Chapter 400: The Decisive Battle of Bianzhou: The Rebels' Counterattack
Under the gaze of Wei Bo, Chengde, and Lu Long, Zhen Bingliang, the last cronies of the veteran Tan Zhong, completely reviewed the battle between Lu Longjun and Changying's army that day.
In fact, on the day Zhen Bingliang returned, there was a story, but at that time, almost no one cared except for his own marshal Pei Mingren.
And this time, from the generals to the military academy, everyone in the Hebei rebels widened their eyes and did not dare to give up a single detail.
In the face of doubts, the generals will also make some inquiries from time to time.
"What the hell is that mysterious weapon?"
"The last general has been following Tan Shuai's side and has not had close contact, but according to the last general's observation, this weapon has a huge firelight and will explode, and the people who are attacked are often blurred in flesh and blood, and may even be blown up directly......"
"It's really unheard of, how did Tan Shuai deal with it?"
According to this mysterious weapon, Tan Shuai chose to let the 10,000 elites led by Xie Wenang be arranged separately, trying to ...... "Miao."
"The result?"
"The damage to the opponent's mysterious weapon has indeed been reduced!" Everyone present breathed a deep sigh of relief, however, the next moment, what Zhen Bingliang said made them feel Tan Zhong's mood at that time.
"The opponent's direct damage has indeed decreased, but the defense against the cavalry has also decreased," for two full hours, from afternoon to dusk, while explaining, while telling, Zhen Bingliang, who was dry-mouthed, completed the review of the day's battle.
"The combat power, will, execution, and cooperation have basically reached the peak, plus the incredible number of weapons, and the mysterious weapons...... Tan Shuai is not wronged when he loses! ”
"How could a young man like Guo Rong control the battle situation to such an extent?" Huh
"What is that mysterious weapon, that glows, that explodes, and that makes the flesh and blood of the attacked person blurry?"
"Fortunately, the battle has been going on for seven consecutive days, and the opponent's combat power and willpower are indeed the same as what Zhen Zhonglang said, and the eight-bull crossbow and catapult are indeed amazing, but the mysterious weapon doesn't seem to have appeared yet."
"I'm afraid the number of this kind of mysterious thing will not be too much, according to Zhen Zhonglang's description, Tan Shuai has put too much pressure on the other party, and he will definitely do his best, there is a high probability that what they have has been exhausted, otherwise, in the current situation of the battlefield, the other party should have used it."
"What Pei Shuai said makes sense, I also think that the mysterious firearms in the other party's hands have most likely been exhausted, but no one knows what materials the other party's mysterious weapon is made of, how it is made, how it is stored, how it is transported, and how it is used directly, so it is impossible to determine whether the other party has the possibility of replenishing it in a short time, after all, it has been nearly ten days since the battle at that time."
"Zhang Shuai is reasonable, then we must treat the other party as having a certain ......, gentlemen, the other party's mysterious new weapon can emit flames and explode, how about we call it a firearm?"
"Hmm!"
"Good!" ......
"The situation of these soldiers and horses in the imperial court is actually very clear, and the core force of the other party is the forbidden army called the Changying Army led by Guo Rong, plus the assistance of some other people."
"That's right, according to the old man's habit of fighting with them, the iron nail as an assistant to the forbidden army is undoubtedly the Xuanwu Army, about the Xuanwu Army, I have to say, although it is ......"
"You can't fight like this anymore, fight like this again......"
"Whether we fight or not, can we decide it, Pei Shuai!"
"Whether or not to fight is naturally not something we can decide, but how to fight and how to fight with fewer casualties is what we need to do."
"Then what does Pei Shuai think?" Huh
"It's not impossible to fight hard, but this kind of casualties are too great, in just seven days, more than 70,000 people have been directly calculated, and if you continue to fight like this, battlefield disobedience will become the norm, and the team will soon lose its effect,......" Although not everyone supports Pei Mingren's point of view, this sentence undoubtedly speaks to everyone's heart, the casualties are really too great, and the loss of nearly 10,000 people a day is unbearable for anyone.
"Zhang Shuai and Zhong Shuai should know that a considerable part of the main force of our army has already thundered for the army, and the losses have already broken their muscles and bones, and if they continue to fight so hard, it is only a matter of time before the whole army is annihilated."
"What does Pei Shuai think, just say it bluntly, when the battle comes to this point, let's talk to each other again, it will be no different from waiting for death."
"Okay, then I'll just say it directly, my idea is that we should divide our troops!"
"Division?"
"Division?" After Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun heard Pei Mingren's suggestion, the two of them instantly revealed a complicated and helpless mood.
To be honest, the two of them had not thought about the idea of dividing troops, and even if only one family had sent troops, they would have chosen the tactic of dividing troops a long time ago.
After all, the method of using soldiers, ten is to surround it, five is to attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy will be able to fight, and if it is few, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided.
Sun Tzu's Art of War has embodied the simplest tactical ideas and the principles of tactics. After receiving the support of the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army, although the number of Guo Rong's troops was still absolutely inferior, it no longer reached the standard of siege.
A group of 350,000 soldiers and horses is very clear to surround, but now that the strength of the people has reached more than 100,000, the threefold numerical advantage can be used to give them an advantage, but it is not enough for them to completely surround the opponent at the level of 100,000 people.
It is not a problem that they cannot choose to be surrounded on all sides, and they can completely face the enemy in the middle and outflank the opponent's rear with both wings.
This is not the fastest way to defeat the opponent, not the least casualty to solve the opponent, but it is the best choice to win the opponent after comprehensive consideration.
Again, if there is only one, they themselves are the real managers, and they will not hesitate to choose the best solution.
But now, they're a rebel alliance of three! Since it is a rebel, it is worthless to trust such a thing.
As a rebel, who would dare to put his ass in someone else! As a rebel, who dares to guarantee that when he starts to attack, the other party will not sneak attack from behind, or be directly abandoned and sent to the other party's encirclement?
Looking at the eager, but uneasy eyes of the other two coaches, Pei Mingren understood that what they were thinking and thinking was the same thing as what he wanted.
Huh
"Two, this is not the first time we have met, and it is not the first time we have faced each other, believe me and the two of you have the same idea." Pei Mingren was talking, Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun were listening and hesitating.
"The losses of my Lu Long Army are also known, more than 100,000 people are almost wiped out, two generals are killed in battle, the two may have a way out, but we have no way out!"
"Therefore, I am willing to personally lead the water to lead the last elite of my Lu Long army to attack the camp of the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and then lead their respective soldiers and horses to ......circle the rear from the left and right flanks at the same time."
"I will lead the troops of the Lu Long Army and continue to maintain the onslaught in the proof,... Bypass the direct battlefield,...... Attack their rear road, kill their baggage, and cut off their grain and grass......" After Zhen Bingliang's review, another full hour passed, and Zhang Shaozhang, the commander of Wei Bojun, Zhong Xianjun, the commander of the Chengde Army, and Pei Mingren, the commander of the Lu Longjun, finally reached an agreement on the follow-up offensive to start a large-scale march.
Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun will each leave 20,000 men for Pei Mingren, so that the soldiers and horses in Pei Mingren's hands will directly reach 100,000, and Pei Mingren will use these 100,000 horses to continue to attack the camp of the Changying army and keep it up.
Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun each led 50,000 to 60,000 men who had already arrived at the front line, from the north and south flanks of the battlefield, to walk in a large circle.
As for the third point, the three of them issued an order at the same time, and once again drew from the besieging soldiers and horses in the direction of Bianzhou.
According to the existing situation, since the rebels crossed the river to besiege Bianzhou City, the defenders in Bianzhou City have been watching the battle at the head of the city, without the slightest idea of opening the city gates and conducting surprise attacks and night raids.
Therefore, after the three of them discussed, they unanimously decided to draw 80,000 soldiers and horses from the nearly 140,000 or so soldiers and horses entrenched in Bianzhou City, and finally only left 60,000 people under Bianzhou City to guard against possible or impossible surprise attacks, and these 80,000 people would be used as supplementary troops for their losses after the attack.
Of course, there is a fourth point, that is, the three of them wrote at the same time, asking for reinforcements, food, equipment, ships, and so on.
As for whether these resources and manpower can be obtained, these three actually don't care, and even if they can really get the supply of troops, it will be a month later.
And now all they need to do is to defeat or even completely annihilate their opponents, eliminate the hidden danger of attacking Bianzhou City, and return to Bianzhou again.
By the time all the agreements between the three of them were reached, the sun had turned west, and under the light of the slanting sun, the Changying army outside Zhuzhai was once again soaked in blood.
"That's all for today's battle, tomorrow the old man will continue to attack!" At the same time, after a preliminary understanding of the battle situation in the past few days, Guo Rong also came to the front line of the battlefield.
He didn't enter the battlefield in just a few days, and after approaching the war zone, Guo Rong was almost smoky by the bloody and rancid atmosphere unique to the extremely tragic battlefield.
After dozens of breaths, Guo Rong slowly recovered from the suffocating breath, and then under the guidance of Huang Hankai, he came to a watchtower behind Xinglong Village to observe the situation.
Standing firm, good, steady breathing, Guo Rong took out the clairvoyant mirror and observed carefully. The first thing that caught Guo Rong's eyes was lying on the ground, falling in the ditch, hanging on the wall, and padding under his feet...... Countless corpses.
A large number of crossbow arrows and arrows were inserted into one after another on the corpses that could no longer move, which shows that the large number is indeed the advantage of the rebels, but in the case of limited productivity, this will inevitably dilute the opponent's armor rate.
Or the same armor, but the number of people who can equip iron armor will not increase, and the rest of the people can only use leather armor and leather armor.
Leather armor and leather armor have a wide range of materials, simple production, simple craftsmanship, and cheap cost, but the direct defense power is far from being comparable to iron armor.
Turning his eyes away from the corpses of those who died directly from arrows and crossbows, in the center of the battlefield, hundreds of huge crossbow arrows shot by the Eight Bull Crossbows were obliquely inserted into the ground.
Of course, under every heavy crossbow bolt, there is at least one unlucky egg who is completely dead. In the remaining position near the edge of Xinglong Village, there were dozens of stone bullets the size of a human head scattered around, and Guo Rong could see that the surface of many stone bullets had been dyed blood red.
As for the rest, the rebel soldiers were fighting with the tired-looking soldiers near the ruined camp wall.
Here, the corpses of both sides have piled up, and the large number of corpses piled up has even caused a stage of trouble for the advancing rebels.
In just a few dozen breaths, the situation on the entire battlefield has completely shown Guo Rong's eyes. Just when Guo Rong was considering whether to continue to step forward and observe the situation of the soldiers and the battle situation at close range.
"Ding, ding, ding!" A clear voice came from the rear of the rebels, and when they heard this sound, the soldiers on both sides who were in the fierce battle stopped their movements.
Instead, there were men dressed in white, or apricot, with no weapons or armor.
Seeing this scene, Guo Rong shook his head helplessly and smiled, it seems that the other party has not completely lost his sense of proportion, nor is he panicked, it seems that his plan needs to be fine-tuned.
Subsequently, Guo Rong, escorted by his group, returned to the Chinese army's tent in Zhuzhai. After returning to the Chinese army's big tent, while thinking, Guo Rong's eyes were on the huge sand table centered on Bianzhou in the center of the Chinese army's big tent.
From the sand table, the battlefield situation on the front line of Zhuzhai-Daicun-Xingsheng is now clear and obvious. The Changying Army and the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army took the three large military villages of Xingsheng-Daicun-Zhuzhai as the main axis of defense.
Outside the headstock box, every two or three miles, a small camp that can garrison thousands of soldiers is set up, and it goes out as deep as two arms.
About 30,000 Changying troops, about 70,000 Huaixi-Xuanwu troops, and more than 20,000 physically strong civilians who were coerced were distributed within a radius of dozens of miles in the form of camps.
Looking at the small red dot on the sand table, symbolizing his side, and then at the rebels outside the defense line of his position, Guo Rong fell into quiet contemplation.
The rebels can also withdraw their troops at dusk, which shows that they think the situation is quite stable!
It's still under their control! It shows that the human brain has not yet been beaten into a dog brain! It shows that they have no plans to take it all!
In this case, Guo Rong believes that his simple reduction of the focus to lure the enemy may not be able to lure the enemy into taking the bait.
After thinking about it for a long time, Guo Rong took out the two red dots representing Xiaozhai at each end of the two arms that stretched out from Xingsheng, and then smiled with satisfaction.