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Chapter 467

In the lobby of the Yanshi County Yamen, after discussing military affairs with the generals under his command, Zhang Cheng was discussing the chaos and demise of the Yellow Turban Bandit with everyone. He continued:
"Take the yellow scarf bandit Zhang Mancheng in Nanyang as an example. At first, Zhang Man became the commander in chief and defended Nanyang to the core. After Mancheng's death in battle, the bandits pushed Zhao Hong to be the commander in chief, and they still defended Nanyang City to the core;

Zhao Hong was killed again, and Han Zhong was promoted to be the commander. Han Zhong led the bandits and failed to break through, but was killed. Jun is completely wiped out.

This is a great mistake in military warfare!

Another example is that after Zhang Jiao and his brother Zhang Liang had an incident, they also stayed in a Guangzong city. At first, they were besieged by Lu Zhi, and then continued to be besieged by Huangfusong. Until they were destroyed, they did not do much.

As the saying goes, the sky is wide and the earth is vast, and our advance and retreat are up to us, not the enemy. Only in this way can we control the enemy, not be controlled by the enemy.

Why bother to defend the lonely city with a lone army?
In the absence of strong and reliable foreign aid, there is no reason to be invincible if you are still defending a city, just waiting to be beaten! "

Wei Zhice and the others were all amazed, and he even said: "Since ancient times, no one has talked about why the Yellow Turbans were defeated suddenly from the perspective of military affairs.

What the commander-in-chief talked about today about the failure of the Yellow Turban Bandit to use his troops is an experience summed up from the actual combat of the soldiers. He really made full use of the ancient tactics of warfare, so he was able to reveal the secrets that no one has ever discovered before.

Knowing strategy is mediocre, and on weekdays, he still claims to be able to pay attention to the reasons for the victory and defeat of ancient and modern military affairs, and he can talk about it in a pleasant way, but in fact they are all commonplace, leftovers of the predecessors.

Today I had to listen to the general talk about the army, and I felt very enlightened. Zhi Ce felt very ashamed. "

Wang Yuanjing then said: "The commander-in-chief's words are indeed incisive and brilliant. I read "Three Kingdoms" last year, and seeing Wei Wu talking about military affairs was often unexpected. I don't want to see it again today!"

"Hahaha……"

Amidst the burst of laughter in the hall of the county yamen, all the generals praised Zhang Guangda and Zhang Guodong, who also praised Zhang Cheng's "conquering the enemy by walking" and the sixteen-character running tactics, which were extremely exquisite .

Zhang Cheng said with a smile: "You guys have too much praise for me. I happened to read the content about the Yellow Turban Thieves in "Tongjian" yesterday, so I have these thoughts today, and I want to discuss it with you when I say it.

I often have some partial opinions, but the opinions of a family may not be all correct. You still need to point out the wrong places for me at any time, so that I can correct them. "

Zhang Guangda said with a smile: "With the general's ability, it is better than ten or a hundred Zhang Guangdas! After listening to the commander's teaching today, I realized that our army abandoned Yanshi because it was not controlled by others, so that the bandits did not know where I was. Beg, but I can attack at any time, hitting the unexpected places of the thieves, this is my strategy to control the enemy!"

Zhang Guodong also said: "There is also what the commander-in-chief said about 'conquering the enemy by walking'. Since the uprising in the early years of Chongzhen, the rogue bandits have followed the principle of 'when the enemy advances we retreat, when the enemy stays we harass, when the enemy is tired we fight, The meaning of the sixteen characters "retire me to chase" is scattered among several provinces.

The army of our country has repeatedly defeated it, but it can always rise again. This is the beauty of not sticking to one place. chaos army. "

Looking at everyone in the hall, Zhang Cheng felt relieved. He was most happy to see everyone's growth. At the same time, he also knew that he had talked a little too much today, and it happened to end now.

He said: "Now everyone knows why I don't stick to Yanshi!"

Wang Yuanjing smiled and said: "The commander-in-chief has far-sighted plans, which is beyond our reach. From the students' point of view, there must be another layer of deep meaning in not leaving troops to garrison Yanshi."

After hearing what he said, Wei Zhice, Zhang Guangda, Zhang Guodong and others all looked at Zhang Cheng eagerly, hoping that he could clear up everyone's doubts.

But Zhang Cheng just smiled slightly, and said very relaxedly: "I will give you a good rest in these two days, and the army will start on the [-]th."

"Here!"

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On December [-]th, the north wind howled, the land was white, and the snowflakes were still falling sparsely. Although it had been falling for several hours, it was only a thin layer on the frozen land. silver frost.

The Mang Mountain to the north of Yanshi City is also covered in silver, with occasional lone stones, rock walls and dead trees exposed, making the silvery white even more beautiful.

Yangjialou is located at the west foot of Mang Mountain, 35 miles away from Yanshi in the east, [-] miles away from Mengjin in the west, [-] miles away from Luoyang in the south, and only [-] miles away from Meng County across the Yellow River in the north.

Dozens of horses galloped forward, and the residual snow and mud splashed by the horseshoes flew behind the horse team, leaving a muddy and mixed mark that they trampled on the pale ground immediately.

Yang Shibin, the head of the family in the Yangjialou village, is 33 years old this year. He is still a juren, but unfortunately he doesn't like official career. He never continued the imperial examination, but managed the family business at home.

In recent years, there have been turmoil caused by bandits. As a local gentry and wealthy family, the Yang family built a strong wall in the ancestral home of the Yang family building early on. place.

It has been peaceful for many years, but this year the intruders raided dozens of villages in Xiong'er Mountain and Funiu Mountain. They all dug deep trenches and built high walls, and many of them had hundreds, even nearly a thousand strong soldiers. There are many fortified strongholds, but none of them can withstand the attack of intruders.

This cruel fact made Yang Shibin deeply frightened. He often tossed and turned without sleep all night. He had to send one of his sons and two nephews to Kaifeng Fucheng to avoid disaster.

The reason he did this was that once the Yang family building was raided by bandits, at least he could leave a descendant of the Yang family and some capital to revive the family business in the future.

However, on the [-]th day of December, he met a noble man, Chen Zhong, the commander-in-chief of Zhang Cheng's riding battalion, and this encounter also affected Yang Shibin's life.

On that day, about five or six hundred bandits came to the gate of Yangjialouzhai. They politely handed over letters, wanting to collect food, saying that it was very good, and they would buy it with silver.

It's just that people buy it at the usual price of one tael of silver and one stone of grain, and you can't do it if you don't sell it. If you dare not sell it, then you are an evil gentry. the stockade, slaughtered your family, and robbed your grain.

Although Yang Shibin's family has worked hard for several years, their food storage is not much, and they have to deal with the adults of the government, so how can they sell it to bandits? fear.

Just when he didn't know what to do, the cavalry from the official army rushed over, and without a word, they hacked and killed this group of bandits, and they fled in all directions.

What surprised him the most was that this team of officers and soldiers only had a hundred horses and horses, but they were extremely ferocious, especially when they rushed in front of the bandit soldiers, there was a burst of "cracking" noise, and the smoke rose, and the bandit soldiers were gone. They all went to the ground and howled.

"Fire gun? What kind of gun is this? It's short and has no matchstick!"

But after the battle, the officer army just came to the village to remind him to strengthen the village's defenses, the bandits were rampant, so don't be negligent, lest the village be broken by the bandits and the gentry people suffer.

He was still worried that this team of officers and soldiers would extort money from him after defeating the thieves, but now seeing that the officers and soldiers had no such intentions, he was a little disappointed, so he started talking to this team of officers and soldiers.

When he learned that it was the frontier army under the command of Zhang Cheng, the deputy commander of Xuanzhen, he warmly invited Chen Zhong and others to the village for a banquet. But the Zhang Cheng who killed Yuetuo in the 11th year of Chongzhen!
(End of this chapter)