Volume 1 The Yellow Turban Rebellion Chapter 127 Strategy and Tactics
Listening to Guan Yu's words, Guo Bin was the first to react, slammed his right hand on the chair, leaned forward, and said, "What does Yun Chang mean, guerrilla warfare?" ”
Everyone suddenly realized.
Guerrilla warfare is a cavalry tactic put forward by Guo Bin in the defense of Yangzhai, and its core idea is that "the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and we fight, the enemy advances and retreats, and the enemy retreats and we pursue." Guerrilla warfare is irregular warfare. With attack as the main means, it has a high degree of mobility, flexibility, initiative, offense and quick decision. The so-called "" guerrilla is in the shape of a sudden movement, avoiding the real and attacking the false, depending on the victory and the prosperity, the knot tends to the ground, and the four meridians are broken. ”
The Chinese communists, represented by Mao Zedong, creatively developed the theory and principles of guerrilla warfare. These well-known histories will not be repeated here, and Guo Bintian's shameless plagiarism of the great achievements of his ancestors for his own use is quite practical.
This method of warfare has also been widely used in e-sports games in modern times. The marginal OB tactics proposed by the No. 1 gold medal lecturer in Hong Kong and Macao in a certain province is a variant of guerrilla warfare. The so-called edge OB is to hit if you can fight, and run if you can't fight, using ultra-high mobility, fast in and out, eating away at the enemy little by little, and finally achieving the goal of making the enemy collapse, which is a very spiritual way of playing.
At this time, Guo Bin only had 700 cavalry, and if he wanted to annihilate the 200,000 Yellow Turban army with this force, it would be tantamount to a fool's dream. Although it could not cause great damage to the Yellow Turban Army, it was enough to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers.
After discussion and arrangement, Guo Bin decided to start implementing the strategy the next night.
In the evening of the same day, Guo Da and the five people led ten sergeants to escort Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, and Xun Yu into the city of Changshe to settle down, and explained the situation and Guo Bin's plan to Zuo Zhonglang's general Huangfu Song. Huangfu Song was very polite to everyone, and after reading Guo Bin's handbook, he listened to Xi Zhicai's explanation, and sighed inexplicably in his heart. In the reply letter he asked Guo Da to hand over to Guo Bin, he proposed to ask Guo Bin to choose the opportunity to enter the battlefield. Although it is extremely obscure, it does have the meaning of making him focus on the overall situation and asking Guo Bin to "make a big news", but he never thought that Guo Bin could really focus on the overall situation and harass the Yellow Turban thieves with his 700 cavalry.
Huangfu Song couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: "Being in a temple, he can put state affairs first, this Guo Bin is really not an ordinary person." ”
Why? Because you are at the height of the temple, you must be cautious in your words and deeds at all times, and you can't take half a wrong step. Guo Bin was able to come to the rescue of Changshe this time, and Huangfu Song was already very warm. Because as long as the army under Guo Bin takes a step towards Yangzhai, it can be regarded as embarking on the road of supporting Changshe. As long as he walked on this road, before he arrived at Changshe, the army of Huangfu Song was annihilated by the Yellow Turban Thieves, which was also a crime of slow marching and poor rescue. Afterwards, if Huangfu Song escaped with his life, it would be good to say, if no one took the blame, Guo Bin would become the one who carried the blame, and then his crime would be big.
And if he doesn't take half a step out of Yang Zhai City in the name of army repair, then even if Huangfu Song is wiped out by the Yellow Turban thieves with an army of 40,000, he won't be able to get any charge on Guo Bin. Because Guo Bin is not a long-term general, he has just fought a tough battle to win more with less, and it is normal for the troops to take a little rest. In addition, now that the yellow scarves are everywhere, the society is in danger, and the imperial court is the time to employ people. As long as Guo Bin does not have anything to do with the battle of Changshe, there will be no risk.
Moreover, the 200,000-strong army of the Yellow Turban Thieves fought against the army of 40,000 officers and nearly 250,000 soldiers, and even a decisive battle could not be fought in a day or two. If Guo Bin is a little more tactful, after getting the news of the victory of the official army, he will rush to grab the credit in the starry night, and with the distance between Yang Zhai and Changshe, there is no problem. This should be the most "standard" approach for a "qualified" official.
However, since Guo Bin received the edict of the Son of Heaven, without saying a word, he sent someone to contact the army of Huangfu Song. After receiving the letter from Huangfu Song, he hurried to the periphery of the Changshe non-stop. Huangfu Song did not give Guo Bin a clear order, but let him take advantage of the mobility of the cavalry to choose the opportunity to enter the battlefield, which is a respect for Guo Bin and a trust in his tactical literacy; The second is to know that Guo Bin is all cavalry, and if he is allowed to enter Changshe City, he will lose the mobility of the cavalry, and its deterrence and lethality will undoubtedly be weakened a lot.
Although Huangfu Song valued Guo Bin as a person, he did not have much hope for the 700 cavalry that had recently become an army. Regarding the origin of these 700 cavalry, Huangfu Song, who is the general of Zuo Zhonglang, has naturally heard of it. He knew it was a young unit and hadn't experienced much of a big war.
If Guo Bin led the Yue cavalry battalion that followed Emperor Guangwu to fight the country, Huangfu Song believed that a miracle might happen, but he really didn't dare to have too many expectations for these recruits. Fortunately, the cavalry has a very strong ability to move, and with Guo Bin's talent, it is not possible to win a big victory, and it should be no problem to ensure their own safety.
However, Huangfu Song never expected that Guo Bin would look at this battle from the perspective of the commander of the official army, and what he was thinking about was how to use the 700 recruits in his hands to reverse the current decline of the official army. This made Huangfu Song unexpected, and he also valued Guo Bin more and more in his heart.
Although Huangfu Song is not a member of the party, he has a close relationship with the scholar class, and he is even more close to Lu Zhi. Therefore, when Huangfu Song, who was familiar with Lu Zhi's temperament, saw that this arrogant and stubborn, and even a somewhat dull old friend actually looked at an unknown hairy boy in Yangzhai County, he was very interested in Guo Bin.
It wasn't until Guo Bin was in charge of Yangzhai Ling that he wrote to the imperial court and asked for the expansion of nearly one-third of the scale of Yangzhai County, and Huangfu Song, who had lived at the grassroots level for a long time, saw that Guo Bin was able to resettle more than 30,000 displaced people with the power of a county, and he somewhat agreed with Lu Zhi's vision in his heart. This Guo Bin is at least a capable official with a benevolent heart.
Later, the eldest prince Liu Bian was attacked in Yangzhai, and Guo Bin sent a letter to the heavens. There were not many twists and turns, and there was news of the Son of Heaven. At this time, Huangfu Song was already extremely curious about Guo Bin. He never imagined that Guo Bin was not only a capable and talented parent, but also a very politically minded official.
Recently, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huangfu Song was thinking about how to use this opportunity to persuade the Son of Heaven to abolish the party ~ ban, and he heard that Guo Bin wrote to the Son of Heaven and asked for the abolition of the party ~ ban. In his heart, he secretly admired that the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and was afraid that he would be retaliated against by the eunuchs because he came out at this time. Guo Bin This is a big thing that the old guy has worked hard for more than ten years, and he has done it quietly!
At this time, Huangfu Song admired Guo Bin very much. His Huangfu Song is after the gate, his uncle Huangfu Gui is a famous general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the three Mings in Liangzhou, his father Huangfu Festival once served as the Taishou of Yanmen County, and he has been a border general for a long time, and Huangfu Song himself has been since he was requisitioned by the Son of Heaven bus as a waiter, moved to the north Taishou, and later lived in the border for a long time, guarding the frontier for the Han Dynasty. But although he is good at military affairs, he is only in the governance side, but he just follows. He really didn't expect that there would be such a person in the world as Guo Bin, who is both civil and military, and has insight into the world.
Because among the people he came into contact with, Lu Zhi was the most talented, both civil and military. But he is too upright and doesn't know how to be flexible. And the most flexible people in the officialdom are often equivalent to bureaucrats, and they lack a lot in talent and learning. Although Guo Bin is not very old, he is a man who can be a state of literature, a martial artist who can set the country, and his political skills are even more superb, which is really the only one in the life of Huangfu Song.
Therefore, when I heard that Guo Bin was going to use 700 cavalry to involve 200,000 Yellow Turban troops, although I was surprised, I still had a little expectation and excitement. And when he saw Guo Bin's handwriting collected by Xi Zhicai, he was even more amazed by Guo Bin's flexibility of thinking and profound knowledge.
In the letter, Guo Bin not only wrote the specific plans and steps he would lead the army to contain the Yellow Turban Army, but also gave a method to break the Yellow Turban Bandits. If this thing can really be done, just this contribution will be enough for an ordinary person to be crowned: this is a great merit for saving 40,000 officers and soldiers!
You must know that Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun were ordered to go out of Beijing to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army this time, and what they led was already the last force of the Han Dynasty to protect the Beijing Division, except for the elite Yulin in Beijing. And Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun each led 20,000 troops to form the Southern Route Army, if they were defeated by the Yellow Turban Army, it would be one plus one subtraction, which would greatly change the balance of power between the imperial court and the Yellow Turban Army.
The biggest lifeline of the Yellow Turban Army, in addition to the lack of training and the fact that the generals do not know how to lead troops to fight, is the equipment problem. If the 40,000 officers and troops on the South Road are completely annihilated, then this weapon and equipment will inevitably be taken away by the Yellow Turban thieves. At that time, there will be 40,000 fewer elite officers and 40,000 more well-equipped troops in the Yellow Turban Army. At that time, if there are soft-boned generals who surrender to thieves, the disadvantage of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army who will not lead the army will inevitably be reduced a lot.
At that time, if the Yingchuan Yellow Turban goes north to support Jizhou, Lu Zhi's Northern Route Army will inevitably fall into the dilemma of being flanked, and when the Yellow Turban Army divides and annihilates the two armies of the imperial court, the thousands of Imperial Forest Army stationed in Gyeonggi will really not be used.
Although the imperial court called on the heroes of the world to recruit their own troops and work together, the edict of the joint resistance to the Yellow Turban has been sent to various places. But whether it is recruiting troops, preparing grain and grass, or reinforcing Beijing, it is not something that can be done in ten days and half a month. If we wait for the arrival of the Qinwang rebels in Gyeonggi and the city of Luoyang has already fallen, wouldn't it really be a great chaos in the world?
And if Guo Bin's method of eliminating the Yellow Turban Army can be successful, he can exterminate the Yellow Turban thieves in Yingchuan in one fell swoop, and it will inevitably reverse the situation in the world, and the world of the Han Dynasty can be regarded as saved.
At this time, in the heart of Zuo Zhonglang General Huangfu Song, who has not yet seen Guo Bin's side, Guo Bin is a graceful, handsome beard, both civil and military, saving the world and helping the people, and the general trend of the world is in the palm of his hand, mysterious and omnipotent.