Chapter 85 Key

"Who said that they were a group of young master soldiers who could not bear the hardship? I cut him down." Tong Bingwen walked back and forth angrily in the tent of the commander who moved forward to Ningshi City. The rest of the military tent also had their faces ashen.

The information just now came, the ten thousand people collectively called the "Blood Qi Army" in military intelligence documents actually slipped away under the encirclement of three times their superior forces. Since the Blood Qi Army annihilated the cavalry of the thousand people, Tong Bingwen never dared to underestimate this army. It was not a fun thing to have an enemy in his stomach. But he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Blood Qi Army.

After judging that the Blood Qi Army was a cavalry unit, at least mainly cavalry, he asked his guerrilla general named Song Huiming, a famous general named Xiling, to lead five thousand cavalry to track and test. Unexpectedly, Song Huiming did not make any major mistakes, but the Five thousand cavalry were dragged to death by the opponent's cavalry shooting, and only more than 300 people escaped and reported. Only then did he realize that the thousands of cavalry were wearing crossbows, which was such a luxury. But what made him angry was that not only Song Huiming's body was nailed to the cross, but also Song Huiming's five thousand elite cavalry, which might not cause any casualties to the opponent. Even if there were casualties, it was probably caused by the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army who accidentally fell off their horses. This shame made him unbearable.

Tong Bingwen didn't have many soldiers in his hands. From the beginning, he opposed this spark tactic with more political significance than military significance. The troops attacking from all sides did control a large area of ​​Dongping territory in a short period of time, but they were also dispersed. The troops prepared to suppress local resistance were always maintained at 80,000 to 100,000. In this case, he had to use a limited number of more than 100,000 people to maintain strong pressure on Ningshicheng-Baishicheng. Although Baishicheng is a city, it is actually just because

Because the city wall is only high, the population of Baishi City is not sufficient. It is already a luxury to put 30,000 people under the hem of Baishi City. Fifty thousand people surrounded Ningshi City, and after receiving the news of the breakup of the marriage, they began to carry out various tentative attacks. It was barely enough to have enough people. However, the Dongping army may appear at any time, and the siege of Ningshi City. Tong Bingwen wanted to put the troops in his hands as a reserve team under Ningshi City, striving to break the city as soon as possible, but suddenly the Blood Qi army emerged.

Tong Bingwen squeezed out 30,000 people to pursue the Blood Qi army in turn, but he brought the last 10,000 people in his hand to Ningshi City. He gave up the plan to set up a commanding tent between Ningshi City and Baishi City that could support both sides at any time was to be afraid that if it was. If the Blood Qi army threw away the pursuers and stabbed them, it would be a fatal matter.

After all, it was just what Tong Bingwen thought. He sent out 30,000 people, although there were only 10,000 cavalry. However, the commanders of the three pursuers were all famous generals and would never be reckless. According to Tong Bingwen's expectation, these three troops did not need to fight at all, and just advanced together, leaving the Blood Qi army with no way to escape. As the supreme commander of the Xiling Army, he naturally could get sufficient intelligence support. The situation from the spy said that the Blood Qi army had been in the army for less than two years. There were many children of the wealthy nobles in Dongping in many places in the Dongping area. The Blood Qi army was not a regular army in Dongping, and the method of simply drawing officers was to deduce and donate through the game of war chess performance and donation; the Blood Qi army was an unauthorized operation without permission from the Dongping court; the Blood Qi army was a "craftsman" named Ye Tao; the actual commander was a child of the Dai family in Yunzhou, a girl named Dai Yundi...

Based on such information, anyone will come to similar conclusions, right? But Tong Bingwen completely miscalculated this time. Thirty thousand troops advanced together and strictly followed the principle of keeping a distance and not fighting for the time being. The Blood Qi Army jumped out of the battle circle.

The closest distance to the Blood Qi army was the 10,000 cavalry led by Tong Bingwen's favorite general Xue Jingze. When the Blood Qi army set up thousands of cavalry as if they were preparing to fight back, Xue Jingze did not advance but confronted the Blood Qi army. Waiting for the friendly troops behind to come up. When the reinforcements came up, it was already late at night. Xue Jingze thought that he could go down the next day, but unexpectedly, when he set up a large army to attack the next day, the military camp built by the Blood Qi army was empty. At night, the Blood Qi army built a floating bridge and had already crossed the river safely.

Xue Jingze had no choice but to notify the troops in the towns on the other side of the river to be careful while turning back to Ningshi City. There was no pursuit target. Without having to suppress the speed and keep pace with friendly forces, Xue Jingze's 10,000 cavalry quickly left the friendly forces away.

Unexpectedly, the Blood Qi Army actually laid a bridge board on the bridge pier that was originally captured and returned from the original way. Just four hours after Xue Jingze left the camp, he bit the slowest army. Because the troops were roughly equal, although the cavalry had a huge advantage over the infantry, the Blood Qi Army did not fight and only carried out one round of attacks. In this round of attacks, three thousand Xiling infantry were injured and killed.

Then the Blood Qi Army disappeared from the sight of Xiling Army at an extremely fast speed.

In other words, nearly 10,000 people were broken into the hands of the Blood Qi army, which was considered to be the young master's soldiers and the playboy soldiers. No unit has ever encountered any head-on combat power of the Blood Qi army.

"You are all considered old generals and famous generals. Why are you so fooled by a group of kids there?" Tong Bingwen yelled at everyone. Isn't he talking about himself?

"Think about it, what else can I do?" Tong Bingwen sighed. If the news is accurate, it has been almost half a month since the envoy of Xiling was assassinated in Danyang. General Zhuo Mang of Dongping mobilized troops outside. If that guy's energy was still half as good as when he fought with him before, he should have at least 50,000 troops in his hand. If the 50,000 troops appear at the right place at the right time, it will be enough to reverse the current situation. Tong Bingwen is not afraid that there will be a 50,000 army in Dongping now appearing in his sight, and he is afraid that when he can't turn around, Zhuo Mang suddenly attacks.

Tong Bingwen looked at the map for a while and said, "I can't care about that much. Let Xue Jingze take the cavalry in our headquarters to continue searching. Once the Blood Qi army is found, they will immediately chase, report, and find an opportunity to annihilate. The other ten thousand people who are still alive will come to Ningshi City. I want Ningshi City. If I drag it down, there will be no more fun. Let the 20,000 people living in Miancheng share half of the 20,000 people living in Miancheng go to Baishi City. Let Changjie reclaim it, now it has broken his face with Dongping, and it is boring to occupy such a big place. Let Song Changjie recover it... When he arrives in Qing'an Town, he will stay vigilant against the north, and the other parts will cooperate with Xue Jingze to drive the Blood Qi army out for me. Let Luo Xiang gather the soldiers in his hands in the south."

Tong Bingwen figured out one thing. That is the role this Blood Qi army can play. Whether it is harassment or restraint, it is all to delay time. Indeed, letting the Blood Qi army cause great losses, but what made him use heavy troops to encircle and suppress the Blood Qi army was his damaged self-esteem. The two deputy generals who were nailed to the cross made him furious and made him forget. Since he had broken his face with Dongping, the current primary goal is to pull out Ningshicheng and Baishicheng. Break through the defense of this line, with a large area of ​​maneuver between Ningshicheng and Baishicheng and a stable supply line, the front is smooth. In addition, all combat targets are nonsense.

The sparks that broke out were re-cleared in his hand and turned into a ball of fire, which took about two days for Tong Bingwen. During these two days, Xue Jingze, who knew the shame and bravely, cooperated with Changjie Camp. A network-style search was conducted on a large area suitable for cavalry activities and hiding. A total of more than 20,000 troops were divided into a team of about 1,000 people, separated by dozens of miles from each other. It was agreed that once the Blood Qi army was discovered, people would be sent to contact each other. It would rather sacrifice some people than drag the Blood Qi army to death.

Ye Tao was not afraid of this tactic. If he had a highly developed communication method, such tactics would likely allow him to be discovered, followed, and then be surrounded unknowingly. However, now, although he may be discovered, it also leaves him with opportunities to defeat him.

In addition to the Blood Qi army, which had been collectively acting, deliberately showed some of its traces, and then set up an ambush at the exit of a valley, seized the first 1,000 people chasing first and then fled far away. There was no doubt that another general of a low level was hung on the cross. However, Ye Tao also saw this tactical shortage of each defeat during this operation.

Their movements were not fast enough... This is the most serious problem. Although they used the terrain to eat up a thousand people, they were almost driven up by the troops behind. If the opponent followed him closely but did not fight, the situation would be a little troublesome. Although the combat effectiveness of the Xiling cavalry was far from theirs, now, the space for the Blood Qi army to hover was limited in the huge control range of the Xiling army. Even if it was exposed to the vision of the Xiling army for a few hours, it would be possible to entangle them and be surrounded. It would be okay to deal with one thousand people. What if it was a three or five thousand troops? Can they still end the battle so quickly? Even now, there are also cases in the Blood Qi army that are rude in order to pursue tactical speed.

Seeing Ye Tao pondering at the map in the tent, no one else interrupted. This was a strange force. Because everyone understood some strategic and tactical matters and claimed to be experts in this field, in order to avoid everyone's opinions from being concentrated, tactical discussions have been carried out only on a small scale. In fact, when many grassroots officers understood that so many messy things could emerge in actual combat that needed to be dealt with, they were busy sorting out their own troops and had no intention of quietly considering tactical issues. At this time, Chi Lei suddenly ran back.

"General," Chi Lei handed a military document to Ye Taodi and glanced at Dai Yun. "This was found after the brothers under his command intercepted a team of Xilingdi messengers in the morning. I looked at it, and then I quickly delivered it to you."

From this military document, they got good news. The first batch of troops organized by Zhuomang had arrived at the battlefield. However, Zhuomang did not choose to supplement the defense of the Baishi City in Ningshi City, but instead regained Dalin Town to the north.

"The general is indeed brave." After looking at the map carefully, everyone suddenly realized. Zhuo Mang was obviously not satisfied with expelling the Xiling army from Dongping, but was preparing to start an encirclement of the Xiling army from Dalin Town. The most valuable target from Dalin Town is Miancheng. Taking back Miancheng is equivalent to laying a nail in the other party's heart. From Xunshan Pass to Baishi City, Ningshi City only Miancheng has enough manpower and space to transport and distribute materials, and only Miancheng can bear the responsibility of relaying the army's supply. Especially in the so-called spark tactics of Xiling's troops, the transfer and relaying work of replenishment and relaying is more complicated and difficult, and it is definitely not possible to set up a battalion anywhere to solve it.

Once the Miancheng is recaptured, although Miancheng will inevitably have to deal with the pressure of the enemy from all directions around it. As long as the army can defend Miancheng well, it is best to free up hands to carry out a series of harassment operations, it is enough to make the Xiling army sad for a long time. Judging from the speed of Zhuomang's action of recapturing Dalin Town, he took Dalin Town in four and a half hours before he had invested all his troops. The troops were quite sufficient.

Zhuomang's tactics are very risky. If the Xiling army captured Ningshicheng and Baishicheng before the materials were consumed, even if they only took one, it would be a more unfavorable situation for Dongping - a large army in Miancheng was surrounded, while the Xiling army surrounded by another large army was supported by Ningshicheng and Baishicheng. If Ningshicheng and Baishicheng were lost earlier, the Dongping army on the front did not have enough troops to wrap the Xiling army, and the Xiling army might even use Ningshicheng and Baishicheng as the basis, attacking and advancing while plundering materials.

"The problem is here now. We can understand the general's tactics. But how can we cooperate?" Ye Tao sighed.

If Zhuo Mang had already been absolutely sure, he would never take the lead in taking Dalin Town and put on this situation. Instead, he should take the enemy's flanks first and drive the opponent backwards. At this time, he can not only achieve all tactical goals. He can also put the surrounded enemy into a state of confusion. In any aspect, it will be better. Now, Zhuo Mang is in a hurry to take Dalin Town, exposing such tactics, which is likely to be the possibility of such a tactic.

He wants to attract the other party to intercept it. He strengthens the defense of Miancheng to reduce the pressure on Baishi City in Ningshi City and win time. Even Zhuo Mang is likely to really take Miancheng. He personally serves as bait in Miancheng and uses his detention to do what he wants to do. As long as Zhuo Mang has 30,000 people in his hand after breaking Miancheng, the Xiling army will be considered a very loose city if he wants to win this city defense, at least he will have to mobilize more than 80,000 troops to fight for consumption... This is Zhuo Mang's ability as a famous general in the world.

The officers who gathered one after another and the non-commissioned officers who had a high prestige among the soldiers quickly understood the current situation. In any other army, this is almost impossible, but in the Blood Qi Army, where everyone plays big strategies, everyone is proficient in chess battles and sand table deductions, this is the foundation of the foundation.

"What would you do if you were Tong Bingwen?" Zeng Zining asked Ye Tao.

The brutal war has prompted Zeng Zining to jump out of the identity of a pawnshop apprentice. Zeng Zining has never killed anyone, but the three flag teams he controls are the most stable part. Now, after the battle, Zeng Zining's troops are often asked to take charge of the rear and cover the transfer of the army. Zeng Zining always suppresses speed, lets the enemy's main force follow him, and then runs in the other direction for a while. Then, by changing the marching speed and suddenly returning to the horse and killing for a while, let the enemy maintain a greater distance with vigilance... When this relative distance is large to a certain extent, Zeng Zining's troops will suddenly marches quickly, directly throwing away the opponent and moving closer to the main force.

In this era, this is a very difficult tactical action. The morale of the troops, the physical strength, the horse's strength, the appropriate distance to keep from the main force, and the appropriate distance to the enemy... Once there is no consideration in one aspect, there is nothing else waiting for them except death. However, under the leadership of Zeng Zining's army, the three flag teams of Zeng Zining's army, enjoy it and have summarized countless experiences and lessons.

"The easiest way is to... take down Baishi City." Ye Tao thought for a while and began to put a few chess pieces on the map to express the situation of their respective troops. "A small town like Baishi City requires 20,000 to 30,000 people to siege the city. After taking it, you must defend it and throw more than 10,000 elite troops. This way, at least 10,000 troops can be freed. This will cause a headache whether you add this 10,000 troops to the Ningshi City or put it in Mian City. Let's put it this way, unless it is 10,000 troops.

As a last resort, or if you have a complete certainty, otherwise General Zhuo shouldn't have moved to Jiancheng at this time. He occupied Dalin Town and left a smell of attacking Jiancheng. On the one hand, he was waiting for the deployment of the army to be in place, but on the other hand, he could threaten the flanks of Xiling's army. For Tong Bingwen, even if the military force in Jiancheng is small, it would not be less than 10,000, right? He was not necessarily worried about Jiancheng at this time, but he must consider the goal of the entire army... weaken Dongping."

On the map, General Xunshan Pass, Miancheng and Baishicheng were connected with pens. Ye Tao continued: "After taking Baishicheng, the Xiling army would have such an iron waist composed of three key points. They could go out of Baishicheng and burn and kill the thousands of miles of fertile fields in Dongping. The losses caused by a few years will not be able to come back even for more than ten years. They could also confront my Dongping army. If I were Tong Bingwen, I would take Baishicheng first and then strengthen Miancheng. Ning Shicheng is an old-fashioned city after all, and the general's nephew is in command. Tong Bingwen should not be willing to consume a large number of soldiers to attack fiercely. He knew that there was not much time, and he should understand that at this time, he should grasp some things first."
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