The force they met head-on consisted of five thousand people. Now that the battle in Hebei has settled, it is certainly impossible for any enemy army to dare to break into the hinterland of Qingzhou and march in a swaggering manner.
It soon became clear that those heading south were the 5,000 surrendered troops that Zhang Jaw had just organized.
Although they are surrendering troops, from the spirit of the soldiers, there is no trace of the usual decadent and timid appearance of surrendered soldiers. They all have chests and belly, their faces are red, and they are full of mighty troops from head to toe.
The taste. Looking at it from an uninformed perspective, one would think that this is a victorious army returning home victoriously.
The soldiers lined up neatly, and under the command of the generals, they stepped on a straight and spacious road on the vast land covered with ice and snow.
The military is in good shape and morale is like a rainbow!
Xu Shu finally understood why the lord had to entrust Zhang Zha with the task of counterattacking Langya.
During the Battle of Yuanshan, in order to hunt down Xi Zhicai, Xu Shu took away all the elite members of the special force. Although the militiamen were numerous, they were far from being able to surround the entire battlefield.
And the Taishan bandits were not regular troops. They only relied on their bravery to fight, and they were very familiar with escaping after losing. The direct result was that not only did they not be able to wipe out all the Taishan bandits in that battle, they did not even leave an important leader behind.
In a sense, this is what Xu Shu did intentionally.
After all the efforts were made in the first battle, a bad breath was released, but in the long run, it was not a good thing. With Zang Ba's remnant army still there, the Qingzhou Army famously counterattacked Langya. Although Langya was actually occupied by Taishan bandits, it was
After all, it is nominally the territory of Xuzhou. Tao Qian himself may not care about Wang Yu bringing it into his sphere of influence, but the local powerful people in Xuzhou have always been worried about this.
Once you have a title, things will be much easier to handle.
When someone is beaten, they want to fight back. This is human nature, and it is also related to the face of the most powerful princes in the world. If Xuzhou cannot capture Zang Ba and others and send them as gifts, they can only acquiesce in Qingzhou's revenge.
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By counting prisoners after the war and assessing the battle losses on both sides, Xu Shu had a fairly accurate assessment of Zang Ba's remaining strength. The total number of bandits who escaped from the Yuanshan battlefield was around four thousand. Considering that Zang Ba's army had been completely defeated at that time,
Some of them were frightened and might not have the courage to return to Langya. Zang Ba's remnant army only had three thousand at best.
Even if he manages to recover before the arrival of the Qingzhou Crusade Army, his strength cannot exceed 5,000. He would be thankful to God if he could save his old nest in Kaiyang. He will definitely not be able to take care of other places.
The Langya Kingdom is a very large area, and Qingzhou can seize the opportunity to capture it and completely open up the connection with Xuzhou.
The risk of sending troops this time was very small, but the achievement was not small. The lord deliberately left it to the surrendered general to open his jaws, and also ordered him to recruit rebels and regroup. It can be said to be a great trust.
As the saying goes, you can buy horse bones for a thousand gold. With the example of Zhang Jaw, it is not difficult to appease the tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers in the Battle of Hebei. But after Zhang Jaw was first surrendered, he was in charge of his own affairs. There was not even a supervisor in the army, let alone
What’s exaggerated is that he and his family members are still in the Yanzhou area!
If the lord trusts such a person, what should the other soldiers have to worry about?
Xu Shu admired Wang Yu's courage and went up to meet him. He saw the army formations closing at once, riding a fast horse and marching out. A military commander with a rather elegant appearance raised his hand from a distance and shouted:
"I have long admired Yuan Zhi's reputation for transforming generals into unparalleled soldiers. Today we meet each other. It's a great fate. Zhang Jia is very happy."
Xu Shu didn't dare to be disrespectful and quickly returned the favor: "I don't dare to accept it. General Junyi is a famous general in Hebei and has great power in China. I am fortunate to be a minister in the same palace as the general and protect the Han Dynasty together. Isn't this the joy in my heart?"
After meeting Wang Yu several times in the camp, Zhang Jia had already realized how much he valued him. Although he was not arrogant and arrogant because of his favor, he had put aside all the uneasiness he felt when entering Wang Yu's camp for the first time. When he met Xu Shu, an intelligence leader with multiple talents, he acted neither humble nor overbearing.
Xu Shu also recognized Zhang Jia's ability to manage the army. When the two met and exchanged a few words, they felt a bit like heroes meeting each other and cherishing each other.
Of course, when the two met for the first time, they talked back and forth, but they still focused on military affairs. Zhang Jia sighed sincerely: "In the past, a certain person thought he was a good soldier, but he was easily defeated by the lord in the field. Later, he was defeated by the lord again." A few pieces of false information made my head spin, and I couldn't decide what to do. After I met my lord and obtained the secret talisman in the army, I realized that I was nothing more than a frog in the well."
"After I heard that the Yin Talisman used in the army was made by my lord after discussing with Yuan Zhi, I always wanted to meet him in person to ask for help. Unfortunately, I was given the task of conquering Langya. I thought I missed this opportunity to meet, but I didn't know what to do. When can we see each other again? How lucky are we to meet each other today?"
"No, no, Brother Junyi is praising the younger brother." Xu Shu waved his hands repeatedly: "The Yin Talisman used in the army was made under the instruction of the Lord. My role in it is just to fill in the gaps, perfect the details, and really put forward ideas. The Lord also took the lead in the production, all of which were done by the Lord himself. Brother Junyi, I really don’t dare to accept this praise.”
The so-called Yin Fu is the military code for transmitting information in the army. The earliest record can be found in the earliest military book "Six Tao".
The specific form of this secret communication method is the talisman. The talisman is made of copper plate or bamboo wood plate, with patterns engraved on the surface, and divided into two parts. The pattern or size is used as a symbol for secret communication. According to the records in Liu Tao, Yin Fu There are eight types in total, which respectively represent eight common military situations such as victory and total annihilation, defeating the enemy army, occupying the city, capturing the enemy general, requesting for rescue, and running out of food and grass.
Six Tao is a work written by Jiang Taigong during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. It has been improved by many military strategists until today. It can only represent a concept and no one will copy it in its entirety.
Jizhou also had a special military code before, and it was not secret. Unfortunately, the code's adaptability was too poor. As long as someone who knew the code leaked it, there would be no secrets left.
The reason why Zhang Jia was tricked by Wang Yu and was trapped in the city was because of the leakage of Jizhou's military code. Tian Feng seemed to have done nothing in this battle, but in fact, he played a significant role.
After suffering such a big loss, Zhang Jia was not dissatisfied, but as a famous general in the world, it was impossible for him not to reflect on how to deal with similar situations in the future.
When he asked Wang Yu for advice on this issue, Wang Yu casually gave him the password used internally by the Qingzhou Army. When he saw it, he opened his jaw and was shocked.
The codes used by the Qingzhou Army are not complicated, but it is difficult to decipher them. According to the concept of Yin Fu, Wang Yu listed forty situations that may be encountered in the military, and they were coded separately.
Before the general and his soldiers accept the battle order and set off, Wang Yu will agree with him a forty-word poem and song as the decryption key. The words of the poem must not be repeated, and he will be given a code book containing the above forty phrases.
Each word in the poem corresponds to a phrase, and the order of the phrases is temporarily randomly arranged before the war. This codebook is only kept by a very small number of senior generals on both sides of the communication. During the battle, the front and rear parties communicate according to this codebook.
For example, you can use "Guan Ju" in the Book of Songs as the decoding key, Guan Guan Ju Jiu, In the River Continent, My Fair Lady...
If the army is running out of food during a battle and needs to replenish it, the general at the front will find out the code for "asking for food" from the code book. If it is ninth, and the ninth character in "Guan Ju" is "yao". So.
Please ask the general to write the word "yao" in an ordinary official document and stamp the word with his seal.
After the rear received the official document, they found the word "yao" on the seal and learned that the word "yao" was listed ninth in the temporarily arranged poem. After comparing the order in the code book, they learned the information from the front
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Even if this method is leaked, it will be in vain without knowing the poems and key sequence agreed upon by both parties in advance. Especially for the Qingzhou Army, the lord Wang Yu will throw out a few poems from time to time. Due to the delay in communication, Qingzhou often cannot
Everyone knows it, and the outside world may not hear much about it.
If these verses are used as a code, who can accurately decipher it? If Jizhou used this type of code before, Wang Yu's false information would at best confuse Zhang Zha, and he would soon see through his scheme.
Zhang Jia is also convinced by this.
Military advantages and disadvantages are not just a contest of more troops and fewer troops, but a comprehensive contest composed of countless details. Although Jizhou has a lot of soldiers, horses, money and food, it lags behind in terms of war concepts and strategies.
In Qingzhou, this battle was truly unfair.
He was astonished to Wang Yu, but he also admired Xu Shu who was directly involved in this work, even if he only played a supporting role, and did not care about his age at all.
In fact, neither Zhang Jia nor Xu Shu knew that this code was not Wang Yu's original invention. It was actually invented by Zeng Gongliang of the Song Dynasty, and Wang Yu just used it casually.
Military ciphers used by modern armies usually use Western methods. Wang Yu has no intention of popularizing Western letters and feels there is no need to make them so complicated. Although he has no research on history, he is very familiar with the history of war. Just think about it
, the wisdom of 'future generations' can be borrowed.
After discussing this topic for a while, the two of them felt that it was too late for them to meet each other. However, it was getting late and Zhang Jaw's army had gone a little far, so they had no choice but to say goodbye to each other.
Before leaving, Xu Shu suddenly asked: "Brother Junyi, you said before that it would be difficult to see you again after missing this time. I don't know why?"
Wang Yu made a clear distinction between military power and political power, and strictly prohibited generals from participating in local government affairs, and vice versa. In the eyes of people like Zang Ba who tended to separatism, this meant that he was unwilling to delegate power, but the Qingzhou generals had different ideas.
It doesn't feel that way.
As long as he was not on a mission, Wang Yu never interfered with the generals' movements, just like Zhao Yun, Tai Shi Ci, and Xu Shu's sworn sworn relationship. Therefore, Xu Shu asked this question.
"Well, Yuan Zhi, you may not know that this time, the Lord will entrust you with an important task. Not only will it be difficult, but it will also take a long time." He opened his jaw and said with a hint of sadness.
"Now?" Things like difficulty and time were immediately filtered out by Xu Shu. He was just curious about what other important tasks in Qingzhou that were both risky and difficult at this moment.
"Actually..." Before Zhang Zha set off, Wang Yu held a military meeting in the army. He also knew about the events in Hedong, so he briefly repeated it to Xu Shu.
Xu Shu's eyes widened, there was no trace of fear on his face, and he laughed loudly: "So that's it, this matter really belongs to me." (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! )