Chapter 8: The Battle of the State
Regardless of whether Su Yunqing wanted to beat the system, the fact is that the system is still very powerful at the critical moment, at least the basket of imperial bamboo grass came in time.
However, Su Yunqing learned from the pain, and after returning to Pingcheng and there was news that the Xianbei people would not be able to come within a few days, Su Yunqing simply took hundreds of people under his command and dug up horse grass for three days_(:3γβ )_
The corners of Gao Tai's mouth twitched, but he felt that this was probably Su Yunqing's stimulation, after all, Su Yunqing's appearance of running for his life and being busy feeding the horses was really hard.
Speaking of which, Gao Tai used to think that Wangyunqi was a rare good horse in the world, so he was very envious of Su Yunqing.
Now it seems......
Hehe, forget it.
At least Gao Tai didn't want to fight with a basket of horse grass on his back _(:3 γβ )_
However, in any case, the results of their initiative this time were not bad, and the loss of manpower was only a few dozen, but in the Xianbei people, it is said that a small half of the grain and grass were destroyed.
This battle is a good victory in terms of losses on both sides.
However, the next question they need to face is......
"After suffering this loss of grain and grass, although the Xianbei people will not attack in the past two days, as long as they rest well, then the pressure we face will be unprecedentedly great."
When the time comes, with the consistent style of these Xianbei people, what should I do if my own food is not enough? Go and rob the Han people.
In this way, their pressure is indeed very great, and the offensive of the Xianbei people will be unprecedentedly fierce.
"So it's time for us to defend." Su Yunqing thought for a while and said, "The strength of the Xianbei people is that they are better at horse warfare than us, which is also a common characteristic of nomads. β
Gao Tai nodded: "Yes, this is also the reason why we have never been able to really attack, attacking is different from defending the city, and once we go out of the city, the strength of the Xianbei people is much higher than ours, but we are defending the city this time, but we don't have to worry so much." β
But the cavalry of the Xianbei people was still a big problem.
In any case, the cavalry of this era means the strongest battlefield charging ability, and the best and fastest mobility ability, which are two very important factors for a war.
So......
"We must find a way to abolish their cavalry, at least not to let this group of Xianbei people rush and kill at will."
But the cavalry belongs to the type that does not move, and once the momentum of the charge rises, there are swords, mountains and fires in front of it that cannot be stopped.
Trying to stop the cavalry is as unreliable as using a small fence to stop a tank.
Su Yunqing thought for a while and said, "So in the final analysis, the terrible thing about the cavalry is their charge, so it's better to just make them unable to run." β
Su Yunqing's method is also quite simple: "Dig a pit, dig more deep and wide trenches, it will not be easy for people to walk at that time, let alone the cavalry wants to run." β
Cavalry can only exert their maximum combat effectiveness on the plains, and as for running in potholes, they are not afraid to drop their horses =v=
Gao Tai twitched the corner of his mouth: "But if we dig a trench outside the city, it will be very bad for us, right?" β
Hearing this, Su Yunqing blinked: "I didn't say digging outside the city, let's dig the road, you don't have to worry about it outside the city, and the cavalry can't be used to attack the city." β
After all, war horses can't climb the city wall =v=
Gao Tai thought about it and understood what Su Yunqing meant: "You want these Xianbei people to no longer be able to operate arbitrarily in the territory of Bingzhou, so that the losses suffered by Bingzhou will probably be much smaller." β
In the past, Xianbei people burned, killed and looted, basically left after a vote, and continued to work in another place.
And now, if the road is impassable, then it will not be so easy for the Xianbei people to go.
Of course, the most important thing is that this can better deal a blow to the Xianbei people after they go deep into the state.
Su Yunqing and Gao Tai knew from the beginning that it was impossible for them to stop the Xianbei people.
Of course, Pingcheng can be held with all its might, but what if Helian leaves tens of thousands of troops here to besiege the city and sends people to other places? Heijo didn't have a way at all.
Therefore, the key is not whether to let Xianbei people in, but how to fight after letting Xianbei people in.
Gao Tai once pointed out that the logistics of the Xianbei people were their biggest problem, so under Su Yunqing's construction, Gao Tai and Su Yunqing made a very bold plan and reported it to Ding Yuan, and Ding Yuan also agreed to gamble like this.
If you don't gamble, you don't have a move.,Anyway, I'm beaten every year_(:3γβ )_
Then it's better to die yourself than to die, maybe this time you will be the right to die?
According to Su Yunqing and Gao Tai's plan, when the Xianbei people came to attack, they really couldn't hold out, and Helian also divided his troops as a matter of course.
Gao Tai shook his head again and again in Pingcheng: "If Tan Shi Huai is here, he will never do this." β
If it is Tanshi Huai who leads the troops this time, he is afraid that he will concentrate his forces to capture Pingcheng first, so that Daixian Dingxiang Pingcheng can be connected together, and then enter and merge with the state, the rear of the Xianbei people will be very stable, and at the same time, capturing Pingcheng can also bring them a lot of logistical supplies.
But Helian is not Tanshi Huai, he forcibly attacked Pingcheng for more than ten days but found that Pingcheng was still as solid as a rock, and decisively divided his troops.
Regarding Gao Tai's statement, Su Yunqing nodded: "The move of dividing troops with the company is indeed too naΓ―ve. β
"It's not just Kazuen's naivety."
Seeing that Su Yunqing looked at him with some doubts, Gao Tai explained: "The way to play first and then enter the state can only be realized if Tan Shihuai comes in person, as for talking about Helian...... Even if he had this idea, he would not have been able to do such a thing. β
Now all the Xianbei tribes are led by Tanshi Huai, but this does not mean that the other departments have no thoughts of their own.
Because they are nomadic people, most of the time these tribes are separated from each other, which forms independent small groups, and the royal court of Tanshihuai is more like a coalition. The government, but this government. Only Tanshihuai alone has the final say, and Tanshihuai is equivalent to the emperor.
Because of Tan Shi Huai's own military exploits and excellent wisdom and means, everyone is very convinced of him, so usually when Tan Shi Huai led the troops, he said how to fight, but he couldn't.
Gao Tai can easily see that at this time, the division of troops with the company is certainly not as good as Tanshi Huai, and there are also reasons why other departments are not subject to the discipline of the company.
The reason is actually very simple, if it is all according to the meaning of Helian, then who will the land and city belong to? Naturally, it is Helian, or Tanshihuai's, and most of the loot he snatched belongs to him, and the other parts are not much, and if he divides his troops to rob, then how much he grabs is his own, and the leaders of these small tribes are not stupid, Tanshi Huai is not there, so they naturally have their own little abacus, so the division of troops has become a matter of course.
Of course, there is a kind of secret rubbing mentality that everyone has not said, now the sandalwood locust has dominated the grassland, the strength is extremely strong, if the city is laid again, with a solid rear, the southward trend of the sandalwood locust is almost a foregone conclusion, and then the sandalwood acacia will be even stronger, so can their tribe still maintain relative independence?
With the ambition of Tanshi Huai, they may only be annexed.
Therefore, the sandalwood locust is strong enough, so don't let him be stronger.
But the Xianbei people's division of troops is in Gao Tai's hands, and this is completely part of his and Su Yunqing's plan.
Sure enough, after the Xianbei people divided their troops, they found that life was not easy.
The road in Bingzhou this year was very difficult to walk, and what was even more unhappy was that most of the people in Bingzhou ran away in advance, leaving only an empty house for the Xianbei people, and they couldn't find even half a grain of grain in the house.
Of course, this is not the most terrifying, after all, even if the people run a lot, they can catch some after all.
The most uncomfortable thing for the Xianbei people was that they could not fight siege warfare, but once they were divided into small groups, the Han army immediately came to trouble them, and often several nearby cities fought together, only fighting with superior forces.
If it encounters a relatively large scale, the Han army will not care, but wait for the Xianbei people to continue to penetrate and merge with the state.
Because the roads are not good, it becomes a problem for Xianbei people to support each other.
And after a period of stalemate, bigger problems came to light.
Logistics.
Going deep into the state means that the logistics line is also stretched, but now it is a cold winter, and the road to the state is particularly difficult to walk this year, so logistics has become a big problem.
Su Yunqing was roasting a fire in Pingcheng to introduce Gao Tai to the magical thing of 'hot pot', and Su Yunqing could completely guess the current situation of the Xianbei people.
It's very simple, why don't you fight in winter, it's just that the weather is bad, why is the expedition difficult, it's because of the difficulty of logistics, and now the Xianbei people have accounted for both of them.
Back then, the Blitzkrieg tactics of the Germans almost tore the whole world apart, and when they fought against the Soviet Union, they were pit with blood, why? The weather in the Soviet Union is worse than that of the annexed states, as for the logistics line...... Calculate how long the logistics line in Germany is.
Therefore, the tanks can be scrapped, let alone the group of cavalry of the Xianbei people.
Gao Tai took a sip of hot soup, and suddenly sighed comfortably: "Today's snow is heavy, and Helian is estimated that he will not attack the city, so it will be consumed, and it will be spring, and the Xianbei people should retreat." β
If they don't go back in the spring, their pastures and cattle and sheep don't want it anymore!
And in the midst of this ice and snow, another exciting news reached Bingzhou.
The people of Dai County rebelled.
Since Dai County was occupied by the Xianbei people, it has become a strong support for the Xianbei people every time they go south, and this time, the people of Dai County, under the joint efforts of the envoys sent by Ding Yuan, plus the help of some powerful local Han people, they successfully pit the Xianbei people again in logistics.
"Wait, or Helian will have to run out of food in ten days."
Gao Tai was not in a hurry at all.
Today's Xianbei people are divided into groups and wander around in the interior of Bingzhou, small benefits can be harvested a little, but the big harvest is not once, and with the advent of deep winter, the more and more bad weather and more and more difficult logistics have caused great losses to the Xianbei people.
Su Yunqing smiled: "Ding Tingshi has just come to the first year, and this is also the most difficult year, as long as this year passes, the following days will get better and better." β
Gao Tai looked at Su Yunqing's smiling and squinting eyes, and responded.
It's just that I thought in my heart that after this battle, Su Yunqing's status may also change.
Ding Yuan originally didn't plan to let Su Yunqing just be a little military marquis, not to mention that Su Yunqing's appearance this time was indeed very dazzling.
Gao Tai still remembered that when He Lian first came to attack, he was fierce, and they really let him attack the city wall for a while, just when the city wall was in chaos, he watched Su Yunqing cut dozens of Xianbei soldiers in a row, and then shouted to the people behind him: "What chaos!" What are you afraid of! Kill them again! β
At that time, Su Yunqing was splashed with blood, coupled with her cold face, she forcibly used the weak and harmless face of the sister next door to bring out the meaning of regional Shura.
However, because Su Yunqing's move boosted morale, they successfully counterattacked and killed the group of Xianbei people who came up.
On that day, Su Yunqing alone killed no less than twenty or thirty people in the city.
When the troops were collected in the evening, Gao Tai walked over and just wanted to praise Su Yunqing for being in danger and having the demeanor of a general, but Su Yunqing looked at him and squatted in the corner and vomited in the dark, Gao Tai just asked you what's wrong, Su Yunqing looked back at him, and said: "Mom, it's terrible!" β
Then I rolled my eyes and was dizzy.
Gao Tai: "......"
So, in fact, it's still not adaptable?
However, Su Yunqing is really not worry-free, she fainted and fainted, and she still had a fever and talked nonsense in the middle of the night, Gao Tai listened to two sentences when he went to visit, and he roughly understood why.
Secret trouble.
When recruits first entered the battlefield, they were always not suitable for killing, Su Yunqing was afraid that he endured it for a day, but as soon as the war ended, his tense nerves couldn't hold it as soon as he loosened down.
But having said that, two days later, Su Yunqing appeared in the city again.
So Gao Tai knew that Su Yunqing had changed, and something was different.
And those things that Su Yunqing lost, she is afraid that it will be difficult for her to get them back for the rest of her life.
But until today, looking at Su Yunqing's smile, Gao Tai realized in a trance that Su Yunqing hadn't really lost anything.
In these days of bloody battles, Su Yunqing has killed no less than 100 enemies, but her eyes are still pure and bright.
That's not a pair of killer eyes.
Then not long after, Ding Yuan sent an order to promote Su Yunqing.