Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 79 The Art of Command
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There was a violent metal collision sound, and sparks burst out.

Gan Ning jumped up and slashed, Le Jin also slashed down with a single knife, completely fighting for his life.

The knives of the two lunatics met in mid-air like this, hitting each other like needlepoints.

However, Le Jin has an advantage in that he is riding on a horse and has a horse to help him unload, while Gan Ning is in mid-air and can only be chopped down.

So after this move, he fell from the sky, took several steps back, and stabilized himself with the help of his personal guards.

Le Jin was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, when a large number of Gan Ning troops around him once again swarmed up, almost breaking down the formation of personal guards around him.

The shortcomings of the small number of people are exposed.

At this time, Cao Jun and Gan Ning Army were fighting everywhere on the left bank of the Feishui River.

The people in the surrounding countryside had already dropped their hoes and poles and ran as far as they could. No one cared about the destroyed bridges.

On the other side of the river, the other half of Cao's army could only stare blankly, the river was swift, and there were mostly landlubbers from the north, and they didn't know how to swim like Gan Ning's Jinfan bandits.

Therefore, Cao Jun on the other side is standing on the bank of the river one by one, watching this side helplessly, unable to give Le Jin any help at all.

Especially when Le Jin's formation was torn apart by Gan Ning in the northwest direction, the entire team retreated steadily.

This caused Le Jin to meet Gan Ning head-on when he wanted to fill the gap with himself and his personal guards, although the first confrontation took advantage of the horse issue.

But there were too few reinforcements around him, and the soldiers on Gan Ning's side rushed towards them like a flood, which made Le Jin unable to expand even if he had some advantages.

However, war is not a fair game in the first place, and any means should be used to destroy the enemy, so Gan Ning did not have the slightest intention of fighting fairly, and once again bullied himself and rushed over.

At this moment, Shen Chen was sitting on horseback in the distance, watching the battle here from a distance. This was the first time he had seen such a small-scale head-to-head battle. When they fought Cao Ren before, they were completely huddled in the cage , and no head-to-head confrontation.

Therefore, Shen Chen is just waiting and watching. He sees that Gan Ning has broken through Cao Jun's formation. Cao Jun's troops are already fighting hard, and the surrounding Gan Ning troops are still breaking in. It is only a matter of time before they are defeated.

However, more than 6000 people are fighting more than 2000 people. At present, they are only gaining the upper hand instead of defeating the opponent in an instant. It also gave Shen Chen a preliminary understanding of Cao Jun's strength. He is now analyzing the reasons why Cao Jun can persist.

"Uncle, how long has it been since the war started?"

Shen Chen suddenly asked Deng Hongdao.

Deng Hong looked up at the sky and said, "It's been about half an hour and three quarters."

Almost an hour and a half.

Shen Chen looked into the distance and said, "Cao's army only has more than [-] people, why can they persist for so long?"

Deng Hong said: "I heard that Cao's army is an elite soldier in a hundred battles. Everyone must be brave. Wasn't Tao Shijun almost wiped out by Cao Cao in Pengcheng when the strength of Cao's army was not much different?"

Shen Chen shook his head and said, "It's one thing to have elite soldiers, but I think Uncle Xingba's army and our Huangmenting soldiers are not much worse than the other side, mainly because the other side is very particular about formation."

Deng Hong asked curiously: "Ah Chen, I remember that you didn't seem to read military books very much before. Are you now interested in marching and fighting and military formations again?"

"When I went to sit with brother Zhuge before, I watched some "Six Secret Teachings" and "Grandson" with him, and I had some insights."

Shen Chen nodded. He really didn't think much about the art of war before, because the Han Dynasty was governed by Confucianism, so if ordinary people want to study and improve, they can only study the Seven Classics. Books like the art of war are often only available to the aristocratic families.

However, Zhuge's family had many books on the art of war. Zhuge Xuan married off his two nieces and served as an official under Liu Biao's command. He could barely be regarded as a second-rate family in Jingzhou, so it was very easy to get the art of war.

In addition to Zhuge's family, Xianshan Academy also has classics on the art of war.

It’s just that in the past, it was because of the need for advancement. Liu Biao and Song Zhong are both great Confucians in the world. If they want to gain a foothold in Jingzhou, they must study Confucian classics intensively.

But in the past year, his Confucianism has become more and more refined. Wang Can took him to visit various Xiangyang Confucian scholars, and gradually became famous in Jingzhou Shilin.

Don't think that modern people can become outstanding military strategists immediately after traveling to ancient times, that is all nonsense.

Wars with cold weapons in ancient times and firearms wars in later generations are not the same concept at all.

The so-called marching and fighting, marching and fighting, there are many ways to move the crowd and set up camps.

When Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan six times later, he was very cautious every time he sent troops, and the strategic and tactical arrangements must be meticulous and perfect.

Therefore, even every time I went to the Northern Expedition, I encountered various reasons, such as the teammates of Soochow Pig, as well as problems such as Ma Su and Li Yan.

But every time he retreated back safe and sound, without causing huge casualties to Ji Han's internal affairs and military strength.

In contrast, although Jiang Wei is not bad, he is far behind Zhuge Liang.

The several Northern Expeditions have mobilized the army, labored the people and cost money, and the results obtained are incomparable with Zhuge Liang, which intensified the internal friction in the Kingdom of Shu.

Therefore, fighting in the era of cold weapons is a very profound knowledge. If you learn it well, you are Zhuge Liang, and if you learn it poorly, you are Ma Di.

Shen Chen is still in the stage of learning the art of war, and has not yet entered actual combat.Even though he managed Cao Ren, it was because Cao Ren underestimated the enemy himself, and he didn't know the ability of the architect.

If Cao Cao came in person and sent thousands of people to find out the real situation in Huangmenting Valley, he might be able to think of other ways to deal with it.

Even if the qionglong was so strong that the red cannons of the Qing Dynasty couldn't blast it, there must be not enough food and grass hoarding, and the consumption could consume Shen Chen to death inside.

Therefore, when Shen Chen came here this time, he felt that it might be a very important practical experience.

He looked at the situation on the battlefield. Although it was very unfavorable to Le Jin, Cao Jun was still tenaciously resisting by using the formation, and sometimes even counterattacked, which inspired him a lot.

"This is what "Sun Tzu's Art of War" says, "Therefore, the momentum of a person who is good at fighting is like turning a round stone on a mountain of a thousand feet, and he has momentum." ""

Shen Chen murmured to himself: "This Le Jin is also a man who is good at fighting. He used the army to fight against us. We can only forcefully attack their spear formation from three sides, like a tiger encountering a tiger. A curled up hedgehog, although we have great strength, we can't bite in a short time."

Deng Hong said smoothly: "Hasn't Xingba already opened a gap?"

"Yes."

Shen Chen's eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at Deng Hong and said, "Uncle, you are really a genius."

"what?"

Deng Hong was at a loss.

But Shen Chen didn't pay any attention to him anymore, but immediately said to the soldiers beside him: "Go, give me an order to let Uncle lead all our troops from Huangmen Pavilion, and rush in from the northwest corner."

"Yes."

The soldiers galloped away on horseback.

Gan Ning grabbed the main force of the attack in a big way, so the Huyang defenders were at the forefront of the charge.

The soldiers and horses of Huangmenting followed behind, cruising around at the moment.

The opponent's main force actually showed signs of being defeated, but they were struggling to support under Le Jin's command. There were already corpses everywhere at the front of the battlefield, and battles were happening everywhere in the fields, on the river bank, and near the countryside.

Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen didn't take the initiative to attack now, they had too many people, 6000 people surrounded 2000 people, and an average of three beat one, there was really no place to intervene and rush in.

Then at this time, Shen Chen's order came, and after confirming the direction Shen Chen pointed to with the messenger, Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen took a look from a distance and found that there was indeed a gap there.

This is easy to handle, they immediately issued an order for the soldiers of Huangmenting to charge in that direction.

At this moment, the battle between Gan Ning and Le Jin has reached a fever pitch. Historically, Le Jin was a brave general who charged into battle. In terms of force, he must be stronger than Yu Jin, and he is also a first-class general.

Although there was a case of being shot in the face by Gan Ning in the battle of Ruxu, he also drew with Ling Tong in [-] rounds, and Ling Tong drew with Zhang Liao in [-] rounds.

And Ling Tong wanted to single out Gan Ning many times to avenge his father, but Sun Quan dissuaded him from doing so.

So from this point of view, Ling Tong's strength should not be inferior to Gan Ning's.

If we compare them horizontally, we can conclude that among the five good generals, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Le Jin have basically the same force value, and they are all first-rate generals, only Yu Jin is second-rate.

However, even though Le Jin is a first-rate general, he should still belong to the lower-middle level among first-rate generals, while Gan Ning belongs to the upper-middle level among first-rate generals. There should still be a difference of two or three points in strength between the two.

Therefore, Le Jin fought fiercely together, relying on the advantage of having a horse at the beginning, he fought Gan Ning for more than 20 rounds regardless of the outcome.

But there are so many people in Gan Ning, his soldiers are all around, Le Jin’s personal guards fell one by one, the Jingzhou army almost surrounded Le Jin, their spears and knives kept beckoning at him, making Le Jin exhausted from beating him .

Soon to the No.40 round, while Le Jin was busy dealing with the spears of the surrounding Jingzhou soldiers, Gan Ning saw the opportunity and slashed at the leg of Le Jin's war horse.

The war horse suffered pain, neighed immediately, and fell to the ground.

In fact, normally speaking, the dominant side in a war often does not choose to attack the enemy's war horse.

Because these are trophies.

In the era of war, the price of a war horse was very high. An ordinary soldier's capture of a war horse was far more valuable than capturing a few enemy soldiers.

But Gan Ning couldn't do anything about it. He had a great advantage on the horse. He sat high and saw far away.

The phrase "Shoot a man first, shoot a horse, and capture a thief first, captures the king" was not originally created by Du Fu, but a summary of the experience of China's thousands of years of war civilization since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

The horse under Le Jin's crotch fell to the ground, and he also fell down. Under normal circumstances, the surrounding soldiers should have rushed up to capture him.

But Le Jin's reaction was also extremely fast, almost at the moment of falling, he swooped to the right.

He rolled all over in the mud. He had seen that direction before, and there were more than ten personal guards fighting to the death. It was the only direction where there were friendly troops.

At this moment, he scrambled and rushed into the formation of his personal guards. The Cao army around him immediately covered him and retreated. The Cao army formation in the rear was already under tremendous pressure, and a large number of soldiers crowded together.

"Kill it."

"Rush in that direction."

"Kill in."

Originally, Le Jin came to make up for the gap, but he got into a hard fight with Gan Ning.

And just after he fell off his horse, he quickly withdrew into the formation, trying to reorganize the soldiers to resist.

In an instant, a large number of enemy troops poured into the gap in front, and the soldiers of Huangmenting swarmed in, breaking the deadlock in an instant, and the sound of blades colliding could be heard endlessly.

Just like the last straw that broke the camel's back, after more than 1000 soldiers rushed in, they tore Cao's formation apart in an instant.

The formation was broken, and the soldiers struggling to support on the periphery couldn't hold on for a while, and began to retreat one after another.

The soldiers in the rear were still pushing forward, clashing back and forth, and a stampede occurred.

You must know that Cao's army formed an formation of only two thousand people at the beginning, and during Gan Ning's first wave of charge, he had already killed the spearmen on the periphery to pieces.

Inside is a circle of swords and shields, about 1000 people huddled together, which is a standard circular defensive formation.

After Gan Ning broke this formation, the circular formation was still struggling to support and was not completely broken.

But Shen Chen noticed this scene, and immediately ordered the Huangmenting soldiers cruising outside to launch a fatal blow, opening a hole from the northwest of Cao Jun, and killing them in the middle of Cao Jun's formation.

Such as the central flowering tactic, inserting directly into the heart of the enemy, and then spreading around.A large number of Gan Ning troops attacked outside, surrounded inside and outside, and Cao Jun suddenly collapsed.

"Run."

"Our army is defeated, run quickly."

"I surrender."

"Don't kill me, don't kill me."

For a while, Cao Jun's soldiers no longer had the will to fight, and soon died, some fled, and some surrendered.

There was an overwhelming momentum on the entire battlefield.

Looking at this scene in the distance, Shen Chen was a little surprised at first, and then quickly fell into deep thought.

At the beginning, Le Jin used the defensive formation, but he was still able to support tenaciously.

If it weren't for the fact that your own troops were three times the opponent's, if it wasn't for your choice to send ships to crash the bridge when the opponent was crossing the river.

In a fierce battle in the wild, with 6000 people against a total of 5000 troops from the Lejin Department, maybe the odds of winning are really not high.

There was even a risk of losing, because Gan Ning didn't have any formations, and everyone was chaotically rushing and rushing, and the organization and discipline were not as good as Le Jin.

But there are no absolutes in everything. Once a way to deal with the enemy is found, the situation on the battlefield will change instantly.

No wonder the Art of War says: "Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent."

Sometimes the battlefield looks good, but the result is suddenly inexplicable. Any factor may cause a change in the situation of the battle.

Shen Chen realized at this moment.

In fact, what the art of war teaches them is only a basic, such as formation, how to deal with the enemy, and how to think.

What really determines the winner is the ability to seize opportunities that cannot be taught in military books.

If the bridge hadn't been destroyed at the beginning, and 6000 people fought against 5000 people on both sides, and Shen Chen also lined up to confront Le Jin head-on, perhaps this war would have lasted for a long time.

This will test the level of command of the generals on both sides, to see if they can seize the fleeting opportunity and pull the balance of victory to their side in one fell swoop.

Shen Chen is very happy now.

Today's battle started smoothly. First, he destroyed the bridge to win the opportunity for himself, and then, under Deng Hong's reminder, he seized the opportunity and defeated Le Jin in one fell swoop.

And this is a very valuable experience for him, and it is worth remembering for a lifetime!

　Don't say that I am short and weak. I actually write 4000 words every day when I am saving manuscripts, but I just send out [-] words for the sake of putting them on the shelves.

　　
　
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