War, what is the most important thing?

The answer, of course, is intelligence!

Regardless of whether it is a reciprocal or unequal war, it is extremely important to grasp the information of one's own side and the enemy before the war.

Mastering your own intelligence can make you know your own hole cards, how many means you have, what kind of enemies you can deal with, and what your weaknesses are.

Mastering the enemy's intelligence allows you to respond to the enemy's layout in advance, avoid the pit dug by the enemy, understand the details of the opponent, and be able to use the most secure method to deal with the enemy, and use your own advantages to hide your disadvantages against the enemy's disadvantages, so as to grasp the opportunity.

This is what the book of war says about knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles!

Therefore, the most important thing in a war is intelligence.

As long as you are a normal general, you know that you need to collect information about the other side before the battle.

Ding Hongguang is naturally the same.

As soon as he arrived in Sunan County, he did not rush to lead the army and went straight to Sunan Prefecture.

Instead, he ordered Huo to go to the soldiers to spread out all the night, and let them collect all the information about the current Sunan County.

That night, after returning from the night of collecting intelligence, Ding Hongguang and a group of generals were in the camp of the Chinese army, where Ding Hongguang and a group of generals listened to the collected information and analyzed it.

Through these night-long investigations, the generals learned that it was a force called the Red Lotus Sect that now occupied Sunan Mansion and the three surrounding prefectures.

Rather than a force, in the eyes of the generals, this Red Lotus Sect is more like a cult.

Because the doctrine they use to solicit believers is not a serious sect at first glance.

They claim that this world will usher in a great tribulation that is unprecedented in the past and present, called the Three Pure Tribulations.

At the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, the blue lotus came into the world to incarnate all things, and in ancient times, the white lotus came into the world to ignite the human race, making the human race have courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame, and moral constraints, so that the human race became more and more developed and stronger.

However, with the passage of time, the growing human race is gradually tainted by desires and sins, especially the officials of the government, and the officials of each dynasty will be infected by the desires and sins of the world in a hundred years after they get the world, so as to become greedy! Brutal! Cruel! Lascivious!

All kinds of evils in the world will appear in them, which has led to the people of the world becoming more and more unable to live.

In order to change this situation, the third revolution in the world is coming!

The karmic fire red lotus from the Abi Hell came to the world with a mission to burn all the sins of the world!

And the Red Lotus Sect is the salvation sect selected by the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and only when the officials who follow the Red Lotus Sect and are infected by sin are completely purified with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, can the people of the world usher in a better life!

Only then will the children and grandchildren of the people be able to live carefree in the purified and purified world!

Red Lotus from the Sky! Cleanse the demons!

Red Lotus Zhaozhao! Karma burns!

Burn away your sins! Solipsism!

By instigating the contradictions between the people who were oppressed by the government and the imperial court, the Red Lotus Sect quickly spread among the people at the bottom.

Originally, there was the suppression of the government, and even if the people joined the Red Lotus Sect, they were quite honest under the deep-rooted mentality of the people not fighting with the officials.

But until the rebels besieged the city, the people in the city were pushed to the extreme, and the siege of the county guard yamen began!

The idea of rebellion took root in the hearts of the people of southern Jiangsu.

After the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army left, the people who had no suppression completely threw away the last trace of fear, and developed rapidly under the bewitchment of the Red Lotus Sect, which now has a terrifying scale of 300,000 sect members all over the three provinces!

According to the investigation, the Red Lotus Sect has recently been expanding to the south of Suqianfu, and more than 10,000 sectarians have been organized to fight fiercely against a group of thieves who occupy Suqianfu!

The rookies on both sides have been pecking each other for more than a month, and less than 500 people have died in total, but it is said that the Red Lotus Sect has already gained the upper hand, and it will be able to defeat the gang of thieves with only 3,000 people in a month at most.

And in order to achieve this goal, the Red Lotus Sect has gathered another 20,000 sect members to form a sect army, which has now been organized and is preparing to be sent to the Suqian battlefield.

And now in charge of the Red Lotus Sect is the Red Lotus Holy Maiden of the Red Lotus Sect, with its four protectors, twelve deacons, thirty-six hall masters, and one hundred and eight incense lords to help control the entire Red Lotus Sect today.

It is said that the Red Lotus Sect also has a mysterious sect leader, but no one has ever seen this sect leader, and the highest high-level Red Lotus Sect leader the people have ever seen is the Red Lotus Holy Maiden.

After listening to the situation of the group who had not listened to it all night, they all whispered and discussed.

Ding Hongguang waited for about a quarter of an hour before coughing lightly.

The generals fell silent in an instant.

Ding Hongguang raised his eyes and scanned everyone with that oppressive gaze before asking, "Do you have any opinions about this Red Lotus Sect?" ”

Huo Qubing, who was sitting on Ding Hongguang's right hand, immediately hugged his fists and said:

"Handsome! Judging from the current intelligence, this Red Lotus Sect is a cult that bewitches the people through its teachings, but its combat effectiveness is not much at all.

There were only 3,000 thieves, and it took more than 10,000 people to fight for more than a month to gain the upper hand, which shows that their combat effectiveness is really average.

The last general, the last general implores the great commander to allow the last general to lead seven thousand light cavalry to smash the southern capital city of Sunan, and suppress all the high-level leaders of the Red Lotus Sect in one fell swoop, so that the Red Lotus Sect will be self-defeating! ”

As soon as Huo Qubing's words came out, most of the generals immediately nodded again and again, but the others frowned.

After Huo Qubing finished speaking, Li Dingguo, who was sitting on Ding Hongguang's left hand, shook his head and retorted:

"Dashuai, the last general does not agree with Champion Hou's move.

Even if the Red Lotus Sect's combat power is low, but after all, there are many people, and it is not like the grassland is not dangerous to defend, the Red Lotus Sect here occupies a large number of cities, they defend the city, plus there are many people, and there are a large number of people to help, it is impossible to smash the Yellow Dragon directly, unless the other party is defenseless.

However, we waited for the 200,000 troops to come in a big way, and I was afraid that the other side had already received the news.

If it is the last general, the last general will definitely leave quietly before the arrival of the army, hide his figure, and then secretly command the disciples to constantly make trouble for us, attack us and find opportunities to sneak attack the grain road, cut off the food and grass of our army, so as to find a glimmer of life.

Therefore, the last general thinks that we should not be careless, we should probe, let the secret guards help the first army not move, and then besiege the city with a large army when the dark guards are staring at the local high-level, and when the high-level is hiding, send an elite army to intercept and kill it, and finally surround the city of southern Jiangsu, and when the size of its sect members cannot receive the news from the upper level, the group of dragons will collapse quickly without a leader.

In this way, we can win the victory at the least possible cost and keep as many people as possible to move to the north.

Then we will spread the news of Sunan Mansion City, and the Red Lotus Sect in the rest of the places will also collapse, and we can find an opportunity to recover the lost territory. ”

As soon as Li Dingguo's words came out, the part of the generals who were frowning just now suddenly nodded slightly, and a look of satisfaction appeared on their faces.

Most of them are former Li Dingguo's subordinates, and their styles are relatively similar to them, all of them seek stability and small casualties.

If it is according to Huo Qubing's method, not only will it not necessarily be able to catch the high-level of the Red Lotus Sect, it will be easier to startle the snake and let them hide, and then there will be endless attacks, and at that time, even if they have an army of 200,000, they will be overwhelmed, and it will evolve into a protracted war.

This is naturally not what they want.

Ding Hongguang also nodded slightly when he heard this, and agreed with Li Dingguo's idea more, he understood that the most important thing in Li Dingguo's plan was to keep the population as much as possible, they were all from Yunzhou County, and naturally knew that Yunzhou County was still extremely short of population, in their eyes, there were many people in the south and few places, so as long as there was one more person left, maybe one more person would be able to move to Yunzhou County in the future.

Achieving victory at the minimum cost, preserving the population as much as possible, and not letting the population suffer too much loss were the main purposes of his southward trip.

However, just as he was about to say something, someone from outside the tent suddenly came to report.

"Report !!

Handsome! In the direction of Sunan City, a large number of men and horses are marching towards our army! The number of people is expected to be around 200,000, and the people in the vicinity are still growing along the way! Its goal should be in our army! ”

Whoa!

All the generals in the tent immediately stood up and looked at the messenger in disbelief.

None of them planned to take the initiative to fight a frontal war with them, for fear that they would not dare to fight when they saw the army and ran away.

Now the other side has actually taken the initiative!

What's going on?

After Ding Hongguang and Li Dingguo and Huo Qubing on the left and right looked at each other, they smiled helplessly:

"It seems that we are overestimating our opponents, and they are underestimating us and overestimating themselves.

Since they are looking for death, there is no way.

Let them see the gap between them and us. ”

After speaking, Ding Hongguang's face was solemn, and he immediately shouted:

"All the generals have it!"

The generals hurriedly stood up straight, clenched their fists with serious faces, and said:

"The last general!"

"Li Dingguo listens to orders!"

"The last general!"

"Li Dingguo, this commander orders you to lead a total of 100,000 people from the Bai Zhen Army and the Zhuhuai Army to block the enemy's army in the front, try to focus on deterrence and delay time, but when necessary, the lives of our soldiers will be the mainstay, and you will shoot when you should shoot!"

"No! The last will be ordered! ”

Li Dingguo gave up the order!

Ding Hongguang continued:

"Huo Qubing listens to the order!"

"The last general!"

Huo Qubing immediately stood up, clenched his fists and bowed his head in response loudly!

"This commander ordered you to lead seven thousand iron horsemen to detour to the side, wait for the opportunity, and after discovering the high-level of the Red Lotus Sect, use seven thousand iron horsemen to rush straight to its high-level location and destroy its high-level command!

After you attack, Ben Shuai's side will let Li Dingguo do his best to contain most of the enemy's forces.

Can it be done? ”

Hearing this, Huo Qubing grinned and said confidently:

"Don't worry! This move is easy! If you can't destroy its command, the last general will come to see you! ”

Ding Hongguang frowned:

"Ben Shuai doesn't want your head, as long as you complete the military order.

Your actions are at stake, and if they fail, we will have to use our crossbows and heavy weapons, and then we will inevitably inflict a large number of casualties on the civilian population.

You tell Ben Shuai now, can you do it!? ”

Huo Qubing's face was pale, and he immediately replied loudly:

"The last will be ordered!"

"Good! Gather the whole army and prepare to meet the enemy! ”

"No!"

…… (End of chapter)