Chapter 103: Pre-War Deployment
Zhang Liao did not immediately deploy the battle plan, but let the guards hold torches, and he drew Yuan Shao's camp on the ground. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Although Zuo Ci can find out the situation, he doesn't know much about military affairs, and he only thinks that Yuan Shao's camp is strict, but he doesn't know the trick.
But Zhang Liao is different, he originally read the book of soldiers, during this time and followed Jia Xu to learn a lot of knowledge, as soon as he heard Zuo Ci's description, he knew that Yuan Shao's camp adopted a kind of camping method discussed in the "Sima Law", divided into front, rear, left, right, middle five battalions, the handsome tent in the middle, the other four battalions distributed in the southeast, northwest and four directions, with four arches and one, each other.
The five camps are about 400 steps away from each other, each camp is more than 600 steps deep, each has a gate, surrounded by two rows of sharpened wooden piles, the wooden stake spikes are obliquely outward, and there is a week of trenches on the periphery, but it seems that the Yuan army has not been camped for a long time, and the trenches have not been completely dug wide and deep.
The middle camp is the place where Yuan Shao sits, the largest, with 2,000 soldiers guarding, when Yuan Shao's most elite soldiers, there is a large open area in front of the camp, which is the place where the military parade will be carried out at ordinary times.
Behind the middle camp is grain, grass and baggage, surrounded by camp tents, and behind the left is the stable, with four or five thousand war horses in captivity, which is not a small amount, in addition to the ones captured from Hu Zhen today, there is also a part of Yuan Shao himself.
The camp in the north is behind the battle line, at this time it is full of wounded soldiers, many people are still being treated, there is a fenced place nearby, inside are 2,000 prisoners, it is the Qiang Hu soldiers who were captured after the defeat of Hu Zhen today.
The southern camp, near the ferry and directly opposite Mongjin, was the front line, and the fortifications were the most solid.
The western camp should be 2,000 archers, according to Zuo Ci's investigation, there are plenty of bows and arrows here, and the archers are in this position, ready to assist the middle tent and the southern front line.
The eastern camp was supposed to be cavalry, with a lot of cavalry equipment, and the stables were right between the tent and them, so this speculation was not far from ten.
This is the distribution of Yuan Shao's camp that Zhang Liao roughly speculated in his mind based on Zuo Ci's investigation.
In terms of troops, according to Zuo Ci's investigation, the number of people in each battalion in the five directions is uncertain, more or less, but they are all about 2,000 people, and in general, the total number of soldiers and horses stationed here is about 10,000, and Zhang Liao also speculated a lot of situations.
Yuan Shao's total strength is 15,000, and yesterday 5,000 were allocated to Heyang City and Qingfengling Ferry, and 10,000 were left in the Heyangjin battalion, but when he fought with Hu Zhen during the day today, Heyang City returned 2,000 troops, so Yuan Shao's troops in Heyangjin should be 12,000.
But now according to Zuo Ci, there are only 10,000, which proves that the battle during the day is indeed tragic, although Hu Zhen was ambushed and lost more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, but Yuan Shao also suffered a lot, at least 2,000 soldiers and horses, and Zhang Liao estimated that the number of wounded soldiers was even more!
Zhang Liao roughly drew the situation of Yuan Shao's camp, and briefly described it, but saw that several generals were dark and dignified, and couldn't help laughing: "Why, I don't have confidence?" ”
"Difficult!" Fan Chou said simply: "But as long as the commander gives the order, I will wait and kill it." ”
Gao Shun said solemnly: "Yuan Shao's troops are far superior to ours, the camp layout is broken, and they should respond to each other, not to be underestimated, this battle is very difficult, once you fall into it,"
Zhao Wu and the other military marquis were silent, obviously lacking confidence.
Fighting is about confidence and morale, Zhang Liao knows that if even these generals don't have confidence, then there is no need to fight this battle tonight! If you fight, you will lose the battle!
He immediately stood up straight, laughed, and thrust his long sword into the handsome tent on the ground camp map, and said categorically: "We will win this battle!" Just see if you can catch Yuan Shao. ”
Looking at a few generals, Zhang Liao said hesitantly: "You only saw Yuan Shao's strength and camp advantage, but you didn't find Yuan Shao's fatal disadvantage!" ”
Zhao Wu's eyes lit up: "Please give me advice!" ”
Gao Shun and Fan Chou and other generals couldn't help but look at Zhang Liao with confidence.
"Yuan Shaojun has three fatal disadvantages," Zhang Liao stretched out three fingers in turn: "Tired!" Sleeping! Wounded! ”
Seeing that the eyes of several people lit up, Zhang Liao said sonorously: "One, they have been fighting with Hu Zhonglang for most of the day today, and the whole army is full of tired people!"
Second, they have a great victory, tired, they will inevitably sleep, the defense of the gate is weak, and we are a surprise attack, they are caught off guard, we have a great advantage!
Third, they are more or less wounded, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, how can they compare with our soldiers!
Fourth, don't forget that there is also a prisoner camp, as long as the prisoner camp is broken through first, we will have an extra 2,000 troops, with 5,000 to 10,000 troops, one to two troops, under the night attack, it is not difficult to win!
Fifth, the enemy's western camp is an archer, which is closest to us, and if the bow battalion is broken first, the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army will be reduced by half!
Sixth, there are four or five thousand war horses in the stable, as long as these war horses are driven up, it is enough to cause chaos in the enemy camp! ”
Every time Zhang Liao said a word, the eyes of Fan Chou, Gao Shun and other generals lit up, when he said the fifth, the generals looked excited, when he said the sixth, Fan Chou said loudly: "Captain don't need to say, we will win this battle!" I have confidence! ”
Gao Shun was also rarely excited: "If Duwei Dong watches the fire, I might as well wait, this battle can be won!" ”
"So start laying out the battle plan!" Zhang Liao laughed, attracting the curiosity of the soldiers not far away.
"Fan Sima! Your cavalry is the most combat-ready and the fastest, so you have the heaviest mission! Zhang Liao's long sword drew a battle route on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "You lead five hundred cavalry, first go around to the rear north camp, the north camp is mostly wounded, the defense is the weakest, the drum is together, you wait to rush in immediately, the horse steps on the north camp, don't stop, directly rush to the prisoner camp south of the north camp, rescue the prisoners first, pass the night battle password, and order the prisoners to rush and kill in groups, and your five hundred cavalry still don't stay, continue to rush into the stables to the southeast, drive four or five thousand war horses, and storm the tent of the commander of the middle army!" ”
"Order!" Fan Chou looked excited.
Zhang Liao said again: "I will equip you with ten war drums, and when the time comes, they will beat together and drive the war horses!" ”
"Yes! The captain is like a god! Fan Chou laughed: "I wondered what the captain was doing with so many war drums, but I didn't expect it to be driving the war horse, it turned out that the captain had already thought of it, and I was convinced!" Yuan Shao will definitely be captured alive in this battle! ”
Zhang Liao smiled and looked at Gao Shun: "Gao Sima, you lead five hundred elites to raid the bow battalion in the west, and you must make sure that those two thousand archers can't release a single arrow, and after victory, force the Chinese army." ”
"Order!" Gao Shun received the order in a deep voice.