Overlord!

Chapter 108
Wang Lang's choice is morally admirable, although it is not wise in military terms.

With Kuaiji's military strength and Wang Lang's talent, if he were to compete head-on with Sun Ce's tiger and wolf army, no matter how you look at it, it would be an egg against a stone.

But the so-called genius is to make use of the right time, location, and harmony to maximize the combat power of this weak army, and use some advantages to block the strong enemy.

Regarding Wang Lang's deployment, Quan Rou introduced to Sun Ce: "The king of the palace wants to protect the city of Kuaiji, so Yu Fan advised him to personally lead the army to guard the county boundary. Deploy the army on the south bank of the Qiantang River, and station the main force in Guling City. "

"Guling City?" Sun Ce glanced at the map of the Yangzhou Governor's Department hanging in the tent. There is no such city in the fourteen counties of Kuaiji County.

Quan Rounai introduced in detail: "Wu County and Kuaiji are separated by the Qiantang River. Between the county boundaries, Qiantang County is in the northwest, and Yuji County is in the southeast. The distance between the two counties stretches for tens of miles. Qiantang River. This Guling City is located in Yuji County on the south bank of the river. Fan Li, a senior official in the past, built the city on the coast of Zhejiang Province.

Everyone immediately understood the geographical advantages of this place. The mausoleum is a high mountain and hills, and Guling City is obviously a military fortress built by mountains and rivers.

Anyone who has seen a building like a military fortress with their own eyes will have a very strong feeling, that is, can this kind of professional defensive building really be conquered by the army in the era of cold weapons?

In fact, the same is true. It is almost impossible to attack a heavily guarded military fortress head-on.Since ancient times in the art of war, the reason why attacking the heart is the top priority and attacking the city is the bottom is because it is too difficult to attack the city.Years and months at every turn, up to hundreds of days, cannot be overcome.

And if the equipment cannot be deployed, the difficulty of attacking is even more difficult.At the beginning, Sun Ce was powerless when he attacked an earthen fortress guarded by more than a hundred people near Danglikou, and he was almost defeated. If he wanted to cross the river to attack a military fortress that had been in operation for a long time, no matter how many waves of people were sent across the river, it would be difficult to defeat it quickly.

Zhang Hong immediately asked, "In addition to Guling City, what is the situation of the Kuaiji defenders deploying along the river? Can the army be ordered to bypass Guling City?"

Quan Rou said cautiously: "I'm afraid it will be difficult. The Lord of the Wangfu is not a gangster, and he has the help of the powerful in the county. Zhou Xin, the former Danyang prefect, is a famous person in Kuaiji. He led his troops to attach himself to the Lord of the Wangfu. , each stationed 200 people in the trilogy, each with a high fort, starting from the East China Sea in the east, and reaching the riverside in the west, the danger of entering and exiting rivers and mountains, for tens of miles, the enemy cannot fight, but people must defend themselves."

Sun Ce frowned, gathering everywhere again!
The most annoying thing for any princes to conquer is this kind of army that loves to build fortifications.

Even if Sun Ce sent thousands of men over to defend an earthen fortress guarded by 100 men, it would not be able to conquer it in a short time.The key is that even if you achieve ten sieges, you can't attack the city with all your strength, and you have to guard against other reinforcements' surprise attacks.

The reason why Jiang Qin was so embarrassed at the beginning was not because the enemy reinforcements rushed to the city during the siege.

The history books of the Central Plains are filled with such examples of unsuccessful sieges and being defeated by enemy reinforcements. There are so many bloody lessons.

The worst thing is the donkey cart emperor Zhao Guangyi, with the 10,000+ elite army of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the most elite forbidden army left by the entire dynasty in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. , the enemy fled.As a result, under the city of Youzhou, the siege of the city was unsuccessful, and was repelled by Yeluxiu, the commander of the iron cavalry outside the Great Wall, who came to help.

An arrow was shot in the thigh of the donkey cart emperor, and he left the army in a hurry and fled all the way south.This battle made the whole country flourish, and the arrogance of swallowing up the captives was directly interrupted.

Defeat, especially the defeat of fleeing in a hurry, has an incomparable blow to the strength and morale of the army.In many cases, a defeat will cause the momentum of the expansion of the entire force to slump for a long time, and it will take a lot of time to restore strength and morale before conquering and expanding again.

What's more important is that even if you win the current bad battle, it doesn't make much sense to take down a castle with 200 people guarding it, and it won't affect the battle situation at all.

After listening to Quan Rou's words, all the civil and military generals in the camp fell into serious contemplation. Obviously, attacking Kuaiji County is not the same concept as attacking Wu County.

The Sun family is quite influential in Wu County. When the army entered Wu County, not to mention that everyone ate pots of milk, at least half of the officials and heroes strongly supported Sun Lang's entry.

But in Kuaiji, it is obvious that everyone from the prefect to the powerful to the celebrities tried their best to resist Sun Ce's army.

Even if some people want to defect to Sun Lang, in the face of this general trend, they cannot reverse the situation.At least the army must defeat the solid line of defense in front of the Qiantang River, and the enemy will be united as one, and the will to resist will gradually disintegrate.

In this kind of situation, any conspiracy and tricks are just jokes. The enemy's monarch is supported by the people, the courtiers are extremely loyal, such as fire attack and water flooding, alienation and ambush are completely unrealistic fantasies.

Therefore, Tai Shici took the initiative to get up and said: "General, the enemy is firmly defending against resistance. At this time, only the soldiers will die and the three armies will fight hard. I will lead my soldiers to cross the river and attack the city to clear the way ahead. .”

Sun Ce stood up solemnly. If one of the Jiangdong generals was the best at fighting such tough battles, it would undoubtedly be Tai Shici.

Sun Ce trusted him very much. After defeating Wang Sheng, he led his army back and ordered Tai Shici to supervise the rebellion in the southern counties.

This wise man in the world really lived up to Sun Ce's great trust. He only led a few thousand people, and he fought against the powerful who dared not hold up their troops.

As a result, he was so powerful in the south of Wu County that the mighty and powerful were frightened when they heard his name. They didn't dare to be domineering at all, they were completely in awe and submission, and obeyed all the government's decrees.

Tai Shici has the most experience in how to maneuver between the continuous fortresses and attack the city.

Therefore, Sun Ce said solemnly: "Yes! Ziyi is brave enough to win the three armies, and he is talented and ambitious. With Ziyi as the vanguard, I will definitely be able to destroy the front and conquer the sharp, and build a strong power in the southeast."

Up to now, Sun Ce has in fact completely confirmed his status as a prince.

There is no need to go to battle in person for military conquests. There are a large number of good generals and heroes under the tent who can go to danger for them.

Leading more than a thousand soldiers to cross the river to attack first, this kind of risky task can only be carried out by one of his good generals.

Cheng Pu also got up at this time, and said: "General, I heard that the good fighters in ancient times were invincible first, and waited for the enemy to be victorious. When crossing the river, the water fortress on the river is the most important thing. The morale of the army is stable, and the final general is willing to lead the navy to assist the vanguard in the battle."

"Yes. Mr. Cheng is mature and prudent. Taking on this important task will surely make the soldiers have peace of mind." Sun Ce nodded.For this attack on Kuaiji, the navy of Wu County was also recruited.

However, Sun Ce did not have much expectation for the role of the navy. The Wujun navy was originally small, and the key was that large ships could not come in.Although the Qiantang River is a large river, it is like the Wei River, turbid with silt and silt accumulation, making it difficult to maintain the waterway. It is not easy for small boats to barely maintain a waterway.What's worse is that the tidal range here is large and the tide is very destructive. Once the Qiantang River tide hits, the navy is forced to be unable to leave the camp.

Therefore, in this case, if the defenders are not defeated, Sun Ce will not be able to send a large army across the river, otherwise the weak logistics supply line may collapse at any time.And if there was a high tide for several days in a row, food could not be transported there, thousands of troops were cut off from food and pay, and they defended the empty camp, they might be defeated by Wang Lang instead.

This is the siege mentioned in the art of war, which refers to the dangerous terrain on all sides, where the enemy can come and go, but it is difficult for me to get in and out.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says: If you are in a desperate situation, you will not stay.

Encircling the land means planning, how to achieve results in this encircled area can only rely on Tai Shici's military strategy.

However, after Tai Shici got the post of vanguard, he had no fear at all, and when he returned to the camp, he immediately summoned his troops.

Since the more than [-] tribes recruited by Tai Shici had to be replaced before, the two Sima tribes assigned to him by Sun Ce were all elite veterans.

Not only were the soldiers from the Sun family's old army who had experienced battles, but even the two Sima were veterans in the army, namely Song Qian and Xian Yudan.

Needless to say, Song Qian is an old man with the same seniority as Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, and his status is only slightly lower than their school captain's position.Before that, Xian Yudan served as the head of the village under Jiang Qin's command. He took the lead in the Dangli battle. After that, he participated in various battles in Sun Ce's pacification of Jiangdong. He made great achievements and was promoted to the post of Sima.

It can be said that these two are typical fierce generals sent in the army.

After learning that they will serve as the vanguard and fight across the river, the two immediately followed Tai Shici excitedly. Song Qian took the lead and asked, "How does the captain plan to deploy?"

As an old man in the army, Song Qian had always regarded Tai Shici as a defeated general and was ashamed of him.

However, as Tai Shici was appointed to be dispatched abroad, he was alone, and his bravery and resourcefulness completely made the whole army surrender to him.

Especially in the battle of Fuchun, when Taishi Cishi only led Song Qian's troops to inspect the territory, more than [-] people from Song Qian's troops, while the local powerful Yin and Yan Baihu's troops, with more than [-] people, raised their troops to attack.

Such a disparity in combat power, the soldiers are all terrified, please guard the city and wait for reinforcements.

But Tai Shici was full of courage, and directly ordered to open the gate of the city, lead the army out, and attack the bandits on the bank of the Fuchun River.As soon as the rebel army was in formation, Tai Shici galloped up to the rebel formation alone, stabbed the last of them, decapitated one, threw them in the air, carried them with a spear, and put them in the formation.

This scene made the thieves all horrified, and no one dared to force them; the officers and soldiers took advantage of the situation to fight hard, and the thieves were defeated.

It is this kind of terrifying record that makes Yan Baihu dare not look north, the powerful dare not be domineering, and all the three armies respect him.Song Qian and Xian Yudan were also completely convinced and willing to be driven by them.

Hearing Song Qian's question, Tai Shici was also full of courage, and said: "I plan to lure the enemy out of the city directly, and fight in an array to defeat the enemy army."

Xian Yudan had a straightforward personality, and asked in amazement: "The captain is sure that he can attract the enemy army? It's probably the enemy's consensus to not fight in formation."

Don't fight in formation, that is, when Wu Jun's army is already in formation, then they will never fight with them.

Even if the garrison of Kuaiji County had never fought against Sun Ce's army, they must know that their combat power might not be as good as Sun Ce's tiger and wolf army.

Guarding the city and still fighting, rushing out of the city and fighting in formation with the enemy, even if it is several times the enemy's army, it may be defeated by more than a thousand enemy troops in one battle.

In this case, unless there are special circumstances, I am afraid that troops will not be sent to leave the city at all.

Tai Shi Ci Nai said: "So I plan to lure the enemy myself, and only take one or two generals to the city to ask for teachers."

To the teacher is a challenge.

To the teacher, to the will to fight.The ancients will fight, first let the brave men attack the enemy.

In layman's terms, it's a one-on-one fight.This is one of the most important means of motivating the morale of the army during the Spring and Autumn Period, when wars still pay attention to rules and etiquette, the two armies agree on the location, the dignified formation, and the battle between gentlemen.

But after the Warring States Period, rituals and music collapsed, and a large number of civilians joined the army, this practice became less popular.

But at present, the methods of warfare are all-encompassing, such as fortifying the wall and clearing the field. Except for some fierce generals who love this kind of situation, almost no one engages in this kind of thing.

So Xian Yudan said directly: "Why is the enemy willing to fight? I'm afraid that if they know the identity of the captain, the enemy will not send troops, but even send elites to hunt them down."

If the war started, he would kill Sun Lang's vanguard general and one of his most powerful school lieutenants, which would definitely boost the morale of the Kuaiji army.

But Tai Shici was courageous, and said heroically: "I just want to let him know that I am the vanguard captain under the general's command! I am the only one with a cavalry, do you think the defenders will go to battle?"

Song Qian and Xian Yudan both took a deep breath for an instant, and the captain's tiger energy came up again!
One person and one cavalry ran to the front of the city guarded by thousands of enemy troops.

But it has to be said that the probability of success of this plan is still extremely high.

As long as the enemy army leaves the city, whether it is fighting in an array or ambushing unexpectedly, it can defeat this army.

Taishi Cinai asked, "Who dares to challenge me to the city?"

Xian Yudan immediately challenged to fight, saying: "There is only one lieutenant, and the enemy may not believe it. I will share it with the lieutenant! One lieutenant, one Sima, whether the enemy believes it or not, beheading the first and second ranks will also be tempted. "

But in fact, when the two of them mounted their horses, even the most cautious enemies would not doubt their identities.

Both of them are fierce generals from the north, Tai Shici is a great man from Shandong, and Xianyu Dan is from a prominent family of Youyan. They are all majestic, over seven feet and seven inches, wearing black armor, carrying bows and spears, and have extraordinary riding skills. He is a strong general in the army, and it is impossible for him to be a pawn in disguise.

Tai Shici dressed neatly, and led his army directly to the river bank, preparing to board a boat and cross the bank.

Song Qian, on the other hand, commanded more than 1000 and [-] soldiers, lined up in Jiangbei, and boarded the ship.

The Qiantang River was blocked by silt, and the waterways that could be used for landing were very limited. The navy could only use small boats to transport them across the river.

Tai Shici was courageous, and said to Cheng Pu: "First transport me and Xianyu Sima across the river to investigate the enemy's situation. After I confirm that there is no ambush, raise the flag as a sign, and send troops across the river to form an array."

(End of this chapter)