Since ancient times, it has been very easy for a powerful side to win a battle, unless the leader of the opposing side is strategic, and your own general is a fool to defeat the battle. ? ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?． ｒａｎｗｅｎa`ｃｏｍ

Therefore, in the case of absolute superiority in strength, winning a battle is not a big skill at all, as long as the generals who are not particularly stupid can win a big victory, so as to obtain a lot of military merits, and improve their status step by step.

However, at the same time of a complete victory, their own soldiers will also have a lot of losses, there is a saying that a general will achieve a thousand bones, this is the truth, a general in the front line of a complete victory, many times at the cost of the large-scale death of the soldiers under his command, a big victory, the generals can get glory and wealth, and the soldiers under his command will die miserably, the light casualties are hundreds of thousands, serious may be killed tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

In many cases, in order to make meritorious contributions, generals will not give too much consideration to the casualties of the soldiers under their command, as long as the number of casualties is within a controllable range, the generals will be very satisfied.

For example, if you annihilate 10,000 enemy troops and only 2 or 3,000 of your own casualties, in this case, the generals will be very happy, this is a complete victory, how can you not be happy? As for the two or three thousand soldiers who died, it should be regarded as paving the way for their own promotion.

The reason why this is so is because in ancient wars, the competition is manpower, and the difference between the weapons of the two sides is not very large, even if strategy is used, it is difficult to destroy the enemy with very few casualties, and it is a huge victory to lose one soldier to annihilate ten soldiers of the enemy.

In addition, you are not a fool to be smart, and it is not so easy to create a situation of one enemy against a hundred, everyone knows that leading the enemy into the valley, and then, throwing rolling wood and rocks and fireballs from the top of the mountain and halfway up the mountain, can achieve a great victory, but such an opportunity is not easy to obtain, so many times you can only rely on weapons and troops.

In addition, sometimes there is not enough time, and when it is necessary to break through a certain strategic place within a time limit, the generals have nothing to do, so they can only adopt desperate tactics and let the soldiers rush up to their deaths, even if their own casualties exceed the annihilated enemy army many times in the end, for the generals, it is also a great achievement.

After more such things, the generals have become accustomed to the death of soldiers, as long as there are not too many casualties, it will not cause the general's heartache, unless the loss is particularly huge, the general will be heartache and nervous, and when formulating the task, the general is more concerned about how to defeat the enemy, will not think too much about the casualties, the more urgent the time, the less thinking about the casualties.

And at this moment, it is not urgent to exterminate these horse thieves, it doesn't matter if it's early or late, so Li An is not in a hurry, and Lao Guo is not so eager, in this case, the pursuit of the lowest casualties has a very realistic significance, and being able to kill no soldier is Li An's highest pursuit, and as long as the strategy is applied, it may not really be impossible to do it, and there will be some casualties in the end, but as long as the casualties are not large, it is also good.

Lao Chen was a little unhappy, and said, "Isn't it too risky for you to pin your hopes on a pony thief who has just surrendered?" ”

"Haha! Lao Chen couldn't hold back a little, rest assured, when he figured out the movements of the horse thief, he would definitely give Lao Chen a chance to do a good job. ”

Ang Lee said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll wait, I'm hungry, find something to eat."

With a little emotion, Lao Chen went out to find food.

For Li An, who pursues zero casualties, the death of any soldier is a major loss for the Tang Dynasty, as long as the conditions permit, Li An is not willing to see any Tang Dynasty soldiers killed, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to provide soldiers with better weapons and armor, with these weapons and armor, the probability of the soldier's death will be greatly reduced, and Li An has obviously done so, and has been developing powerful individual armor for many years, and the armor of the entire army is also under development, For example, the ironclad chariot is the core offensive and defensive force of an army, which can greatly reduce the proportion of soldiers killed and wounded.

In addition to these hardware, in the command of the art students, Li An is also more inclined to command with zero casualties, more inclined to use stratagem to obtain the final victory, if the enemy occupies a dangerous point, our army must attack to take it, Li An is willing to give up the capture of this goal, the big deal is to besiege, take the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers to obtain a strategic place, it is too cruel, if this strategic place is urgently needed, it is understandable, if it is just to fight for territory, To capture such an important place without urgency would be a bit of a sloppy affair.

Since ancient times, some generals have been doing nothing at the border passes, doing almost nothing, while some generals have been fighting in the east and west, constantly gaining military merits through war, and killing thousands of innocent soldiers to a certain extent.

This kind of behavior of accumulating military merits for oneself by sacrificing the lives of the soldiers under his command is very disgusting, and many generations of famous generals have done such things.

For example, among the generals of the Tang Dynasty, Ge Shuhan and An Lushan are very famous, because they have more military achievements, among them, one will succeed and ten thousand bones are said to be Ge Shuhan, this goods were originally in order to attack Shibao City, so that tens of thousands of Tang soldiers buried their bones in other places, Shibao City was captured, but tens of thousands of Tang soldiers can no longer go home, although Ge Shuhan has been knighted for this, but these poor ordinary soldiers can no longer enjoy the fun of living, and their families can only get a pitiful pension.

Not to mention An Lushan, this goods often deliberately create friction at the border, and the surrounding ethnic minorities fight back and forth, the soldiers under his command do not know how many dead and wounded, in the end, in order to be able to ascend the throne of God, he actually raised troops to rebel, and the entire Tang Dynasty was harmed, so that the Tang Dynasty has since turned from prosperity to decline.

On the other hand, Lao Guo is different, before the Anshi Rebellion, the history books almost never recorded Lao Guo, as if this task was an old man from birth, what he experienced before, descendants are not very clear, and the reason for this situation is that Lao Guo is low-key, and will not deliberately provoke contradictions with foreign nomads in order to make military achievements.

In this way, the area that Lao Guo is responsible for will always be the peace of the country and the people, and if there is no major event such as war, the history books will naturally not record it, which directly leads to Lao Guo being an old man as soon as he appears.

And Lao Guo's participation in the pacification of the Anshi Rebellion was also to restore peace to the four seas, and his own purpose was not to be promoted and make a fortune, nor did he want to see all parts of the Tang Dynasty fall into a war.

It is precisely because Lao Guo is also a person who loves soldiers like a son, so when Li An raised the issue of zero casualties in the army, Lao Guo seemed very interested, although he also felt that this kind of thing was too difficult to achieve, but he felt that it was okay to try, and it was always good to reduce some casualties as much as possible.

This time when he went to Xiazhou to pacify the horse thief, he did not set a time limit for him, and he would not be punished for Lao Guo not completing the task for a long time, so Lao Guo was not too anxious in his heart, and if he changed the general to deal with this matter, it is estimated that it would not be like this.

For example, Ge Shuhan, he is likely to ignore the lives of his soldiers, forcibly search the mountains on a large scale, and even when he encounters the horse thief's lair, he directly chooses the most barbaric attack strategy, with the equipment of the Tang Army, no matter which horse thief's lair is attacked, it can be captured, as for the dozens or hundreds of soldiers who have been killed, this goods is not counted, as long as the task is completed, he will be satisfied, this goods is such a person.

Therefore, as a soldier, it is also very important to follow the right general, at least the right general will not die in vain for no reason, follow the wrong general, and be ready to bury your bones at any time, if you follow a stupid general, it will be completely finished, and it is very likely that you will not know how to die.

Lao Guo and Li An are also patiently waiting for the information sent back by the foal while sending scouts, and at the same time, subjective analysis cannot be stopped, after all, they can't pin their hopes on a pony thief, in case this pony thief doesn't complete the task, if he is not prepared, wouldn't there be a situation where he will lose everything.

Therefore, it is important to have a solid backup plan in case the pony is unable to complete the task, and there is another way to deal with this problem.

There are many roads from Qiwu Mountain to the east of the river, and only a little analysis of these roads can be carried out to eliminate most of the unsuitable roads, so as to prepare for the analysis of the roads that the horse thieves are most likely to choose.

For example, if the road is too difficult, the horse thief will definitely not choose, there are often officers and soldiers patrolling on the road, and the road is in the desert, and it is difficult to obtain water along the way.

After these few eliminations, there are only a handful of roads left, and there are only a few roads. Then, if the foal can also obtain some information, a comparison of the two will be more certain of the route taken by the horse thief after leaving the Qiwu Mountain.

"Lao Guo, you see, several roads here have to pass through the desert, horse thieves should not have the courage to take these roads, this road in the south is a road that officers and soldiers often patrol, if horse thieves take this road, I am afraid that they will often encounter interrogation, these horse thieves do not have a suitable identity, they can't pass the inspection at all, and these checkpoints need to be verified before they can be released, and horse thieves can't pass, only these small roads that no one pays attention to are the roads that horse thieves can take."

Li An looked at the topographic map of the northern part of the Tang Dynasty and opened his mouth to analyze.

Since ancient times, in order to maintain the stability of the empire, ordinary people in the territory cannot leave their hometowns casually, and they must carry a guide that can prove their identity when they go out.

This practice is also aimed at maintaining social stability, and it is an understandable practice that can alleviate the spread of bandit forces in all directions to a certain extent, completely separate the bandits in various places, and prevent them from being able to easily communicate with each other.

At some of the more dangerous passes, only a few hundred troops need to be deployed, which can easily block the attack of tens of thousands of horses, which can protect the security of the empire to a certain extent.

If there is a large enemy team that needs to travel from one area to another, it is easy to be stopped by these levels, and if you want to pass, you must pay a huge price of casualties to capture the level, and for horse thieves, it seems that there is no need for this, because they have very few people, and there are not too many large siege equipment and a large amount of grain and grass, so you don't have to take the road, and you don't have to go to the checkpoint.

The Yellow River is turbulent, not so easy to pass, but find a bamboo raft and a small boat can still pass, for example, the turbulent Dadu River is also very dangerous, but the boat can still pass, but the passage time is too long, small troops have no problem, but if it is a large number of troops, then it is not possible.

Back then, there was a person named Shi Dakai, who was surrounded and annihilated on the bank of the Dadu River, because the river here was too turbulent, and there were relatively few boats on the riverside, and it was difficult to obtain a sufficient number of temporary boats, so it was destined that only a very small number of men and horses could cross the Dadu River, and the main force of soldiers and horses were blocked on the bank of the Dadu River, and could only be wiped out in the end.

There are only a few hundred horse thieves, the number is very small, and there are no big belongings, as long as you give up all the pots and pots that are not too important, it is still very easy to move, at least in Ang Lee's opinion, there is no difficulty at all, and no moat seems to be able to stop this small-scale team.

However, Li An still doesn't know much about the leader of the horse thieves, this middle-aged man is very picky, he is reluctant to give up the treasures he has obtained with great difficulty, these treasures are his lifeblood, no matter where he goes, he has to take these treasures with him, only in this way can he feel at ease, in addition, food is also his lifeblood, and it is easy to panic without food, so the remaining food for two months must also be taken away.

But if you have a lot of treasures and surplus food, then the pressure on the whole team is too great, this huge team wants to go over the mountains and mountains, it is simply a fool's dream, with these huge materials dragged down, the horse thief team must take a smooth road, must pass the checkpoint guarded by officers and soldiers, and this is not an easy thing for horse thieves.

However, the leader of the horse thieves in Qiwu Mountain is not an ordinary horse thief leader, he has his hands and eyes all over the sky, and he has contacts with the big officials of Xiazhou City, and even some of the big merchants in the city are his own people, so it seems that it is not very difficult for him to get a customs clearance document, and with a legal merchant to lead the way, these horse thieves under his command are not easy to be suspected, after all, as long as the leading merchant has complete procedures, it is enough.