Chapter 142: Battle in the Empty City (1)

Ouyang Dao: "I'll still write a letter, asking them to work overtime and send more weapons over." By the way, General Han, this bonus is available, if you are the main force, then I will not follow, you have to be optimistic and don't report military merits. "It's hard to say, Han Shizhong won't make up the numbers with rabbit ears, even if he doesn't do it, he doesn't guarantee that others won't do it either.

"Han Moujun is strictly disciplined, please rest assured of this." Han Zhongdao: "To be honest, I have been leading troops for some years, and it is the first time I have seen an army with high morale on the eve of a war. "No soldier wants to fight.

Li Han said: "Guo Ziyi scattered all his family wealth, and his subordinate soldiers had high morale and sacrificed their lives. It's all the same. ”

There was no accident, after receiving the envoy, Western Xia didn't even spend time to discuss, and directly expelled the envoy. And Ouyang's handwritten letter hijacking to the Liao State has also been transported in place. According to the plan, the county will start in April.

This teacher is also particular, to pray for heaven and earth, this prayer is written by a scholar in the court, Ouyang listened to it and didn't quite understand, probably similar to the meaning of prayer. The Song Dynasty is relatively civilized, but the Jin Dynasty is different in history, the teacher is to sacrifice women's internal organs to the sky, and Han Shizhong was once defeated under women's internal organs......

Ouyang was not worried about whether Han Shizhong could hold it, because there was no possibility that he could not hold it. First of all, Han Shizhong put on a posture of a decisive battle with the Xiliang army, and then turned around and suddenly attacked Tianshu County, and the main force covered the materials behind him to enter the city. It's okay to eat and drink, there are still a lot of underground rivers in that area, and it's not difficult to dig wells. Then he was surrounded by the enemy, this Ouyang was even less worried, with a new weapon, he was still afraid of being surrounded? A large area of mines in front of you is enough for people to toss. Han Shizhong's siege of the city is bound to be boring and boring. The key is how to ensure morale.

Ouyang was worried about the county, where the city walls were weak and the altitude was lower than where the enemy had come. Due to the fact that other roads had to prevent the Tanguts from entering the customs from them, the source of troops could not be replenished on a large scale, and the great could only be the Xiang army. No matter how powerful the firearms are, if you change one out of ten, you can't stand it on your side. It seems that harmony is still the most important thing in everything, especially when your life is in danger.

According to the strategy, Liu Qi led his headquarters to feint an attack on Hengshan to divert the enemy's attention, and immediately retreated to Huixian after Han Shizhong entered Tianyi City. Its headquarters is a double cavalry, mobile and flexible, and there is no big problem. Therefore, for the time being, there is only 600 guards led by two prison soldiers. And, of course, the van army that transported supplies to the southern city. The problem is that there are no major problems. But then Liu Qi returned to the county to rest a little, and he would take a small part of the soldiers and horses to take Guazhou. It did not occupy an area, and after the destruction, it retreated to the Tibetan border, with the purpose of exhausting the enemy. According to the plan, Liu Qi returned from his headquarters in May, set off after three days of rest, and went to Guazhou in early June, where he destroyed Guazhou's agriculture as much as possible by poisoning and other methods, resulting in no harvest for the enemy that year.

This is a change from the previous strategy of seizing cities and occupations, and fighting an economic war and a war of attrition. As Han Shizhong said in the imperial court, this war can be fought for a year or even two years, fundamentally disintegrating the enemy's social economy. Intensify the national contradictions within the enemy. This strategy is to force the enemy to attrition, and it is a great tactic against the nomads. Han Shizhong also said that the nomads value the most horse breeding land such as the Hexi Corridor, once threatened, the enemy will inevitably go out, because that is the root of the enemy nation, and now occupying Tianyi County is a fish bone stuck in the enemy's throat.

Zhao Yu was not very satisfied with the war of attrition, but she also knew that in order to advance quickly and have results, at least more than 400,000 troops must be mobilized, and the requisitioned troops will exceed one million. Han Shizhong's strategy only requires less than 100,000 men, and the daily consumption of defending the city is small, and the most important thing is that this strategy can completely poison the enemy's social system and greatly weaken the enemy's strength. To put it bluntly, even if Han Shizhong's entire army is destroyed, the economy, combat effectiveness, and productivity of Western Xia will regress for many years. Moreover, the intensification of domestic contradictions will be torn apart.

Han Shizhong's main force is followed by six reporters from the Royal Daily, who may not be able to send back the report for a while and a half, but someone always has to go. And sitting in the county is the elite press corps of the Royal Newspaper, the Tokyo Press Corps.

Ouyang is also bored here, and the left and right are too calm. As a supervising army, he has the right to be free from his position, Li Gang is the logistics, Zhu Da is the daily garrison, and the local magistrate is the county in the management of the Xiang army. Li Yifeng didn't have time to talk nonsense with Ouyang, and Su Qian was busy everywhere. Ouyang was sad to find that Li Han, who was the last idler, didn't like to take care of himself, and he was really bored this day.

After staying up for a month, on the second day of the fifth month, Liu Qi returned to the division and was immediately bombed by the press corps. Liu Qi didn't dare to slack off, this press corps is the emperor's errand, and its chief boss is the supervising army, so he can only answer all questions. As a result, Ouyang found that he didn't need to listen to Liu Qi's report, just read the newspaper. Everything went well, Han Shizhong's main force successfully attracted the Western Xia army in Xiliang, and Liu Qi successfully dragged the garrison of the three counties of Hengshan. Han Shizhong gave eight days for logistics to enter the city.

After the Western Xia people found out that they had been deceived, they immediately pursued and surrounded Liu Qi's lone army in two directions. Liu Qi's escape speed was not ordinarily fast, and after the enemy's two divisions met, he found that Liu Qi was already a hundred miles away. It was easy to capture a Song Jun who accidentally got lost and fell behind. Liu Qi turned out to be a one-man and two-horse configuration, and he fled south almost non-stop. And the Western Xia army also had to face Liu Qi's bad intentions, such as planting a few mines, throwing some poison at the water source or something, and of course it was impossible to catch up with others. I had to camp on the spot and wait for Li Qianshun's order.

And Han Shizhong's side was better than Ouyang imagined, after the Xixia people were blown away by a mine, they stopped attacking. After the end of the war, it turned out that the party members and other ethnic groups had conducted an in-depth discussion on who would be the first batch of human mine detectors. Ouyang burst into tears afterwards, he could have sold a batch of mine detectors to Western Xia.

Liu Qi is as bored as Ouyang when he comes back, people are not available, and he is very free. Only then did Ouyang understand a sentence, as a soldier, you must endure loneliness. Every day, Ouyang bragged and drank tea with a few officials who stayed behind. Spend this good youth. On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Liu Qi disappeared silently with 5,000 soldiers and horses, leaving a capable deputy general and 7,000 soldiers and horses to be responsible for the defense of the county.

Adjutant General's Last Name and Name Column. It was a jinshi in Ouyang's martial arts. Liu Qi had only been gone for three days, and he hurriedly found the prison military mansion: "Report!" The scouts found that the enemy's 2,000 troops were rushing towards the county, a hundred miles away. ”

"Wouldn't it? Such a block, and bold, two thousand people would dare to attack the county," Ouyang asked in surprise.

Li Han said angrily: "It's not your group of reporters who spread the news that General Liu is leaving in early May." ”

"I asked them to report to confuse the enemy, and the newspaper said that General Liu led his headquarters to take Hengshan directly. This is doing General Liu a favor. Ouyang suddenly said: "This Xixia person should have read the newspaper and thought that there was no garrison in Huanxian County, right?" Alas...... Believe that the media kills people. ”

"Report!" A general came in and said, "The attack on the county is the elite proton army of Western Xia. ”

"Wow! Got rich. Ouyang Xi said: "Order, all captured." ”

A cadre of people was unconscious, and Zhang Liang said: "My lord doesn't know, this proton army has extraordinary combat effectiveness, wearing cold linden armor, and all of them are powerful. In the contest with the Proton Army in previous years, our Song Army suffered serious losses. ”

“…… Then catch a thousand. ”

Li Han said angrily: "Nonsense, immediately deploy defenses and frighten the enemy army." ”

"You, Lao Tzu is a prisonerChoked, he seems to be a ninth grade, and he doesn't even have an official hat.

Zhu Da said in his heart: Lao Tzu didn't dare to go out and say it, for fear of embarrassment.

"Li Si, Wang Wu, please drink tea in Lord Li."

"Yes!" The two officials pulled Li Han to walk inside. Zhu Da and Li Han's guard captains looked at each other, nodded to each other, and pretended to be stupid.

Zhang Lan hurriedly stopped Ouyang who was about to walk out: "Lord Ou, this is the matter of commanding the army......

"Afterwards, your army will receive a thirty-percent commission." Ouyang leaned into the Zhang column and whispered.

Zhang Liang hesitated: "This ......" is not a problem of money.

"It's only two." Ouyang threatened: "If you don't cooperate, I'll give you small shoes afterwards." ”

"Thirty percent is better."

"Yes!"

The leader of the 2,000 proton army was none other than Ouyang's acquaintance, Li Huan, who had won the third place in the Liaoguo International Horse Race. To say that this proton army is really not covered, Li Huan and the others are one person and three horses, and they are tied to the back of the horse and keep running.

"Report!" The scout said, "General Li, the enemy army has opened the city gates. ”

"Open the gates?" Li Huan thought about it and asked: "Is there still a fool playing the piano on the wall, and there are still a few people at the city gate who are slowly sweeping the floor." ”

The scout exclaimed, "The general is really a god. ”

"The Empty City Plan in the Three Kingdoms Commentary." This Three Kingdoms Commentary was the most popular commentary in the Song Dynasty, with more than 30 editions, and it was also put on the stage. The empty city plan is naturally the focus of it, Li Huan pulled the reins and shouted: "Order to make food and rest for an hour, and then move forward slowly, step by step." ”

"Yes!"

Eat well and rest, the proton army advances. Approaching the county, Li Huan took a dozen horsemen to the place of a stone's throw in the county, only to see a person on the wall playing the piano, two children standing beside him, a flag fluttering in the wind, and the word 'Ou' was written on it. Li Huan sneered: "The enemy is cowardly in his heart, and the sound of his piano is not only extremely unpleasant, but his hands tremble. ”

Do you play for two hours? Ouyang took the bamboo piano, his fingers didn't dare to use it, it hurt!

The deputy general of Xixia said on the side: "General beware of the enemy's deception? ”

Li Huan stretched out his hands and asked, "Then you mean to attack or not?" ”

"This ......" The more the deputy general thinks about it, the more entangled he becomes, it's okay if you don't open the gate, but as soon as you open the gate, there is no bottom.

Li Huan said lightly: "Sima Yi was scared away back then. ”

The adjutant general asked, "What then?" ”

"Come on, a team of fifty people will go to the test."

"Yes!" A general receives the order.

Zhao Liuda shouted: "Be careful of mines." ”

Ouyang sighed: "You are slow." ”

When the words fell, several fires burst into the sky, four Western Xia soldiers and horses were killed, and they themselves also fell out of dozens of meters, and if they were not faint, they would faint, and the four of them would not wake up together, and they did not know whether they were dead or alive.

After the team controlled the horses, they immediately went to grab the four of them when they saw this situation, but they didn't expect that just one step forward, there were two more bangs, and the horses of the two soldiers were blown up, and the two of them also fell unconscious.

"Mingjin!" Li Huan looked at it carefully, and immediately ordered people to withdraw.

As soon as the Tangut people withdrew here, four soldiers came out of the city gate, and they walked up to the four unconscious people without fear of mines, and carried them away. Then two people came out and planted mines in front of the Western Xia army. This is not angry, but what is angry is the words of these two people: "We have planted mines, be careful!" ”

"Report!" A soldier reported to Ouyang: "Four people have been captured, and all of them are alive. ”

"Well, after waking up, I asked what my surname was, what did my father do, and how much money did my family have, and then let them write a ransom letter...... Wait a minute. Ouyang explained: "Xixia coins are not accepted, and gold is exchanged for ten yuan in taels." Strip them of their armor and put them away, and take them out for auction later. ”

"Yes!"

"It's a pity that the horse was blown up. These are all good horses. Ouyang was distressed, a horse could sell at least 70 pieces, and hundreds of pieces were gone.

Li Si asked, "My lord, do you think they still dare to come in?" ”

"I'll tell you! They didn't dare to come in, let alone waste the opportunity. This life and death is small, and if there is a big Song Romance in the future, they will completely lose the dead. So! They will come again. ”

Zhang Liang said: "My lord, this is all a temporary arrangement, and it will be very difficult to deal with two thousand people in one go, and to capture them alive." ”

"So don't have such a big appetite and warm up first. By the way, have you noticed that the clothes they wear are all sewn from the finest animal skins? ”

"Yes! It's all a piece of skin, and there is no stitching. ”

Ouyang commanded: "Pull it out!" ”

"Yes!"

Who said that fighting a war does not make money. Let's not talk about the ransom first, this armor is definitely sold for two hundred yuan, and it is invulnerable, although the style is a little worse. The Xixia sword is broken by blowing, and there are always people who are willing to buy it back for decoration for two hundred times, right? Anyway, this got Yangping, two hundred that was robbed, and clothes, pure leather......

"Report!" One soldier said, "Twenty taels of gold were found on the bodies of four people." ”

Ouyang said indifferently: "Give it to the brothers who carried people and planted mines just now, as well as you who are responsible for reporting the news." ”

The soldier was immediately moved to tears: "Lord Xie." ”

Zhang Liang swallowed his saliva, twenty taels of gold...... No wonder as soon as this guy heard that it was the Proton Army coming, he immediately became fierce. Yangping is Yangping, even a pile of garbage can see the way to money. Zhang Liang said on the side: "My lord, it's already evening, do you close the city gate?" ”

"Don't close it! What if they climb the city wall in the middle of the night and fall? Ouyang said: "It's open, the brothers who are ambushed inside are resting in shifts, and they are stepping up to prepare to catch big fish." ”

"Yes!"

Li Huan ate opposite him. More than a dozen women served food to the city wall, although they couldn't see it, Li Huan still swallowed saliva, you can imagine what a hearty meal. The adjutant general said on the side: "General, looking at this appearance, there may really be an ambush in the city." ”

"Because it's like this, General Ben feels like an empty city plan." Li Huan said: "This person's name is Ouyang, and he is the big boss of the gambling stall in Happy Valley in Liaoguo. There are many tricks, and they know human nature very well, and the various facilities of the casino are aimed at different groups of people. ”

The adjutant general said: "What if this time is aimed at the general?" ”

"......" Li Huan was choked by these words, and his thoughts entered a dead end again.

Ouyang's side had a harvest at the beginning of the night. One soldier said, "My lord, the four of them have confessed. One of them is the second son of the patriarch of the Miluo clan, and the other three are all members of the Tuoba clan, two of their fathers are the princes of one party, and one of their fathers is a third-grade official of the imperial court. ”

Ouyang pondered for a while and said, "That second son has one thousand taels of gold, which can be exchanged for five hundred horses. The king's gold is two thousand, and the official's gold is five hundred. Ask again, if it's an only child, double it. Let them put it away after they have written it, and then they will blackmail it uniformly. ”

"Yes!"

Ouyang looked at the enemy in the distance and sighed, "It's good to be able to take them in one nest." ”

Zhang Liang said: "If there is a head-on decisive battle, our army has firearms, it is possible to kill them all, but it is difficult to capture them all." ”

"Young man, don't be so bloody. Anyway, it's not boring to be around, wouldn't it be nice to have some fun and make a little money? Ouyang said: "Take your time, we are not in a hurry." ”

"Report!" A scout went up to the city wall and said: "The enemy army is camped on the spot, and there is no movement of troops. ”

Zhang Liang said: "The enemy army must have cavalry behind, and as soon as I steal the camp, it will suppress the charge." ”

Ouyang nodded: "Lift the two cannons up and boom." ”

"You can't beat it, can you?"

"Scare them." Ouyang Dao: "So many weapons are not consumed, I make a dime." Five shots are fired every half an hour, Xiaozhang, and someone is arranged to be on duty, so that the brothers in ambush are refreshed. I went to take a shower. ”

The proton army was very miserable that night, and as soon as they fell asleep, they heard the earth-shattering thunder, and hurriedly lined up to meet the enemy, but the enemy didn't see the shadow. Sleep again, be bombarded again...... I have the intention to plug my ears, but I am afraid that the enemy will really come to steal the camp. Until the early morning, the whole army was exhausted, and Li Huan had no choice but to give an order to retreat ten miles back and set up camp. If you stay here for a few more days, if you want to be an idiot, the soldiers will all have a nervous breakdown.

Zhang Liang almost cried when he received the military report, and hurriedly woke up Ouyang: "The enemy has run away, do you want to pursue it immediately." ”

"It's okay to run." Ouyang said while getting dressed: "There are ten *** rabbits sent to the door this afternoon." ”

"Why?"

"Because I left them with a few holes." Ouyang said unhurriedly: "The perfect *** designed for human nature is not considered a successful ***. And the *** for logical design is not a successful ***. People's self-confidence, self-satisfaction, doubts, anxieties, and other personalities are all characteristics of people. A perfect *** includes an understanding of the environment, thinking about the opponent's assumptions, and analyzing the context of the event. and then use the opponent's helplessness, unwillingness, suspicion, face and human curiosity to conduct in-depth speculation. Take advantage of these characteristics to passively accept the active temptation and observation of the opponent. Make sure it stays in the wood, but doesn't know the depth. Once the opponent is curious about the unknown, it will burn more and more like a flame, and then rely on his own sharp judgment and logical reasoning, and finally fall into the trap. ”