Chapter 149: Running Wolf Plains

The scope of the Benwolf Plain is really quite large, from the north of the Dihe River to the south of the Volgin River, it can be regarded as the Benwolf Plain, such a vast space can fully accommodate hundreds of thousands of cavalry for sports warfare. Dai Yun was not optimistic about the prospect of concentrating all his forces on a decisive battle with the Kolka coalition army. The plan proposed by certain leaders to conduct a decisive battle in stages was even more scoffing. There has never been a chance to fight a decisive battle twice, three times, and once failed, and the damage in morale, favorable terrain, and campaign situation is too severe, and the current coalition forces do not have the organization to fight resolutely in weak situations. Dai Yun's opposition to a decisive battle made the leaders and leaders of the various tribes a little depressed, and the self-esteem and self-confidence of the grassland tribes have always been very strong. But the tactics formulated by Dai Yun may be more suitable for everyone's play.

Dai Yun expected that the Kolka tribe would also face serious supply problems when they went south to fight this time. She ordered the entire coalition army to retreat south, freeing up the entire Benwolf Plain. Only these tribes are living in the Wolf Plain, and their retreat has almost turned the entire Wolf Plain into a no-man's land. You know, now the vast majority of the population of the tribes is in the summer pastures around the Snow Wolf Lake, and there are not many people left in the Wolf Plain, and most of them are warriors.

After such a measure similar to that of the fortified wall, Kolka immediately became aware of his supply problems as soon as he arrived in the Wolf Plain. The so-called nomads do not need supplies when they fight wars is nonsense, the consumption of forage and the like can be ignored on the grassland, and the cattle and sheep are used as food, and there will be no shortage of food, but the water source is the biggest problem. Although there are a lot of water sources in the Wolf Plain, none of them can afford to consume more than 100,000 troops. And Dai Yun had to wait for the Kolkati army to disperse. Just spread it out. It was convenient for her to mobilize the Yunzhou tribal coalition army, which was more familiar with the Benwolf Plain, into several cavalry corps of 20,000 to 30,000 people of different sizes, and try to attack several parts of the Kolka tribal coalition at the same time as much as possible. Under these relatively scattered attacks, if there is an opportunity to use ambushes, raids and other tactical means, they will be used; If there is no such opportunity, at the very least, it is necessary to ensure that the attacks are relatively synchronized, so that several parts of the enemy do not have a chance to support each other.

To say that the difficulty of such a battle is naturally very great. First of all, it is the question of how to maximize the synchronization of attacks in this era when communication is not developed at all. Although the Kolka coalition will disperse along the water source, it is still in a relatively limited space, if the attacks are out of sync or not synchronized enough. That is, send it to people to break it. And to achieve suddenness in the case of synchronous attacks, it is extremely difficult. However, the Yunzhou coalition army was far more familiar with the Wolf Plains than the Kolka coalition army, and they would naturally take advantage of the various terrain and landforms on this vast plain.

Another problem is the uneven combat strength of the various units. In fact, this was in Dai Yun's expectations, she never thought that she would be able to achieve good results in all directions after launching an attack, but Dai Yun knew that the difference in strength between the various units of the Kolka coalition army was even greater than that of the Yunzhou coalition army. There were even clans in the Kolka coalition who had previously been feuding with each other, and for the sake of the Kolka clan's face, they reluctantly agreed to live in peace for the time being. Dai Yun didn't dare to guarantee that she would be able to know the details of the military strength of the various sub-camps of the Kolka tribe at the first time, at most it was only a rough estimate, so that she could try her best to arrange the appropriate combat power to attack separately. In these attacks, she had almost complete control of the way she had gathered the Blood Qi Army, the Iron Cloud Rider, and the elite soldiers of the Bloodhoof and Solo tribes. The rest of the way she fought was mainly to delay time, prolong the battle as much as possible, reduce her own losses, and keep the enemy away from the center of the battlefield as much as possible.

The most critical thing is the key blow of the Blood Qi Army, the Tieyun Cavalry and the mixed heavy army group led by Dai Yun himself. If Dai Yun can lead the more than 35,000 soldiers with the strongest combat power to defeat the enemy army in the shortest possible time. and quickly turned to the aid of another battlefield on their side, and the victory of the battle was basically laid.

In the final analysis, Dai Yun just broke up the decisive battle where all his forces were concentrated in one place and spread them out in different places at a time that was favorable to his side. For Dai Yun, the advantages and disadvantages of this tactic are obvious, and the advantage is that she can make full use of the strong elite troops in her hands to gradually change the situation that the absolute strength is weaker than the opponent's, and can avoid the coalition forces from running in due to lack of running-in. Lack of organization and possible collapse in a decisive battle once the enemy is unfavorable, spreading the risk; The disadvantage is that regardless of the victory or defeat on each battlefield, such a battle will bring extremely considerable casualties to both sides.

For the Yunzhou coalition army, the Kolka tribe is like a monster that spews fire and rushes into its homeland. These hunters had to put thick ropes around the monster's body and pull them in all directions. If they can work together, they can persevere to the end, they can wait for the mighty hero to cut off the monster's head. The monster's massive body must have crashed to the ground. But if they can't stay the course. If one or more of the hunters didn't do their best, they didn't use all their might to tighten and straighten the ropes on the monster's body. The one who was overturned was the Hunter. And whatever the final price the hunter pays for conquering the monster, being scraped off a layer of skin by the rope and getting his hands covered in blood is only the slightest and inevitable effort.

In order to achieve the greatest suddenness of the battle, and also to avoid some undetermined people in some tribes or people who were originally ill-intentioned to destroy the plan, all the tribal armies were not allowed to leave without permission. In order to make this extremely complex surveillance and control scheme simple, Dai Yun simply ordered all the tribal troops to withdraw across the Di River, leaving only a small number of Blood Qi Army and Iron Cloud Cavalry scouts on the north bank of the Di River.

Even though Dai Yun, Golan and others repeatedly asked Ye Tao to return to the front line of Ningyuan City with the guard car, Ye Tao still stayed a little south of the Di River, and began to give full play to his talent in engineering design, and urgently repaired the original ferry on the Di River. The water flow of the Di River is gentle, the water depth is also very limited, and there are still a few places where the cavalry can wade directly through the water during the summer flood season, and the repair of the ferry is not so much for the convenience of combat use, but more for the purpose of considering the further strengthening of the transportation links between Dongping, Yunzhou and Benwolf Yuan in the future. If there is any greater use, it is probably to wait for the supply line of the Blood Qi Army to catch up with their 10,000 people, and send supplies such as arrows as soon as possible, or the Blood Qi Army and Tieyun Cavalry who quickly rushed to the northern front to support after solving the threat of Xiling on the Western Front. As for the rest of the second-line troops, there is no need to come now. Troops that do not have the ability to quickly enter battle after a forced march will not be able to come here in time for the battle that will take place in a few days, and then the victory will be decided in two days at most.

And the other reason is that something will happen in Ningyuan City. Although there are many reasons why Yunzhou is in a crisis, there are several surrounding parties coveting Yunzhou, and there are mediation efforts by all parties to coordinate the pace and want to solve the Yunzhou problem in one fell swoop, and naturally some hidden dangers within Yunzhou are also indispensable. Some of them are forced by external pressure, feel that the Dai family can't hold on, and feel that following Dongping may not have a good end for families, clans, officials, merchants, literati, sergeants, and so on. In the case of the joint threat of Xiling, Northern Liao, and the northern tribes, in order to maintain stability within Yunzhou, the Dai family did not take any action, although they controlled and monitored this part of the undercurrent. And now, the threat is basically gone. Even if Dai Yun's planned Strangulation Battle of Benwolf Yuan failed, the reinforcements coming from the Western Front would still be able to confidently block the tribal alliance army north of Ningyuan and on the line of the Dihe River. In this case, the Dai family, which had controlled the entire Yunzhou for hundreds of years with one family, finally spread a handful of wilderness, and before they were about to relinquish the ruling power of Yunzhou, they swept away the opposition forces that had made them very unhappy for a long time.

As for Dongping, it was the old general Xu Jingtian who expressed his stance that Dongping would not interfere in these matters until the official handover of Yunzhou. This is actually a tacit understanding. Although the Dai family handed over the right to rule, they had been in Yunzhou for too long, and many intertwined relationships were not something they could do by saying they wanted to give up and let go. In the future, the Dai family will still have a lot of industries operating in Yunzhou to provide a steady stream of funds for the Dai family as a large clan, to ensure the prosperity of the Dai family, especially to ensure the Dai family's traditional cultivation strategy for children. The Dai family cleaned up these undercurrents at once, and the Dai family at least did not have to worry about the relatively large resistance in business for a long time in the future, while Dongping could get a complete Yunzhou led by the Dai family and returned to Dongping. Another benefit is that the Dai family promised to transfer all the property copied in this "cleanup" to Dongping in the future as the inventory of various prefectures in Yunzhou. The Dai family is the villain, and Dongping inherits the property, and few people can refuse such a bargain.

Ye Tao knew that in the handover of Yunzhou, such an incident would happen sooner or later, no matter how much he couldn't bear to see how many families were broken and displaced. Since he can't change such things now, at least he can bury his head like an ostrich and not see these things happen.

He's ready for some things, and for others, he doesn't want to be taken for granted at any time.