The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 71 My Zhao An has the talent of a military god

Gou Chun led the cavalry towards Laiwu. When they entered the territory of Taishan County, he ordered the soldiers to pay attention.

But to be honest, Gou Chun wasn't too worried about what really happened. After all, the normal army couldn't react so quickly.

Even if all the troops are training in military camps, if you want the troops to move to the front line, materials need to be transported and roads need to be repaired.

Therefore, the lower the productivity, the stronger the advantage of being first.

Because often others have captured your frontline city, and you only know that the other party is coming.

Not to mention, the one he led was the best in Gou Xi's army who had fought the Eight Kings Rebellion.

What does it mean to be powerful and what does it mean to be elite? If there is a head-on war with Liu Tai, I am afraid that Liu Tai will be directly crushed by him.

But just when Gou Chun was full of ambition and confidence, a sudden shower of arrows shot at them as they were walking on the mountain road, causing Gou Chun to look at the rain of arrows in the sky in confusion.

Of course Gou Chun was in a daze, but no one of the guards around him was in a daze.

At this time, they decisively raised their shields and surrounded Gou Chun. Some even stood on their comrades to support him and block Gou Chun's arrows.

But in fact, arrows pose a relatively low threat to any general wearing armor. Even if they didn't protect Gou Chun, relying on this rain of arrows to kill Gou Chun was basically just a dream.

After all, in history, there are very few generals or strategists who actually hit the target, otherwise it would not be worth mentioning in the history books.

But Gou Chun was fine. If the soldiers in his position were not wearing armor or helmets, it would be purely up to fate whether they would be injured.

But the real problem in this matter is not how many Gou Chun people were injured, but that the morale of the troops was hit!
This means that the army has entered the danger zone, and this rain of arrows is just coming to say hello.

So Gou Chun was in a daze for a moment, and then decisively issued an order: "The sword and shield soldiers formed a military formation and advanced in the direction of the arrow!"

Following Gou Chun's order, elite soldiers soon formed a military formation and carefully moved towards the place where the arrows were shot.

This journey was quite smooth, and they found their way directly to the spot where the arrows had just hit.

But there was nothing here except scattered footprints. Following the footprints, we came to a plain in the mountains and forests, but there was nothing except horse dung and horse hoof prints. This made the soldiers who came over full of helplessness.

"Horse hoof prints and horse dung?" Gou Chun looked at the surrounding terrain after hearing this, and couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that the environment of the hills and hills has restricted the performance of the opponent's cavalry, otherwise we are afraid we will suffer a big loss! "

"Soldiers, listen to the order. We have entered the territory of Taishan County and will be attacked by the enemy at any time. Please wear your armor tightly and neatly strap your helmet.

If we encounter such an attack again, the soldiers will rush over directly, and the arrows will not be able to penetrate our armor. "

Gou Chun stabilized the morale of the soldiers and said, "Before arriving at Laiwu, every time you kill an enemy harassing our army, one head will be counted as two heads for this battle!"

After hearing Gou Chun's words, the Jin soldiers who were attacked were quickly comforted and regained their morale and continued to advance.

However, the solemn look on Gou Chun's face showed that this matter was not as indifferent as Gou Chun said.

Gou Chun understood that since the opponent was not caught in this raid, he would definitely come back next time.

The road is full of hills, so the other party can only use a small number of troops to harass them if they sneak attack.

Rather than directly organizing a group of cavalry to attack him after he entered the realm of Mount Tai.

But if you want to capture the opponent, it will still be very troublesome. As long as they attack in different places, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, then you will be even more passive.

However, Gou Chun was not unable to deal with this kind of harassment from the opponent. Not to mention, he had to let the soldiers wearing heavy leather armor go ahead first and explore every fork in the road and possible ambush places in advance. Basically, he could Guarantee that this type of item will not be released again.

But in this case, the terrain such as hills and valleys that had been protecting him just now became hindering his progress again.

This road is not difficult to walk, but the mountains and hills next to it block the view.

However, compared with the difficulties he encountered now, what Gou Chun really felt was incredible was the responsiveness of Liu Tai's army and how they actually allowed such a small number of people to act alone.

After all, such an army is incredible no matter how you think about it. I have never encountered it before!
Gou Chun took a deep breath and felt that Liu Tai was more difficult to deal with than the opponents he had encountered before!

So Gou Chun began to arrange soldiers in armor to take turns to explore the road.

Of course, this would inevitably sacrifice the marching speed of the army, but Gou Chun still insisted on his own judgment and chose to be cautious first.

The fact that the other party can reach the Laiwu area so quickly and send soldiers to harass and block him is obviously not something to be underestimated. At least his own army cannot respond with this kind of reaction!
Along the way, Gou Chun still encountered all kinds of harassment, including mountain traps made by hunters, water sources contaminated with feces, and sudden attacks like this. Such attacks were endless.

I found a small basin among the mountains, close to the flowing mountain spring, and cleared away the surrounding weeds and trees.

He planned to let the soldiers rest here for one night, and they would fight their way out of this hill no matter what tomorrow!

But that night, a charge bugle sounded in the east, someone came to break into the camp in the west, and several rolling balls rolled from the top of the mountain to the fence of the military camp in the south. Although the north was quiet overnight, when the soldiers went to the river to fetch water the next day, , stepped in the air and fell into the trap, but he didn't even know who he was fighting, which made Gou Chun quite depressed.

It can be said that the opponent's number is not large, but it is really annoying, and the damage caused to his own army is not high. It is even more likely that the soldiers under his command were injured because of the chaos.

But their continuous harassment did indeed reduce the morale of the army a lot, which gave Gou Chun quite a headache.

Therefore, even if the morale of the entire army was not very high the next day, Gou Chun still forced a march and went directly to Laiwu City about twenty miles away to station himself.

During this period, Zhao An came with cavalry to harass them, but they were easily blocked by Gou Chun.

Zhao An can carry out Liu Tai's orders very well, and can occasionally make decisions on his own, but relatively speaking, because he is better at bow and arrow shooting, he is not good at close combat, especially close combat by himself.

Therefore, he would never rob the camp, but just harass him. It would be quite easy for Gou Chun to defend him.But this was enough. Although Zhao An did not perform well, he accomplished Liu Tai's strategic goal very well, allowing him to rush to Laiwu as soon as possible and organize the city defense until Liu Tai arrived with his army.

Gou Chun had been harassed too much these days, so he thought that after setting up camp, he would let the soldiers have a good rest for a day before attacking Laiwu.

After all, the opponent is already stationed in this city, and it is almost impossible for him to capture it immediately.

But he didn't expect that on the day when he and his soldiers were resting, Liu Tai had already arrived with the follow-up army!

"How is it possible?! This speed is wrong, so wrong!"

Gou Chun couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity in his heart when he saw that Liu Tai's Chinese army had already pursued them so quickly.

Just because I have led troops, I know that it is not easy to assemble and deploy troops. However, the reality is that as the attacking party, I am slower than the opponent in scheduling the offensive of the troops!
At the same time, Gou Chun's heart suddenly rose involuntarily, and he suddenly realized that he needed to further strengthen the camp, at least until his brother Gou Xi arrived.

Otherwise, it would be a joke if my front-line army just followed the troops behind and broke away for five days before being breached by the opponent!
Liu Tai didn't know what Gou Chun was thinking. When Liu Tai came to the small town of Laiwu, he was very satisfied that Zhao An had begun to encourage the people to build the city wall, and even praised Zhao An a few words.

Zhao An said honestly, "I actually didn't do anything. These were all done voluntarily by the local people!"

"It's okay. You will know when we fight to defend the city in the future. The people under our command are different from the people under other people's command. We just need to treat them well. It will be easier for us to recruit in future wars!" Liu Tai praised Zhao An. .

To be honest, in Liu Tai's opinion, generals can be cultivated unless they are at the 72 level of Four Saints and Ten Philosophers. Such people are born with the talent to lead troops. Otherwise, as long as they are generals, they can be cultivated.

The gap between generals is not big, including Gou Xi and Zhao An, and even the gap between himself and them.

It's just that Gou Xi found a good opportunity to gain experience in the Eight Kings Rebellion. He survived several times of life and death, and naturally became a famous Jin court general who was good at killing people.

In fact, Wang Mishile himself didn’t all come from this way. He was just the same thing. He survived several times and accumulated some experience in life and death. He knew how to kill people better than ordinary soldiers. Naturally, he was praised as a famous general. .

But doesn’t Liu Tai understand himself? He is just an ordinary person with more experience in killing people.

Therefore, Liu Tai didn't think highly of Gou Xi, nor did he feel that Liu Ming, Ge Xin, Zhao An, Zhou Ping and others were inferior.

After all, the skill of killing people can slowly increase with experience. Everyone's upper limit is there. Gou Xi can only reach the level one step ahead of himself and others. As long as he has enough experience and the other party can reach it, he can also reach it.

But when the competition really reaches its limit, it can only be said that the 72 generals are not worthy of mention. After all, they are just ants among the generals.

In contrast, Liu Tai preferred to focus on training soldiers and using systems to regulate the army.

Because under an orderly system, even if Liu Ming, Ge Xin, Zhao An, Zhou Ping and others died in battle, a successor would soon come forward to lead the soldiers to continue fighting.

Liu Tai then asked about the situation Zhao An encountered while defending the city, as well as information about the enemy's strength.

"The other side had many armored soldiers, and the military discipline was very strict. The soldiers under his command took turns to harass them. Although the opponent's morale was low, it did not waver the entire army.

Basically, Gou Chun can execute orders and prohibitions with just one order. As such, the harassment effect is quite limited, and now they are stationed not far away! "

"Take turns to harass?" Liu Tai was a little stunned when he heard this word and couldn't help but ask.

Zhao Andao. “I split up the troops under my command and informed them of the goals, and they would naturally find appropriate ways to harass them.

The terrain north of Laiwu is really not suitable for cavalry to attack, and horses are only suitable for transportation at best! "

Liu Tai heard Zhao An's words and looked at Zhao An in shock.

When each hundred-man team knows its strategic goals, it can actually harass the other party independently and according to local conditions?

Do you want to listen to what is going on in your mouth? !

Liu Tai said that he did not dare to use this on his soldiers at all. Did you, Zhao An, want to be Li Jing? How dare you do this!

Could it be said that my Zhao An has the qualities of a military god?

In fact, not only Liu Tai, but also any commander in the world today dare not just let out a few hundred-man troops, inform them of the strategic purpose, and let the army display its talents.

The simplest reason is that this era is not like modern times, or even the twentieth century. At that time, there were wireless devices, at least they could communicate with each other.

If you want to use this method in this era, you need to have more trust in these soldiers and affirm their abilities. Not to mention, if they get lost on the way!
In history, the only one who dared to use this tactic was Li Jing.

You don't care how he dispatches his troops, but the problem is that even if he pursues for thousands of miles, the troops he dispatches every time will appear in the most suitable place at the most suitable time, even if they are very embarrassed.

The battle between Tuyuhun and the Tang army was ended by Li Jing.

This is why Li Jing started the war calmly and calmly, as if every step was taken for granted. But if you review it, you feel that no one should fight such a war. It is simply unbelievable.

Then, Liu Tai found out that his subordinate Zhao An was actually planning to join such a school of fighting among gods. What could he do?
"General, is there any problem?" Zhao An couldn't help but feel uneasy when he saw Liu Tai suddenly becoming silent.

"It's nothing. Since I'm already here, you should bring enough food, take a detour to the enemy's rear, and follow your original tactics to harass the enemy's food road!" Liu Tai suppressed his desire to complain, but He said to Zhao An,
"If Gou Xi's main force comes over, you should quickly send someone to report it. Don't show off to me and then fight Gou Xi!"

Zhao An heard this and said, "Should we still use cavalry? I think cavalry can only be used as a means of transportation in these hills. During this period, horses lose weight too fast and are not suitable for fighting in this place."

"You first leave five hundred cavalry in the city to take care of the horses. I will give you another five hundred soldiers to support you. You just need to remember that your mission is to disturb the enemy's food route. It is best to cut off the enemy's food supply!" Liu Tai said, "If the opponent's main force is coming, just send someone to inform me. The mission remains unchanged. You should continue to disturb Gou Xi's logistics and food supply!"

"It's an order!" Zhao An said decisively after hearing Liu Tai's words.

(End of this chapter)