Chapter 468: Terrorist Invasion
The heavy cavalry smashed into the light cavalry formation, and the fate of the light cavalry was self-evident.
Therefore, the trapping army that laid down the fish scale formation instantly cut through the enemy's forward, and several small phalanxes in the shape of fish scales were arranged according to echelons, with a slightly convex front end. The Gongsun Chan army, which was cut open, was wrapped up in these small formations, facing endless assaults again and again.
On the other hand, the 3,000 yuan crossbow in the hands of the Coiled Snake Legion increased the power of the light cavalry's cavalry, and in the face of their Gongsun Zhan cavalry, it was like a swarm of locusts sprayed with pesticides, constantly falling to the ground.
The rear of the Gongsun army.
Guan Jing never expected that Qin Feng's cavalry tactics were so exquisite, and the power of the weapon was unimaginable, so he hurriedly said: "Lord, you can't be defeated for the time being!" ”
Gongsun Zhan looked at the cavalry who were constantly falling to the ground, and his face was blue and white for a while. He asked himself if he started with cavalry, in the past, the white horse was righteous from the north, and the horseback people of the grassland were fighting with their heads and rats, but he didn't expect to be so powerless as soon as he met Qin Feng.
"This is just Qin Feng's cavalry troops, he still has 120,000 infantry ......." Gongsun Zhan looked at the dilapidated Beiping City from afar, if this city had not stopped his progress, Youzhou would have been under his control now. If that were the case, he would not be so passive when facing Qin Feng's army.
"Retreat, Mingjin retreat!" Gongsun Chan gritted his teeth and said.
In the sound of gold, Gongsun Zhan's cavalry quickly broke away from the battle line.
Qin Feng's trapped iron cavalry was not fast enough in the face of light cavalry because it was a heavy cavalry, and Gongsun Zhan still had 80,000 cavalry, and Qin Feng would not take the liberty of ordering 40,000 snake cavalry to pursue the enemy cavalry that was twice as strong as his own, so he collected his troops and entered the city.
This battle. Both sides were in a hurry, but Qin Feng had the upper hand. 5,000 people were lost, and more than 10,000 people of Gongsun Chan were eliminated. In a head-to-head duel on the Cavalry Plains. That's quite a good result.
Qin Feng entered the city.
Gao Shun tied himself up and came to plead guilty. "My lord, Gao Shun is incompetent."
Qin Feng shook his head slightly, and personally helped this general up. "Gongsun Zhan raised 150,000 troops and 100,000 cavalry this time, and Boda was able to hold Beiping County, which is meritorious!"
"Lord!" The surviving warriors of the Youzhou Legion supported each other's tired bodies and lined up to pay respects. on that haggard but resolute face. Filled with the smoke and ashes of war.
Qin Feng picked up the few people in front of him one by one, and comforted each other with kind words. At the same time, he ordered the accompanying military advisers Xu Shu and Jia Xu to send orders to the Military Aircraft Department to allocate money and food from the central government to compensate the families of the fallen soldiers.
The Qin army received reinforcements and won another big victory, with high morale and waiting for a big battle in the coming day.
It is said that after Gongsun Zhan returned to the camp in a hurry, he raised the tent to gather the people to discuss the matter.
"I didn't expect Qin Feng's army to be so strong, and now his 120,000 infantry has also come to Beiping County, and the strength is already above me. What can I do? Gongsun Chan began to fear the strength of Qin Feng's army, so he thought about returning to Liaodong to accumulate strength, or sending troops to destroy Sanhan, or he could become king on the spot.
However, let go of the vast world of the Han land. He was unwilling.
Beiyan died in battle, Tian Kai and Yang Zuo, the two generals, had no idea, and they were very afraid of the battle just now. But on the surface, it is like being concentrated.
Guan Jing frowned slightly, twisting his beard and pondering. He was a counselor who accompanied him. Relied on by Gongsun Zhan. So, all eyes. It's all focused on him.
A long time later, just when Gongsun Chan was about to get impatient, Guan Jing smiled.
When Gongsun Zhan saw it, hope rose in his heart, and he hurriedly said, "Mr. Guan Jing, is there a plan to break the enemy?" ”
"Yes!" Guan Jing said with a smile.
"Will the plan be released?" Gongsun Chan hurriedly said.
Guan Jing smiled slightly and said, "Qin Feng's 200,000 army requires a lot of grain and grass. The lord can take advantage of the mobility of the light cavalry under his command and scatter into the hinterland behind Qin Feng to plunder. Qin Zijin is benevolent, righteous and loves the people, and will definitely divide his troops. And the cavalry of our army that entered Youzhou did not fight with it, but guerrillas, using mobile guerrilla warfare and plundering all the way. In this way, Qin Feng's division of troops weakened his strength, and secondly, he snatched money and food for his own use. ”
"Three...... well." Guan Jing said this, his eyes flashed with ferocity, and said: "Kill all, burn all, rob the people that Qin Feng relied on, destroy his logistics and supplies, and drag down Qin Feng's army." ”
"That's a brilliant plan!" Gongsun Zan was overjoyed, and he immediately sent Tian Kai and Yang Zuo, each leading 10,000 cavalry to cross Beiping and enter the hinterland of Youzhou, and dispersed into more than 20 units to plunder the countryside everywhere.
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"Charge, charge!"
Gongsun Zhan's iron cavalry wreaked havoc in Youzhou villages, killing people, burning houses, and looting money and grain. Wolf smoke spread in Youzhou, and the entire Youzhou suddenly fell into white terror.
In May 195 AD, the second month of the Northern Anti-Aggression War, the invading army led by Gongsun Chan was unable to confront Qin Feng's main force head-on. He used Guan Jing's strategy to send 20,000 light horsemen into the hinterland of Qin Feng, burning and looting all the way, and fighting to feed the war. In vain, he tried to destroy Qin Feng's rear foundation, so that Qin Feng would be cut off from food and drag down Qin Feng's army.
At the same time, Gongsun Chan used Youzhou as his logistical and violent supply point, plundering human and material resources on a large scale. From this month onwards, Gongsun Zhan, who had tasted the sweetness for the first time, launched an even more crazy and cruel sweep against Qin Feng's Youzhou.
Qin Feng, who got the news, was taken aback, he never expected that Gongsun Chan would be extremely vicious and murderous to ordinary people. Due to the loss of the Youzhou garrison corps, there were no soldiers in all parts of Youzhou to resist the cavalry of Gongsun Zhan's invasion. He immediately mobilized Jizhou, and the state garrison corps entered Youzhou nearby to do a good job of internal defense.
At the same time, 50,000 main army corps were transferred to the periphery to fight. Compress the enemy's space for roundabout aggression and create favorable conditions for large-scale annihilation of the enemy.
However, the evil Gongsun Zhan's army was very cunning, using guerrilla warfare to avoid Qin Feng's main army, and gathering and gathering superior forces from time to time to eliminate the garrison corps and militia teams stationed in the village one by one. Even Qin Feng's encirclement and suppression entered a predicament for a while.
Gongsun Zhan's army plundered everywhere like this, in a vain attempt to drag Qin Feng down with the three-light policy of burning, killing, and robbing everything. In the sweep of Gongsun Zhan's army, the beautiful and rich Youzhou. It turned out to be a corpse that looked up and saw the bones, and there were iron hooves everywhere. There is no village and no filial piety, and there is a terrifying world of wolf smoke everywhere.
Twenty miles east of Beiping City. Gongsun Chan camp.
"Hahaha...... Mr. Guan Jing is a good plan. Qin Zijin divided his troops and did not dare to attack head-on again. Within a few months, his army ran out of food and grass, and he was in chaos without a fight. Gongsun Chan was arrogant, walked around excitedly in the big tent, clenched his fists and said: "The north, it's mine." Mr. Guan Jing is the first ....... ”
Guan Jing twisted his beard, and he was also triumphant. Xin said that Qin Zijin had six major strategists under him, but he was not Er'er, and he used a little strategy, which made him anxious. He was not ashamed of this vicious plan and slaughtered millions of people in Youzhou.
In this regard, Gongsun Chan reorganized his armament and waited for the moment when Qin Feng's army was dragged down.
Beiping City County guarded the mansion, and Qin Feng was temporary.
The cruel reality raised a problem to Qin Feng that needed to be solved urgently. In the invasion of Youzhou, the Gongsun Zan army was divided into pieces. How to defeat them in erratic combat mode.
"This is guerrilla warfare, the guerrilla warfare of the old man Taizu, I didn't expect Gongsun Chan to come to his senses! How to defeat guerrilla warfare? "Guerrilla warfare is a classic strategy and tactic. Later generations of Taizu used this battle to develop and grow, and then defeated the invaders and bandits, and unified the world. There is basically no solution to this tactic. Qin Feng was anxious and walked around the conference hall.
"Taizu?" The military advisers Xu Shu and Jia Xuzhang were confused.
"My lord. It is better to leave a part of the soldiers and horses to guard Gongsun Zan in Beiping County, and the army will return. Completely encircle and suppress this enemy force that has invaded the interior. Xu Shu said.
Jia Xu pondered for a while, he interpreted from human nature, and thought that the lord would definitely put the people first, so he said: "You can make the people in the countryside take refuge in the nearby county town, and then encircle and suppress." ”
Qin Feng shook his head and said, "Now is the summer grain harvest season, if the people are relocated to take refuge, the grain will be destroyed in the fields." Without summer food, there will be famine. If the state is merged and Jizhou is used for food relief, the reserves of the past few years will be completely gone. And what if Gongsun Zhan's cavalry troops went south to Jizhou? Do you also move people? In that case, Jizhou's grain will be gone, and the north will definitely enter a famine year. At that time, Cao Cao and Liu Bei on the south bank moved, and the general trend was gone. ”
"The Lord is taught." Jia Xu sweated.
At this point, the two top military advisors couldn't come up with an idea for a while in the face of the classic tactics of Taizu in later generations.
However, Qin Feng didn't blame them, after all, Gongsun Zhan was playing guerrilla warfare, which was invented by the old man Taizu in later generations. In Qin Feng's opinion, Xu Shu and Jia Xu are top strategists, but compared with the old man Taizu, they are still much worse.
"Guerrilla warfare, what is the essence of guerrilla warfare? The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I advance, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy is stationed and disturbs! Thinking of this, Qin Feng shook his head and said, "No, this is the essence of tactics and what is the essence of strategy!" Right! He suddenly woke up, "The real essence is to mobilize the masses and rely on the masses." Only by mobilizing the masses and relying on the masses can we continue to grow stronger, and only then can we truly have no solution! ”
Gongsun Zhan's army was an aggressor and had no mass base, so there must be a way to crack his guerrilla warfare. And the solution to this problem lies with the people.
"You have to think about it, you go down first." After Qin Feng finished speaking, he looked at the back hall and walked away.
Jia Xu walked out, and couldn't help but sigh: "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I advance, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy is stationed and disturbs!" Isn't it exactly the strategy used by Gongsun Zhanjun at the moment, the lord summed it up in one word, and Jia Xu couldn't do it. ”
"It seems that the lord already knows the strategy and tactics of Gongsun Zhan's army, and there will definitely be a good way to restrain it." Xu Shu wiped his sweat and said. In his heart, he felt very ashamed that he could not do anything.
Night and night, Qin Feng thought about it at night.
"Guerrilla warfare! Gongsun Zhan's army is using the sparrow warfare tactics at the moment, gathering and scattering, and his whereabouts are erratic. I can't be led by the nose, I should not move. Yes, that's it, the enemy is going to plunder, and he will definitely attack the village. If you can defend the village well, you can use the village as a basis to destroy and consume the enemy's ....... ”
"So, what tactics can be used to consume the enemy?"
In the second half of the night, the room was still brightly lit.
"There you have it, it's this tactic!"
Qin Feng began to write hard. (To be continued......)