When the dry season arrives in Africa, the rivers are cut off, the ponds are dried up, and countless animals are running for water, and some animals know that there are crocodiles hidden in the ponds where there is still some water, but they have to take the risk to drink water, and those who can survive are lucky, and those who are unlucky are no longer to drink water.

This place is from the edge of the desert, and the rivers are mostly seasonal rivers, and this place is already dry, and in the winter there is less precipitation, and the rivers are also cut off. But people need water, and livestock need water, and no one can live without water. So Zhang Yue, this kid is waiting for rabbits in the watery Haizi and oasis, come to catch one by one, come to catch two and catch a pair, and even people and livestock can't run!

"Damn, you kid is really a ghost, you don't spit out bones when you eat people!" Dou Jun scolded with a smile after listening to Zhang Yue's introduction, and took the wine away again.

"All commands, don't bring this!" Zhang Yue reached out to grab the wine bottle and said.

"Alcohol is forbidden in the army during the war, and as the commander of the first brigade, don't you know what to do?" Dou Jun said with a sinking face.

"I command you to do it, and if you cross the river, you will tear down the bridge, don't regret it! Our desert brigade is specially approved by the prince, and in winter when performing tasks, you can give three taels of wine to ward off the cold! Zhang Yue pouted and said.

"Look at what you say, who are we with whom!" Dou Jun thought that there was really such a thing, and immediately changed his smiling face, and stuffed the wine into his arms, "The next thing to clean up the remnants still needs our brothers to work together, relying on your desert brigade, tell me about your plan to come down!" ”

"Our group of people will pretend to be honest in front of the prince, but in fact, they will wilt!" Zhang Yue pulled the wine over and hugged it in his arms and said.

"Who said that! The prince once praised me for being a good person among the bad guys, and he knows me best! Zhang Pu said with a sly smile. But no one is as bad as you to come up with such a bad idea! ”

"In the right fit. Win by wonder! This is a famous saying of soldiers, how can it be bad? Zhang Yue pulled the stopper. Smelling the wine, he said, "We defeated the Tatars in a frontal assault, but they tried to drag us down by attacking and harassing us. Now we can't attack head-on, we can only flank and detour, attack it and save it, so that the Tatars have to jump out and fight with us, where is wrong! ”

"Okay, you're right. We're talking about our next steps and trying to resolve the battle here quickly! Zhang Pu said...

After some conspiracy, the battle plan was promulgated, and the lion divided the brigades into five combat areas, and the brigades were divided into five combat areas, and each brigade was mainly to control the water sources in the area and the grazing points in the oases, while blocking the mountain passes and roads to the outside world. In order to cut off the basis of the Tatars' survival and limit their range of activities, the large army swept back and forth like a dragnet. Trapping the enemy in a small area and gradually incapacitating them is a hard hand.

The other hand is soft, while taking a military strike. They used the tactics of pacification, claiming to some of the captured Tatars that their combat operations were aimed at reconquiring lost territory, against the Jurchens. And not the Tatars, as long as they promised not to be enemies of the Xijing regime. And accept the rule and let him go.

The tribal alliance of the Tatars was originally a loose union, and whoever was powerful followed him. As for the acceptance of the party or the Jurchens, there is not much difference in the rule of the Han people, and some small tribes accepted the conditions, swore poisonous oaths, and signed covenants. And the loyal soldiers also counted their words, not only released the people, but also returned all the seized property and livestock, and these people naturally became the propagandists of the loyal soldiers when they returned.

The second hand is to persuade Xi Banni, the leader of the four alliances of the West Blockade, to promise him that as long as he gives up resistance and breaks away from the Jin State, he can spare his life, otherwise he can only kill one and set up another alliance leader in his alliance. Shaybani knew very well that if he died, his tribe would soon be torn apart, reduced to a small tribe that would not flow into the stream, to be swallowed up by other tribes, and his people would become slaves of others.

Shaybani figured it out and agreed to rein in the tribes, give up resistance, respect Xijing as the leader, and accept Xijing's rule as their subordinate. Some tribes who did not want to accept Xijing's command were soon exterminated with the cooperation of Shaybani, and their property and livestock were confiscated. With both soft and hard measures, the fighting on the side of the Tiande Army quickly subsided, and the task was completed first...

Zhao Ta looked at the battle report sent by the three generals and handed it to Zhao Li and the others with a smile, he was not surprised that the desert brigade could quickly complete the task, because their training was targeted, one was to use the desert as a cover to infiltrate the enemy-occupied area and launch a surprise attack; The second is to pursue the remnants of the enemy who have fled into the desert, and to encircle and suppress the enemy forces that use the desert to harass and carry out sabotage activities. Therefore, the desert brigade has been trained in guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare to a certain extent, and now in the face of the Tatars who are fighting in the same way, it naturally hits their guns!

"Lord Wang, the Tiger General and the Leopard General have completed the tasks of the first stage well, but after entering the encirclement and suppression stage, they are very difficult to fight, and it is difficult to adapt to the guerrilla tactics of the Tatars!" Zhao Li looked at it and said.

"Well, the Loyal and Brave Army has been trained in large corps operations in recent years, and they are also conducting large corps operations, and they have lost all the things we used when we first entered the northwest!" Zhao Ta said with a smile.

"Yes, when we first entered the northwest, there were only 3,000 soldiers, but we had to face the attack of tens of thousands of Xia troops, the prince led us to win more with less, and frequently attacked the Xia army, gradually dragged them down, and then ate them in one bite, how similar to the Tatars are today, but unfortunately we have been used to thousands of troops going into battle together over the years, and there are few defeats, forgetting the original difficulties!" Zhao Zhong said.

"Alas, at that time, we were also chased everywhere by the party members, but we could always find opportunities to destroy the enemy in the movement and come up with a way, but now we always think about opening the way with artillery fire and machine gun strafing, our brains have become lazy, and it is easier to think about problems!" Zhao Yi shook his head and said.

"With our development, in the future, we will not only face large corps operations, but also quell rebellions, eliminate remnant bandits, and stabilize localities, and this kind of combat mission will also increase!" Zhao said, "Therefore, we must not only be able to fight a big war, but also learn to deal with such small-scale guerrilla warfare, sum up a set of effective tactics, and form a team that is good at conducting guerrilla warfare!" ”

"Lord Wang, it's too late to form a special team now, you have to solve the problem in front of you first, now the situation of Zhao Yong's Eastern Route Army is even more serious, there are tens of thousands of Jurchens in front of you, and those Tatars in the back are still making trouble, attacking squads, intercepting and killing stragglers, destroying grain routes, and sneaking up on the people's camp, and several times dispatching large armies to encircle and suppress have little effect!" Zhao Li said eagerly.

"Well, guerrilla tactics are not easy to deal with, mainly because there is no distinction between soldiers and civilians, and in nomadic tribes, the upper horse is the soldier, and the dismounted is the people, so we must mercilessly attack and deter the tribes that oppose us, but it is absolutely forbidden to kill innocents indiscriminately, which will only increase the hatred against us; And for the wavering tribes, we must strive to make them fall to us and break away from the Jurchens; For the tribes that take the initiative to join us, we must support them to make them our reliable allies, and using them to stabilize the place is much more effective than blindly killing! Zhao said.

Next, under the auspices of Zhao Ta, several people formulated a new operational plan for the next stage of the battle:

Specifically, it is first necessary to develop the reconnaissance capability of the battlefield, enhance the transparency of the battlefield, and immediately mobilize the forces to strike at them as soon as they discover any clues. Again, it is necessary to increase cooperation among the armies in order to undermine their ability to raid and conceal, to fight against the Tatars in their own battles, and to completely annihilate them after they have been annihilated in large numbers and difficult to replenish in time.

The second is to change the blind group tactics, use the tactics of breaking up the whole into parts, and on traffic alert, and assign elite soldiers from various departments to form special operations teams on a large scale. Rely on flexible special units to conduct counter-guerrilla warfare, and adopt small but elite units in terms of troops, acting independently. The main forces, on the other hand, are used for defense or to participate in large-scale sweeping operations, and all departments must have a firm determination to completely eliminate the destabilizing factors to avoid a resurgence.

In addition, the key to the success of the anti-guerrilla campaign lies in eliminating and weakening the people's support for the guerrillas, which are the loss of intelligence support, livelihood support, and manpower sources. In order to achieve victory, it is necessary to defeat the guerrillas militarily and to prevent the people from contacting the guerrillas by all means.

At the last stage, while striking at the military level, it is necessary to pay attention to taking advantage of the contradictions among the Tatar tribes to appease and buy off the tribes inclined to Xijing, and at the same time to establish grassroots political power and realize the actual rule over the occupied areas!

Zhao Yong's troops on the eastern road, because the Jin army has now mobilized a large number of troops to occupy the various passes of the ancient Great Wall, is defending against danger, and mobilizing troops to surround the Kryu army from the flank in Zhongjing, and now they cannot make a breakthrough in a short period of time, and will fall into a passive situation of fighting on both sides.

Zhao Ta immediately made a decision, left the wolf to garrison the second brigade in Tiande, ordered the lion to quickly withdraw and turn to Datong, and strengthened the second artillery brigade to them, attack Huai'an and Guihua Prefecture from the west, attract the Jin army, cooperate with Zhao Yong's troops to go south, annihilate the Jin army in Fengshengzhou, and complete the planned battle plan.

In November, after three months of fighting, the battle of Tiande Army, Yunnei Prefecture, and Fengzhou ended, and the leader of the Eight Divisions of the Northern Blockade was captured, Sunichi, and Zhao Ta ordered to behead him, and supported An Simi, the leader of the Mi'er Beggar Division, to be the North Blocker and the commander of the Eight Divisions of Shannan. Later, An Simi went to Texas to meet the prince, and offered 200 horses, 10,000 cattle and sheep, and all kinds of furs, willing to accept the rule of Xijing, and pay tribute every year!

Zhao Ta set up the Western Recruitment Division in Roufu, left the Xijing Forbidden Army 5,000 garrisons, and the Second Brigade in the Tiande Army, and then led the army to the east and stationed around the Xijing City. (To be continued......)