Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Thousand Walls
In this reorganization, the troops directly under it will not move. The main battle unit was established at the battalion level, upgraded to a primary cottage left-behind unit, and set up a total of 2 battalions, 1 scout department, 2 independent combat departments, 4 guard departments, and a logistics battalion.
Scout Department: Jun Sima Xu Xian. All of them consisted of soldiers of the second and third ranks.
The first battalion: Captain Cai Hui, a total of 3,292 people, 1 personal soldier, 1 scout, 3 army units.
The second battalion: Captain Xie Gengxin, a total of 3,292 people, 1 personal soldier, 1 scout, and 3 armies.
The first independent department: Army Sima Guo Yong, the soldiers are all composed of advanced soldiers, a total of 1032 people.
The second independent department: Jun Sima Hu Feng, the soldiers are all composed of advanced soldiers, a total of 1032 people.
Guard 1~4: All of them are composed of first- and second-order soldiers and some militiamen, stationed in four primary cottages.
Logistics Battalion: Commander Lin Feng, including one combat unit and about two non-combat units.
Remark:
1. In this reorganization, as a rule, all third-order soldiers are appointed as grass-roots officers, and they are not allowed to be selected as ordinary soldiers.
2. The first part and the first song of the above main battle troops are all elite troops, and when selecting soldiers, they will take turns in a cyclic order. Elite units are selected in turn, and then ordinary units are selected in turn.
3. The three newly recruited mid-level generals and Zhou Qiang were all appointed as the military commanders of the second and third divisions of the first and second battalions, and the military horses of the first division were concurrently served by the captains.
4. The military commander of the guard unit shall be a junior military general with old qualifications and strong ability.
At this time, Ye Teng's troops were already able to confront the weak high-level cottage head-on. Therefore, Ye Teng was determined to take the high-level cottage as the main goal, and before the rest of the Yellow Turbans, the bandit cottage in the west of Jingcheng County, which was dense with mountains and dense forests, was used as a training ground, and a new round of anti-bandit operations was started for the purpose of training, robbing people, grabbing money, and grabbing resources.
In this operation, Guo Yong's independent division commanded the remaining four guard troops as the remaining troops of Shilongzhai. Ye Tengqin led all the rest of the armed forces and the logistics department of more than 10,000 people, and marched to the southwest to a high-level cottage group between Shilongzhai and Bingzhou.
Because this copycat group has been regarded as the key target of the next strategy, the scout has more detailed information about it.
This high-level cottage group controls a radius of 300 miles, is located in the northern foot of Taihang Mountain, south of Taihang Mountain, west of Taiyuan County, east of Jingcheng County and Changshan County Zhiyuan intersection, not far to the north, is the magnificent Hutuo River, across the Hutuo River, stretching thousands of miles can go directly to the grassland, the Great Wall.
Although this place does not attract attention, it can be described as a stronghold, it not only controls the 800-mile Jingcheng trail together with the Shilongzhai in the eastern section, has high economic value, and this place has high strategic value.
Occupy this place, to the east you can ask for the Yellow Turban, to the north you can develop cavalry, to the west you can fill the gap in the power of Ding Yuan and Lu Bu after entering Beijing, and to the south you can hide in Taihang to recuperate when the development of the power is not smooth.
It's just that this cottage group is strong, including a high-level cottage - Qianbi Village, 3 intermediate cottages, and 13 primary cottages.
Qianbi Village is located in the middle of the Jingcheng Trail, a connecting trail between Changshan County and Taiyi County, although the Jingcheng Trail is narrow, the narrowest part can only be used for a carriage to pass through, and cannot be used by the army to walk, but it is a shortcut between Jizhou and Bingzhou.
Qianbizhai controls the trail to rush, and it is only one mile away from the Jingcheng trail. Together with a series of middle and primary cottages, Qianbi Village controls the central and western sections of the 300-mile Changjing Trail. Although there are no checkpoints on the trail, most of the merchants have not escaped the oppression of Qianbi Village, not only robbing, but sometimes killing and robbing people.
If Ye Teng can occupy Qianbi Village and its surrounding cottages this time, he will be able to completely control the Jingcheng Trail, and the income from tolls will definitely increase greatly in the future.
It's just that Qianbi Village, as a high-level cottage, has tens of thousands of bandits, and is located in the middle of Qianbi Mountain on the south side of the Jingcheng Trail, and there is only one path that can reach the Qianbi Mountain from the south side of the Jingcheng Trail, the road is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After discussing with Cai Hui, Xie Gengxin and others, Ye Teng decided to adopt the strategy of pruning the vines first and then cutting the trunk.
The various troops acted separately, pretending to be various merchants, pushing goods, and appeared near each primary cottage except Qianbi Village, luring the enemy to attack, and then ambushing troops to destroy the enemy's living forces, changing the balance of power between the enemy and us, and finally capturing the cottage when the enemy's strength was weak.
In this process, the directly subordinate troops and the scout department are responsible for occupying the key points, blockading and isolating Qianbi Village, so that Qianbi Village is only allowed to go out, not entered, hunting down all bandits who may be the rest of the middle and junior cottages asking for help from Qianbi Village, and delaying Qianbi Village to obtain news as much as possible, so as not to intervene in the battlefield prematurely.
Compared with the general middle and junior cottages, at this time, the Ye family army has a higher level and stronger strength, so although the total strength of all the middle and junior cottages in the cottage group is more than twice that of Ye Teng's troops, the overall combat power is almost the same, as long as the strategy is appropriate, there should be no big problem.
For the next whole week, Ye Teng stood guard on the Jingcheng trail and rushed to the Qianbi Village, and the scout troops determined and identified the bandits back to the village. It was determined that no other cottage had been attacked, and it was allowed to return to the cottage and the rest of the troops were wiped out.
At the same time, the scout troops continued to report the progress of the attacks of other troops to Ye Teng like flowing water. Time passed day by day in a tense battle, and everything went smoothly until the eighth day, all 3 intermediate cottages and 13 primary cottages were all occupied. Ye Teng ordered all the main forces, except for leaving the necessary garrisons in the occupied forest cottages, treating the wounded, guarding the cottages, reorganizing prisoners, and repairing defense facilities, the rest of the troops were all concentrated on Ye Teng.
After the main force was assembled, Ye Teng ordered all troops, with the cooperation of the scout department, to hunt down all the bandits outside and out of Qianbi Village, secretly trap Qianbi Village, and often pretend to be merchants to lure the bandits of Qianbi Village out of the mountain to rob. In this way, two or three thousand bandits can be eliminated every day. Five days later, Ye Teng ordered that when eliminating the robbing bandits, as long as the exposed troops were not large, they would selectively let some bandits go back to report the news, and then eliminate the rescued bandits. Until the ninth day, Qianbizhai dispatched 5,000 bandits at once.
As a result of anticipating this situation, Ye Teng organized his troops to retreat in an orderly manner, and deliberately exposed one of the most defensible and difficult to attack intermediate cottages occupied by Ye Teng.
Defending this intermediate cottage is Xie Gengxin's second battalion and Hu Feng's independent second department, Ye Teng's direct troops, the first battalion and the first battalion led by Cai Hui, and the scout department are roaming outside, and Cai Hui's second and third departments, logistics department, etc. are left behind as defensive troops to guard the cottages.
Ye Teng still ordered the scout battalion to ensure the transmission of orders, the smooth flow of information, and the blockade of local news. More than 1,000 elites led by Ye Teng and Cai Hui hid and prepared to occupy Qianbi Village and cooperate with Xie Gengxin's counterattack.
After a day of attack, the bandits of Qianbi Village were bloodied in front of Xie Gengxin, and nearly half of them were killed and wounded, but the seemingly crumbling front checkpoint of the cottage still could not be broken.