Volume Seventeen Chapter 2806 confrontation exercise
The preparation time passed without realizing it. Hou San and Marak had already chosen their own troops. Hou San's troops came from Laojun Mountain. This army that was shown to be bandits by everyone has a size of 10,000 people. Hou San only has five thousand, which is enough for him.
Speaking of the longest 10,000 people in Laojun Mountain have only been with Hou San for more than half a year, and the shortest is only a few months. In terms of combat power and individual combat level, they are absolutely unable to compete with the soldiers of the Immortal Legion. However, Hou San is full of confidence. No matter how strong the enemy and us compare, the key to the victory of the confidence of victory, a team without the courage to win, no matter how powerful the ability is, it is absolutely impossible to win. This is an eternal truth.
Marak's confidence is absolutely strong. Compared to his soldiers, his soldiers are much stronger than Hou San's bandits. Marak has been in nearly ten years in his transition to Hu You, and many of his soldiers have followed him before he joined Hu You. He can calculate that at least more than ten years of military experience. Veterans may not be very capable of fighting, but their experience may reverse the entire battle situation at critical moments.
On the viewing stage, all the senior executives of the Immortal Legion were here. They were also very concerned about this battle. In short, they were not only unfamiliar with Hou San, but also with Zhu Daneng and Qin Ming. These three people occupied three seats in the nine legions in this reorganization, and their total strength reached 1.5 million. This is 30% of the entire Immortal Legion's combat power. If they were Xiong Bao, the entire Immortal Legion might be killed by them.
Almost all of the people who came to watch the game made up their minds. If Hou San lost too ugly against Marak this time, then they would dismiss them at all costs regardless of what Hu You and Hou San had to do.
The Immortal Legion has nothing from the smallest team to Hu You himself. It’s okay if Hou San and others have the ability, but if they don’t have the ability, their only way out is to get out. The Legion’s command system does not have their seats.
The exercise was chaired by Liu Bodu. Hou San and Marak were recruited in front of them and announced in front of everyone: "The theme of this exercise is offensive and defensive confrontation. The two sides use 5,000 soldiers to be equal to 500,000. One minute is converted to ten minutes, and one kilometer is converted to ten kilometers..."
The rules were issued at the same time when the confrontation exercise was announced. This is also the most commonly used rule. In theory, it is not necessary to read it carefully. The reason why Liu Bodu did this was to not give any excuses to both sides. The soldiers were chosen by themselves, and the rules were the same, and no one took advantage of them. If he lost, he could only blame himself for his poor academic skills, and no one could blame him for his lack of knowledge.
Attack and defense against each other naturally have an attacking side with a defense. But this is not inevitable. Under actual combat conditions, the attacker can defend and the defender can attack. Victory is the only criterion. The process is very important, but war only depends on the result.
Whoever attacks and defends is determined by drawing lots. Marac is good at attacking and wants to be the attacking side. It doesn't matter if he attacks. He is not afraid of defense.
The draw of the two people soon came to a result. Marak was the attacking side and Hou San was the defense.
The offense and defense have half an hour of preparation time, which is only five hours in the battle, which is not much different from a normal actual battle.
The battle was outside Tongcheng, and it had been arranged in advance, with simulated railway stations, railways, highways... all of them should be available. Before the offensive and defense sides were selected, Hou San and Marak had never been here. This was built by a completely neutral arsenal. Even Hu You came for the first time.
The confrontation exercise is not about fighting, it has a story background. This time the story was planned by Hu You himself, saying that in order to cut off the material transportation channel, the defense launched a crazy attack on the offensive direction and brought the lottery results. That is, the Marak Legion launched a destructive attack on the Hou San Legion.
After half a little time preparing, the confrontation began.
Marak is brave, but he is not completely unscheming. After all, he has been with someone like Hu You who is good at calculating for many years, and no matter how hard he has not made plans, he has learned a lot.
After analysis, Marak believes that in order to maintain the transportation line, Housansuo must guard two points a and b, which will be called a city a and b.
In the complex set by Hu You, since there is a larger battlefield outside, the defense party has no external support. In other words, there are only so many people in Hou San's hands, and they will lose if they are blinded or the transportation channel is broken.
Marak quickly set three combat priorities: one was to cut off the transportation channel of Housan Legion to the southwest, the second was to cut off the mutual aid connection between City A and City B, and the third was to roughly the south of the two cities.
At the beginning of the exercise, Marak showed strong attack power. He divided his troops into three directions and advanced towards the target from three directions. The road was as strong as the defensive lines of Hou's three subordinates could not stop Marak from advancing. With such a momentum, the winner would soon have a result.
Hou San is so careless?
A curious general turned his attention to Hu You. Hou San had no achievements against the Immortal Legion. The only thing he could say was a help to Qin Ming during the war in the literary world. However, Qin Ming and Hou San and Zhu Daneng had almost the same backs. It is still unknown how much moisture there was in Qin Ming's report.
Someone said: This is not easy to investigate. So many soldiers have experienced it personally, and you can tell the situation at that time just by asking it casually.
Those who say this will definitely not be in the general level. Where can the soldiers under the general's command be seen? Sometimes they are even defeated. When the general says they win, the soldiers think they have won. The status is huge, and the information obtained is seriously asymmetry, and it seems that the soldiers can never know.
Hu You paid attention to the dynamics of the battlefield, not explaining or explaining. In short, everyone looked at each person, what they saw and what they thought was, and what they thought of was 500,000 troops each. That was a battle-level confrontation. How could it be possible to separate the results in a short period of time? It was too early to say who had the advantage.
Hou San did not give it for nothing. He could see at a glance what Marak wanted. He ordered heavy troops to guard City A before the battle began to ensure that City A was in hand.
Marak was not allowed to let someone go and ordered the three armies to give up their occupation along the way, and launched an attack on A City in the east, south and west directions.
"What are Hou San doing?" Zhu Daneng couldn't stand it anymore. The troops on both sides were obviously equal, but Hou San was besieged by the city from three sides and was completely unable to fight back. The scene was so ugly that even he, an old friend of many years, could not stand it anymore.
"He wants to retreat north." Qin Ming said coldly.
In terms of strategy and tactics, Qin Ming has never been worse than Hu You, but his luck is slightly inferior to Hu You, and he is always suppressed by Hu You in big aspects.
Liu Bodu and Shitou were also analyzing the situation on the battlefield. They had a sand table to deduce the strategies of both sides. They should see the strategies of both sides more clearly.
"Hou San obviously did not show all his strength. What is he going to do? Should he give up on City A?"
City a is the key to the transportation channel. If it is lost, Hou San will lose half of this battle. Can one city B be left alone to block Marak's attack?
Liu Bodu also frowned at Hou San's approach, but his attention had shifted to the mountainous area north of City A. This is a shortcut to connecting the two cities of A. Will Hou San want to do something here?
Some generals have determined that Hou San will lose. Defense should be easier than offense, and Hou San’s defense is like this. It is even more impossible to let him attack. Those who are anxious think that there is no need to continue this exercise. Hu You should immediately remove Hou San’s position and re-evaluate the abilities of Qin Ming and Zhu Daneng. It is not easy for the development of the Immortal Legion to this point. We cannot let so many sacrifices be wasted.
No matter what kind of thoughts in his heart, the exercise continues. As long as Hu You is still sitting there, no one dares to make any abnormal movements before the results of the exercise come out.
Hu You's authority is absolute.
"He is going to withdraw, right?" Hongye asked Hu You in a low voice. With her understanding of Hou San, she knew that Hou San's ability was not just that. The Immortal Legion of the Tianfeng Continent also did not rely on generals who were in the upper ranks. Hou San's ability to hold the position of the five main generals of the Legion for a long time is based on real skills.
"This guy." Hu You smiled and cursed without explaining it. It would be boring to say many things in advance and you must experience them yourself.
Marak didn't know what the spectator felt. He was now thinking about defeating Hou San, and the ability shown by Hou San was almost the same as he imagined. He wanted to use his strength to tell everyone that Hou Sanhe was not worthy of becoming one of the commanders of the nine main combat troops.
The powerful attack ability is Marak's pride, and he doesn't think there is any problem in breaking a city.
Get City A, as long as you win City B, the battle will be over and he will win. Hou San is about to get out. Isn’t this a happy thing?
When the soldiers came to report that the three troops would withdraw from the north gate and escape from the city a to flee to the city b, Marak ordered a tail-chasing without hesitation.
He didn't take the mountainous terrain seriously. In his opinion, Hou San is already a stray dog, so it would be nice to have the courage to run to City B.
Even if there is a blocking force, what can I do to him?
City A was broken, and a sigh came from the viewing zone. With City A's defense, it was actually broken by Marak so quickly. What should I fight next?
Many people couldn't help but put themselves in Hou San's current state of self. They shook their heads. The balance of power has been broken, Hou San was at an absolute disadvantage, and no matter how hard he struggled, he would just shivered.
"Marak is in danger." Shi Tou suddenly screamed. He had always felt that Hou San shouldn't just lose like this, but he couldn't find a way to make Hou San win, so he could only stare at the sand table and search for it.
Finally, he knew Hou San’s tactics. Or maybe Shi Tou knew Hou San’s idea.
What is the battle of 500,000, is just the back of the story of the battle. When the traffic, transportation, etc. are expanded accordingly, it is the battle of 5,000 equals.
Yes, Hou Sanda did not regard this battle as a large-scale practical exercise of 500,000 to 500,000 from the beginning, so he was not prepared to use 5,000 people or fewer people to defend a city from the beginning.
In fact, whether Marac attacks City A first or attacks City B first, the result is almost the same. Hou San will also give up the attacked city. Anyway, according to regulations, as long as one city is in hand, it is not considered a loss. Why do you need to guard one more city and waste your troops?
Hou San's heavy troops were the mountainous area that Bu saw in Liu Bodu. Marak was completely confused by the background of the exercise. He thought that it was impossible for that small mountainous area to ambush 500,000 troops. If you don't say anything else, you can't keep up with the supply alone.
But Hou San added up to five thousand people, which is the real number of five thousand. Whether the exercise treats them as 500,000 or 5 million, Hou San can only use these five thousand.
Ab each of the two cities puts one thousand guards in a pretentious manner, and three thousand people were placed in the mountainous areas of the two cities. Can Marak come in and go out?
"Marak lost." Qin Ming sighed. Marak's performance cannot be said to be bad. If you want to talk about attack, he did play well, but compared to Hou San, Marak has a little less spiritual energy and talent.
In actual combat, I am afraid that the whole world will not be able to find a mountainous area that can allow 500,000 troops to enter in a short period of time. Mountainous areas are called mountainous areas because of poor transportation. Those with better transportation are attractions.
But this situation can occur during the exercise, because the time here is counted ten times. Marak's five thousand men entered the mountainous area in just one hour. According to the rules of the exercise, this took ten hours. Ten hours are not a short time. Apart from objective factors, it is possible to move 500,000 troops from one place to another.
When fighting, you need to pay attention to details. The entire exercise has only been about two hours since the beginning. The soldiers ran and attacked the city. They were very tired, but they could still support it. But after bringing the exercise conditions, people will find that Marak's troops have been rushing to siege the city and pursue the enemy for twenty hours. What kind of iron army in the world can withstand this kind of resistance.
Qin Ming dared to say that Marak lost because of this. Which army in the world dared to chase the enemy into a mountainous area where there was obviously ambush after consuming twenty small energy.
Except for the sheep entering the tiger's mouth, there is no other result.
At this time, many generals watching the game realized the problem. If this is really in actual combat, Marak's troops can be considered to be done from entering the mountainous areas. However, the situation is similar now. Whether it is brought into actual combat, Hou San's strategy of defending two points to grab the front line is slightly better than Marak. Whether Marak brings 500,000 people into the mountainous areas or 5,000 people into the mountain, what is waiting for him is a result - a crushing defeat. Marak loses.
One general who was not optimistic about Hou San voted for Hou San. Both sides were very clear about the strategies and tactics. It would be too against their will if they insisted that Marac could win. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!