The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 72: Borrowing Fire to Cross the Soldiers
After Liu Tai gave Zhao An the order, he also wanted to see if Zhao An could take charge of his own affairs. As for more, he could only rely on time to prove it. Compared with Zhao An's vague treatment of the local people, or let him go his own way.

After Liu Tai arrived in Laiwu, he immediately began to publicize his military history door to door.

First of all, we must publicize the reputation of Gou Xi butcher. If he takes over Laiwu, he will definitely use his cruel methods.

When his army passes through Laiwu, Laiwu will surely become a ruin, and even the grass will be pulled out.

Propagate different things to different people. For the soldiers, the purpose of publicizing that Gou Xi practiced "Sunflower Art of War" is so that the soldiers will not be afraid of seeing Gou Xi.

The purpose of promoting the reputation of Gou Xi butcher to the people in the area is to make the local people share the same hatred, so that they can exert their subjective initiative, and the management cost of driving them can be lowered.

The ultimate goal of all public opinion policies is to reduce the cost of management for the people.

Otherwise, if the people are forced to work, they will get tired of the work. Even if they won’t resist, won’t they run away?
It has to be said that Gou Xi is really not far from Taishan County. The reputation of Butcher may not be known elsewhere, but the people of Laiwu must have heard of it.

Therefore, Liu Tai’s promotion did not require any preparation and went very smoothly.

With the help of the local people, about a thousand local soldiers from Laizhou were arranged to dig trenches outside Laiwu Qu, lay out ground thorns, and extend the defense system as far as possible, instead of just making a fuss inside the city.

He led his army towards Gou Chun, seizing this opportunity to have a fight with Gou Chun.

At this time, Gou Chun obviously did not expect that Liu Tai's army would respond so quickly. He almost heard them dispatch troops and was able to gather his soldiers and reach Laiwu within two days, so this left Gou Xi and Gou Chun's army with a gap.

Normally, it is normal for there to be a gap of about a week between the vanguard and the main army. Even though Qingzhou is quite close to Taishan County, it is not surprising that there is a three to five day marching distance between them.

After all, the task of the vanguard is not necessarily to capture Laiwu directly, but to build bridges and pave the way, open the way to establish a stronghold, and let the main force come over.

But to others, what was not a flaw allowed Liu Tai to seize the opportunity, giving Liu Tai the opportunity to besiege Gou Chun, but in the end it was just an opportunity!

Gou Chun and his troops were stationed on the hillside. There was a quite large lake here with running water veins in the upper reaches. However, because there had been no rain this year, the lake and river had withered a lot.

This made it okay for Gou Chun to occupy the upper reaches to get water, but it was impossible to attack with water.

As for the top of the mountain, Liu Tai could tell that Gou Xi had definitely arranged for people to be on guard duty to prevent others from sneaking up from the back of the mountain to attack. However, if they attacked from the front, the opponent would have the upper hand and would have to risk their lives to do so.

To be honest, Liu Tai didn't know how strong Gou Chun was.

But he has followed his brother in the north and south for so long. Not to mention how many brushes he has, at least he will definitely not lack the qualities that a general should have.

Unlike Ma Su who just led the army, no matter what your whims and whims are, Zhang He will use hard power to defeat them.

Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, is there any way to lead the other party out?"

At this moment, Liu Tai asked everyone, and everyone looked at each other, but they didn't pay much attention.

At this time, Chu Hui was sitting in Taishan County behind Liu Tai. He was mainly needed to maintain the stability of the place and transport food and grass to Liu Tai's army.

"How about setting a fire?" Tian Tian reminded him enthusiastically.

"No, no, there is water nearby. It may cause chaos, but it's not impossible to burn them!" Ge Xin shook his head after hearing Tian Tian's words.

"Why don't you ask the local people if there is a way around it and launch an attack from behind the mountains?" Zhou Ping asked.

"Gou Chun followed Gou Xi in the north and south. He is an experienced general. He can either build sentries or arrange manpower.

If he attacked from behind, his brothers' lives would be wasted. Liu Ming also shook his head.

To be honest, it would be fine if only Gou Chun was the vanguard and Liu Tai cut off their food transportation road and then slowly besieged them.

But the question is, don't you want to kill the other party before joining Gou Xi?

Gou Chun obviously knew very well that as long as he waited until Gou Xi arrived and Liu Tai didn't want to be attacked from both sides, he would inevitably retreat to the small town of Laiwu.

And one thing Gou Chun knows better than Liu Tai is that Gou Xi's army will definitely arrive here in three days at most. Even after receiving the mission of being besieged, they will come faster.

"Let the soldiers start collecting vegetation and leaves!" Liu Tai pressed his head and said slowly.

"General, are you going to use fire attacks to force Gou Chun out?" Tian Zhen said excitedly.

Liu Tai shook his head: "As long as a general sets up camp in a serious manner, he will not leave such hidden dangers to the army.

Not to mention the trees around their military camp, they were afraid that the roots of the vegetation would be dug up, and the fire would not be able to burn them! "

"What does the general mean?!" Tian Tian asked curiously after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Try it with cigarettes. Before burning, ask the local farmers to ask the wind direction, so that we don't suffer the consequences!" Liu Tai said.

"If there is just smoke, the other party should be able to tolerate it in just a few days!" Ge Xin said worriedly.

Although everyone didn't know when Gou Xi would come, they were sure that they would not be given five days at most, which would not even allow them to consume all Gou Chun's food.

"There is no other way. In this world, it is easier to defend than to attack." Liu Tai looked around at the crowd and said,

"However, with the help of this smoke, we don't have no chance, but we only have one chance!"

"General, please clarify!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, everyone looked at each other and said.

"First of all, I need an army with very strong willpower, and then I need to execute a difficult tactic that requires willpower to overcome!" Liu Tai said seriously as he looked at everyone.

"Please give me the general's orders!" At this time, Liu Ming, Ge Xin, Zhou Ping and Tian Tian all said.

Liu Tai said, "Listen to me first, and then think carefully about whether your soldiers can complete this mission!"

"First of all, I will collect a large amount of grass and trees. Some will be burned, but some will be made into decorations on your bodies to help you hide." Liu Tai said seriously.

When they heard Liu Tai's words, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes because they vaguely thought of something.

Liu Tai continued, "We need to climb up the mountain after burning smoke, and use the smoke as cover to climb towards the opponent's camp.

Our goal is to keep burning until the sun sets at night before giving up, but your mission has just begun.You need to use the night to continue climbing forward, at least a hundred meters away from the other party's camp.

Then the army waits, waits until it starts to light up tomorrow, waits until we light the smoke again, and then you use the smoke to launch a surprise attack.

At the same time, when our army discovers the commotion in the opponent's camp, it will take advantage of the situation and press forward.

In other words, this process requires you to seize the opponent's camp gate, and then hold the camp gate until reinforcements arrive! "

Liu Tai continued: "The whole plan is to use the smoke as a cover to force them to go down the mountain for a decisive battle, but in fact it is a cover for your surprise attack.

It is even undeniable that the opponent may not be able to hold back the smoke and go down the mountain for a decisive battle, only to encounter you without a formation.

Or maybe God is not kind to you. If it rains tonight, it will have a great impact on you. Even if the fire gets out of control, it will affect you!
Therefore, if you want to carry out this mission, you need God's favor, you need to have the perseverance to survive the night and continue fighting, and you need the tacit cooperation of the entire army.

Therefore, this army must be elite, and it must be the elite among the elite!
This is not a joke, so I will only give you a maximum of [-] places. If you fail, all [-] brothers will die! "

"I'm going!" "I'm going!" Ge Xin and Zhou Ping said urgently.

Liu Ming and Tian Tian did not choose to speak. Liu Ming shut up because he was now the commander of the personal guard directly under Liu Tai.

Although his status is quite aloof, he is actually leading Liu Tai's personal soldiers, so naturally he will not do this.

As for Tian Huang, to be honest, the backbone of Tian Huang's men were part of the original beggar army. Although they were gradually transformed as they integrated into Liu Tai's army, Tian Huang knew that it was almost impossible for his soldiers to carry out this plan. impossible.

So Tian Zhen chose to give up, but Tian Zhen looked at Ge Xin and Zhou Ping with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

To implement such a plan, their soldiers must have a firm belief, even if there are 500 of them, but the requirements for military organizational strength are so stringent, how can they have the confidence to dare to stand up and implement this plan.

But Liu Tai knew that the biggest difference between his army and the army of this era was the construction of military ideology.

When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the army itself, there is actually not much difference with the army of this era. However, because he pays attention to the ideological construction of the army, sometimes Liu Tai can try to get them to use some tactics that are unbearable for ordinary armies.

"Ge Xin, you are more skilled in martial arts, I will leave this matter to you!" Liu Tai said to Zhou Ping, "Zhou Ping, you are better at frontal command. Tomorrow you will be the vanguard to support Ge Xin!"

"No!" Ge Xin glanced at Zhou Ping proudly after hearing this, and Zhou Ping only nodded silently.

Soon, after Liu Tai's army surrounded Gou Chun, the army began to collect branches from the surrounding vegetation.

It is summer, and it is actually not difficult to collect these things. What is difficult is how to quickly make these things into decorations on the soldiers' clothes, thereby hiding the soldiers' figures.

Even though Liu Tai had a medical camp, so he had no shortage of tools for sewing and mending, it was quite troublesome to sew so many flowers and plants onto the military uniform in such a short period of time.

The entire medical battalion, or rather the entire army, who knew how to sew and mend, took action and managed to produce [-] simple cloaks with vegetation as cover.

When it comes to battle, as long as the cloaks are taken off, these plants and trees will not affect the soldiers.

At this time, Gou Chun was also carefully staring at Liu Tai's army at the foot of the mountain.

After Liu Tai's army surrounded him and others, they did not take any action, which made Gou Chun feel confused.

In other words, in Gou Chun's opinion, since Liu Tai came out of the city to surround him, he obviously wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to eat him before he could join the main force of the army, but now... why didn't they fight over?
Just because they didn't call, Gou Chun felt very uneasy!

But at this moment, a sentry came over and said, "General, there is something strange happening in the puppet Han army!"

"Oh?!" When Gou Chun heard this, he was immediately surprised and said, "Are the hypocrites preparing to attack?"

"The puppet Han army seems to have piled up vegetation at the foot of the mountain and is preparing to burn it!" the sentry said worriedly.

"Nothing!" Gou Chun said calmly, "The trees around the forest have been cut down to build houses, and there is no vegetation around our military camp. Even if the enemy sets fire, they can't burn us.

However, we sent soldiers to get water from the mountain spring to prepare. If the other party really sets a fire, it will be easy for us to deal with it! "

Soon, as Liu Tai's army began to burn wet leaves, bursts of smoke poured toward the mountain!

It has to be said that Liu Tai did not set fire to burn, but chose to continue smoking, which Gou Chun did not expect.

Gou Chun could only scream despicable at this moment, and then asked the soldiers to cover their mouths and noses with wet wipes, enduring the burning pain in their eyes, and still maintaining order in the military camp with military discipline.

At the same time, Gou Chun also began to send people to keep telling the soldiers that the main army will come within three days.

We have food and water here. Even if we are smoked by the smoke, as long as we guard the camp, our lives will not be in danger. When Commander Gou Xi leads the army, he will wipe out the puppet Han army at the foot of the mountain in one fell swoop.

After hearing the encouragement of Gou Chun's soldiers, although they were quite painful from the smoke, Gou Chun's troops still stayed at their posts honestly, because they also felt that Gou Chun was right.

At least he won't die if he is exposed to the smoke. When Gou Xi comes, he will kill Liu Tai indiscriminately!
Just as Gou Chun was preparing for Liu Tai's smoke tactics, Liu Tai looked at Ge Xin and the commander of his army.Military history, as well as soldiers, military history will also be covered this time.

Liu Tai said, "Gentlemen, are you ready!?
It's not too late to quit now. I will pardon you in the name of Liu Tai. But if you get into the smoke, you will never be allowed to make mistakes, because it will not only be you who will die, but also the comrades around you.

If you feel that you cannot complete the mission, it would not be a shame to quit now, but it would be a shame if you harm your comrades! "

"General, we have the ambition to prosper the Han Dynasty, so the dangers in front of us don't matter!" Ge Xin stepped out and said.

Liu Tai did not answer, but looked at everyone. He might have hesitated when he saw these people, but in the end no one came out.

Liu Tai said slowly, "I used to ask you to read the "Book of Han" and fight according to the battle examples recorded in the "Book of Han".

But I tell you that today's tactics have never appeared in the "Book of Han". Today you are no longer imitators of war, but creators of war.

This trip is a success, you have created new military history, and your achievements have made history! "

Hearing Liu Tai's words, the soldiers who had been subtly cultivated by Liu Tai to respect history suddenly became excited.

Liu Tai didn't say much, he just raised his fist, clenched it hard, and said loudly, "The army of tigers and beni, use one to block five!"

"The army of tigers and benevolent warriors, use one to block five!" Everyone responded in unison!
"The whole army will take a rest and set off!" Liu Tai ordered.

(End of this chapter)