Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 216

"I wish that one day when Acheng is destroyed, the defenders of Zhongcheng will abandon the city and flee without fighting."

"Geng Yan besieged the city to fight for aid, besieged Juli County, lured the main force of the Qingzhou Army in Licheng to rescue Juli, and then annihilated the Qingzhou soldiers who came to support Juli halfway, and captured Licheng and Juli counties."

"This Geng Yan deliberately arranged for people to make siege equipment, pretending to send an order to attack Juli City, and then lured Qingzhou soldiers from Licheng to rescue Juli City."

"Fei Yi, the defender of Licheng, wanted to take the [-] Qingzhou soldiers from Licheng to attack the Gengyan Han army who was 'siege', and cooperate with the Qingzhou defenders in Juli to come to a center to bloom, but the center did not bloom. Yan besieged the city and fought for help."

"Geng Yan is really a genius. This action of besieging the city and fighting for aid is quite like the style of my Wang family's ancestor Wang You'an."

"Now that Qingzhou's main force has been completely lost, Zhang Qingzhou's situation is gone."

"Almost everyone in Qingzhou is armored, why are they so unbearable?"

"War is not just about equipment. The factor that determines the outcome of a war is people, not things."

Geng Yan smashed several heavily guarded cities in a row, which amazed the Liaodong Sijun who was about to cut off the Han army's food road.

They didn't expect Qingzhou soldiers to be so inexperienced, and they didn't expect the Han army to be so capable.

After the main force was defeated, Mu Zhangbu of Qingzhou temporarily arrested tens of thousands of strong men and sent them to the front line to resist the Han army.

These strong men have only ever farmed fields, and have never even touched a regular weapon, so their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Zhang Bu let the prefect of the county guard Linzi with tens of thousands of strong men, Zhang Lan took the remaining [-] Qingzhou soldiers to guard Xi'an County, and he himself retreated to Ju County with a few thousand elites, forming a corner with Linzi.

The significance of the momentum of the horns is that you will not be trapped to death in the city without food.

At the beginning, the king of Huainan was besieged to defend Shouchun, but he was besieged by the famous general Wang You'an to eat each other. This is the end of simply defending the city.

Others don't need to attack the city, just keep surrounding it and let you starve to death in the city.

Because of the tactic of encirclement without attack, there is the tactic of the momentum of horns, which is specially used to break the siege without attack.

If the Han army besieged Linzi but did not attack it, the soldiers from Juxian could sneak attack the Han army besieging Linzi and harass them so that they could not besiege Linzi with peace of mind.

The reverse is also the same, if the Han army besieges Juxian but does not attack, the defenders of Linzi can also go out of the city to harass the Han army besieging Juxian, making them unable to besiege Juxian with peace of mind.

However, the tactic of horns can easily be cracked by another tactic, that is, to besiege the city and fight for aid.

The Qingzhou army defended the city with horns, and the Han army besieged the city to fight for reinforcements, pretending to besiege or even attack the city, luring the Qingzhou defenders from another city to come out to harass the Han army, and then the Han army was prepared to take the opportunity to harass their Qingzhou soldiers for reinforcements annihilate.

As long as the enemy's main force is eliminated, the city will naturally be destroyed without attacking.

The tactic of besieging the city and fighting for aid is a very risky tactic. It is easy to siege the city and fight for aid due to the dispersion of troops, resulting in a thinner encirclement, so that the enemies in the encirclement take the opportunity to come to a center to bloom.

The art of war lies in this. There is no one tactic that is the best, and any tactic has a corresponding solution, so it is useless to read military books by heart. Only by being flexible and adaptable can one become a generation of famous generals.

"General Qi, the Han army's logistics and grain transportation team is here!"

While the four were still lamenting that Geng Yan was a military genius, a scout came to report the news to them.

A thousand Liaodong cavalry were stationed and hidden in the forest of Mount Tai. They would not attack the city, let alone seek out Geng Yan's main force.

Looking from a distance, this Han army logistics and supply unit has about 4000 to [-] people, and they rushed directly. Although they can barely defeat the opponent by relying on the advantages of cavalry and surprise attacks, Liaodong's own losses will be heavy, and there is a possibility of overturning.

For example, if there is a certain elite Han army cavalry hidden behind the logistics supply unit, they deliberately use the logistics unit to lure the ambushes out to ambush, and then the elite cavalry will take the opportunity to wipe out the ambushes and come up with a counter-ambush. This is not impossible.

"Don't be impulsive. The marching speed of the Han army's food and supply troops is very slow. We quietly moved to the front of them in the mountains and forests, and then launched a night attack in the evening. This way the success rate is greater. In case of a counter-ambush, we can rely on the night get away!"

Wang Bian calmly analyzed the situation without impulsiveness.

The other three also nodded, and then let the cavalry troops dismount and walk, leading the horses to transfer in the forest.

a few hours later

Late night
The food transport troops of the Han army stayed where they were, and they began to set up camp for the night.

"Wait a little longer, they are very vigilant now, and if they attack rashly, the loss may not be worth the loss." Wang Bian told the soldiers to sleep quickly to recover their strength, and at the same time, he asked a dozen scouts not to sleep, and kept monitoring the Han army, which was a food transport unit. movement.

a few hours later

The moon is about to set, and the sun has not yet set.

Yinshi four quarters (four o'clock in the morning)
This is the time when people are most tired.

"Wake them up!"

The four of Wang Bian also slept in turns, for fear that they would lose energy during the battle, and they were also afraid that oversleeping would delay the battle.

The exhausted scouts shook the Liaodong soldiers who were soundly asleep.

When everyone woke up from their sleep, Wang Bian sent a message to the messenger: "Sneak attack quietly, don't make too much noise!"

After confirming that everyone was indeed awake, the four Wang Bian each led more than 200 cavalry out of the forest.

seven o'clock
By the time everything was ready, the time had come to the seven quarters of Yin time.

"Charge with me!"

"kill!"

According to the pre-planned sneak attack plan, Wang Bian and Li Chengyou led [-] cavalry to attack the right side of the Han army's grain transport troops, Zhang Yuliang led [-] cavalry to attack the front, and Lu Yiran led [-] cavalry to intercept the attack. The rear retreat of the Han army's grain transport troops.

The patrolling Han army sentries spotted the Liaodong cavalry charging towards them in the distance, so they hurriedly beat gongs and drums, and shouted at the sleeping Han soldiers in the camp: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

pong!pong!pong! ——

bell bell -

The officers also beat gongs and drums and shook the bells in their hands to wake up the sleeping soldiers in the camp.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Get up!"

"Enemy attack at night! Prepare to fight!"

The soldiers of the Han army slept even later, so they hadn't woken up from their sleep. At this moment, the dream was interrupted, and they all rubbed their tired eyes with their hands and snorted.

Some Han soldiers on shift were in good spirits at the moment because they went to bed early, and they quickly formed a square formation with their spears tightly clenched, guarding against the cavalry rushing towards them.

tread!tread!tread!
However, all of this was too hasty. When they hurriedly formed the phalanx, the cavalry on the horizon had already rushed into the camp.

Seeing that a small part of the Han army had already formed a long spear phalanx, Lu Yi, who originally planned to cut off the retreat of the Han army, did not completely follow the original plan. Instead, he took the initiative to lead his two hundred cavalry into the Han army long spear The side and rear of the phalanx prevented the Han army's spear phalanx from wholeheartedly blocking Wang Bian's main force of cavalry.

Zhang Yuliang, who was charging directly in front of the Han army's camp, did not choose to fight fiercely with the Han soldiers around him, but rushed straight to the rear of the Han army's spear phalanx.

"Quick! Change formation! Fangyuan formation!"

Seeing Liaodong cavalry attacking his spear phalanx from three directions at the same time, the general of the Han army quickly ordered his soldiers to change the formation, from a phalanx that could only defend one side to a square that could defend multiple sides.

However, he seems to have overestimated the reaction speed of his soldiers.

At the moment when the Han army's spear phalanx changed, Wang Bian had already rushed forward with the Liaodong cavalry.

The spearmen of the Han army who were changing their formation in a panic didn't know which side to defend, so they were killed by Wang Bian.

hiss--

"what!!!--"

Chi-

boom!
The neighing of war horses, the wailing of soldiers, and the sound of cavalrymen falling from their horses.

crackle crackle crackle!

The Liaodong cavalry who had rushed to the camp set the camp on fire, causing even greater chaos to the Han army with the fire.

"Geng Yan has already been defeated, why should you resist?!"

Wang Bian beheaded and killed three Han soldiers. At this moment, she was also setting fire to the camp and spreading rumors to the Han soldiers who were in chaos.

"Don't listen to the nonsense of the rebels, General Geng can't be defeated!" The general in charge of transporting grain of the Han army hurriedly explained to his soldiers.

"I'm defeated! I'm defeated!"

"Da Sima was attacked by the Qingzhou army at night during the siege of Linzi, and he was already defeated. He asked me to come back and send a message, telling us not to transport food to the front line, and quickly withdraw our troops and return to Zhu'a!"

According to the original plan, an elite Liaodong cavalry put on the clothes of a Han army scout early on, pretending to be a Han army scout who came to report the news, and spread rumors frantically in the chaotic Han army camp.

"Kill that bastard who spread rumors quickly!" The general of the Han army led several personal soldiers to kill the Liaodong soldier who spread rumors in the raging camp.

"Look at the trick!" Wang Bian also rushed towards the Han general with a few Liaodong cavalry.

clang--

"what!"

Wang Bian's horse lance was longer than that of the general of the Han army, so he relied on his superior weaponry to kill the opponent with one blow.

Life and death are only a moment, and this young general of the Han army lost his life in one breath, and fell into the flames and blood with his eyes closed.

There was no leader in the group, and some people spread rumors. The more than 3000 Han infantry soldiers who transported grain fled one after another, and all the grain and grass they transported were burned.

(End of this chapter)