"No, I just imagined myself as Jia Minghe and thought about how I would act." Xu Ping told Sun Kewang his considerations: "In the new army of the three battalions, Wei Wu's Chizhuo battalion is a shelf and will not have any combat effectiveness. When the new army found out that my banner was in that big battalion, General Jia would definitely want to use elite troops to copy my rear route while making a feint. If I were him, I would definitely ask my friend to take the Shanlan battalion to attract attention in front with the most ineffective Chizhuo battalion, and use the Xuanfeng battalion, which is both reliable and the most combat-effective, as the main force to cut off my retreat. ”

Sun Kewang smiled and said, "Brother Xu, you are too confident, right?" ”

"Jia Minghe once taught me how to fight."

Sun Kewang's face became solemn: "It turns out that General Jia Minghe was your mentor Brother Xu. ”

"There are many people in the new army who have taught me, and General Jia Minghe is just teaching one of them."

"What did he teach you?"

Xu Ping looked serious: "How to attack!" ”

When teaching the team, Jia Minghe once told the students about the difference between the war of annihilation and the battle of defeat, and he cited his own deeds in the rebellion of Ping'an in the southwest as an example, so that the students could remember that the war of annihilation can achieve ten times the results of the defeat battle.

"Whenever possible, pursue a war of annihilation, and when you plan an attack, first ask yourself three times in a row: Is it possible to fight a war of annihilation? Is it possible to fight a war of annihilation? Is it possible to fight a war of annihilation? And then start planning. ”

Xu Ping's retelling made Sun Kewang nod slightly: "General Jia is right. ”

Jia Minghe believed that an important condition for the formation of a war of annihilation was to mobilize the opponent's reserves, and if the opponent's reserves were exhausted and launch a flank attack, there would be the greatest certainty of forming annihilating results.

"The feint should be fierce, and the more fierce the feint, the more it will attract the attention of the enemy generals. Once the enemy's main force is drawn to the front, it's time for you to throw a punch at his flank. ”

Sun Kewang tightened his mouth after hearing this, and then lowered his head to look at the map: "Brother Xu, do you think Yifeng is a feint here, right?" ”

"Yes, and I think that the feint will not only be launched from one place, I remember very well that General Jia repeatedly emphasized that multi-faceted feints have more confusing effects, and feints that can shock the enemy are the best feints, and it is obviously impossible to shock us by attacking from Yifeng."

Sun Kewang's fingers slid along the Yellow River and calmly said his judgment: "If my guess is correct, this mentor of Brother Xu will secretly send a group of troops to smuggle across the Yellow River further east, and when Yifeng's first feint is launched, this second feint will be launched from the flank of our army, that is, from the south." Well, I'll admit that if I hadn't heard Brother Xu say that, then I would have been a little shocked. ”

"And I have a feeling that this is not the case," Li Dingguo interjected, "I have thought carefully about my reaction in the face of such a situation, and I may breathe a sigh of relief and send the troops in my hands to that place to prevent the flanking attack of the enemy's main force." ”

"But his main force isn't hiding there, is it?" Sun Kewang moved his finger back and stopped in the direction of Zhao Pizhai, and after a long time, he shook his head: "But this is not a good route for attacking, the large fields cannot hide the troops, there is only a small road in the middle of the field, and the troops are not moving comfortably." For the general, before thinking about victory, thinking about defeat first, attacking from Zhao Pizhai is not like a good idea. ”

"On the other hand, this is also a good location," Li Dingguo said in thought, "It is said that the officers and soldiers will not choose this route, so we will probably only leave a small number of cavalry here to keep an eye on." According to common sense, officers and soldiers will try to attack before attacking, and when they encounter resistance, it will take some time to judge, and the defenders will have time to turn their troops over and block the road. So, if I were in the position of General Jia Minghe, I would have spared out reconnaissance attacks after launching two feints, and the first time I would lead the whole army to make a brave advance, and launch a fierce attack to defeat the surveillance troops, if there were, in one fell swoop. Then he went straight behind and swept us all away. It will be a great victory, the war of Kaifeng is over, our newly established rule is destroyed, and King Chuang is once again under the enemy. Even if General Jia immediately returned to Shandong to attack Ji Huisi, it was also a good situation. Well, when we have such a strong army in our hands, this is a very tempting plan, especially after his feints have already attracted our attention. ”

Sun Kewang asked Xu Pingdao: "Are you so sure it's in Zhao Pizhai?" ”

"I thought about it over and over again, and if it was somewhere else, I would have time to react. On more than one occasion I have heard General Jia Minghe repeat a remark made by the Marquis of Zhendong, which says, 'Where there are steadfast defenders, the road is also a moat; Where there is no staunch defender, the moat is also the way. So I agreed with Brother Li that if we deployed the troops in the direction of the defense Yifeng ten miles away from here, the new army would definitely detect them, and when we encountered a fierce attack, we would naturally send the troops behind to reinforce them. Then, General Jia will think that when he unleashes the real killer weapon, our main force will just arrive ten miles away, so that he can fight a perfect battle of annihilation and wipe out our entire army here in one fell swoop. Xu Ping stroked the map and muttered, "General Jia will never let go of such an opportunity." ”

Sun Kewang was still a little hesitant, but he felt that Xu Ping's previous idea of building a fortress to resist was better, and Li Dingguo was very supportive of the idea of winning a decisive victory in a field battle, because a field battle could kill and injure more new troops.

"We have the advantage that although Jia Minghe may not have guessed that we had taken all the main forces from Kaifeng, it will not be in our favor in any case: if he does not think of it, our strength will surprise him; If he guessed, then his desire to annihilate our army would be even stronger. Li Dingguo smiled at Sun Kewang and said: "We haven't killed officers and soldiers in Xiying for a long time, and our sons and daughters are also itching. ”

Sun Kewang stared at the map and fell into deep thought, and finally said softly: "But all this is based on Brother Xu's imagination, right?" What if you're wrong? ”

"I can't be wrong. Brother Sun, you don't understand the system of the New Army. It stands to reason that General Jia Minghe is unlikely to have the opportunity to lead the army independently, and General Jia very much hopes to have the opportunity to lead the army independently and lead several battalions to the battle, and very much hopes to have the opportunity to put his vision into practice and achieve a large-scale war of annihilation, but he himself knows that there is little hope. "The most likely leader of the new army is Huang Shi himself, and no one thought that the imperial court would so stubbornly prevent him from going out to lead troops. But despite this, He Baodao and Yang Zhiyuan are still ranked above Jia Minghe, which both Jia Minghe himself and the new officers and soldiers know in their hearts, and the number of the new army does not seem to be enough to support fighting on three battlefields at the same time. Xu Ping recalled the situation when he was training in the teaching team that day: "I will never forget the deep regret in General Jia's eyes when he talked about his offensive ideas. ”

……

On the road from Lanyang to Zhao Pizhai, Xu Ping left a group of soldiers from the West Battalion as a vigilance force. A mile behind them, the sappers of the Guards Battalion were sweating profusely to cover the trenches. In ten days, they had dug three trenches 300 meters long. Behind the last trench, a breastwork has been erected.

Xu Ping had repeatedly thought about how to suppress the attack of the New Army, and he came to the conclusion that it was necessary to inflict heavy casualties on the New Army as it advanced, with fire that was strong enough to break the armor of the New Army soldiers.

"A trench will give us additional firing positions, and like a low wall, it will provide good cover for our soldiers from the new muskets."

According to Xu Ping's arrangement, a trench was dug six meters away from the low wall, which was wide enough to accommodate several rows of soldiers to shoot in turn.

"If the new army rushes to the wall, they will drive us back with their spears, and the wall will be theirs; The same is true of the trenches, where the musketeers will be attacked by the approaching New Army spearmen in the same way as the musketeers hiding behind the low walls, so we must do everything we can to keep them from reaching the low walls and trenches, so that we can take full advantage of our defenses. ”

Another trench was dug to cover the first two.

"The longest spear of the Forces nouvelles is five meters and five meters long, and if the Forces nouvelles jump into a trench and can attack our soldiers with their spears in the trenches, then they can hide in a well-concealed position and force our soldiers back."

So the distance between the two trenches is again six meters.

"If the Forces nouvelles take the first trench, then their musketeers will be able to enter the ditch and shoot at us, and the soldiers of the Guards battalion have not been trained as long as the Forces nouvelles, so I am not going to shoot at them."

The trench at the front was dug out, and if the New Army soldiers inside jumped out to continue the attack, they would block the range of fire from friendly forces in the rear; And if they don't go on the offensive, the breaking army can have much more firing positions. The distance between this trench and the previous trench is relatively long, more than 20 meters away.

"In case our soldiers are repulsed, we can't let them pour out of the trenches and block our firing range."

The inclined trench connected the three parallel trenches, and the inclined trench was used instead of the vertical trench to avoid heavy casualties from the enemy's fire in the communication trench.

"We've done everything we can, and it's up to the soldiers."

On 16 August, the New Army came from the direction of Yifeng, built a strong camp opposite Li Dingguo's camp and conducted artillery test fire. Like Xu Ping, Li Dingguo's defensive front was also densely packed with trenches like spider's webs, which were also the result of his efforts for more than ten days to cover his camp behind him.

Today, Xu Ping also came here to observe the appearance of the new army, and he explained to Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo: "Wei Wu is a villain who is jealous of the virtuous and capable, and the battalion officer of the Shanlan camp is my friend, if General Jia doesn't care, they can neither trust nor cooperate with each other, and it would be good if they didn't drag each other back." In my opinion, General Jia is a well-trained commander, and he will definitely stay here to coordinate the two battalions in battle, even if this is not necessarily how well they can cooperate, and your pressure will not be great, just pay attention to concentrating the main force on the side of the Shanlan battalion, this battalion is definitely much stronger. ”

"What are Brother Xu's plans?"

"Just like General Jia said, if you fight a war, you have to fight a war of annihilation, he wants to annihilate my whole army, and I also want to annihilate him. Officer He of the Selector Battalion is a short-tempered person, I will strengthen the power of blocking little by little, and first exhaust his strength by defense - as long as there is still strength left, Officer He will not hesitate to fight, and when he is completely exhausted, I will launch a counterattack and annihilate the entire Selector Battalion. "In order to strengthen the counterattack force, Xu Ping wanted to leave all the elite riders in the West Camp and hand them over to Chi Shude to command, and now Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo have relatively poor cavalry in their hands, and Chi Shude replaced the newcomers in the West Camp. Xu Ping has been pondering how to annihilate the Xuanfeng battalion, so as to reverse the balance of forces between the enemy and us.

Yu Shenhe was still eager to try: "My lord, I want to take the initiative to attack once and kill the majesty of the new army." ”

This proposal was quite welcomed by Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and they also wanted to launch a small counterattack together, which was very important to grasp the strength of the opponent, but Xu Ping still objected: "There is no need to expose our combat strength, as for the Chizhuo Battalion, we don't know what they are like?" Xu Ping assured Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo: "As long as the defense is firm, there is no threat to the Chizhuo Battalion." ”

……

On the opposite side, Wei Wuzheng gave a lecture to a few henchmen in the camp: "This time we must cooperate well with the Shanlan battalion, the battle of Shandong is our great shame, this time we must wash away this shame, although our battalion is missing two teams, but we must not let people say that we have dragged the friendly army." ”

At this time, someone reported that Jia Minghe inspected the front line again, and Wei Wu led his subordinates to greet him: "Jia Shuai, the last general is safe here." ”

Looking at the ditches and ridges in Li Dingguo's place, Jia Minghe groaned and said: "Xu Ping will definitely fight with us here, if he doesn't send his firearms troops, what is the use of these trenches and low walls?" ”

"Xu Ping, a gutless rat, just dares to hide in the camp." Wei Wu snorted, he couldn't wait to launch a feint attack now, but the plagiarism troops were not fully in place, so he had to endure again and again: "Jia Shuai, in the end, he is still too tender, too wishful thinking, hoping to rely on this turtle policy to consume our troops." ”

"Yes," Jia Minghe agreed, he found that the camp had never sent enough horses to the flanks, and the new army's outflanking operation had not been noticed: "But the trenches and low walls in this place, I will leave the engineer team of the Xuanfeng battalion to you, don't be too fierce, pay attention to the casualties of the brothers." ”

"Don't worry, Jia Shuai, the last general won't scare the thief away all at once." Wei Wu sneered: "Fortunately, the thief didn't notice that Jia Shuai was outflanking him, otherwise the last general would dare to say that he would run away immediately." ”

"You haven't launched too many tentative attacks in advance in the past two days, have you?"

"Don't worry, the last general will never dare to attack without authorization," these days, some subordinates have been suggesting to launch a tentative attack, but Wei Wu has suppressed them: "We will never let the thieves detect the strength of our army." In Wei Wu's heart, the West Thief, that is the master of tens of thousands of people who can be driven away by Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of families, Zuo Liangyu, a person who has served in the Liao Army, is not unaware of his catties and taels in the old department of Zhendong Hou, so Wei Wu feels that there is no need to test the West Thief at all: "There will be one tomorrow, check their firepower, and the day after tomorrow will attack." ”

On the 17th, the New Army made a tentative offensive, and they used artillery and muskets to suppress Li Dingguo in the camp and did not dare to show his head. Li Dingguo carefully controlled his troops all day, and did not let his subordinates launch any counterattack, lest they be needlessly exposed to enemy fire, while he himself sneered at the three battalion flags fluttering opposite.

"Brother Xu said that we should put the main force on the side of the Shanlan camp and be careful to preserve the troops." Sun Kewang looked at the direction of the Chizhuo battalion of the Ming army on the opposite side, Xu Ping suggested that the western battalion use the fortifications to resist and retreat in echelons to avoid casualties for the purpose of combat, Sun Kewang did not say anything at that time, but he was a little unhappy: "Brother Xu said that the Xuanfeng battalion is the most powerful of the three battalions, and he is responsible for eliminating, and one of these two battalions is not good at all, and the other is not as good as the Xuanfeng battalion." ”

"His guard battalion has more than 4,000 horses, and our western battalion has 10,000 people," Li Dingguo had seen the weapons of the guards battalion, and admitted that the flintlock muskets they used looked more powerful than all the firearms he had seen before, but Li Dingguo had never seen any battle decided by firearms: "Brother Xu said that the Chizhuo battalion was very unbearable, and on the other hand, he resolutely opposed us attacking them. ”

"What did he say about the Red Burning Camp?"

Li Dingguo introduced Sun Kewang to the history and evaluation of the Chizhuo Camp that he had heard from Xu Ping and his gang these days, as well as their disdainful expressions.

"Fourth brother, what do you think if we use the main force to deal with this bear bag?"

"I think it's good!" Li Dingguo responded loudly: "The new army is about to be blown into the sky by Brother Xu, we haven't encountered powerful officers and soldiers for so many years, even if it is Huang Hou's subordinates, can we have three heads and six arms?" Even if they have firearms, will our swords be fake? ”

"Well said!"

In Xu Ping's heart, the elite combat effectiveness of the Xiying and Chuang camps was comparable to that of the Dongjiang Army, and the Dongjiang Army had to rely on the absolute superiority of troops and the indiscriminate command of the Ming Army to deal with the new army. Based on the current state of weapons and training of the Western Battalion, Xu Ping estimated that when the number of people was equal, the combat effectiveness of the New Army and the Western Battalion would be three to one. Although Xu Ping didn't say a word about this, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo both noticed that although the Xiying has been chased and beaten by Yang Sichang for so many years, and the whole country has been driven around, but the two of them have seen a lot of officers and soldiers, that is, they met Zuo Liangyu, although there are many defeats and few victories, although there is such a fiasco as Agate Mountain, but it is not completely impossible to fight, and now there are more than 10,000 veterans of the Western Battalion against thousands of new troops, it is said that it is still the worst battalion in Huang Hou's hands, and it is said that the battalion officers are drunk excessively and are good at escaping......

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