Chapter 10: Preparing for War
Tang Hua asked people to prepare a banquet, speaking of the banquet, it is inseparable from China's wine culture, which has a long history, as long as a few glasses of wine are eaten, the relationship between the two sides will immediately have a fundamental change. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info At the banquet, Tang Hua let the small leaders above the middle level get to know Zhang Liao again, and let them drink Zhang Liaohai well.
Tang Hua couldn't get used to drinking this kind of wine, Tang Hua really couldn't swallow such a bad wine, so he could only let Li Jin and them drink it many times Zhang Liao. Tang Hua mainly eats vegetables, occasionally inserting a few words or a joke to make everyone laugh and adjust the atmosphere.
Li Jin said to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, you don't know, our lord has been here for the past few days, and only today is the happiest to see you, and he looks sad every day, but we can't help, and we won't have any good ideas." ”
After listening to Li Jin's words, Zhang Liao asked Tang Hua, "Is there anything that my lord can't solve?" ”
Tang Hua smiled and said: "Don't be an adult, my lord, I'm not an adult, I'm just temporarily leading a group of hot-blooded men to resist the foreign invaders, just call my name, so I will feel kind." I'm really happy that you can come and help me, and it will be much easier for me to have you help me. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Liao said modestly: "The adult has won the award, what ability do I have to help the adult solve problems." ”
Tang Hua said: "Wen Yuan, I know your ability, you are proficient in the art of war and strategy, and you are also first-class in leading troops to fight, how can you say that you have no ability?" How many people in the world can compare with you. ”
After hearing this, Zhang Liao replied: "My lord, I have never led soldiers to fight, I am just a small foot. ”
Tang Hua smiled slightly, thinking to himself who has read the Three Kingdoms and doesn't know your identity Zhang Liao. I had to smile and said: "Don't worry, in the future, I will let you lead troops to train every day, and let you lead troops to fight every day, for fear of exhausting you, then I will lose more than I gain." ”
After listening to Tang Hua's words, Zhang Liao thought in his heart, it seems that this big snake knows me very well, especially the recognition of my ability, I really don't know where he heard it, although I have a brave body and have also read the art of war, now I am just a small soldier, and I have never led soldiers or fought in battles. Being able to lead troops to fight is Zhang Liao's highest dream. Zhang Liao knows whether he will be reused, it depends on his future performance, according to this situation, he will definitely be reused under him, the key is how he will perform in the future.
Tang Hua sighed and continued: "Some time ago, there were no disaster victims and refugees around our army, and our army's actions can be determined to have no place to live. As a mobile army on the prairie, as long as we plan well, we can refer to the east and west, long-distance attack, what horse thieves, Xianbei, Huns, etc., we are not afraid at all. Not now, more than 10,000 people suddenly ran out of my side, I can't care about their lives or deaths, right? I can't protect them now, and I don't have so much food to feed them! “
"Now, we will have a large number of Xianbei cavalry rushing towards us at any time, and even many horse thieves will also pounce on us, how can I deal with it now? We must not leave these people behind and continue our guerrilla warfare. I estimate that it won't be long before the Xianbei cavalry of the Tuoba tribe will come to the current place of our army, and the Xianbei cavalry of the Murong clan will definitely come and fight with us. Not counting the horse thieves who may be killed from all over the country, the Xianbei cavalry of the Murong clan alone will not be less than 5,000 cavalry, and the Xianbei cavalry of the Tuoba tribe is about 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry, they will definitely dispatch tens of thousands of cavalry to attack us, we only have more than 2,000 soldiers now, and the training time of the soldiers is not long, and it has not reached half of the training requirements, not to mention that the disparity in strength is too great, that is, it is roughly the same as our strength, if we come to a head-on decisive battle, our army will not have any chance of winning at all. ”
Tang Hua regards the prairie as a battlefield and as the logistics support place for his Big Bear Army! Weapons and equipment, grain and grass supplies are all relied on the gains made in battle, and they are replenished there by fighting there, and the three-light policy is fully implemented. Kill everything on the grassland, leaving only young and beautiful women.
Zhang Liao said: "Then did the adults think about attacking Mayi City and Yinguan City, although these places are currently occupied by the cavalry of the Xianbei tribe, but their troops are not very many, as long as the adults detain the troops to attack, there should be no difficulty in defeating the city, so that the problem of the right surname can be solved, and the problem of defense can be solved." ”
After hearing this, Tang Hua said: "Wen Yuan, I have considered all of this, we are just a poisonous snake on the grassland now, once we occupy the city, Ding Yuan of the state will definitely send troops to attack us." Don't look at these corrupt officials in the court, they are afraid of the Xianbei tribe and the iron cavalry of the Huns, but their gang of bastards are the best at fighting internal wars, and when he sees that we have driven away the Waiyi Tartars, he will immediately come to us again, and then we will be enemies on many sides. ”
Li Jin said: "There are not many cavalry of the Xianbei tribe in small counties such as Mayi and Sangqian, and it is not a big problem to fight, but there are 5,000 iron cavalry of the Xianbei tribe of the Tuoba Department stationed in the Yin Pavilion, and our current ability cannot be defeated." ”
After hearing this, Zhang Liao asked again: "Does the adult have any plans?" ”
Tang Hua said: "No, now I can only send more scouts to conduct uninterrupted reconnaissance around, and then make a combat plan according to the reconnaissance." Of course, it is nothing more than ambushes, reinforcements, sneak attacks, harassment and other means, and our army must lead the enemy to a place far away from the common people to fight a decisive battle. Otherwise, the common people will be harmed, that can't be done, aren't we fighting horse thieves, Xianbei, Huns, etc. all to protect the common people on the border of our Han Dynasty? How can we ignore the lives and deaths of ordinary people for the sake of our own safety! Only in this case, the losses of our army may be very huge, and it is even possible that they will be wiped out by the enemy. But there is no way to do it, who has not died in life since ancient times, leave Dan to take care of the sweat, and use our blood to protect our homeland. ”
Zhang Liao was very moved when he heard it, Zhang Liao is a hot-blooded man, although he is young, he is only a small foot in the official army, but he has always hoped to protect his family and the country, and fight a decisive battle against the Xianbei tribe, the Xiongnu and other tarts. It's just that the current officials and soldiers will only oppress the people, and they don't dare to fight with the Xianbei tribe and other foreign barbarians at all, and their hearts have always been uncomfortable.
Zhang Liao listened to Tang Hua's words, was deeply moved, and immediately got up and knelt down to Tang Hua and saluted and said: "My lord, if you are not idle, I, Zhang Liao, will follow you in front of the saddle and the horse, and follow you to kill foreigners and defend the country." ”
Tang Hua got up and helped Zhang Liao up and said: "Thank you Wenyuan, I will never fail you in my life, nor will I lose everyone sitting here, I hope that we will all work together to fight the future battle, and use the saber in our hands to meet the incoming enemy." ”
After listening to Lu Ning's words, everyone said: "It's the lord, let's listen to the lord's arrangement." ”
Tang Hua continued: "We don't have infantry now, and from tomorrow, all the cavalry training will be handled by Wen Yuan, and he will not regret assisting." However, we must pay close attention to the training of snipers, which cannot be relaxed for a moment, and the recruitment of new recruits must be of high quality, and we would rather be less and more precise, rather than low-quality soldiers. ”
Everyone said in unison: "It's the lord." ”
Zhang Liao looked at Tang Hua very suspiciously, and then asked, "Lord, what kind of soldier are the scouts you just mentioned?" What kind of class is a sniper? ”
Tang Hua smiled and said: "Wenyuan, this is my new name, the scout is the scout, and the sniper is the archer." ”
In the next two days, Zhang Liao was in charge of the entire training of the soldiers, and at first the soldiers were still skeptical about Zhang Liao's ability, but with the ability that Zhang Liao showed in the training, the soldiers were convinced.
According to the report of the scout, Tang Hua stayed in front of the map all day long, drawing left and right, and after Tang Hua's careful thinking, Tang Hua decided to take the risk of attacking.
If he didn't take the initiative to attack, once the Xianbei clan of the Tuoba tribe and the Xianbei clan of the Murong clan attacked at the same time, Tang Hua really had no way to deal with it, and now he had to eat the weaker Xianbei of the Murong clan first, and then find a way to deal with the Xianbei clan of the Tuoba tribe.
That night, Tang Hua called all the second lieutenants and generals to a meeting to study, first of all, after Tang Hua told everyone his thoughts, everyone started to talk about it.
Li Jin asked in confusion: "Lord, if we run away to attack the base camp of the Murong clan, we may not be able to achieve the effect of a sneak attack, after all, there are nearly a thousand miles away from our army, once we can't reach the knowledge of the sneak attack, we can only fight with the iron cavalry of the Murong clan, although the iron cavalry of the Murong clan has not been fully assembled, but there are at least more than 3,000 iron cavalry in their base camp, even if we win, it will be a tragic victory, it is estimated that there will not be many soldiers who can survive, in this way, What will we do to resist other enemies who will attack us in the future? ”
Tang Hua explained to everyone: "Although the base camp of the Murong clan is nearly a thousand miles away from us, I have calculated that we now have nearly six thousand war horses, and if our army sends two thousand troops, one person and three horsemen, we should be able to reach it in one day and one night." It's just that the soldiers will work very hard, so I don't know how effective our soldiers will be at that time? If the soldiers can hold on, we can easily wipe out a few gang of horse thieves in that area, which will allow our soldiers to be replenished to a certain extent. Of course, once our army fails to achieve the purpose of a sneak attack, then we will be very passive, and even the whole army will be destroyed. If we don't take the risk, we won't be able to get out of the predicament, after all, we have offended the Tuoba tribe and the Murong clan, even if we didn't offend them, they will still come to destroy our army. ”
Tang Hua knew very well in his heart that he had attacked several tribes of the Xianbei tribe during this time, if he didn't continue to take the initiative to attack, once he waited for the Xianbei army to press the border, his soldiers and horses would not be enough for my family to rush and kill in one round? Now we can only fight against the water, and finding a way to open up the situation is the right way.