Hearing He Man ask if there was a clever way to capture Guo Bin, Jia Ren smiled bitterly and said: "General, the two armies are facing each other, and they can't play tricks at all, and both sides have to speak with strength." The only way to win is to maximize your own advantages and ensure that you make fewer mistakes. The so-called tricks and tricks are just expedient measures that are not timely. ”

If Guo Bin was here, he would definitely applaud Jia Ren's words. Because Guo Bin also believes that there is no person who is born to lead troops to fight, no matter how clever the general is, he learns from scratch. No matter how many military books you read, once you are on the battlefield, you can play a very limited role. Therefore, he greatly admired the way of using troops in the previous life.

Zeng Guofan has a very famous saying, called "Tie the hard village, fight the dumb war". In Guo Bin's view, its essence is nothing more than "to be invincible first, and then to be invincible to the enemy". In other words, in order to win a war, we must first make ourselves invincible, and then seek opportunities to take advantage of the gap to break the enemy.

The so-called "soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored". War is not only a matter of emperors and generals, but a major event related to the survival of all people in the world, the generals, the lives of soldiers and even the happiness of a family. Therefore, the practice of treating war as a chess ~ card game, regardless of the life and death of soldiers, will not only not be recognized by the emperor, but will also be unable to achieve their tactical goals in the war because the soldiers are unwilling to obey orders to fight forward, which is extremely inappropriate in reality.

Most creatures on Earth feel fear when they see their own kind die. That's why when we go to the vegetable market, we don't feel scared when we see pigs, cows, and sheep hanging on the market where fresh meat is sold. Just imagine, if those pig heads, sheep heads, and cow legs were replaced with human arms or thighs, or even simply hung on human heads? I think normal humans will feel eerie and terrifying, and they will never dare to step into the vegetable market for half a step again, right?

In view of this mentality, when a person sees his comrades who were originally alive and kicking around him in the middle of a war, after being shot by an enemy arrow, he vomits blood and falls, turning into an unconscious corpse; Even if a part of their body, such as an arm or thigh, is slashed off by an enemy, the fear in their hearts should be conceivable.

Therefore, on the battlefield, when the battle loss rate reaches a certain value, it will trigger a chain reaction of collapse, that is, a rout. And this battle loss rate is not too high a value, in a general battle, the battle loss rate will not exceed 10%, which will lead to the defeat of one side.

Therefore, the kind of war that counts the number of people and wants to fill it with human lives basically does not exist. Of course, this is not the case for an army that has great ideals in their hearts and is willing to sacrifice their lives for them. This is also why Guo Bin respects the Chinese army that will not retreat until the last soldier in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which is an elite army that truly overcomes the fear in the depths of the human soul and has ideals. And the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army in front of them are obviously not among them.

Regarding Jia Ren's assertion, He Manna strongly agreed. Although he is not stupid, the most annoying thing is to use his brains and scheming, and his favorite thing is to use real knives and guns on the ground, and even in battle, he likes to smash and attack wildly and wildly. Therefore, when I heard Jia Ren say that war is to win by strength, I agree with it from the bottom of my heart. Originally, he came to Yangzhai with an army of 30,000 because he wanted to crush Guo Bin with absolute strength.

At that moment, he said to Jia Ren: "Strategist, how should we deal with it?" ”

Jia Ren said: "The reason why Yangzhai County and Fulong Villa did not surrender was because of Guo Bin's reinforcements; The reason why the wealthy families in Yangzhai County are deep and high and refuse to borrow grain is also because of Guo Bin's reinforcements. Therefore, the key to this battle of Yang Zhai is Guo Bin alone, we only need to gather the army, besiege Guo Bin's camp, and attack with all our might. The day Guo Bin was awarded the head was the time when Yangzhai County was self-defeating. ”

He Man slapped his thigh and said, "The military advisor said a word, and the way is heavenly!" That's it! ”

Jia Ren said: "At that time, Guo Bin will be surrounded, once he is in danger, the army in Yangzhai City will inevitably open the door to rescue, and then the city will be launched together, why worry that Guo Bin will not die, and Yangzhai City will not be broken?" ”

He Man said: "The military advisor is clever, and Man can't do it!" ”

At this time, in the camp in front of the mountain, Guo Bin was discussing the enemy situation with Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, and Zhang Feiwei in front of the sand table.

The Han Dynasty did not have a formed sand table, but it was a simple sand table made by Guo Bin and others according to their memories and impressions. Although it was simple and crude because of its ugliness, it still shocked the heroes of the late Han Dynasty. Xun Yu said: "In the past, Ma Fubo gathered rice as a mountain, and the form of finger painting and analysis of twists and turns are obvious. Emperor Guangwu sighed: 'Captured in my eyes'. The sand table of the lord is far more than Ma Fubo's back then. ”

And Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, who have seen too much Guo Bin come up with one or two innovative gadgets from time to time, are indifferent and unmoved.

Yesterday, Guo Bin sent Guan Yu to lead 300 special soldiers to attack the Yellow Turban Army on horseback and burn down the East Wharf, which not only cut off the grain route of the Yellow Turban Army, but also cut off the connection between the Yellow Turban Army and the Yingchuan headquarters. Because there is no dock, the ship cannot be used, and if you want to send a messenger from land to deliver the news, you will be intercepted by the special soldiers led by Guan Yu. Therefore, at this time, the Yellow Turban Army has become a deaf and blind man with no information, and has also become a lone army. And the leader of the Yellow Turban Army does not seem to realize this.

In the middle of last night, when Guan Yu burned down the dock and the Yellow Turban Army shrank its forces and tense defense, Guo Bin unknowingly set up a camp five miles away from the enemy. The speed with which this camp was built is unimaginable. Guo Bin first ordered people to prepare the timber needed to make the camp in advance, and then bundled it into a wall about three meters long, and then transported it by horse-drawn cart, inserted the sharpened end into the soil, and then connected with each other to build the outer wall of the camp. Therefore, building a camp overnight is just an illusion on the surface, and all the work has been done in advance.

This kind of camp is about a little more than a zhang high, and there is an inner wall behind the outer wall, and the soldiers stand on the inner wall to defend, and the outer wall is like a female wall on the city wall.

The interior walls were nailed to the ground with short logs, and then planks were laid on top so that soldiers could run and fight on them. This resulted in a stepped two-tiered enclosure wall, which gave the defenders an advantage over the terrain and made it easier to defend.

The location of the camp is also very ingenious, this place is a small hill, the back is a mountain covered with primeval forests, the front of the camp is a gentle slope, the left side of the camp is Yingshui, which is not only convenient to take drinking water, but also can be used as a natural risk for defense. And if the enemy wants to attack the camp, he can only attack from the right side of the camp and from the front. Because the camp is on top of a small hill with gentle slopes on both sides, the enemy will need to attack on their backs when they come, which greatly increases the difficulty of the attack.

In addition, this camp is only more than 400 meters away from the stone bridge on Yingshui, and in terms of the current range of bows and arrows, one arrow is about 130 paces. In the Qin and Han dynasties, one foot was about 23 centimeters, and one step was 138 centimeters, or 1.38 meters. One hundred and thirty steps, it is about one hundred and eighty meters.

The range of the English longbow commonly equipped in Guo Bin's battalion reached 300 meters, because the English longbow mostly covered the area with firepower in a projectile combat mode, and when attacking with heavy three-edged arrows, even at the limit range of 300 meters, it could easily penetrate the enemy's chain mail. However, if you want to talk about flat shooting, if you can shoot the enemy from a distance of 200 meters, you can already be regarded as an extremely qualified archer.

This is the advantage of the English longbow, which has a long range and penetrating power.

It can penetrate leather, padded armor and fabric, or penetrate chain mail at distances of 240-280 yards (220-260 meters). At a distance of 200 yards, plate or fish scale armor can withstand its penetration; And a frontal hit within 100 yards can't even resist plate armor; At a range of 50 meters, the longbow and arrow can be said to be indestructible.

After this data came out, a group of Wenchen generals under Guo Bin were stunned. They were not surprised, even if it was a crossbow, the range was only 400 meters. The so-called "those who can't wear the reckless at the end of the strong crossbow" have extremely limited penetration at the extreme range of the crossbow. The longbow, on the other hand, can be projectile to pierce through the enemy's body with the acceleration of the arrow landing. Moreover, the rate of fire of the crossbow is far worse than that of the longbow, and it takes much more effort to load the arrow.

Because above the mound, the range of the longbow has been slightly increased, as long as it is not far from the camp gate, it can barely reach the stone bridge, and can cover the enemy on the stone bridge with fire. Therefore, the stone bridge has reluctantly become an important strategic node controlled by Guo Bin, but the Yellow Turban Army, who do not know the range of the longbow, does not know.

While everyone was discussing, there was a report from the Malay: "Nearly 10,000 horses suddenly came out of the Yellow Turban Army camp and came to our camp!" ”

Guo Bin listened, glanced at everyone, and said, "Now that the enemy army is coming, it will be up to us next." ”

Everyone agreed in unison, Guo Bin ordered Guo Da to beat the drum and gather the sergeants, while the others followed Guo Bin to the camp gate. Zhang Fei's eyes lit up even more, and Ying Nuo's voice was as loud as a giant thunder. In the past few days, he either couldn't come out in the mountains, or he was cowering in the camp, and he had already been suffocated out of the bird, if it wasn't for Guo Bin's pressure, he would have gone to the Yellow Turban Army camp to scold and fight, how could he wait until this time.

All the sergeants came to the camp to line up and stopped, only to see the Yellow Turban Army camp waving flags, the crowd surging, the gate open, and the army rushing out. Although they were far away, because they stood on a high place, everyone could see clearly. Until this time, when Guo Bin turned back again, Fang saw the nervousness on everyone's faces.

The so-called "ten thousand people immediately, boundless and boundless", looking at the flow of people rolling under the small hills, although they have different weapons and ragged clothes, they are wrapped in yellow scarves on their heads. If you can't imagine this scene, you can watch "World War Z" starring Brad Pitt and see thousands of zombies attacking the city.

At this time, Guo Bin saw the Yellow Turban Army rushing forward, and the first thing that came to mind was the scene of the zombie siege in that movie, and the shock and fear in his heart were irrepressible. But at this point, he had to pull himself together and he needed to do something. Because this was the first time he had participated in such a large-scale offensive and defensive battle, so did his generals and soldiers, in a sense, they were all new recruits. Nervousness, anxiety and fear are inevitable for any new recruit.