Chapter 466: Intricate Strategic Situation
"One-two-one, one-two-one......"
The efficiency of the volunteer army is lower than imagined, because there is the drag of the infantry, the need to sharpen guns on the spot, the integration of new recruits and veterans, and so on. It was now September 5, and Wang Yan's troops had just entered Hezhou, and there was not much left of the compressed military rations they carried.
There was no time to wait for the arrival of the new phase of military rations, and there was no time to make repairs, and after replenishing some ordinary dry rations, they left Hezhou overnight, went north along the Great Xia River, and officially crossed the Yellow River in the early morning of 6 September.
Since then, it has been officially put into the dangerous war zone, and it is difficult to say when it was exposed to the vision of the Zhuo Luolan Department, the controller south of Huangshui. It depends on the tactics and some luck.
There will not be much time left for the volunteers, and along the way, they have continued to receive weeping blood reports, saying that the situation in the northern area is quite grim, since the breakthrough of the 100 regiments, relying on this tactic to maneuver so far, it is conservatively estimated that the battle damage has been close to forty percent, and the northern area of Huangshui is very bloody, and the rambling encirclement and suppression policy has led to the bloodbath of many tribal villages.
"Although the people of Hehuang suffered countless casualties and tried their best to resist, it was inevitable that more and more food would be concentrated in the hands of the Western Xia army, and the military disadvantage, many people were hungry.
This was the last letter he had written to Wang Yan seven days ago. Now the situation is estimated to be even worse.
As a last resort, Wang Yan could not repair in Hezhou as expected, and at the same time temporarily adjusted his strategy, giving up the plan to enter the Jishi Army for reorganization and then send troops.
Can't put it off any longer!
It is true that there is a problem with the strategy, but the tactics cannot be said to be ineffective. It is beneficial to have a certain amount of bloodshed in the Hehuang region, as it will draw enough hatred and destroy the legitimacy of the Western Xia army in this region.
But anything is too much, and when the injury is severe, it will not recover. For example, if you cut a knife in your hand, your arm will slowly recover, but if you cut off your entire arm, you won't have any more arms to use.
A certain degree of harm will pull enough hatred and lead to a rebound and resistance of the whole nation, but when the damage is too great to a certain extent, it will cause the whole nation to be cowardly, not dare to fight again, and will no longer have thoughts. That's pretty much it.
Manba did make strategic mistakes, but his lightning and thunder style, just like he would help the Western Xia Emperor Li Liangzuo bloody strangulation of the Wuqiang clan in the future, was as fast and accurate as he was. Now, he is making up for the strategic mistakes he has laid down with extremely effective tactics.
Not all the time you can step back. At this time, it is necessary to withstand the wave of bastaration, give the people and guerrillas in the enemy-occupied areas time to breathe, and let them see hope, so that it is possible to delay until next year and continue the struggle.
That is to say, the knife of Manba's right hand to Hehuang has been cut down, and now it is bleeding rapidly, if he can block his knife at this time and let the injured arm be withdrawn, then it will slowly recover, once the threshold is exceeded and close to being cut off, there will be no arm in the Northern Front Theater in the future.
These are the real teams of the Dayanhe Huang strategy, and they must carry a wave with the situation of a new force.
At the beginning, Wang Yan planned to advance westward into the Jishi Army, transfer war horses and elites from the Jishi Army, reorganize them, and then directly enter the southern line of Hehuang from the Jishi Army and deal with the Zhuo Luolan Department.
Wang Yan is not afraid of rambling. But if you don't look for a chance to fight the Disabled Zhuo Luolan Department, you really don't worry about the decisive battle with the Manba Division, which will cause a lot of variables and have worries.
Speaking of which, in addition to the bloody papers, Di Yong also had a strange newspaper in the hands of Dayan on September 2, which roughly read: The situation on the southern front of Huangshui is not optimistic, as one of the guerrillas, Di Yong's current work has encountered great difficulties, especially it seems that their respective scripts have been taken wrong, and now it is Zhuo Luolan who is walking around in the southern district in person, admitting her mistakes and apologizing with her beautiful and people-friendly image, and is pulling the hearts of the people.
For the time being, it is difficult to judge how much effect it will have, but as long as she does it, it will definitely have some effect, and it will undoubtedly make the propaganda work of the guerrillas more difficult.
Some of the situations that Di Yong saw and heard were now reversed, the guerrillas who were fighting had no money in their hands, and they used to get some food from the people by their feelings. However, the Tangut people changed their normal state and now bought grain at a high price, so many people really sold grain to the Tangut people, so it was impossible to relieve the guerrillas.
So another moth was extended: some of the cavalry teams under the command of the Gang were also tigers and wolves, and they were in a hurry when there was no money and no food, and there had been countless incidents of robbing the people's food.
In view of the fact that it is now a hundred regimental operations, which are different from each other, it is not possible to effectively stop these acts by order.
So when he received Di Yong's battle report, Wang Yan's mouth was crooked, Wori, the heavens are not beautiful, not only Zhuo Luolan has internal problems, but now I have also met a god opponent and a pig teammate.
This is absolutely unacceptable, how can Zhuo Luolan be so smart?
It's useless to thunder like a thunderbolt on the urgency. The situation is very bad, if the southern front is really the situation that Di Yong said, without the absolute superiority of troops, Wang Yan really does not have the ability to cripple Zhuo Luolan's department, this is impossible to happen, unless a mushroom is immediately developed and thrown to her.
So since it is useless to put it into the southern front for the time being, Wang Yan can only surprise his troops, not enter the Jishi Army for reorganization, and temporarily gather a small number of war horses from Hezhou, but he still can't make a full cavalry lineup, and there is also a battalion of infantry phalanx, but he still crossed the Yellow River, officially broke away from the protection of the Song Realm, and entered the war zone.
Now, it is necessary to pass through the southern area controlled by Zhuo Luolan, and march rapidly towards Huangshui.
Whether he can cross the Huangshui as quickly and smoothly as possible, and whether he will encounter harassment and resistance, Wang Yan does not know. Because maybe Wang Yan knew what Manba was thinking, but he didn't know what Zhuo Luolan would do.
Since the start of the Battle of Hehuang, every step that can be seen, Zhuo Luolan's performance has exceeded Wang Yan's expectations......