Chapter 40
The 150,000 soldiers and horses gathered by Dayan were divided into three routes by Jing Tingrui. 【Reading.com】
Among them, Jing Tingrui is the general of the middle road, He Lin, a young talent personally selected by him, and the veteran Guan Zhongguo is the deputy general of the left and right roads, each with 50,000 people.
Zhang Huzi is the garrison of the city gate of northern Xinjiang, with 20,000 people, as well as more than 1,000 craftsmen and grooms, as the logistics troops.
From the deployment of these military and financial resources, it can be seen that Dayan is worthy of being the largest empire today, but the Jialan Kingdom has a long history, financial resources are not weak, and it has many famous generals.
In order to attack Dayan, they have also been recuperating and planning for a long time!
Therefore, the war fell into a stalemate from the beginning, and the generals of Jialan knew that there was no good fruit to eat in a tough confrontation with the Great Yan army, so they adopted guerrilla tactics, often harassed a city, and plundered it on a large scale, which successfully attracted the Great Yan army, but they stopped fighting, beat the drums and collected the troops, and fled quickly.
However, when the Great Yan army withdrew, they made a comeback, leaving the Great Yan army tossing and turning, exhausted.
Jing Tingrui naturally knew that Jia Lan was fighting a war of attrition, so he changed his strategy and let a small group of soldiers meet the battle each time, which involved three or four months, but most of Dayan's men and horses were rested.
It's just that it's not a way to go on for a long time, not only is the cost huge, but the grain and grass will also be exhausted, and in addition, Jia Lan wantonly ridiculed Commander Dayan, who turned out to be a rookie who had never been on the battlefield, which also made the army's heart shake.
Some people began to advocate defense, that is, to subdivide the forces and strictly defend them in the various fortress checkpoints, and if they came, they would be wiped out.
There are also those who advocate attacking, simply combining the three armies, breaking their fortresses one by one, and beating him down.
The public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, in short, Jing Tingrui, the commander of the whole army, had become an ornament, and they had set it up.
This completely confirmed Ke Weiqing's initial fear, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the ideas of various staff officers were even more dazzling and difficult to decide.
Jing Tingrui is young, how to be a good general of the Northern Expedition in an army that is suspicious of him?
Although they have not suffered defeat so far, they have not won the battle. There was even a staff officer who wrote to inform the emperor, saying that Jing Tingrui had no merit and no fault in the past six months!
But is that really the case?
In the eighth month, when Jing Tingrui and all the staff officers were discussing in the military tent as usual, he suddenly said that it was already okay.
What the? The people looked at each other and did not know what he was saying.
It's time to fight back. Jing Tingrui's calm words made the main combatants very happy, but his next deployment still made people feel confused, they were still three-way soldiers, and Jing Tingrui himself was the vanguard, in other words, he was to be cannon fodder to die!
Is it okay to fight like this? Some staff officers are worried that if Jing Tingrui penetrates too deep into the enemy's belly, if he is captured, he will not have to fight this battle, and he will commit suicide and apologize!
Of course. Jing Tingrui's sharp black eyes swept over the people with doubts on their faces, and said in a firm tone, aren't we here just to win the battle?
What the general said is extremely true! Some people saw the wind and steered, and some people were silent, no matter what, the battle of the main attack started according to Jing Tingrui's plan.
――It was unexpectedly smooth!
I really don't know if the Jialan army is used to Dayan's passive style of play, and in the face of the vanguard army that kills in one go, it is a little panicked, and some soldiers are still burying the pot and cooking!
They seemed to think that Dayan always chased a certain way, but this time they fought all the way to their city gate, and broke through the city gate in one fell swoop, capturing more than a dozen people of Jia Lan's main and deputy generals.
This siege battle of attack and victory undoubtedly inspired the whole army, but it also provoked Jialan's retaliatory counterattack!
The artillery bombarded the mountains and shook the ground, the firelight covered the sky, the corpses were all over, and the blood flowed like a river, Jing Tingrui won victory after victory again and again on such a bloody and cruel battlefield! It's simply invincible!
And those Jialan generals fell into extreme panic, because Jing Tingrui was a person who fought and didn't leave a way out for himself, which didn't look like a person who had just entered the battlefield at all. Once you encounter his vanguard, you will definitely die!