Chapter 44 Changzhi Army Joining the Army (IV)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 44 Changzhi Army Joining the Army (IV)

Minyue Kingdom

Outside the royal city

"ah--"

"Cancel team!"

Outside the King of Minyue City, under a relatively high hill, a village is being slaughtered.

Wang Changzhi, wearing armor to defend himself, stabbed a fleeing Minyue people to death with a shot, and then asked the adjutant beside him to wave the military flag and utter the flag words back to the army.

At the same time, let another adjutant look for scattered soldiers and call them back by shouting, so as to prevent some soldiers from learning flag language.

"Cancel team!"

"Cancel team!"

The adjutant rode his horse and shouted around the bloody village of Minyue, recalling the soldiers who were robbing money.

Bang!

"ah--"

A soldier refused to obey military orders and had already ordered him to return to the team. He was still robbed without fatigue and was immediately whipped by the adjutant.

There are many teams like Wang Changzhi.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said that there are those with straight terrain, those with hangs, those with branches, those with narrow terrain, those with dangerous terrain, and those with far away.

And the neighborhood of the Minyue Royal City belongs to Tongzhe.

I can go, and he can come, and it is called Tong; those who are open to the shape should first live in Gaoyang and benefit the food road, so that they can benefit if they fight.

What it means is that when we are in a terrain where both we and the enemy can be smooth, we must occupy the surrounding commanding heights, use the commanding heights to observe the enemy's every move, and use the commanding heights to observe whether your own food channels are in danger. Standing at the commanding heights, you can see the enemy attacking the food channels at any time, so you can support the food channels in time. In this way, the war will be beneficial to us.

Based on this principle of military strategy, the commander Wang Hui asked his deputy general Li Xi to lead his troops to occupy several commanding heights around the Minyue Royal City to prevent the rear food route from being cut off by the Minyue Army when the Han army besieged the royal city.

At the same time, in order to ensure the absolute safety of these commanding heights, all the villages in Minyue that live near these commanding heights must be slaughtered. Doing so can prevent these Minyue people from sending messages to the Minyue army.

At the same time, Sun Tzu's Art of War said that those who are good at using military force will no longer be registered and will not be able to obtain food for more than three years. They will be used for the country. Because the food is from the enemy, the army can have enough food.

Therefore, do not carry too much food, grass and supplies to drag down your marching speed. At the same time, try to rely on plundering the people of Fujian and Yue to replenish food. This is also in line with the principle of military strategy.

Based on the above reasons, cavalry teams such as Wang Changzhi and Zhang Cigong were dispatched to nearby Minyue villages for tragic robbery and massacre to ensure the security of the army's command information and obtain materials for the army.

Military discipline is very important to an army. The military discipline here does not mean not to plunder, but simply to obey superiors' commands.

When the superior orders the soldiers to plunder, the soldiers must plunder immediately without condition. When the superior orders you to stop plundering, the soldiers must plunder immediately.

Those who order plunder but are indifferent, and those who order not to plunder but are plunder are all manifestations of lack of military discipline.

As several Han soldiers who were addicted to plunder were beaten by whips, all the soldiers gathered obediently to Wang Changzhi.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The adjutant beat the drum very quickly and beat it three times. This was a military order, which meant that he immediately marched back to the commander's army.

Wang Changzhi's three adjutants, one is responsible for military flags, one is responsible for beating drums and trumpets, and the other is responsible for passing orders for fast horses. After receiving the military orders at the top, Wang Changzhi issued military orders to the three adjutants around him in accordance with the requirements of the superior military orders. Then the three adjutants waved military flags in different postures, beat drums with different rhythms and sounds, and conveyed different orders according to the military orders issued by Wang Changzhi.

Da da da da da!

Under the leadership of Wang Changzhi, the cavalry team rushed towards the military camp.

From the hillside, you can see that the entire Han army barracks are in a hexagonal shape. The outermost edge is three circles of trenches, and there is a layer of quarry between each trenches. In the innermost layer of quarry, there is a circle of wooden fences. Many temporary simple arrow towers and observation towers were built around the wooden fences. Inside the wooden fences are six infantry military formations, each with six floors. In the sixth floor of infantry formations, there are many archers. Behind the gaps of the six infantry formations are many crossbowmen. In the middle of the crossbowmen, there are many military tents, and the innermost is the military tent of the commander Wang Hui.

These basic camps were built mainly to prevent the Minyue army in the royal city from suddenly rushing out of the city when the Han army was relaxed and caught the Han army off guard. After all, the Han army soldiers were also human beings, and it was impossible to keep their spirits tight and keep vigilant at all times. They also had to sleep and rest.

"The cavalry team Wang Changzhi returned to the team!"

Wang Changzhi shouted at the military camp, then stopped outside the military camp, and the adjutant beside him also waved the corresponding military flag.

The soldiers in the barracks quickly removed the horse and placed thick and flat wooden boards on the trench.

Step by step!

Wang Changzhi and others rode war horses and returned to the barracks with a large amount of plundered spoils.

After that, cavalry squads such as Wang Changzhi returned to the military camp one after another.

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late at night

Handsome tent

"The King of Minyue cannot stand firm. If the attack is for a long time, we will carry not much food and grass in order to fight quickly, so we mainly rely on looting the surrounding villages." Wang Hui stared at a military map on the table, looked at the Minyue King City and surrounding terrain on the map, and said this.

"Besides, Yu Shan, a famous general of Fujian and Yue, is leading his troops outside. If he attacks our army's retreat, he will cut off my food route..."

Wang Hui didn't say much halfway through the talk. Everyone present understood what the consequences of the food road being cut off.

"Yu Shan is eager to rescue Wangcheng, and will inevitably come. Why not use his plan and come to him to besiege the city and fight for help." Li Xi, who has studied military tactics in Liaodong for more than ten years, suggests this.

"Fake a besieged city, really attack aid?" Wang Hui was thinking about the feasibility of doing so.

Send a small number of troops to pretend to attack the royal city, attract the main force of the surrounding enemy troops to rescue the royal city, and then select a dangerous place on the necessary road for the main force of the enemy to come to rescue, arrange the main force to wait for ambush there, and finally annihilate the main force of the enemy. In this way, the enemy who is still standing in the city will be disintegrated and surrender without fighting.

"I think about it again." Wang Hui did not dare to make such a risky military action casually, looking at the map of Minyue and constantly thinking about the possibilities under different tactics.

Although this tactic of besieging the city and attacking aid is very profitable, there are risks. If the enemy in the city finds that they are "fake besieging the city and real besieging the aid", then they will definitely take the opportunity to come out of the city and cooperate with their rescue troops to come to a center to blossom. At this time, the Han army will be attacked on both sides, and there is a high probability that the entire army will be wiped out.

Of course, another tactic that cooperates with it is also high risk and high return, that is, "fake and fake siege, fake and real siege to attack support."

He deliberately accidentally revealed that he wanted to "fake the city and really attack the aid", which made the enemy commander in the city mistakenly think that the time for a counterattack was up, so the enemy troops in the city would take the opportunity to rush out of the city. As a result, what was greeted outside the city was not the "fake the aid" feint troops, but the real main force of the Han army. In this way, he could take the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Minyue Army in the royal city, so that the enemy did not have enough troops to continue defending the city.

This is also a kind of tactic, but the risk is also extremely high. If the owner of the royal city is a coward and no matter how tempted he is, he refuses to leave the city to take the opportunity to counterattack, then the Han army will be wasted time in vain and was finally attacked by the enemy's support troops and the defending troops in the city, and will eventually be wiped out.

There are many tactics, no distinction between high and low, there is no best tactic, and there is no certain tactic, which is better than other tactics. It depends only on the timing of the use. If it is used correctly, the simplest tactics can also create military myths. If it is used correctly, even the most complex tactics in Sun Tzu's Art of War will become a military shame.

Therefore, the importance of a wise commander to the entire army is unknown. He can keenly analyze the situation of the enemy and us and come up with the most appropriate tactics at the most appropriate time.
Chapter completed!