There were two documents spread out in front of Shao Shude. One was a victory report, saying that Hao Zhenwei, the Bian army, was defeated in Hebei, and Feng Ba's troops captured nearly three thousand soldiers.
The second copy was a letter obtained from the intercepted and killed messenger of the Bian Army, stating that Zhu Quanzhong ordered Ge Congzhou to go to Erbo Mountain and Xiong'er Mountain, retreat to Ruzhou, and join the Zhongwu Army.
Combining the two copies makes it much clearer.
Hao Zhenwei and Feng Ba were unlucky. They received the order from Ge Congzhou and walked to the north bank of the river to find an opportunity to cross the river to the south. However, Zhu Quanzhong ordered Ge Congzhou to leave Erxiao Mountain and take the initiative to eliminate the flank threat of the Xia army. Subsequently, Ge Congzhou should give Hao
, Feng and two men sent the order, but due to poor traffic, they failed, resulting in the two men's entire army being annihilated.
This is the advantage of having more cavalry.
In this battle, Shao Shude also felt a little surprise, that is, Zhe Silun was brave and resourceful. He used suspicious soldiers to scare away Hao and Feng at the ferry, which was a great achievement. In fact, this was also the direct reason for the defeat of Hao and Feng.
If they had brought enough carriages, marched steadily, and had enough food and grass, they would not be able to eat it so easily, and they might not even be able to eat it, or even if they did, it would be a huge loss in the final reckoning.
In the future, the battlefield situation will become larger and larger, and each battlefield requires qualified generals to take command. It cannot be taken care of by one person alone.
The skill of your generals directly determines the outcome, because the comparison is based on overall strength.
When Chen Cheng walked into the barracks, he saw Shao Shude studying ancient military campaign cases. He took a curious look and found that he was still studying Liu Yu. This meant that he was pretending to be Zhu Quanzhong.
"Deputy Envoy Chen came just in time. I was fascinated to watch Liu Yu's battle to destroy Nanyan." Shao Shude put down the book and said with a smile: "Liu Yuzhen is a god. The army was mainly infantry. He marched straight in and destroyed Murong Xianbei's Nanyan.
.The Xianbei cavalry failed to cut off their food supplies, and their plan to harass the tired enemy failed. They actually watched helplessly as they drove straight into the capital."
Although the strategies adopted by Murong Xianbei were not very appropriate, such as giving up guarding dangerous passes and underestimating the enemy based on bravery, he thought that since he had a large cavalry force, it would be better to let Liu Yu's infantry enter the pass and annihilate them on flat terrain.
In theory, that's right.
Shouldn't it be difficult for infantry to move even an inch in the face of overwhelming cavalry on an open plain?
I divide the cavalry into three parts. One part takes turns to harass, one part rests, and the other part mobilizes for reinforcements. How many days can the infantry hold on?
However, the harassment and surprise attack seemed to have no effect in the end. When they approached, they were blocked by a car formation and shot dead by foot bows whose range and power exceeded those of mounted bows.
The infantry group even marched while fighting. When they were tired, they would sit on the ground to rest. They marched straight to Guanggu, the capital of Nanyan.
Liu Yu even detached a force to attack other cities. The Xianbei cavalry, which had the advantage of interfering with the battlefield, was unable to stop the surprise attack by a partial division and allowed the city to be breached.
Theoretically, the cavalry has the initiative on the battlefield and can choose to fight or not, but sometimes it loses the initiative and has to fight. For example, if the capital or other important city is attacked by infantry, it has to attack frontally, resulting in a disastrous defeat.
In Liu Yu's battle to destroy Nanyan, the Xianbei cavalry had the initiative at first, but later lost it and was eventually destroyed.
Nowadays, the overall strength of Xia and Bian is actually somewhat similar.
Shao Shude substituted himself for Liu Yu because he wanted to find out how to break this tactic. After all, Zhu Wen and Li Keyong were both men who could move freely among the cavalry in the three towns of Hebei.
What's more, Ma Long and Liu Yu's infantry were able to march hundreds of miles or more than a thousand miles, and were surrounded by cavalry. In the end, they were safe and sound, and they defeated the enemy.
Li Keyong and Zhu Wen were also able to use infantry to subdue Hebei and gain the upper hand.
Even after Yelu Deguang entered the Central Plains and took control of the Bianliang Forbidden Army, the vassal soldiers in Henan, and the militia armed groups attacked, he was able to make more than 100,000 Khitan cavalry exhausted? Finally, Liu Zhiyuan found an opportunity to proclaim himself the emperor and found the country.
But why was Song Jun killed by this trick?
"Commander, to achieve this, the first thing is to make the infantry elite and durable, and skilled in fighting. Go deep into the enemy's territory, not be timid, not panic, and dare to fight and fight hard." Chen Cheng said.
"It's exactly what I thought." Shao Shude said with a smile: "I ruled the northwest. In the states I passed, the majority of the Qiang and Hu people were cavalry. I defeated the cavalry with cavalry, and captured more than ten states, with hundreds of people from Tibetan and Han Dynasties.
More than ten thousand."
"However, the commander-in-chief defeated Tuoba Sigong, attacked Lingzhou, and attacked Li Changfu. They all won with infantry."
"So to deal with Zhu Quanzhong, we still have to combine cavalry and infantry, with infantry as the basis and cavalry as the supplement?" Shao Shude asked.
Chen Cheng did not answer directly, but talked about Liu Yu's story: "Before Liu Laozhi entered Daxian Pass, he built a city for dozens of miles, left troops to garrison, and stored food and weapons. It spanned dozens of miles.
The distance for infantry to march is two or three days at most. In two or three days, there are carts accompanying them on both sides, and the cavalry can't do anything to them."
But the Song army couldn't hold on even if they were exposed in the wilderness for two or three days...
"Why build a city? Because of the vehicle formation, there are many restrictions. First of all, it is affected by the terrain." Chen Cheng continued.
"The road is rugged and dangerous, which is not conducive to driving."
"It's raining and snowing, which is not conducive to driving."
"The swampy and sticky ground is not conducive to driving."
"The river has acres of land, which is not conducive to driving."
"The road collapses and the ground collapses, which is not conducive to driving."
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"I have ten tips on the disadvantages of chariot battles, and I present them to the commander-in-chief." After saying that, Chen Cheng took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, which was densely covered with small regular script. He handed it to Shao Shude and added: "Nothing is absolute.
, these ten disadvantages can all be avoided or solved. To use a chariot to defeat a cavalry, the first point is that the infantry dares to fight and is good at fighting. Without this, no matter how well the chariot is built, it will be useless."
This is to the point.
If the infantry formation of the Zhaoyi Army was broken open by cavalry and did not break up, but dared to dismount the cavalry and kill them, what kind of cavalry could defeat the infantry?
Shao Shude took a quick look at it and found that some of them coincided with his thoughts.
However, there are ten disadvantages to chariot warfare, many of which overlap with cavalry. For example, cavalry cannot go to rivers, woods, swamps, etc. On rugged mountain roads, chariots are not as easy to walk as cavalry, but to put it bluntly, they are not as good as infantry.
Easy to walk.
It would be great if Zhu Wen's infantry were not good at fighting!
Shao Shude estimated that from the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, infantrymen were getting worse and worse with each generation, and their hips gradually became thinner. The reason was probably due to the economic collapse and fewer and fewer resources devoted to the military.
Zhu Wen was the first to build the Bianliang Forbidden Army.
After the fall of the Later Liang Dynasty, Li Cunxu brought tens of thousands of Hedong soldiers, together with the 100,000 Zhuliang Forbidden Army, which formed the main body of the Bianliang Forbidden Army in the Later Tang Dynasty.
This forbidden army system was passed down to the hands of the Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou, and Northern Song Dynasties like a family heirloom. The atmosphere became worse and worse, the population in the north became smaller and smaller, and the economy declined year by year, resulting in equipment and training getting worse and worse, and Ma Zheng was even worse.
Destroyed beyond measure.
During Zhao Da's time, this forbidden army had gone through many mutinies. It was as slippery as a wallflower and had become a rogue army.
Is there anyone willing to fight to the death?
"The commander-in-chief now has tens of thousands of cavalry, not inferior to Chengde Wang Rong, and far surpassing Li Kuangwei of Youzhou and Wei Boluo Hongxin. He has intercepted and killed the Bian army's cavalry, reduced the scope of his scouting activities, and intercepted messengers. He has a great advantage. Zhu Quanzhong gave Ge
From the order given by Zhou, there are probably several routes of messengers, but if one of them is intercepted by me, I can get a glimpse of the inside story." Chen Cheng said confidently: "If the main forces of the two armies confront each other and our army is defeated, the cavalry can be ordered to fight to the death to intercept it.
, the commander calmly dealt with the defeated army and reorganized his troops. If the Bian army was defeated, the commander could use his cavalry to chase and kill him. How could Zhu Quanzhong deal with the defeated troops? How can such an advantage be considered small?"
"The two armies of iron cavalry and silver spears can go deep behind enemy lines. If they encounter enemy cavalry, they will flee. If they encounter enemy cavalry, they will burn, kill and loot." Before Chen Cheng could finish his words, he was stopped by Shao Shude.
"If you do this, you will be a barbarian. If Li Keyong doesn't burn, kill, loot, how can I do it?" Shao Shude said.
Being labeled as a barbarian is a very sensitive matter, especially with Shuofang's current situation.
Yelu Deguang came to Bianliang and proclaimed himself emperor.
It didn't matter at first. The late Tang and Five Dynasties were not too discriminatory towards the Hu people. After all, they had come all the way from the Northern Dynasties.
But the Khitan soldiers went too far in burning, killing and looting. The people of the Central Plains were the first to attack them. Rebel militia groups rose up and beat more than 100,000 Khitan cavalry, exhausted and exhausted.
After the professional warriors joined, Yelu Deguang had no choice but to ride a camel.
Do you really think that the people of the Central Plains are sheep? Do you really think that their martial virtues are not strong? After more than a hundred years of feudal rule, among the adult men in Henan, Hebei, and Hedong, which adult man does not know how to handle crops? Which one is not ruthless?
If you leave room for others and don't do everything right, they won't have to go all out.
But if you fail to do so, you will be surrounded by enemies everywhere and it will be difficult to move even an inch. Do you still want to occupy the Central Plains?
Li Keyong's military discipline was so poor. Who else among his subordinates did this except Li Hanzhi, the man-eating demon king?
Don't think of others as fools.
The late Tang Dynasty was very special in the history of China. People with grassroots backgrounds mostly occupied high positions. The people were tough and brave, and the soldiers were domineering and dared to fight.
Shao Shude did not want to become a Huru, which would mean losing the opportunity to take over the Central Plains forever, just like Yelu Deguang.
Because the people of the Central Plains are not sheep. The proportion of soldiers in the entire population is too high. The yamen army, the outer town army, the state soldiers, the county town soldiers, and the local soldiers are just like cattle. This means that the organization is poor.
In particular, Tutuan countrymen were common people who worked during busy farming periods and trained during slack periods. During the mid-Tang Dynasty, when the imperial court attacked Zhaoyi Liu Zhen, a reward was given to the heads of Tutuan countrymen, with each head worth a bolt of silk.
Is it true that a common man whose head is worth a piece of silk cannot be beaten at all?
It is the biggest mistake to compare the social atmosphere of the late Tang Dynasty, which had been divided between vassal towns for more than a hundred years, with other centralized dynasties.
"Now that the people of Henan Prefecture have been forcibly relocated, I am afraid that my reputation has been damaged, and I will have to make up for it in the future. If I continue to burn, kill, and loot, everything will be over. I am afraid that if the rebels are everywhere, there will be no chance to make progress." Shao Shude continued.
Millions of people across Henan are opposing you. I still can’t ride a camel, so I secretly complained.
"Speaking of the people, there are now more than 60,000 people. If Huazhou and Weibei cannot be resettled, some of them will be sent to Shengzhou. There are many Qiang and Hu people there, and the customs are a bit strange." Shao Shude said again: "Don't be anxious.
Try to rush them on their way, which will cause more casualties. Prepare rest places along the way, prepare more carriages, isolate the sick, and try to reduce losses as much as possible."
"As ordered." Chen Cheng responded.
"The biggest profit this time is these common people." Shao Shude said: "When the main force of infantry arrives, we will do another big job."
Of course, this requires Zhu Quanzhong's "cooperation."
If he repels Li Keyong and overwhelms hundreds of thousands of troops, even a village within twenty miles of Henan will not be able to cut off the food route, and the strategy of weakening the enemy will most likely have limited effect.
Tielin, Tianzhu, Tianxiong, and Wuwei armies have 25,000 infantry, plus more than 10,000 cavalry. If they cannot be defended, they will have to fight with them.
It would be quite troublesome if he drove his army to attack Shaanzhou in a roundabout way and cut off Shuo Fang's army's return route.
But fortunately, Shuofang's army has the advantage of information, so they can just withdraw if they can't defeat it.
To deal with Zhu Quanzhong, I would go east to harass him from time to time and retreat to protect the dangerous pass of Xiashi. Tactically, the strategy of weakening the enemy would not work, but strategically, the strategy of weakening the enemy would be effective.
