Chapter 3: Under siege

While thinking about his thoughts, Su and Xu Benfang disposed of the captain's body.

Said to be treated, in fact, it was to dig a pit in the tent and bury it on the spot, and then wipe the blood splashed indiscriminately.

Anyway, there was blood everywhere on the battlefield, and there were blood-stained bandages in the tent, and no one cared about that, except for the captain's accomplices.

He didn't care about his accomplices or anything, in Su's opinion, it was mostly Xu Rui's grievances, he came to this world inexplicably and became Xu Rui here, but it doesn't mean that he recognizes this identity.

Su didn't plan to stay in this barracks for long, and when he figured out the situation, he should go about his business, after all, there was an interstellar war waiting for him to command.

"Young master, that person is really not Grandpa Cao's personal soldier?"

Xu Fang squatted on the ground and asked with palpitations.

Su Bai glanced at him: "You send a killer to commit murder, will you be stupid enough to use your own banner?" ”

Xu Fang was slightly stunned, and thought it was true, and his bleak face looked a little better.

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling drum outside the tent, and the drum beat according to a special rhythm, so heavy and urgent that people panicked when they heard it.

"What's going on?"

"It seems to be a gathering of generals, and the Hou Ye has summoned more than a thousand adults to discuss major matters, and it seems that a war is about to start!"

"Go to war!"

Su frowned, and said in a deep voice: "What kind of war?" Tell me more about it. ”

Xu Fang looked at Su stupidly, and said suspiciously: "Young Master, didn't you tell the old slave about these things?" Why did you forget it now? ”

Su Mian said without changing his face: "Young master, I was injured, and I don't remember some things clearly, you can tell me first." ”

Xu Fang looked at the bandage on his chest, scratched his scalp, and slowly explained.

It turns out that this world is indeed as Su expected, and it is still in the era of cold weapons, which is probably similar to the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in ancient China, but there are more countries.

According to Xu Fang, there are six countries here: Wei, Qi, Liang, Wu, Tang, and Yue.

Among them, Wei and Wu were the strongest, Wei was dominant in the north and was called the Northern Dynasty, and Wu was entrenched in the south and was called the Southern Dynasty.

Su's army was the Northern Wuwei of the Northern Wei State, and the enemy on the opposite side was the defenders of the Southern Dynasty barbarian Wu State.

Waiting for Su to roughly understand the geographical overview of each country, Xu Fang cleared his throat again and explained the current situation.

"Young master, before you set out on the expedition, you told the old slave that this time the Holy Lord took advantage of the opportunity of the Southern Dynasty's large-scale attack on the Northern Qi Dynasty, and used 300,000 elite troops to attack the Southern Dynasty Jingyang Province in six ways, vowing to recover the lost territory.

This is a rare major war in recent years, and there are three princes among the six commanders who lead the troops, and it is the pillar of the country, Qi Guogong, who sits in charge of the overall situation of the Chinese army.

The 50,000 horses of our Marquis of the Northern Armed Forces are one of the troops, responsible for taking the important town of Yishui City in Jingyang before the general attack and cutting off the enemy's possible reinforcements.

But in the past few days, it has rained heavily, and the mountain road is difficult to travel, and Hou Ye's army has been delayed for half a month, and it has not been able to reach Yishui City until now.

Seeing that the date of the general attack was approaching, if Yishui could not be taken on time, the other armies of the Five Routes would also be worried about annihilation, so they had to march forcibly for ninety miles, giving those barbarians of the Southern Dynasties an opportunity to take advantage of. ”

While listening to Xu Fang's description, Su couldn't help but mumble in his heart as he drew a rough map on the ground with a small tree branch.

It seems that he should have been unfortunately involved in a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, and in the absence of modern tools, it is too risky to escape alone on the battlefield of hundreds of miles, and I am afraid that I will not be able to walk for a while.

"Young Master, did you draw a map on the ground?"

When he was having a headache, Xu Fang suddenly came over and asked.

Su didn't raise his head and said "um".

Xu Fang immediately said happily: "Young master, I have a map here." ”

"Really?"

Xu Rui was overjoyed.

Xu Fang nodded, and took out a map from the cowhide bag in the corner.

Su excitedly unfolded the map, a stunned look on her face.

With only a few rough lines and messy text, the map looks like a postmodern abstract painting rather than a military map for precision.

With no latitude and longitude, no contour lines, no scales, not to mention geographically rich holograms, or even corresponding annotations for mountains and rivers, can such a map really be used for warfare?

"This ...... Belch...... Is there a more accurate map? ”

Sue asked.

Xu Fang said in surprise: "Young master, this is already the most accurate map, the Ministry of War just issued it this year, didn't you praise this map before?" ”

"Is this worthy of ingenuity?"

Su opened his mouth and was stunned for a long time, and then he remembered that he was in the cold weapon barracks with large blades slashing each other, not on a brainwave-controlled starship.

He said bitterly: "Forget it, so be it, can you mark the location of the various armies on the map?" ”

Xu Fang nodded, took out six small flags from the cowhide baggage, and carefully inserted them on the map.

With these small flags, the humble map suddenly comes alive, and this gives it a somewhat familiar flavor.

On the map, the six-way army advanced by land and water, the Chinese army attacked mainly, the two wings cut off the enemy's reinforcements, and the water army cleared the river and surrounded Jingyang Province with a devastating momentum.

The remaining two men and horses were responsible for escorting the grain and grass of the 300,000 army all the way, and the other was used as a general reserve to prevent hard fighting.

The whole plan was clearly organized and hierarchical, and the various armies worked closely together, which was perfect in the era of cold weapons.

It is said that the Wei State's tactics of dividing troops into six routes, attacking in a combined manner, and quickly attacking cities and conquering places are very common in military history, but in the era of cold weapons that lacked information and communication systems, such tactics were actually very risky.

Because the plan is so complex, any one link that goes wrong could cause the entire plan to collapse, put hundreds of thousands of troops in a desperate situation, or even bury the entire country.

It seems that the planners were ambitious and confident in the Wei army.

However, I don't know why, Su always feels that there is something wrong with this plan, but he can't say what went wrong.

Frowning and thinking for a while, Su suddenly pointed to the small flag due south and asked, "This is where we are now?" ”

Xu Fang nodded and said, "That's right, two fingers away is our target Yishui City, which is about a day's journey away from us." ”

"Tell me about yesterday's encounter, as it is, and don't miss any details!"

Su seemed to think of something and asked in a deep voice.

Xu Fang hurriedly used both hands and mouths to tell the story of the battle.

Hearing that the enemy was well-armed and well-trained, and that he had launched a direct attack without any temptation, Su quickly realized that the enemy he encountered yesterday was by no means a scout who met by chance, but an elite who came specifically for the food and grass of the army!

When Sue's gaze fell back on the map, a flash of lightning suddenly crossed his mind, and he finally knew what he had overlooked.

"Is there a bigger map?"

Sue's face instantly became serious.

"Yes...... There is a ......."

Xu Fang was taken aback by his appearance, and hurriedly took out a map from the cowhide bag and spread it on the ground.

This map is rougher than the previous one, but the scale is much larger, and it shows the geography of mountains and rivers in addition to Jingyang Province, but also four or five neighboring provinces.

"Mark the location of several armies!"

Sue was in a hurry.

Xu Fang didn't dare to ask more, so he quickly picked up the small flag and marked the location of the Sixth Route Army on the map.

Without waiting for him to finish marking, Su looked down, only glanced at it, and suddenly let out a sneer in his heart.

At first, he felt strange, according to Xu Fang's description, the main force of the Southern Dynasty should be attacking the Northern Qi, and the entire Jingyang Province simply did not have enough military strength, why would the grain army be attacked by the enemy's elite?

What's more, his army has been delayed for fifteen days due to heavy rain, which means that the other armies should have already arrived at the designated position.

From the enemy's point of view, they should be the first to spot several other large armies, deploy limited forces to reinforce them, or wait for reinforcements, and never have extra elite forces to attack their own late army.

Now it seems that the emptiness of the military in Jingyang Province is likely to be a trap deliberately thrown by the enemy.

In order to verify this speculation, he asked Xu Fang to change to a larger map, and sure enough, the entire Jingyang Province is a large basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and a network of lakes on one side, which is simply a natural big pocket.

And the Wei army's 300,000 horses and horses attacked Jingyang by land and water, and they plunged headlong into their pockets, and the enemy could slowly wipe them all out as long as they quickly tightened their pockets before the army reacted!

It turned out that the Southern Dynasty wanted to use Jingyang Province as a bait to eliminate the 300,000 living forces of the Wei State, what a clever strategic plan!

"The Wei army has been tricked, and now they have become fat in the mouth of the Southern Dynasty!"

Su was amazed by the strategic plan of the Southern Dynasties, and unconsciously exclaimed.

"What? If the army is defeated, what are we going to do?! ”

Xu Fang was shocked.

Su was slightly stunned, and then remembered that he was now in the army of the Wei State, and there were no eggs under the nest? Once the Wei army collapsed, his own life would also be in danger.

"Damn, can't you give me good news?"

Su slapped his head and gritted his teeth with hatred.

At this point, he hoped that his judgment was wrong, but as the commander of an interstellar campaign that commanded a light-year scale, he knew that such a fluke was impossible.

The fact that the enemy can formulate such a clever strategic plan shows that they have extremely good generals, and their execution will not be too bad.

Now that the Wei army has fallen into the encirclement without knowing it, it must be too late to find out, as long as the generals of the Southern Dynasty do not make major command mistakes, the overthrow of the Wei army is a foregone conclusion, and the only uncertainty is only the time sooner or later.

And according to Su's calculations, this time should not be too late, and the thunder blow may be tomorrow!

Yes, with the technological level of this world and the current situation, it is no fun to save a starfleet for the time being, and whether it can survive depends on luck.

Su sighed in his heart and came to the final conclusion: in the current situation, if he didn't want to die, he had to escape from the encirclement before the enemy launched a general attack.

But how could he alone withstand the rain of bullets and escape on the battlefield in chaos? Do you want to flee with this group of fools from Wei?

Now that the army has been surrounded, even if he wants to flee with this army, how can he break through the encirclement? Besides, will anyone listen to him?

Su suddenly felt that his life was a little miserable, and the days when he could be lazy from now on would probably become less and less, and he couldn't help but feel sad.