Zhao Hao observed the entire battlefield from the imperial boat, although it was not true from a distance, but he could also understand the development of the battle situation. After discovering that there were enemy troops visiting the camp that day, he became vigilant, and while strengthening the defense, he also ordered Ni Liang, who was on the front line of Fuli, to strengthen reconnaissance of the enemy to see if there was any abnormal movement. Soon he discovered that the enemy army of Mengyuan was searching for ships on a large scale, and reported the situation to the camp. The navy also found that there were boats on the lake near the camp, and there were unknown people around the camp who tried to get close to the camp.

After receiving reports from all sides, Zhao Yu could basically conclude that the enemy army was trying to attack his rear army camp, and the target was nothing more than hoarding grain and grass on the zero wall and himself, the number one 'aggressor'. After obtaining the enemy's intentions, he did not alarm the enemy spies, but frequently appeared in their field of vision, and secretly unfolded the arrangement. Grain and grass are the guarantee of the battle of 200,000 troops, and Zhao Yu naturally does not dare to ignore it, and he will not risk it.

As the saying goes, 'three holes of cunning rabbits' is actually the same in military affairs, when choosing a camp, the main general will choose several reserve camps and then choose one of them, but at the same time, a spare camp will be built so that it can be transferred in time when there is a change. Therefore, he immediately activated the contingency plan, and quietly transferred the boats to the reserve camp in batches while it was dark at night, and used the old village as a bait to lure the enemy, and everything was as usual in the eyes of outsiders, and even the camp did not move.

At present, the strength of the Lingbi battalion is the first brigade and two regiments of the Imperial Front Protector Army, the Imperial Front Naval Army, and a detachment of the Inland Water Army serving as the escort, with a strength of about 15,000 troops, and then thousands of soldiers and civilians. It is inevitable that there will be a shortage of troops in two places, but it is also impossible to draw troops from the front line, so this anti-sneak attack operation is to see the rice in the pot.

However, Zhao Yu did not preside over the operation, because the five brigades in front of the Lingbi Imperial Palace had the largest number of troops, and the brigade leader Luo Datong had the highest position, so he organized a counter-sneak attack operation, supplemented by others. However, he only participated in the operation as a bystander, and did not interfere in how to allocate troops, organize defense, or even counterattack operations, let alone make specific suggestions.

"Your Majesty, this Mengyuan enemy army is very fierce in battle, and it has lost more than seventy percent of its troops, and it is still able to organize an attack, which is really rare in recent years!" Tan Fei, who was accompanying him, also kept an eye on the changes in the battlefield, and when he saw that the enemy army that infiltrated the camp failed to attack the camp, although it suffered heavy losses, it still did not surrender and tried to break through, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, Meng Yuan's guards are still very combat-effective, and they deserve the name of the pro-army!" Zhao Yu also picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction he pointed, only to see that a remnant of the army had fallen into a heavy encirclement, and there was no hope of breaking through, but they were still rushing left and right to find loopholes in their own defense. If we don't talk about the stance and other things, the fighting spirit is really admirable.

In his previous life, when Zhao Yu was mixed with various military forums, he found that there was a saying that in the ancient cold weapon war, once the casualties of the troops would collapse, and the loss of three percent could still be called the elite. Because of the wide spread of this statement and the convincing rhetoric of the speaker, he was convinced of it, and when he came to this era, he also used it as a standard for his estimation.

But after a series of battles, Zhao Yu questioned this standard, because in the Mengyuan battle, many battles were fought hard, and it was very common for the enemy to lose thirty percent or more than half of the battle and still fight to the death, and more than half of the casualties in the battle of 1,000 people, and even the situation of the whole army being wiped out has also happened many times.

This made Zhao Hao have to re-examine the 'talk of experience' in the past. He thought that from a macro point of view, there would be a big gap between the combat awareness and combat effectiveness of the army of the same dynasty in the early stage and logistics. In addition to the Khitan, the opponents faced by the Song Dynasty in several anti-aggression wars were all redundant in the face of the new regimes such as the Jurchens and the Mongols, resulting in thousands of people being chased and fought by dozens of enemies, and the slightest loss would collapse during the battle.

Although the Mengyuan army that Zhao Yu is currently facing has been declining, it is only compared with its total victory, so its combat effectiveness has declined due to many reasons such as corruption among senior officers and the pursuit of pleasure, but it must have a strong foundation. Secondly, since the founding of the country, Meng Yuan has been fighting everywhere more than once, and the long-term war has also trained a good fighting army, not only with many officers who are good at command, but also with a large number of veterans with rich combat experience, which is very important.

Because whether in ancient times or in modern times, the army is an organized collective, and the officer is responsible for conveying the commander's will to each soldier as a network for transmitting orders, and the death of a junior officer during the battle means that it cannot be arranged into a predetermined formation and cannot carry out a predetermined battle plan, but the death of a small number of junior officers will not affect the overall situation, because there are other junior officers who take charge of the command, or there are officers at the higher level who skip the command. But if there is a large number of low-ranking officers who are killed, the soldiers who are not in command will not be able to exert their collective strength, and there will still be a rout.

Therefore, his understanding is: the ancient army due to the backwardness of technology, the need for more junior officers to command, under the same casualties, the proportion of junior officers killed is higher than that of modern times, with the large-scale death of junior officers, the army lost its organization, and the remaining stragglers will inevitably retreat. However, at this point, it is not insurmountable for Meng Yuan. You must know that Mengyuan's army gradually transitioned from the initial all-people soldiers to the current military household system with soldiers as a profession, which can basically be regarded as professional.

And the professionalization of the army, which makes the military quality of the military personnel improved, more people can take over the post when the commander dies, and the officer can command more people, and a new grassroots military organization can be reformed before the collapse. Therefore, it can be said that the complete maintenance of the command system of the Mengyuan army and the professionalization and semi-professionalism made the decline in its combat effectiveness only gradual, rather than a cliff-like decline.

Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that the so-called "one percent loss can lead to the collapse of the whole army" is not a golden rule, and there is actually no fixed collapse threshold here, and the tenacity of different troops varies greatly. However, in actual combat, it can be set as a stop loss point, or as a basis for strategic arrangement. If the troops have suffered more than one casualty, send reserves to reinforce or retreat on their own initiative, and never wait for this force to be defeated before sending reinforcements, it will almost certainly collapse.

Because the current battle mode is often face-to-face contact, the --- one side loses confidence, abandons the position and flees---- so the defenseless back is exposed to the attacker---- and the pursuit causes greater battle damage. It can be seen that the argument that the brave wins when the two armies meet is not groundless, and even if the two armies pay a large number of casualties in a contact battle, as long as it can cause the other side to abandon its position, it is worth it, because in the pursuit of the attack, it can be recouped with profits, as evidenced by many small battles in which fewer victories are more.

In a large-scale battle, even if the battlefield is vast and there will be multiple contact surfaces, the situation will be more complicated, but the reason is the same. In a local battlefield, it is possible that you have repelled the enemy on the contact surface, but on another battlefield, you may also be broken by the enemy. However, as long as there are sufficient reserves, they can still rely on their reinforcements to avoid collapse on the battlefield where the battle is unfavorable. And when an important contact point is completely repulsed by the enemy, leaving more of your own troops under enemy threat, a timely retreat at the expense of the rear troops can also avoid a catastrophic rout.

But it's hard to say from a microscopic point of view, and a small elite army can be killed to the last when it is forced to die. And the remnants of the Mengyuan army in front of them are exactly like this, they are in an ambush at the moment, the casualties have already exceeded half, but they are still stubbornly trying to highlight the encirclement in the battle, Zhao Yu does not deny that if he has been prepared, it is really possible to catch them off guard. But if they are successful, they are not satisfied, after all, with those rudimentary firearms in their hands and the troops that are at an absolute disadvantage, it is still much worse to shake the battalion.

The reason why this Mengyuan army is allowed to infiltrate the camp now is actually mostly because of its own 'release of water', and the other half is because it has to face two enemy attacks after dividing its troops. On the one hand, he had to ensure the absolute safety of the little emperor who stayed in the old camp, and also to ensure that the grain and grass were not lost; On the other hand, it is necessary to thwart the enemy's rush and annihilate the infiltrating enemy. After all, if they prevent thieves for a thousand days, if they do their best to destroy thieves, they will no longer dare to covet their rear camp.

In order to make a foolish plan, Luo Datong discussed a number of plans with Zheng Yong, the commander of the Imperial Naval Army, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard Brigade, Tan Fei, the commander of the guard battalion, and the generals under his command, and thought of a lot of ways, but there are still loopholes in how to look at them. They presented it to Zhao Yu for decision, but they were sent back as it was, and did not 'make the decision' for them, so Luo Datong chose the conservative plan of distributing the troops equally.

According to the analysis of the generals before the battle, when Meng Yuan attacked from two directions, they would inevitably attack at the same time, turning each other into horns, so that it would be difficult for their own side to take care of each other, so that there would be loopholes in the defensive line, so that they would have a chance to take advantage of it. Therefore, most of the remaining troops of the Fifth Brigade were transferred to the camp to set up an ambush, preparing to seal the gap after they entered the hub, and dispatched warships to attack and annihilate the attacking enemy troops on both sides.

But who would have thought that the soldiers and horses of the Mengyuan and Yuan attacks did not cooperate, and did not follow their plan, resulting in the invasion of the enemy's navy, their own navy had to fight first, in order to prevent the plan of luring the enemy into the depths from failing, and most of the infantry army could only watch from the outside, so that this small enemy army successfully invaded the camp......