Seven hundred and sixty seventh chapters why fear a battle
"General, my subordinates believe that the opponent has 100,000 people, twice as many as us, and they are all cavalry. The art of war has this saying: All warriors should use the right combination to win by surprise. We should avoid their sharp edges and wait for the general manager
The Chinese army has arrived." A general stood up and said.
"Any warrior must use the right combination to win by surprise." This is a sentence from "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
This sentence is understood by many people to mean that fighting a war relies on cunning tactics. After all, there is an idiom called victory by surprise.
In fact, this is the biggest misunderstanding caused by polyphonic characters.
"Use the right combination to win with the odd" is the most misunderstood sentence in Sun Tzu's Art of War. The biggest misunderstanding is that the odd to win with the odd is not pronounced qí, pronounced ji, it is a mathematical vocabulary, odd number, even number, odd,
The ancients also called it "Yu Qi", which refers to the superfluous part.
The original meaning of the art of war means that when fighting the enemy with regular soldiers, an extra force must always be ambushed, that is, a surprise force. The surprise force can surprise and disrupt the enemy's deployment during the battle, which is the key to victory.
.So the "qi" in this sentence is not a strange (qí) scheme, but the basic law of "divided warfare".
To put it simply, you should not invest all your troops in a war, but keep a part of your troops, which can be understood as what later generations would call a reserve force.
In fact, in ancient times, it was very popular to keep a reserve team when fighting.
All troops will not be thrown into the battlefield, so that no matter whether it is offensive or defensive, there will be troops on hand.
At this time, their strength is less than half of the opponent's, and there are more than 10,000 infantry among them. Under such circumstances, if they leave some reserves, it is likely to lead to the defeat of the enemy on the front battlefield and a rout.
Cheng Yaojin was noncommittal, looked at the others and said, "Do you have any other opinions?"
"General, my subordinates feel that..."
"General, my subordinates think..."
Next, several people expressed their opinions in succession. Cheng Yaojin seemed dissatisfied and did not make any comments.
"Zichu, what do you think?" Cheng Yaojin looked at Lin Xuan and asked.
Lin Xuan stood up and saluted, and said: "General, my subordinates feel that we cannot retreat. According to the enemy situation detected by the scouts, the opponent is less than three days away from us. If the opponent speeds up, the time required will be even shorter. If we retreat,
The opponent naturally knows that we are short of troops and must pursue them, but since we have infantry, we are definitely not as fast as the opponent."
After a pause, Lin Xuan continued: "Once the situation becomes rout, we may even attack the General Manager's central army."
Li Daozong's Chinese army was only five or six days away from them. Once they retreated and were bitten by the opponent, they would probably overwhelm the Chinese army's formation that was catching up.
In ancient times, a war team was set up to supervise the war. Anyone who disobeyed orders and retreated would be shot directly.
In addition to worrying that their behavior would affect the morale of the army, the more important reason was that they were afraid that they would collapse the formation of the army behind them.
After Lin Xuan finished speaking, he cupped his hands and sat down. As for how to fight, he didn't understand at all, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense.
Cheng Yaojin nodded, looked at Xue Rengui and asked, "Rengui, what do you think?"
Everyone was a little surprised when they saw Cheng Yaojin questioning a school captain.
Cheng Yaojin has always been fair in leading troops. In this situation, the captain was not even qualified to participate, let alone speak.
Didn’t you notice that Cheng Yaojin’s son Cheng Chumo didn’t even attend?
At first they were a little surprised when they saw Xue Rengui, a school captain, coming to attend the meeting. When Cheng Yaojin asked by name, they all looked at Xue Rengui.
An ordinary person would be a little nervous when being looked at by so many people with a higher official position than themselves, but Xue Rengui is not an ordinary person after all. He stood up and saluted everyone with a calm expression, and said: "Don't the generals already have a way to deal with it?"
"Oh?" Cheng Yaojin was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "If I have any coping methods, you can tell me."
Xue Rengui said: "The general divides the infantry and cavalry into two battalions, the north and the south. Once the enemy comes, just order the cavalry of the camp to line up and wait. The opponent will definitely attack the south camp. As long as the south camp defends the camp, the opponent will not be able to attack it for a long time.
At this time, the cavalry of the northern camp will take advantage of the opportunity to counterattack, and the opponent will be defeated."
"Absurd, there are only more than 10,000 infantry, how can we defend 100,000 people?" a general said disdainfully.
If you want to defend a city, as long as you have enough equipment, it is not too difficult to defend ten thousand to one hundred thousand for a month.
But this is a plain. Although there are many equipment and traps set up outside the camp to protect against cavalry, it doesn't take much effort to break through the camp.
Once the camp is broken, the infantry are no different than lambs to the slaughter in front of the cavalry.
Xue Rengui did not speak, but looked at Cheng Yaojin.
Cheng Yaojin smiled and nodded.
"Normally speaking, it is definitely impossible to defend. Even if we defend, the casualties will be very heavy. The reason why I say this is because of Zhuge Liannu." Xue Rengui said.
"Zhuge Liannu?"
Except for Lin Xuan and Cheng Yaojin, the others were either surprised or confused.
The people who were surprised were because they had heard of Zhuge Liannu’s name.
Those who are confused are because they don't know what Zhuge Liannu is.
Don't think it's impossible.
Most of the generals present had risen through the ranks through meritorious service on the battlefield, and not many of them had studied the art of war.
Zhuge Liannu did not exist for a long time in history and was lost, so not everyone knows about it.
"The Zhuge Liannu can hold fifty crossbow arrows and fire continuously. This time I specially applied to the general manager and secretly brought over five thousand crossbows. In addition, there are another thousand crossbows at Zichu's place, even if ten
With thousands of cavalry, what do you have to fear?" Cheng Yaojin said proudly.
Six thousand repeating crossbows can continuously fire 600,000 crossbow arrows.
Archers in ancient times usually carried fifty arrows.
It's not because of the lack of arrows, but that the strong bows in ancient times were at least about one stone. Since the measurement standards of each ancient dynasty were different, the stone here is equivalent to 30 to 60 kilograms today. Such a bow is not
Most people pull it up, and it is a very physically demanding job.
After a long period of archery, the shoulders and arms will be very tired, and there is no strength to shoot the arrow. Even if the arrow is shot, the range is very short, and it cannot achieve the purpose of attacking the enemy. Therefore, under normal circumstances, archers only carry 50 arrows.
A left and right arrow.
Six thousand repeating crossbows are equal to six thousand archers, and they are the kind of archers who can shoot continuously without any effort.
After an archer has shot about fifty arrows, he will be exhausted, but a repeating crossbow will not. It can be loaded again after shooting.
These five thousand tools were rushed out by the Ministry of Works during this period.
This is because the craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry gradually became more skilled and were able to create so many.
And the phone bill makes Li Shimin, who is now rich and wealthy, feel pain in his heart.
Although everyone has not personally seen the power of Zhuge Liannu, since Cheng Yaojin admires Zhuge Liannu so much, he must be very powerful.
"General, with such a sharp weapon, why should you fear a battle with the Turks!"
Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the fighting spirit in both soldiers and generals had not disappeared.