Chapter 1270: The Oil Seller Among the Generals

Most of the people in later generations of China have an understanding of ancient wars, which is generally inseparable from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Romance of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and other romances, and then all kinds of film and television dramas, including divine dramas.

Unfortunately, most of the information is not true and has been artistically reprocessed.

Most of the history of China was controlled by literati, and from the Han Dynasty onwards, Confucianism came to the stage. No literati like the smell of smelly sweat, dust, and blood, but they are stained with a lot of fat and sour smell, so there are very few descriptions of the specific process of war in the writings that remain.

Most of the civilian officials who have the right to write history do not know what tactics are, and because of the popularization of paper and other reasons, the battle reports sent back from the front line are basically almost all about fighting with someone in a certain place on a certain day, the geometry of our army, the geometry of the enemy, what the results of the battle were, and whether there were casualties or captures of important people. And the specific use of weapons, military formations, logistics, road conditions, and many other information will not be released in public channels, and ordinary civil officials will not be able to know, even the emperor may not know.

In order to enrich the content of the record, many times the civil officials of the intergenerational system can only make up their own brains, and when they win, they feel that their generals treat each other as pigs, and the style of play is very elegant, and when they lose, they feel that their generals are pigs, and they can win by changing people.

For example, Wei Qing's battle record, "In the autumn, Qing came back to the clouds, west to Gaoque, and then as for Longxi, thousands of captives were captured, more than 100,000 livestock, and the white sheep and Lou annoyed king" is generally realistic, and Li Guang's has some brain supplements, "Hunting widely, seeing the grass and the stone, shooting it for the tiger, the stone in the middle is not a arrowhead, and the stone is also regarded as a stone." Because of the re-shooting, it will not be able to re-enter the stone. ”

When Fei was in later generations, he always thought that the soldiers of the Han Dynasty should be comparable to Rome in the same period, but later found that in fact, the application of tactics of the Han soldiers in this era was more flexible and changeable than that of the Roman Empire. If nothing else, it was stronger than the Roman Empire, at least in the use of cavalry.

Otherwise, the Northern Xiongnu who were beaten by the Han Dynasty would not have ridden on the head of Rome and beat Rome all the way, and even after the Southern Xiongnu completely became a vassal of Wei for two hundred years, the Northern Xiongnu who fled west could still defeat the two empires of Rome and the west, and once came to the city of Rome.

At this time when Fei Qian is now, the standard combat routine of "one drum, then decline, and three exhaustion" is already an old calendar, and even a general who is completely out of the stream will not do this. After all, after the nobles of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were forced to fight by Cao Di, a general who liked to go in the direction of the lower three roads, everyone also learned to be smart.

The pace of warfare in the Han Dynasty was not as fast as in later games, and there was no such thing as "the enemy army will arrive on the battlefield within five minutes". Generally speaking, even if the two armies encounter an accident in the field, it generally takes at least three or four days to determine the victory or defeat, the first day they camp separately, the second day they go out of the camp to test, and the third day is a decisive battle......

Of course, if you encounter someone like Sima Yi, even if the two armies are facing each other, they still resolutely hang up the war-free card, and if they don't fight, even if they are Brother Zhu, they can't help it, and they are dragged down alive.

Fei Qian originally didn't know anything about ancient warfare, but after so many battles one after another, he gradually cultivated some battlefield feelings, like an oil seller, without him, only familiar with his hands.

Do your best in each of them, then even if you fail, you won't lose too much, and after gaining experience, you will naturally be more handy next time.

Normally, everyone who can be admitted to university in the future generations has no bad learning ability, but the difference is whether they have the heart to study, just like the new generation in the future, they can hold their mobile phones and play pesticides at the age of three or four.

Life-critical matters, Fei Qian no longer needs to learn life, so now Fei Qian, although he is not said to be the top kind of cunning and changeable general, is probably on average on the second-rate upper and first-class lower lines, it is almost the same. After all, Fei Qian's bucket has few shortcomings, the cavalry also understands, and the foot soldiers also understand, and because there is more research on crossbow machines, the crossbow soldiers can also make do, and even in the aspect of siege equipment, they know how to use it better than ordinary generals.

Even if other generals want to learn, they may not have this opportunity.

On the other hand, Fei Qian's advantages of focusing on the training of soldiers are slowly being reflected at the moment.

The most notable aspect is in the scout sentry area.

In addition to specific battlefields, the role of scouts is so important that they can sometimes determine the outcome of the battle.

So for such an important opponent's soldiers, should we focus on prevention and strangulation?

Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with it, but in practice, in the places of other princes, the operability is not very strong.

Except for a few cases, it is necessary to intercept and snipe each other's scouts, generally speaking, even if the scouts on both sides see each other, unless they happen to bump into one place, they are too far away, the bow and arrow can't reach, and it's useless to chase, most of them just spit and go back to their respective homes.

Scouts should be good, first of all, the condition is not to be very good at fighting, but to know how to ride a horse, be able to count, plus good eyesight, especially not night blindness.

The conditions are not complicated, but except for Fei Qian's and Beilongyou's area, war horses in the rest of the region have always been very scarce, not to mention a large number of soldiers who are proficient in horsemanship, so in the first requirement, Fei Qian has an advantage.

A large amount of trade with the Hu people, while obtaining profits, also obtained a large number of livestock, whether it is to improve physical fitness or reduce the night blindness of the soldiers, Fei Qian also has an advantage.

And the most important thing is that the popularization of basic knowledge in the army, which has been carried out in the early stage, has also achieved remarkable results, not to mention those full-time scouts under the current expedition to the west, and even ordinary soldiers at the level of captains, can also carry out simple additions and subtractions within 20 and know 100 words, but it is not required to be able to write; When it comes to the senior non-commissioned officer and military marquis level, you must know how to simply add and subtract three digits, recognize 1,000 words, and at least half of the words must be able to write, which is probably the level of the second and third grades of primary school in later generations......

Therefore, in the Fei Qian's army, there are very many people who can act as scouts, and even a few temporary commanders can make up the number, so that they are much stronger than other princes in this item alone.

What's even more unique is that Feiqian's scout sentry even knows how to camouflage the battlefield superficially!

What is the best place to look?

What range is a scout most likely to appear?

And who knows scouts better than the scouts themselves?

When Fei Qian became serious, equipped with a strong crossbow and knew how to disguise the expeditionary scouts, he immediately caught the Yuan army scouts off guard, and the large number of Yuan army scouts was reduced, and there was no way to immediately replenish them, so the transparency of the entire battlefield began to tilt towards the general of the expedition to the west.

Especially when Gong Jun, as a scout marquis directly under the jurisdiction of Feiqian, appeared on the battlefield with a group of fierce and cunning scouts, the Yuan army scouts under the jurisdiction of Gao Gan had no good fruit to eat.

If the scout is strong, the more information he will bring back, and Fei Qian's understanding of the battlefield will be clearer, while for Gao Gan, the field of vision will gradually shrink, and even twenty miles may not be completely guaranteed.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the two armies hold each other for a longer time, Fei Qian wants to know what color of clothes the senior cadres on the opposite side are wearing......

In such a situation, as long as the foreplay is sufficient, where is there any room for high-level cadres to carry out micro-operations?

Ambush?

Inexistent.

The suppression of the quantity and quality of scouts has led to Gao Gan's every move, and Fei Qian can see it, so Fei Qian naturally has the confidence to break his wrist with Gao Gan, after all, there are so many cattle in the Three Kingdoms, if even Gao Gan does not dare to go up head-on, then how will he live in the future?

Let's not talk about Fei Qian's methodical frontal advancement, just talking about Gao Gan here, the best countermeasure at the moment is nothing more than either hanging the free battle card to hold on, or also facing the front line for a reckless wave, but the problem is that Gao Gan can neither hang up the free battle card, nor dare to rush out like this.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it seems that Yan Liangwen Chou is more famous than Gao Gan, but in fact, Yan Liangwen Chou is more like Yuan Shao's left and right vanguard, brave and qualified, but the command ability is not much stronger than Gao Gan.

After Gao Gan lost his vision, he immediately noticed that something was wrong, but this kind of crushing of the quality of soldiers and equipment happened to be something that Gao Gan could not solve through other means.

However, Gao Gan is not even qualified to be exempt from war now.

The news of being attacked on the back road reached Gao Gan as soon as possible, even faster than the general Fei Qian, who was closer here, and Zhang Liao on the side of Fei Qian, who was relatively far away.

The camp is tight, the soldiers are on guard, and it seems that there is not much difference from before, but the senior cadres know in their hearts that the army is still this army, but the morale has declined a lot. The previous small victory may not be able to offset the fear of being attacked in the back.

After the short period of excitement that defeated the advance of Zhengxi, the high-ranking army also entered the time of the sage, after all, at the ambush site in front of the camp, it was not only the cavalry of Zhengxi who fell, but also the foot soldiers of Yuan's army. The wailing of those wounded soldiers who were injured in the battle but did not die immediately was enough to make the soldiers under Gao Gan's command gradually realize that these soldiers in front of him were even more tricky than their previous opponents, the Black Mountain Thieves, and not even much worse than Bai Ma Yicong!

Especially when General Zhengxi's scouts completely crushed his own soldiers, resulting in ten soldiers going out, often only two or three could come back, and the number of times was too much, even if the senior cadres wanted to block the news, they couldn't do it.

At the beginning, Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong was indeed defeated, but General Ju Yi almost paid the price of the annihilation of the entire army. Besides, those elite and strong crossbowmen under General Ju Yi, how can these ordinary Jizhou soldiers under Gao Gan be compared?

There are already some soldiers muttering in the camp, and the army's heart is also a little shaken, after all, the situation is in front of them, the back road has been cut off, and there is not much grain and grass in storage, how long can this last?

For these, Gao Gan did not order to suppress and refute rumors, because he knew that this kind of thing, the more it was suppressed, the more it could not be suppressed, and the more suspicions would be, but it would be generous, and if the back road was opened up again, the soldiers' hearts would gradually settle down.

But damn it, General Fei Qian of Zhengxi is here at this node!

Retreat, unwilling, and dare not retreat rashly, if you are attacked by the west halfway, it will really be defeated.

Defend, can't defend, because although the back road sent troops to connect with the small part of the troops that drove the expedition to the west, but how much it will take to reopen the back road, and then transfer grain and grass over again, is still unknown.

War, not warlike, the surrounding fields are dark, just know that the general of Zhengxi led the troops south, there are many people, at least three or four thousand, but the specific distribution, the types of troops, what are the special key points, etc., are not very clear, so how can you fight with peace of mind?

At this moment, Gao Gan really regretted it.

I knew that this Bingzhou Assassin was so hard-working, so I might as well stay in Yecheng and continue to be Yuan Shao's other Sima to feel comfortable......

What else can I do, Bo Yi. When the quality of the soldiers is not as good as people, they can only rely on experience to make up for it, and the general of Zhengxi, Fei Qian, is young after all, and maybe there are still some opportunities to seize this.

So when the general Fei Qian arrived in the west, Gao Gan relied on the camp in the middle of the mountain and set up an array, an unconventional array......

Fei Qian also squinted, staring at the high-trunk array in front of him.

Speaking of the high-level cadre array, it is:

A long snake array, a long rainbow through the sun; The two dragons came out of the water array, and their claws were captured together.

Three talents Taiyi array, three-legged standing; Four elephants Luohe array, four mixed elements.

Five tigers and sheep formations, all points entered; Liuyu even a phalanx, all degrees square.

Seven-Star Beidou Array, Taiyi Nether; Eight Golden Lock Arrays, Eight Immortals.

Jiuqu Yellow River Array, flying sand devours life; Ambush array on all sides, heroic souls.

Well, none of the above......

These so-called big arrays are all made up by human brains after the Han Dynasty, and they are absolutely invisible in real battles, at least now.

In fact, the Han Dynasty is not completely without formations, but it is definitely not as wonderful as the later generations depicted.

According to Fei Qian's understanding, the formation is actually divided into three categories, one is used to focus on offense, one is used to focus on defense, and the other is both offensive and defensive, corresponding to triangles, circles and squares. As for what geese walk, crane wings, car hanging, etc., the Han Dynasty did not have this statement, and some were just the specific use of some basic formations.

For example, the formation arranged by the current high-level cadres is not related to any so-called large formation, the front is slightly retracted, and the main soldiers are naturally sword and shield men and pikemen.

Left-wing, no.

Because the left flank is a cottage, there should still be some archers hiding in the cottage, and there are not many in sight for the time being.

On the farther right flank, there was a mixed force of cavalry and infantry, with infantry in the rear and cavalry in front.

The entire array, for Feiqian's side, was a camp standing on the hill in the near distance, and the farthest was Gao Gan's right flank.

So what should Gao Gan call such a formation with mixed terrain and camps to be more majestic?

The more majestic the opponent's opponent, and then the more his own side clatters it, can he get more happiness and satisfaction?

Well, putting aside the obsession of the name of the formation, as a new generation of oil sellers, which point should Fei Qian choose as the attack point?