Chapter 1638: The Battle of Xuzhou (234)

This kind of training is more like doing exercises, and it is good to keep fit, but when it comes to the battlefield, if you meet a novice, it will be successful, and you will definitely die when you meet the old oil, this kind of situation Liu Lan didn't have an idea at first, first of all, everyone trains soldiers like this, so they can't see anything when they fight, but when they fight with Hu people, they find that the gap is that people's individual combat ability is really strong.

So many people, including some generals around Liu Lan, like to blame everything on Hu Lan's strong physique, Liu Lan also began to believe in such a statement at first, but as the number of battles led by the troops, and after similar situations appeared repeatedly, he began to believe that the statement of human physique was not all right, at least he could not convince Liu Lan of his own.

He began to look for answers, and finally he found the key to solving the problem, it was the training method of the troops that had a problem, or Zhang Fei's reckless training method that made him suddenly enlightened.

It is said that sweating more in peacetime and less bloodshed in wartime is true, but the training of soldiers in peacetime is very hard and hard, and all aspects have been strengthened, which is true, and it is undeniable that Liu Lan and even the entire Han Dynasty warriors have followed this training method to train soldiers for many years, but why do there still be large-scale casualties in the final result, especially recruits?

I don't know if I don't know what to do, and the first time I kill someone, I have to have enough to make up for the new soldier to the veteran? As long as he can strengthen his strength at this point, he specially set up a scribe to carry out psychological massage for the soldiers, but the effect did not improve much, until Zhang Fei led the troops alone, there was a difference, his soldiers were usually injured more than on the battlefield, and on the battlefield, let alone veterans, even if the casualties of new recruits were very rare.

Liu Lan personally went to investigate, and finally found out that Zhang Fei was completely training in the way of actual combat, from a single soldier to one-on-one, and then to join one to one, and then to join two to two, until it became a team of 100 people and a team of 1,000 people to catch and fight, and in traditional training, it is often one-on-one, two-on-two, five-on-five and even direct formation and combat methods.

But on the battlefield, in addition to direct battles, there are many situations like one-on-one two-on-two, but one-on-two, one-on-three, two-on-three, and two-on-four situations are also very common, but he never thought of these before, but Zhang Fei turned the training method into a kind of duel that seems to be in the game, although it seems that such a game seems to be a little bloody, but under this training method, every soldier, including recruits, has a qualitative leap.

They can deal with a variety of situations on the battlefield, and in other units, such situations are only experienced by seasoned veterans, and seemingly well-trained recruits are prone to collapse due to their lack of similar experience, and the fact that their training is not done at high intensity.

He has seen too many such situations, in training, the enemy who slashes is always a scarecrow, as long as he hits the vital point drawn on the straw man, it is killed, so on the training ground, your opponent will never fight back, and when fighting, the same is true, and even as long as you hit the vital point, you will immediately judge the opponent to die, and you cannot fight back, but on the battlefield, you hit the enemy's vital point, maybe the enemy is not killed immediately, and at this moment, maybe some soldiers who are not experienced have become the soul of the knife.

Therefore, Zhang Fei's training methods based on actual combat and high-intensity confrontation training have the highest survival rate of soldiers under his account, Liu Lan began to promote, first taking Liaodong as a test point, using new training methods and using Hu people as a pilot, there will be feedback soon.

And the result naturally made him very satisfied, and even in the feedback report, Xu Huang's words made him remember vividly, if it weren't for the lord to strengthen the confrontation and simulate the actual battle, I really don't know that our army's training is like a hundred plays and five birds.

One sentence said what Liu Lan thought in his heart, these are the words that Liu Lan has always wanted to say but couldn't say, so later Liu Lan said that the traditional training method is to teach everyone how to do exercises, and the reason why I can't see any advantages and disadvantages is because everyone is in such a way, but when fighting with real elite soldiers or even fighting with the Hu people, all the problems will appear.

Training without physical confrontation is like working behind closed doors, and you never know how strong you are or how to deal with a crisis in a given situation.

But now many complicated situations will appear in training, coupled with high-intensity confrontation, even if there is an injury, it is better than being killed in wartime, not to mention the internal high-intensity training, in the end, they will stop and will not be killed.

And these are the experiences that recruits did not have in the past, and it can even be said that many people have never had an experience, as if they have seen a new continent, their eyes have been opened, and the original training can be like this, and the previous training is not like a game? Although there are more wounded soldiers, it will even affect morale, and some failures will even cause fear of training, and such soldiers will be transferred from the main force, either into the fire battalion or directly repatriated, anyway, there is only one purpose, that is, to train a real elite soldier strong future.

Therefore, in these soldiers, Liu Lan has worked very hard, coupled with a full range of logistics guarantees, these soldiers are Liu Lan's lifeblood in the true sense, he values the life and death of soldiers more than anyone else, in his opinion, even if all the counties and counties of Xuzhou are lost, as long as these soldiers are okay, then one day he will be able to get back this success, but if these hard-earned soldiers are all wiped out in Xuzhou, then everything will be over.

Although Liu Lan still has a lot of confidence in the battle of Xuzhou, he also knows what this battle means to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and they will not give up easily, so the top priority at the moment is either to drag Cao Cao and wait for Guan Yu to defeat Wen Chou, or to take advantage of Cao Cao's future to defeat Gao Ran with Zhao Yun.

These two things are more difficult, and the difficulty is very high, he is not even sure that Guan Yu will be able to defeat Wen Chou, nor is he sure that Zhao Yun will be able to defeat Gao Ran Xiahoudun after he arrives, so this time his confidence is completely a gamble, as for the final result, whether he will hold Xuzhou or Cao Yuan will take Xuzhou, in fact, everything is still unknown at this time.

"Speed up the march, and be sure to rush to Pengcheng before dawn." Gao Ran gave the troops an order to move forward quickly, their battle was not to capture Pengcheng, but to stop Liu Lan and defeat Liu Lan, if they could succeed, I believe that the battle would be decided.

But he is not optimistic, because the opponent is Liu Lan, so he looks a little worried, if Liu Lan runs away again, then this battle means that this is the end, he will not go south again, let alone chase Guangling, even if it is Xiapi, at least before he does not command Wen Chou's troops, or Wen Chou commands his troops.

Everything was to ensure that nothing went wrong and not to give Liu Lan any opportunity to take advantage of, at this moment, several scouts rushed from the front, flew off their horses, and knelt down on one knee to report: "General, I have detected that there is something wrong in Pengcheng, and nine times out of ten it is Liu Lan who is evacuating Pengcheng!" ”

"Running again?" Gao Ran snorted coldly, as if he was not surprised at all, if he hadn't suffered a loss on Zang Ba before, he would definitely think that Liu Lan was really crazy at this moment, so he gave up the two major counties of Xuzhou, but now he won't, Liu Lan evacuated, as he expected, since this is the case, then there is no need to pursue, inform General Xiahou that now the whole army will turn north and capture Xuzhou City. ”

"No." The partial general suddenly stopped, and said anxiously: "General, although Liu Lan has the intention to continue to go south, if he knows that our army is not chasing, he will definitely return to Pengcheng to hold on, he is now to put it bluntly, he is waiting for the news of Kaicheng Guan Yu, and there is a glimmer of hope for a reversal of defeat in Pengcheng at this time, instead of going north to Xuzhou City, it is better to go all out to capture Pengcheng, and after he has this idea, he will not delay returning to attack Xuzhou City." ”

Gao Ran initially had some ideas of his own, but after hearing what the general said, he thought about it very seriously, and finally made a decision and nodded: "Okay, just do as you say, now go and inform the troops and General Xiahou, the whole army will advance at full speed, attack the city overnight, and take Pengcheng before dawn tomorrow!" ”

"No." The person who came took the arrow handed by Gao Ran, flew on the horse, and galloped towards the rear army Xiahoudun team, Gao Ran looked at his distant back, looked at the partial general and said: "How do you think Xiahoudun will react?" ”

"This person seems to be a martial artist, but he is by no means a reckless person, you can know a thing or two from his pursuit of the Xuzhou army to Liangcheng, so the general can rest assured, he will never be as ignorant of the situation as General Wen."

"Hopefully." Gao Ran muttered softly, no matter how strong the enemy is, he is not afraid, what he is most afraid of now is someone like Wen Chou, who is self-righteous if he does not listen to persuasion, which makes him a little helpless, he is not convinced and unconvinced, and in the end there is no way but to break up.

In fact, he was under great pressure while making this decision, if this battle was won according to his ideas, then Yuan Shao would not blame him in the past, but if it backfired, all the charges and all the consequences needed to be borne by him alone, he was under great pressure, but under the circumstances at that time, he had no choice, this battle could only be won and not defeated.

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Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao Xu Sheng retreated from two directions, according to Liu Lan's orders, especially after learning that Gao Ran was about to chase Pengcheng, as a cavalry, they must rush to Pengcheng as soon as possible, the soldiers are fast, but in this way, the infantry may be in danger, and finally the three of them made a common decision after discussing together, Zhao Yun took the cavalry to rush back to Pengcheng first, and they returned at a normal marching speed, if Cao Cao chased them, they would have to resist to death, dragging him, Give Zhao Yun and the lord more time and opportunity to destroy the enemy in Pengcheng, if they don't chase them, they will return step by step, I believe that when they return to Pengcheng, they should have already divided the victory and defeat, and if they don't appear, the situation will be completely changed.

The dragoons rushed all the way to Pengcheng, although Liu Lan had already received the news, but Zhao Yun was still a step late, and Gao Ran arrived in advance, which made Liu Lan's original plan fall through, he must now evacuate Pengcheng, hide in the wilderness, and wait for Zhao Yun to arrive, and that was the time for them to launch a fierce attack on Gao Lan.

The plan is very thorough, but before defeating Gao Lan, Liu Lan will not have 100% hope for any plan, not even 30 percent, he knows very well that the military situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the deployment he specified, to put it bluntly, is carried out according to the current situation, but no one can predict in advance what will happen tomorrow, and the war is precisely so rapidly changing, not to mention that the military situation of one day is unpredictable, and no one can guarantee what kind of situation may occur after an hour.

In this case, Liu Lan can only do his best, if the situation has not changed tomorrow, then he will continue to follow step by step, if there is an unexpected situation, then the second plan or even the third and fourth plan will become a backup to be used, this time Liu Lan designed countless plans, although the lack of Xu Shu and the lack of Chen Gong will make his plan impossible to be as perfect as before, but it is also a plan he made after careful consideration, enough to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Gao Ran initially had some ideas of his own, but after hearing what the general said, he thought about it very seriously, and finally made a decision and nodded: "Okay, just do as you say, now go and inform the troops and General Xiahou, the whole army will advance at full speed, attack the city overnight, and take Pengcheng before dawn tomorrow!" ”

"No." The person who came took the arrow handed by Gao Ran, flew on the horse, and galloped towards the rear army Xiahoudun team, Gao Ran looked at his distant back, looked at the partial general and said: "How do you think Xiahoudun will react?" ”

"This person seems to be a martial artist, but he is by no means a reckless person, you can know a thing or two from his pursuit of the Xuzhou army to Liangcheng, so the general can rest assured, he will never be as ignorant of the situation as General Wen."

"Hopefully." Gao Ran muttered softly, no matter how strong the enemy is, he is not afraid, what he is most afraid of now is someone like Wen Chou, who is self-righteous if he does not listen to persuasion, which makes him a little helpless, he is not convinced and unconvinced, and in the end there is no way but to break up.

In fact, he was under great pressure while making this decision, if this battle was won according to his ideas, then Yuan Shao would not blame him in the past, but if it backfired, all the charges and all the consequences needed to be borne by him alone, he was under great pressure, but under the circumstances at that time, he had no choice, this battle could only be won and not defeated.