Two days later, in the southeast of Jiaozhou, Wenyang City in Changzhou, Zhou Huai'an's department once again encountered the resistance of the rebel army entrenched in it;

Therefore, after the inside and outside joined forces to break through the barrier of the city gate, the rebel soldiers, who were scattered into many small groups, were advancing in batches along the dense streets and bridges of the city; From time to time, buildings were set on fire, and corpses were thrown and squeezed into the alleys.

At the corner of a bridge, a dozen or so battle groups led by the Fire Commander King stopped again with a wave of his hand. Then I saw the walls of the shacks and the piles of debris piled up in the cracks of the buildings.

"Kill...

In the smoke and dust that rolled up, rushed out in groups of three or five, shouting unintelligible local dialect and shirtless black dwarf men, flashing reflective slashing and slashing across the board knife and hand axe, almost all of which chopped on the face of Wang Dali's hand, and brought bursts of impact and vibration numbness.

But this is actually meaningless and not much of a threat to Wang Dali, who bows slightly and pushes his shoulders against the cards in front of him, and tightly covers himself and his teammates; As long as he follows his usual experience with the enemy, he can easily unload most of these menacing attacks by deflecting them sideways or tightening his hand slightly.

This is also the greatest use of these sword players and vanguards at the moment, and after the momentum of these enemies is blocked and stopped, the end and end of the opponent are already doomed.

Because behind the rattan and wooden shields held high, there are spear shafts that stretch out over the shoulders and armpits of the front row, like a ball of thorns that roll forward irregularly, knocking over, pushing, and stabbing the scattered enemies that jump out of the houses and streets along the way.

And on the side of the street and between the rooftops and bamboo buildings on the river, there were occasionally fallen bricks and stones and sneak attack shuttle darts or something, and then there were crossbowmen who were neatly guarded in the team and couldn't wait for Zhang Xian to reflect back, and turned into screaming and falling figures.

In some of the wider streets and alleys, there are even more fire-throwers in more warbands, using poison smoke balls and oil canisters pushed on carts to deal with the stubborn enemies who like to hide in cramped and cramped building spaces. It's like being in a smoked rat hole, and an ambush that can be smoked out no longer poses a threat.

This time, Zhou Huai'an led the crowd to clean up all the way along the Red River Plain, where Jiaozhou is located, and cleaned up the bandits and soldiers who were in trouble, and recruited Ding Zhuang to rebuild the order of a place.

Of course, it is inevitably mixed with some villages and towns where the wealthy families who don't know what to do or don't know how to count and want to gather to fight against the rebel army are just pushed over in the name of rebellion, and all of them are turned into nourishment for strengthening the rebel army and training soldiers.

Of course, for some reason, after laying down the first settlements that dared to resist; The rebels only took their goods, livestock, money, food, and materials, and left the remaining land and population to the most prominent families in the leading party; But in return, they had to execute the settlement's original owner with their own hands.

So the corresponding enthusiasm and enterprising spirit were immediately stimulated. Because this is an upright conspiracy, directly through practical actions, the local forces in Jiaozhou will be divided into groups (families) that are willing to cooperate with the rebels and benefit, and the polar divide between resisting the rebels and being exterminated by the crusade.

And in this war dominated by the rebels, there was no room for these local tycoons to remain neutral and watch; Either resist to the end and turn into powder, or honestly hand over the money and food and Ding Zhuang to help the army; Of course, these miscellaneous armed forces and servants gathered along the way will be handed over to the most active leaders of the Qu clan to lead and be responsible.

Therefore, in the places where the Israeli army passed, although it was also a set of things that were divided between large households, it became a bunch of wealthy families to lead the way to eat another bunch of wealthy households; In disguise, the contradictions between outsiders and local households, which may have been intensified and instigated, have been turned into hatred between local households; After all, in their eyes, the rebels will eventually leave, but the land and property that have been occupied by people are impossible to spit out

Although there is an inevitable tendency to borrow the power of the rebels to take revenge or ostracize dissidents, this is also a reverse elimination process that directly makes them choose to take sides. directly isolate and highlight those who are at both ends of the head rat or half-hearted wall grass from those beneficiary groups; There is no need for the rebels to put in any effort at all, and there will be people who will stand in line and express their stance than them.

Moreover, because the newly created vested interests have been stained with the blood of the old master's family, they are also most worried about the counterattack and reversal of the remnants of the other party, and they have to naturally rely more on and lean towards the rebels; Therefore, in suppressing and cleaning up local rebellions, they would have shown extraordinary strength without the urging of the rebels. This can be regarded as a kind of collateral effect with half the effort.

And having the new forces of all sizes supported by these rebels as a strategy and shield (the target of attracting and diverting hatred) is also beneficial and beneficial to the temporary grain stations (transfer stations) and delivery shops (fast horse stations) established by the rebels along the rear. In the next march of the rebel army, it became more tortuous and steady.

As the so-called *** said, "You fight yours, I will fight mine", "No matter how many ways you come, I just go all the way", "Attack it directly, you will save it and force it to fight". To respond along the pace and rhythm of the enemy is to fall into the inferior form of passivity and passivity, and also to lose the initiative in war. Especially when there is enough depth and width of the battlefield.

According to the information obtained from the rout, the newly ascended Jing Haijun Jie Du Liuhou Zeng Gon was also a brave and risk-taking figure. After initially grasping and integrating the situation in Jiaozhou City, he dared to launch a strong attack overnight; Taking advantage of the fact that the coalition forces are not in step with each other, and sit back and watch others be broken by each flaw, the situation of sitting in the siege of the city has been reversed at once.

Therefore, when the battlefield situation has undergone major changes, Zhou Huai'an also gave up the initial plan and supporting plan to rush to Jiaozhou City; After all, with the defeat of the local Tutuan coalition army under the city of Jiaozhou, the unexpected variables (army) brought by his own army from afar, and the advantage brought by the suddenness of the situation, are no longer enough to deal with the enemy who has a strong city to rely on when the external troubles are gone.

After this period of leadership, Zhou Huaian also knows his advantages and corresponding shortcomings; As a time-traveler with a vision of the times and a wealth of aggregate knowledge, he is familiar with the historical evolution of thousands of years and the gains and losses of basic lessons; In peacetime, it should be more useful at the macro level of army building, organizational structure, system building, and even training and selecting talented people to know people and do their jobs well, maintaining the mobility of upgrading, and creating more room for growth.

In wartime, the basic direction and strategic goals are given based on historical cases and lessons learned. The self-owned staff will demonstrate and deduce its possibilities, and then further refine and improve it according to the internal and external conditions and information mastered, and finally give the plan and plan of the corresponding realization process;

As for the specific course of the war and the means of dealing with the enemy, there is no need to be reckless except for a few special circumstances such as the need to boost morale; It can only be handed over to the average military literacy of the daily training of the troops, as well as those generals and veterans who are more specialized in their specialties and relatively rich in experience.

What I can do in the meantime is to avoid the probability of making mistakes and misjudgments as much as possible under the condition of being as thoughtful and prepared as possible; This is the basic principle of "being invincible before victory" in the art of war.

At least with the gradual increase in the number of people available to his subordinates, the opportunity and probability that he needed to copy the big names himself and personally go up like in Changle City Ten will basically no longer be there.

Just after this growing group of rebels passed through the territory of Wu'an Prefecture and Changzhou Prefecture on the periphery of Jiaozhou, and broke through one of the small states on the Red River Plain - the boundary of the county and state, after the largest barbarian settlement Huangchangdong (county); On the east bank of the lower reaches of the Zhuluan River, which is subordinate to Zhuluan County, Jiaozhou, he finally encountered the armed forces of the Chengjian army who came to meet him.

(End of chapter)