Volume 1 The Yellow Turban Rebellion Chapter 130 The Tactics of the Exhausted Soldiers

After Guo Bin's troops set foot in the camp, they did not enter Changshe City, but went around the city, and disappeared into endless darkness from the east of Changshe City.

This move made the defenders in the city who were looking forward to seeing the demeanor of the Marquis of Fulong Pavilion stunned, but Huangfu Song paid more and more attention to Guo Bin, as the commander of the army, he naturally knew the reason why Guo Bin did not enter the city.

Guo Bin's troops were all cavalry, and the advantage of cavalry was not to defend the city, but to fight in the field. In particular, Guo Bin's unit is not a heavy cavalry with full body armor, although it has a certain impact, it is extremely limited. The reason why he dared to rush the camp at night was entirely because the army had just arrived in Changshe, and the Yellow Turban Army was still defenseless. If the Yellow Turban Army arranges elite spearmen in the battalion, it can restrain Guo Bin's troops to death.

And how Guo Bin was able to train such an elite cavalry unit in less than half a year is due to his scientific and rigorous training methods.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a question of learning methods.

In the vast majority of fields, what masters and rookies see can be said to be two completely different worlds. What the rookie sees is an extremely trivial fragment of knowledge and an unfathomable performance after finally mastering the knowledge, while what the master sees is a small system, or concept, under the big framework of knowledge.

To give a very simple example, take basketball as an example, in the eyes of a rookie, what you see is that an excellent basketball player can shoot accurately, can dribble the ball past people in various sassy postures, can shake the opposing player to the point of falling, can dribble to the basket, can block, and can even complete a slam dunk under the block of several people.

And in the eyes of the master, what he sees is completely different. He'll see the ability to do it, whether it's bounce or stamina. He'll see that this athlete has amazing bounce, you'll see that this player's basic dribbling is standard, you'll see that his stamina is good, you'll see that he's very flexible, you'll see that his shooting posture is standard, you'll see he's very responsive.

Therefore, when practicing, rookies may gather under the basket and shoot vigorously with the basket, which is also a common sight in civic stadiums. The master will divide the ability required to play basketball well into several systems, and then train those abilities in a targeted manner.

In more detail, a basketball player needs to have excellent bounce, excellent body coordination, and strong arm muscles when shooting. Then they will deliberately do frog jumps every day to increase their leg muscles and exercise their bounce power; Able to do direction change running exercises to enhance the coordination of their bodies; Dumbbells will be used to exercise arm muscles, and of course, a good man who is born with a unicorn arm will have a unique set of exercises.

In other words, masters tend to divide the learning of one area and then create seemingly unrelated training methods to train in a targeted manner. In the simplest example, a basketball player is asked to run long distances every day to develop cardiorespiratory capacity and endurance. Basketball is not athletics, but sprinting and long-distance running, which may seem unrelated on the surface, are essential.

This ability to divide an activity into several systems is often only possible with experts in the field. Therefore, in order to learn a skill, it is often the most effective way to learn it by asking for advice from the masters.

In Guo Bin's army, for the training of horsemanship, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others discussed and pondered together, and spent a few days cutting the abilities required for riding and archery and using them in cavalry training. As a result, it really created a lot of results.

From how to ride a horse and run in a straight line, to how to turn, how to quickly restrain the horse, how to achieve sharp turns, etc., they are all cut one by one, so that the soldiers can practice in a targeted manner, and today's achievements are obvious to all. And Guo Bin is born with brute strength, as long as it is a sport, he is extremely talented. Therefore, it only took a month for this guy to become a master of horseback riding.

As for why he didn't enter the Changshe City to repair after the sneak attack on the Yellow Turban Army camp, Guo Bin also had his own considerations.

In addition to what Huangfu Song thought, in order to ensure that he has enough room for maneuver, what Guo Bin considered was to form a deterrent to the Yellow Turban Army.

"The Art of War" cloud: "The good defender hides under the nine earths, and the good attacker moves above the nine heavens, so he can protect himself and win all." ”

Be an attacker, so that your enemies can't see where you're attacking from and how you're attacking. The so-called hidden thunder is above the nine heavens, and it is a kind of deterrent to the enemy. What human beings fear most is not actually the strongest and most lethal thing, but the most mysterious thing.

For example, humans are afraid of ghosts, but not of cars on the road. Why? Because ghosts are so mysterious that humans can't even know for sure if they really exist. And for the car, who doesn't know that it is a machine made of piston ~ internal combustion engine that drives four wheels to rotate?

However, according to the statistics of the health department, in 2012, 166906 people died in motor vehicle traffic accidents in China, and how many were scared to death by ghosts? I'm afraid I've never heard of it.

Therefore, as long as Guo Bin's cavalry does not appear on the battlefield for a day, Bocai will have scruples in his heart, and will not dare to put all his troops into the battlefield of attacking Changshe City. In fact, according to later statistics, no more than 1,500 Yellow Turban troops died in the night attack of Guo Bin's troops, which accounted for a very small part of the total number of Yellow Turban Army, but it caused great psychological pressure on the 200,000 Yellow Turban Army.

When the officers and soldiers on duty on the city wall that night saw the heroic posture of Guo Bin leading 700 cavalry horses to the company camp, they naturally made a big splash in the army, and they gave full play to their imagination when they couldn't see it clearly at night. The so-called: "If the reputation does not increase its beauty, the person who hears it is not happy; If destroying people is not good, then the listener will not be happy. Smell an increase to ten, see a hundred benefits thought thousands. The simple things of the husband are judged by ten cuts; The words of judgment are involving. ”

By daylight the day the news had spread through the city at great speed, and the more outrageous it became. At dusk, it was rumored in the city of Changshe that Guo Qianyang, the Marquis of Fulong Pavilion, personally led a hundred horsemen, and the horses stepped on the camp and returned. He also beheaded dozens of generals and 10,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, and almost beheaded Bo Cai, the leader of the 200,000 Yellow Turban thieves.

Seeing that the matter was so outrageous, Xi Zhicai and the others in Changshe City had to smile bitterly. Guo Da was ordered to protect all the military advisors here, and he also carried carrier pigeons with him. Although Guo Bin did not enter the city, he immediately wrote a flying pigeon biography to Xi Zhicai and others in the city after the war. The course of the incident and the basic results of the battle have naturally been reported.

However, they also knew that Huang Fu Song was behind this matter, and the purpose was to establish Guo Bin's reputation for being brave and good at fighting, so as to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers. is so showy in the officialdom, it is inevitable that people will be hated, but since it is impossible to resist, and it is a matter of doing more harm than good, Xi Zhicai is naturally already thinking about how to maximize the benefits of this matter.

Besides, for the jealousy of villains, how could Guo Qianyang, who didn't even put Zhang Rang in his eyes, be afraid?

In the middle of the night, it was still dark in the Yellow Turban camp, and from the outside it seemed the same as before, Guo Bin led the 700 army to come again, but he stood still 50 steps outside the camp, and only shot into the Yellow Turban camp with bows and arrows.

Originally, Bo Cai was afraid that Guo Bin's old tricks would be repeated, so he planted traps in the place where Guo Bin entered the camp yesterday, and set up ambushes, waiting for Guo Bin's army to come to the camp to give him a good look. Unexpectedly, Guo Bin did not enter the camp, which made Bocai's arrangement fail, not to mention, the pikemen arranged at the main gate of the camp also suffered heavy losses.

For a while, the miserable sound spread all over the outside of the city of Changshe, and the defenders in the city listened to it, but it was as if they heard fairy music, and the hearts of those who were not on duty yesterday were even more excited: tomorrow there will be bragging capital again.

On the night of the third day, Guo Bin led people to come again, this time he did not enter the camp, nor did he shoot arrows in the camp, but each person took a drum or a gong, and set up a formation outside the Yellow Turban camp, and knocked it on the ground. In this way, day by day lasted for nearly half a month, occasionally rushing into the Yellow Turban camp to kill. Every day, it is renovated and never in the same place, giving full play to the fine tradition of changing places with one shot.

The defenders of the city were giggling and happy one by one; But the Yellow Turban army has no rest every day, and they are exhausted one by one, so they can only sleep during the day.

In this way, more than ten days passed, 200,000 Yellow Turban troops were tortured by Guo Bin to the bitter endurance, and the army in the city talked about the interesting story of Guo Bin leading the army outside the city to torture the Yellow Turban Army every day.

All this is in the eyes of Huangfu Song, and this veteran general can't help but secretly give Guo Bin a thumbs up. Now the officers and soldiers are eager to fight one by one, and they no longer look like they were bowing their heads and losing their morale. After looking at the sky and counting the days, Huangfu Song said secretly: "It's almost there." ”

In the cavalry camp in the mountains outside the city, Guo Bin looked at the sky and said to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei who were standing behind him: "From today onwards, the whole army will be repaired, as long as you don't go out of the camp, let the sons and daughters relax and relax." ”

Zhang Fei hesitated for a long time, and then said, "Lord, aren't you going to attack the camp tonight?" ”

Guo Bin turned around, glanced at him, and said, "I won't go tonight." Why, what is the high opinion of Yide? ”

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "If you don't go tonight, won't it be too boring." ”

Guo Bin was almost amused by him, kicked him, and said, "You black guy, are you addicted to attacking the camp?" ”

Looking at Guo Bin, who was playing with Zhang Fei, Guan Yu on the side was full of light. He never imagined that Guo Bin could have such a clever decision at such a young age, could it really be a God-given military talent? In the past ten days, the officials and soldiers in the city have seen how their more than 700 people have abused the Yellow Turban Army, which is a great relief; And what the seven hundred cavalry under his command thought was also interesting and fun, and even when they returned to Yang Zhai, they had the capital to brag.

But Guan Yu, who is immersive, as a commander who has direct contact with Guo Bin, knows the danger inside.

This seems to be a good wandering and leisurely stroll for more than ten days, which time is not a battle of wits and courage with the enemy? When wasn't it on the edge of a blade? With such a disparity in strength, it can be said that as long as you make a wrong step, the consequences are clear, and you will be an abyss from which you will never recover.

However, the adventure of these ten days did achieve unexpected results, not only boosted the morale of the officers and soldiers, suppressed the arrogance of the Yellow Turban Army, but also tempered their own troops, half a month of actual combat running-in, so that the 700 cavalry under his command really became an elite division.

The most important thing is that after half a month of marching and fighting, Guo Bin has established supreme prestige in the army. This is an elite army that is truly loyal to Guo Bin and completely mastered by Guo Bin until death.