Chapter 612 The method of restraint
Sichuan, Sichuan, east, south and north, are all over the world. Although they are a land of one country, they are also trapped in one place. The mountain roads are long and the transportation of supplies is extremely difficult. Although they can defend themselves, they are difficult to compete for the world. Even if Liu Bang, the Emperor of Han, won the world, it did not really take Shu as the foundation, but went out of Shu to seize Guanzhong and Guanzhong to seize the world.
Cai Yan did not believe that Zhao Gou was Emperor Gaozu of Han, nor did he believe that the Zhao clan would give birth to an official family that valued military generals and literati, but he did not dare to underestimate the names of two people on paper.
One is someone he admires very much, and the other is someone he hates very much.
A legitimate general is in charge of Zhenghe; the other is from a bandit in Liangshan, and he is in charge of Qi. When they are together, no one knows what will happen.
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"Young Master..."
Cai Yan lowered his head and walked up the embankment. Others dared not speak casually. When Lu Tao saw the word "Song Jiang", she felt unintentionally worried about his safety and pulled down his clothes.
"Young Master, those Liangshan bandits are the worst. Young Master... Young Master is better be careful...be careful."
"Are you afraid that Master, I will be in their plot again?"
Lu Tao was busy with her head, her eyes were full of worry, and she was very afraid that he would be shot again.
Cai Yan didn't care much and smiled and said, "If you want to kill Hua Rong, it's actually very simple. As long as I'm going to swallow Lianghuai and Henan now, even if Zhao Gou doesn't want to do so, he has to honestly send all the heads of Liangshan bandits to us."
"ah?"
Not only Zhao Zizhi, Zhao Ziyou and others were shocked, but even Lu Tao was a little shocked.
Cai Wei smiled and said, "Why? Don't believe it?"
Lu Tao hurriedly said, "Lu Tao believes in the young master! If the young master says he can, he will definitely be able!"
"hehe……"
Cai Yan couldn't help but smile, turned to look at Zhao Zizhi, and said with a smile: "If you want to take down Lianghuai, Henan is not so difficult. You just need to tell all the imperial guards in the world, the Xiang army, and tell them that as long as you submit to our Ming Dynasty, they are the governors of the top military and political leaders in the country. As long as you tell the people, as long as you submit to our Ming Dynasty, all the land needs only ten taxes and one, otherwise they will enjoy the same high taxes as the Song State."
"Brothers spread these words. Although there are many generals who do not believe in them, some are still willing to believe them. As long as someone believes, some will become kings and rebel against Song."
"hehe……"
Cai Ling grinned.
"Some people believe, some people don't believe, and Henan will be in chaos in the whole of Huaihe River. Zhao Gou is not qualified to cause trouble for his brothers. Brothers only need to send a strong army to kill a few unconvincing prefectures and counties, and only need to be the same as the high taxes collected by the Song State."
"There is no harm without comparison. If the prefectures and counties that actively surrender to our Ming Dynasty, the people will enjoy the benefits of the people's low taxes. The prefectures and counties that do not surrender will have to bear too high taxes. The elder brother needs to know one thing. Now it is not as good as before. In the past, when the world was peaceful, the people's land income was insufficient, and they could work, sell, and rely on business to support their families. But what about this? After the world was in chaos, one was the people's pockets and the other was the court needed to pay more military expenditures."
"Originally, the imperial court taxes were not enough. After the world was in chaos, military expenditures would only be more. The prefectures and counties that surrendered to our Ming Dynasty would no longer pay taxes to Zhao Gou. What if they did not surrender to our Ming Dynasty? Do you need to pay more taxes?"
"In the past, when we were rich and we could still make money, the people could barely pay high taxes, but now everyone has no money. Not only has the taxes been reduced, but they have to pay more. It would be strange if the people are satisfied!"
Cai Yan looked at Zhao Zizhi with a sharp change in expression and smiled: "A word, within a year, the entire Lianghuai and Jiangnan will be my land of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, my brother may say that those guys who surrendered to my Ming Dynasty were the governors of the late Tang Dynasty, but so what? One by one, the selfish guys are not the Song Dynasty, which is integrated into one, so it is easier to pack them up one by one, right?"
Cai Yan patted Zhao Zi straight on his shoulder and sighed: "Brother, don't believe it. Brother, I have the ability to go to Liaodong. The Jin people's Tiefutu is a heavy armored cavalry, and it's still a good deal to deal with the infantry of the Song State. If you want to deal with your brother's heavy artillery, Tiefutu is really not enough!"
Cai Yan frowned and thought for a while, saying, "Actually, the infantry of the Song Dynasty may not be able to deal with Tiefutu, but this requires the first setting of some traps, and it requires forced or luring Tiefutu to fight head-on."
Zhao Ziyou hurriedly asked, "Is there really a way to restrain the Jin Man Tiefutu?"
Cai Yan glanced at Zhao Ziyou and lowered his head and smiled, "Everything has its own principle, just like the horses that resist outside the camp. If the heavy armored cavalry is not protected by the light armored cavalry, it is difficult to escape. But if the infantry fights with the heavy armored cavalry, if there is no special means, the infantry will easily be broken by the heavy armored cavalry and become defeated. However, if there are different sizes of horse pits in a specific location, some soldiers who dare to hold shields will be used to cut off the horse's legs, or countless beasts will be buried to injured the horse's legs. If there are no dead soldiers, or if there are any fears that the beast will be injured, then push the wheelbarrow, and the wheelbarrow connected together with chains. When escaping, throw down the wheelbarrow, and use ropes and chains to trip over the heavy armored cavalry that cannot jump."
Cai Yan didn't care much about leaking the secrets and told some solutions in public, but it was a bit difficult to actually implement these operations.
Since ancient times, there have been horse traps laid with wooden boards against cavalry. The effects of animal traps and horse traps are not much different. You only need to set the traps in advance so that the soldiers know where there are traps and where there are not, as long as they don’t hurt themselves.
Someone who is more skillful is to hide some soldiers in the trapped horse pit, holding shields in one hand to withstand the trampling of war horses and preparing to cut the legs of horses. Such soldiers must be brave soldiers who are not afraid of death. Once the heavy armored cavalry falls into chaos, the soldiers hidden in the trapped horse pit can make the chaos even more uncontrollable. However, this trap is difficult to hurt the orthodox cavalry formation and the light cavalry like hunting in the grassland.
The orthodox cavalry battles are not rushing up, but like waves of impact. Once a trap is discovered, the only loss of two or three waves of impact on the cavalry in front is impossible to hurt the cavalry's vitality.
The light cavalry in the grassland often does not fight directly with the infantry, but surrounds the prey like hunting, and does not stay on the periphery until the infantry's morale is shaken, they will take the opportunity to tear the army, tear and swallow everyone, and it is very difficult to truly damage such a cavalry.
Heavy cavalry is different from light cavalry. Because heavy cavalry is loaded with a large load, it is impossible to detour at a high speed like the light cavalry. It can only attack the infantry formation head-on, be arrogant and rude to break the enemy formation. It is precisely because of this that it is easy to be conspired. Even so, it is difficult to plot. After all, there must be light cavalry guarding the heavy armored cavalry.
Cai Yan finally said: "Everything is mutually rebellious, but if soldiers flee when they hear the news, the generals are timid and cowardly, no matter how good the plan is, it is useless, or the other generals are cautious enough, some plan is useless."
"Planning and calculations are just things that are used by the weak or to reduce losses. But if the army is strong enough, it naturally does not require some tricks and can push directly, just like the Jin soldiers attacking Kaifeng City in one go."
Cai Yan's direct army is all infantry, and infantry has natural speed in the face of cavalry. If they fight, they do not mean that they have severely damaged their opponents. The only thing that can severely damage their opponents is to attack the enemy three inches and force the opponent to fight head-on with them.
If Cai Yan fights with the Tatars on the grassland, it may be very difficult. The Tatars have no place to live, and the grasslands are thousands of miles away, and it can even drag people to death. But women are different. The lair of women is in Liaodong.
The old nest was in Liaodong. When attacking Liaodong, the female Naomi had to fight head-on with him, regardless of whether she wanted or not.
Chapter completed!