Chapter 432: Stratagem (I)

Knowing how to hear the drum and advance and retreat can be a pawn, you can obey the order to line up and fight in a formation for the soldiers, and if you don't have an order to fight to the death, you can fight and retreat to be an elite soldier.

Why was Qin the most powerful of the nations? In addition to the Qin people who are not afraid of death, it is because of changes and strengthening the army, the so-called strong army is to set up a training base to train one after another soldiers who know how to obey orders and fight in formation, and in the long-term campaign, they have cultivated one after another soldiers who do not retreat without orders but can fight and retreat in an orderly manner when they get military orders.

Of course, Qin's farming and warfare system ensured that the Qin army's logistical supply was sufficient, and not being troubled by the lack of grain and straw during the battle was also one of the important reasons why the Qin State was strong.

Lu Zhe's training is relatively systematic, and the first step is that the soldiers must understand the importance of the team and develop the habit of obeying military orders in the drill, in fact, this is no different from the training method of the Qin army, the difference is to test in actual combat.

The nations are different, they recruit men into the army and will also practice, but they follow the system of individual martial arts, that is, the training of the personal force of the soldiers, and the coordination and formation of the soldiers are not so particular.

Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, such as the Qin army and the Lu Zhe army, their armies always need a period of training, depending on how much the troops accept the training before they can be pulled out to fight, while the countries can fight as long as they organize enough manpower.

Systematic training depends on time, and if the number of troops in the rear is exhausted and the number of troops in the rear cannot keep up, then there will be a stunned decline in the combat effectiveness of the follow-up troops after the death of the organized army. At the same time, this style of army is also quite dependent on the command system, and if a high-ranking general mutinies and orders surrender, then the entire army will obey the order and surrender.

In history, after the Battle of Julu, Zhang Han's troops still had the ability to fight, but the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops who did not lose their combat ability under an order were immediately abolished, and I don't know whether to praise the Qin army's obedience to military orders, or to sigh that an elite army that clearly had combat effectiveness was killed by the pit.

That is, a systematically trained army will lay down its arms under a surrender order, if it were a scattered army like the nations. Obviously the commander who still has the combat ability to surrender ordered to surrender, it is estimated that the generals who did not want to surrender disobeyed, and the soldiers below also mutinied, and in the end, the whole army escaped and surrendered, and it would not be so consistent and consistent.

It's not a joke, it's not a nonsense, Zhang Han's corps came from Shaofu and Lishan prisoners, and after forming the army, there was a period of training according to the Qin army model, and the result was that he was ordered to surrender and really surrendered. The Zhao and Qi troops in the countries were suppressed and beaten by the Qin army for a long time, and many Zhao generals and Qi generals surrendered. But the soldiers of Zhao and Qi fled for their lives.

If there were no unexpected changes, the Qin army was definitely a formidable army, even if the center interfered with the army that was out on the march.

Take Wang Ben's failure to attack Handan, for example, when the Qin army was too scattered due to excessive indulgence and looting, Zhang Er defeated the Qin army continuously, but the Qin army did not completely lose its combat power in the face of defeat, according to the inertia cultivated by training, the Qin army did not disperse after the defeat, but fought and retreated, so even the casualties of the defeated Qin army were not too many. In the end, the scattered Qin troops also retreated to Taiyuan County in an orderly manner.

And what about Zhang Er? Zhang Er's army first won the victory at the stage of high morale, but Wang Ben led 20,000 cavalry to rush and kill several times in a row, and the result was that no matter how strong the morale was, it was only one or two times, and in the end, no matter how Zhang Er restrained the troops, he couldn't restrain them. The 70,000 Zhao army was scattered and defeated under the continuous attack of Wang Ben's 20,000 cavalry. Until Wang Ben returned to Taiyuan County with his cavalry, it would be about ten days, right? It took Zhang Er a lot of effort to gather the scattered and fleeing Zhao pawns back to less than 20,000 people, but there were about 30,000 Zhao pawns who couldn't get back at all.

The way the army is drilled determines the tenacity of an army, and 30,000 of Sima Xin's troops are from the orthodox Qin army. The other 20,000 people were also selected by Lu Zhe from among the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who had been following after the Battle of Yiling and were included in the Southern Army. Generally speaking, if it is divided according to the rank of "pawn", "soldier" and "elite soldier", although the 50,000 soldiers under Sima Xin are not "elite soldiers" Cheng dù. But it will definitely not be as unbearable as a "pawn".

Such an army, which can be called a soldier, may be afraid of the siege of nearly 400,000 people in Baiyue, but it will never cause panic.

Since Sima Xin sent Shao Ai, Yi Jia, and Li Heng out of the city to fight, during which there was a tragic incident of common anger between people and gods, and the violent soldiers suffered a slight loss in a fierce battle with South Vietnam, and then the three soldiers who went out of the city to fight calmed down and recovered their formation, and then the two sides fought back and forth between advance and retreat throughout the day, and the three soldiers lost more than 2,000 people in their own situation, including the first batch of Baiyue people to try to attack the city, only one day Baiyue lost about 50,000 combat power.

On the first day, he was forced out of the city to fight, and achieved twenty-five times the result at the cost of losing 2,000 people, and Sima Xin was not happy about this. In his opinion, his own troops are too small, even if Baiyue is vulnerable, but the number of people is too much, and it is not suitable for field battles.

When night came, the two sides boycotted, and the chiefs of Baiyue, who had stopped fighting for a while, summarized very roughly, Baiyue's army structure was too chaotic and it was destined to be difficult to count the correct number of casualties, and the result was that more than 18,000 people were killed on the spot, and more than 20,000 were seriously injured, but how many ran away is really impossible to calculate.

In just one day, there were almost 40,000 people, and Song and Wu Zhu were in a cold sweat, and the enlightened sen, who had lost about 25,000 people, was hideous.

Baiyue's disadvantage to the Chinese is obvious, no one has denied this, but the loss of nearly 40,000 people only caused more than 2,000 casualties to Lu Zhejun, and this more than 2,000 people have not all been killed, a considerable part of Lu Zhejun was injured and was taken back, they were really a little frightened by this.

In fact, because the Baiyue people have few metal weapons, Sima Xin's soldiers are basically armored, and it is easy to hurt people with blunt weapons, but if you want to kill, you must hit them continuously.

The Baiyue people cut off less than five hundred heads of Lu Zhejun, and 18,000 died on their own side, how many times is this difference? How could it not be that Yihu Song and Su Wuzhu were scared out of a cold sweat.

In that moment, Su Wuzhu thought of withdrawing his troops, in the past, Baiyue had not fought with the Chinese army, and the war between Baiyue and the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty for more than a hundred years was not small, and he often fought with the Chu army at the end of the Warring States Period, and he also fought with the Qin army in recent years, but the previous battle loss ratio between the two sides was not so exaggerated.

Lu Zhejun's equipment is complete, and every soldier has at least a pair of leather armor on his body, and there are not a few who have bronze armor.

Of course, the armor is sufficient, after all, during the period when he had just risen, Lu Zhe ordered the army to hunt and kill wild beasts, and for a period of time, he also carried out large-scale and efficient hunting of wild buffaloes, rhinoceros, and crocodiles in Yunmengze.

Too many of Baiyue's soldiers are armed with sharpened wooden sticks and bamboo guns, and they want to use this kind of thing to stab Lu Zhejun to death, to be honest, it is really a little difficult, and it is not as lethal as a blunt weapon to Lu Zhe's soldiers.

Yi Hu Song's impression of Lu Zhejun was not only that all the troops were equipped with armor, but he also had a deep fear of Lu Zhejun's bow and crossbow troops.

The Qin army had fought against Baiyue in the south, and the Qin army, which had always had a reputation for the benefit of bows and arrows, was very powerful, but Yi Hu Song watched it all day, and he found that the lethality of Lu Zhe's crossbowmen was even sharper than that of the Qin army.

The so-called sharpness of the Song Dynasty does not mean that Lü Zhejun's crossbowmen shoot farther or cover Cheng than the Qin army, but that the arrow array laid by Lü Zhejun's crossbowmen is very targeted.

Bai Yue will be killed and injured so many times in one day, as long as anyone who watches the battle process can see that the fierceness of Lu Zhe's soldiers in the melee battle between the two sides is only a small reason, in fact, it is the crossbowmen who went out of the city to lay down the battle formation in the back of Baiyue.

In fact, if it weren't for the crossbowmen who went out of the city in the later period, even with Li Heng's cavalry by their side, no matter how strong the two infantry armies of Shao Ai and Yi Jia were, there was a limit to how strong they were, and they could block the impact of tens of thousands of hundreds of Yue people once, twice, and three times...... It will always be disrupted, after all, the Baiyue people occupy an absolute numerical advantage, and there is no crossbowman to lay down an arrow array to block the enemy and shoot out of the blank area as a barrier, and the Yijia and Shao Ai divisions that are too late to be attacked in a row will definitely be disrupted, and once they lose their formation advantage, it will become a foregone conclusion to retreat under fatigue.

Wu Wuzhu wanted to withdraw, but Song and Kaimingsen opposed it.

The reason for Kaimingsen's opposition is very simple, South Vietnam has killed and wounded so many people, and it would be too unwilling to withdraw after only fighting for a while.

Yi Hu Song was shocked that Lu Zhejun's combat strength actually meant to retreat, but the battle had already begun, and the laborers were surrounded by everyone, and there were still a steady stream of small tribes coming behind, so it was not appropriate to retreat now.

Baiyue has an absolute numerical advantage, and no matter how the defenders of Luoxian can fight, it is only 50,000 people, and relying on the absolute numerical advantage is not completely without a start.

Yi Hu Song cared about the fact that there were too many Baiyue people from the small tribes that kept coming behind, so much that they would soon be twice as many as the combined forces of Ouyue, Minyue, and Nanyue, and he thought that with the Baiyue people of those small tribes to grind with the defenders of Luo County, even if there were more casualties, they could grind the body of the defenders of Luo County quickly, and when the defenders of Luo County were tired, the opportunity would come.

In this way, Baiyue still provoked the defenders outside the city of Luoxian, and the field battles, large or small, did not stop. (To be continued......)