Chapter 401: The Decisive Battle of Bianzhou: Ci Bu Commands the Army
Reducing the focus to lure the enemy is actually for the intelligent, cautious, and meticulous enemy. After all, a real reckless man will not pay attention to those carefully arranged details, and it is their favorite to shoot the sky with a gun.
Only if you are smart will you be willing to use your brain to consider whether the other party has loopholes, only if you are cautious, you will observe those details carefully, and only if you are meticulous, you will find the information hidden behind the details after observing the details.
Since the opponent is smart, cautious, and meticulous, then if you really only use it
Obviously, the strategy of "reducing the focus to lure the enemy" is also not prudent. After all, there is still a difference between what is true and what is fake, even if it is done to the extent that it is fake, it is still fake in nature, and once it is found to be a trap, it will not only be wasted, but it is more likely to be used by the other party, forming unpredictable dangers.
So, in use
When "reducing the focus to lure the enemy", it is necessary to create a suitable scene for the other party, or provide enough additional information to make the other party make a mistake in judgment, or simply have a subjective tendency to affect the judgment before making a judgment.
For example, in the past, Sun Bin used the main force of the Wei army to return and laid it out on the retreat of the Qi army
The strategy of "reducing the focus to lure the enemy" made the preconceived Pang Juan mistakenly believe that the Qi army had been dispersed, so he had a desperate pursuit, and only then did Pang Juan die.
To induce the Hebei rebels to tear through their camouflage and attack Bianzhou after crossing the river is also to take advantage of the rebels' own greed for Bianzhou and the Xuanwu army, plus a clear inducement.
As for now, Guo Rong is very clear about the other party's purpose: first, kill himself and the army led by himself, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers behind him.
Then, An An took Bianzhou steadily, completely cut off the connection between Chang'an and Jianghuai, and at the same time, firmly controlled the rich Central Plains completely.
Finally, based on the Central Plains, overlooking Guanzhong in the west, going south to Jianghuai, occupying the richest place in the Tang Dynasty, and then completely winning the entire Tang Dynasty.
This point is a comprehensive conclusion reached by Guo Rong combining his own views, Wu Shaoxiong, and Han Hong's views, combined with the ideas of Li Yu, Li Chun, and Chang'an's Zaifu, plus the news transmitted by Qing Xuzi lurking in Wei Botian's Ji'an Mansion.
And it has been verified from the existing battle situation. In fact, from the fierce battle, Guo Rong also determined one thing, the opponent not only has a clear purpose, but also has a very amazing desire to attack and win.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the other party to carry nearly 10,000 casualties every day and fight to the death with his own soldiers and horses.
Moreover, you can die for seven days, but it does not necessarily mean that you can't continue to die. It's just that Guo Rong also knows that this level of stubbornness cannot last forever, there is a limit to morale, and there is a limit to endurance.
If the other party doesn't want to collapse directly, they must try other ideas while attacking head-on.
In fact, while attacking the Xingsheng camp, the rebels also sent scouts and a small number of soldiers and horses to begin to extend to the sides to explore the way, and engaged the Xuanwu-Huaixi army that held on to the small village.
It's just that because the other party's tentative forces themselves are insufficient, and the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army is relatively well prepared and the system is relatively complete, the rebels did not take advantage.
Guo Rong can conclude that in the case of a frontal breakthrough, the other party will definitely take the two wings as a new breakthrough direction next, and he will reduce the strength of the two wings, which naturally conforms to the other party's plan.
After staring at the map for a long time, confirming his thoughts and inferences, Guo Rong turned his gaze back to the central position, near the Xingsheng camp.
The weakening of the camp forces on both flanks will indeed increase the confidence of the other side, but it can only increase confidence, and it will not directly lead to victory.
Because, under Guo Rong's deliberate arrangement, in the east and west directions of the entire battlefield, the three large battalions of Xingsheng-Daicun-Zhuzhai were distributed in turn, forming the core of defense.
At the same time, with Xingsheng-Daicun-Zhuzhai as the central axis, several small villages extend parallel to the side and rear of the north and south sides, forming a total of three-layer system.
In fact, in addition to the Xingsheng camp, there was a fourth independent camp, but that camp was built by Ho Mang on the impromptu basis before the rebels arrived, and when the construction was completed, the rebels had already arrived, and it was too late to extend to the sides, and it was a de facto isolated camp.
It was precisely because of its isolation that it could not get support from other directions, so almost all the soldiers of the entire regiment of the Changying Army were lost there.
On both sides of the central axis of Xingsheng-Daicun-Zhuzhai, several small villages extend out for a distance of more than ten miles, which leads to the actual distance between the north and south ends of the entire battlefield of more than twenty miles.
It doesn't seem like much, but the twenty miles themselves have become a huge obstacle and difficulty on the battlefield.
If there are only three or five miles, you can still communicate with each other through flags, orders, war drums, and military horns, but once the distance reaches twenty miles, all communication and command methods will be completely ineffective.
Especially on the battlefield deliberately created by Guo Rong with the military village as the center, the rebels are completely equivalent to being divided into two completely different battlefields.
Therefore, the opponent can choose to spread the pressure on both sides and find a way out, but the central axis in the center of the battlefield is the most suitable place to deploy troops.
Therefore, the thriving camp, which is the front end of the battlefield, is the most important core point. Although the opponent can also attack from three directions at the same time with the absolute superiority of the force, this undoubtedly also gives himself a chance to break through.
Of course, Guo Rong knew very well that this so-called opportunity to break through was only theoretical, and the troops at hand were still too small compared to the opponent, and the terrain of the pure plain was not suitable for launching a blocking battle.
Otherwise, Guo Rong would not have chosen to use the advantage of his only professional sappers to set up a large number of camps on the vast plains, so as to use space for time in the most extreme cases.
After determining the countermeasures of the two wings, Guo Rong stared at the red dot that represented prosperity on the sand table, and thought about the time he needed to do it now.
It took him two full days from Zhongmu to Zhuzhai, and these two days were enough for Han Xiang's department stationed in Zhongmu and Mo Lingjun's department assembled in Yuanyang County to arrive in Bianzhou.
It's just that Guo Rong doesn't know when the actual start of the raid on the rebels near Bianzhou will begin. Although it is possible to launch a surprise attack at the same time as arrival, it is not excluded that they will rest outside the enemy army in Bianzhou for a whole night, and the next morning, after they are ready to attack, they will launch a fierce attack on the opponent.
If Guo Rong was directly commanded, Guo Rong would not choose to attack urgently at night, Guo Rong would even deliberately keep it secret, and wait until the next day to completely defeat it with absolute superiority.
It's just that it is not himself who really commands the battle in Bianzhou, but Han Xiang, and without knowing the specific situation in Bianzhou, Guo Rong can only speculate that the attack will take place in the daytime tomorrow according to the speculation that is not very favorable to him.
If all goes well and a wave of attacks directly defeats the rebels besieging Bianzhou, then the retreating rebels will be driven by Mo Lingjun, Han Xiang, and even Han Hong's subordinates, who are defending Bianzhou City, in the direction of the battlefield where they are.
Normally, one day will not exceed two days at the slowest pace. That is to say, from now on, the time for the rebels to receive the news that the rear has been attacked, the camp has been lost, the rear army has been destroyed, and the cost of grain and grass loss may be only two days at the shortest, and no more than three days at the longest.
According to this time calculation, he needs to let the rebel attack reach its peak in two days!
Thinking of this, Guo Rong had to smile bitterly, the problem seems to have returned here, where Guo Rong's eyes are, the camp is prosperous.
You must find a way that the other party will not suspect, so that the other party is reasonable, reasonable, compliant, and appropriate.
After thinking about it for a long time, until he completed his task, Zhi Muyu rushed to Guo Rong's side.
"Boss, I have already told Mo Zhonglang that he is already arranging manpower, and when we arrive, they should be ready." Listening to Zhi Muyu's voice and looking at Zhi Muyu's excited expression, Guo Rong was silent, but he didn't expect it to come to this point.
After more than ten breaths, Guo Rong made up his mind, took Zhi Muyu, Huang Hankai and others, walked out of the Chinese army's tent, turned over his horse, and went straight to the prosperous camp that had been fighting for three whole days.
From Zhuzhai to Xingsheng, it was only a dozen miles away, and when Guo Rong arrived, the open space of the Xingsheng camp was ignited by several raging flames.
Under the light of the fire, everything in the prosperous camp that had been fighting for three days was displayed in front of Guo Rong.
At the edge of the camp, only about half of the fences that make up the camp remained, and the vacant places were filled in by the soldiers of the Changying Army, with sandbags prepared in advance, or by rows of corpses, and remained basically intact.
The position within the fence was occupied by dozens of eight-ox crossbows and catapults, and when Guo Rong arrived, there were logistics soldiers who were constantly transporting heavy crossbow arrows and stone bullets used by catapults for catapults.
According to Guo Rong's visual inspection, there are about forty eight-bull crossbows used by Nengou, and there are more than twenty catapults, which are only about sixty percent compared to the number reserved in Guo Rong's impression, and the rest are naturally damaged in the fierce battle during the day.
In the open space inward, they are either standing, sitting, or lying, in short, arranged in various forms, and everyone's eyes are firmly fixed on themselves.
Guo Rong jumped off his war horse and walked towards the middle of the clearing step by step. From the direction of the Changying army, a figure in heavy armor also walked slowly towards Guo Rong, and soon, Guo Rong recognized the person walking towards him - Meng Qian.
It's just that at this time, Meng Qian's face was covered with two deep scars, more than half of the armor on his body was missing, and the remaining armor was filled with dark red blood.
If there is anything that remains the same, it is only Meng Gan's straight waist, firm steps, resolute eyes, and hoarse but mighty voice.
"Report to the general, according to the general's order, the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army has all been evacuated, and the defense of the Xingsheng battalion has been completely handed over to our Changying Army!" Guo Rong nodded and signaled that Meng Qian could continue, and then Meng Qian continued to shout in a hoarse voice.
"General Yu, the 1st Infantry Regiment, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the 3rd Battalion of Equipment,......, the 4th Medical Team, and the Cooking Soldier Company, have been assembled, please instruct!"
"Meng Qian, how many soldiers are there in the camp now?"