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Chapter 44 Changzhi Joining the Army ([-])
Minyue State

Wangchengwai

"what--"

"Close the team!"

Outside the city of King Minyue, under a relatively high hill, a village was being slaughtered.

Wang Changzhi, who was wearing armor for self-defense, stabbed to death a fleeing Minyue civilian, and then asked his adjutants to wave the military flag and send out a semaphore to return to the army.

At the same time, another adjutant was asked to look for the scattered soldiers and call them back by shouting. This was done to prevent some soldiers who had not yet learned the semaphore.

"Close the team!"

"Close the team!"

The adjutant rode his horse and shouted around the bloody Minyue village, calling back the soldiers who were looting money.

Snapped!
"what--"

A soldier disobeyed the military order and had already ordered him to return to the team. He was still plundering endlessly, and was whipped by the adjutant immediately.

There are many teams like Wang Changzhi.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said that the terrain has a pass, a hang, a branch, a pass, a danger, and a distance.

And the vicinity of the Minyue King City belonged to the passers-by.

I can go, the other can come, it is said to be connected; the person who passes through the shape first lives in Gaoyang, benefits food and road, and benefits through war.

It means that when we are in a terrain where both we and the enemy can pass through, we should occupy the surrounding commanding heights, use the commanding heights to observe the enemy's every move, and at the same time use the commanding heights to observe whether there is any danger in our own grain roads. Standing on the commanding heights, you can see them at any time. If the enemy attacks the Liang Dao, it will be able to support the Liang Dao in time, and fighting like this will benefit our side.

Based on this principle of military tactics, the coach Wang Hui asked his deputy general Li Xi to lead his troops to occupy several commanding heights around the Minyue King City, so as to prevent the Han army from besieging the King City, and the rear food roads would be cut off by the Minyue Army.

At the same time, in order to ensure the absolute safety of these commanding heights, all the Minyue villages living near these commanding heights must be slaughtered. This will also prevent these Minyue people from sending messages to the Minyue army.

At the same time, Sun Tzu's Art of War said that those who make good use of soldiers will no longer serve, and their food will not last for three years.

Therefore, don't carry too much food and supplies to slow down your marching speed, and at the same time try to rely on plundering the people of Fujian and Vietnam to supplement food and grass. This is also in line with the principles of military law.

Based on the above reasons, cavalry squads such as Wang Changzhi and Zhang Cigong were assigned to various nearby Fujian and Yue villages to carry out brutal looting and massacres to ensure the security of the army's command information and incidentally obtain supplies for the army.

Military discipline is very important to an army. Military discipline here does not refer to not looting, but simply refers to obeying the command of the superior.

When the superior orders the soldiers to loot, the soldier must immediately loot unconditionally. When the superior orders you to stop the looting, you must stop the looting immediately.

Those who order looting but do nothing, and those who order no looting but looting are all manifestations of lack of military discipline.

As a few soldiers of the Han army who were addicted to looting were whipped, all the soldiers gathered around Wang Changzhi obediently.

Boom boom boom!
The adjutant beat the snare drum, and beat it very quickly, three times. This is a kind of military order, which means to march back to the commander's army immediately.

Among Wang Changzhi's three adjutants, one was in charge of the military flag, the other was in charge of beating drums and horns, and the other was in charge of delivering orders on fast horses. After the military order was issued, the three adjutants followed the military order issued by Wang Changzhi, waved the military flag in different postures, beat the small drum with different rhythms and sounds, and conveyed different orders.

Da da da!
Under the leadership of Wang Changzhi, the cavalry squad rushed towards the barracks.

It can be seen from the hillside that the entire Han army barracks presents a hexagonal shape, with three circles of ditches on the outermost periphery. The fence, around the wooden fence, built many temporary simple archery towers and watchtowers, and inside the wooden fence, there are six infantry phalanxes, each with six floors, and inside the six-story infantry phalanx , there are many archers, and behind the gaps in the six infantry phalanxes, there are many crossbowmen. Among the crossbowmen, there are many military tents, and the innermost one is the military tent of the coach Wang Hui. .

These basic camps are mainly built to prevent the Minyue army in the royal city from suddenly rushing out of the city when the Han army is slack, and killing the Han army by surprise. After all, Han soldiers are also human beings, and it is impossible to be tense and vigilant all the time. , but also to sleep and rest.

"Cavalry Squad Wang Changzhi returns!"

Wang Changzhi yelled towards the barracks, then stopped outside the barracks, and the adjutants around him also waved the corresponding military flags.

The soldiers in the barracks quickly removed the horses and placed thick and flat planks on the trench.

Tatata!
Wang Changzhi and others rode war horses and returned to the barracks with a large amount of plundered spoils.

Since then, cavalry squads such as Wang Changzhi have returned to the barracks.
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Late night
帅帐
"The king of Minyue can't hold out. If we attack by force, it may take a long time. Moreover, we don't carry much food and grass in order to make a quick decision. We mainly rely on looting the surrounding villages." Wang Hui stared at a picture painted on cloth on the table. Looking at the military map, looking at the Minyue King City and the surrounding terrain on the map, he said something like this.

"Besides, Yu Shan, the famous general of Fujian and Vietnam, is leading the army outside. If he attacks our army's rear by force and cuts off our food supply..."

Wang Hui didn't say anything more in the middle of his speech. Everyone present knew the consequences of the food road being cut off.

"Yu Shan is eager to rescue Wangcheng, so he will definitely come here with his troops. Why not use his tricks and come to him to make a fake siege and really fight for help." Li Xi, who has studied the art of war in Liaodong for more than ten years, suggested so.

"Fake siege, but really fight for aid?" Wang Hui thought about the feasibility of doing so.

Send a small amount of troops to pretend to attack the royal city, attract the main force of the surrounding enemy forces to rescue the royal city, then choose a dangerous place on the way that the main force of the enemy must pass to rescue, arrange the main force to wait there for an ambush, and finally annihilate the main force of the enemy. , the enemy who is still standing in the city will be demoralized and surrender without a fight.

"I'll think about it again." Wang Hui didn't dare to take such a risky military action, looking at the map of Minyue and constantly thinking about the possibilities under different tactics.

Although this tactic of besieging the city and fighting for aid is very profitable, there are also risks. If the enemy in the city finds out that they are "falsely besieging the city and really fighting for aid", then they will definitely take the opportunity to come out of the city and cooperate with their rescue troops. One center is blooming, and at this time, the Han army will be attacked from both sides, and there is a high probability that the entire army will be wiped out.

Of course, another tactic that goes hand in hand with it is also high-risk and high-yield, that is, "falsely besieging the city, falsely fighting for aid".

Deliberately and accidentally revealed the news that he wanted to "falsely besiege the city, but really fight for aid", making the enemy commander in the city mistakenly believe that it is time to counterattack. Then, the enemy army in the city would take the opportunity to rush out of the city, but the people outside the city greeted them. It is not a "fake aid" feint attacking force, but the real main force of the Han army. In this way, it can take the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Minyue army in the royal city, so that the enemy army does not have enough troops to continue to defend the city.

This is also a kind of tactic, but it is also extremely risky. If the owner of the king's city is a coward, no matter how tempted he is, he refuses to leave the city and take the opportunity to counterattack. The army's support troops and the city's defenders attacked from both sides, and finally the entire army was wiped out.

There are many tactics, and there is no distinction between high and low. There is no best tactic, and there is no certain tactic that is better than others. It only depends on whether the timing is right. If you use it correctly, the simplest tactic can also create military strength. If the myth is used incorrectly, even the most complicated tactics in Sun Tzu's Art of War will become a military disgrace.

Therefore, the importance of a wise coach to the entire army is self-evident. He can keenly analyze the situation between the enemy and the enemy, and come up with the most suitable tactics at the most suitable time.

(End of this chapter)