Gou Chun led the cavalry towards Laiwu, and when he entered the boundary of Taishan County, he ordered the soldiers to pay attention.

But to be honest, Gou Chun wasn't too worried about what really happened, after all, it was impossible for the normal army to react so quickly.

Even if all the troops are trained in the barracks, if you want the army to go to the front, the supplies need to be transported and the roads need to be rested.

Therefore, the lower the relative productivity, the stronger the advantage of being the first mover.

Because often others have already eaten your frontline city, you know that the other party is coming.

Not to mention, he is still the leader of Gou Xi's army who has fought the Eight Kings Rebellion.

What is powerful, what is elite, if you fight a frontal war with Liu Tai, I am afraid that Liu Tai will be directly crushed by himself.

But just when Gou Chun was full of ambition and confidence, suddenly a rain of arrows shot at them who were walking on the mountain road, which directly made Gou Chun look at the oncoming arrow rain in the sky in a daze.

Of course, Gou Chun was stunned, but no one in the guards around him was stunned.

At this time, they decisively held their shields and surrounded Gou Chun's surroundings, and some even stood on their comrades, supporting them to block Gou Chun's arrows.

But in fact, the threat level of arrows to any armored general is very low, even if they didn't protect Gou Chun, relying on this rain of arrows to kill Gou Chun is basically just a dream.

After all, there are very few generals or military advisors in history who really get the arrow, otherwise it would not be worth mentioning in the history books.

But Gou Chun is fine, if the large number of soldiers in his location are not wearing armor and helmets, whether they will be injured or not depends on the destiny of heaven.

It's just that the real problem in this matter is not how many people Gou Chun hurt, but the morale of the troops has been hit!

This means that the army has entered the danger zone, and this rain of arrows is just a greeting.

Therefore, Gou Chun was in a trance for a moment, and then decisively gave an order: "The sword and shield soldiers form a military formation and move in the direction where the arrows are coming from!" ”

With Gou Chun's order, soon an elite soldier formed a military formation and cautiously touched the place where the arrow was shot.

The journey was quite smooth, and they directly groped for the position where the arrow rain had just shot.

But there is nothing here except scattered footprints, and along the footprints about a mountain forest plain, but there is nothing here except horse manure and horse hoof prints, which makes these soldiers who came here full of helplessness.

"Horseshoe prints and horse manure?" When Gou Chun heard this, he looked at the surrounding terrain and couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that the environment of this col and hills restricts the performance of the opponent's cavalry, otherwise we are afraid that we will suffer a big loss!" ”

"The soldiers have obeyed the order, we have entered the territory of Taishan County, and we will be attacked by the enemy at any time, so I have put on my armor tightly and my helmet is neatly strapped.

If they were to be attacked again, the soldiers would rush straight ahead, and the arrows would not penetrate our armor. ”

Gou Chun stabilized the soldiers' military hearts and said, "Before arriving in Laiwu, every time you kill an enemy who harasses our army, one head of this battle will be counted as two heads!" ”

Hearing Gou Chun's words, the Jin soldiers who were attacked by the sneak attack were quickly pacified, regained their morale and continued to move forward.

It's just the solemn look on Gou Chun's face, obviously this matter is not as light as Gou Chun said.

Gou Chun understands that since the other party was not caught in this raid, the other party will definitely come back next time.

This hilly road allows the other side to sneak attack itself and can only take a small number of troops to harass it.

Instead of directly organizing a group of cavalry to attack himself after entering the realm of Mount Tai.

But if they also want to capture the other party, it will become very troublesome, as long as they attack and change places at a time, not seeking merit but no fault, then they will be even more passive.

However, Gou Chun is not without a way to deal with this kind of harassment from the other party, not to mention letting the soldiers in heavy armor and leather armor take the lead first, and probe every fork in the road and possible ambush places in advance, basically guaranteeing that this kind of thing will not happen again.

But in this case, the terrain such as hills and cols, which were just a matter of protecting oneself, will become an obstacle again.

This road is not difficult to walk, but the mountains and hills next to it block the view.

However, compared to the difficulties encountered now, Gou Chun really felt that what was incredible was the reflexes of Liu Tai's army, and the fact that they would let such a small number of people act alone.

After all, such an army, no matter how you think about it, is too incredible, and I have never encountered it before!

Gou Chun took a deep breath, feeling that Liu Tai was more difficult than the opponents he had encountered before!

So Gou Chun began to arrange for soldiers dressed in armor and began to take turns to be responsible for exploring the way.

Of course, this will inevitably sacrifice the speed of the army's march, but Gou Chun still insists on his own judgment and chooses to be cautious first.

The other party was able to reach the Laiwu area so quickly, and sent soldiers to harass and block him, obviously not to be underestimated, at least this reaction force of his own army can't do it!

Along the way, Gou Chun encountered all kinds of harassment, including mountain traps made by hunters, water sources polluted with feces, and sudden attacks like this.

I found a small basin between the cols, near the flowing mountain spring, and cleared the surrounding weeds and trees.

I plan to let the soldiers rest here for one night, and tomorrow we will kill this hill no matter what!

But that night, the trumpet of the charge sounded in the east, and some people came to break into the camp in the west, and there were several rolling balls from the top of the hill all the way to the fence of the barracks in the south, and although the north side was quiet all night, the next day when the soldiers went to the river to fetch water, they fell into the trap with one foot, but they didn't even know who they were fighting with, and the fight was quite depressed.

It can be said that the number of opponents is small, but it is really annoying, and the damage caused to their own army is not high, and even more because of the chaos that led to the injury of the soldiers under their command.

But their continuous harassment did reduce the morale of the army a lot, which made Gou Chun quite a headache.

Therefore, even if the morale of the whole army was not very high the next day, Gou Chun still forcibly marched and went directly to Laiwu City, about twenty miles away, and stationed in Xia.

During this period, Zhao An came to harass him with cavalry, but was easily blocked by Gou Chun.

Zhao An can carry out Liu Tai's orders very well, and he can occasionally make decisions, but relatively speaking, because he is better at bow and arrow shooting, he is not good at hand-to-hand combat, especially his own charging hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, there will never be such a move as robbing the camp, but if it is just harassment, if Gou Chun wants to defend it, it will be quite easy.

But this is enough, although Zhao An did not have any shining performance, but he completed Liu Tai's strategic goal very well, let him rush to Laiwu as soon as possible, and organize the city defense until Liu Tai arrived with the army.

Gou Chun has been harassed too badly in the past few days, so he thought that after setting up the camp, let the soldiers rest for a day, and then attack Laiwu.

After all, the other party was already stationed in this city, and it was almost impossible for him to capture it immediately.

But he didn't expect that on the day when he was resting with his subordinates, Liu Tai had already arrived with the follow-up army!

"How is that possible?! It's not right, it's wrong! ”

Gou Chun saw that Liu Tai's Chinese army had chased after him so quickly, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity in his heart.

It is because I have led the troops, so I know that it is not easy for the troops to be assembled and the troops to be pulled, but the reality is that as the attacking party, I am actually slower than the other party in the offensive scheduling of the troops!

At the same time, Gou Chun's heart involuntarily rose at this moment, and he suddenly found that he needed to further strengthen the camp, at least until the arrival of his brother Gou Xi.

Otherwise, if the front army of oneself was only broken away from the troops behind it for five days and was broken by the other party, wouldn't it be a joke!

Liu Tai didn't know Gou Chun's thoughts, Liu Tai came to the small city of Laiwu, and was very satisfied with Zhao An's start of encouraging the people to build the city wall, and even praised Zhao An a few words.

Zhao An said honestly, "I didn't actually do anything, these are all spontaneous by the local people!" ”

"It's okay, we will know when we defend the city in the future, the people under our command are different from the people under the command of others, we must treat them well, and we will also be convenient to recruit in the future war!" Liu Tai praised Zhao An.

To be honest, in Liu Tai's opinion, there is such a thing as a general, unless it is a person at the level of four saints, ten philosophers, and seventy-two generals, this kind of person is born with the talent of leading soldiers, otherwise as long as he is a general, he can be cultivated.

The gap between generals and generals is not big, including Gou Xi and Zhao An, and even the gap between himself and them.

It's just that Gou Xi found a good opportunity to gain experience in the Eight Kings Rebellion, and he rolled around in life and death several times without dying, so he naturally became a famous general of the Jin court who was very good at slashing people.

In fact, not all of his own Wang Mishile came like this, they were all the way, they didn't die several times, accumulated some experience between life and death, and knew how to cut people better than ordinary soldiers, so they were naturally boasted of being famous generals.

But doesn't Liu Tai know himself yet, he's just an ordinary person with more experience in cutting people.

So Liu Tai didn't think too much of Gou Xi, and he didn't feel too much that Liu Ming, Ge Xin, Zhao An, Zhou and others were bad.

After all, the slashing technique can slowly eat the experience growth, everyone's upper limit is there, Gou Xi is just one step ahead of himself and others at the full level, as long as the experience is enough, the other party can brush it, and he can also reach it.

But when it really comes to the limit of the competition, it can only be said that there are seventy-two generals, after all, they are just ants among the generals.

In contrast, Liu Tai preferred to focus on training soldiers and using systems to regulate the army.

Because under the orderly system, even if Liu Ming, Ge Xin, Zhao An, Zhou and others died in battle, they would soon have a successor to lead the soldiers to continue fighting.

Liu Tai then inquired about the situation encountered by Zhao An defending the city, as well as the strength of the enemy army.

"There are a lot of non-commissioned officers on the other side, and the military discipline is also quite strict, and the subordinates and soldiers take turns to harass them, although the morale of the other party is low, but it does not make the whole army shake in any way.

Basically, with a single order, the order can be banned, just like that, the harassment effect is quite limited, and now they are stationed not far away! ”

"Harassment?" Liu Tai was a little stunned when he heard this word, and couldn't help asking.

Zhao Andao. "I split up my squad and told them what to do, and they naturally found a way to harass them.

The terrain north of Laiwu is really not suitable for cavalry to attack, and horses are only suitable for transportation at most! ”

Liu Tai heard Zhao An's words, and looked at Zhao An in shock.

Each team of 100 can harass each other independently and according to local conditions when they know their strategic goals?

Do you want to listen to what is going on in your mouth?!

Liu Tai said that he didn't dare to use it like this to the soldiers at all, do you Zhao An want to be Li Jing, you dare to do this!

Could it be that my family Zhao An has the qualifications of a military god?

In fact, not only Liu Tai, but also any commander in the world today would not dare to casually send out a few hundred-level cantonment troops, inform them of their strategic purposes, and let the army display its talents.

One of the simplest reasons is that this era is not like the modern era, or even the twentieth century, when there were wireless devices, at least they could be connected with each other.

If you want to use this method in this era, this is to have more trust in these soldiers, and to affirm their ability, don't say it, if they get lost on the road!

In history, only Li Jing dared to use this tactic like this.

You don't care how he dispatches his troops, but the problem is that even if he pursues thousands of miles, every time he dispatches troops is very embarrassing, they will appear in the most suitable place at the most suitable time.

The confrontation between Tuyuhun and the Tang Army was defeated by Li Jing like this.

This is also Li Jing's indifferent and indifferent fighting, as if every step is taken for granted, but if you look back, you feel that no one should fight such a war, it is incredible.

Then, Liu Tai found that Zhao An under his command was actually preparing to go to such a school of immortal warfare, what could he do?

"Is there anything wrong with the general?" Zhao An looked at Liu Tai and suddenly looked at himself silent, and couldn't help but be full of uneasiness.

"It's nothing, since I've arrived here, you can bring enough food, make a detour to the rear of the enemy army, and follow your original tactics to harass the enemy's food route!" Liu Tai suppressed his desire to complain, but said to Zhao An,

"If Gou Xi's main force comes, you quickly send someone to report, don't give me a strong force, and then fight with Gou Xi!"

When Zhao An heard this, he said, "Do you still use cavalry, I think cavalry can only be used as a substitute in this hilly area, and the horses lose fat a little too quickly during this period, which is not suitable for war in this place." ”

"You first leave 500 horsemen in the city to take care of the horses, and I will give you another 500 soldiers, you just need to remember that your mission is to disturb the opponent's food routes, and it is best to cut off the enemy's food!" Liu Tai opened his mouth and said, "If the other party's main force comes, just send someone to inform me, the task is still the same, you still continue to harass Gou Xi's logistics food!" ”

"Order!" Zhao An heard Liu Tai's words and said decisively.

(End of chapter)