Battle of Changping Chapter 152 Seeking a plan to delay Zhao Kuo
Suppressing the feeling of nausea, Zhao Kuo knew: He can't mess up, if he messes up, Zhao Jun will be finished.
"Definitely, there must be a way! Hold on, I can do it!" Zhao Kuo couldn't help cheering himself up in his heart: "As long as you hold on for a few more days, General Lian Po will definitely be able to arrive with reinforcements, definitely!"
Of course, if Zhao Kuo knew that Lian Po had arrived in the south less than a hundred miles away from him, and would even be in battle tomorrow, I am afraid that there would be no need to be so anxious.
But unfortunately, the scouts of the Wei army could not infiltrate the Zhao army, and even Lian Po did not dare to hand over such important information to the scouts to take away.
As a result, a misunderstanding due to poor information was formed.
In Zhao Kuo's heart, he had to find a way to let his army hold on for a few more days!
At present, the Qin army's attack has not passed two hours, and five fortresses have been broken one after another, if it continues at this rate, I am afraid that in three or two days, the Qin army will completely complete the division and encirclement of itself.
Zhao Wei on the side obviously also saw Zhao Kuo's worries, and immediately stepped forward and admonished, "General, why don't you lead the army to the Qin army for a while?"
Zhao Kuo shook his head without hesitation when he heard this. The only cards that can be used in his hand are Zhao Wei and 20,000 elites, and the remaining 130,000 troops have been scattered. The last 20,000 troops must not be moved again, that is the last card to cooperate with General Lian Po, and if reinforcements do not arrive, they will not move lightly.
Seeing that the general rejected his idea without hesitation, Zhao Wei was not annoyed, and immediately stood aside, waiting for Zhao Kuo's summons.
Zhao Kuo also immediately fell into deep thought—first rethinking the current situation.
The 20,000 reserve army can't move, so that means you have to find your own way from the 130,000 troops that have been scattered.
But what else can be done?
The method of concentrating superior forces to annihilate one of the enemy can no longer be used, because Bai Qi has already made adjustments to this, and the cavalry that crosses the gap between the attacks is set up to defend himself against this move, once our army is assembled, as soon as the attack is made, a nearby cavalry will immediately rush to help, although it may still not be the opponent of the superior forces that he has gathered, but there is no problem in delaying one or two.
And this delayed time is enough for the follow-up troops of the Qin army and the surrounding troops to surround them, but to form a superior force for our army.
This inevitably reminded Zhao Kuo of the so-called "grid" tactics of Gangcun Ningci, the head of the army in North China, that is, to occupy important passes such as railways and highways with elite heavy troops, and to take the "clean-up" activities as the guide, step by step, to accurately find out where the enemy army is, and then to carry out the "iron bucket encirclement" with elite heavy troops.
The formation of today's Qin army, although slightly different, is roughly the same.
That's right, that's it!
Zhao Kuo seemed to have caught something. Although the war of resistance behind the enemy is so difficult and can still win the final victory, although their own troops are short and their combat strength is weak, the gap is always big but that of the ancestors who fought with the enemy's 38 big covers, crooked handles, and grenadiers with bird guns. What his ancestors could do, he could do.
"Persistence is victory!"
"That's right." Zhao Kuoxin has already made a calculation: "General Lian Po must have come to reinforcements now, as long as he holds on for a few more days, the victory will definitely belong to him. And the best way to persist is to risk your life, disrupt the pace of the Qin army's advance, set up more obstacles, and delay the speed of the Qin army's advance."
"Herald!" Zhao Kuo coughed lightly.
"The end will be." Zhao Wei immediately spoke up and said.
"Among the fortresses, one-third of the combat strength is left, and the rest of the divisions are disrupted and organized, and the infantry and crossbows are mixed, with 100 people or 2 or 300 people as units, each according to the mountain-shaped terrain, in the favorable terrain, to build a defense on the spot, form a node, and use the fortress as a fulcrum to comprehensively delay the Qin army's attack." Zhao Kuo ordered coldly.
"This?" Zhao Wei looked at Zhao Kuo with some embarrassment, disrupting the establishment and defending on the spot, what kind of tactical tactics is this?
Zhao Kuo ignored it and continued: "When the Qin army attacks the node or fulcrum, the nodes and the fort fulcrum should cooperate with each other, taking advantage of the local geographical advantages and the game of our army
The absolute mastery of the geography of the ministry trapped the Qin army, and then killed and injured the Qin army."
"General." Zhao Wei looked at Zhao Kuo, who was flushed because he finally came up with a countermeasure, and still decided to express the doubts in his heart: "If this is the case, wouldn't our army's forces be more dispersed, if the Qin army is pulled out one by one with heavy troops, our army will not be able to form effective cooperation and reinforcements at all. Won't you let the Qin army break through each of them?"
"What I want is the defeat of the Qin army." Listening to Zhao Wei's words, Zhao Kuo's face became more and more ruddy: "Think about it, our army of 130,000 troops, the army of the fortress, there should be as many as two or three hundred nodes on the front line, and the Qin army wants to uproot them one by one, and it takes a little effort, so that the purpose of our army's delay will be achieved."
"But?" Zhao Wei wanted to say something, but was ruthlessly interrupted by Zhao Kuo.
"Tell the soldiers: Don't care about the gains and losses of the nodes, the purpose of the nodes is to attract the Qin army to attack, make good use of their respective nodes, kill and injure the Qin army in large numbers, and delay the Qin army's attack." Zhao Kuo said quite seriously and seriously: "Tell the soldiers: persistence is victory."
"Yes!" Zhao Wei immediately took the order.
Zhao Kuo naturally knew what Zhao Wei wanted to say, and the weaknesses of his tactics, Zhao Kuo himself couldn't be clearer.
Because of the dispersion of troops, the number of troops in each node is insufficient, and once the Qin army gathers heavy troops to attack, the node will almost be broken through, which is nothing more than a matter of time;
At this time, the Qin army was obviously red-eyed, and this action undoubtedly made the Qin army even more irritable, and after being irritable, what the Qin army did not want to know - the point that was breached was almost equivalent to the total annihilation.
This also requires that all the soldiers under his command must have the determination to die and fight the Qin army to the end.
Of course, there is also the last and most important point, because of the dispersion of troops and the disorganization of the establishment, the generals' control over their soldiers will drop to a terrible level, once the soldiers mutiny or escape, the generals have almost no choice.
Therefore, the key to this strategy lies in whether the Zhao army can still maintain the enthusiasm of the war of resistance without the constraints of military orders, and still fight to the death with the Qin army without fear of sacrifice.
Historically, such tactics only existed in our party and our army, which had extremely powerful grassroots organizations - the Korean Battlefield, the 189th Division, and the Battle of Seed Mountain.