If you venture to Zhecheng alone, but the main force of the Chinese army has not captured Ningling and Chengkuang, you will be very dangerous.

The premise of his own task of attacking Qiaocheng is that the main force of the Chinese army captures Chengkuang and Ningling, and then he can rest assured that he can attack Qiaocheng in the area.

Now that Cheng Kuang has not been captured, Ningling is still in the hands of the Mo family, if he rushes in at this time, it is very likely that something big will happen.

Before the siege of Yongqiu, there are two things that can be clear.

First, the Mo family may not have the main force in Sishang, and the artillery that the Mo family is best at has been transferred to the Laiwu line.

Second, the Mo family could organize a campaign involving at least 30,000 people in the Song Dynasty, even if these people were the new and weak soldiers of Sishang, but that was relative to the main force of Sishang.

The siege of the city did not fall for twelve days, which was really a normal thing for the army of the princes, that is, it was a weak brigade compared to the main force of the Mo family.

However, Duan Duan understood that if this force seized the opportunity to surround him, he would probably be annihilated.

Now, where are those 30,000 people?

Is it to retract Shangqiu and defend to prevent the division of troops from being broken by each and retreating?

Or is it hiding somewhere, setting a trap to lure him into it?

Duan Duan thought, what would he do if he was the Mo family's chief general in the Song Dynasty?

Will you stick to it? Or how will it be?

He had also read a lot of books of the Mo family before, and when he thought of the Mo family's idea of defending the city at the time of Mozi, the upper defense was the attack, and the lower defense was the city, and he felt more and more that this time the Mo family's behavior of giving up two or three cities in a row was extremely suspicious.

After thinking about it, he decided not to be greedy for merit, but to send an envoy to inform the princes that if the princes' army did not break through Ningling, he would never take another step forward. If the army breaks through Ningling, he can break through Zhecheng and go south to Kuxian, thus threatening Qiaocheng.

After the messenger was dispatched, Duan Duan did not wait here stupidly, but chose to take the initiative to test it.

He first advanced the army to Yangxia, where he repaired the city defenses as a base for his advance.

At the same time, scouts were widely sent to Kuxian, Chen and other places.

The next day, he pretended to continue to advance, and ordered the army to drive out of Yangxia and continue the attack.

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To the north of Chendi in the south of Yangxia.

The commander of the Liberation Army here listened to the news of the scout's return, and was slightly nervous.

He knew the high-level strategy of the Mo family, and he also knew that his task was to lure the main force of the coalition army into believing that the purpose of the field troops on the Mo family was to eat the right wing of the coalition army.

If the alliance of the princes could not convince them that the main force on Mojiasi was on their right flank, then the battle might be a little difficult to fight.

He believed in his own combat effectiveness, but if he couldn't pull the coalition's center and right flank apart, there might be a larger battle around Shangqiu than expected, and his own casualties might be larger.

It's not that they can't fight, but when the time comes, about 80,000 to 90,000 enemy troops will be gathered under Shangqiu City, and the Mo family will not have an absolute numerical advantage.

Although one-on-one is not afraid, if you can encircle and annihilate it under superior forces, your own losses will be smaller, and the accident will be smaller.

He believed that Juzi personally commanded this decisive battle, and it was impossible to fail, but he was afraid that the skin would not be thick enough after the dumplings were wrapped, and the princes' coalition army would withdraw after losing most of them, which would not be good.

The little soldiers in their hands can only be used as suspicious soldiers, and it is not enough for them to cut off the back of the coalition army.

The field force in his hands was only half a cavalry brigade and an infantry brigade, and he had to rely on their performances to make the coalition army make the illusion that the main force of the Mo family intended to divide and encircle and annihilate the right flank of the coalition army.

At this time, he got the news that the Korean army on the right flank of the coalition army had left Yangxia, and he knew that his suspicious army was about to appear on the stage.

If the performance is not good, I am afraid that it will affect the overall situation at that time, and when the time comes, I was going to fight 80,000 to 60,000, but it turns out to be 80,000 against 90,000, which is very bad.

So he ordered half a cavalry brigade and an infantry brigade to begin their march northward, exactly one day after the scouts reported that the enemy had marched out of the city, and that the scouts were marching fast.

This news requires him to think and decide.

Is Duan Duan at the end of the right wing of the coalition army greedy for merit, and really believes that the Mo family is powerless to defend, and wants to seize Zhecheng and Kuxian to make miraculous achievements?

Or is the other party not greedy for merit at all, but testing himself?

If it is the former, then it proves that Duan Duan is a fool, so stupid that the first step of the counter-counter-strategy conceived by the giant has not been seen through.

If it's the latter, it's quite possible to put on a big show.

The task of these two brigades was to quickly move north as soon as the friendly forces began to act, and to threaten Yangxia to cut off the retreat of the right flank.

In addition to these two field brigades, there are also second-line garrisons in Chen, Xiang and other places, and they also have to cooperate in acting.

Two days later, Duan Duan had already left Yangxia for forty miles, which was a temptation.

Therefore, on the first day, the march was extremely fast, and on the second day, it began to slow down, waiting for the scouts to report back to the Mo family's reaction.

He is now about fifty li from Zhecheng in the northeast and about seventy li from Kuxian in the southeast.

It was just around noon that the scouts sent out in both directions brought back news.

The scouts in the direction of Zhecheng reported that there were a large number of Mo army activities along the Hongshui line, and as soon as they approached, they were ambushed and captured by the Mo family's scouts, with the obvious intention of capturing them all.

Most of the more than thirty scouts were killed and wounded, and only a few escaped with their martial arts and riding skills.

The scouts in the direction of Chen Di reported that there were indeed traces of the main activities of the Mo family.

Duan Duan breathed a sigh of relief and said secretly, "It's not what I expected." ”

"The Mo family is cunning, and they must lure me into an empty city, while their Sishang army is trying in vain to encircle and annihilate me south of Hongshui and west of Kuxian."

"Fortunately, I saw through it, otherwise I would have been surrounded if I had ventured."

Thinking of this, Duan Duan also broke out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, after he was bloodlessly occupied in Yangxia, he realized that something might be wrong, and he hesitated for two days.

Then under this hesitation, he pretended to venture into the fact that he was not far from Yangxia, and looked at the movements of the Mo family, and sure enough.

Otherwise, he must have marched to the bank of Hongshui now, he couldn't capture Zhecheng before, and he couldn't retreat into Yangxia later, Ningling was still in the hands of the Mo family, and Chengkuang had not yet been breached, so he would really be isolated at that time.

He immediately ordered the front army to change into the rear army and quickly retreat from Chaoyang Xia.

But when retreating, he decisively let the 3,000 Zhao troops on the right flank gallop south of Yangxia to delay the Mojia army in the direction of Chencheng.

The next afternoon, an encounter began.

The 3,000 Zhao troops galloping south of Yangxia encountered more than 2,000 people from the "Mo Family Striker", which was actually the main force of Chen Di's suspicious soldiers.

This was the first time that Zhao Jun fought against the Mo family in the Central Plains, but he was not afraid, but rather eager to try.

Exactly, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

These Zhao troops won many battles against the Zhongshan Kingdom, and several times they went north to the grassland to conquer the Hu people, and they were quick and good at garrisoning, so they were not afraid.

On the one hand, the three thousand Zhao troops immediately sent people to report back to the main general, and on the other hand, they quickly lined up in order to hold on.

This place is flat, all plains, and there is no hill that can be guarded by troops.

The 3,000 Zhao army immediately used the experience of fighting with the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Hu people, and used chariots as a camp and a chain as a city.

A total of three light vehicle camps, each other as horns, three small cannons deployed in the center of the car array.

The musketeers relied on the chariot formation to defend, and the spearmen wore leather armor and guarded the rear of the chariot for hand-to-hand combat.

These 3,000 people should be regarded as the elite of the Korean army on the right flank, and after discovering the "vanguard" of the Mo family on the plain, they quickly launched a formation.

Because they knew that they did not have the cover of cavalry, if they formed a field battle, they would inevitably be attacked by the Mo family.

However, if this is the case, it can hinder the onslaught of the cavalry, minimize the threat of the cavalry, and be able to hold on to reinforcements, making it more difficult for the troops to collapse.

Zhao, Qin and others used this tactic to deal with those nomadic herders on the grassland.

This tactic actually originated from the chariot warfare method of the Central Plains countries, and the Mo family's branch in Takayanagi often used this tactic to fight against some Hu tribes, and some of the nomads in the border forts also used it to fight, and some caravan guards.

It was only used in the Central Plains battlefield, and Zhao Jun's set of operational tactics was still too far behind the times after all.

The "forward" troops on the Mo family's side are suspicious soldiers, but in order to convince the other party that they are the main force, they must win this battle.

Moreover, Wei Han and other countries have always believed that the Mo family is the best at assembling artillery, and in the past year, the battle of Chengyang Liqiu, the luxurious artillery troops have made the Wei State still have lingering palpitations, so they believe that as long as there are more artillery, ten are the main force of the Mo family.

Therefore, in addition to the four small cannons of each brigade that are normally configured, these suspicious soldiers also have six bronze cannons that can shoot five catties of iron bullets.

The commander of the Mo family ordered the cavalry to go around the rear, and the cavalry was not allowed to launch an attack, nor was the cavalry allowed to dismount and fight, the cavalry was a baby pimple, especially the cavalry of this half brigade was not a piece of temporary conscription of the Liangjiazi light cavalry, but a fine cavalry with a service period of about three years.

Looking at the configuration of the Zhao army, the chief general of the Mo family, who had already become a division-level officer, shook his head again and again, and said in his heart, Could it be that the level of war outside the Central Plains has fallen so far behind?

This tactic works on the steppe, and of course it works.

The nomads have no heavy armor, only leather armor, lack of weapons and can only shoot on horseback, and there are almost no bronze cannons.

Therefore, Wu Qi is in the west of Qin, the Zhao people are in the north of Zhongshan, and the Mo family is in Gaoliuyun, they all use it like this, and the Mo family also gave it a nice name, called Wugang Che.

With the formation of martial arts and chariots, accompanied by muskets, tiger squatting cannons, hemp rope cannons, etc., the nomads without heavy armor can't do anything, and there are no cannons, in the face of this kind of garrison, thousands of people can defend 5,000.

Wugang chariots with muskets and small cannons can be described as the end of the nomads, but not to mention that in the Central Plains, even if they encounter semi-agricultural groups that can smelt iron and charge with heavy armor and heavy infantry, it is not effective.

It is really unwise to come to the Central Plains with the experience of fighting nomadic archery without armor.

The last glory of Wu Gangche should be that it fell behind at the moment when the artillery could be tactically moved, and this tactic on the battlefield of the Central Plains was really a bit outdated, and the Mo family general was very suspicious of whether the Zhao people were fighting a low-intensity war in the north and did not know how to fight in the Central Plains.

He could almost tell at a glance that this was Zhao Ren's method.

Because Korea has no such tactics at all, and neither does the Wei State, they don't need to fight against the unarmored nomads, and what they have been fighting against all these years is the new army of the Chu State, the Qin people with heavy flint spears, and the Mo family with no armor but superior firepower.

Just like after the increase in the number of artillery and the deployment of a large number of brigade-level artillery, the Mo family gave up the heavy muskets with large calibers and heavy caliber that could shoot chariot guards and heavy iron armor, and began to equip them with muskets with smaller calibers and lighter guns that could be inserted into short swords for hand-to-hand combat.

Another example is the cavalry dispute in Sishang back then, whether to let the cavalry be equipped with short guns or cavalry hand-to-hand combat impact, which is also due to the fact that the tactics of the main imaginary enemy Wei Han are heavy phalanx tactics. Cavalry equipped with short guns can shoot heavy phalanxes to open gaps, while hand-to-hand cavalry will die miserably unless they seize the opportunity to charge directly into battle.

Demand and environment determine the tactical system and direction of development, so as to make the necessary trade-offs.

There is no demand, and this kind of targeted tactics that are obvious to the nomads who do not wear armor and rush into battle cannot appear in the Han Wei army, which is the Mohist technique of reasoning.

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