"Damn, it's a night attack again, and my Vermilion Bird Army is about to become a professional night raider."

Gu Yi muttered, their main purpose was not to defeat this group of troops, but to burn these grains and grass with fierce fire oil!

Facts have proved that the Vermilion Bird Army is indeed familiar with sneak attacks, and even if the grain transport team reacts quickly, it is still too late.

"Do it!"

With Gu Yi's low shout, several thousand people under his command led the soldiers to rush into the grain and grass camp, dousing the tents and the grain carts full of grain and grass within the line of sight with fierce fire oil and setting them all on fire.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The people of Yunguo in the camp finally sensed that the situation was wrong, and rushed out of the tent screaming, and those people were running around the camp in horror at this time, making the whole camp even more chaotic and even more incomprehensible.

Let's say that after more than ten years of development, Cangguo's night attack has already become a system of its own, and it has a set of rich experience, knowing how to take the lead in the surprise attack and causing psychological pressure on the enemy army, so as soon as the surprise attack is made, a situation of thousands of troops has been formed, so that the enemy army does not understand how many troops there are.

The army that escorts grain and grass is not a front-line combat unit in the first place, and compared with the troops that are accustomed to fighting on the frontal battlefield, their combat effectiveness is still very insufficient, especially in large-scale operations, and it is far from being able to do so.

Therefore, when the Suzaku army attacked, first of all, in terms of momentum, it made these grain transport soldiers tremble, looking at the Suzaku army pouring out from several directions, they thought that they had been surrounded, but they were able to resist a few times, one grain transport team began to break and flee, and the rest of the grain transport teams also broke and fled when they saw this.

This is a herd mentality.

In a sense, the establishment and structure of the army, as well as the training in peacetime, is actually to resolve the herd mentality of the soldiers as much as possible, unite as one, and even if the surrounding robes fall, they can not be affected too much, and then immediately fill the vacancy.

In previous wars, why are there so many examples of winning more with less, and why can the cavalry slaughter at will after breaking up the enemy's formation?

It's all because of this herd mentality!

In any army, there is no shortage of cowardly people, or people who have faith and backbone, but whose psychological quality is not up to par.

In an army, once someone is afraid to fight or flee, then the rest of those who are afraid, or do not know who to listen to next, what to do, are affected, feel hopeless, or blindly follow, and run away together.

This is called morale.

When morale is strong, the fear in the heart is temporarily suppressed, faith triumphs over negative emotions, and the whole army has a common goal.

For example, if the enemy general is beheaded, then the morale of his side will definitely rise sharply, because the idea of capturing the thief and capturing the king first is deep-rooted, and the summary of historical experience tells everyone that as soon as the general commander of the enemy army dies, he basically loses more than half.

If it is said that once the generals of their own side die, then the soldiers below also have this kind of thinking, and because the commanders at the top do not reach the order, there is no unified order, which will cause confusion in command, and the army that commands chaos in a big war is often the losing side.

This is the case with today's Yunguo grain transportation team.

In fact, in terms of numbers, including the government soldiers who assisted along the way, the number of people may not be reduced by the Suzaku Legion.

In addition, Gu Yi's preparations this time were in a hurry, and the personnel were very scattered, so it can be said that the combat effectiveness that can be exerted is very small, and even the command cannot be unified, and the difference in strength between the two sides is not large.

However, this grain convoy did not last more than half an hour, and all of them broke up and fled.

It can be seen that there is a gap in quality with the regular army.

After a scuffle, the Suzaku Army, which had a good plan, successfully burned most of the grain and grass, and after the grain transport team was defeated and fled, it divided a small group of men and horses to cut off the grain transport team in front, and the rest of the people stayed behind and coerced those people to escort the grain and grass to the station of the Suzaku Legion.

From burning grain and grass to grabbing grain and grass, it is done in one go.

……

At dawn the next day, when the news of the attack on grain and grass spread, Meng Huo, Cao Wuxian and others were in a terrible mood.

"Ahem...... Hateful! Hateful!"

Meng Huo's face turned red, he sat up from the straw mat, coughing violently, and his already sickly face made people feel even more weird.

From the day the heavy cavalry was destroyed, he was sick, and not lightly.

On the way to escape, even horses could not be ridden, so they could only be carried on stretchers by personal guards.

On the side, Cao Wuxian was also very helpless.

The gap was too great, and less than 5,000 of the 50,000 heavy cavalry escaped, and in the process of escaping, they also lost their armor and became light cavalry.

50,000 heavy cavalry turned into 5,000 light cavalry, what kind of loss is this for Yun Guo?

If you don't pin all your hopes on the heavy cavalry early in the morning, the 300,000 troops of the Yun Kingdom can still fight against the Suzaku Legion, at least they are also very close, and the heavy cavalry can still play some role at some times, and it will not lead to the 200,000 army falling into the encirclement at the beginning.

Yunguo may not be so embarrassed now.

Now, the army of 100,000 finally escaped, the army has been reorganized, and the rest of the departments and garrisons have been integrated, and there are almost 200,000 of them, which can be regarded as a new life, and after getting the domestic food and grass supplies, they can continue to enter the battlefield and no longer have to be chased everywhere.

It can be said that everything is ready, only supplies are missing.

But I never expected that the grain transport team suddenly capsized in the gutter and lost all the grain and grass that was enough for the 200,000 army to eat for three months!

For an army, it is tantamount to a thunderbolt from the blue, a catastrophe!

An army, no matter how high its combat effectiveness and cohesion are when it is fighting, cannot survive without food and grass.

In the face of the food dilemma, there are generally two ways to effectively solve it.

One is to raid nearby villages and cities to collect grain and grass.

This is the most commonly used method, but it is somewhat unrealistic for the 200,000 troops of the Cloud Kingdom.

Because, now, most of their grain is obtained through this method, the nearby villages have been scavenged, and those small cities with only tens of thousands of people and no city walls, every household and the granary of the government have also been completely moved.

and make do with the food and grass of the rest of the friendly armies, which can barely support the consumption of 200,000 troops.

It's almost impossible to loot again.

As for the other one, it is to defeat the enemy and snatch the enemy's grain in his hands before the remaining grain and grass are eaten.

But it's embarrassing, with the current situation of the Yun ** team, if you want to defeat the Suzaku Army, it is a daydream.

Even a team of 10,000 people attacking the Suzaku Legion is unlikely.