close confidant of Captain Su, along the way, the [Yulin scout who was proficient in the Hu language] used his fluent Hu language to obtain a lot of useful intelligence from the small tribes grazing in Hengzhou. He also brought a lot of supplies to everyone and gradually accumulated prestige in the team.
The intelligence about the attacked tribe was gathered by the Yu Lin scouts who were fluent in the Hu language and the chief of the previous small tribe. When they arrived at the Mu Rong Xianbei tribe, they found that their tents had been burned down and their livestock and horses had been looted.
[The Yulin scout who was fluent in the Hu language] discovered traces of Rouran cavalry in an ambush in the burnt tent. After the scout team had recovered their strength, he led everyone to continue the pursuit.
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"Shao Zong, my brother is dying. The rest of the tribesmen are now in your care. We will be safe once we pass Yanmen Pass."
A Xianbei man who had not yet been crowned, held his brother who was shot by an arrow in his arms. His eyes were full of anger, but his silent character made him just nod.
Seeing his brother nod, the man in his arms closed his eyes.
After hastily burying his brother and noting the location of the grave, the young man mounted his horse. Looking at the old, weak and sick people behind him, he also felt the heavy responsibility on his broad shoulders.
This tribe was composed entirely of Xianbei people, but unlike the Tuoba Xianbei who were part of the Northern Wei royal family, they were Murong Xianbei who came from Liaodong.
They were from the Murong clan, King of Yan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. After the fall of the Yan Kingdom, they fled to the Northern Wei Dynasty, which was still in Hengzhou at the time, and settled here.
This underage man was named Murong Shaozong. Their tribe was suddenly attacked by a large number of Rouran cavalry. All the warriors in the tribe were killed in the battle. In the end, only his brother protected a group of old, weak and sick people and escaped.
My brother's plan was to go south to Xiurong. The Murong tribe was related to the Erzhu clan of Xiurong in the north, and they were cousins of Erzhu Rong, the leader of Xiurong. As long as they could reach Xiurong, they would be safe.
But they were still discovered by the Rouran cavalry. In the pursuit just now, the brother was shot by an arrow while trying to cover the tribe's retreat, and finally died in his arms.
Murong Shaozong had no time to cry for his brother. He had been calm and composed since childhood. Although he was taciturn, he was very courageous. People in the clan said that he had the demeanor of the kings who founded the State of Yan.
What he was thinking about now was how to avoid the pursuit of these Rouran cavalry and cross the Yanmen Pass to Beixiurong.
Murong Shaozong led his troops to flee, the Rouran cavalry were chasing them, and the [Yulin scouts who were fluent in the Hu language] were chasing the Rouran cavalry. The three parties started a chase and escape on the Hengzhou grassland.
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At the same time, Heba Yun led his elite troops and part of the Huaishuo Town troops and finally arrived at the vicinity of Wuchuan Town.
Seeing the devastation around Wuchuan Town, Heba Yun, who was born in Wuchuan, clenched his fists.
However, there were too many Rouran cavalry around Wuchuan. These Rouran people had no order and set up tents in groups of three or five near Wuchuan City. They had no unified leadership and each tribe occupied a piece of land.
These Rouran tribes had no plans to attack the city first, so this situation of siege without attack was formed.
Seeing that the situation was not as urgent as imagined, Heba Yun summoned his generals and asked who had a plan to defeat the enemy.
At this time, a young soldier from Huaishuo Town stood up and said to Heba Yun: "General Heba, my subordinate Hou Jing has a plan to defeat the enemy!"
Yang Jun himself did not play a large role in history, but he had a grandson named Yang Su, and Yang Su had a son named Yang Xuangan.
(End of this chapter)