Chapter 275: Borrowing Six Buckets of Rice from Five Buckets of Rice Disciples—2
Hanzhong County is surrounded by mountains, and there are sheep intestine roads such as Baochuan Road in the territory, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he is destined to only sneak attack and take quickly, so as not to stop the army under the fortified city.
Guderian stood at the gate of the county town of Chuyang, this small county town was taken by him by a sneak attack last night, but the officials in the county town refused to surrender to him easily.
However, he also knew that the purpose of his trip was far from occupying this place and gaining the hearts and minds of the people here, he just wanted to use this trip to help Manstein achieve his strategic goals. The matter of finally getting food from the infidels is not even within their military objectives, it is something that the civilian officials need to fight for from the negotiating table, and it has no real connection with them, the generals who lead the troops, so they themselves can easily go into battle! But. Even if he didn't need to rob the peasants of their grain, he still ordered his subordinates yesterday to quietly buy a lot of wheat from the peasants while they were defenseless, not because he was going to transport the wheat back to Liangzhouqu, he and Manstein were not prepared to let the peasants here go hungry, even if the Liangzhou where they were located was about to be shrouded in the clouds of food crisis, but they still thought that they had enough time and ability to solve the problem before next year's famine.
As for why he sent people to quietly buy the peasants' grain, this was mainly due to tactical considerations, he needed to do something that could attract the attention of others, so as to cover his friend, Manstein launched an attack from the other side, and until it was exhausted, the enemies on the opposite side had not noticed the movements of the two of them, but according to their initial disposition, their own movements, it was best to be exposed to the other side, so as to better cover the roundabout outflanking of the brother troops.
Therefore, he sent people to quietly buy the wheat of the peasants, and he knew that the peasants would immediately accuse the government of their shameless behavior! However, the government was unable to pursue them, so the peasants could only ask for help from the powerful local Wudou Mi Sect, so that he Guderian could see the true strength of this group of heretics.
Zhang Xuan didn't let Guderian wait too long, after getting the report from the peasants, this guy led the amateur army he had formed, starting from the county administration of Hanzhong County, and marching towards Chuyang County not far away, but their marching speed was too slow, so that Guderian was a little impatient, he simply left only a few soldiers to guard the city of Chuyang that the soldiers had captured, and led the others to rush over the Wudoumi disciples who rushed to meet the Hanzhong army.
The scouts of the two sides met for the first time after a day and a half, and after a brief temptation, they did not engage in a long struggle, but sent the news of the discovery of the opposing striker back to their own formations, however. Guderian's attitude towards this matter is very different from Zhang Xu, he did not make military arrangements at the first time, but ordered his soldiers to rest in place, which made the other party get the news, there was a strong suspicion, Zhang Xuan is still the first time to lead the troops to fight, so he can't tell if Gu's face is using some conspiracy, he used to only hear people in the market about some stories of the war, but really let him use what tricks on the battlefield, he can't do it.
As a result, the two teams were in such a strange stalemate, no one took the lead in attacking, and the large number of Wudoumi Sect disciples, afraid of the Liangzhou cavalry on the opposite side, played a beautiful attack! You must know that they have won many brilliant victories in the past seven or eight years, especially in the last few years, under the leadership of Suning, even the Xianbei barbarian cavalry was beaten by them! And they also heard that they actually have the ambition to restore the Western Regions, and have fought several beautiful battles, including the famous Loulan Kingdom and Gaochang Kingdom, which are now under their control, as for the coalition forces that once tried to rescue the Loulan Kingdom, they had to return to China under Suning's beautiful sneak attack, such a clever tactic is really scary, so Zhang Xuan will choose to stand still, and persuade his subordinates not to blindly take any offensive measures.
It's a pity that not all of his subordinates will follow his advice, especially some reckless rogues who were recruited by him, who thought that they had made a great reputation in the cottage, of course they wouldn't take his words to heart, if they didn't get a lot of money and food in Zhang Xuan's hands, he wouldn't have gone down the mountain to work hard for this guy, and now seeing him so reluctant and stealing his life, he naturally disdains it even more. Pointing behind your back, just. The money taken by this family is still provided by him, and it is not easy to say that it is too ugly, but they think that they have the ability to do it better.
So that night, they launched a tentative sneak attack on Guderian's fame, but unfortunately, the result of this sneak attack was that they got nothing, because they were fixed and left with nothing but an empty near! No matter how many people you break into, you won't get any loot.
At first, they thought that this was a trap of the enemy, because they had heard in the market that those miraculous soldiers would tell such a routine, calculate the time of your operation in advance, and prepare for your death! So they did not dare to stay in this empty barracks for a long time, for fear that before long, countless ambushes would appear in all directions.
So they escaped from the empty barracks in embarrassment, but after they vomited for more than an hour when they were embarrassed, they were surprised to find that there were no pursuers behind them, which made their nervous mood slowly relax, so they quickly sent someone back to check, is there really any ambush in that barracks? The final result shocked them, then you are really empty, nothing, don't say anything ambushed, yes, the materials used have also been taken away at all.
This result shocked them, and now they reacted, it turned out that the group of people was not an ambush, but had already withdrawn early, so the entire battalion would be empty, and the tactical level of this group of guys was obviously artificially raised by their horror! In this way, the fear of them is completely unnecessary.
So they ran back in high spirits and told their chief about the momentous discovery. When Zhang Xuan heard that they did not listen to his orders and secretly went to Guderian's sneak attack, he was immediately angry, claiming that he would use his own military law to put them on the bridge 30 big boards, however, when they hurriedly said their new discovery, Zhang Xiu suddenly found out that he had also made such a major mistake! The group of cavalry from Yangzhou was not worth fearing at all, and they sneaked away like this! It seems that his previous judgment was really wrong.
This made him embarrassed only for the five bucket rice division, you know, the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao in last year's memory, but he fought a few beautiful battles, but when he came to his no bucket rice division, he didn't even fight a battle, so let the Liangzhou cavalry disappear in front of him so swaggeringly, if this is the word will go out, then where can his face go?
Zhang Xuan was so angry that he immediately dispatched his most powerful men to lead the most elite cavalry in pursuit.
So, under the light of the stars, a pursuit battle began, Guderian and his subordinates retreated in front, while the followers of the Five Doumi Sect were in hot pursuit.
However, the level of their cavalry warfare still seems to be inferior to that of the Liangzhou people, and after chasing for most of the night, they did not see the main force of the other party, only some stragglers often appeared in front of them. But they are small in number, fast, and easy to hide, so they only pop up for a while and then quickly disappear from view.
This situation immediately attracted the attention of the leading general, but he received an order to catch up with the cavalry and entangle with them, at least to make it difficult for them to move an inch, so that the main army behind them could catch up and let them swallow it in one gulp.
However, their speed was too much worse than that of the Liangzhou cavalry, so after chasing for most of the night, they could not see the enemy's main force.
However, they did not find nothing, for example, now they can only find a towering city, which is still somewhat familiar, and it seems to be ......
The leading general sighed in surprise, isn't this the county seat of Chuyang, and he has already chased here.
But it's not right, according to the news I just got a few days ago, it is said that this county has been breached, and now it is in the hands of the Liangzhou army! Thinking of this general here, I couldn't help but laugh secretly, I didn't expect that the Liangzhou army would run back to the lair in one go, and it was estimated that he would hide in the city and not dare to come out.
The master of the general was reluctant to report the good news to the Sect Master immediately, but the messenger he sent had not gone far before he saw a firework appear in the city. The brilliant colors are something he has never seen in his life, although for so many years, the news that Liangzhou can make fireworks has been known to many surrounding counties, but many people have only heard of it, but they have never really seen it, including this general, the soldiers of the Wudou Mi Sect, this is the first time to see such brilliant fireworks! They couldn't help but look up at the sky curiously, but they didn't expect that many soldiers slowly appeared behind them.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the shouts of killing were loud all around, and the cavalry in the city rushed out of the city gate with their swords raised in the moonlight, and the archers on the city tower also showed their feathered arrows in unison. The soldiers of the Wudou Mi Sect who were present obviously never thought that they would be attacked suddenly. After all, the enemy ran back to the county town in one breath to defend it, and according to conventional logic, he would definitely not fight again easily.
But when did Guderian play his cards according to conventional logic, you must know that the essence of sports warfare is to take it by surprise, to make reasonable use of the advantage of speed, but also to create an illusion, to deceive the enemy, when the enemy relaxed his vigilance, he launched a fatal blow, in this battle, the reason why he took the initiative to evacuate the confrontation scene, is to let the enemy relax his vigilance, he originally planned, if the enemy can not find that it has withdrawn, let them know through other ways, but never thought that is, That night, a group of people came to rob the camp, which saved him a lot of effort. Most of what happened later was within his expectations. There wasn't much of a deviation, especially if the enemy was moving at full speed. I didn't catch up with myself. Even in the end, Tai still had half an hour to rest the army in the county of Chuyang.
After their physical strength gradually recovered, the enemy's pursuers slowly followed the city, and by this time they had already gone out of the city in front of the other city gates and lay in ambush in the mountains and forests. All it takes is a firework to rise into the sky and attract the attention of the enemy army to some extent, and they can flank the inside and out, and wipe out the soldier who chased him to the city.
The course of the battle was almost as Guderian had expected, and when his soldiers rushed out of the woods outside the city, he also led the remaining soldiers stationed in the city and rushed out of the city gates. The other party obviously didn't expect that they would go out of the city in reverse shortly after entering the city! Caught off guard, they paid huge casualties, only to break out of the encirclement in embarrassment, this battle, Guderian's strange soldiers, at the cost of 54 killed, killed 677 enemy people, and some wounded soldiers were captured by them.
However, this is a battle fought at night after all, and due to the relative lack of nutrition, even within Suning's system, there are many soldiers affected by night blindness. In addition, they did not rest well, and the suddenness of the attack did not use too many lighting methods, which made the soldiers suffering from night blindness have a lot of accidents, but fortunately, the nutritional status of the enemy army is better than that of them with the Yangzhou system. This makes them look extremely chaotic in the middle of the battle, and it is almost impossible to organize an effective counterattack, let alone find a familiar partner and organize a familiar formation.
After the battle, Guderian was almost certain. The main force of the Five Dou Mi Sect will pounce here as fast as possible, and they will definitely not be happy to fail like this. If that's the case. That is exactly in line with their original strategic intentions, but I don't know if Manstein has achieved a detour in tactical requirements today.