Zhao Yu was not disgusted by the ministers raising objections during the meeting, but encouraged them. Because he knows that a person's thinking tends to be solidified, and brainstorming can open up ideas and get more reasonable solutions in arguments. Of course, he will defend his point of view and make everyone accept his plan, but this is also after listening to everyone's opinions.

Now that the audience has no objections to the strategic arrangement, the focus will be on discussing the tactical issues. However, Zhao Yu focused on the plan of ambushing the enemy army across the river, and did not seem to pay so much attention to attacking Yangzhou. Of course, this is due to the consideration of winning the first battle, but in fact, ambush warfare is not easier than offensive warfare, and in his opinion, it is more difficult.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and Zhao Hao now has a deep understanding of this, and among the various war-related works of art in his previous life, ambush and ambush operations may be the most common bridge. It is also undeniable that the effect of ambush warfare in battle is also quite effective, and it is the best way to defeat the strong with the weak and inflict heavy losses on the enemy.

In general, ambush tactics are still present on the human battlefield from time to time today. To a large extent, it is precisely because of the powerful effect that this tactic can "move a thousand pounds in four or two". But if you want to fight a perfect ambush war, you also need quite high military skills and skills, and war is never child's play.

However, Zhao Yu thought that the most difficult thing about ambush warfare was not after the battle began, but before and after the war. In modern warfare, satellites and planes in the sky closely monitor the ground, and reconnaissance vehicles and scouts on foot on the ground conduct reconnaissance in depth, making ambushes much more difficult. Then some people must say that in ancient times, there were no such high-tech gadgets, and there must be no problem with the difficulty of ambushing the enemy in the canyon and dense forest.

This is misleading, as many people have the impression that ambush warfare is to occupy both ends of the canyon and then attack with falling rocks and various ranged weapons. But the real battlefield situation is far from simple. First of all, the canyon terrain is mostly common in mountainous areas such as the Taihang Mountains. In the vast hilly and plain areas of China, this terrain is difficult to find. Therefore, most of the ambush warfare is actually carried out with a slight altitude advantage or even the same altitude.

The ambush of Pang Juan in Malingdao can be said to be the most famous example, but in reality, this area is only a relatively low hilly and mountainous area. Second, ambush warfare cannot easily achieve zero casualties with long-range weapons alone. In fact, when encountering an ambush, the ambushed side will often use corresponding tactics to try to avoid casualties. Even in modern warfare, ambush warfare often turns into a pursuit battle or even a storm.

In the era of cold weapons, due to the low lethality of weapons such as bows and crossbows, it is even more impossible for ambush warfare to rely only on long-range weapons, but after completing the ambush, and then using the terrain advantage to carry out encirclement and annihilation warfare. The Wei army, which was ambushed and annihilated in the Battle of Malingdao, was actually just a light infantry of Pang Juan who "abandoned his infantry army and chased it in parallel with its light sharpness".

And from Pang Juan, "I knew that my wisdom was poor, and I was defeated, and I said: 'Then I became the name of the erector!'" Judging from the records, the Wei army also resisted for a certain time. When there was no hope of breaking through, it ended with Pang Juan committing suicide. After that, what really hit the Wei army hard was after the death of Pang Juan in Malingdao, "Qi Yin took advantage of the victory to destroy his army".

Then some people will ask, is it blind to fight an ambush battle when the terrain advantage is lost? So many people were lying in ambush, and they couldn't see it. Especially in the case of the battle of the ancient army, the formation of 10,000 people is also a spectacular scene that stretches for more than ten miles, and the enemy will also scout around, how can such a large formation not be discovered?

The reason is actually very simple, it is not that the ambushed people are blind, but that the army that is actually ambushed is often out of the sight of the ambushed people. In ancient times, wars were fought in formations and organizations. On the other hand, it takes a long time for troops on the march to change into battle formation. Moreover, in order to save physical strength, soldiers on the march often traveled lightly and only carried secondary weapons with them. Armor and poleguns are often attached to the vehicles and pack animals in the ranks.

Essentially, the ambusher is actually in a battle formation and combat state to surprise the ambushed in a non-combat formation and state. That is to say, to have a mind to calculate the unprepared, to be prepared to fight unprepared. Therefore, when the ambushed person can see the enemy, the opponent must have pressed over in a dignified formation. At this time, the ambushed people were still hurriedly changing formations, receiving and distributing weapons. Once this situation is formed, it is basically a one-sided slaughter of the ambushed.

But to achieve this effect of surprise and surprise, it is not just about hiding out of the enemy's sight. In any era of warfare, intelligence is always paramount. Therefore, in ancient wars, when the army was marching, it often sent sentinels to reconnoiter the surrounding situation at any time, and their role was not only to reconnoiter the marching route, but also to do a good job of early warning of the enemy.

However, due to technical limitations, the range of reconnaissance that the ancient sentinels could actually carry out was quite limited, so there was a difference between ten miles and twenty miles for the sentinels, and the ambush party would also send scouts and rangers to kill the other party's sentinels to prevent them from obtaining information. And if you want to avoid enemy reconnaissance, you must be very familiar with the local terrain. In fact, most of the ambushes were carried out when the enemy was unfamiliar with the local terrain.

Therefore, whether there will be an enemy ambush on the marching route, Zhao Yu thinks that the judgment of the general is often the most important factor, in this case, the general's judgment of the marching route often has to rely on the results of the sentinel reconnaissance, but the sentinel must take precedence over the exploration of the marching route, it is more difficult to effectively track the enemy's position. In addition to being able to successfully grasp the enemy's marching route, a successful ambush battle also requires some luck to ensure that one's actions are not detected by the enemy, and to confuse the judgment of the enemy generals.

Especially in some environments that are quite complex, such as jungles, mountains and other terrain, the effect of ambush warfare is often more significant. In the Mongol conquest of Annam, Annam repeatedly used ambush tactics to defeat the Mongol army, which was obviously superior to itself in numbers and combat effectiveness, relying on the complex jungle and mountainous environment of northern Vietnam.

However, there are only a handful of battles in the face of completely unfamiliar environmental terrain, so if you want to really lure the enemy into an ambush, this is a technical job. In fact, ambush warfare is no stranger to Zhao Hao, who defeated Liu Shen in the Battle of Qizhouyang, which is strictly speaking, also called an ambush war. Since then, there have been shadows of ambush warfare in several major battles such as the defense of Qiongzhou, and it should be said that he is no stranger to ambush warfare, but he knows that this is still different from ambush warfare on land.

At sea, Zhao Hao can use the island to hide troops, or use the curvature of the earth to hide out of the enemy's sight, and there are wind directions, currents and tides in water warfare that can be used to quickly complete the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy. On land, he can only use terrain and features to ambush troops, and he has lost the most important mobile advantage at sea, but this is the most indispensable in encirclement and pursuit operations.

The ambush area that Zhao Yu imagined was in the Kunshan area, which was a plain formed by the siltation of sediment carried by the Yangtze River in the estuary, and was invaded by the sea tide, which was mostly saline-alkali land, which was not suitable for the growth of grass and trees, and was naturally not suitable for cultivation, so it has not been effectively developed. Therefore, although this area has evolved over thousands of years, it has not given birth to high mountains and mountains, nor has it grown large enough forests to hide thousands of soldiers.

Zhao Hao also knew that once he launched the war of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, he would have to face the Mongolian army that was more mobile than his own, and in order to be able to do so, he would need to set up an ambush in advance, cut off and encircle the enemy, so that it would be possible to achieve the effect of defeating and annihilating the enemy's living forces. The Central Plains and Mongolia are mostly flat terrain and unsheltered plains, and of course there are higher requirements for ambush warfare.

Ambush tactics were also often practiced by the Song army, but in the battle to recover Jiangnan, all units relied on sharp firearms to rush and fight, and the tactics used were more interspersed with surprise attacks and roundabouts, and the use of ambush tactics was lackluster, so there was a lack of actual combat experience. And Zhao Yu also wanted to gain actual combat experience through this battle, train the troops, and lay a foundation for future operations.

Zhao Hao thought that since the success of the ambush was a test of the ability of the generals on both sides, the most important thing was how to make the enemy generals feel that they had a "great chance of winning" or "they could win by breaking through". For example, in the battle of Maling mentioned earlier, Sun Bin used the famous "stove reduction meter" to make Pang Juan misjudge the state of the Qi army by continuously reducing the earthen stoves used by the Qi army, so that he did not do a good job of reconnaissance and rashly advanced the enemy.

In later generations, there was another quite classic case of ambush warfare, that is, the ambush carried out by Jin on the Ming army led by Liu Wei after the Battle of Sarhu. Before the battle, the Later Jin army sent soldiers wearing the armor of the previously defeated Ming army and holding the Ming army order flag of the previously defeated Juniper Department to trick Liu Wei into leading the Ming army to accelerate its advance. As a result, Liu Wei entered the ambush of the Houjin army unprepared.

So is the army that falls into an ambush really equivalent to the imminent annihilation of the entire army? Not necessarily. The biggest damage to the army in the early days of the ambush was actually the panic it brought to the soldiers, and thus caused the army to spiral out of control. Therefore, in the case of ambush, how to keep more soldiers in a state of panic is the most important step to increase the casualties of the enemy.

And since ambushes often take place in areas where the terrain of the march is relatively narrow, it is the most critical matter to not allow the enemy to quickly spread out from the marching state into a battle formation. This is also why the requirements of the ancient elite are often to be able to calm down and respond quickly to unexpected situations. Zhao Hao thought that if he did these two things, it was not impossible for the ambushed to achieve counter-killing.

Of course, Zhao Hao also understood that letting the enemy army fall into chaos was only to win the fighter, and at this time, it was necessary to quickly intersperse and divide the ambushed enemy army, because when the ambushed team was cut off by the enemy, it was the most dangerous. Because after the army is cut off, it is often followed by the encirclement and annihilation of one of the ambushed parties.

In the case of ambush warfare, it is actually the time to test the level of the general. Faced with this situation, the ambushed commander often has to think about how to gather his own soldiers as soon as possible, and then break out. However, Zhao Yu knew that he still wanted to escape when the general situation had been achieved, and in addition to the excellent command of the enemy general, he also had quite good luck......

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think that it is not appropriate to evacuate all the people along the Jiangkou, so it is equivalent to telling Meng Yuan that we are prepared, how can they still take the bait?" There was a debate among the generals about how to lure the enemy across the river, with most believing that in order to avoid casualties among the people, the inhabitants should be relocated before the start of the war, but Sun Kai put forward a different opinion.

"What Sun Dutong said is reasonable, if we deliberately leak out of the empty door, the enemy will inevitably be suspicious, but will think that there is fraud in it!" Zhao Mengjin thought about it.

"At present, other ferries in Jiangdong are close to Changzhou, Wuxi, Changshu and other places, all of which are densely populated places and are heavy tax places. Only the area around Kunshan is the most suitable place for an ambush, but if a flaw leaks, all our preparations will be in vain! Han Zhen frowned and said.

"The Sprinkle family thinks it's okay, since we have adopted the strategy of driving fish into the net, we have strengthened the river defense in Changzhou and other places, here is just as Han Shumi said, it is a heavy tax place for the imperial court, and it is natural to strengthen the army. And if the troops are concentrated here, then the troops in the Kunshan area must be weak, and there is nothing wrong with evacuating the people to prevent changes, and it has always been a customary measure to move the people inward under the frequent attacks of the enemy, so the enemy army will not be suspicious. At this time, Chen Fenglin stroked his beard and said.

"Well, what Chen Dutong said is reasonable, if we are frequently harassed by the enemy, we will be suspected of trying to cover up if we do not take countermeasures. At present, not only should the people be moved inwards in an organized manner, but the Gomaba should also be evacuated as soon as possible, which can also give the enemy the illusion that the troops here are weak. What does Your Majesty think? Zhao Mengjin looked at the emperor and said.

"I think it's reasonable, but the Kunshan Yanjiang Fort still has to be defended as before, and it can't be withdrawn at the same time, but it is necessary to make a good response plan, in short, it must be fake!" Zhao Yu nodded.

"This is a bit difficult, please give Your Majesty a clever plan, your subordinate is a rough person, where can you act, don't smash Your Majesty's plan when the time comes!" Sun Kai said with a bitter face when he heard this.

"Sun Dutong, you have heard too much about the Three Kingdoms, I really think I am Zhuge Liang!" Zhao Hao couldn't smile bitterly when he heard it, but the painting style that appeared in his mind was that Zhuge Liang distributed the tips to the generals before the war, and ordered the generals to open the first bag somewhere and open the second bag somewhere. The Shu army acted according to the plan and won a great victory, and the generals sighed: The prime minister is really a god and a man......