Chapter 51: The Ugly Mistake
And the reason why they were able to resist Zhang Yan's elite 500 soldiers was largely because of the superb master Wen Chou among them, so these 500 soldiers could not fully exert their advantages! Even though they are elite and very brave, they still cherish their own lives very much! You can't hit Wen Chou's gun in order to kill Wen Chou's county pawn!
But Wen Chou can only affect his own small range, every time he rides his horse to another place, there are always county officials in other places who are killed! And Wen Chou can only try his best to take care of these county guards while killing the thieves! But the power of a poor person will definitely not be able to protect everything! At the same time as killing the thieves, the county guards he led were also rapidly consumed!
Seeing this, Wen Chou knew that he could not let this situation continue, otherwise there would really be a danger of annihilation! It can't hold out the arrival of reinforcements at all! I don't know if Wenba and the others are going well in other directions! I can only try my best to drag Zhang Yanjun! How long it can drag on is providential.
After a quarter of an hour of fighting, Wen Chou immediately decided to lead these 100 county soldiers to gradually withdraw from the battle, and then lead them to harass the enemy army with the previously determined 'guerrilla warfare method'! Try to make it not work properly! As for whether they will move closer to Gaoyi County, it is not something that Wen Chou can control, the big deal is to exchange land and strategic depth for time!
What prompted Wen Chou to make this decision was the battle that had only been fought for a quarter of an hour, and the casualties were too heavy! There were originally nearly 200 county soldiers, but only 100 were still fighting! Even if you have killed nearly seventy or eighty enemies! But the number of your own team is already small, so the gap between the two is even greater!
Wen Chou's retreat was not smooth, since he had bitten it, how could Zhang Yanzhi's elite make Wen Chou, who had killed so many of his comrades, retreat at will! An even more fierce attack was launched at the moment! As a result, Wen Chou led the remnants of the county soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield. After a quick look, there were only sixty or seventy scarred remnants left! Of course, the enemy troops did not have a good time, and thirty or forty more people were killed.
But in this way, no matter how you calculate it, it was Zhang Yanjun who won the victory, a big victory! The loss of 100 people. Successfully killed more than one hundred and thirty or forty of the army of Wen Chou! This is still a record in the presence of Wen Chou! If you are alone, I am afraid that you will kill thirty or forty members of the enemy army! If Wen Chou is not here, then these county soldiers will only be defeated under the attack of Zhang Yan's fierce soldiers!
Thankfully, they managed to get out, even though they would fight again later! But when the time comes, according to Wen Chou's explanation and ideas, he will definitely not be so embarrassed by Fang Cai! It is quite possible to deal a serious blow to the enemy army! It depends on the execution of these remnant county soldiers! Now they all feel a little broken! After all, who wouldn't be afraid of just slipped through the ghost gate! Even if it was an ugly man, he was also injured. It's not a big deal! But it also shows that Zhang Yan's soldiers are indeed extraordinary!
When Wen Chou led these people to escape, he personally broke off in the rear! Facing such a fierce pursuit again, only he can be qualified for this broken act! After successfully escaping, he briefly treated his wound and rested. Get ready for the next battle!
As for the current situation of the county magistrates in other directions, it is not for Wen Chou to know! If those county officials are smart enough, they can accurately understand the essence of the 'guerrilla warfare method' that Wen Chou said earlier. Then they might be able to survive the butcher's knife of the thief! And to a certain extent, it will deal a blow to the thieves, or delay; But if they can't understand what Wen Chou is saying. Then you can only ask for more blessings.
In the face of such powerful thieves, they have almost no chance of survival! The only way to do this is to hide yourself properly. But above this field, in addition to the wide official road, there is an endless field! The only place where they hid was the yellow corn fields. But it's not a long-term solution!
In the contest between Wen Chou and Zhang Yan. In the first round of the individual battle, it was obvious that Zhang Yan was defeated, but in the subsequent army battle, he successfully found the field with his strong combat power! Although there are some victories, this is a war. It's not a competition, who cares so much!?
The lurking of Wen Chou made Zhang Yan faintly feel a little uneasy, and the closer he got to the direction of Gaoyi County, the stronger this feeling became! It is said that he is now the opportunity for a big victory, and he should take advantage of this power to continue to advance to Gaoyi County, even if he can't attack through the county seat, he must also send a signal to the people of Gaoyi County that his tentacles have arrived! And it's a tentacle that their county jun Wen Chou can't stop!
This must have dealt a heavy blow to the county's recent fanatical worship of Wen Chou, which can make the implementation of Wen Chou's decree in the future no longer so smooth, so that the pace of Wen Chou's development and growth will slow down! But Zhang Yan just has such a feeling, a feeling of danger coming! Could it be that the reinforcements from Gaoyi County have arrived?!
Even though he had already made a careful plan before this, the north and south had their own soldiers to intrude on it! But he thought about it anyway! Otherwise, I wouldn't be so flustered. This is a kind of intuition of military personnel to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages! A kind of intuition that only the battle-hardened have! Of course, in academic terms, this is the result of overthinking! Always thinking about how the enemy is, I unconsciously have such an illusion! Coupled with Wen Chou's series of abnormal behaviors, Zhang Yan's doubts were even worse!
After a while, Wen Chou called out to all the remnants of the soldiers, and began to touch towards a Zhang Yanzhi's subordinates, this is to start his guerrilla strategy, whether it is successful or not, he must always try it, in case it is effective! Wen Chou's army is secretly advancing, in order not to attract the attention of the thieves, Wen Chou has already handed over his war horse to the scouts, so that he can secretly observe the movements of the thieves! If you can, you can report back to him. In short, try to get as close as possible to the thieves.
The first attack did not go very well, whether it was the current venue, the current time, or the remnants of the mission, it was not suitable for the strategy proposed by Wen Chou! So when they were not very close to the thieves, they had already leaked, and the guerrilla warfare, which had no surprise effect, was greatly reduced in effect! Although it was unsuccessful, it also gave the thieves a lot of shock, causing them to lose the lives of more than a dozen members. And the remnants of Wen Chou's pawns also lost three or four! After that, he retreated smoothly and hid again.
The failure of this attack also made Wen Chou deeply aware that if some good strategies are launched in the wrong place and at the wrong time, they will not be able to play their role, and they must be under the right conditions to be able to establish the classic strategies of later generations into miraculous effects. Or tweaked slightly, rather than exactly copying it. However, this time, because of his leadership, the mistake of decision-making will inevitably cause a large number of casualties among the county officials in other directions.
After Wen Chou felt the difficulty of this strategy, his purpose for guerrilla warfare also changed, no longer the previous step of blocking the thieves from approaching the county seat when effectively killing and injuring the thieves, but instead, while blocking the pace of the thieves advancing to the county seat, he also carried the effective killing of the thieves!
This positive change has changed the difficulty of completing this strategy! The former requires a series of battles to be realized, while the latter only requires frequent raids, retreats, hiding, and then attacking, retreating, and hiding! And so on! Regardless of whether you kill the thief or not, as long as you can get the thief's attention, it is a success.
Later, under the command of this thought, Wen Chou carried out a series of continuous harassment tactics against Zhang Yan's elite of 500 soldiers! Although it didn't really kill many thieves, it effectively blocked the efficiency of the thieves! I know that there is the sound of galloping horses' hooves ahead! Wen Chou knows that reinforcements have arrived! And it's not just three or five hundred!
Of course, before this, Zhang Yan had already discovered the cavalry team coming from the direction of Gaoyi County one step ahead of him! And the integration of the team was carried out! And now its elite army has achieved great results! Not to mention that the nearly 200 people personally led by Wen Chou are less than 50! The county guards in other directions can only survive more than 100 people!
This made most of the soldiers led by Wen Chou this time killed! Only one hundred and fifty remnants survived! Although it successfully resisted the strategy of Zhang Yan's army advancing to the county seat! But the casualties are too heavy! And it was invaded by Zhang Yan's thieves more than ten miles away from the county seat! Destroyed a lot of corn! Although it was not plundered, it was all wasted on the field, and if you want to pick it up, it will take a lot of manpower! It's more than worth the loss!
And Zhang Yan's soldiers were not completely undamaged, but the team led by Wen Chou caused damage to one hundred and fifty or sixty people! The county guards in other directions also fought to death fifty or sixty people! It can be said that it is not bad! In the face of such elite thieves, the county guard was able to achieve such a record, which was beyond Wen Chou's expectations!
But all this is gone, because Wen Chou's reinforcements have arrived, and there are as many as eight hundred cavalry! Obviously, these 800 cavalry did not arrive together, but they met on the way to find Wen Chou and Zhang Yan! This is because the battle between Wen Chou and Zhang Yan has always been in motion, perhaps because Zhang Yan used the strategy of Wen Chou's reinforcements! In the end, however, reinforcements were not avoided.
That's why there was a scene of Wen Ba and Yan Liang leading the cavalry to find Wen Chou! (To be continued......)