Chapter 85: The Key
() "Who said that it was a group of young master soldiers who couldn't endure hardship? I cut him off. Tong Bingwen walked back and forth angrily in the handsome tent under Ning Shicheng. Everyone else in the tent was also grim-faced.
According to the information that came just now, the 10,000 people who were collectively called the "Blood Lin Army" in the military intelligence documents actually slipped away under the encirclement and suppression of three times their superior forces. Since the Blood Lin Army annihilated the cavalry of 1,000 people, Tong Bingwen has never dared to despise this army, and it is not a fun thing to have an enemy in his stomach. But he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Blood Lin Army.
After judging that the blood Lin army was a cavalry unit, at least mainly cavalry, he asked a guerrilla general named Song Huiming under his command, the famous fierce general of Xiling, to lead five thousand cavalry to track and test, but unexpectedly, Song Huiming did not make any big mistakes, but the five thousand cavalry were dragged to death by the other party's cavalry, and only more than 300 people escaped and came back to report. Only then did he know that it turned out that those thousands of cavalrymen were wearing crossbows, what a luxury it was. But what made him angry was that not only Song Huiming's body was crucified again, but also Song Huiming's 5,000 jīng sharp cavalry, which may not have caused any casualties to the other party. Even if there were casualties, I am afraid that it was caused by the sergeant of the Blood Lin Army who accidentally fell from his horse. The shame was unbearable for him.
Tong Bingwen didn't have many soldiers in his hands. From the very beginning, he opposed this spark method of warfare with more political significance than military significance, and the troops attacking from all sides did control a large part of Dongping's territory in a short time, but they were also scattered, and the number of troops ready to suppress local resistance was always maintained at 80,000 to 100,000 people. And in this case, he must use a limited number of more than 100,000 people to maintain strong pressure on Ningshi City and Baishi City. Although White Rock City is said to be a city, it is actually just because of the high specifications of the city walls, and the population of White Rock City is not much to talk about. This is a strange force, precisely because everyone understands some strategic and tactical things, and they all claim to be masters in this area, in order to avoid the lack of concentration of opinions. Tactical discussions have been held on a small scale. As a matter of fact, when the officers at the grassroots level understood that there were so many messy things that could have come up in actual combat that needed to be dealt with, they were busy sorting out their troops and did not have the heart to quietly consider tactical issues. At this time, Chi Lei suddenly ran back. The old demon hits with his hands
"General," Chi Lei handed a military document to Ye Taodi and glanced at Dai Yun. "This was found by the brothers under his command in the morning after intercepting and killing a group of Xiling's heralds. I took a look at it, and I rushed to get it to you. ”
From this military intelligence document, they got good news. The first troops of Zhuo Mang's organization have arrived on the battlefield. However, Zhuo Mang did not choose to supplement the defense of the first line of Ningshi City's Baishi City, but recaptured Dalin Town in the north.
"The general really has the guts." After taking a closer look at the map, it dawned on everyone. Zhuo Mang was obviously not satisfied with expelling the Xiling army from the territory of Dongping, but was preparing to encircle the Xiling army from Dalin Town. Attacking from Dalin Town, the most valuable goal is to recapture the city, which is equivalent to nailing a nail in the other party's heart. From Xunshan Pass to Ningshi City and Baishi City, only Miancheng has enough manpower and space for the transfer and distribution of materials, and only Miancheng can afford the responsibility of the supply relay of the army. Especially in Xiling, the kind of soldier who is qualified. Thirty thousand people under White Rock City is already a luxury. 50,000 people surrounded Ning Shi City, and as soon as they got the news of the rupture of the peace relatives, they began to carry out various tentative attacks, barely enough people. But the Dongping army may appear at any time, and the siege of Shicheng will be relieved. Tong Bingwen wanted to put the troops in his hand as a reserve under Ningshi City. tried to break the city as soon as possible, but suddenly the blood lin army appeared.
Tong Bingwen squeezed out 30,000 people to take turns to pursue the Blood Lin Army, but he took the last 10,000 people in his hand to Ningshi City. He gave up the plan to set up a tent between Ningshi City and Baishi City, and he could support both sides at any time, just in case. In case the Blood Lin Army shook off the pursuers and stabbed them, it would be a fatal thing.
After all, that's what Tong Bingwen thinks about just in case. Of the 30,000 people he sent out, although there were only 10,000 cavalry, the commanders of the three-way pursuit troops were all famous generals, and they would never take the offensive. According to Tong Bingwen's expectations. These three forces didn't need to engage at all, they just marched together, so that the Blood Lin Army had no way to escape. As the supreme commander of the Xiling army, he is naturally able to get full intelligence to support the generals, and the information from the secret agent says that the blood lin army has been in army for less than two years, and there are many children of wealthy nobles in Dongping among them; The Blood Lin Army is not the regular army of Dongping, and the way to promote officers is through the game's war chess deduction and donations; The Blood Lin Army moved forward without authorization, without the permission of the Dongping Imperial Court; The leader of the Blood Chess Army is a "craftsman" named Ye Tao; The actual conductor is a son of the Dai family in Yunzhou, a girl named Dai Yun......
Based on this kind of information, anyone would have come to a similar conclusion, right? But Tong Bingwen completely miscalculated this time. The 30,000-strong army marched in unison, and kept their distance strictly according to what Tong Bingwen said. For the time being, we will not engage in battlefield guidelines. The Blood Lin Army jumped out of the battle circle.
The closest to the Blood Lin Army was the 10,000 cavalry led by Tong Bingwen's favorite general Xue Jingze. When the Blood Lin Army set aside thousands of cavalry and seemed to be ready to fight against the water, Xue Jing did not take the risk and confronted the Blood Lin Army, waiting for the friendly forces behind him to come up. When the reinforcements came up, it was late at night, and Xue Jing thought that he could go down the next day. Unexpectedly, when he set up his army to attack the next day, the military camp built by the Blood Lin Army was empty. It's at night. The Blood Lin Army set up a pontoon bridge and crossed the river safely.
Xue Jing had no choice but to inform the garrisons of the towns on the other side of the river to be careful, and at the same time turned around and returned to Ningshi City. Without the target of pursuit, there was no need to press the speed to keep pace with the friendly army, and Xue Jingze's 10,000 cavalry quickly threw off the friendly army.
Unexpectedly, the Banlin army actually laid the bridge slab on the original bridge pier again, and crossed the river to return by the same way. Just four hours after Xue Jingze left the camp, he took a bite of the slowest army. Due to the roughly equal strength of the troops, although the cavalry had a huge advantage over the infantry, the Blood Lin Army did not fall in love with the battle, and only carried out a round of assault. And in this round of impact, 3,000 Xiling infantry were killed and wounded.
Then, the Blood Lin Army disappeared from the sight of the Xiling army at an extremely fast speed.
In other words, nearly 10,000 people before and after were folded in the hands of the Blood Lin Army, which was considered to be the young master soldier and the Gentleman Soldier, and no unit had ever touched it head-on in terms of combat strength of the Blood Lin Army.
"In vain, you can all be regarded as a veteran and a famous general. Why was he being played by a group of babies there like this? Tong Bingwen yelled at everyone. He wasn't talking about himself.
"Think about it, what else can you do?" Tong Bingwen sighed. If the request is accurate. It has been almost half a month since Xiling's envoy was assassinated in Danyang. Dongping's general Zhuo Mang was mobilizing troops outside, if that guy's energy was even half the level when Yi Jing fought with him, he should have at least 50,000 troops in his hands now. And 50,000 troops, if they appear in the right place at the right time, are enough to turn the tide of the current war. Tong Bingwen is really not afraid that there will be an army of 50,000 Dongping in the field of vision now, but he is afraid that when he will not be able to turn around, Zhuo Mang will suddenly be difficult.
Tong Bingwen looked at the map for a while and said, "I can't care so much." Let Xue Jing lead the cavalry of his headquarters to continue the search, and once the blood Lin army appears, immediately pursue, report, and annihilate the guide.
The other 10,000 who are still talking, come to Ningshi City for me. I want Ning Shicheng. If you drag it any longer, you won't have to play. Let the 20,000 or so people who are nested in Micheng give me half of the share to go to Baishi City. Let Changjie's revenue come back, and now he has broken his face with Dongping, and it is not interesting to occupy such a large place. Let Song Changjie recover ...... When I went to Qing'an Town, I left one part to keep the jǐng ti to the north, and the other parts picked me up and cooperated with Xue Jingze to pick me up and drive me out together. The south asked Luo Xiang to put away the soldiers in his hand. ”
Tong Bingwen figured out one thing, that is, the role that this Blood Lin Army can play. Whether it's sāo disturbance, containment. It's all about delaying time. It is true that letting the Blood Lin Army go may cause great losses, but what made him make a heavy encirclement and suppression of the Blood Lin Army is his self-esteem even worse. The two crucified lieutenants made him angry and made him forget that since he and Dongping had torn their faces, the goal now was to pull out Ning Shicheng and Baishi City anyway. Break through the defenses of this line. With a large area of room for maneuver between the first line of Ningshi City and Baishi City and Xunshan Pass, and a stable supply line, the front is flat. Other than that, all of Muto's combat goals are.
The spark that exploded turned into a fire in his hand again, and it took Tong Bingwen about two days. In the past two days, Xue Jing, who was ashamed and brave, cooperated with the Changjie Battalion to carry out a dragnet cast on a large area suitable for the activities and hiding of cavalry troops. A total of more than 20,000 troops were divided into detachments of about 1,000 people, separated by dozens of miles from each other. The appointment is set once the Blood Lin Army appears, and people will be sent to link with each other, preferring to sacrifice some people. He also has to drag the Blood Lin Army to the death.
Ye Tao is not afraid of this tactic. In the age of highly advanced means of communication, such tactics are likely to lead him to be seen, followed, and then unconsciously surrounded. However, now, although it may be possible to show him, it also leaves him with various opportunities to break through.
Except for the Scouts who have been acting collectively on the Blood Lynx. He deliberately showed some tracks, then set up an ambush at the exit of a valley, took down the 1,000 men who were in pursuit of him first, and then fled. There is no doubt that another general of no low rank was hanged on the cross. However, Ye Tao also saw the shortcomings of this tactic of breaking each other in this operation.
They weren't moving fast enough...... This is the most serious problem, although they used the terrain to eat a thousand men, they were almost caught up by the troops behind, if the other side had been following closely but did not engage. Then the situation is a bit troublesome. Although the combat effectiveness of the Xiling cavalry is far from theirs, now, in the huge control range of the Xiling army, there is limited space for the blood lin army to circle. Even if they were exposed to the field of vision of the Xiling army for a few hours, it was possible for them to be entangled, and then surrounded. It's okay to deal with a thousand people, what if it's a troop of three or five thousand? Will they be able to end the fight so quickly? Even now. There are also absurd things in the Blood Lin Army in pursuit of tactical speed.
Seeing Ye Tao thinking hard about the map in the tent, the others didn't interject much. This is a strange force, precisely because everyone understands some strategic and tactical things, and they all claim to be masters in this area, in order to avoid the lack of concentration of opinions. Tactical discussions have been held on a small scale. As a matter of fact, when the officers at the grassroots level understood that there were so many messy things that could have come up in actual combat that needed to be dealt with, they were busy sorting out their troops and did not have the heart to quietly consider tactical issues. At this time, Chi Lei suddenly ran back. The old demon hits with his hands
"General," Chi Lei handed a military document to Ye Taodi and glanced at Dai Yun. "This was found by the brothers under his command in the morning after intercepting and killing a group of Xiling's heralds. I took a look at it, and I rushed to get it to you. ”
From this military intelligence document, they got good news. The first troops of Zhuo Mang's organization have arrived on the battlefield. However, Zhuo Mang did not choose to supplement the defense of the first line of Ningshi City's Baishi City, but recaptured Dalin Town in the north.
"The general really has the guts." After taking a closer look at the map, it dawned on everyone. Zhuo Mang was obviously not satisfied with expelling the Xiling army from the territory of Dongping, but was preparing to encircle the Xiling army from Dalin Town. Attacking from Dalin Town, the most valuable goal is to recapture the city, which is equivalent to nailing a nail in the other party's heart. From Xunshan Pass to Ningshi City and Baishi City, only Miancheng has enough manpower and space for the transfer and distribution of materials, and only Miancheng can afford the responsibility of the supply relay of the army. Especially in Xiling's so-called spark tactics where troops are scattered, the transfer and relay of supplies is more complicated and difficult, and it is by no means something that can be solved by setting up a large battalion anywhere.
Once the city is recaptured, it will inevitably have to deal with the pressure of enemy forces from all directions around it. But as long as this army can defend the city, it is best to free up their hands to carry out a column of sāo disturbance operations, which is enough to make the Xiling army sad for a long time. Judging from the speed of Zhuo Mang's action to recapture Dalin Town, he took Dalin Town in four and a half hours without committing all his troops, and his troops were quite sufficient.
Zhuo Mang's tactics are very risky. If the Xiling army takes Ningshi City and Baishi City before the material consumption is beyond its reach, even if it takes one. It is possible to form a situation that is even more unfavorable to Dongping - one army in Miancheng is surrounded, and the Xiling army in the encirclement of another army is supported by Ningshi City and Baishi City. If Ning Shi Cheng and Bai Shi Cheng were lost earlier, the Dongping army on the front would not have enough troops to envelop the Xiling army, and the Xiling army might even be based on Ning Shi City and Baishi City, attacking and advancing while plundering supplies.
"Now the problem comes, we can understand the general's tactics, but how can we cooperate?" Ye Tao sighed.
If Zhuo Mang was absolutely sure, then he would never take Dalin Town first.
Putting on this posture, it should be on the front line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, the flank of the enemy army should make the first move, drive the opponent to retreat backwards, and take the city at this time, not only can achieve all the tactical objectives, but also can make the surrounded enemy army fall into a situation of hesitation. In every way, it will be better. And now, Zhuo Mang is in a hurry to take Dalin Town, exposing the possibility of such a tactic. It is very likely that he wants to attract the other party to intercept it, to strengthen the defense of the city, to reduce the pressure on Ningshi City and Baishi City, to gain time. Even, Zhuo Mang is very likely to really take the city, and he will use it as a bait in the city to do what he wants to do by defending the city. As long as Zhuo Mang can still have more than 30,000 people in his hands after breaking through the city. If the Xiling army wants to take this city with a very loose defense, it must at least transfer more than 80,000 troops to fight for consumption...... This is Zhuo Mang's ability as a famous general in the world.
The officers who had gathered one after another, and the non-commissioned officers who had relatively high prestige among the soldiers, quickly understood the current situation. In any other army, this is almost impossible, but in the grand strategy game of everyone, everyone jīng chess battles and sand table deduction of the blood Lin army, this is the foundation of the foundation.
"If you were Tong Bingwen, what would you do?" Zeng Huning asked Ye Tao.
The brutal war has made Zeng Zining quickly jump out of the identity of a pawnshop apprentice. Zeng Zining has never killed anyone. But the three flag teams he controls and more than 1,000 people are the most stable part of the performance. Now, after the battle, Zeng Zining's troops are often in charge of breaking off the rear and covering the transfer of the army. Zeng Zining always pressed the speed, let the enemy's main force follow him, and then ran in the other direction for a while, and then made the enemy stay at a greater distance by changing the speed of the march and suddenly returning to the horse to kill for a while...... And when this relative distance is large enough to a certain extent. Zeng Hu Ningbu would suddenly march quickly, directly throw off the opponent and then move closer to the main force.
In this day and age, this is an extremely difficult tactical move. What is the morale of the troops, what is the physical strength, and how much strength the horses have left. What is the appropriate distance from the main force, and how far away is it appropriate to keep it from the enemy...... Once there is an aspect that is not taken into account. They will have nothing but death. However, under the leadership of Zeng Zining, the three flag teams of Zeng Zining's department never tired of it, and also summed up countless lessons and lessons.
"The easiest way is to ...... and take White Rock City." Ye Tao thought for a moment and began to place a few chess pieces on the map to indicate the posture of their respective troops. "For a small city like White Rock City, it takes 20,000 to 30,000 people to besiege the city. After taking it, you have to hold it, and you can throw a little more than 10,000 jīng sharp troops. This would free up at least 10,000 troops. Whether these 10,000 troops are added to the front line of Ningshi City or put in Miancheng, it will be a headache. Let's put it this way, unless it is a last resort, or if you are completely sure, otherwise, General Zhuo should not go to Micheng at this time. It is best to occupy Dalin Town and leave the aftertaste of attacking Micheng. On the one hand, he calmly waited for the deployment of the army in place, and on the other hand, he could threaten the flank of the Xiling army. For Tong Bingwen, no matter how small the number of troops in Micheng is, it will not be less than 10,000, right? He didn't have to worry much about Micheng at this time, but he definitely had to take into account the goals of the entire army...... Cut off the weakened Dongping. On the map, Xunshan Pass, Miancheng and Baishi City were connected with a pen, and Ye Tao continued: "Taking Baishi City, the Xiling army will have such an iron waist composed of three key points. They can go out of White Rock City and burn and kill on the thousands of miles of fertile fields in my Dongping, and the losses caused will not be recovered for a few years, even if they are more than ten years. You can also confront my Dongping army here. If I were Tong Bingwen,
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I'll take White Rock City first, and then strengthen it. Ning Shicheng Bi Jing is an old Xiongcheng, and there is a general's nephew in command, Tong Bingwen should not be willing to consume a lot of soldiers to attack. He knew that time was running out, and he should understand that at this time, he should grasp some things first. ”