Chapter 44: Divergence
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Outside Linyang County.
Regarding how to attack the county seat, Gao Yingxiang and Xu Liang had another dispute.
According to Gao Yingxiang's meaning, Xu Liang led his men and horses to attack the county seat first. But Xu Liang is not a fool, and naturally knows that those who attack the county seat first will inevitably suffer the greatest resistance and serious casualties.
What's more, the two of them were already thinking about eating each other's centaurs in order to increase their strength. Once the loss of his own people and horses is serious, it is very likely that Gao Yingxiang will eat it cleanly, and as for himself, the leader, in order to prevent future troubles, he must come to cut down the grass and eradicate the root troubles.
What's more, his manpower is already less than Gao Yingxiang's, so that he is restricted by Gao Yingxiang everywhere.
The number of 10 people on both sides was divided into two groups and there was a confrontation, one by one looking at each other with angry eyes, and Zhao Deliang kept persuading on both sides.
"Gao Yingxiang Laozi can afford you, so he asked you to be this big boss, don't give me a boost from time to time, otherwise don't blame my brother for doing it alone."
At this time, Xu Liang's face was full of anger, and he pointed at Gao Yingxiang with his left hand and scolded.
"Don't be angry, if we haven't started to attack the city, we will fight with our own people, won't it make the officers and soldiers in the city laugh at us."
Zhao Deliang tried all the words in his mind, wanting to calm Xu Liang's anger, and at the same time, he was secretly thinking that the two of them really couldn't support the wall.
This is just the beginning of the incident, and the two of them are fighting for it, which is really difficult to do. At the same time, he signaled Gao Yingxiang with his eyes, and that there was something wrong with this matter.
Gao Yingxiang also knew that his previous arrangement was a little too naked, although he wanted to eat the other party's centaurs very much. It's just that if you admit your mistakes, you won't have the face to be a big boss, so you can only make mistakes and make mistakes. I can only hope that Zhao Deliang can persuade Xu Liang, and at the same time, I secretly want to send Xu Liang back to his hometown after taking the county.
Zhao Deliang saw that he couldn't persuade the two of them at all, so he had to tempt them.
"The second boss of the big boss, it is better to divide the army into two parts, one part is led by the big boss, and the other part is led by the second boss, and attack the four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest respectively. At the same time, it is agreed that whoever breaks through the city gate first will be allowed to enter the city for an hour, and after an hour the other army will march into the city."
Gao Yingxiang and Xu Liang slowly thought about Zhao Deliang's proposal in their hearts, as for who enters the city, it means that all the wealth in the city will be their own. After all, everyone came to attack the county seat, not just to grab things. At the same time, the people under his subordinates showed the spirit of desperate Sanlang, not to mention that they could also resolve the current embarrassing situation, after all, Xu Liang also knew that with his more than 2,000 people, it was very likely that he would not be able to attack the county seat. Only by uniting with Gao Yingxiang can you let yourself live. Especially at present, I don't want to get too stiff with Gao Yingxiang, at least at this stage.
In the end, the two shook hands and made peace, and Xu Liang took his more than 2,000 horses and those who returned to him to the south and north cities.
The dispute between Gao Yingxiang and Xu Liang also brought some time for Zhu Qiquan in the city, so that Zhu Qiquan could calmly arrange people to defend the city.
At this time, the city wall of Linyang County at this time was full of people, but most of them were wearing ordinary people's clothes.
In order to defend Linyang County, Zhu Qiquan mobilized the young and middle-aged people in the county and the servants of various wealthy merchants.
Of course, Zhu Qiquan didn't want to keep Linyang County, but he really didn't want to die a tragic death.
If Lingyang County is really breached, as the county commander of Linyang County, he will definitely be unable to escape death, whether he is killed by the exiles or executed by the order of the imperial court, it is a painful consequence for Zhu Qiquan, who is used to thinking of glory and wealth. What's more, he just accepted the 38th Hua concubine.
As for the people of Linyang County, they also know what will happen to them after the rebels break through the county seat, and maybe some ordinary people think that the rebels will show mercy to their subordinates when they break through the county seat. As for the rich merchants in the city, they know their situation better, if Zhu Qiquan is the first person to be killed, then they are the second target of the rebels outside the city, who makes them rich, sometimes it is a crime to be rich.
"Surrounding three ques and one" is also the same as "encircling the division must be que". It is one of the eight principles of using troops to fight a war listed by Sun Wu in "The Art of War".
Among them, "que" means "gap" and "gap". This means emphasizing the need to leave gaps when encircling the enemy. In such a situation, if the enemy is surrounded on all sides, it may prompt the enemy commander to make up his mind to fight to the death.
Conversely, if a gap is deliberately left behind, it can cause the enemy commander to vacillate between flight and death, and at the same time demoralize the enemy soldiers.
More importantly, leaving a gap is not to leave it alone, but to set up an ambush in the place where the enemy must escape, so that the enemy will fall into an ambush circle in the process of hasty escape.
In particular, if the enemy besieges and holds the castle, once the enemy abandons the city and flees, he can avoid the pain of besieging the city and completely destroy the enemy army on the field battlefield. In contrast, it is obviously much less difficult and costly to fight a fleeing enemy than to fight an enemy to the death. Generals with a little brains can calculate this account, so "besieging the division must be que" is a common tactic used by generals in all dynasties.
One of the important reasons why Genghis Khan was able to lead his cavalry to be invincible in the eastern battlefield, whether it was a field battle or a siege of a city, was that he repeatedly adopted the strategy of "besieging the army and destroying the city", often luring the defending troops out of the castle and destroying them in the vast and mobile field battlefield.
As a matter of fact, "encircling the division must be que" is not only a tactic of warfare, but also a method of thinking. The core of this is to require people to grasp the balance when dealing with things, leave room for them, don't talk too much, don't do things too desperately, and give the other party or the contradiction space and time to change, if it exceeds a certain limit, it will often backfire.
Similarly, at the negotiation table, sometimes because of the situation, the other party is still "stubbornly resisting" when there is no way out, if you continue to exert pressure head-on, the opponent is very likely to "die in the net" and "burn the jade", which will eventually lead to the collapse of the business negotiation and make all the previous efforts in vain. The best way to avoid this outcome is to put yourself in the opponent's shoes, know what is at stake, point the other party to a way out that is acceptable to them, and steer the outcome of the negotiation in your favor.
If he is a general who knows how to march and fight, he will definitely understand this truth, but for Gao Yingxiang and Xu Liang, two monks who are halfway monks, they don't know this truth at all, and they directly sent people to surround Linyang County on all sides.
This also caused the defenders and young men in charge of defending the city to think that the other party was going to put them all to death, which aroused their determination to defend the Linyang line.
As for Zhao Deliang, the only one in the army who has read a book for a few years, he doesn't know these truths at all.
In this era of literati who don't listen to things outside the window and only read the books of sages. Especially after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the idea of emphasizing literature and military force over military force caused literati to look down on officers and soldiers, and even when they saw officers and soldiers, they only said a word of Qiu Ba with contempt, and even more disdainful of reading military books and other things.
Zhao Bantou, who said that he went out of the city to ask for help, rode a group of old horses that were about to die, trembling and struggling to move forward in the mud pile that had gradually melted.
The biggest problem why the Central Plains Dynasty could not defeat the nomads in the north was that there were no war horses. The nomads in the north are one person, one horse, one horse, one number of horses, coming and going without a trace, while the Central Plains Dynasty is mainly infantry, and even if there is cavalry, it is only equipped with some sophisticated troops. Maybe today it hits you here, and tomorrow it attacks your county hundreds of kilometers away. Let the soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty be so busy running around that they are exhausted and then encircle and annihilate.
Although it is an old horse, it is the only horse in Linyang County.
For Linyang County, which is in the mainland, even this batch of old mana was bought by the county order for a lot of money. For example, in normal times, even the county order is reluctant to ride, and as for other ordinary people, they have only heard of horses, but they have never seen them.
Maybe it was because he had never ridden a horse, and the exhausted Zhao Bantou looked at the Qianhu House close at hand, and Zhao Bantou wanted to sing a song to relieve his bloody buttocks that had already been worn by the horse's back, as well as his legs that were about to become numb.